Strongur User Reviews

Name: Strongur: Back to Basics
Rating: 3.9292 (113 reviews)

Strongur: Back to Basics

Insilico Sports, LLC

💪 Health & Fitness

📊 Productivity

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Strongur. Based on 113 reviews and a 3.9/5 average, it highlights the 5 positives and 5 negatives reviewers mention most about this Health & Fitness app.

Positive things

🚀Great tool for tracking progress
📊Comprehensive data and analytics
🔍Detailed programs and guidance
👍User-friendly interface
🤖Automated weight adjustments

Negative things

🐛Crashes and bugs
💰Subscription model
🔒Login/authentication issues
🔄Lack of customization options
⏱️Timer and sync issues

Top reviews

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Not going past 2025

Great app but no updates

Donny Karen

6 months ago

Meh

Mandatory account creation but doesn’t support iOS passwords. We all have appathy nowadays. Step up your game.

mxcl

2 years ago

Great Tool; Paid for Liftime

I’m a developer too. I understand the work that goes into these apps. I’m just not a big fan of subscription based apps. I’ve been using this since it was the Multi-year Weight Training System. I’ve enjoyed it. But I did pay for the the top tier in the beginning to avoid all of the constant taxes of subscriptions.

acroav8r

3 years ago

Great once upon a time

The app hasn’t been updated in 9 months. Where are the subscription monies going. Once upon a time this was the best app out there. The subscription ruined it. There’s a place to upload workouts and share with the community but you can only use them if you subscribe. Missed opportunity. The marketplace of workout programs could have been great!

Puchat3k

3 years ago

Annoyed

I paid for the “lifetime” upgrade years ago. This used to be my favorite app. I recommended it to anyone looking for a weight tracking app.

I was annoyed to log in and it told me that in order to use my programs I have already saved and used tons of times I now have to sub to the app.

So I won’t be using the app anymore.

Zaidat

4 years ago

Response from developer

If you have an old phone running iOS 10 or below you can download the old app version and continue using that one. Ongoing app updates, feature additions, app maintenance, and support necessitates using a subscription model.

Great Tool; Paid for Liftime

I’m a developer too. I understand the work that goes into these apps. I’m just not a big fan of subscription based apps.

I’ve been using this since it was the Multi-year Weight Training System. I’ve enjoyed it. But I did pay for the the top tier in the beginning to avoid all of the constant taxes of subscriptions.

acroav8r

4 years ago

Response from developer

Left in the dark.

I love this app and could not imagine working out without it. Now it is a paid subscription when it has always been free. I can’t use it to workout until I come up with $100. Totally blindsided by this but I gotta come up with the cash because it’s that good. Could have given me a heads up. Will have to use something else till I get the cash.

Heldjr

4 years ago

Money grabbing update

With the last update I can’t even use workouts I already made without paying!!!! I can’t even export them for free and there was no warning. Despicable money grabbing move, useless app now, it’s getting uninstalled
Edit after developer’s reply: as a user my expectation is to be warned of changes this big and to be able to export my existing programs - at least the ones I made, as a one off.

Chi90

4 years ago

Update after subscription model - Best lifting / programming app out there

Update: Im a programmer, I get how much work goes into, not just creating software, but keeping it up to-date with ever changing APIs and UI themes. Not to mention adding new features. But changing the rules on already purchased features kinda rankles me. I’ve been using this app since 2014 and the features and protocols I’ve bought over the years are now useless (at the time it was a once purchased always purchased). Even with that I’d have still subscribed, because, yeah it takes time to build apps and time is money. But man… you gotta look at the competition before setting prices. I can get a life time of the StrongLifts app for what you charge for a year. Yeah it doesn’t have all the features you have (yet) but it gets updated monthly. Old review because it still applies (old ranking was 5-stars): I've spent way too much money on workout / lifting apps, looking for the perfect one. And while I still haven't found the perfect one, this one is the best so far! The key things this app offers are: 1) metrics; why track your lifts if you don't use that data to figure out what works for you. This app is the best at presenting workout data! 2)Programming; its best to go into the gym already knowing what you are going to do. This app isn't to bad at this, I particularly like the auto loading and de-loading for mass or reps. 3) technique; the bar tracking feature is nice for visualizing my form. I would like to see the programming aspect evolve a bit more, but overall this is the best option on the market!

Tries too many apps

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback. To clarify the changes specifically in your case, when we moved to a subscription model I started adding things to the app that you never paid for and I didn't put up any additional paywalls for you either. No new paywalls for you wasn't because your initial standalone purchase granted access. It was because itemized paywalls for some and blanket subscriptions for others was too messy to maintain as more and more features were added. However, those subscribers are exactly the reason why the app got new features, updates, periodic maintenance, and so on. We all owe those guys and girls for their support. Without those subscribers the app would have been a one-time release like the default iOS Calculator app (which is the kind of app you paid for). With the new app changes in policy we don't have one group who gets everything for free anymore at the expense of those paying for it. We're all on the same page as of version 10. As for Stronglifts, you're not going to use that for life so they'll happily sell you a lifetime purchase. On the other hand, I want you to keep using Strongur year after year and low cost, one-time purchases are exactly what created the issue you have in the first place.

What happened ???

It’s not a problem to pay for quality but the interface and data disappeared!

Will it come back if I pay?

Well it WAS good! Now where to even start? I mean I know the answer is start by paying money but the interface is now so unintuitive that I don’t want to pay for it if the preview is accurate. Why are people constantly messing up perfectly good tools? So I uninstalled and reinstalled hoping it was a glitch or something… well now it wants to restore from backup but there is no backup…. So now it is stuck doing nothing!!! Why?! I just want to lift! Ah good ol’ money… ruined another nice thing

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