Looking for a Strong alternative?

Why do lifters look for a Strong alternative?

We will not invent complaints about Strong. It logs a set faster than anything else in the category, it holds a 4.9 App Store rating across roughly 108,000 US ratings as of September 2026, and people who use it mostly like it.

Lifters look elsewhere for positive reasons. They want something Strong does not set out to provide.

If you want your training analyzed rather than recorded, Strong is a log and it is proud of being a log. If you want to know where your squat ranks among lifters at your bodyweight, strength standards are not part of what Strong publishes. If you want more than three custom routines without paying, that is the documented limit on the free tier. If you want a lifting community you watch rather than a spreadsheet you fill, Strong shares workouts but it does not run a video feed. Any one of those is a reason to look around, and none of them is a knock on the app you have.

What does Gravitus do differently?

Gravitus is built around measurement instead of storage.

Standards from real data. Gravitus publishes strength standards and a Strength Score measured from real logged workouts, refreshed weekly against a dataset of 10M+ workouts from 300,000+ lifters. Most standards you find online come from a formula. Ours come from what people actually lifted, and the methodology is published so you can check it. The app tells you where your squat sits among lifters at your bodyweight and what a realistic next number looks like.

Analysis, not just charts. Muscle engagement analysis across any timespan, exertion analysis, estimated 1RM trends, and smart max and relative intensity guidance that answers what you should be able to do today. PR detection matches the exercise type, so a timed hold, a rep record and a 1RM each get credited correctly.

The devices you already train with. Gravitus runs on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. The Android app has the same logging, PR tracking, programs and analytics as the iPhone app, and the Watch app logs sets and runs rest timers from your wrist.

Your history comes with you. Strong exports to CSV. Gravitus imports workout history from a CSV file at gravitus.com/workouts/import/, and exports your full history at gravitus.com/users/export/ on every account with no Pro requirement. You can leave Gravitus as easily as you joined, which is how it should work.

Published outcomes. Men who trained a lift consistently for over a year on Gravitus added an average of 37 lb to bench, 57 lb to squat, and 65 lb to deadlift. We put that on the record because nobody else in this category does.

Which Strong alternative should you pick?

If none of those describe you, Strong is a good app and you can keep using it. We would rather you stayed on a tracker that fits than switched to one that does not.

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