Maxwell is a workout tracker for Apple Watch built on the bold premise that your running stats would look better rendered as if they were trapped inside a 1986 Nintendo cartridge. It tracks GPS routes, heart rate, pace splits, and elevation gain across three activities (run, walk, hike), each represented by a tiny animated pixel sprite who frankly seems to be having a better time than you are.
The companion iPhone app stores your workout history, serves up weekly stats, and exports data as GPX or JSON for the sort of person who wants to graph their suffering in a spreadsheet. The whole thing is dressed in "Press Start 2P" font, phosphor greens, and a dark UI that makes checking your pace feel like playing a very niche RPG where the only quest is cardio.
Why did I build this app?
I wanted to track my runs without uploading every footstep to a company that has accidentally revealed the locations of military bases, nuclear submarines, and secret government facilities. Strava's global heatmap is, depending on your perspective, either a fitness feature or an intelligence briefing. Maxwell keeps your data on your phone, where the only person who can judge your pace is you.
