Comparison

Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log vs Strength Affect

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

Head to head
About

Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log

This app acts as a personal strength coach, guiding you through workouts with specific exercises, weights, sets, and reps. It tracks your progress with graphs and offers features like auto-incrementing weights and deloads. Premium options include custom variations and cloud backups.

Highlights
  • Guided strength training workouts
  • Progress tracking with graphs
  • Auto-increment weight feature
  • Customizable workout variations
  • HealthKit integration for body weight
  • Cloud backup and restore
Features
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Strength trainer and tracker for Startling Strength 3x5 to gain strength, build muscle, and lose fat. This app is like a strength and muscle building coach in your pocket. It will let you know which exercises to do on which day, how much weight you need to lift for how many sets and reps and how much you need to lift. Recommended books: "Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition" by Mark Rippetoe "Practical Programming for Strength Training" by Mark Rippetoe This app is like a strength and muscle building coach in your pocket. It will let you know which exercises to do on which day, how much weight you need to lift for how many sets and reps and how much you need to lift. Apart from being able to create your own variation, the following are built-in: - Startling Strength phase 1, 2, and 3 - Practice Programming phase 1, 2, and 3 Free features: - Free download. - Records weights, sets, and reps. - See your progress in graphs. - Know which exercises you need to perform with the associated weights, sets, and reps. - Auto increment weight for each workout. - Auto deload/repeat on failure. - Kg/Lb - switch anytime. - Exercise descriptions and progress. - Ability to start an empty workout. - Dark and light theme. - Restore from StrongLifts app Premium features: - Make your own variation - Warm up sets. - Make your own warm-up scheme - Modify any built-in variation - Backup and restore using cloud/phone memory - Edit/reorder exercises inside a workout - ad free Permissions - Audio to sound a notification when the rest time is over Integration with HealthKit: The app uses HealthKit to read the body-weight so that you don't have to manually enter it. This is done when a new workout is opened and not in the screen from the last tab. And once the workout is completed, the app syncs the workout, body-weight, and the estimated calories burned. Support If you have any suggestions to improve this app, we'd love to hear from you. Just contact us using the last tab. Terms of use: https://maxtrainingcoach.com/terms-of-service/

About

Strength Affect

Features
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Download the Strength Affect App today to plan and schedule your Sessions! From this mobile App, you can view Strength Affect schedules and sign up for sessions as well as view the studio’s location. Download this App today!

Screenshots

Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log4 screens
Strength Affect3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strength Affect at none against Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log's 5. Strength Affect also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price and device support 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. Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Strength Affect asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log ships an update monthly, Strength Affect every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log versus Strength Affect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStartling Strength 3x5 Gym LogStrength Affect
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNAZIM ASHRAFApx Training Systems LLC

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$6.991 Month
  • Yearly subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • 3x5 Workout Gym Log2 variants$14.99
  • Life time subscription$29.99
None

Strength Affect

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log free?
Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Strength Affect free?
Strength Affect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log or Strength Affect have ads?
Strength Affect shows ads; Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log does not.
Which is updated more often, Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log or Strength Affect?
Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log ships an update monthly, and Strength Affect every 3 months. Most recently, Startling Strength 3x5 Gym Log was updated on September 24, 2026 and Strength Affect on September 10, 2026.

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