Best Free Workout Tracker Apps for Android (2026)

Type "best free workout tracker" into the Play Store and you'll get Strong, Hevy, and Fitbod near the top — all of which are free to download and, functionally, free trials with an expiration date on the features that matter. That's not a criticism of those apps. It's just not what "free" means to most people searching for it.

This list only includes apps with no subscription tier at all. If an app has a "Pro" toggle anywhere in its settings, it's not on here.

1. Stay Fit

Stay Fit covers the full logging workflow — guided workouts, sets/reps/weight tracking, rest timers, and custom routines — and adds the features that usually get paywalled elsewhere: a workout streak, a year-long activity heatmap, muscle-balance insights, body measurements, progress photos, and goal tracking for weight and workout frequency. Backups export as JSON or CSV, shareable to Drive or Files, with no account required to use the app at all.

Best for: anyone who wants the complete feature set — logging, analytics, and goals — without a subscription tier existing anywhere in the app.

2. FitNotes

FitNotes has been the default "just works" Android logger for years. It's ad-supported rather than subscription-based, which is a real tradeoff — you'll see banner ads — but every logging and charting feature stays unlocked. Its exercise database and history charts are solid, if the interface reads as more utilitarian than modern.

Best for: lifters who don't mind ads and want a proven, no-frills logger with a long track record.

3. Plates

Plates deliberately does less. No calorie tracking, no instructional videos, no leaderboards — just sets, reps, weight, and progressive overload tracking, offline, with no ads and no account. The calendar view and per-exercise progress charts cover what most lifters actually check between sessions.

Best for: lifters who want Strong's minimalism without the free-tier routine cap.

4. Iron Log

Iron Log is built around "ghost sets" — your previous session's numbers appear dimmed and ready to confirm or beat while you're logging the current one, which makes progressive overload almost automatic. It also includes a built-in AI-coaching export prompt, useful if you want to paste your history into an LLM for a second opinion on programming.

Best for: lifters who want the progressive-overload workflow to be the entire point of the app.

5. GymMane

GymMane is open source and doesn't request Android's INTERNET permission at all — not "we promise not to use your data," but structurally unable to send it anywhere. It ships with 360+ exercises, 6 calculators (1RM, plate math, and similar), and an interactive body map for picking what to train. The tradeoff is a more niche, gym-floor-focused interface than the others on this list.

Best for: lifters who want a verifiable, code-level guarantee that nothing leaves the device — and who are comfortable with a build community rather than a polished consumer brand.

What "free" actually costs you elsewhere

Strong's free tier caps custom routines at 3. Hevy trims free analytics history to about 3 months and limits custom exercises. Fitbod's "free" tier is closer to a 3-workout trial than an ongoing plan. None of that is dishonest, exactly — it's a normal freemium model — but it's worth knowing going in if you're choosing an app you plan to log years of training into.

How to actually pick between these five

If you want the most complete feature set — goals, measurements, photos, analytics, streaks — alongside logging, Stay Fit covers the most ground. If you want the absolute minimum interface with no ads, Plates is the cleanest. If progressive overload tracking is the single feature you care about most, Iron Log's ghost-set workflow is built specifically for that. If open-source verification matters more than polish, GymMane is the only one on this list that qualifies. FitNotes remains a reasonable default if you don't mind ads and want the longest track record.