Free workout trackers without a paywall, and which ones still qualify

First, a correction to this page

This site is run by the people who make SayLift, and until recently this page ranked SayLift first as the tracker with no paywall. That is no longer true. In August 2026 SayLift moved to a subscription: new users hit a paywall during onboarding, start a 3-day free trial, and pay $49.99 a year after it. There is no free tier underneath.

So SayLift has been moved down the page and relabelled as the paid pick. If what you want is a tracker you never pay for, the honest answer is Hevy or Strong, and the rest of this page is about them.

The short answer

Ranked by how much real training you can do without ever paying.

• Hevy: the best free tier here. Unlimited workouts and full history, capped at 4 routines and 7 custom exercises.
• Strong: unlimited workouts and unlimited history, capped at 3 custom routines. The best pick if history is what you care about.
• Liftoff: logging is free and uncapped. The ranked and social layer is the paid part, and it is the reason most people install it.
• JEFIT: free with ads and feature limits. Usable, but the ads are the price.
• Alpha Progression: limited plan generation on free, $12.99/mo or $79.99/yr to unlock.
• Fitbod: a handful of free workouts and then it is a paid app. Not really a free tier.
• SayLift: no longer free. A 3-day trial, then $49.99 a year.

The three ways a free tier bites

Routine caps. The most common. Three or four routines sounds like plenty until you run an upper/lower split plus a deload week plus a travel-day session. That is four, and you have not made a variant yet. This is the cap most people hit first and it arrives exactly when you have become invested.

Custom exercise caps. Your gym has a machine the library does not, or your coach named a variation. Seven custom exercises goes quickly for anyone training seriously.

History and analytics windows. The nastiest kind, because the data is yours and it already exists. Being shown three months of your own graph and asked to pay for month four is a different transaction from being sold a new feature.

What each free tier actually gives you

#1 Hevy: the most usable free tier

Hevy's free tier is the one most people can live in. Unlimited workouts, your full training log, and the graphs that go with it, without paying. The caps are 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, and body weight plus waist as the only measurements.

For a beginner running one program that is fine for months. For anyone with variants, deloads or a travel routine, it is a matter of weeks before you meet the routine cap.

Its paid tier is also the best-priced in this category by some distance: $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year, or $74.99 once for lifetime access. A lifetime option barely exists elsewhere any more, so if you expect to pay for a tracker eventually, this is the cheapest exit.

The honest limits. The 4-routine cap is low, and 7 custom exercises runs out fast if your gym has unusual machines. Measurement tracking beyond weight and waist is behind Pro.

#2 Strong: unlimited workouts, three routines

Strong takes the opposite approach to a history paywall: the free tier saves unlimited workouts, so your training log is never held back. The cap is on custom routines, at three.

PRO is $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or $99.99 once. Strong also has the most established Apple Watch app in the category.

The honest limits. Three routines is tighter than Hevy's four, and the app has seen slower feature development than Hevy over the last two years.

#3 Liftoff: free logging, paid everything else

Liftoff's logger is free and uncapped, which technically makes it a free workout tracker. The catch is that the ranked leaderboards and the social layer are what the app is known for, and those sit behind Pro at $12.99 a month.

If you only want the logger, you never have to pay. You are also not using the reason the app exists, and Hevy's free logger is better at being a logger.

The honest limits. The free experience is built to sell you Pro, so the paid features are visible throughout. Liftoff runs more than one live annual price, between $39.99 and $79.99, so what you are shown may differ from what a friend is shown.

Where SayLift sits now

SayLift is our app, and it no longer belongs in a list of trackers without a paywall. New users see a paywall right after onboarding, start a 3-day free trial, and are charged $49.99 a year after that. Weekly is $3.99 and monthly is $7.99. Nothing runs underneath the subscription once the trial ends.

What you get for it: voice logging, where you speak the session out loud and the AI writes down every exercise, set, rep and weight instead of you tapping a form between sets. A progressive-overload coach that reads your logged history and tells you the working weight to use next. 873 exercises with step-by-step instructions and photos, bundled in the app so they work with no signal. Paste-in routine import that turns a plan from a coach or a spreadsheet into training days. Cloud backup, and a guest mode so you can start without handing over an email.

The honest limits. It is a subscription with no free tier, and at $49.99 a year it is more than double what Hevy charges to remove every one of its caps. It is iPhone-only, with no Android, web, iPad or Apple Watch version. It has no App Store ratings yet because it is new, which is a real reason to be cautious. Supersets and drop sets have no structured logging, so you can write them into a set's notes but the app will not group them. There is no Apple Health sync. And voice logging needs an internet connection, which a basement gym may not have.

It is worth the money if speaking your session instead of typing it is the thing you want. If it is not, Hevy is free and better value.

How to pick

• You want to never pay and never hit a wall: Strong, for the unlimited workout history.
• You want the best all-round free tier: Hevy, until you need a fifth routine.
• You want the cheapest way to remove all limits forever: Hevy at $74.99 once.
• You want the app to write your workouts: Fitbod, and accept it is a paid app.
• You want to log by talking and will pay for it: SayLift, at $49.99 a year after the trial.
• You are on Android: Hevy or Strong. SayLift is iPhone-only.