Bodybuilding isn’t easy. However, it’s also not a complex endeavor. You create a workout routine, lift weights, get gains, and keep track of those gains. Your smartphone can’t lift weights for you. However, it can work great as a tool to keep track of what you do and help plan your workout regimen. There are a few types of bodybuilding apps and weightlifting apps. There are gym logs that help keep track of gains, some apps help plan workout routines, and some apps can do both and then some. We’ll take a look at all of these styles of weightlifting apps. Here are the best bodybuilding apps for Android. Remember, all the tracking the world doesn’t matter if you don’t put in the work. No pain, no gain.
The best bodybuilding apps and weightlifting apps for Android
Fitness22 – Gym Workout Planner
Price: Free / $9.99 per 2 months / $14.99 per year / $29.99 once
Fitness22 has a large family of strength training and cardio apps. You can go for any of them. However, we liked the Gym Workout Planner app the best. This one has a little bit of everything. There are a variety of exercise and routine tutorials, videos, and things like that. Additionally, the app does, in fact, track your fitness. It boasts over 3,000 exercises and routines for beginners, intermediates, and experts. This is a heavy app that tries to take care of all of your fitness needs. Those who need something simple shouldn’t use this. You get some stuff for free. The subscriptions are oddly presented but with competitive pricing. We also like that you can pay a single fee for lifetime use.
FitNotes
Price: Free / $4.99
FitNotes is a good, basic gym log app. It tracks your fitness and gives you stats on your workouts. This one is entirely customizable. You add a new exercise, put in your reps and weight, and you can recall your workout results whenever you want. The UI is simple and there is nothing complex about this app. Exercises are measured in either resistance or cardio, and then you customize from there. It’s a perfectly competent workout tracker app with no bloat and no extra nonsense. It’s also entirely free. There is an optional $4.99 supporter version if you want to help out the developer.
Home Workout – No Equipment
Price: Free / $2.99
Home Workout – No Equipment is an excellent home fitness app and one of the better budget weightlifting apps. This has a virtual ton of exercises for home use, and it doesn’t require equipment. That makes it great for bodybuilders on a budget. We still recommend going to a gym for its equipment, but this is an excellent way to work out at home too. It has a variety of exercises, routines, stretches, and other workouts. It even has animations to show how exercises work. Leap Fitness, the developer, has a bunch of other bodybuilding apps as well. It’s a reasonably robust family of weightlifting apps. They are also fairly inexpensive, comparatively speaking.
JEFIT
Price: Free / $6.99 per month / $39.99 per year
JEFIT is one of the most popular workout planners and fitness trackers. Yes, it also works for bodybuilding. The app’s free version includes cross-platform support, body stat tracking, a training log, and access to JEFIT’s exercise database. The subscription version adds better stat reporting, stat comparisons with friends, and it removes advertising. The free version should work for most people, though. You can keep track of your reps and weight as you progress. It’s a good little app for measuring those gains. It’s an all-in-one kind of app, though, so you may see stuff for cardio and other fitness activities you don’t care about.
See also: The best fitness apps for Android
Powerlifter
Price: Free / $7.50
Powerlifter is a weightlifting log specifically for bodybuilders. It features the basics. That includes tracking, logging, and some exercise routines, although not a whole ton. The app also features some fun stuff like automatically increasing your weights every week, a max rep calculator, and a 5-3-1 calculator if you want to go the Wendler route. It doesn’t have tools for runners or any other cardio activities, making this a decent all-in-one option for weightlifters. The free version comes with most of the features. You can get everything along with no ads for a single $7.50 in-app purchase.
Pro Gym Workout
Price: Free with in-app purchases / $28.99
Pro Gym Workout is a decent workout app for bodybuilders. The app boasts over 120 individual exercises and nine total workouts. Additionally, it has programs for beginners, intermediates, and experts alike. It also has workouts for all of the major parts of the body, and we liked that in particular. You also get various tools, including a BMI calculator, protein calculator, fat calculator (for food), and various workout tracking and training features. It has a host of features available as in-app purchases. However, you can buy the whole app for $28.99. It’s a bit expensive, but you can try out most of the app for free without buying anything.
Strong: Exercise Gym Log
Price: Free / $4.99 per month / $29.99 per year / $99.00 once
Strong: Exercise Gym Log is, well, an exercise gym log, and it’s one of the better weightlifting apps. We like it when they put the app’s purpose in its name as well. It’s an all-in-one style app. You can track your fitness and find a variety of exercises and routines in the app. It boasts 200 exercises, a built-in timer, a warm-up calculator, cloud backups, and more. It’s more than proficient in what it claims to do. That does come at a price, though. There are monthly and yearly subscriptions available, as well as a single lifetime purchase. You can get a lot of this for free in other apps. However, we do especially like how simple this app works and the various ways it can track your weightlifting.
StrongLifts 5×5
Price: Free / $9.99 per 3 months / $19.99 per year
StrongLifts 5×5 is an app for strength training. It uses the popular StrongLifts workout routine and tracks your progress as you go. Some of the other features include a set timer, a calendar for tracking, Wear OS support, and some other neat stuff. You do workouts several days a week for about 45 minutes at a time. You get cloud backups if you switch devices, A/B workouts to shake things up, and there are a ton of workout videos to show you how everything works. It’s better for exercise routines than tracking, but it’s very effective for strength training.
Workit
Price: Free / Up to $4.99
Workit is another combination of a workout tracker and workout routines. This one focuses a bit more on tracking than actual routines, though. You get an exercise recorder. You put in what you did, how many times you did it, and for how long, and the app does the rest. It also works with cardio as well as weightlifting in case you need something that does both. Some decent workouts and exercises are available, but most of it isn’t anything you haven’t seen before. It’s a decent app with a relatively cheap price tag. Some of the better features are premium-only. That’s not a huge deal, but we thought you should know.
You Are Your Own Gym
Price: $4.99
You Are Your Own Gym is an excellent bodybuilding app for strength training. It features a variety of bodybuilding workouts with no equipment necessary. There are 200 no-equipment exercises. You can also get an optional plugin that gives you access to video tutorials on all 200 exercises. That’s basically it for this app. It gives you the ability to continue training even on days when you can’t make it to a gym. It also goes for a reasonable price, and the UI is relatively easy to work with. This one is almost exclusively workout routines, although there are a couple of minor tracking features.
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