Still planning your Pilates classes in Notes?

Hello!

I’m looking for some honest feedback on an app I built for instructors, ideally those who teach disciplines like mat, reformer and/or barre. It can be used for others too, but these are what I teach, so they’re what I know best at this stage!

I’m a Pilates instructor myself and came up with the idea when I was training. I wanted one place to digitally store my class plans and build a library of exercises and sequences – things I’d picked up from classes, ideas that came to mind, or inspiration I wanted to take away and make my own.

I couldn’t find anything that really worked for me, so like a lot of instructors I ended up using Notes on my iPhone.

The problem was that I’d save things and then completely forget about them. Ideas never resurfaced, old class plans disappeared into folders, and I’d often end up starting again when I’d probably already created something I could reuse.

So I built ARKV. Pronounced “ark-ive”

It’s essentially one organised place for your class plans, exercises and sequences. You can dictate or type exercises, organise and filter them by things like muscle group or prop, save favourites, and build an archive you can actually search, reuse and add to over time.

There’s also an AI assistant, KARI, which helps organise and categorise what you add rather than trying to replace your own programming.

I’m not selling anything. ARKV is free to use at the moment because what I really need is honest feedback from instructors. I want to know whether you see value in it, whether you’d actually use it, what you’d change, or even if it’s simply not for you.

It’s been a labour of lots of emotions. I started it before a family bereavement, and it’s taken me quite a lot to finally get it to this stage, so seeing people actually use it means a lot.
If anyone would be willing to take a look and give me completely honest feedback, I’d really appreciate it.

Create. Plan. Archive. Teach.

https://arkv.app

It’s currently iPhone only (sorry other users!)

Thanks for reading ♥️