The gamified PT app for kids who won't stretch
Your kid won't do their PT exercises. We get it — it feels like homework. Stretch Quest turns the stretches their doctor prescribed into a daily quest, complete with characters, castles, pets, and rewards. Kids ask to do it. Parents stop chasing.
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Hi, Meadow!
Dancing Fairy
4 Rooms
3 Stickers
5 day streak
Three different heroes, three different paths — but the same daily routine system underneath. Kids, athletes, and adults all start the same way: pick a hero and complete today's quest.
For kids & dreamers
Build a glittering castle, befriend a unicorn, and collect magical treasures — while completing the PT stretches your doctor actually recommended.
For athletes & competitors
Most competitive kids don't skip warm-ups because they're lazy — they skip because it feels like a delay before the real thing. Warrior reframes it: every stretch is a forge action, every session builds armor. Young athletes use it for soccer pre-game prep, basketball recovery between practices, and cross-training during off-season. Tame a dragon. Rise from recruit to legendary commander. Actually show up ready.
For adults & mindful movers
Gentle daily mobility for adults — desk workers, active seniors, and anyone rebuilding after injury. Collect scrolls, build a sanctuary, stay consistent.
In its 2019 policy statement on sports specialization, the American Academy of Pediatrics identified overuse injury as the primary risk of year-round single-sport training — now the norm for competitive kids. Approximately 45% of all youth sports injuries are overuse injuries that structured warm-up and recovery can prevent. These routines address the exact muscles and joints each sport loads most.
Soccer
Foot & ankle prep, calf recovery, Sever's prevention
Soccer is the sport most commonly associated with Sever's disease in kids 8–14. Repetitive heel-strike on turf is exactly what this routine addresses before it becomes an injury.
Basketball
Knee stability, jump mechanics, hip flexor recovery
Youth basketball players absorb thousands of landing impacts per season. Patellar tendinitis and ACL stress build up long before any single injury — this routine targets those loading patterns early.
Baseball
Shoulder warm-up, rotational mobility, elbow care
Youth baseball elbow injuries — particularly UCL damage — have risen sharply with year-round play. This routine addresses the shoulder external rotation and elbow mechanics that precede the arm injuries every pitcher's parents dread.
Dance
Hip & turnout flexibility, back opening, ankle stability
Dancers train through pain as a matter of culture, not choice — which means hip flexor tightness, ankle instability, and lower back stress accumulate quietly. This routine surfaces the deficits that studio training rarely treats.
Running
IT band & calf prep, Osgood-Schlatter relief, cooldown
Runners are the most likely to skip the cooldown and the most likely to regret it. This routine front-loads the work that prevents the injuries that end seasons.
Swimming
Shoulder mobility, rotator cuff pre-hab, core activation
Elite competitive swimmers can average over 1 million shoulder rotations per year. Pre-hab here isn't optional — it's the difference between a full season and a sling.
Gymnastics
Wrist prep, back flexibility, landing-safety strength
Wrist and shoulder injuries account for the majority of gymnastics orthopedic visits in kids under 14 — compression, hyperextension, and full-range landing impact in the same session. This routine addresses those joint loads before they become stress fractures.
Martial Arts
Hip mobility, kick flexibility, balance & core stability
How many kids warm up before sparring? Most don't. This routine covers the hip flexors, lower back, and ankle mobility that ground work and kicking demand — before accumulated tightness becomes a reason to miss practice.
Volleyball
Shoulder pre-hab, jump-prep, ankle & knee care
Volleyball shoulders absorb more repetitive overhead load than any court sport except competitive swimming — and the ankle is the second casualty. Lateral cuts, quick-drop landings, and dive recoveries are what make the sport beautiful to watch and expensive in the training room. This routine addresses both before the season starts.
🗂 Two tabs per sport, inside the app
Training— pre-activity warm-up and post-activity recovery routines built for that sport's specific movement patterns. Injury— condition-based recovery programs grouped by the most common injuries for each sport (e.g., Sever's disease for soccer, rotator cuff for swimming, patellar tendinitis for basketball). The warm-up before the game matters as much as the PT after the injury.
BJ Fogg's 2019 Tiny Habitsresearch and Duolingo's published data on streak mechanics both point to the same finding: loss aversion, variable rewards, and visible progress drive behavior more reliably than reminders or willpower. We applied those mechanics to stretching — with routines reviewed against standard PT protocols by licensed pediatric physical therapists.
Daily Quests
Pick 5 stretches. Finish them. Done in under 10 minutes. The quest structure makes the decision before you open the app — same hero, same format every day. Decision fatigue is the enemy of daily habits; we eliminate the decision.
Streaks
Miss a day and the streak breaks. Behavioral researchers call this loss aversion — the pain of losing a streak consistently outweighs the motivation to start a new one. One parent told us her son set a phone alarm for 9:58pm just to keep his alive.
Level Up
Earn XP, unlock titles, climb from novice to legendary — kids and adults both.
Build Your World
20 rooms to unlock. One new room per completed quest. Progress you can see.
Keep a Pet
Feed and level up a unicorn, dragon, or wise owl companion. Kids love this.
Collect Treasure
Common, rare, epic, legendary — every quest rolls loot from the full drop table.
Parent Dashboard
See streaks, compliance, and session history at a glance. Know when they skip.
Family Leaderboard
Sibling rivalry, but the healthy kind. Pun fully intended.
Those mechanics only matter if the exercises underneath are the right ones. Most people who download Stretch Quest aren't here for general fitness — they have a specific condition their doctor told them to stretch daily. These are the routines we built for that.
Kids & growing athletes
Growing bones, active kids, and the conditions pediatric orthopedists see most — Sever's disease, plantar fasciitis, and Osgood-Schlatter together account for the majority of overuse injuries in kids ages 8–16.
Plantar Fasciitis
Kids & adults
Sever's Disease
Growing kids
Osgood-Schlatter
Growing kids
Runner's Knee
Active kids & teens
Adults & chronic conditions
The conditions that send adults to PT — and that PT alone can't fix if compliance between sessions stays at the typical 20-30% rate. Daily movement, consistently, is the treatment.
Low Back Pain
Adults
Neck & Shoulders
Adults
Posture & Desk Pain
Adults & teens
Hip Mobility
All ages
Carpal Tunnel
Adults
TMJ & Jaw Pain
Teens & adults
Balance & Falls
Older adults
Post-Surgery Recovery
All ages
40 free exercises included for everyone. Targeted specialty routines unlock on the Family plan.
My daughter has plantar fasciitis. Her physical therapist gave us a set of daily stretches — every one of them important, every one of them a fight to get done. After weeks of the same nightly battle, the pattern was clear: they felt like homework. Punishment at the end of an already long day. Skip them, and by bedtime she was hurting. So in 2026 I built something she'd want to open on her own — and she did.
Parents found it while searching for help with their kids' PT homework. Youth soccer and recreational league coaches picked it up as a pre-game warm-up their athletes would actually follow through on. Physical therapists whose post-pandemic caseloads stretched appointment gaps to six weeks or more started recommending it as a between-session compliance bridge — because the home exercise gap was already there, and the access crisis made it worse. Stretch Quest grew from one dad's solution into a compliance tool for the gap every physical therapist knows exists — between what patients are told to do and what they actually do between sessions.
Read how a dad's nightly battle turned into a free app — and why it stays free →The kid who set a 9:58pm alarm to keep his streak alive didn't need more reminders. He needed something worth showing up for. Pick a hero and earn your first reward in under 10 minutes — no account required.
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