Best workout apps in 2026

We make one of these. Dietly Fit is our app and it is on this page. So here is the rule we held ourselves to: every price below was read off the vendor’s own page on the date shown, and where a vendor does not publish a price, this page says so instead of repeating a number from a review site. Three of the five do not publish one.

By the Dietly Fit teamFacts checked

“Workout app” covers three products that barely overlap. A logger records what you lifted. A generator decides what you should lift. A class library leads you through a session on video. Most disappointment with this category comes from buying one and expecting another, so work out which you want before reading any list — including this one.

The pricing problem nobody mentions

Searching this category returns dozens of posts confidently listing subscription costs. A large share of those numbers are not checkable, because several of the best-known workout apps publish no price on their own website at all — the cost appears only inside the app, after install, on the store’s purchase sheet.

Of the five apps below, only two publish a price publicly. For the other three, this page links the pages we read and tells you what they say. That is less satisfying than a table full of figures, and it is the honest version. A price you can check beats a price that reads well.

The five

Ordered by what they are for, not by rank. There is no “best” here that is independent of what you want.

Hevy

No price published

A workout logger built around the set: routines, rest timers, supersets, drop and failure sets, personal records and exercise charts, with a social feed for following other lifters.

Best for
Logging lifts, and seeing what people you know are training.
Free tier
Hevy's own site calls it "a free workout tracker for iOS and Android" and does not state what Hevy Pro costs or where the free tier stops.
Where it is better than us
The logging experience is the best in this list. Entering sets is fast enough to do between working sets without breaking rhythm, which is the thing a gym tracker lives or dies on — and the social feed is the only one here that people actually use rather than ignore.
Where it stops
It records what you did; it does not decide what you should do. There is no programming engine and no measurement of your physique, so the question of what to train next is entirely yours.

Strong

No price published

A deliberately minimal lifting tracker: supersets, custom exercises, RPE, plate and warm-up calculators, body measurements, a muscle heat map, CSV export and Apple Health sync.

Best for
Someone who wants a logbook and nothing else in the way.
Free tier
Strong's site states "Strong Accounts are Free Forever" and names a PRO tier, but publishes no price for it and does not list where the free tier's limits fall.
Where it is better than us
It is the least cluttered app in this list by a distance, and the one most likely to still be on your phone in three years. CSV export is a genuine and rare virtue — your training history stays yours and can leave whenever you want, which is not true of most of the apps here, ours included.
Where it stops
The same minimalism means no coaching, no plan generation and no nutrition. It assumes you already know what you are doing.

JEFIT

$12.99/month or $69.99/year for Elite, as published on JEFIT's Elite page

A workout planner and tracker with a large exercise library, pre-built routines, logging and progress analytics, plus a community layer.

Best for
A free, structured routine without paying anything to start.
Free tier
Free tier includes custom and pre-made routines, the exercise library JEFIT states as "Over 1,400 Exercises with guided instructions", logging and history, and community access. Elite adds professionally designed plans, advanced analytics, watch support, video demonstrations and removes ads.
Where it is better than us
The most generous free tier of any app here — a full exercise library and real routines without a subscription, which is exactly what someone searching "best free workout apps" is asking for. It has also been running since long before most of this category existed, and the routine library reflects that.
Where it stops
The interface carries a decade of accumulated features, and the free tier is ad-supported. Like the others in this list, its plans do not respond to what your body actually looks like.

Fitbod

$15.99/month or $95.99/year, as published on Fitbod's FAQ page

An AI workout generator: it builds each session from your logged sets, the equipment you have and which muscle groups it estimates are recovered.

Best for
Turning up at the gym and being told exactly what to do today.
Free tier
No free tier. A 7-day free trial, then a subscription.
Where it is better than us
The best per-session programming available in this list. Fitbod has done one thing for years — deciding which muscle groups are recovered and what weight to put on the bar next — and that logic is more mature than anything else here, ours included.
Where it stops
It optimises the training, not the physique the training is for. Fitbod cannot see you, so a lagging area stays lagging unless you notice it yourself and tell the app. No nutrition tracking either.

Nike Training Club

No price published

Guided, filmed workouts and multi-week programmes across HIIT, yoga, bodyweight and strength, with wellness content on sleep, nutrition and recovery.

Best for
Following along with a trainer rather than reading a spreadsheet.
Free tier
Nike describes the app as offering "free guidance from your favorite trainers, athletes, and wellness experts" and publishes no subscription price on the app's own page.
Where it is better than us
Production quality nothing else here approaches, and it is free. For anyone who does not want to design a session — or who trains at home and would rather be led through it than read a table — a filmed class is a genuinely better format than a logged set, and this is the best free library of them.
Where it stops
It is a class library, not a progression system. Load and volume are not tracked in a way that tells you whether you are getting stronger, and nothing adapts to your measurements.

And ours, on the same terms

Dietly Fit is a fourth thing, which is why it is written out here rather than slotted into the list above as though it competed on the same axis. It takes one photo a week, scores your physique out of 100, names the single area holding that score back, and builds the training week around it. Food logging sits in the same app so the plan and the eating do not drift apart.

Where it stops: the per-session programming is not as mature as Fitbod’s, the logging is not as fast as Hevy’s, and the free tier is not as generous as JEFIT’s. It also requires you to photograph yourself every week, which some people will not do — and if you will not, most of the value is gone. Free to start; Pro pricing is on the store listings, which is the same thing we just criticised three other apps for, and it is fair to hold us to it.

How to choose in one paragraph

If you already know what to train and want a fast logbook, take Hevy or Strong. If you want to be told what to do each session, take Fitbod. If you want structure without paying, take JEFIT. If you would rather follow a trainer on video, take Nike Training Club. If your actual question is “what should I be working on?” — which none of the other four answer — that is the gap Dietly Fit was built for.

A note worth more than the list: the app matters far less than whether you use it. Every product here works if you turn up three times a week for a year, and none of them works if you do not. Pick the one whose logging screen you can face between sets.

Free, without installing anything

If you are not ready to commit to an app, the plans and calculators on this site need no account: workout plans with the full week written out, an exercise library with demos, and calculators for macros, TDEE, one-rep max and body fat.

Where these facts came from

Every claim above about another company’s product was read off one of these pages on . Prices and features change — check before you buy, and tell us if something here is out of date.

All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Dietly Fit is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of the apps listed above.