HOIST Strength vs Preva Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HOIST Strength
Access over 1,200 strength training exercises with animated instructions, photos, and videos. Create custom workouts or choose from pre-made programs for all fitness levels. Track your progress with a workout log and body measurement charts.
- 1,200+ strength training exercises
- Animated step-by-step instructions
- Photo and video examples
- Customizable workout programs
- Workout and body measurement logging
- Progress comparison charts
- Multiple user profiles
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This fitness app by HOIST Fitness Systems provides a library of more than 1,200 strength training exercises, all with animated step-by-step instructions and both photo and video examples. The HOIST Strength app comes with a variety of workout programs for beginner, intermediate and advanced athletes; or create and save your own workout routine. Use the Workout Log to track your workouts and body measurements. The HOIST Strength App can eliminate the need for a personal trainer or can aid a personal trainer by providing a place to store and log your workout sessions. Major Features: - 1,200 strength training exercises - High definition photo and video examples - Simple and quick step-by-step instruction - Rep timer - Set a timer that counts you down and alerts you when rep is complete. - Multiple user profiles - perfect for tablet users - Pre-loaded workout routines for beginner, intermediate and advanced athletes - Customizable workout programs you can save for future use - Export workouts and body measurements (CSV and Text) - perfect for sending to personal trainers to report progress - Progress Comparison Chart - Log and track your body measurements to compare your progress over time.
Preva Mobile
Track fitness activities both inside and outside the gym, from group classes to outdoor runs. Access a library of exercise suggestions with video instructions and capture cardio summaries from any equipment. Seamlessly sync your data with popular fitness apps.
- Sync gym and outdoor activities
- Exercise library with video
- Cardio workout capture (X-Capture)
- Connect with popular fitness apps
- Track achievements and progress
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Preva® Mobile is brought to you by Precor®, global maker and supplier of premium fitness equipment and originator of networked fitness. Preva Mobile, available in 22 languages, is best used to sync up your fitness activities from inside and outside the gym. Whether you’re attending group fitness classes or lifting weights at your gym, doing runs through your neighborhood, or simply enjoying a bike ride with the family, Preva Mobile is the place to track those fitness activities and view your success in one place. Need some fresh ideas for a new workout? Preva Mobile has thousands of exercise suggestions with video instruction in an easy-to-access library. Want to capture your cardio workout summary from a piece of equipment that’s not connected to the internet or isn’t Precor? No problem. Just use the new X-Capture feature. Best of all, you can make easy connections between your Preva Mobile account and popular fitness apps you may already be using like Advagym by Sony, Apple Health®, Fitbit®, Garmin®, MapMyFitness®, Misfit®, MyFitnessPal®, Polar®, Runkeeper®, Strava®, TomTom®, and Withings®. If you’re an existing Preva account holder all your data and earned achievement badges will port from the old app to the new.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HOIST Strength at 2.2 against Preva Mobile's 1.5. HOIST Strength also leads on review sentiment (23% vs 6%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HOIST Strength holds the better App Store score, 2.2 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 70 and 70 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of HOIST Strength's written reviews are positive against 6% of Preva Mobile's.
