Jefit is one of the oldest names in gym tracking, with an exercise library and a program catalogue most apps cannot match. Trackist takes the opposite approach: one plan, written for you, changed when you say it is wrong. Here is what each does and what each costs.
The short answer
Jefit suits a lifter who wants to browse: thousands of routines, more than a thousand exercises, and the tools to assemble your own.
Trackist suits a lifter who does not want to browse, and would rather be handed the week.
What Jefit does well
Jefit's library runs past 1,400 exercises with demonstrations, and the catalogue of ready-made routines is deep. The free tier is genuinely usable, with logging, history and custom routines, paid for with ads. Elite is $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year and adds professionally designed plans, deeper analytics, a watch app, video demonstrations and no ads. It runs on both iPhone and Android.
If the pleasure of the hobby includes reading routines and picking one, Jefit is built for that.
Where Trackist is different
Trackist never shows you a catalogue. You answer six questions once and the app writes a block of four to twelve weeks around them, including a deload in the last week when the block is long enough. One plan is active at a time, on purpose: the thing that beats a browsed routine is a plan that follows the last one.
From there:
- It reads your logs. Above each exercise is one line — try this weight today — from your previous sets and how hard they felt.
- It takes feedback. A too-hard week, twice, rebuilds the remaining weeks. A painful joint gets a swap, remembered for good.
- It closes the loop at the end of a block with a recap and a next plan written from what the block actually produced.
There are also numbers that say where you stand rather than what you did: a Strength Score across squat, hinge, push and pull from your last 90 days of sets, measured against strength standards for your sex and age, and a Strength Age to go with it.
Side by side
| Jefit | Trackist | |
|---|---|---|
| Exercise library | 1,400+ with demonstrations | 200, selected for programming |
| Ready-made routines | a large catalogue to browse | none; one plan written for you |
| Ads on the free tier | yes | no ads on either tier |
| Adaptation | suggestions from your logged sets | load suggestion, plus rewrites from what you report |
| What it knows about pain | you swap it yourself | a swap that trains the same muscle, kept on your profile |
| Paid | $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year | $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year, first seven days free |
| Platforms | iPhone, Android, watch app on Elite | 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 Android app yet, and no watch app.
- No community routines and no catalogue to browse.
- A much smaller exercise library. 200 movements cover the patterns; they do not cover every variation a big library carries.
Which one fits you
Jefit if you like the research: comparing routines, building your own, and having every machine in the gym in the database.
Trackist if the research is the part that has been costing you weeks. Browse the plans to see what a written block looks like, or read how the coach adjusts it week to week.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Is Jefit free?
Jefit has a free tier with logging, history, custom routines and its exercise library, supported by ads. Elite removes the ads and adds designed plans, deeper analytics and the watch app at $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year, as listed in September 2026.
Does Trackist have as many exercises as Jefit?
No. Trackist carries 200 movements chosen so the coach can cover every pattern and swap like for like; Jefit carries more than 1,400. If you want every machine variation in a database, Jefit wins that comparison outright.
Can I follow a famous program in Trackist?
Not as a named program. Trackist writes your plan rather than reproducing someone else’s. Our [workout plans library](/workout-plans) explains the common splits and how to run them, and the editor lets you shape a plan to match one.
Does Trackist show ads?
No. There are no ads on the free tier or on Pro. The free tier is limited by what the coach writes after your first plan, not by advertising.
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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.
