Intensity vs Conjugate Method
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Intensity
This app helps you optimize your training for progression by tracking your strength and progress. It offers a user-friendly interface for planning and logging workouts, with in-depth stats, custom goals, and personal record tracking.
- Workout planning and logging
- In-depth training statistics
- Customizable goals and personal records
- Support for popular powerlifting programs
- AI program generation
- Cloud sync across platforms
- Apple Watch app
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An ad free workout tracking app to optimize your training for progression. Intensity is focused on getting you better than you were yesterday. Intensity has an interface that makes tracking easy. Plan an entire workout in advance, or log it as you go. Designed for progression, it has everything you need right at your finger tips. This includes in-depth stats to identify trends in your training, custom goals to push you to progress, and the ability to easily view your personal records. Intensity includes popular powerlifting programs such as 5/3/1, Starting Strength, Stronglifts 5x5, The Texas Method, Smolov, Scheiko, The Juggernaut Method, GZCL, Candito programs, Kizen programs, and practically every other popular powerlifting program you can think of. If you can't find what you are looking for, you can build your own programs, customize existing programs, import programs, or use AI to generate a program. With your workouts stored securely in the cloud, access your data whenever you need it. You can access your data on all major platforms. Apple Watch app to access your workouts with or without your iPhone You can import data from popular apps such as Strong, Hevy, FitNotes, and Stronglifts 5x5. You can also export all your workouts for further analysis. Intensity includes social features where you can add your friends, share workouts, and compete on the leaderboard. Other features include: • Sync your workouts with Apple Health • Timer & stopwatch • Interval timer • Bodyweight tracker • 1RM calculator • Plate calculator with custom plate settings • IPF-GL, Wilks, and DOTS calculator • Warmup calculator with the ability to add custom warmup methods • Light/dark mode • Supports multiple languages Use Intensity as the ultimate tracking tool that will last you your entire lifting lifetime. Intensity is free to download and use. Should you choose to upgrade to Intensity Premium, we offer an auto-renewing subscription option for $2.99USD/month, an auto-renewing subscription option for $17.99USD/year, and one singular payment option for $34.99USD: Payment will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. There is no increase in price when renewing. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in iTunes after purchase. Once purchased, refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy at https://www.intensityapp.com/terms-conditions and https://www.intensityapp.com/privacy-policy.
Conjugate Method
Follow a structured 16-week powerlifting program based on the renowned Conjugate Method. Customize exercises and track your progress through four weekly training days focused on max effort and speed lifts.
- 16-week Conjugate Method program
- Four training days per week
- Max Effort Lower and Upper days
- Speed Squat and Speed Bench days
- Customizable exercise selection
- Beginner to advanced athlete focus
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Few powerlifting programs have produced legendary strength gains like the Conjugate Method. One of the most popular strength programs in the word, the Conjugate Method was popularized for powerlifting by Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell. This app is perfect for beginner to advanced athletes looking to perform the classic 16 Week Conjugate Method program with 4 training days per week. The program is structured as follows: Monday: Max Effort Lower Exercises similar to the squat or deadlift up to a 1-3 rep max. Exercises include various forms of the box squat, rack pull, deficit deadlift, and goodmornings, performed at a 1-3 rep max. This movement is usually rotated each week. Wednesday: Max Effort Upper Exercises similar to the bench press, up to a 1-3 rep max. Exercises include various forms of the board press, floor press, close grip bench press and rack press, performed at a 1-3 rep max. This movement is usually rotated each week. Friday: Speed Squat Speed squat days use wide stance box squats in order to train siting back in the squat and fully recruiting the hamstrings, glutes and lower back. Box squats also build strength out of the hole and assure that squatting depth is reached. The weight is kept at around 50% (varied from 45% - 55% over 3 weeks). Lifters commonly use bands/chains for accommodating resistance on this day. Sunday: Speed Bench The Speed Bench days are done with a close grip touch-and-go style (no bounce). Like the speed squats, the weight is kept at 50% and can be varied over 3 weeks. Please note: There are endless ways to run a conjugate periodization cycle. The exercise selections in this app are completely customizable. If you have specific needs you can base the program around the exercises you configure. This app is not connected to Westside Barbell or Louie Simmons and may deviate from information found elsewhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Intensity at 64% against Conjugate Method's 0%. Intensity also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.1) and ratings volume (191 vs 17). Conjugate Method's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Intensity sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Conjugate Method sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Intensity holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Intensity has 191 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Intensity's written reviews are positive against 0% of Conjugate Method's.
Intensity ships an update every 4 weeks, Conjugate Method fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Intensity | Conjugate Method |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (191 ratings) — better | 3.1 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 191 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Taylor Hamling | Charles Vanderhoff |
Customer experience
Intensity
Conjugate Method
Bugs and requests
Intensity
Reported bugs
25 issues- Workouts not saving
- App randomly closes
- Metrics shifting between kg and lb
- App crashes with 'Unable to Load App' error
- Workout diary not accurately tracking days
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- App freezes/crashes and deletes logged workouts
- Buttons overlapping or disappearing
- App navigates to random dates during logging
- Annoying red bar covering exercises
- Deleted all data after update
- Sets not being saved
- Updates to weight/reps not saved
- Erasing parts of previous workouts
- App requests clipboard access
- New update causes app to lock up
- Search bar not bringing up past exercises
- Pop-up about settings not working
- App stops registering taps in correct locations
- App not responding to taps
- Losing training notes after updates
- Sets disappearing after adding
- Diary not showing logged workouts
- Resetting diary not possible
- Units converting incorrectly
- Workouts being erased
Requested features
11 requests- Add widgets
- Dark mode option
- Display RPE on main screen
- Track RPE with every set
- Abbreviate drop sets/super sets
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- CSV interop with Excel
- Rest timer during set updates
- Copy diary option
- Optimized for iPhone X screen
- Plate calculator more accessible
- Offline mode
Conjugate Method
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Intensity
- Intensity Premium$2.991 Month
- Intensity Premium Yearly$17.991 Year
- Intensity Lifetime Premium$34.99
Conjugate Method
- Conjugate Method Pro$5.99
Questions
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