Trackist vs MacroFactor Workouts compares 2 apps that both build your program and tell you what to lift next. MacroFactor Workouts comes from the team behind the MacroFactor nutrition app and gives you fine control over every set. Trackist writes a plan for the next 4 to 12 weeks from 14 questions and rewrites it when you say something is wrong. They differ in what changes the plan and in how many settings you manage yourself.
Which one should you pick?
MacroFactor Workouts suits a lifter who likes to set the details: rep ranges, RIR targets, deloads and a profile for each gym. It also suits anyone who already pays for MacroFactor to track food.
Trackist suits a lifter who wants fewer settings, and a coach that changes the plan when a session was too hard or a joint hurts.
What MacroFactor Workouts does well
The program generator asks for your goal, experience, training days, session length, gym equipment and split. You get 5 focus points to spread across muscle groups, can play down up to 5 others, and choose whether to include deloads. You get a full program you can edit before you start.
During a session, Smart Progression suggests the weight and reps for your sets. It works from what you log, your rep range and your RIR target. RIR means reps in reserve: how many more reps you could have done. If you only managed 6 of 8 reps, the next suggestion may drop. If the next plate jump is too big, it can ask for one more rep instead.
The detail is where it shines. It has over 900 exercises, more than 600 of them with demo videos. It plans your warm-up sets, works out the plates for the bar, and logs supersets, myo-reps (a set followed by short mini-sets), partial reps and each side on its own. You can keep a gym profile for each place you train. If you own one of the supported Jeff Nippard programs, you can import it.
It runs on iPhone, iPad and Android. It shares body weight, body measurements and period data with the MacroFactor nutrition app. The 2 apps do not adjust each other: your food log does not change your program.
MacroFactor Workouts has no free tier. After a 7-day trial, MacroFactor Workouts costs $11.99 a month, $47.99 for 6 months or $71.99 a year. A bundle with the MacroFactor nutrition app costs $89.99 a year for both. If you subscribed to MacroFactor before January 1, 2026, Workouts is included until January 12, 2027.
Where Trackist is different
Both apps build a program and both suggest a weight. The difference is what happens when a week goes wrong.
The plan changes when you tell it
In MacroFactor Workouts, the program stays as it was built. The weights and reps update after each session, but the exercises, days and sets change only when you edit them.
In Trackist, you say a session was too hard, too easy, or that something hurts. The first too-hard or too-easy report is noted. If it comes back in a later week, Trackist rewrites the day or rebuilds the rest of the plan. For pain, you tell it the exercise, the joint and how bad it is. You get a swap that trains the same muscle, picked by the coach or chosen by you from the library. Trackist keeps the limitation on your profile, so later plans avoid it.
The next plan starts from the last one
A Trackist plan runs 4 to 12 weeks. In a plan of 6 weeks or more, the last week is a deload: the same weights at 60% of the sets, so you recover before the next plan. When the plan ends, you get a recap, and the coach writes the next plan from the one you finished. It remembers what you skip, what you respond to and where you stalled.
A MacroFactor Workouts program runs for 1 to 52 cycles, each one pass through your training days. At the end, you repeat it, or generate, build or import a new one.
Fewer settings to get right
Trackist gives you one suggested weight per exercise. It comes from your last sets and your RPE, a rating from 1 to 10 of how hard a set felt. The weight moves in steps that fit the equipment: 2.5 kg on a barbell, 2 kg on dumbbells, 5 kg on machines and cables.
Trackist also shows where your strength stands. The Strength Score reads every loaded set of the last 90 days across squat, hinge (deadlifts and similar), push and pull. It compares your lifts, relative to your body weight, with standards for your sex and age. You get a score out of 100 and a Strength Age.
Compare them side by side
| MacroFactor Workouts | Trackist | |
|---|---|---|
| Program generator | yes, from goal, experience, days, session length, equipment and split | yes, 4 to 12 weeks from 14 questions |
| Advice during a session | weight and reps for your sets, against a rep range and an RIR target | one suggested weight per exercise, from your last sets and RPE |
| After a bad week | suggestions follow what you log, and the program changes when you edit it | report it, and a repeat in a later week rewrites the day or the plan |
| When something hurts | you swap the exercise and can stop it being suggested | a swap that trains the same muscle, remembered on your profile |
| Deload | optional: the first cycle, the last cycle or none | the last week of plans of 6 weeks or more, at 60% of the sets, and you can skip it |
| Exercise library | over 900, more than 600 with videos | 201, with form cues and a muscle map |
| Where you stand | records, charts and sets per muscle each week | records, a Strength Score out of 100 and a Strength Age |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad and Android | iPhone. Android is being built |
| Languages | English and Japanese | English and Polish |
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 iPad app.
- No nutrition app to pair it with. MacroFactor sells its food tracker and Workouts in one bundle.
- Fewer settings: no RIR targets, no supersets and no gym profiles. Your equipment is one answer on your profile.
- Fewer tools during a session: no plate calculator and no planned warm-up sets.
- A smaller library: 201 exercises against over 900, with no videos.
- No offline logging. MacroFactor Workouts only has a limited offline mode too.
Which one fits you
MacroFactor Workouts, if you already track food in MacroFactor, train on Android or iPad, or want to set every rep range and RIR target yourself.
Trackist, if you would rather answer 14 questions, train, and say when something is wrong. Read how the coach changes your plan, or see what to do when a lift hurts.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Does Trackist plan a deload week?
Yes. In a plan of 6 weeks or more, the last week is a deload: the same weights at 60% of the sets, so you recover before the next plan. You can skip it. In MacroFactor Workouts, deloads are optional: the first cycle, the last cycle or none.
Is MacroFactor Workouts included in a MacroFactor subscription?
Not by default. MacroFactor Workouts is a separate app with its own subscription. A bundle for both apps costs $89.99 a year, and you sign in to both with the same account. If you subscribed to MacroFactor before January 1, 2026, Workouts is included until January 12, 2027.
Does MacroFactor Workouts change your program when you struggle?
It changes the weights and reps. After each session, Smart Progression updates the targets for next time, and it may lower them after a set that was harder than planned. The exercises, days and sets stay as they are until you edit the program yourself.
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 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.
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