Workout trackers you can start using without signing up

The short answer

There are three different things people mean by "no account", and they are not equally good.

• No account at all — everything lives on the phone. Nothing to sign up for, and nothing to restore when you lose the phone. Old-school local trackers work this way.
• A silent guest account — the app makes an anonymous account for you in the background, so your history is backed up, but you never see a sign-up screen. Superset works this way: tap *Continue as guest* and start logging. You can attach Google or Apple later without losing anything.
• A required account — email, password, confirmation. Most of the big trackers do this, because their sync, social and web features need an identity to hang off.
• The middle option is the one worth wanting. You get the two-second start of a local app and the safety net of a synced one.

Why sign-up walls exist at all

An app asks for your email for one of three reasons, and it is worth knowing which you are being asked for.

Because it genuinely has to sync. If the app has a web version, a social feed, or shared programs between coach and athlete, it needs to know who you are. That is a real engineering requirement, not a growth tactic.

Because it wants a marketing channel. An email address is worth money to a subscription business. Nothing sinister, but it is not a feature for you.

Because it never occurred to anyone to make it optional. Sign-up-first is the default in almost every app template, and most teams never revisit it.

The tell is what happens when you decline. An app that offers a guest mode and still backs your data up has done the harder engineering on purpose.

What Superset does instead

The first screen offers Apple, Google, or Continue as guest. Picking guest signs you into an anonymous account you never see or manage — no email, no password, no verification. Your workouts start syncing to the cloud immediately under that anonymous identity, so a lost phone is not a lost training history.

Later, if you want the history to follow you to a new phone reliably, you can attach a Google or Apple account from Settings. The existing anonymous account is linked, not replaced, so nothing is lost in the process. That is the specific detail most guest modes get wrong: many of them treat signing in as starting over.

The honest limits. A guest account is tied to that install. If you delete the app or wipe the phone before attaching a real sign-in, there is no email address for support to look you up by, and that history is gone. Anonymous is genuinely anonymous — which cuts both ways. If your training log matters to you, attach Google or Apple once, early, and then forget about it.

Also worth knowing before you install: Superset is iPhone-only, on iOS 17 or later. There is no Android app, no web app and no Apple Watch app.

What you actually get before signing up

A guest start is only useful if the app is usable in that state. In Superset the free tier is the app, not a trial:

• Unlimited manual logging — no cap on workouts, routines or custom exercises.
• 873 exercises with step-by-step instructions and photos, bundled in the app and fully usable with no signal.
• The AI coach and the Today page — it reads your logged history and tells you what to put on the bar next.
• The progress dashboard — volume, streaks and personal records.
• Paste-in routine import — bring a plan you already have as plain text.
• Cloud backup and restore, including as a guest.
• The one paid feature is voice logging: your first one is free, then it is $3.99 a week, $7.99 a month or $39.99 a year in the US.

How to check any tracker before you commit

1. 1Install it and see how far you get before it asks for anything. If you cannot log one set, that answers the question.
2. 2Look for a *guest*, *skip* or *maybe later* option on the sign-in screen — it is often deliberately low-contrast.
3. 3Find out whether guest data is backed up or only on the phone. Search the app's own support pages for "guest" or "restore".
4. 4Check whether signing in later links your existing data or starts a fresh account. This is the one that bites people six months in.
5. 5Log two real sessions before you decide anything. Sign-up friction is annoying once; a logger you hate is annoying three times a week.

How to pick

• You want to start logging right now, and still have a backup — Superset's guest mode is built for exactly that.
• You want your log on a computer too — you need an account, and you want Hevy or JEFIT, both of which have web access.
• You want friends to see your sessions — a social feed cannot work anonymously. Hevy is the one to look at.
• You log from an Apple Watch — Strong. Superset has no watch app at all.
• You are on Android — Superset is not an option; Hevy, Strong, JEFIT and Fitbod all are.