Apple / health_and_fitness / STRONG WORKOUT TRACKER GYM LOG
REVIEW
Strong is the gym log that gets out of your way between sets.
A workout tracker built for the rest interval — fast entry, plate math, and a history view that actually loads — without the social-network bloat the category keeps trying to add.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Strong Workout Tracker Gym Log
STRONG FITNESS PTE LIMITED
OUR SCORE
8.6
APPLE
★ 4.9
PRICE
Free
The category of gym-log apps has spent five years trying to become something else. Fitbod wants to be your coach. Hevy wants to be your feed. Jefit wants to be your community. Strong, somehow, still just wants to be the notebook you used to carry into the squat rack — except it does plate math and remembers what you lifted last Tuesday.
That restraint is the whole pitch. Strong does not nag you, surface a discover tab, or ask you to follow your friends. It opens to the routine you ran last time, with the weights from last session already filled in, and waits for you to tap the first row. Between sets, the timer counts down on its own. The friction between intention and logged set is about as low as the iPhone allows.
Six years in, the app has accumulated the small details that come from being used in actual gyms by actual lifters — and almost none of the feature bloat that comes from chasing the rest of the category.
The app does the one thing a gym log has to do — let you record the set you just finished before your rest timer runs out.
FEATURES
The model is sets-and-reps with weight, logged against a routine you build once and reuse. Tap into a workout, the previous session's numbers pre-fill, and you tap a row to confirm or edit. Rest timer fires automatically on a logged set, with a configurable default per exercise.
The exercise library covers the standard barbell, dumbbell, machine, and bodyweight catalogue, and you can add custom exercises with their own equipment type and muscle-group tagging. Plate calculator lives one tap from any weighted set — pick the bar weight, it shows the loading. Body measurements, body weight, and a separate one-rep-max tracker round out the data the app keeps.
Health app sync writes workouts back as cardio-and-strength sessions with duration and active energy. Apple Watch app handles the rest timer and lets you tick sets off without pulling the phone out. CSV export of the entire log is in the settings menu, not buried — a small thing that matters when you switch trackers.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The app does the one thing a gym log has to do — let you record the set you just finished before your rest timer runs out. Entry is two taps deep from the home screen and the UI is built around the assumption that you're sweating and impatient.
The free tier is the unusual part. Three routines, the full exercise library, plate calculator, rest timer, and history are all free forever. Strong Premium at $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year unlocks unlimited routines, supersets, advanced charts, and Apple Watch features — fair pricing for an app that doesn't gate the core loop behind a paywall the way Fitbod or Jefit do.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The default templates lean powerlifting and bro-split — there is no Couch to 5K equivalent for getting started, and the app assumes you already know what a routine should look like. Beginners coming from a coach's program will be fine; beginners coming from nothing will stare at an empty routine builder.
Analytics are honest but thin. You get volume, estimated 1RM, and per-exercise progression graphs; you don't get the AI-driven plateau detection or fatigue modeling that newer entrants like Hevy and Boostcamp ship. Cardio tracking is also an afterthought — distance and duration exist as fields, but Strong is unambiguously a strength-training app.
CONCLUSION
If you run the same program week to week — Stronglifts, 5/3/1, PPL, Starting Strength — Strong is the log to install and stop thinking about. If you want a coach inside the app, look at Fitbod or Boostcamp. If you want a social feed of other people's workouts, Hevy got there first.