HOIST Strength ships an update every 6 weeks, Preva Mobile every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HOIST Strength | Preva Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (70 ratings) — better | 1.5 (70 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 22.9% of reviews — better | 6.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 70 | 70 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | HOIST Fitness | Precor, Inc. |
Customer experience
HOIST Strength
Preva Mobile
User reviews
HOIST Strength
From 70 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good reference for workouts
- 👍 Videos demonstrate exercises
- 👍 Faster than YouTube
- 👍 Free app
- 👍 Good linkage between muscle groups
Room to improve
- 🐛 App is broken
- 🐛 Abominably slow
- 🐛 Not worth downloading
- 🐛 Ruined previous app
- 🐛 Lost saved user data
Preva Mobile
From 70 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✅ App works now (recent improvement)
- ✅ Collects data from other apps
- ✅ Motivates with goals/challenges
Room to improve
- ❌ Sync issues with Apple Health
- ❌ Login problems (frequent)
- ❌ Poor Bluetooth connectivity
- ❌ Outdated UI/design
- ❌ No data export to other apps
Bugs and requests
HOIST Strength
Reported bugs
53 issues- Can't create/save workouts
- Descriptions don't match demo videos
- App not well thought out or tested
- Equipment selection missing many models
- App is abominably slow
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- Previous saved user data disappeared
- Can't pick equipment type
- Tracking workouts is impossibly poor
- Workout logging is not minimally viable
- Erased all workouts and workout history
- New app won't allow recreation of old workouts
- Navigation issues
- Certain functions do nothing and freeze
- Can't scroll down to all exercises chosen
- Can't save new workouts with preset weight, reps, and sets
- No way to delete daily workouts
- Lost over 2 years of data
- New version not intuitive
- Doesn't say which muscles are working
- App doesn't have any content
- App does not work with iPhone 15 Pro
- Exercise content won't download
- App doesn't have anything on new apparatus
- Many devices missing
- Need thin fingers to hit arrow for navigation
- When kg is chosen, need to add '0'
- Confusing to find products
- No model H2200
- App has nowhere near the number of exercises bragged about
- Illustrations are terrible
- Some wrist positions are dangerous
- Too many exercises in workout routines
- Beginner routine is 16 exercises long
- Routines seem geared toward demonstrating variety, not real-world use
- Only MI1 exercises available
- App doesn't sync with Fitbit
- Only one machine featured (Mi1)
- App/video support not a priority
- App last updated two years ago
- Pictures never download
- Videos never load
- Some text is cut off
- Cannot scroll on iPad
- App simply does not work
- App is bare
- Limited exercises
- No workouts loaded
- App frozen
- Only a quarter of the app shows
- Screen size not updated for newer iPhones
- Very slow to respond
- Doesn't scroll
- App is unusable
Requested features
19 requests- Add more videos
- Add more equipment models
- Add workout log functionality
- Track daily workouts
- Load prior workout weights
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- Add suggestions for reps and sets
- Add ability to select exercises by muscle group when creating a program
- Add way for entering reps, weight progression, or time
- Enable trainers to give programs for collaboration and progress tracking
- Connect to video to record sessions
- Add Apple Health support
- Export custom workouts
- Import custom workouts
- Login for saving info elsewhere
- Update app for new iPhone models
- Add workout schedule
- Fix screen size for newer iPhones
- Add more exercises
- Add support for more machines
Preva Mobile
Reported bugs
30 issues- App crashes on load
- Stuck on login screen
- Won't login
- App constantly logs out
- Error when submitting workouts
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- Bluetooth login issues
- Data not syncing to Apple Health
- Can't connect to gym equipment
- X-capture doesn't work
- Submissions unsuccessful
- App crashes on account setup
- Password not recognized after reset
- App opens and force closes
- Workout data recorded in UTC
- App doesn't sync to Apple Watch
- Password reset fails
- No way to delete saved workouts
- Bluetooth connection issues
- NFC triggers Apple Pay instead of login
- Stats mismatch between weekly totals and achievements
- Workouts logged a day ahead
- Doesn't sync automatically to Apple Health
- No way to record exercise on machines
- Account creation takes too long
- Can't link to machines (Bluetooth/QR)
- Previous app version was better
- No longer syncs from home models
- Lost sessions
- Sync with other apps no longer works
- Previous app allowed manual entry of distance/calories
Requested features
14 requests- Add cable-based workouts
- Improve Bluetooth login practicality
- Allow deletion of saved workouts
- Sync data to Apple Health
- Sync data to Strava
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- Add Apple Watch app
- Improve UI/design
- Allow users to set incline/speed before running
- Add API for third-party development
- Allow manual entry of distance and calories
- Option to change units (miles/km)
- Landscape layout for iPad
- Add incline/decline data capture
- Return to older app version
In-app purchases
HOIST Strength
No in-app purchases
Preva Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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