App Showcase: growwithjo

What it does

growwithjo is a mobile fitness application designed to create personalized workout and meal plans. The app takes users through a detailed onboarding quiz to understand their goals, physical metrics, and dietary preferences to deliver a tailored fitness program. Its primary value proposition is creating a customized health journey for each user.

Where it shines

The app's onboarding is its most prominent feature. It excels at making data collection feel like a personalized consultation rather than a tedious chore. The interactive body part selection screen (00:13) is a great example, allowing users to tap directly on a figure to indicate their focus areas. The entire quiz is structured to build anticipation for a custom-tailored plan, culminating in a "Building your plan" animation (01:00) that makes the final product feel valuable and worth paying for.

UX highlights

• Visual Quiz Questions: Instead of relying solely on text, the app uses images and icons throughout its quiz. For example, selecting a nutrition style is done via scannable food emojis (00:29), simplifying the choice.
• Clear Progress Indicator: A segmented progress bar is always visible at the top of the screen, clearly communicating how far the user has progressed through the multi-step onboarding, which helps manage expectations.
• Interactive Data Entry: While asking for age, height, and weight (00:33), the app uses a clean, numeric keypad interface that is straightforward and minimizes input friction.
• Polished Selection Feedback: Tapping an option in the quiz provides immediate visual feedback, with the selected card filling with a solid color (00:11). This micro-interaction makes the experience feel responsive.
• Contextual Permission Request: The app waits until the user is deeply engaged in the quiz before presenting a warm-up screen for notification permissions (00:52), increasing the likelihood of an opt-in.

Monetization & growth

The monetization strategy is aggressive and begins immediately after the personalization quiz. The user is met with a hard paywall at 01:05, offering two subscription plans. There is no free trial. If a user hesitates, a second, more compelling paywall appears (01:12). This "special offer" screen introduces urgency with a 60-second countdown timer and presents a lower monthly price, a tactic designed to convert users who were on the fence. The app also attempts to re-engage users who navigate backward by presenting this special offer again (01:20).

Who it’s for

growwithjo appears to be for individuals who are new to fitness or are looking for a structured, all-in-one solution for workouts and nutrition. The guided, quiz-based setup suggests a target audience that wants a plan created for them rather than building one from scratch. The focus on goals like weight loss and common problem areas like "Belly" and "Butt and thighs" points toward a user base seeking clear, guided transformations.

Notes & opportunities

The onboarding flow is long and requires a significant upfront investment of time and personal data before the user sees the price or the app's main interface. While this can build commitment, it could also be a point of friction for users who prefer to explore an app before providing so much information. A potential opportunity could be to offer a glimpse of a sample workout or meal earlier in the flow to demonstrate value more concretely before hitting the hard paywall.