Trackist vs Fitbod compares 2 apps that both decide your workout for you, in different units. Fitbod builds each session fresh, from your equipment, your history and how recovered each muscle is. Trackist writes a plan for the next 4 to 12 weeks, suggests today’s weight and rewrites the plan when you say it is wrong. Here is how that plays out, and when each one fits.
Which one should you pick?
Fitbod suits a lifter whose week is unpredictable: different gyms, different days, no interest in following a program.
Trackist suits a lifter who wants a plan with a start and an end, and a next plan built from how the last one went.
What Fitbod does well
Fitbod builds each workout from your equipment, your history and how recovered each muscle group is. Open it in a hotel gym with 3 dumbbells and you still get a sensible session. The exercise library is large, nearly every exercise has a video, and it runs on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch.
After a 7-day trial, Fitbod costs $15.99 a month or $95.99 a year.
Where Trackist is different
A session built on the spot is flexible, but it has no direction. Nothing promises that today follows from last week, and there is no week 3 to fall behind on.
Trackist writes a plan instead: 4 to 12 weeks, the same training week repeated, with the weight rising as you log. From your second session of an exercise, a line above it suggests today's weight. In a plan of 6 weeks or more, the last week is a deload: the same weights with 60% of the sets, rounded down, so you recover before the next plan. The whole plan is written up front, so you know how many weeks it runs from day one.
Then the plan responds:
- Too hard or too easy: said once, it is noted. Said again the same week, the plan stays as it is for now. Said again in a later week, Trackist rewrites the day or rebuilds the rest of the plan around where you are now.
- Pain: tell it the exercise, the joint and how bad it is. You get a swap that usually trains the same muscle, picked by the coach or chosen by you from the library. Trackist stores the limitation, so later plans avoid it.
- A bad night: before the first set, Trackist asks how you slept, how sore you are and how much energy you have. With Apple Health connected, the sleep answer starts from last night. After a poor night, low energy or soreness in the half of the body you train today, it offers a lighter session: one set fewer on each strength exercise that has more than one, 30 seconds more rest and no finisher, at the same weights.
- The plan ends: the recap shows sessions done against planned, weight lifted, reps and sets, body weight change, how many lifts went up and, with Apple Health sleep, how you slept. The next plan is written from the whole plan, with coach notes on what changed.
Trackist also shows where you stand, not only what you did. The Strength Score reads your best sets on the scored squat, hinge (deadlifts and similar), push and pull lifts from the last 90 days. It divides your best estimated one-rep max, the most you could lift once, by your body weight. Then it compares the result with standards for your sex and age. You get a score out of 100 and a Strength Age.
Compare them side by side
| Fitbod | Trackist | |
|---|---|---|
| How far ahead it plans | one session at a time | 4 to 12 weeks |
| How it adapts | muscle recovery and your logs, each session | your logs, what you report (too hard, too easy, pain) and how you slept and feel before each session |
| Can you see the whole plan | no, only the next session | yes, all 4 to 12 weeks are written up front |
| Deload | no planned lighter week | the last week of plans of 6 weeks or more: same weights, 60% of the sets rounded down |
| Exercise guidance | video for nearly everything | written form cues and a muscle map on strength exercises, no video |
| Platforms | iPhone, Android, Apple Watch | 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 Android app yet, and no Apple Watch or iPad app. Apple Watch workouts still reach Trackist through Apple Health.
- A smaller library: 240 movements, chosen to cover the main lifts and hybrid work such as sled pushes and carries rather than every variation, with no videos.
- No offline logging. Logging needs an internet connection.
- No way to rebuild a whole session on the spot. A swap changes one exercise, and a lighter session only takes one set off each strength exercise that has more than one. A rebuild is a bigger step, with a limit of 2 a week.
Which one fits you
Fitbod, if your training week has no fixed shape and you like it that way: travel, shift work, whatever gym you can reach today.
Trackist, if you want to be somewhere specific in 6 weeks and want the plan to show how you get there. Read why fixed programs stall, or pick a split and see how Trackist runs it for 4 to 12 weeks.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
What happens when a Trackist plan ends?
You get a recap: sessions done against planned, weight lifted, reps and sets, body weight change, how many lifts went up and, with Apple Health sleep, how you slept. Then the coach writes the next plan from the whole plan you finished, with notes on what changed. Fitbod has no plan to end. It builds each session fresh.
Does Fitbod give you a full workout plan?
Fitbod builds the next session from your equipment, your history and how recovered each muscle is. It answers “what should I do today?” well. It does not answer “what am I doing for the next 8 weeks?”.
What does Trackist do when an exercise hurts?
You tell it the exercise, the joint and how bad it is. The coach swaps in an exercise that usually trains the same muscle without the movement that hurts, or you pick a substitute from the library. Either way, Trackist adds the limitation to your profile, so later plans avoid it too. It changes the exercise. It does not treat the injury.
Which app is better for building muscle?
Both can work, because both keep the weight going up. A plan of 4 to 12 weeks gives you a clear path and a lighter week built in. A session-by-session app gives you more room on a chaotic week. Pick the one you will still open 5 days from now.
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