Trackist vs Arvo: every set or the whole plan?

Which one should you pick?

Pick Arvo if you want a coach that reacts after every set, plenty of settings or a food diary in the same app. It also runs on Android and Apple Watch.

Pick Trackist if you want fewer decisions: answer 14 questions, see the whole plan before you start and find today's weight above each exercise.

What Arvo does well

Arvo coaches you through the session one set at a time. After each set it suggests the weight, reps and rest for the next one, from how that set went. Tell it a set was too hard or too easy, and it adjusts the next one straight away.

It goes deep for a lifter who likes detail. Arvo Pro follows named methods such as Mentzer HIT, FST-7, Y3T and Mountain Dog. It counts your weekly sets for each muscle against volume landmarks (MEV, MAV and MRV). These are the fewest sets a muscle grows from and the most it can recover from. It suggests a deload, a lighter week, when a lift stalls for 3 sessions, or a muscle stays above its top landmark for 2 weeks. The library lists more than 1,300 exercises.

Beyond training, Arvo has a food diary with search, barcode and photo logging, progress photos and body measurements. A chat can change your split, swap an exercise and import your history from Hevy, Strong or Fitbod. It runs on iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and in a browser.

Arvo's free plan includes AI coaching and tracking, with a cap on how much you use the AI. Arvo Pro adds the named methods, the volume landmarks, audio coaching and more AI use. It costs $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year on the US App Store, and $31.99 a year at checkout on Arvo's website.

Arvo is new. It reached the App Store in March 2026, and when we checked it had 10 App Store ratings and 31 Google Play reviews.

Where Trackist is different

Both apps write your training, suggest a weight and react when something hurts. They differ in when the plan changes and how many decisions stay with you.

You know the weight before you start

Trackist suggests one weight for each exercise. It comes from your last session's sets and their RPE, a rating of how hard a set felt from 1 to 10. The numbers stay the same for the whole session. Hit the top of the range on every set, and next session the bar goes up 2.5 kg. Arvo can change every set after the first. Some lifters like that. Others want the numbers settled before they walk to the rack.

The plan has a set length

Trackist writes 4 to 12 weeks, and you see the training week and the shape of the plan before you start. In a plan of 6 weeks or more, the last week is a deload at 60% of the sets, and you can skip it. Arvo suggests a deload when it sees a stall or too many sets. When a Trackist plan ends, you get a recap, and the coach writes your next plan from the one you finished and says what changed and why.

You report a problem, and the plan responds

• Too hard or too easy: the first report is noted. If it comes back in a later week, Trackist rewrites the day or rebuilds the rest of the plan.
• Something hurts: name the exercise, the joint and how bad it is. The coach swaps in an exercise that trains the same muscle, or you pick one from the library. Trackist keeps the limitation on your profile, so later plans avoid it.

Arvo also handles pain. It picks it up from your workout notes and its chat, and avoids the exercise.

Fewer settings

There is no method to choose, no volume landmarks to watch and no chat. Trackist also shows where you stand. The Strength Score reads 90 days of squat, hinge (deadlifts and similar), push and pull sets, against standards for your sex and age. You get a score out of 100 and a Strength Age.

Compare them side by side

We checked prices and limits on the US App Store and on each app’s own site in September 2026. Both change, so the App Store has the final word.

What Trackist does not have

• No Android app yet, and no Apple Watch or iPad app.
• No changes between sets. The weight moves from one session to the next.
• No food diary, no progress photos and no chat with the coach.
• Fewer settings: no named methods, volume landmarks, dropsets or rest-pause sets.
• A smaller library: 201 exercises against more than 1,300, with no videos.
• No offline logging. Logging needs an internet connection.

Which one fits you

Arvo, if you want AI coaching on a free plan, enjoy tuning methods and volume, or train with Android or an Apple Watch.

Trackist, if you want to answer 14 questions, see the plan, lift what it suggests and say when something is wrong. Read how the coach changes your plan, or see when a deload week makes sense.