Comparison

Step Sergeant vs Setlist Strength Log

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

Head to head
About

Step Sergeant

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Your steps have been unsupervised long enough. Step Sergeant is a step tracker with one job: get you moving more. It tracks your progress, pays attention to how your day is going, gives you fresh daily missions, celebrates when you're crushing it, and gets on your case when you're not. SMART NUDGES THAT PAY ATTENTION Forget the same β€œTime to walk!” reminder every afternoon. Step Sergeant reacts to how your day is actually going. Start slow, make a comeback, fall behind, close in on a personal best, or absolutely crush your goalβ€”and Sergeant adjusts accordingly. And he knows when to shut up. Step Sergeant sends a handful of timely nudges throughout the dayβ€”not a constant stream of notifications every time your step count changes. The result? Fewer, fresher notifications that feel less like reminders and more like somebody is actually paying attention. TODAY'S ORDERS Every day brings a new mission. Hit a step target by a deadline. Add steps during a specific window. Chase a daily total. Make a comeback. Missions adapt to your recent activity and stay fresh, giving you something different to chase instead of staring at the same goal every day. CHOOSE YOUR SERGEANT Need motivation without the roasting? Choose Encouraging Sergeant for supportive nudges that still keep you accountable. Prefer your motivation with significantly less sympathy? Full Sergeant is standing by. Same mission. Different motivation. RANK UP Your steps don't disappear when the day ends. Lifetime steps move you through the ranks, giving all that walking a longer-term purposeβ€”and Sergeant will make sure you know when you've earned a promotion. EARN TROPHIES Some trophies reward consistency. Some reward big days. Some reward unusual accomplishments. And some exist because apparently even your bad habits deserve recognition. MORE THAN A NUMBER Plenty of apps can tell you how many steps you took. Step Sergeant wants to know what you're going to do about it. Your orders are simple: move more.

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Setlist Strength Log

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Setlist tells you what to lift next session. Log your sets and, when you finish, every exercise gets a verdict: add weight, add reps, or back off. The rule is two-for-two, read off your own working sets and your own rep and RIR targets. No coach attached, no model, no server. The number for next time is on the finish screen, and on the exercise card the moment the last set is checked. Under that it is a log for barbell, dumbbell, machine and bodyweight training. You build routines, run them in the gym, and it keeps the record. LOGGING A workout opens as a table: set, what you did last time, weight, reps, and an optional RIR column. Checking a set fills it from last time. Set types cover warm-up, drop and failure sets. Supersets are grouped. Exercises can be added, replaced or reordered mid-session. The rest timer starts on its own when you check a set and notifies you when it ends, so it works with the phone in your pocket. The plate calculator knows your bar and your gym's plates. ROUTINES AND PROGRAMS A routine is an ordered list of exercises, each with a prescription: sets, rep range, target RIR, rest, tempo, notes and superset group. Routines live in folders, and a folder can be scheduled as a program of several weeks with an optional deload week. Home shows which week you are in and which routine is next. PROGRESSION Home flags lifts that have stalled: top working-set load has not risen in six weeks while you keep reaching the top of the rep range. It also shows working sets per muscle this week against last, and names the muscles under target for your goal. Fixed rules on your own logged sets; there is no model, no server and no network call. HISTORY A month calendar marks the days you trained. Every workout keeps its sets, per-set estimated 1RM, duration and volume, and can be edited later or saved back as a routine. Each exercise has a chart over three months, a year or all time for heaviest set, estimated 1RM, best set, session volume or total reps, a personal-record table, and a pinned note that shows up every time you do that lift. Estimated 1RM uses the Epley formula on sets of twelve reps or fewer and excludes warm-ups. Set volume is weight times reps. EXERCISES 167 exercises are built in, each with primary and secondary muscles, equipment, logging kind, short form cues and a front-and-back muscle map. Add your own, and merge duplicates without losing sessions. BODY Weight, body fat and fourteen tape sites, with a chart and a seven-entry moving average. Setlist reads weight and body fat from Apple Health, so a scale that writes there lands in the app on its own, and saves finished workouts back as strength sessions. Both are off until you switch them on; body measurements are never written back. IMPORT AND EXPORT Setlist reads the CSV and zip exports produced by other training apps: workouts, routines, measurements and the prescriptions written into coach notes. Export workouts and body data as CSV at any time. PRIVACY There is no account and no sign-up. Your workouts, routines and exercises are stored on your iPhone and in your own iCloud private database, which is what syncs them between your devices. Body measurements stay on the device they were entered on. There is no Setlist server, and the developer cannot see any of it. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party services. One-time purchase. No subscription and no in-app purchases. Setlist is a training log, not medical advice. Check with a doctor before you start or change a training program.

Screenshots

Step Sergeant4 screens
Setlist Strength Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Step Sergeant at Free against Setlist Strength Log's $4.99. Step Sergeant also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Step Sergeant is free to download; Setlist Strength Log costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Step Sergeant versus Setlist Strength Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep SergeantSetlist Strength Log
PriceFree β€” better$4.99
Update frequencyβ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size24 MB4 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDANIEL TYLER STANLEYBENJAMIN JOSEPH GADBAW

In-app purchases

None

Step Sergeant

No in-app purchases

None

Setlist Strength Log

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Step Sergeant free?
Step Sergeant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Setlist Strength Log free?
Setlist Strength Log costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Step Sergeant or Setlist Strength Log have ads?
Neither Step Sergeant nor Setlist Strength Log shows ads.

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