Before you step in.
What the guides and the two logs do, what they deliberately refuse to do, what it costs, and what it stores — without the gloss.
What is Cost Plus PT, in one sentence?+
Three self-guided tools for three everyday habits: source-linked movement guides to read, a workout log for your training, and a food log for what you eat. It is a structured educational and tracking product, not an individualized treatment plan, physical therapy, or medical care.
Can I log my workouts and what I eat?+
Yes. A signed-in account includes a personal training log — your own exercises, sets, reps, loads, and reusable templates — and a personal food log built on the public USDA FoodData Central catalog, with daily and weekly totals. Both are structurally separate from the movement guides: nothing you log in them changes a guide, a session, or a safety message.
Does the app tell me how much to lift or how much to eat?+
No. You enter every number yourself. The reps-to-percentage table is a conversion you choose to tap and is labelled as a conversion, not a recommendation. Calorie and macro targets are typed in by you and are never calculated: the product has nowhere to store body weight, height, age, sex, activity level, or a goal weight, so no formula can run on them. There are also no streaks, scores, badges, or good-versus-bad food labels.
Will I need insurance?+
No. Cost Plus PT is planned as a direct-pay product with the full price shown before you start.
What does it cost?+
The planned founding price is $4.99 per month. That number is a research hypothesis for the planned knee pilot, not a current offer: the preview does not charge a card, and final pricing may change before launch.
What is your refund policy?+
Nothing can be purchased yet, so there is nothing to refund. A plain-language refund policy will be published alongside checkout before anything can be bought.
Is a clinician involved?+
Cost Plus PT provides source-linked general exercise information, guided demonstrations, and tools for recording your own goals and responses. It is not a physical-therapy practice, medical provider, emergency service, or substitute for individualized advice from a qualified professional. The information and automated rules have not been clinically reviewed for you, and no clinician reviews or monitors your account, answers, sessions, or messages. Cost Plus PT is not planning clinician oversight as part of this service. “PT” is part of the Cost Plus PT brand name; it does not mean that the service is provided by or under the direction of a licensed physical therapist.
What happens if automation is not confident?+
It should say so. Unclear camera input or answers outside a supported information flow produce “not observed,” a retry, or a stop message—not a medical interpretation, referral, or clearance.
Why start with knee recovery?+
A narrow first topic lets us test whether source-linked movement education is understandable, accessible, and technically reliable before researching other body areas. It does not mean the app has determined that the information is suitable for you.
What data do you store?+
As little as each feature needs. The public movement check stores coded answers with your consent and deletes them on a 180-day clock; signed-in recovery entries, workout sessions and templates, food entries, your own saved foods, typed nutrition targets, and optional display-only meal photos are stored only for your own account; camera frames, audio, and transcripts are not retained. Structured records and photo metadata travel with the account export, while image files are saved separately, and account deletion explicitly removes stored files. The privacy policy lists every category.
Can I take my data with me?+
Yes — your complete structured account record, at no cost and with no upgrade step. Account & security downloads JSON plus spreadsheet-ready CSV datasets for workout sets, food entries, movement entries, and meal-photo metadata. Meal-photo image files are not included, so save attached images separately before deleting your account. Export runs no tier check and no date cap, and a file is built for your own account only and never sent anywhere automatically.
Still unanswered? Contact us, read the privacy policy, or review the preview terms.