# I'm building UniLog, a training log app for unicycling — would love your feedback (and tutorial recommendations!)
**URL:** https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023
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**Created:** [August 12, 2026, 10:39am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023 "2026-08-12T10:39:43Z")
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 10:39am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/1 "2026-08-12T10:39:43Z")
Hi all,
Quick note up front since there’s another unicycle app thread here recently with a similar-sounding pitch: **UniLog is a different app from Unicycle Tracker, with a different focus.** That one’s about ride-tracking — sensor data, GPS, cadence, power in watts, that sort of thing. UniLog is about logging _practice_: which specific tricks/skills you’re working on, how much time you’re putting into each one, and your results/PRs over time. Less “how hard was this ride” and more “am I actually getting better at this idle.” Different problem, so hopefully useful to different people (or the same people, for different reasons).
I’ve been learning unicycling for a while now, and like a lot of people here I imagine, I’ve wanted a better way to actually track what I’m practicing. Nothing out there quite fit what I wanted, so I’ve started building UniLog myself.
A quick rundown of what UniLog does so far:
- **A big built-in trick catalogue** , organized by discipline (Freestyle, Trials, Muni, Track, Flatland, Street, Freewheel, Road, and so on), sourced from the IUF skill levels and skills list. You pick which tricks you’re actively working on and they show up in your own practice list. A trick can be linked to a tutorial video, giving easy access to the tutorial.
- **A live practice session** : start a session, and each trick you’re working on gets its own optional timer (so you can see exactly how long you spent on, say, coasting, versus wheel walk), plus a spot to log your result — distance, time, rep count, streak, whatever fits the trick.
- **Stats** : best result per trick, total time spent per trick, session history, current practice streak, all sliceable by day/week/month/year, and a graph per trick so you can actually see progress (or lack of it!) over time.
- \*\ ***Equipment tracking** \*\* — your unicycle(s) and their parts (wheel size, tire, cranks, etc.), so your log can be scoped to a specific unicycle if you ride more than one.
- **Tutorial links, jumping straight to the relevant moment** — for tricks where I’ve found a good tutorial, the trick has a link that opens it directly at the timestamp where that specific trick is actually explained, not just the start of some long video. Only filled in for a subset of tricks so far, but that’s where question 2 below comes in.
- Export/import to a JSON file, so your UniLog data is portable and backed up.
UniLog is iOS only for now (built with SwiftUI/SwiftData), and very much a personal project I’m actively developing and using myself — screenshots below.
Two things I’d love from this community:
1. **General feedback** — if UniLog sounds useful to you, what would you actually want from something like this? What’s missing that would make it a real part of your practice routine, not just another log you stop using after a week?
2. **YouTube tutorial recommendations** — I’ve been learning a lot from **Uniquest** and especially **Finnspin’s “Unicycle Basics”** series, which I really can’t recommend enough — clear, well-structured, and genuinely helped me get past a few plateaus. If you have other channels or specific tutorials that helped you with particular tricks or skills, I’d love to hear about them — as mentioned above, UniLog links each trick straight to the moment in a tutorial where it’s taught, so the more good, specific tutorials I know about, the more tricks I can wire up with a useful link instead of none at all.
Thanks for reading, and happy to answer any questions about UniLog!
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### Author:  [@Setonix](https://unicyclist.com/u/Setonix)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/2 "2026-08-14T00:52:22Z")
What about mastering BC Wheels and Ultimate Wheels. They require more or less the same kind of balance as with Seat Drag, or riding Freewheel without brake.
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### Author:  [@Siddhartha\_Valmont](https://unicyclist.com/u/Siddhartha_Valmont)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 4:21am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/3 "2026-08-14T04:21:33Z")
That is an interesting idea and a good source of motivation.
A few usability questions:
- What happen with skills already acquired? Is it possible to enter them directly with a ballpark date or no date ?
- Are you planning a log of iuf levels exams (like a certification log) ?
- Could events participation be also part of the scope (when, what event, timing if relevant or result, final ranking and how many contestants) ?
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### Author:  [@Setonix](https://unicyclist.com/u/Setonix)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/4 "2026-08-14T12:26:53Z")
Yeah so basically some self-defined skills, to give the user some freedom to define his own skills.
