Jefit vs GainsLog: Paid or Free Weight Suggestions?

It depends on whether you'll pay for the next weight. Both apps can tell you what weight and reps to aim for next. In Jefit, that is Load Progression, and it needs Elite, which costs $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year on its pricing page as of November 2026, though its App Store listing also has yearly products from $34.99. In GainsLog, the weight and rep targets for exercises you've logged recently are free, and the program builder and ready-made programs need Premium, at $39.99 a year. Jefit runs on iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, Wear OS watches and the web; GainsLog on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Jefit's prices, limits and rules below come from its US and Swedish App Store listings, its pricing page, its feature pages and its FAQ, read on 12 November 2026. GainsLog's come from its listings, its Premium page and the app's code. Jefit's own comparison, Fitbod vs Strong vs Jefit vs Hevy, is written by Jefit; this one is written by the maker of the other app.

Jefit's free account fills in each set with what you lifted last time, estimates your one-rep max from every set and flags personal records. Working out the next weight from that is up to you. Load Progression, the feature that suggests it, is part of Elite. After each workout it reads your history and suggests the weight, reps and target reps for each exercise in your next session. On main lifts you move up once you hit the top of your rep range with controlled reps, and Jefit says typical increases are 2.5 to 5%, depending on the equipment. It works on any plan, including one you built yourself, and you can override a suggestion (Jefit, Jefit FAQ).

GainsLog sets a weight and rep target for each set from the weight, reps and reps in reserve you logged on that exercise in the last 12 weeks, and adds an RIR target in some cases. It does that on the free version. Inside a Premium program, the targets come from earlier weeks of the same workout. An exercise or set number you haven't logged in that window starts without a target. The weight-progression guide explains when a target goes up.

So the suggested weight for your next session needs an Elite subscription in Jefit and costs nothing in GainsLog. If you cancel Elite, you keep it until the end of the period you paid for. Then Jefit keeps your workouts, history and plans, and your account goes back to the standard plan (Jefit FAQ), which has no Load Progression.

Jefit's Adaptive Plan, an Elite feature, asks for your goal (bulking, cutting, strength, power or maintaining), your level, 1 to 7 workouts a week, session length, target muscles, equipment and injuries. It writes a 12-week plan in three four-week blocks, with your split, exercises, sets, reps, weight and rest. Each week it re-reads what you logged and rebuilds the coming week, and the sets and effort change from week to week within a block (Jefit). Without Elite, you can follow one of more than 700 plans built by Jefit or 20,000+ built by its users, edit it, and keep up to 2 plans (Jefit).

GainsLog's program builder, a Premium feature, asks for your equipment, experience, the muscles you want to prioritize, how many days you can train, how long a session can be and your split. Before you start, it shows each muscle's weekly sets and checks them against ranges set for each muscle, such as 10 to 15 sets a week for a muscle you prioritize. Each workout then repeats every week with the same exercises and sets until the program ends or you change it. GainsLog also has five ready-made programs, also Premium.

Jefit's paid plan changes week by week from your logs. GainsLog's repeats the same week and shows you the weekly sets before you start. To check a week of training against GainsLog's ranges, use the volume calculator, which has the same numbers as the app; the training volume guide covers how many sets to do.

At the $69.99 on Jefit's pricing page, a year of Elite costs $30.00 more than a year of GainsLog Premium in the US. But Jefit's US listing also shows Elite Yearly products at $34.99 and $35.99, which the pricing page doesn't list, and both cost less than GainsLog's $39.99 (Jefit, App Store, App Store). In Sweden, Jefit's listing shows Elite at 149 kr a month and yearly products at 499, 819 and 999 kr, the cheapest the same as GainsLog's 499 kr. Jefit doesn't say which of these the app offers you, so check the price in the app before you pay (App Store, App Store). Jefit says its free trial is an offer shown to some users, not to everyone, and refunds for App Store purchases go through Apple (Jefit FAQ).

GainsLog's listing sells Premium Lifetime for $79.99, paid once, $10.00 more than one year of Jefit Elite at $69.99. The app says Lifetime includes everything in Premium except Gains Coach, its AI coach. Jefit's listing also shows "(Legacy Pricing)" products from $6.99 to $39.99 that its pricing page doesn't list (App Store). GainsLog's listing shows a $29.99 yearly offer and two products named Gains Premium, at $14.99 and $49.99, that its Premium page doesn't list.

• Android, Wear OS and the web. Jefit runs on all of them and syncs your workouts, plans and history between them (Jefit FAQ). GainsLog's Android app is in closed beta.
• A far bigger free library. Jefit's 1,400+ exercises with demo videos are in every account (Jefit FAQ), and so are 700+ plans of its own to start from (Jefit). GainsLog's library is smaller, and its listing says it prioritizes machines (App Store).
• A plan that changes every week. Elite's Adaptive Plan rebuilds the coming week from what you logged (Jefit). A program from GainsLog's builder repeats the same sets each week.
• Data export. Every Jefit account can export its training data from jefit.com (Jefit FAQ). GainsLog has no data import or export.

• Pick Jefit if you train on Android or with a Wear OS watch, or want a large library of free plans to follow and will set your own weights. Pay for Elite if you want the suggestions and a plan that adjusts every week.
• Pick GainsLog if you're on iPhone and want free weight and rep targets based on what you logged. Pay for Premium if you want the program built around your schedule and the muscles you want to prioritize, at $39.99 a year.
• GainsLog can't import Jefit's history, so switching means starting a new log.
• For more apps that set your next weight, see the progressive overload app comparison. If you're also weighing Hevy, see GainsLog vs Hevy, and for Jefit against Hevy, Hevy vs Jefit.

If you want free weight and rep targets based on what you logged, see how GainsLog works.

Researched and drafted with AI assistance from Jefit's App Store listings, pricing page, feature pages and FAQ and from GainsLog's listings and code, checked against those pages on 12 November 2026. Prices change, so the pages used are listed below.

• Jefit on the US App Store: prices, platforms
• Jefit on the Swedish App Store: prices
• Jefit: Elite pricing
• Jefit: FAQ: free limits, Elite, cancelling, export, devices
• Jefit: progressive overload and Load Progression
• Jefit: Adaptive Plan
• Jefit: workout plans
• Fitbod vs Strong vs Jefit vs Hevy, by Jefit
• GainsLog on the US App Store: prices, platforms, exercises
• GainsLog on the Swedish App Store: prices
• GainsLog Premium