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Every task you do again and again becomes a discipline: the morning out of the door, the kitchen after dinner, the inbox, a plank. Start the clock, and in the next lane runs a ghost: you, last time or at your best. Splits, medals, a medal table every four weeks, and a coach who reads the whole protocol. You only ever race yourself, and a rushed heat is disqualified. Free, no ads, no account, no internet permission.
Android 9.0+ · Free · No internet permission · English & Русский
Name something you do again and again and pick one of 33 pictograms after Otl Aicher's for Munich 1972, a part of life and how it's won: sprint (faster wins), endurance (longer wins) or pace (closest to a set time wins, for what shouldn't be rushed).
On your marks, get set, go. On the oval the ghost runs the inside lane at its own pace: your record, last time, your median (the standard) or you a month ago. The scoreboard says whether you're ahead and when the ghost finishes.
Cut a long task into sections. Each split shows a live delta against the ghost's, a star for a section never run faster, and the perfect heat: every section at its best, put together. A pit stop stops the clock and notes what pulled you away.
The first three heats are qualifying. After that, a heat in your top three gets gold, silver or bronze, and the best ever is the record. Clean or fine counts; a rushed heat stays in the results but wins nothing. Within a second and a half of the record, the judges take a photo finish.
Every four weeks (or 1, 2, 8, as you like): a medal table kept by parts of life instead of nations, Games records and a closing ceremony the morning after. The flame counts the days in a row with at least one heat.
Before the start, enter how long you think it will take. The coach reads the whole protocol: how far off your entries are by part of life, what tiredness and interruptions cost you, progress since your first heats, and plateaus, with what to try next.
| Ghost | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Record holder | You at your best ever: can you beat it today? |
| Last time | The previous heat, to stay honest from one day to the next |
| The standard | Your median: the ordinary you, not the lucky one |
| A month ago | To see how far you've come |
| Pacemaker | For pace disciplines: the set time, run evenly |
On Xiaomi (MIUI / HyperOS), Huawei, Samsung and some other phones, allow Autostart for Podium and remove battery limits so the live clock stays in the notification shade and the closing ceremony arrives on time.
JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. The pictograms, the track and the medals are drawn on a Compose canvas, nothing else to install.
git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/podium.git cd podium ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest # unit tests ./gradlew assembleDebug # app.podium.dev, installs next to a release ./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo # app.podium.demo, a made-up season ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender --tests '*RenderArt*' # the pictograms
No. When you finish you say how it went: clean, fine or rushed. A rushed heat is disqualified: it stays in the results but wins no medal and sets no record. For what shouldn't be fast at all, choose pace: the winner is the heat closest to the time you set.
No. A live clock sits in the notification with the ghost and buttons for a split, a pit stop and the finish, so the phone can stay in a pocket. There's a quick-settings tile and launcher shortcuts for the disciplines you race most. Timed it with something else? Write the heat in by hand.
No. The look is Munich, summer 1972, and the pictograms are drawn after Otl Aicher's, but Podium has nothing to do with the IOC or any Olympic organisation.
Settings → Backup saves every discipline and heat to one JSON file. Restore it on the new phone.
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