SetRep vs Strong
If you're looking for a Strong alternative, SetRep builds on Strong's straightforward logging approach while adding auto-progression and smart insights that help you make progress and spot patterns in your training. SetRep offers a catalog of programs designed to maximize progress per minute in the gym, and lets you create your own programs as well. SetRep, despite being newer, is the better pick for anyone who wants to make progress effortlessly.
Feature by feature
| Feature | SetRep | Strong |
|---|---|---|
| Programs | Starter program catalog, a program built for you from your goals, or build your own | Build your own routines |
| Next weights and reps | Picked for you every session. Up when you hit your targets, held until you do, lowered if you fall well short | You decide |
| Equipment | Set what's available at each training location; programs only use what's there | Not supported |
| Progress insights | An overall status (progressing or holding) diagnosed across consistency, effort and volume, plus per-exercise trends | Volume, 1RM and body measurement charts |
| Rest timer | Yes | Yes |
| Supersets | Yes | Yes |
| Custom exercises | Yes | Yes |
| Plate and warm-up calculators | No | Yes |
| Apple Watch | No | Yes, works without your phone |
| Apple Health | No | Yes |
| Import and export | Imports Strong and Hevy CSV exports | CSV export |
| Platforms | iOS; Android coming soon | iOS, Android, Apple Watch |
| Price | Free for unlimited tracking and program creation; Pro for AI features coming soon | Free for 3 routines; PRO from $4.99 a month |
Strong pricing, US App Store, checked October 25, 2026: Free with up to 3 custom routines; Strong PRO is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year. Prices vary by region.
Where SetRep is better
Auto-progression
Every session, SetRep chooses your weight and reps for the day based on your previous performance. If you hit your targets last time, reps or weight go up. If the last session was difficult and you came up a rep or two short, SetRep holds the target until you can hit it. Strong leaves you to increase reps and weight yourself.
Programs, not one-off workouts
Strong is organized around individual workouts you assemble into routines. SetRep is organized around a program, a weekly structure that tells you what's next, so training stays consistent without you having to plan it. Start from the catalog, have one built from your goals, or build your own.
Insights that tell you why
Strong charts your numbers. SetRep tells you whether you're progressing or holding, and looks at consistency, effort and volume to show what's behind it, like a muscle that's only trained once a week.
Built around your equipment
Tell SetRep what each gym has, and every workout only uses what's there. Strong doesn't support equipment availability.
More for free
Unlimited programs, auto-progression and analytics are all free. Strong's free tier stops at 3 routines.
What Strong has that SetRep doesn't (yet)
Apple Watch
Strong's Apple Watch app logs a full workout without your phone. SetRep doesn't have a watch app yet.
Plate and warm-up calculators
Strong works out the plates to load and your warm-up sets for you. SetRep doesn't have these yet.
Android and Apple Health
Strong runs on Android today and writes workouts to Apple Health. SetRep is on iOS, with Android coming soon.
Switching from Strong
Your training history comes with you. In Strong, export your workouts as a CSV, then import the file in SetRep under Settings → Import Data → Strong. SetRep reads your past sets, so progression starts from where you actually are instead of from zero.
Is SetRep a good Strong alternative?
Yes, if you:
- want your next weights and reps worked out for you instead of tracking every increase yourself
- want a program that keeps your training consistent week to week, rather than picking a workout each day
- want to know why you're progressing or stalling, not just see the numbers
- train in more than one place, like a commercial gym and a home setup
- have years of Strong history you want to keep
If you log every workout from an Apple Watch, Strong's watch app is still ahead for now.