Best workout tracking apps
Honest roundups of the best gym apps for one specific job: logging by voice, training offline, importing a plan you already have. Every one names the app that beats SayLift where it does.
The best iPhone workout tracker, judged by how little you touch it
Seven iPhone gym trackers compared on the thing that decides whether you keep using one: how much phone-fiddling it costs you per session.
Read →Free AI workout coaching, and what it really costs
Most AI gym coaching costs $12.99–$15.99 a month. What each one does, which parts you can get for nothing, and the cheapest route to next-session weights.
Read →Free workout trackers without a paywall, and which ones still qualify
Which gym apps are genuinely free in 2026, with each app's exact routine and history caps. SayLift went paid in August, so it is not one of them.
Read →The best hands-free gym app for logging between sets
Chalk, sweat and a rest timer make phone-tapping miserable. These are the ways to log a session hands-free on iPhone, and how well each one really works.
Read →The best offline workout tracker for basement gyms
Basement gyms kill phone signal, and half the popular trackers stall without it. These apps keep logging, and keep their exercise guides, offline.
Read →The personal best tracker that tells you while you are still in the gym
A PR you find out about three weeks later is a statistic. Here is what a personal best tracker should actually do, and how the gym apps handle records.
Read →The best app for logging a workout by voice
Almost no gym app lets you speak your sets; most only dictate into a text box. Here is what actually works in 2026, and what each one gets wrong.
Read →What workout app subscriptions cost, app by app
Real US prices for Hevy, Strong, Fitbod, JEFIT, Liftoff, Alpha Progression and SayLift, plus the three-year bill and where a one-time purchase wins.
Read →Workout apps that import the routine you already have
Switching gym apps usually means retyping your whole program. These apps import an existing routine instead, and only one reads plain pasted text.
Read →Workout apps that decide your next working weight
Most gym apps show last week's numbers and leave the decision to you. Four apps actually put a weight on the bar. What each one does, and what it charges.
Read →Workout app or personal trainer: what an app can actually replace
A trainer does four jobs. Apps genuinely cover two of them for the price of a session or two. Here is which parts transfer and which ones never will.
Read →Workout apps with exercise instructions you can actually reach
Exercise libraries usually stream from a server, so they die in basement gyms. Here is which app bundles its guides on the phone, and what that costs.
Read →The best workout log app for tracking sets and reps
Seven iPhone training logs judged on one thing: how little work it takes to record what you actually lifted, set by set. Real prices and free-tier caps.
Read →Where your training history is backed up, and what that costs
A training log is the one thing on your phone you cannot recreate. Which gym apps keep a copy off the device, what backup costs, and how to check yours.
Read →Workout trackers you can start using without signing up
Most gym apps ask for an email before they let you log a single set. Here is how to start training in seconds, and what you give up by staying anonymous.
Read →Workout trackers worth paying for, ranked by what the subscription buys
Seven paid gym apps, what each subscription actually buys and the real yearly price. Ranked for people who have already decided to pay for one.
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