Comparison

Progressive Overloader vs UpRep

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

Head to head
About

Progressive Overloader

This app helps you plan, execute, and track your strength training progress. It offers a straightforward, ad-free experience for logging your lifts and monitoring your development over time.

Highlights
  • Strength progression planning
  • Lift execution guidance
  • Progress monitoring
  • Ad-free experience
  • No-nonsense lift logging
Features
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Strength progression planner, executor, and monitor. This app was created by the need for an ad-free, no-nonsense lift log.

About

UpRep

Features
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UpRep is your gym and workout tracker for strength training, workout plans and measurable progress. Choose your workout from the calendar, complete your sets and let UpRep calculate your next target for weight and reps. Within your chosen rep range, UpRep increases your reps first. Once you reach the upper limit, your selected weight increment is added and the rep target starts again at the lower end of your range. This helps you apply progressive overload without constantly calculating your next target during your workout. SPEND LESS TIME ON YOUR PHONE • Weight and rep suggestions for every strength exercise • Automatic rest timer after each completed set • Timer for your total workout duration • Notes, equipment and exercise variations directly inside your workout • Replace or remove exercises while training • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island YOUR TRAINING, YOUR SYSTEM • Create and edit your own exercises, strength plans and cardio sessions • Set your own sets, rep ranges, starting weights and weight increments • Schedule workouts in your calendar • Track treadmill, exercise bike, elliptical, StairMaster and rowing workouts • Add variations such as drop sets, supersets, single-arm, seated, narrow or wide SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Training volume calculated from completed sets: weight × reps • Compare volume, sets and maximum weight across days, weeks, months, years or all time • Analyze muscle groups with bar and radar charts • Reopen completed workouts with every recorded set • Estimate your 1RM using average, Brzycki, Baechle or dos Remedios formulas • Optionally connect Apple Health for steps, body weight, active energy, distances and workouts IPHONE & APPLE WATCH Follow your step progress through iPhone widgets and Apple Watch. Live Activities and clear workout information help you spend less time interacting with your phone while training. OPTIONAL ICLOUD SYNC UpRep works without creating an account. Your training data is stored locally on your iPhone. You can optionally enable iCloud sync to synchronize your exercise library, workout plans, UpRep workout history and selected workout photos across your Apple devices and restore them after reinstalling UpRep with the same Apple ID. APPLE HEALTH & PRIVACY Connecting Apple Health is optional. With your permission, UpRep can read steps, body weight, active energy, distances and workouts. UpRep only writes body-weight values to Apple Health when you explicitly enter those values yourself in UpRep. Data read from HealthKit is not uploaded to UpRep's CloudKit database and is not used for advertising, profiling or marketing.

Screenshots

Progressive Overloader3 screens
UpRep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: UpRep at 17.0 against Progressive Overloader's 26.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Progressive Overloader versus UpRep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProgressive OverloaderUpRep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTIMOTHY ERIC BURTELLAlexander Fuchshuber

In-app purchases

None

Progressive Overloader

No in-app purchases

None

UpRep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Progressive Overloader free?
Progressive Overloader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is UpRep free?
UpRep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Progressive Overloader or UpRep have ads?
Neither Progressive Overloader nor UpRep shows ads.

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