Tons — Press Kit

Updated August 12, 2026 · tons app site · App Store

What it is

Tons is a quiet workout tracker built around one honest number: total tonnage — weight × reps, added up. Its daily goal is a ton (1,000 kg), pictured as something real: ~220 watermelons, ~290 bricks, ~250 cats — a different material every day. A lifetime of lifting climbs 12 real-world ranks, from a piano (300 kg) to a rocket (3,000 t). There are no routines, no timers, no feed and no guilt mechanics — miss a day and nothing shames you.

Story hooks

“Your workout today: lift a ton of cats.” The daily goal is always a vivid, absurd, real mass — drawn on a progress ring.
An anti-app for the notification age. No streak shaming, no sessions, at most one quiet reminder a day — the app learns the hour you actually train.
Local-first, genuinely. No account, no servers, no analytics — data lives on the phone and the user’s own iCloud. The privacy label is “no data collected”, literally.
Built by a solo developer in Poland, in native Swift: iPhone, Apple Watch and widgets today, with Android to follow from the same codebase (via Skip). No Electron, no React Native.
Push-ups in kilograms. Bodyweight reps convert to real load using the user’s bodyweight from Apple Health — a market first for calisthenics and grease-the-groove training.

Fact sheet

Name	Tons: Exercise Snacking (subtitle: “Count tons, not calories”)
App Store	apps.apple.com/app/id6758559543
Platforms	iPhone (iOS 17+), Apple Watch app with on-wrist logging, home/lock-screen widgets; Android planned (same Swift codebase via Skip)
Price	Free. No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases at launch
Privacy	No account, no analytics, no tracking; App Store label “Data Not Collected”
Daily loop	A ton a day, drawn from a pool of 21 rotating materials; the goal adapts to the user’s own history
Ranks	12 tiers by lifetime tonnage: piano · car · elephant · T-rex · excavator · tank · blue whale · locomotive · Statue of Liberty · airliner · submarine · rocket
Medals	3 repeatable awards, all about how fast mass moves: an elephant in a day, a T-rex in a week, a tank in a month
Languages	English, Polish, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Hindi, Arabic (RTL), Russian
Developer	Michał Ciesielski, independent developer, Poland
Contact	michal.ciesielski@me.com

100-word description (EN)

Tons measures one thing and measures it well: the total weight you move. Every set — weight × reps — adds up, and today’s goal is simple: lift a ton. Not an abstract ton — a ton of watermelons (~220), bricks (~290) or cats (~250), a different one every day, drawn on your progress ring. A lifetime of lifting climbs twelve real-world ranks, from a piano to a rocket. No routines, no timers, no feed, no guilt: Tons is a quiet scoreboard for people who want proof they’re getting stronger — one set at a time.

Opis 100 słów (PL)

Tons mierzy jedną rzecz i robi to dobrze: łączny ciężar, który podnosisz. Każda seria — ciężar × powtórzenia — sumuje się, a cel na dziś jest prosty: podnieś tonę. Nie abstrakcyjną tonę — tonę arbuzów (~220), cegieł (~290) albo kotów (~250), codziennie inną, narysowaną na pierścieniu postępu. Tonaż całego życia wspina się po dwunastu realnych rangach: od pianina po rakietę. Żadnych planów, timerów, feedu ani poczucia winy: Tons to cicha tablica wyników dla ludzi, którzy chcą dowodu, że są coraz silniejsi — seria po serii.

Assets

App icon, 6.9″ iPhone screenshots in all 11 languages, Apple Watch screenshots and high-resolution rank glyphs (piano → rocket, as SVG) are available on request. Email and the press pack is yours within a day.

Boilerplate

Tons is an independent, local-first workout volume tracker for iPhone, made in Poland. It counts the only number that can’t lie — kilograms moved — and turns it into a daily ritual: lift a ton of something real. tons.kisielos.com · michal.ciesielski@me.com