A performance gear data platform, built to record what actually works, in real conditions, verified against the activity you actually did.
Star ratings and sponsored posts can't tell you whether a jacket holds up on an all-day exposed ridge line, or whether those shoes start blistering at kilometre 20 on wet trail. Most of what gets called "gear feedback" is really just marketing with extra steps.
Best Kind builds something different: a longitudinal record of real wear sessions, each one tied to a real activity, real weather conditions, and real athlete feedback — verified against your actual Apple Health or Strava activity, not typed in from memory a week later.
Your Analysis tab surfaces your own Favourite Gear per category, ranked from your real ratings, not a marketing claim.
Strava tells you how far you rode. Best Kind tells you how your kit held up while you did it.
The app is the mechanism. The verified dataset is the asset.
Four steps, most of which happen automatically in the background.
Best Kind connects to Apple Health and Strava to detect when you've finished a ride, run, hike, or ski session — automatically picking up activity recorded by your Apple Watch or Strava, with no separate GPS tracker draining your battery in the background.
Basecamp is your daily hub — a simple activity selector for the outing you just finished, whether it was a structured session or just getting out and about. Today's Kit recommends weather-appropriate gear for your upcoming ride, run or hike.
Tap through exactly what you wore — jacket, base layer, shoes, pack — and rate how it performed: too warm, too cold, too wet, or genuinely Best Kind. That real-world data is what lets Best Kind inform you when your gear's actually wearing out, not just when the manufacturer guesses it might.
Every confirmed session sharpens your Favourite Gear — the best-rated item in each category, based on your own logged history, not a guess. Leaderboards are coming soon, unlocking as more riders in your area join.
Best Kind is built for people who put real miles and real vertical into their sport.
Long rides through changing weather, where the wrong jacket call costs you hours.
Technical terrain and long days out, where knowing which shoes actually hold up matters.
Multi-day trips planned around a gear system that's actually been tested, not guessed at.
Full days on the mountain that demand a layering system dialled from real conditions, not the shop floor.
If you've ever second-guessed a gear choice halfway through an exposed section of trail, Best Kind is built for you.
No credit card, no data-sharing requirement, no conditions for the first 6 months. After that, your access stays free for another 6 months as long as you're out logging real outings — roughly one every few days is all it takes.
Months 1–6: free, no strings attached. Use the full app, no data sharing required.
Months 7–12: still free, as long as you log 10+ real outings a month — a usage check, nothing to do with your data or privacy choices.
Leaderboard access as soon as it's live in your area — Rain Warrior, Cold Front, Streak, and more.
Founding Member status shown on your profile, for as long as you're part of the program.
We'll never ask you to pay or share data to keep this access — that's true for every beta participant, not just founding members. Details on what happens after formal launch will follow well before anything changes.
We'll email you the moment TestFlight access opens. No spam, unsubscribe any time.
We're testing across the UK, USA, Australia, and Canada, and access is currently by invitation only. Joining the founding member list above is how you get in — we're inviting athletes off that list as beta spots open up.
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