Trackist vs Boostcamp is a choice between a proven program and a plan written for you. Boostcamp is the best free way to run a program a well-known coach wrote. Trackist writes a plan nobody else is running, from your goal, your gym and your week. It suggests today’s weight and changes the plan when you say it is wrong.
Which one should you pick?
Boostcamp, if you want to run nSuns, GZCLP or a coach's program for free, with the maths done for you.
Trackist, if a named program is exactly what keeps not fitting: the wrong days, the wrong equipment, a shoulder that hurts by week 3.
What Boostcamp does well
Boostcamp's free tier is unusually generous. The tracker is complete: RPE and RIR logging, supersets, a plate calculator, rest timers, personal records and your own programs with no limits. RPE rates how hard a set felt from 1 to 10, and RIR counts the reps you had left. Boostcamp lists more than 11,000 programs, and most of its 130-plus coach-designed programs cost nothing. Hit your reps and it adds weight next session.
Boostcamp Pro costs $14.99 a month or $59.99 a year. It adds exclusive coach programs, a strength score, a heatmap of volume per muscle, personalized programs and deeper charts.
For a lifter who already knows which program they want, Boostcamp tracks it well for free.
Where Trackist is different
A program is written for a crowd. It does not know you have 3 days, a sore shoulder and a gym without a hack squat. To follow one, you adapt it yourself, in your head, every week.
Trackist writes the plan around those limits at the start, from 14 questions about your goal, experience, equipment, joints, schedule, session length and age. Then it keeps adjusting:
- Too hard or too easy: noted the first time. If it comes back in a later week, Trackist rewrites the day or rebuilds the rest of the plan.
- A joint that hurts: you get an exercise that trains the same muscle, and Trackist remembers the limitation.
- A plan that ends: you get a recap, and the next plan is written from your log and your reports, not from a PDF.
In the gym, the 2 apps feel alike: last session's numbers under every set, a suggested weight from your last sets, a rest timer, and a summary after the last set with the muscles you trained.
Compare them side by side
| Boostcamp | Trackist | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the plan comes from | a catalogue of known programs | written for you from 14 answers |
| Fits your equipment and joints | you adapt it yourself | built in, and kept for later plans |
| When a week goes badly | the program says what it said | report it, and a repeat in a later week rewrites the plan |
| Strength score | Boostcamp Pro | yes, with Strength Age and the 4 lift groups behind it |
| Muscle view | per-muscle volume heatmap, Boostcamp Pro | sets per muscle in every day summary |
| Platforms | iPhone and Android | iPhone. Android is being built |
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 program catalogue. If you came to run nSuns by name, Trackist is the wrong app.
- No Android app yet.
- No plate calculator and no supersets.
- No offline logging. Logging needs an internet connection.
Which one fits you
Boostcamp, when you trust a named program and want it tracked properly for nothing.
Trackist, when the program keeps clashing with your life, or when you want the next plan to follow from this one rather than from a forum thread. Compare the common splits first, then read how a plan adapts.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Is Boostcamp really free?
Mostly, yes. The tracker and most of its coach-designed programs cost nothing. Boostcamp Pro adds exclusive programs, a strength score, a volume heatmap and deeper charts for $14.99 a month or $59.99 a year, as listed in September 2026.
Can Trackist run a program like nSuns or 5/3/1?
Not by name. Trackist writes its own plan from your answers, and the editor lets you shape a day to match a layout you like. If running one named program matters most, Boostcamp is the better tool.
What does Trackist do that a program cannot?
It responds. A program stays as it was on the day someone wrote it. Trackist swaps an exercise that hurts, rewrites a day you keep reporting as too hard, and writes the next plan from what the last one produced.
Does Trackist have a strength score too?
Yes. It reads every loaded set of the last 90 days across squat, hinge, push and pull. It compares your best estimated one-rep max, relative to your body weight, with standards for your sex and age, and shows a score out of 100 with a Strength Age. It also breaks the score down into the 4 lift groups.
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Try the app that writes the plan
Answer 14 questions and get a plan around your gym, your week and any joint that hurts. On the App Store now. Android is coming.
