Workout apps that import the routine you already have

The short answer

• Superset — paste any plain text and its AI splits it into training days and matches every movement. Works with a coach's email, a spreadsheet column, or a plan you typed off a photo.
• Hevy, via HevyGPT — a custom GPT that *generates* a program in ChatGPT and pushes it into your Hevy profile. Excellent, but it writes a new plan rather than reading yours; free accounts cannot import more than four routines.
• Boostcamp — has a large library of well-known published programs built in, so if your plan is a famous one you may not need to import anything.
• Strong, JEFIT, Fitbod, Liftoff, Alpha Progression — no text import. You build routines by hand, exercise by exercise.

Three different problems people call "import"

"My coach sent me a plan." It exists as a message, a PDF or a photo of a whiteboard. It is unstructured, it uses your coach's shorthand, and no app has a native importer for it. This is the hardest case and the most common.

"My plan is in a spreadsheet." Structured, but in your own format, with your own column names. Some apps take CSV in a specific schema; almost none take yours.

"I'm switching from another app." You want the routines, and ideally the history. Routines are usually recoverable by exporting to text. History almost never transfers between competitors, and anyone promising otherwise is usually talking about their own backup format.

How the options compare

#1 Superset — paste the text, keep the plan

Superset's import is deliberately unfussy: there is a box, you paste text into it, and an AI model works out what your program is. It handles the messy cases — "Day A: bench 4x6-8, incline DB press 3x10, cable fly 3x12-15" parses the same as a tidy list, and so does a paragraph your coach wrote in an email.

What happens next is the part that matters. Each exercise name is matched against the bundled 873-exercise database, so your movements arrive with instructions and photos attached rather than as orphaned text. Then a review screen shows every day and every exercise it found, and you fix anything wrong before it saves. Nothing is written until you approve it.

The saved days are also written into your history as recent training, so the coach and the Today page pick up from your plan immediately rather than treating you as a brand-new user with no baseline.

The honest limits. Import needs an internet connection, because the text goes to a model. It reads text, so a PDF or a photo has to be typed or copied out first — there is no OCR. And it brings across the plan, not your logged history: your old sets stay in your old app.

#2 Hevy and HevyGPT

Hevy's ChatGPT integration is the most polished thing in this category. You enable it in Hevy's settings, describe what you want in ChatGPT, and the resulting program is saved into your Hevy profile in seconds. It works with a free ChatGPT account and does not require Hevy Pro.

It is solving a different problem though. HevyGPT is a plan *generator* — you describe goals and constraints and it writes something new. If your plan already exists and you simply want it in the app, you are back to describing it to a chatbot and hoping the result matches. Free Hevy accounts also cannot import a plan containing more than four routines, which is the same cap that applies to routines generally.

#3 Boostcamp, if your program is famous

Boostcamp's angle is a library of well-known published programs — the ones with names, written by coaches you have heard of. If you are running one of those, you do not have an import problem at all, you have a "pick it from a list" situation, which is better.

It does not help if your plan is bespoke, which most people's are once they have been training a while.

How to pick

• Your coach writes your program in prose — Superset. It is the only one that reads it as-is.
• You want an AI to write you a plan from scratch — Hevy's HevyGPT, or Fitbod, which generates every session.
• You follow a well-known published program — Boostcamp has it in the library already.
• You need your logged history to come with you — nothing does this well. Export what you can, and accept a clean break.
• You are on Android — Superset is iPhone-only; HevyGPT is the practical option.