Is Strong free?

The direct answer

• Free tier: unlimited workouts, capped at 3 custom routines.
• Your history is not time-limited, which is the main way Strong's free tier beats Hevy's.
• Strong PRO is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, with a $99.99 one-time purchase.
• Strong holds 4.86 stars from 108,489 US ratings — the largest review base of the pure loggers.
• Strong has an Apple Watch app, which is often the real reason people choose it.

Will the three-routine cap reach you?

For a lot of lifters, no. Upper/lower is two routines. Full-body is one. A basic push/pull/legs split is exactly three, which fits — just.

You feel the cap the moment your training gets more textured: a deload week saved separately, a travel routine for a hotel gym, a second programme for a different phase, or a variant day you swap in. Every one of those is a fourth routine, and that is where the free tier ends.

There is a workaround that costs nothing: keep one routine per training day and edit it rather than duplicating. It is less tidy and it makes comparing phases harder, but it is genuinely workable for a long time.

Compared with the alternatives, this is a better deal than it looks. Hevy's free tier gives you four routines but only three months of graph history — and losing your past is worse than losing a template slot.

What PRO buys, and what else is out there

PRO removes the routine cap and unlocks Strong's fuller analysis. At $29.99 a year it is mid-priced for the category — more than Hevy's $23.99, far less than the $79.99 that Fitbod and Alpha Progression charge. The $99.99 lifetime purchase is the one to consider if Strong is already the app you open without thinking.

If you want more routines without a subscription, Superset does not cap routines, workouts or history at all. Its free tier also includes an AI coach that reads your logged history and tells you what weight to use next, a progress dashboard with personal records, 873 exercises with instructions and photos that work offline, and cloud backup. Voice logging — speaking the session and having the AI write it down — is the only paid feature, with the first one free.

Where Strong still wins. The Apple Watch app, first of all: Superset has none, and logging from the wrist is something no phone-only tracker can match. Strong also runs on Android, has 108,489 ratings behind it, and has years of polish. Superset is iPhone-only and has no ratings yet. If the watch is part of how you train, this comparison is already over.