Comparison

That's Stronk vs Heavy Stride

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

Head to head
About

That's Stronk

Log your weightlifting sets and track outdoor or treadmill rucks with GPS and incline support. Features a rest timer, personal record tracking, and calorie calculations that account for pack weight. Converts your workouts into fun, shareable visual moments.

Highlights
  • Quick lift logging with rest timer
  • Wrist-based rep logging
  • GPS and incline-aware ruck tracking
  • Calorie calculation with pack weight
  • Personal record tracking
  • Workout to visual moment conversion
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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A workout doesn't have to be a job, a personality, or a contest. When you were a kid, it was just fun: you saw a log in the woods and wondered if you could lift it, grabbed the dog and went for a hike, or raced to the park. That's what STRONK is built on. It doesn't care whether you lift 100 pounds or 1,000; walk a mile or ruck a marathon. You showed up, probably had fun, and hopefully did something worth telling your friends about. That's it. $4.99. ONCE. The going rate for a ruck tracker is $4.99 a month. This is $4.99, one time. Not a month. Not a year. Not ever again. Try everything free for 14 days; if you're in, it's one small payment, shareable with your family, yours forever. That's not a launch price. That's the point. (The tools underneath are real, though. Aggressively real.) LIFT Log sets fast, from your phone or your wrist, in type you can read from the bench without your glasses. Your last session sits next to this one, so you always know what you're trying to beat. No judgment when you don't. Supersets, because your time matters. Rest timers set to YOUR rest — 30 seconds or 5 minutes. STRONK doesn't lecture. RUCK Your other app calls a 35-lb ruck a walk. STRONK counts your body weight PLUS the weight on your back — and the formula is written out in plain English inside the app, so you can check our work. GPS routes, per-mile splits, elevation and heart rate, incline-aware treadmill rucks, and the weather you suffered through, on the record ("SWAMP MODE" is a real designation, earned). RUCK BUDDIES Tag which dogs came along (you know they're coming). They carried nothing. They get full credit anyway — name, photo, and all, right on the summary. Their pictures never leave your phone. RECEIPTS Every workout ends in a stat worth sharing: "1.5 WOOLLY MAMMOTHS." "741 CORGIS." "6.7 OSCAR STATUETTES, CARRIED A MILE." Lifetime totals that only go up. A calendar with no streaks and no guilt — just proof you showed up. History logs every exercise, set, rep, and mile (or kilometer) for posterity. NOTHING GETS LOST A finished workout is finished. It survives force-quits, dead batteries, and fat fingers. A save that fails says so instead of shrugging. The number on your wrist is the number in your history. Losing a session you actually did is the worst thing a tracker can do to you, and we build like we believe that. WHAT STRONK WILL NEVER DO No subscriptions. No ads. No streaks. No pep talks. No sweaty models. No fire emojis. APPLE STUFF, DONE PROPERLY Full Apple Watch app. Live Activities. HealthKit in and out — workouts, calories, routes, heart rate. Weather via WeatherKit. Photos picked privately, stored on-device. VoiceOver throughout. No account. No tracking. Your data is yours. And if you find the beta toggle in Settings... that's DASH. Race ya to the mailbox. Built in Minnesota by one guy, his wife, and two supervisory dogs. The feedback email is in Settings — it goes to an actual human, and fixes ship faster than you'd think.

About

Heavy Stride

This app is designed for ruckers, offering detailed tracking for weighted walks. It records metrics like distance, pace, heart rate, and pack weight, providing advanced analytics and route maps for comprehensive workout review.

Highlights
  • Live tracking of distance, pace, calories, heart rate, elevation
  • Pack weight impact analysis
  • Route maps and workout splits
  • Break detection and recalculation
  • Training load and tonnage comparison
  • Cross-device synchronization (iPhone/Apple Watch)
  • Shareable workout recaps
Features
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Heavy Stride is built for ruckers who want more than a generic walking workout. Track rucks on iPhone or Apple Watch with live distance, pace, calories, steps, heart rate, elevation, and pack weight. Review finished workouts with route maps, splits, break detection, load-aware recovery metrics, and analytics designed around load-bearing training instead of generic walking summaries. Heavy Stride helps you: • start workouts from phone or watch • set exact distance targets, including long events like 26.2 • track long rucks accurately on Apple Watch and iPhone • review maps, splits, and break-adjusted pace • infer stops after the workout, then edit or remove breaks and recalculate split pacing • compare training load, weekly tonnage, and same-weight pace improvement across workouts • understand how pack weight affects effort, calories, ruck work, and training stress • keep a live ruck visible across phone and watch, then transfer to iPhone if the watch battery gets low • share a polished route-and-stats recap image through Messages, Mail, and other share targets The companion experience keeps workouts visible across devices so you can train with the device that best fits the moment, hand off from watch to phone when needed, and still review the same workout afterward on iPhone.

Screenshots

That's Stronk4 screens
Heavy Stride4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: That's Stronk at 5.0 against Heavy Stride's 1.0. That's Stronk also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Heavy Stride's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. That's Stronk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Heavy Stride asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

That's Stronk holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: That's Stronk has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

That's Stronk ships an update every 3 days, Heavy Stride every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
That's Stronk versus Heavy Stride: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThat's StronkHeavy Stride
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRibbescobb Labs LLCPlarix

In-app purchases

1 purchases

That's Stronk

One-time1
  • STRONK Full Access$4.99
None

Heavy Stride

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is That's Stronk free?
That's Stronk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Heavy Stride free?
Heavy Stride is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, That's Stronk or Heavy Stride?
That's Stronk is rated higher. That's Stronk averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Heavy Stride averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do That's Stronk or Heavy Stride have ads?
Neither That's Stronk nor Heavy Stride shows ads.
Which is updated more often, That's Stronk or Heavy Stride?
That's Stronk ships an update every 3 days, and Heavy Stride every 6 weeks. Most recently, That's Stronk was updated on October 28, 2026 and Heavy Stride on October 28, 2026.

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