Training, money and hosting in one app.
A personal planning app for a life with more than one side to it. It tracks what your training is actually doing, how far off financial independence is, and what to make for your dinner party. Each of those is its own app, and they share one workspace.
Early access is now available.
Multiple apps, one roof
Explore the marketplace and switch on what you need.
Training · Basecamp
Strava training load, fitness trend, adaptive race plans
It reads every run you have ever logged and works out what this week cost you, where your fitness is heading, and whether that race someone just mentioned is realistic. Every number links to the formula behind it.
Money · Finance
Financial independence scenarios, compared side by side
How far off is financial independence? Develop scenarios instead of settling on one path or one number. Forecast a good decade and a bad one, or see what happens if you stop contributing today, and understand which assumption moves the needle.
Hosting · Gatherings
Dinner planning, recipes, and a grocery list that writes itself
You're planning a dinner party and trying to figure out what dishes to make. Pick from the recipes you already cook and you get one combined grocery list, which shows you what those dishes share before you commit to them.
Inside the apps
A closer look at all three.
Basecamp reads your Strava history and turns it into a timeline of your training: load, fitness trend, time in each heart-rate zone, and how much volume your body is currently tolerating. Add your own numbers, like a lactate threshold test or a body-composition reading, and that picture sharpens into the plan Basecamp builds, which then rewrites itself as each week progresses.
One history, and it's yours
Connect Strava once.
Your whole activity history syncs on the first connection, back to your earliest run, and it keeps syncing after that. Nothing goes in by hand.
A plan that bends around your life
The weeks you really had.
Each completed week is compared against what was prescribed, and the weeks ahead are rewritten to suit. It handles the week you were too busy for, the week that ran bigger than planned, and the one you missed entirely. The race date stays where it is.
Where the numbers come from. Add a lactate threshold test and your estimated zones become measured ones with a pace target on every session. Each modeled figure has a page giving its formula, its inputs and the research behind it.
Can I actually do this race? A friend mentions something in three weeks. Enter the event and get a straight verdict from your real training history, before you commit to a plan.
Docs and support
Help Center
Documentation for every app in the marketplace: how each screen works, what the settings do, and the methodology used.
Read the docs →Collaborate within a workspace
Everything you create lives in a workspace that belongs to you. Invite people in and assign them a role, from full administration down to view only. Your preferences for units, currency and number format follow you into every workspace.
What’s next
Trail planning, then net worth
Trail planning covers routes, elevation and pacing for the days out that the training is for. It is the next app in the marketplace, and the reason the map work in Basecamp already exists.
Inside Money, a Net Worth view will track assets and liabilities over time and derive the starting balance the FI scenarios currently ask you to work out for yourself.
Questions
General
What does Minou actually do?
It's a personal planning app with a marketplace of smaller apps for the parts of life worth keeping track of. Three are open today: Training reads your Strava history and tells you what your training is doing, Money compares financial independence scenarios, and Hosting turns a dinner into a grocery list. Each one is switched on per workspace, so you only keep the ones you use.
Why is training in the same app as recipes?
Because Minou is a life planning app, not a training app that happens to have recipes. The marketplace holds a range of apps, and you switch on the ones that fit your life and leave the rest off. If training and hosting both matter to you, they live in one place. If only one does, that's the only one you switch on.
Does it replace my training app or my spreadsheets?
For most of what I used them for, yes. I kept building the same spreadsheets over and over, one for each question, and every new number meant starting another. Minou keeps the setup so you can re-run the analysis whenever fresh information comes in, and the work you do once becomes something you reuse instead of build from scratch.
How do I get access?
Join the waitlist. Spots are opening up soon, and the earlier you're on it, the sooner you're in.
What does it cost?
Nothing. If that changes, you'll hear it from me before it happens.
Who can see my data?
Only you, and anyone you invite into your workspace. You can export it and you can delete it. The privacy policy can be found here.
Can I request features or report issues?
Please do. This is early access, and what gets reported is what gets built and fixed first. Every screen has a help icon for sending feedback or flagging an issue without leaving what you're doing, and it shapes what ships next.
The apps
Can it analyze my Strava history?
Yes. Connect once and it reads every activity you have, then reports training load, fitness and fatigue, time in each heart-rate zone, and a race projection. If you are new and have years of history, the first sync takes a while to pull everything in. Once it settles, if anything looks missing you can run a Sync Audit to cross-check against Strava and pull in what did not come through.
Do I need Strava?
For Training, yes. That's where the activity history comes from. Money and Hosting work without it.
Does it connect to my bank?
No bank linking today. You set the assumptions yourself: a starting balance, an inflation rate and a withdrawal schedule, and the FI Scenario Planner projects those across a range of return rates. It's built around numbers you choose rather than accounts you connect.
I have existing recipes, can I import them?
Yes. Import your recipes and ingredients from a file, and Hosting adds them to your library. Since imports tend to bring in the same ingredient under slightly different names, Find Duplicates catches those and merges them into one, so quantities still add up correctly on a grocery list.