Public roadmap · updated August 2026

Palaestra The road from 1.0 to Olympia

One square metre, no partner, no equipment — and an app that has to get out of the way. Here is every release we are building, in order, and what lands in each. Next up is 1.5: a faster app and a first run you actually train through.

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1.0 Shipped
1.5 In build
5 Releases planned
2.0 Olympia
How to read this page

Four states, one colour each

Every item below carries one of these. Nothing on this page is a promise with a date attached — the further down the road, the softer the edges.

Shipped

Live on the App Store today. You already have it.

In build

Being written now. Scope is fixed; the date can still move.

Planned

Agreed and queued. Scope may still shift as 1.5 teaches us things.

Exploring

The direction we want. Not committed, not dated, not designed.

Shipping next

1.5 puts the app out of the way

Two jobs, nothing else. Make it start and run fast enough to forget about, and turn the opening tour into the first thing you actually train.

1.5
In build

Steady Ground

A pass over everything that made the app feel heavy, and a first run that ends with a plan already built for you.

Target window · Oct 2026
Build progress 62%

Optimisation

The storm, the timer and the archive were all doing more work than the screen ever showed. All three are rebuilt.

Targets for 1.5 iPhone 12 · iOS 18
Cold start to the mat 2.4 s0.8 s
Memory during a drill 148 MB96 MB
Library scroll, 60 moves 48 fps60 fps
Battery, 20-minute round 7%4%
  • The storm layer goes GPU-light. Lightning is drawn once and reused; on Low Power Mode it drops to the quiet bolt and stops striking altogether.
  • The round clock moves off the main thread. No more drift when the screen dims mid-round.
  • Library and Vault scroll lazily. Sections build as they arrive instead of all at once — which is what keeps 1.8's 60-move catalogue smooth.
  • The ledger saves in one pass. Writes are batched at the end of a session, not fired after every round.
  • Smaller download. The icon and art are re-encoded, and the app ships well under half its current size.

Onboarding

Four chapters of reading became one short session. You finish the tour having already held a stance and built a plan.

  • The tour is a round. Chapter one is forty seconds of square stance on the real timer — the first session is finished before the app is.
  • Level, length and focus are chosen inside it, so the Drill tab opens with a plan instead of three empty pickers.
  • Real screens replace the drawn stand-ins. Every chapter now shows the screen it is describing.
  • Leave and come back. The tour remembers the page you were on instead of restarting.
  • The coach notice moved in, asked once, in plain language, before anything leaves the device.

Everything in 1.5 is free, on the device, and needs no account — same as 1.0.

What comes after
Release by release

The whole road, in order

Filter by the part of the app you care about and the timeline narrows to it.

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  1. 1.0 First Light Shipped · Aug 2026

    The training room as it stands: five tabs, twenty-six moves, and everything working with the network off.

    • Daily DrillThree levels, ten to thirty minutes, a round list built to your focus and a clock that runs it.
    • Form ScanOne photo of a stance or grip, scored out of ten, with the faults, the fixes and what to drill next.
    • Brain RingGrip Choice, Timing Ring and Combo Memory — tactics practice with no mat needed.
    • The VaultDiamonds, the streak, twelve badges, a rotating daily challenge and four cups up to Olympia.
    • Move LibraryTwenty-six solo drills with step-by-step cues, searchable, pinnable to your own rotation.
    • Offline by defaultNo account, no sign-in. Three features can call the coach, and each asks before its first request.
  2. 1.5 Steady Ground In build · Oct 2026

    Speed and the first run. Nothing new to learn — the same app, quicker to open and far easier to start.

    • Cold start under a secondSplash straight onto the mat. The heavy work is deferred until after the first frame.
    • Battery-aware stormThe lightning draws once and stops striking entirely on Low Power Mode.
    • The tour is a real roundForty seconds of square stance on the clock instead of four pages of reading.
    • Resume the tourLeave it anywhere and it picks up on the page you left, instead of starting over.
    • A clock that never driftsThe round timer moves off the main thread and keeps time when the screen dims.
    • First plan built during setupLevel, length and focus are picked in the tour, so the Drill tab opens ready to start.
    • Lazy Library & VaultSections build as you reach them — the groundwork for a catalogue three times the size.
    • One clear coach noticeAsked once, in the tour, in plain words, before anything leaves the device.
  3. 1.6 Sharper Eye Planned · Dec 2026

    The Scan tab grows up. One photo becomes a record you can read across weeks, not a verdict you forget.

