Good, but could be better
I love the app, but I recommend adding a feature where we can set how long the rest time is
After trying app after app, Strong is the one I keep coming back to.
For context, I bought Strong Pro (Lifetime) back around 2020–2021 on Android. When I switched to iPhone, I completely forgot about it, so I was pleasantly surprised years later when I logged in and still had my lifetime purchase. Some of the features I mention may be part of Strong Pro, but this review is simply based on my experience.
Before settling on Strong, I tried Hevy, Lift, Strongify, RepCount, Setgraph, Liftin’, and GymBook. My goal was simple: I wanted an app that let me manage my workouts directly from my Apple Watch. I don’t follow rigid workout plans, I go into the gym with a general idea and decide what to do based on how I’m feeling that day.
That ended up being the biggest issue with most other apps. Many expect you to build routines ahead of time and don’t handle free-form workouts very well. Others had features I liked but always seemed to compromise somewhere else.
Strong does exactly what I was looking for.
I can start a workout from my Apple Watch and, if needed, switch over to my phone, but the best part is that I don’t have to. I can add exercises on the fly, log sets, reps, and weights, track personal records, see my total weight lifted, monitor heart rate, calories burned, and elapsed workout time, all from my wrist.
The app is intuitive, the Apple Watch experience is excellent, and everything feels well thought out. I’m still discovering features, but I honestly haven’t run into a single moment where I thought, “I really wish this app had…”
Highly recommended. If I lost my lifetime license today, I’d happily pay the current price for Strong Pro again. That’s how impressed I’ve been with it.
Before settling on Strong, I tried Hevy, Lift, Strongify, RepCount, Setgraph, Liftin’, and GymBook. My goal was simple: I wanted an app that let me manage my workouts directly from my Apple Watch. I don’t follow rigid workout plans, I go into the gym with a general idea and decide what to do based on how I’m feeling that day.
That ended up being the biggest issue with most other apps. Many expect you to build routines ahead of time and don’t handle free-form workouts very well. Others had features I liked but always seemed to compromise somewhere else.
Strong does exactly what I was looking for.
I can start a workout from my Apple Watch and, if needed, switch over to my phone, but the best part is that I don’t have to. I can add exercises on the fly, log sets, reps, and weights, track personal records, see my total weight lifted, monitor heart rate, calories burned, and elapsed workout time, all from my wrist.
The app is intuitive, the Apple Watch experience is excellent, and everything feels well thought out. I’m still discovering features, but I honestly haven’t run into a single moment where I thought, “I really wish this app had…”
Highly recommended. If I lost my lifetime license today, I’d happily pay the current price for Strong Pro again. That’s how impressed I’ve been with it.
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My 5 year anniversary
Starting using this in August 2021. And if nothing else, the fact that I’ve used it consistently during the last 5 years should speak for itself. I’ve logged 963 workouts in the app. It makes progress easy to track, the watch sync captures my hr data and the features such as sticky notes, adjustable timers and failure/drop sets really do cover eventuality for me. Can’t recommend this highly enough to anyone who is serious about getting bigger.
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Almost perfect
The exercise catalogue is impressive and you can create custom exercises if you can’t find what you need.
My biggest complaint is that sometimes the watch app doesn’t sync and then you need to remember what you did to log it correctly on the phone app.
And it seems you need to be connected to WiFi for the watch app to sync, which is incredibly frustrating.
My biggest complaint is that sometimes the watch app doesn’t sync and then you need to remember what you did to log it correctly on the phone app.
And it seems you need to be connected to WiFi for the watch app to sync, which is incredibly frustrating.
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It stinks now
It used to sync well with my watch. Not anymore. Almost useless.
