Comparison

Rolling Strong vs Anneal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Rolling Strong

This app supports wellness goals by focusing on hydration, nutrition, fitness, wellbeing, and sleep. Earn points for healthy habits, redeem prizes, and connect with wellness coaches. It also offers a health education library and community features.

Highlights
  • 5 pillars of wellness tracking
  • Points for prizes
  • Wellness coach connection
  • Health education library
  • Fitness wearable sync
  • Social community features
  • GPS location finder
Features
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Introducing an improved mobile application with a new interface to better support company and individual wellness goals! The Rolling Strong application helps you focus on the 5 pillars of wellness to support optimal health: Hydration, Nutrition, Fitness, Wellbeing, and Sleep. Earn points while getting healthy. Use those points to redeem cool prizes. Connect with our Wellness Coaches through the application to help create a wellness plan and schedule coaching sessions. Join a company sponsored competition in the app and win awesome prizes! In addition to the new features and slick new interface, the app continues to provide: A health education library for hours of videos, audio and articles created by our own Wellness Coaches. Connect and sync Fitness wearable data and complete Rolling Strong Workouts. Social Community to connect with friends, create a post, wager points and challenge a friend. Company Competitions and leaderboard. Wellbeing support including daily motivational quotes, stress assessments, mood tracking. Connect with a Wellness Coach, ask a question through the app, schedule one on one telephonic coaching sessions. Nutrition Profile for a customized calorie target and macros based on your personal weight goals. Log your food intake, barcode scanning, create a recipe, add foods to your favorites. Track your hours slept manually or through a connected fitness wearable. Track your daily steps and heart rate through a connected fitness wearable. GPS Locations so you can find the nearest clinic assessments, health kiosk, fitness centers, restaurants, and truck friendly hotels and parking. Rolling Strong is on a mission to support the transportation industry and professional truck drivers in their wellness initiatives by providing a mobile application that guides you no matter where you are! _________________________________________________________________________________________ For IOS: Rolling Strong is free to download and use with limited features. For the full Rolling Strong experience, $4.99 per month. In app purchases are available for coaching sessions and health assessments. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. This subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. This subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings. https://rollingstrong.com/app-privacy-policy/ https://rollingstrong.com/app-terms-of-use/

About

Anneal

This app analyzes your training data to intelligently suggest recovery weeks when your body needs them. It offers fast logging for various workout types, personalized progression, and structured training plans. Track your progress with detailed analytics and connect with friends for motivation.

