Boostcamp is the best free way to run a program somebody famous wrote. Trackist writes a plan nobody else is running, from your goal, your gym and your week, and changes it when you say it is wrong. The choice is between a proven program and a plan that answers back.
The short answer
Boostcamp if you want to run nSuns, GZCLP or a coach's block, for free, with the calculations handled.
Trackist if a named program is exactly what has not been fitting: wrong days, wrong equipment, wrong week three.
What Boostcamp does well
Boostcamp's free tier is unusually generous. The tracker is complete — RPE and RIR logging, supersets, plate calculator, rest timers, personal records, custom programs with no limits — and most of its 130-plus coach-designed programs cost nothing. Boostcamp Pro is $14.99 a month or $59.99 a year and adds exclusive coach programs, a strength score, a per-muscle volume heatmap, personalised programs and deeper analytics.
For a lifter who knows which program they want, it is hard to argue with free.
Where Trackist is different
A program is written for a population. It does not know that you have three days, a bad shoulder and a gym without a hack squat. Following one means adapting it yourself, in your head, every week.
Trackist writes the block around those constraints at the start — goal, experience, equipment, joint limitations, days, age — and then keeps adjusting:
- Too hard or too easy, once noted, twice acted on: a rewritten day, or a rebuild of the block's remaining weeks.
- A joint that complains, swapped for a movement that trains the same muscle, with the limitation remembered on your profile.
- A block that ends, followed by a recap and a next plan written from your logs, check-ins and reports rather than from a PDF.
The day-to-day is close to Boostcamp's: previous numbers under every cell, a suggested load from your last sets, a rest countdown, a summary when the last set lands, with the muscle groups the day reached.
Side by side
| Boostcamp | Trackist | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the plan comes from | a catalogue of known programs | written for you from six answers |
| Fits your equipment and injuries | you adapt it yourself | built in, and kept across plans |
| When a week goes badly | the program says what it said | report it, and the plan is rewritten |
| Free tier | the tracker and most coach programs | one plan for life, week one of every block, the editor, the recap |
| Paid | $14.99 a month or $59.99 a year | $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year, first seven days free |
| Platforms | iPhone and Android | iPhone. Android is coming |
Prices and limits were checked on the US App Store and the apps’ own pages in September 2026. Both change, and the store is the source of truth.
What Trackist does not have
- No program catalogue. If you came for nSuns by name, Trackist is the wrong app.
- No Android app yet.
- No free tier as broad as Boostcamp's; after the first plan, the coach's work is Pro.
Which one fits you
Boostcamp when you trust a named program and want it tracked properly for nothing.
Trackist when the program keeps colliding with your life, or when you want the next block to follow from this one instead of from a forum thread. Compare the common splits first, then read how a plan adapts.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Is Boostcamp really free?
Most of it, yes. The tracker and most of its coach-designed programs cost nothing, and Pro adds exclusive programs, a strength score, a volume heatmap and deeper analytics at $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 block from your answers, and the editor lets you shape a day to match a structure you like. If running a specific named program matters most, Boostcamp is the better tool.
What does Trackist do that a program cannot?
It reacts. A program is fixed on the day it was written; Trackist rewrites a day when you report it was too hard, swaps a movement that hurts, and builds the next block from what the last one produced.
Does Trackist have a strength score too?
Yes, and it is free. It reads every loaded set of the last 90 days across squat, hinge, push and pull, compares your best estimated one-rep max relative to body weight against strength standards for your sex and age, and shows the result with a Strength Age.
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Try the one that writes the plan
Six questions, and your first block is written around your gym and your week. Free on the App Store, Android coming soon.