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/6 "2026-08-14T20:14:17Z")
> [@Setonix](#):
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> What about mastering BC Wheels and Ultimate Wheels. They require more or less the same kind of balance as with Seat Drag, or riding Freewheel without brake.
Yes, good idea to add that as a default category with som tricks with the app. What do you think? Category “Frameless” or “Just wheel” with both BC wheel and Ultimate wheel tricks/riding. Or should they both be their own category with tricks belonging to them?
You can also add your own categories and tricks in the app and edit all the existing one and delete the tricks you don’t want (with the possibility to restore them)
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/7 "2026-08-14T20:16:31Z")
> [@Siddhartha\_Valmont](#):
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> - What happen with skills already acquired? Is it possible to enter them directly with a ballpark date or no date ?
You can mark them as mastered, and you can also edit the mastered date.
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/8 "2026-08-14T20:17:45Z")
> [@Siddhartha\_Valmont](#):
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> - Are you planning a log of iuf levels exams (like a certification log) ?
I don’t have any plans for this at the moment.
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/9 "2026-08-14T20:20:37Z")
> [@Siddhartha\_Valmont](#):
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> - Could events participation be also part of the scope (when, what event, timing if relevant or result, final ranking and how many contestants) ?
This is a good idea. There should be possible to log the best result in competition, not just best training/ overall result.
And the other details of the competition.
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/10 "2026-08-14T20:29:16Z")
> [@charliehampton](#):
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> This looks really well thought out. I especially like the structured training logs and progress tracking. It could be useful to add weekly summaries and trend insights so users can quickly see how their training is improving over time.
Thank you!
You can group by week and see the stats per week.
And in trick stats view you can choose to see per day, week, month, year and all time.
Did you have something else in mind? Other trend insights?
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### Author:  [@ManiusTerentiusPullus](https://unicyclist.com/u/ManiusTerentiusPullus)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 9:00pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/11 "2026-08-14T21:00:50Z")
This trick glossary may be useful to you. It is from another, less active unicycle forum called une.haus. [https://une.haus/tricks](https://une.haus/tricks)
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/12 "2026-08-15T20:59:20Z")
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Uni2ONE2](https://unicyclist.com/u/Uni2ONE2)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/13 "2026-08-15T21:01:51Z")
> [@idleboy](#):
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> What do you think? Category “Frameless” or “Just wheel” with both BC wheel and Ultimate wheel tricks/riding. Or should they both be their own category with tricks belonging to them?
My vote would to make each of them their own category. They are very different in their riding experience and difficulty.
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### Author:  [@Setonix](https://unicyclist.com/u/Setonix)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2026, 2:36am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/14 "2026-08-17T02:36:42Z")
Are results only stored locally on ur phone or do you have a server with database, so it is possible to compare to others?
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2026, 10:09am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/15 "2026-08-21T10:09:39Z")
The first version is only stored locally, but I plan to have a server with database.
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### Author:  [@Setonix](https://unicyclist.com/u/Setonix)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2026, 10:24am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/16 "2026-08-21T10:24:30Z")
When will it become available for download? I have an iPhone. I could be your tester 😉
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 8:31am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/17 "2026-08-22T08:31:21Z")
I will try to send it for approval on App Store today or tomorrow. Then it usually go a few days before the app gets approved. So nice that you will be a tester! I will let you know when it is ready for download.
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### Author:  [@ManiusTerentiusPullus](https://unicyclist.com/u/ManiusTerentiusPullus)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/18 "2026-08-22T11:55:36Z")
So once the app gets approved anyone with iOS can download it?
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/19 "2026-09-03T19:07:32Z")
Yes, I’m in the process of getting it approved. I will let you know when it is available for download!
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### Author:  [@idleboy](https://unicyclist.com/u/idleboy)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/20 "2026-09-09T11:53:47Z")
The app is finally ready on Apple Appstore:
> **[Unilog App - App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unilog/id6804803755)**
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> Download Unilog by Ola Kaare Risa on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Unilog.
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### Author:  [@ManiusTerentiusPullus](https://unicyclist.com/u/ManiusTerentiusPullus)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 11:57am UTC](https://unicyclist.com/t/im-building-unilog-a-training-log-app-for-unicycling-would-love-your-feedback-and-tutorial-recommendations/295023/21 "2026-09-09T11:57:32Z")
Thank you! I have just downloaded.
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