StrengthLog Review: Is Premium Worth $109 a Year?

It depends on whether you need the tools Premium adds. As of November 2026, Premium costs $16.90 a month, $37.90 for three months or $109.00 a year on the US App Store. Pay if you want the full program library, programs in % of 1RM or RPE, a fixed amount added to the weight fetched from your log, or the training reports. Stay free if you follow a free program or your own and don't need those tools. The free version doesn't expire.

Every StrengthLog fact below comes from its US and Swedish App Store listings (version 9.1.2), its website and the 67 articles in its help center, read on 4 November 2026. I build GainsLog, and in its launch post I wrote that I wanted RepCount's ease of use, StrengthLog's programs and RP Hypertrophy's progression in a single app.

StrengthLog is a workout log for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android, made by Styrkelabbet AB in Sweden (App Store, StrengthLog). Its listing calls itself "the world's most generous workout tracker" and promises "No ads. No trial that suddenly locks you out." The free version, according to the listing:

• Unlimited workouts and unlimited custom exercises, on top of a library of 600+ exercises with instructions and videos.
• Popular workouts and programs to follow, and your own routines and programs with linear progression.
• PRs, exercise history, training volume and other statistics, Strength Levels, goals and streaks, a rest timer, a plate calculator, and 1RM estimates with suggested warm-ups for a PR attempt.
• Body measurements, progress pictures, friends and monthly challenges, and Apple Health.

The listing doesn't say how many routines and programs a free user can build, while Premium says "Build unlimited training routines and programs with double and triple progression". Premium also lists "Unlimited goals and streaks", which implies a free cap, but none of the 67 help articles gives a number for either (App Store, StrengthLog).

StrengthLog's help center lists three ways to set a weight in a saved workout: a set weight, Retrieve from log, or % of 1RM, and only % of 1RM is marked Premium (StrengthLog). A multi-week program is built one week at a time: you copy week 1 into week 2 and edit the weights (StrengthLog).

Retrieve from log looks up the last time you did the planned number of reps on that exercise and uses that weight. If you've since logged more than that number of reps with a heavier weight, it uses the heavier one. In the help center's example, a program says 10 reps, you got 8 last time, and it fetches no weight (StrengthLog). Adding a fixed amount, such as 2.5 kg, to the fetched weight each session is Premium (StrengthLog), and so are the double and triple progression in the listing's Premium list (App Store).

During a workout, the app can also copy the sets from the last time you did an exercise (StrengthLog), and the website's FAQ lists importing sets from earlier workouts among the free features (StrengthLog). Changing the weights and reps as you copy sets from an exercise's history is Premium (StrengthLog). Train Again starts a copy of a logged workout for free. Raising or lowering all its weights or reps at once, for example by 1%, is Premium (StrengthLog, StrengthLog).

• The full program library. StrengthLog's website counts over 300 programs and workout routines for powerlifting, bodybuilding, powerbuilding, general strength and muscle growth, and sport (StrengthLog). You can filter by Premium or Free, and the Premium ones need Premium, including to copy them (StrengthLog, StrengthLog).
• Planning in % of 1RM or RPE/RiR, logging RPE or RiR on your sets, and an RPE calculator (StrengthLog, StrengthLog).
• The muscles-worked widget, which the help center describes for Premium users. It counts your sets per muscle each week and turns a muscle fully red at 10 sets a week unless you change the goal (StrengthLog). The listing's Premium list has muscle heat maps, while the FAQ on StrengthLog's website lists a muscle map in the free version, so check in the app.
• Training reports after every month and year: workouts, volume, reps, sets, time, muscles worked and new records, which you can compare with the period before (StrengthLog).
• Quick stats on each set while you train, such as estimated 1RM and your rep PR at that weight, plus advanced statistics per muscle group and exercise (StrengthLog, StrengthLog, App Store).
• Sharing your own workouts and programs with other users, and read-only access to your training data from ChatGPT or Claude through StrengthLog's MCP connection (StrengthLog, StrengthLog).

