Is Superset worth it?

The short answer

Worth it for a specific lifter, and a poor purchase for several others. The honest split:

• Worth it if you hate handling your phone mid-session. You talk through the workout once and the AI writes down every exercise, set, rep and weight. Nothing else on the App Store does this.
• Worth it if you train somewhere with no signal. All 873 exercises, with photos and step-by-step instructions, are stored on the phone, along with your history and the coach's targets.
• Worth it if you have a routine written down somewhere. Paste it in as plain text in any format and the app builds it, instead of you retyping four training days by hand.
• Not worth it if you are happy tapping. Hevy costs $23.99 a year, has a better-tested logger and 85,100 App Store ratings behind it.
• Not worth it if you need Apple Watch, Android, iPad or a web app. Superset runs on iPhone only.
• Not worth it if you log supersets and drop sets properly. They are notes here, not grouped sets, and the app is named after the thing it does not structure.

What $49.99 a year buys

There is one subscription and it turns on everything. No tiers, no add-ons, and the 3-day trial has the whole app unlocked so you can test the expensive part before paying for it.

Voice logging. Hold the mic and say the session the way you would tell a training partner about it. "Bench press, three sets of eight at 135, then incline dumbbell press for ten, ten and eight at fifty." The recording goes to a multimodal model rather than through a speech-to-text stage, so gym vocabulary and mumbled plate numbers survive better, and a review screen shows every value before anything is saved. It is capped at 10 recordings an hour and 20 a day, which no real training week reaches.

The coach. After each session it sets your next working weight per lift and picks one of six actions: increase, hold, decrease, deload, restart or calibrate. That is the part people usually run in a spreadsheet.

The offline library. 873 exercises with photos and instructions, on the phone, from the public-domain free-exercise-db dataset. Useful at an unfamiliar machine in a basement gym with no bars of signal.

Routine import, the progress dashboard and cloud backup. Paste a plan in any text format and it gets built. Volume, streaks and personal records are tracked. Every workout, routine and custom exercise mirrors to the cloud from the first session.

$49.99 against Hevy's $23.99

Hevy is the app most people are comparing against, so here is the gap in both directions.

Five reasons not to buy it

Stated plainly, because a $49.99 subscription deserves the counter-argument in the same place as the pitch.

It is new and unrated. Superset launched in August 2026 and has no App Store ratings. Hevy has 85,100 and Strong has 108,489. That is a real difference in how much other people have stress-tested the thing you are trusting with your training history.

It is iPhone only. There is no Android version, and nothing for iPad, the web or Apple Watch. If you log from your wrist, Strong is the app to buy.

No Apple Health sync. The integration exists in the code but is switched off in the shipping build, so workouts do not appear in Health or in any app that reads from it.

Supersets and drop sets are not structured. You can write them into the notes on a set, and the app will not group them or track the pair as one unit.

No export, no rest timer. Your data is backed up and restorable inside the app, and there is no CSV file to take elsewhere. Voice logging also needs an internet connection, because the recording has to reach a model.

How the trial and the paywall work

Superset puts a paywall straight after onboarding, before you have logged anything. That is unusual and worth knowing: the only ways past it are starting the 3-day trial or restoring an existing purchase. There is no browse-first mode.

The trial unlocks every feature, including voice logging, so three days is enough to test the only thing worth paying for. It converts to a paid subscription automatically unless you cancel first, and cancelling is done in the iOS Settings app under your Apple Account, then Subscriptions, rather than inside Superset.

The plans are $49.99 a year, $7.99 a month or $3.99 a week. The weekly plan is there for people who want one training block and works out at $207.48 over a full year, so it is a bad way to hold the app long term.

So who should actually buy it

Buy it if the thing standing between you and a complete training log is the phone in your hand between sets. That is a real problem, most people solve it by keeping no log at all, and $49.99 a year is a fair price for solving it if you will use the microphone every session.

Skip it if you already log reliably. A person who happily taps sets into Hevy is getting a better-tested app with a web version, a social feed and an export, for half the money. Skip it too if you need Apple Health, an Apple Watch, or structured superset logging, because those are not coming from a trial and they are not in this app today.

The middle case is the interesting one: if you like Hevy but stop logging on busy days, take the 3-day trial and record two sessions by voice. You will know within one training week whether you are the person this app is priced for.