GymAdapt is free to start. Want Pro free for a month?
The free version gives you an AI-built plan and unlimited workouts. Code TRYFREE01 adds a full month of Pro on top: weights that adjust from what you log and unlimited coach chats.
Redeem the free month → Opens the App Store with the code filled in. iPhone only. After the month it's $4.99/mo unless you cancel in Settings, and the free version stays yours either way.Here's the honest version of the free-app market. Video-class apps can afford to be free because Nike is paying for it as marketing. Loggers can afford a free tier because logging costs them almost nothing to run. Anything that builds you a program, adapts your weights, or puts a coach in your ear costs money to make, so it costs money to use. That's why the genuinely free options cluster in two places.
Free, no catch
Nike Training Club
Nike stopped charging for it years ago and never went back. 185-plus trainer-led video workouts, multi-week programs, Apple Watch and Health integration. No personalization, no progression logic, no tracking of your loads.
Skip it if you lift with a barbell and want your numbers tracked. It's a video library, not a logbook.
Caliber
The free version is a real, science-based strength program with logging, which is rare. The paid tiers add group or 1:1 human coaching with nutrition. The free tier is the best-kept secret in the category.
Skip it if you want video-led, follow-along workouts. Caliber is a program, not a class.
Free tiers worth living in
Hevy
The most usable free tier in the category: unlimited workouts, four routines, three months of charts, no ads. The paid tier is the cheapest around and the lifetime price beats three years of anyone else's annual. Social feed if you like that, ignorable if you don't.
Skip it if you want the app to write your program. Hevy Trainer on Pro helps, but it's a template builder, not a coach.
Strong
A notebook, perfected. Two taps per set, no feed, no suggestions, the cleanest CSV export in the business. If your program lives in a spreadsheet or your coach's head, this is the fastest way to record it.
Skip it if you want demos, programming, or any kind of advice. Strong has opinions about nothing.
Jefit
Around since 2010 and it shows, in both directions: the deepest analytics and biggest free exercise library here, wrapped in an interface that feels a decade old. Data people love it.
Skip it if you care how an app looks.
Free apps log your workout. GymAdapt writes the next one.
A plan built for your goal and days, and targets that move up (or back off) from what you log. Start with a free month using code TRYFREE01.
Get a free month → Or download GymAdapt and start the 7-day trial. iPhone only."Free" that means "free trial"
Ladder, Shred, Fitbod (three workouts) and Apple Fitness+ (with a new device) all show up in App Store searches for "free workout app" because the download is free. They are not free apps. That's not a criticism, it's just what the word means. If you want to try before you pay, Ladder's trial doesn't take a card up front; Shred's does. GymAdapt is different: the free version needs no trial at all, and its 7-day Pro trial runs through Apple, so nothing is charged during the 7 days and you can cancel in Settings before it ends.
The cheapest way to never pay again
If you're going to log workouts for years, a one-time licence beats every subscription on this page. Hevy Pro is $74.99 for life. Strong Pro is $99.99 for life. Three years of Fitbod is $288. Three years of Ladder is $540. The math isn't close.
Where GymAdapt fits, since we're the ones writing this
GymAdapt now has a generous free tier: an AI-built plan, unlimited workouts, video for every lift, and 3 AI plans plus 5 coach messages a week, with your first 30 days of adaptive weights included. Pro is $4.99 a month or $24.99 a year (both with a 7-day free trial), or $79.99 once for lifetime. What Pro adds is the part other free apps don't do at all: a plan built for you, working weights that go up (or back off) based on what you log, video for every movement, and a coach that can cut your session to the time you have. If you just need a notebook, Hevy and our free tier both cost nothing. If you've been on a notebook for a year and aren't stronger, the plan is the thing you're missing.
Questions people ask
What is the best completely free workout app?
Nike Training Club. It has 185-plus trainer-led video workouts and multi-week programs with no paid tier at all. For strength programs, Caliber's free version is real programming with logging.
Is there a free workout app with no subscription?
Yes. Nike Training Club is free with nothing to buy. Hevy and Strong have free tiers and also sell a one-time lifetime licence ($74.99 and $99.99) if you want the paid features without a subscription.
Is GymAdapt free?
Yes, GymAdapt has a generous free tier: an AI-built plan, unlimited workouts, video for every lift, and 3 AI plans plus 5 coach messages a week, with your first 30 days of adaptive weights included. Pro ($4.99 a month or $24.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial) keeps your weights adapting after day 30 and removes the weekly AI limits. Code TRYFREE01 gives you a month of Pro free.
Which free app tracks weights and reps?
Hevy, Strong and Jefit all log sets, reps and load on their free tiers. Nike Training Club and Apple Fitness+ do not track loads.
When free stops working, this is the next step.
Seven days free, or a full month with code TRYFREE01. A real plan, real video, targets that move with you.
Get GymAdapt on the App Store → Free to start. Pro is $4.99 a month or $24.99 a year (7-day free trial), or $79.99 once for lifetime. iPhone only.