Paying monthly for a year costs $93.80 more than the yearly plan in the US and 793 kr more in Sweden. The yearly plan works out to about $9.08 or 83 kr a month. StrengthLog sells no weekly plan or lifetime purchase on the App Store, and prices differ by country (App Store, App Store, StrengthLog).

StrengthLog's website offers a free 14-day Premium trial "for a limited time", started in the app (StrengthLog). Neither App Store listing names a trial, so check the paywall in the app before you pay.

In Sweden you can pay for Premium with a wellness stipend (friskvårdsbidrag) through Benify, Actiway, Wellnet, ePassi or Benefits, or, if your employer isn't on one of those portals, by invoice from StrengthLog, for a year at a time. The help page gives no price for either route. After a portal purchase you enter its code in the app, and StrengthLog activates Premium by hand. App Store and Google Play receipts can't be used for the stipend, and you have to cancel an App Store subscription first or you'll be charged twice (StrengthLog). Stipend and invoice purchases don't renew automatically (StrengthLog).

Your training log, programs and workouts stay. StrengthLog's help article on this, last updated in 2021, says workouts and programs you created with Premium functions in them can't be started until you switch back to Premium (StrengthLog). You cancel an App Store subscription in your iPhone's subscription settings (StrengthLog).

• Pay if you want to follow a Premium program from the library, or plan in % of 1RM or RPE. Premium programs and that planning aren't on the free version.
• Pay if you want the app to add weight to last session's numbers for you, or want monthly and yearly training reports.
• Stay free if you run your own program, or a free one, and set your weights yourself.
• If you're in Sweden and have a wellness stipend from your employer, you can use it to pay for Premium through a portal or by invoice.

GainsLog is a workout app for iPhone and iPad, with an Apple Watch companion, for lifters who want to build muscle and be told what to lift each session. On the free version it sets a weight and rep target for each working set of an exercise you've done before, plus an RIR target in some cases, without a program you write. Up to 3 saved workouts are free. Premium adds the program builder, ready-made programs and custom exercises, among other things, at $5.99 a week with a free trial or $39.99 a year without one in the US (79 kr or 499 kr in Sweden). A lifetime purchase, $79.99 or 999 kr, unlocks Premium without Gains Coach, its AI coach. Those are the plans the paywall offers new buyers; the App Store listing also shows older products at other prices.

GainsLog lacks things StrengthLog has: its Android app is in closed beta, it has no % of 1RM or RPE planning, it can't be paid with a wellness stipend, it can't import a StrengthLog history, and its listing counts 100+ exercises, with machines first (App Store). The head-to-head is StrengthLog vs GainsLog, and StrengthLog vs Hevy compares StrengthLog with a cheaper paid plan.

If you'd rather have each set's weight and reps set from what you logged, without writing the progression yourself, see how GainsLog works.

Researched and drafted with AI assistance from StrengthLog's App Store listings, website and help center and from GainsLog's listing and code, checked against those pages on 4 November 2026. Prices change, so the pages used are listed below.

• StrengthLog on the US App Store: prices, free and Premium features, version 9.1.2
• StrengthLog on the Swedish App Store: prices
• StrengthLog: the app page and FAQ: platforms, programs, Train Again changes
• StrengthLog: free trial
• StrengthLog help: what Premium includes
• StrengthLog help: how to follow a program
• StrengthLog help: how to build a program
• StrengthLog help: save a workout template
• StrengthLog help: retrieve from training log
• StrengthLog help: copy sets from last workout
• StrengthLog help: Train Again
• StrengthLog help: RPE and RiR
• StrengthLog help: muscles worked
• StrengthLog help: training reports
• StrengthLog help: share workouts
• StrengthLog help: MCP and AI assistants
• StrengthLog help: what happens to your data if you cancel
• StrengthLog help: wellness stipend
• StrengthLog help: cancel your subscription
• GainsLog on the US App Store: platforms, exercise library