Highlights
  • Automatic deload suggestions
  • Fast logging for diverse exercises
  • Personalized set progression
  • Integrated training plans
  • Comprehensive analytics
  • Offline functionality
  • Social training features
Features
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Anneal knows when to deload. It reads seven signals from your real training, grinding sets, missed reps, a spike in recent workload, low readiness, and your schedule, then suggests a recovery week the moment the pattern earns one. Each suggestion names the signal that fired, so you can see exactly why the timing is right. Accept it and Anneal drops your weights, trims your volume, and steps you back up. Deload detection is free for everyone. LOG FAST, LOG ANYTHING Sets, supersets, RIR, AMRAP targets, and timed sets, with lbs or kg per exercise. Auto-generated warm-up ramps for any lift. A plate calculator with custom bar and plate inventories. Rest timers that survive screen-off, backgrounding, and the mute switch, with the timer, elapsed time, and your next set live on the lock screen and Dynamic Island. Forgot your phone? Log yesterday's workout after the fact and edit any past session. PROGRESS ON EVERY SET Every set arrives pre-filled with the weight and reps to try next. Tap "Why this number?" for the reasoning in plain English. Anneal reads the RIR you log and acts on it. When a lift stalls, Anneal says so and suggests a change. The engine is deterministic: the same history produces the same advice, and every suggestion explains itself. ONE LOG FOR THE WHOLE ATHLETE Lifting, cardio, mobility, stretching, timed holds, and bodyweight work all live in one place. Build structured intervals and run them with a round-by-round live player. Cardio progression works in RPE zones, and fixed-distance best efforts cover 400m to 10K. The PR board spans barbell, bodyweight, and cardio records, with estimated 1RM trends. PLANS THAT BUILD THEMSELVES Generate a session for your equipment, goals, and injuries, then reroll any single exercise when the rack is taken. Run proven programs with canonical auto-progression: 5/3/1 BBB, GZCLP, and nSuns, plus a built-in training-max editor. Plan the week on a calendar, fill it from a split, and let scheduled sessions generate themselves. Save reusable templates and multi-day splits. Pick from 800+ audited exercises with instructions, or create your own. YOUR TRAINING IN NUMBERS Volume, strength-curve, consistency, and activity heatmap analytics, with recent windows free on every chart. Log bodyweight and body fat. Every session you ever logged stays browsable, free, forever. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE Anneal is local-first: your log lives on your device and the full engine works offline. Sign in and everything is backed up and restorable on a new phone. Import your full history from other workout apps via CSV in one tap. Export it all as CSV or JSON, free, always. TRAIN TOGETHER Follow friends, cheer their PRs with flame likes, and see their training in a clean activity feed. Browse the community library, rate programs in half-stars, clone what you like, and publish your own. Earn XP on training days and climb from Cold Iron to White Heat. Rest days are safe. ANNEAL PRO Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: $6.99 a month with a 7-day free trial, or $49.99 a year ($39.99 for your first year at launch). Cancel anytime in App Store settings. It adds the long view and the planning tools: analytics ranges out to a full year and all-time; the muscle-volume-over-time chart; the Body tab with bodyweight and body-fat trend charts; next-cycle recommendations in the deload digest; planned periodization with volume ramps, wave and taper weeks, and deloads placed in advance; the multi-day split generator; the full program library; unlimited templates and custom exercises; and priority support. The core stays free forever: logging, deload detection, progression prefills, rest timers, warm-up ramps, the plate calculator, cardio, the single-session generator, import and export, cloud backup, uncapped history, all 8 themes, the community library, and the social feed. Free accounts include 3 saved templates and 5 custom exercises. Terms: https://anneal.fit/terms.html Privacy: https://anneal.fit/privacy.html

Screenshots

Rolling Strong4 screens
Anneal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Anneal at 5.0 against Rolling Strong's 4.3. Anneal also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Rolling Strong's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Rolling Strong sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Anneal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Anneal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Rolling Strong's written reviews are positive against 100% of Anneal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rolling Strong ships an update monthly, Anneal weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Rolling Strong versus Anneal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRolling StrongAnneal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (18 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better5
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size227 MB44 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperStephen KaneFusionLeaf Collective LLC

Customer experience

Rolling Strong

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%

Anneal

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Rolling Strong

Subscriptions6
  • Rolling Strong monthly$1.991 Month
  • Monthly membership NOT VALID$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium Subscription$4.991 Month
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  • Company Monthly Sub$4.991 Month
  • Rolling Strong annual$19.991 Year
  • Company Annual Sub$49.991 Year
One-time5
  • Health Risk Assessment$7.99
  • Competition Entry Fee$9.99
  • A Single Coach Session$24.99
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  • DOT Pre Check Bundle$49.99
  • DOT Physical$99.99
2 purchases

Anneal

Subscriptions2
  • Anneal Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Anneal Pro Annual1 Year trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Rolling Strong free?
Rolling Strong is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Anneal free?
Anneal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rolling Strong or Anneal?
Anneal is rated higher. Rolling Strong averages 4.3 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Anneal averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Rolling Strong or Anneal have ads?
Neither Rolling Strong nor Anneal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rolling Strong or Anneal?
Rolling Strong ships an update monthly, and Anneal weekly. Most recently, Rolling Strong was updated on October 29, 2026 and Anneal on October 24, 2026.

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