Strong vs Fitbod: Fast Logbook or Generated Plan

Strong's active workout screen is the fastest here: previous set values beside each input, a rest timer that starts itself, a plate calculator and a warm-up calculator one tap away. It tracks best sets and estimated 1RM per exercise, and it exports every workout to CSV. Unlimited workouts are free; three custom routines is the free cap, and PRO at $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year removes it.

It makes no attempt to program. No generated sessions, no progression suggestions, no nutrition, no coach. For a lifter running a written plan, that is exactly right and the reason Strong has lasted.

Fitbod builds each session from your available equipment, your goal, what you trained recently and which muscles it treats as recovered. It varies load with non-linear periodization and adapts to the edits you make. The library is 1,000 plus exercises with multi-angle video, and it syncs with Apple Health, Apple Watch, Strava and Fitbit.

It costs $15.99 a month or $95.99 a year after a trial, with no free tier, which is roughly three times Strong PRO's yearly price. Fitbod's product pages do not list a plate calculator, a previous-set display or a data export, so those are unknowns.

If you have a program written down, Strong is better and cheaper, and Fitbod's generator actively works against you: the exercise, the order and the set count move, which makes it harder to see whether this week beat last week.

If you do not have a program and do not want to build one, Strong gives you a blank screen and Fitbod gives you a session. That is worth paying for, and $15.99 a month is what it costs.

There is a middle case worth naming. Plenty of lifters have a program but keep drifting off it because they cannot tell whether it is working. Neither app fixes that. Strong shows the last session and stops; Fitbod hides the comparison by changing the session.

Strong has no nutrition tracking. Fitbod's product pages do not list any either. For a lifter trying to gain muscle, that means a second app and a second subscription for the half of the work that happens in the kitchen.

Ultra+ is the option that puts both in one place, at $12.99 a month or $74.99 a year: food search with barcode scanning and macros, plus your previous set and all-time best set shown on the set you are doing, and a coach that reads both before it answers. It has no free tier and no export, so Strong remains the better pick if owning your data in a spreadsheet is what you care about.