Strong App Alternatives by Why You're Leaving, With Prices

It depends on why you're leaving. For more free templates and your Strong history in the new app, pick Hevy. For an app that sets your next weight, pick GainsLog (free targets, iPhone), Alpha Progression ($79.99 a year) or Hevy Trainer (in Hevy Pro, $23.99 a year). For a large program library, pick StrengthLog. For a new workout built each session, pick Fitbod. Prices are from the US App Store, as of November 2026. If three templates cover your program, free Strong is still enough.

I build GainsLog, one of the apps on this list, so read it with that in mind. Strong is one of the apps I tried before I built GainsLog, as I wrote in the launch post. Every price, free limit and import rule below comes from each app's US and Swedish App Store listings, help center or website, read on 2 November 2026. GainsLog's come from its App Store listing, its App Store Connect settings and its code.

Free Strong logs unlimited workouts and saves up to three templates, which its listing calls routines (App Store, Strong). Strong PRO adds unlimited templates, body part measurements, all charts and the plate and warm-up calculators. Strong's help page says your workout data stays available whether or not you pay (Strong). Strong's help pages date from 2021.

Strong, Hevy, Fitbod and GainsLog list more than one price for some plans, and their listings don't say which one the app will offer you (App Store, App Store, App Store). Strong's own description gives $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Fitbod's help center lists $95.99 a year and says prices vary by platform (Fitbod). Check the price on the paywall before you pay.

Strong exports your workouts as a CSV file from its settings, and Strong says the file can't be imported back into Strong (Strong). Hevy is the only app here that documents an import of that file. Its help center says Hevy imports CSVs from the Strong app only, and the file must be a direct export from Strong, in English and in kilograms. Hevy suggests switching Strong to English before you export (Hevy). If you log in pounds, Hevy's page doesn't say how to convert the file.

StrengthLog's help center, Alpha Progression's website and Fitbod's help center describe no import from Strong, and GainsLog has none. With those apps you start a new log and keep the Strong CSV for reference. Strong's help page says your data stays available on free Strong, so you can still look up old numbers there.

If you only want to save more workouts without paying, Hevy's free version saves four routines, one more than Strong, plus seven custom exercises and three months of workout history (Hevy). A program with four different workouts fits; one with five doesn't. Hevy's library has 26 ready-made programs, and saving one creates a folder with each of its workouts as a routine (Hevy). Hevy doesn't say whether those count toward the four.

StrengthLog's free version logs unlimited workouts, lets you create unlimited custom exercises and build your own routines and programs with linear progression. Its listing gives no number of free routines, while its Premium list starts with "Build unlimited training routines and programs" (App Store). Whether free routines are capped isn't stated. The StrengthLog vs Hevy comparison puts the two free versions side by side.

GainsLog doesn't help here, because its free version also saves three workouts.

Strong's pages describe no feature that sets your next weight, so you decide when to add it. GainsLog, Alpha Progression and Hevy Trainer set it for you in a program you follow. Fitbod also picks the weight, inside the workouts it builds (Fitbod), which is covered below.

GainsLog sets a weight and rep target for each set, from the weight, reps and reps in reserve you logged, plus an RIR target in some cases. The targets are part of the free version, on iPhone. Alpha Progression's Pro version gives "precise weight and rep targets for every set, calculated from your past performance" (Alpha Progression). Its free version has "No recommendations" (Alpha Progression). Pro costs $79.99 a year or $12.99 a month in the US, 799 kr or 129 kr in Sweden, and the yearly plan has a 14-day free trial for new customers (App Store, App Store, Alpha Progression). Hevy Trainer, part of Hevy Pro, builds a program and "will let you know when to increase your weight and by how much based on your performance" (Hevy). At $23.99 a year, Hevy Pro is the cheaper of the two paid options.

How each of these apps decides the next weight is compared in the progressive overload app comparison. The Alpha Progression review and the Hevy app review cover what each paid plan adds.

Strong includes a few example templates, and you build your own program. StrengthLog's website lists a library of over 300 programs and workout routines for powerlifting, bodybuilding, powerbuilding and general strength (StrengthLog). The free version lets you follow popular workouts and programs, and the complete library is Premium, at $109.00 or 995 kr a year (App Store, App Store).

Hevy's listing calls its library free, and its 26 programs can be filtered by level, goal and equipment (App Store, Hevy). GainsLog's ready-made programs and program builder are Premium. Each program is one week of workouts that repeats.

In Strong you build your own workouts; Fitbod builds each one for you. Fitbod has no free logging. A seven-day trial starts when you pick a monthly or yearly plan, and after it ends you can view past workouts, but logging new ones needs a subscription (Fitbod). Its help center lists $15.99 a month or $95.99 a year (Fitbod). The Fitbod review covers what the subscription does, and Fitbod alternatives covers apps like it.

• Stay free if your program has three workouts or fewer and you're happy choosing your own weights. Free Strong has no limit on logged workouts.
• Pay for PRO if you want unlimited templates, measurements and all charts in the app you already know. Strong lists $23.99 or $29.99 a year in the US and 245 to 345 kr in Sweden (App Store, App Store).
• Compare lifetime prices before you buy one. Hevy's lifetime is $74.99 or 995 kr, against $79.99 or $99.99 and 999 or 1 295 kr for Strong PRO Forever.
• Check the watch app before you switch if you log from the watch without your phone. Strong's listing describes an Apple Watch app that logs with or without your iPhone; GainsLog's watch app continues a workout you start on the iPhone. The other apps' watch apps weren't compared for this article.
• Hevy vs Strong compares Strong with Hevy in more detail.

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. The free version logs unlimited workouts, saves three workouts and sets each set's weight and rep targets from your log. Premium adds the program builder, ready-made programs, custom exercises and trends, among other features, 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.

GainsLog is the wrong switch if you're on Android, if you want to bring your Strong history, since it has no import, or if you need more than three saved workouts without paying. Its listing counts 100+ exercises, prioritizing machines (App Store). The full head-to-head is GainsLog vs Strong.

If you're leaving Strong because you want each set's weight and reps chosen from what you logged, see how GainsLog works.

Researched and drafted with AI assistance from each app's App Store listings, help center and website and from GainsLog's code, checked against those pages on 2 November 2026. Prices change, so the pages used are listed below.

• Strong on the US App Store: prices, free version, Apple Watch
• Strong on the Swedish App Store: prices
• Strong help: what Strong PRO includes
• Strong help: templates
• Strong help: exporting your data
• Hevy on the US App Store: prices
• Hevy on the Swedish App Store: prices
• Hevy help: what Hevy Pro includes
• Hevy help: importing Strong CSV files
• Hevy help: Hevy Trainer
• Hevy help: routine and program library
• StrengthLog on the US App Store: prices, free and Premium features
• StrengthLog on the Swedish App Store: prices
• StrengthLog: the app page: program library
• Alpha Progression: features and pricing
• Alpha Progression: subscribe page: trial, recommendations
• Alpha Progression on the US App Store: prices
• Alpha Progression on the Swedish App Store: prices
• Fitbod help: how the trial works
• Fitbod help: how to subscribe: prices
• Fitbod help: how Fitbod picks sets, reps and weight
• Fitbod on the US App Store: prices
• Fitbod on the Swedish App Store: prices
• GainsLog on the US App Store: prices, exercise library