    • Two angles, one reportFront and side in a single check — most stance faults only show from one of them.
    • Fault history per moveSee whether the hips still ride high six weeks later, or whether that one is finally fixed.
    • Compare any two scansThen and now, side by side, with the score and the fault marks lined up.
    • An offline readWhen the coach is unreachable, a geometry-only check still names the obvious faults.
    • Send a scan to a coachExport a check as one card — the photo, the score, the faults, the fixes.
    • Diamonds for clean formScoring eight or higher mints diamonds, so form work counts as training.
  4. 1.7 The Long Round Planned · Feb 2027

    Training with the phone face down. The clock leaves the screen and starts talking.

    • Voice count-in and cuesThe lead-in, the move name and the last five seconds, spoken — screen locked, pocket or floor.
    • Lock Screen & Dynamic IslandThe round clock as a Live Activity, so the session keeps running where you can see it.
    • Build and save your own roundsPick the moves, set the seconds, name it and run it again next week.
    • Rest tuned per roundNot per level. A sprawl set and a stance hold do not need the same recovery.
    • Warm-up and cool-down blocksAttachable to any plan, and skippable in one tap when you are already warm.
    • Home Screen widgetsToday's round and the streak, one tap from the Home Screen.
  5. 1.8 Full Palaestra Planned · Apr 2027

    More content, same weight. Everything still compiled in, still working with the network off.

    • Twenty-six moves become sixtyGround work, bridging and defensive chains join the stance, grip, throw, core and endurance families.
    • Motion diagrams for every moveDrawn, not filmed — the step cues become a shape you can copy, with nothing to download.
    • CollectionsGreek Basics, Shot Defence, Clinch Work — curated lists you can run start to finish.
    • Two new Ring gamesSprawl Reflex, for the drop, and Position Recall, for reading a tangle at a glance.
    • The scenario bank doublesMore positions in Grip Choice, each with the reason the losing pick loses.
    • Badges for the new familiesThe twelve become twenty, covering ground work and the two new games.
  6. 2.0 Olympia Exploring · 2027

    The direction, not the plan. Palaestra off the phone and onto the wrist, in more than one language, on more than one device.

    • Palaestra on Apple WatchThe round clock on the wrist, the taps on your arm, heart rate written into the log.
    • iCloud syncOne ledger across iPhone, iPad and Watch — still yours, still no account.
    • A real iPad layoutThe Library beside the move, the plan beside the clock. Not a stretched phone.
    • Seasons past OlympiaA twelve-week cycle with its own cups, so the fourth cup is not the end of the road.
    • More languagesРусский, Ελληνικά, Español, Deutsch — the move cues first, then everything else.
Not scheduled

Under consideration

Things we would like to build and have not committed to. No version, no date. If one of these is the reason you would use Palaestra more, say so below — that is how they move.

Partner mode

Two athletes, one clock, alternating rounds — for the days you do have someone to work with.

Health app workouts

Finished sessions written to Health as functional strength training, with the time actually held.

Shareable training cards

A single card for a session or a cup, themed like the app, worth posting.

Siri Shortcut

“Start today's round” — from the Lock Screen, hands already taped.

A coach's view

A read-only link to your ledger, so a real coach can see what you have been drilling.

The history behind the moves

Short notes on where each drill comes from in Greek wrestling practice. The palaestra, not just the gym.

What will not change

Three rules every release is checked against

If a feature breaks one of these, it does not ship — however good the idea was.

Works with the network off

The moves, the games, the plans and the whole ledger are compiled into the app. Aeroplane mode is a supported way to train, not a degraded one.

Nothing leaves unasked

Three features can call the coach. Each one asks before its first request and closes again the moment you switch it off. There is no account and nothing to sign into.

One square metre

No partner, no mat, no equipment. If a feature needs a gym to be useful, it belongs somewhere else.

Have a say

This road is not fixed

Half of 1.6 exists because someone wrote in about scans they could not compare. Tell us what is missing and it gets read.

  • 1Say what you were trying to doThe task matters more than the feature you had in mind.
  • 2Say where it broke downWhich tab, which screen, which round.
  • 3We read all of itEverything that lands goes into the list this page is built from.

Or write to wimafiregen20@gmail.com directly.

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Thanks — it goes on the list this roadmap is built from. Keep an eye on 1.5.

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Start on 1.0 today

Everything on this road is a free update to the app you already have. One square metre, twenty-six moves and a clock — the rest arrives on its own.

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Free · iPhone · iOS 16 and later · no account