About Muba
Muba started the way most side projects do: out of frustration.
For years, I tracked every workout in my phone's Notes app. Not because I liked it, but because every dedicated app I tried was somehow worse. Too slow between sets. Too many taps to log a simple "80kg x 8". Dead in the basement gyms where I actually train. And the "social features" were either a public feed of strangers or a coach-client tool I had no use for.
So I kept typing in Notes. And so did most people I trained with.
At some point I stopped complaining about it and started building what I actually wanted. I'm a product designer, so I started where I know best: talking to other lifters about what frustrated them too. I ran interviews, sent out surveys, spent time understanding why people keep going back to pen and paper in 2026. The answers were painfully consistent. The apps are too slow. They don't work without WiFi. The social stuff feels pointless.
Muba is the result of all of that. An app built by someone who trains, for people who train. Every decision in the product comes from real conversations with real lifters, not from a product roadmap written in a conference room.
Why "Muba"?
The name comes from the Serbian word "моба" (moba), a tradition where villagers help each other with heavy work, harvesting, building, whatever needs doing, with no expectation of anything in return. You show up because someone needs help, and when you need help, they show up for you.
That's the energy we wanted for the app. Not a social network. Not a leaderboard. Just the people who make you show up, and a way to see that they're showing up too.
What we believe
Your app should be faster than a notebook. If it's not, you'll go back to the notebook. We did, for years. So speed isn't a feature for us, it's the baseline.
Your data is yours, even underground. Most gyms in big cities are in basements. An app that needs WiFi to function is an app that doesn't work where you actually train. Muba is offline-first, not offline-compatible.
Social means your friends, not the internet. The people who motivate you to train harder are the ones you already know. Muba is built around that circle, not around a feed of strangers.
