Best workout tracker apps for iPhone (2026)

For most iPhone lifters, I'd pick Hevy as the workout tracker. It's free for up to 4 routines, it has an Apple Watch app, and Pro costs $23.99 a year. Strong is the pick if you want the simplest logger, Fitbod if you want the app to write your sessions, MacroFactor Workouts if you want set-by-set progression built on RIR, and Arrow if you also track food and want your training and macros in one app.

Disclosure: I make Arrow. We didn't run a hands-on test. This compares what each company says on its own App Store listing, website and help center, checked 2026-11-03, with the links in Sources. Where Arrow isn't the right pick, I say so.

Who this page is for: iPhone lifters choosing a workout log. Arrow is built for lifters who also track food and want training and macros read together. If you only want a gym log, Hevy or Strong is the better fit and Arrow isn't.

01What is each app best at?

Hevy: best overall, and best free

Hevy logs weights, reps, duration and RPE, shows last session's numbers while you log, and handles supersets, drop sets, warm-ups and failure sets. The free tier covers up to 4 routines and 7 custom exercises with no ads. There's a free program library and a social feed. Hevy Pro ($2.99/month, $23.99/year, $74.99 lifetime) adds Hevy Trainer, which builds a program from your experience, goal and equipment and guides progressive overload.

The catch is that no food logging is listed, so your diet goes in a second app.

Strong: best for a minimal log

Strong's listing pitches it as the simplest interface of any fitness app, without distractions. For free you get unlimited workouts, 3 custom routines, a full Apple Watch app that logs with or without your iPhone, and CSV export of your data. PRO ($4.99/month or $29.99/year) is where the extras are: unlimited templates, access to all charts, body part measurements, and the plate and warm-up calculators.

The catch is that the free version caps you at 3 routines and leaves out the full charts and calculators, and no food logging is listed.

Fitbod: best if you don't want to plan sessions

Fitbod generates each workout around your goals, level and equipment, learns from the edits you make, and uses non-linear periodization. It has 1,000+ exercises with multi-angle videos and works with Apple Health, Apple Watch, Strava and Fitbit.

The catch is that it's paid after a free trial. Its App Store purchase list mixes current and legacy prices, so check the price in the app before you subscribe. If you like writing your own program, you're paying for a feature you'll override.

MacroFactor Workouts: best for set-by-set progression

MacroFactor Workouts tracks RIR on every set (0 to 6+), auto-adjusts your plan day to day based on your progress, includes technique videos by Jeff Nippard, and can import popular Jeff Nippard routines. It also has a plate calculator, a warm-up planner and left/right side tracking. It costs $11.99/month, $47.99/6 months or $71.99/year, with no free tier.

The catch is that it needs iOS 18 or later, no Apple Watch app is listed, and it doesn't adjust MacroFactor's nutrition targets (MacroFactor's help center says the two apps don't adjust each other).

Arrow: best if you also track food

Arrow's workout log covers sets, reps, weight and RIR (reps in reserve) on each set, rep-range progression that moves your next target up when you reach the top of the range, routines you build or generate from your goal, equipment, days and session length, a rest timer, dropsets, cardio, custom exercises, mid-workout swaps, and a Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island view. The same app also logs your food and weigh-ins, so your goal, training and Apple Health steps all feed your calorie and macro targets, which update weekly from your weight trend. When progress stalls on a gain goal, Arrow suggests new calorie and macro targets for you to accept, which is covered in how Arrow changes your macros when your training stalls.

The catch is that it needs a Diamond subscription with no free tier (the price is in the App Store and can vary), the current version is iPhone only, no Apple Watch app is listed, and it has a much smaller user base than Hevy or Strong (about 9,200 US ratings against 100,000+ each). If you don't care about food, one of the four above is a better use of your money.

02How do they compare side by side?

From each App Store listing and company site, US, checked 2026-11-03. "Not listed" means we didn't find it on those pages, not that it can't exist.

03What does each app do when your bench stalls?

Take one illustrative lifter (not a real user) running upper/lower 4 days a week on a cut, whose bench has sat at 80 kg x 6 for three weeks. Here's what each app is built to do about it, going only by what each company describes.

The first four can each help with the training side. Of these five, Arrow is the only one that logs food in the same app, so it's the only one that can connect the stall to what you're eating. If you don't track food at all, that column doesn't matter to you, and Hevy is still the default pick.

04Which one should you pick?

1. Do you want to pay nothing? Hevy. Strong if you only run 3 routines and want fewer features.
2. Do you log mostly from your wrist? Strong or Hevy. Both have watch apps; Strong's listing is explicit that it works without your phone.
3. Do you want the app to decide the workout? Fitbod.
4. Do you want the app to tell you the next weight and reps from how hard each set felt? MacroFactor Workouts.
5. Do you also count calories or macros, and want your lifts and food read together? Arrow. The longer version of this question is in best workout apps with nutrition tracking.

05When to pick another app over Arrow

• You want free. Hevy or Strong. Arrow requires a subscription and has no free tier.
• You log from your wrist. Strong or Hevy. Arrow doesn't list an Apple Watch app today.
• You want the app to adjust weight and reps day to day from how hard each set felt. MacroFactor Workouts documents that in its help center today. Arrow logs RIR and has rep-range progression, but we haven't published whether RIR changes your next target.
• You're on Android, or might switch. Arrow's current version is iPhone only, and the Android app is older. Hevy runs on both.
• You want the app to write every session. Fitbod.
• You want a big, established community and program library. Hevy, with about 101,000 US ratings and a social feed, against about 9,200 for Arrow.
• You don't track food. Any of the four above. Arrow's edge is reading food and training together, and without a food log it has nothing to read.

If you're already on Hevy or Strong and thinking of leaving, best Hevy alternatives is organized by why people switch.

06FAQ

What's the best free workout tracker for iPhone?

Hevy, based on its free tier (4 routines, 7 custom exercises, no ads, a program library). Strong's free version also logs unlimited workouts but caps custom routines at 3.

Which iPhone workout apps work with Apple Watch?

Hevy, Strong and Fitbod all list Apple Watch support on their App Store pages. MacroFactor Workouts and Arrow don't list a watch app as of 2026-11-03.

Is there a workout tracker that also counts macros?

Arrow logs lifts and food in one app. MacroFactor sells its Workouts and Nutrition apps as an $89.99/year bundle, but they run as separate apps that don't adjust each other.

07Sources

Checked 2026-11-03.

• Hevy: App Store · free limits and prices, hevyapp.com/hevy-pricing-comparison
• Strong: App Store (free limits, Watch, CSV export, prices) · PRO features, help.strongapp.io
• Fitbod: App Store (features, Apple Watch, in-app purchase list)
• MacroFactor Workouts: App Store · RIR, help center article 385 · integration with Nutrition, article 381 · bundle, article 393
• Arrow: App Store (features, subscription note, 4.79 rating from 9,200+ US ratings) · rep-range progression, arrowfitnessapp.com · RIR logging, Diamond tier and iOS-only status confirmed by Arrow, 2026-11-04
• Ratings, versions and Apple Watch support from the iTunes Search API lookup for each app ID, run 2026-11-03.