Free workout trackers that don't paywall your own training

The short answer

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

• Superset — unlimited routines, unlimited custom exercises, full history, the AI coach, the progress dashboard and 873 exercises, all free. Only the voice microphone is paid.
• Hevy — very usable free, but capped at 4 routines and 7 custom exercises, with body weight and waist as the only measurements.
• Strong — unlimited workouts, capped at 3 custom routines.
• JEFIT — free with ads and feature limits; Elite is $12.99/mo or $69.99/yr.
• Liftoff — logging is free; the ranked and social layer is the paid part.
• Fitbod — a handful of free workouts and then it is a paid app. Not really a free tier.
• Alpha Progression — limited plan generation on free, $12.99/mo or $79.99/yr to unlock.

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 Superset — the paywall is on the microphone only

Superset inverts the usual model. Everything you create and everything you have done is free and uncapped: routines, custom exercises, your entire logged history, the progress dashboard with its streaks and personal records, the AI coach that tells you what weight to use next, all 873 exercises with instructions and photos, routine import, and cloud backup so a new phone restores everything.

The single paid feature is voice logging — the ability to speak a session instead of typing it. Your first voice log is free so you can see whether you like it, and after that it is $3.99 a week, $7.99 a month or $39.99 a year. If you never want it, you have a complete, uncapped tracker for nothing, permanently.

The honest limits. It is iPhone-only. It has no App Store ratings yet because it is new, which is a real reason to be cautious. There is no Apple Health sync. And $39.99 a year for voice is more than Hevy charges to remove all of its caps, so if tapping does not bother you, Superset is not the cheaper choice.

#2 Hevy — the best-value paid tier

Hevy's free tier is genuinely usable, and its paid tier is 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.

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.

#3 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, which Superset does not have at all.

How to pick

• You want to never pay and never hit a wall — Superset, using manual logging.
• You want the cheapest way to remove all limits forever — Hevy at $74.99 once.
• You want unlimited workout history free above all — Strong.
• You want the app to write your workouts — Fitbod, and accept it is a paid app.
• You are on Android — Hevy or Strong; Superset is iPhone-only.