Contura 3.0 — A Body, Across Time
Contura 3.0 — A Body, Across Time
This is the biggest release in Contura’s history. We rebuilt the app around a single idea: your body is a story that unfolds over time, and Contura is the best place to track it.
Until now, Contura has been a tool for capturing what you look like today. With 3.0, we’re laying your body out across a timeline — past, present, and future — so every change has somewhere to live, and somewhere to be seen.
A new way to navigate your body
The tab bar has been completely redesigned around four moments in your story: who you used to be, who you are now, who you could become, and how those versions stack up against each other. Each one is a fully realized 3D body, sharing the same pose and the same camera, so switching between them feels like flipping through chapters of the same book — not jumping between disconnected screens.
Every tab now has its own landing page, its own tone, its own copy. The journey starts the moment you open the app.
Reconstructing the past
The new past-self experience answers a question almost everyone asks themselves: was I really in better shape back then?
Memory lies. Bodies don’t. Through a short questionnaire — refined down from eight steps to six, with a friendlier warm-up — Contura reconstructs a 3D model of who you were. The reconstruction is now powered by a Theil-Sen regression with personal coupling calibration, which is a fancy way of saying it leans on your own historical data the longer you use the app. We’ve also added safeguards that cap how far the model can extrapolate, so the past you see is realistic rather than dramatic.
For most people, the truth is surprising. That surprise is the point.
Predicting the future
We’ve also built a new prediction engine for projecting where your body is heading. Tell Contura your goal, and it will show you what’s actually achievable — six months out, a year out — based on real trends rather than wishful thinking. Pick your own time horizon. The more you use the app, the sharper the prediction gets. There’s a full technical write-up of how the engine works on our blog if you want to look under the hood.
See the difference, even when the mirror can’t
The compare experience has been rebuilt from the ground up. Pick any two moments — past, present, future, in any combination — and Contura will light up the differences automatically. Volume gained shows up in red. Volume lost shows up in blue. Both directions, on the same body, at the same time. Even a one-centimeter change has nowhere to hide.
We’ve also added circumference delta annotations directly on the diff view, so you can see exactly how much each body part has changed in numbers, not just shapes.
A 3D engine that finally feels right
Under the hood, the body engine got a major upgrade:
- A unified pose system across every tab, with smooth transitions and a full pose catalog
- A new hair system with gender-aware defaults
- Per-body-part measurement focus with cinematic camera transitions
- A circumference-priority body shape algorithm with skinny-fat compensation, so the model reflects how you’re actually built — not just your weight
Faster, leaner, smoother
We trimmed roughly 52 MB off the install size by reworking how 3D morph data is stored. We also rewrote the rendering loop to be demand-driven, which means significantly lower GPU usage and better battery life when you’re exploring your body in 3D.
A redesigned start
First-time setup has been redesigned around three core measurements and a calmer, more sequential flow. Imperial users get a proper feet-and-inches picker, and Apple Health autofill is one tap away.
Contura 3.0 is the version we always wanted to ship. Thank you for being here for it.
If you’re enjoying the app, a review on the App Store genuinely helps. And if something’s not working the way you’d expect, we read every message.
— The Contura team