What does local-first mean?

Your data lives on your device first. Cloud sync is a convenience, not a dependency — you can use the app and your full history without it.

Yes. Your training history is exportable — it's your data, not a retention lever.

Local-first, no cloud lock-in

Your training log is years of personal data — proof of what worked, what stalled, what you earned. It should be yours, not held hostage by a subscription or a server that might shut down. That's the local-first case.

Your log is your evidence

Your logged sets are the evidence of adaptation — years of progression and recovery decisions. Losing it to a shuttered service or a lapsed subscription is losing your own history.

Anti-gamification, anti-lock-in

Most fitness apps use your data as leverage: streaks to keep you engaged, cloud-only storage to keep you subscribed, social features to keep you scrolling. Failure Point refuses the gamification ("no streaks, no badges") and treats your log as yours to keep — your recovery decisions included.

What this means in practice

Your log is yours. Sync is a convenience; export is always available. No cloud lock-in, no engagement farming — just an honest record of an honest method. See also evidence of adaptation and why brief, hard, infrequent.

Failure Point is a training logbook, not medical advice. Training to failure carries injury risk.

Local-first, no cloud lock-in

Your log is your evidence

Anti-gamification, anti-lock-in

What this means in practice

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