Flux vs Hypertrophy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flux
This app helps you train smarter by generating personalized workouts based on your goals, available equipment, and time. It uniquely adapts to your progress over time, keeping all your data on your device for privacy. Track every set, rep, and weight with ease, and benefit from advanced features like progressive overload and fatigue-aware training.
- Personalized workout generation
- Customizable routines and exercises
- Real-time adaptive changes
- Progressive overload and periodisation
- Fatigue-aware training support
- Apple Health integration
- Data export
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Walk into the gym with a plan. Leave knowing what to aim for next. Flux creates personalized gym routines around your goals, experience, schedule, session length and available equipment. See your whole workout in one scrolling view, log sets with less screen switching and keep past performance close when choosing your next targets. TRY EVERY FEATURE FREE Download Flux free and use every feature for 14 days. No payment is required, the trial does not start a subscription and there is no automatic charge. UNLOCK FOREVER After the trial, training features require a one-time Lifetime Unlock. There is no free training tier after the trial and no recurring charge. Apple shows the price for your storefront before you confirm. Eligible existing paid owners keep permanent Full Access. PLAN AROUND YOUR LIFE - Generate Push/Pull/Legs, Upper/Lower, Full Body and other routines - Match training to your equipment, schedule and available weight increments - Choose a session length from 30 to 90 minutes when generating a routine - Build your own routines and custom exercises - Browse prebuilt programs with Overview, Guide and Settings before choosing - Follow Flux Hybrid for strength and timed cardio - Swap exercises for a workout or across the remaining program where supported CHOOSE YOUR STRENGTH PERIODIZATION - Adaptive Block: goal-appropriate phases with completion and recovery checks - Daily Undulating: different strength-day emphases across your routine - Linear: a six-week progression of training emphasis - Weekly Undulating: routine-wide emphasis that changes by model week - Manual: choose an eligible phase, with safety recovery when needed Choose a model when generating a strength routine. To change models, generate a new routine. Prebuilt programs keep their authored progression; HIIT keeps its timed prescription. Personalized features need calibration and sufficient training history. FOLLOW YOUR WORKOUT IN ONE PLACE - Log sets with less screen switching and see what is done and what comes next - Keep warm-ups and working sets together, with rest timers and set targets - Move on easily: the next unfinished exercise comes into view automatically - Use individual set targets, supersets, drop sets, myo-reps and giant sets - Add sets and notes, or open Edit, Swap and Remove from your workout - Review achieved sets, missed targets, next-session guidance and trained muscles in Workout Complete EDIT SETS AND CHECK PROGRESS IN ONE PLACE Choose your next targets with past performance close by. Edit sets in Settings, then switch to Stats in the same exercise details screen for performance charts, volume trends and previous workouts. Pick a date range to see recent sessions or the longer trend. Available from your workout, Next Up or saved routine, with history across routines. Future prebuilt target restrictions still apply. UNDERSTAND YOUR TRAINING - Review Strength, Health, Consistency and Targets hit in Insights - Follow your current routine from the day you started it - Revisit findings saved with your Check-in reports - See your training phase and position in Routine Overview - Use optional Apple Health sleep, HRV and heart-rate context - Export training data and use optional signed-in cloud backup MAKE FLUX YOURS Choose System, Light or Dark in Profile > Theme. Signed-in choices sync; System follows each device. Home widgets and Live Activities follow where iOS permits. Log offline with valid access. An already-open workout can be finished after trial expiry; returning after expiry shows the paywall. Restore Purchases and Account & Data remain available. Cloud backup syncs separately when online. Apple Health is optional. Learn more: https://fluxworkouts.com Support: https://fluxworkouts.com/support Terms: https://fluxworkouts.com/terms Privacy: https://fluxworkouts.com/privacy
Hypertrophy
Log your strength training sessions, track personal records, and monitor muscle readiness. This app allows you to build custom routines, use a rest timer, and sync workouts with your Apple Watch and Health data.
- Log workouts and sets
- Track personal records
- Build custom routines
- Rest timer between sets
- Apple Watch workout sync
- Muscle readiness estimation
- Apple Health integration
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Keep your strength training in one place. Hypertrophy helps you log workouts, record sets, and see how your training adds up over time. • Log workouts on iPhone or Apple Watch, revisit your history, and track personal records. • Choose from built-in exercises or add your own. • Build routines and use a rest timer between sets. • Start, log, and finish workouts on Apple Watch, with sets and rest timers synced to iPhone. • Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch widgets for today's training and recovery. • Sync workouts, routines and exercises through your private iCloud. • Record optional RPE for each set. • See muscle readiness based on your recent training. • Optionally connect Apple Health for workout saving, bodyweight, and recovery metrics. • Back up and restore your workouts, or export your sets as CSV. Core logging, Apple Watch workouts, history, Health integration, readiness, and backup and restore are free. Hypertrophy+ adds more than four routines, and app themes and icons. Hypertrophy+ is a one-time purchase with no subscription. No account is required. Your training log stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, never on a Hypertrophy server. Readiness is a training estimate, not a medical diagnosis. Privacy: https://hypertrophy-support.strole95.chatgpt.site/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Flux and Hypertrophy are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Flux sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Hypertrophy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flux against 5.0 for Hypertrophy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Flux | Hypertrophy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 26.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Digital Flux Ltd | Devin Strole |
Customer experience
Flux
Hypertrophy
In-app purchases
Flux
- Flux Pro : 1 Month$2.991 Month
- Flux Pro : 12 Month$19.991 Year
- Flux Pro : Lifetime Pass - Founder$49.99
- Flux Pro : Lifetime Pass$59.99
Hypertrophy
- Hypertrophy+$1.991 Month
- Hypertrophy+7 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Hypertrophy+ Lifetime$3.99









