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Four apps that all write your training for you — and four genuinely different ideas of what training is. Here is what each one is built for, where each is strongest, and which one fits how you actually train.
Features and prices checked against each company's own public pages on 16 October 2026. Prices and features change; the sources are listed at the bottom so you can check them yourself.
None of these is a worse version of the others. They answer different questions.
Best if you train for a goal across more than one discipline
GetMyCoach plans a whole block rather than the next workout, and it plans strength, running, HYROX and nutrition in the same place. Pick a coach, answer a handful of questions, and you see the full plan — weekly structure, deloads and a taper onto a race date — before an account exists.
Best if you lift in a gym and want the weights decided for you
Gravl is a strength app with unusually mature mechanics: it estimates your one-rep max from your history, steps the weight up to the plates your gym actually has, and rebuilds the session around the gym you walked into. It reads Garmin, Strava and Health data to decide which muscles are still recovering.
Best if you want a strong next workout, with no plan to follow
Fitbod is built for one question — what should I train today — and answers it from your logged history, your recovery and your equipment. It says of itself that it is built exclusively for resistance training and is not a cardio app, which is a clear scope rather than a gap.
Best if you want one app for bodyweight, HIIT, gym and running
Freeletics is the broadest of the four: calisthenics and HIIT where it started, plus gym work, weights, running and interval training, cycling and rowing, with mobility and recovery sessions inside the plan. Its Coach adapts the week to the days and the location you pick.
Every row is what each company states on its own current pages, or what we verified in our own shipped app.
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| What you are comparing | OursGetMyCoach | Gravl | Fitbod | Freeletics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is built for | Offered: Strength, running, HYROX, rowing, boxing, racket sports and nutrition in one coach | Offered: Strength training in the gym — "the gym app that plans every workout for you" | Offered: "Built exclusively for resistance and strength training" | Offered: A broad digital coach: HIIT, calisthenics, gym, weights, cardio and running |
| Planned as a week and a block | Offered: A whole block up front: weekly structure, deload weeks and a taper into a race day | Partly, or in a limited form: Plans your week and recalculates after each logged workout; splits and programs are yours to design | Partly, or in a limited form: Session by session: the next workout adapts to history, recovery and goal | Offered: 30 personalised plans, each with its own focus; the Coach adapts the week |
| Strength and muscle building | Offered: Hypertrophy and strength blocks with weekly volume floors per muscle group | Offered: Its core: estimated one-rep max, Strength Score against standards, 300+ exercise videos | Offered: Its core: strength, hypertrophy, powerlifting and olympic lifting, 1'000+ exercises | Offered: Weights, gym machines and calisthenics are part of the training styles |
| Progressive overload | Offered: Every working block carries a progression method and a load target; your logged sets feed the next one | Offered: Automatic: weights step up from your logged history, snapped to your plates, and react to Easy/Hard | Offered: Stated as the algorithm's core principle, driven by your logged performance | Partly, or in a limited form: Progression and skill levels per plan; the Coach adapts from your session feedback |
| Planned around your equipment | Offered: One equipment model both the planner and the validator read, so a plan cannot prescribe gear you lack | Offered: Pick your actual gym; the plan rebuilds around that gym's equipment when you travel | Offered: Equipment settings from bodyweight and bands up to a full gym | Offered: Bodyweight, added weights or gym gear, and workouts that run without equipment |
| Several training places | Offered: Gym, functional box, home with dumbbells, outdoors — or a mix across the week | Offered: Several gym profiles, each with its own equipment | Partly, or in a limited form: Home, gym or travelling by changing the equipment list | Offered: You choose the location: home, gym or outdoors for a run |
| Swapping an exercise | Offered: Swap for equipment, pain or preference; the alternative is re-validated and recalibrated, and repeated pain is remembered | Offered: One tap to a same-muscle match with sets, reps and weights recalculated | Offered: Any exercise can be substituted, and the app learns your preferences | Partly, or in a limited form: The workout adjusts to time and equipment; no per-exercise swap is advertised |
| Recovery and training history | Partly, or in a limited form: Planned deloads, tapers and session load; no fatigue model fed by wearable data | Offered: A recovery split per muscle, fed by Apple Health, Health Connect, Garmin and Strava | Offered: Picks the muscles to train from your history and recovery state | Offered: Dedicated mobility and recovery sessions inside the plan |
| HYROX and race preparation | Offered: Your race date, the eight stations, compromised running, a race simulation and a taper | Not offered: The product is framed around gym strength | Not offered: A search for HYROX on their own site returns nothing | Not offered: HYROX is not named among the training styles, though running and gym work overlap with hybrid training |
| Running and hybrid training | Offered: Running is its own stimulus with its own goals — 5K to marathon — beside the strength week | Partly, or in a limited form: Cardio sessions can be added to a strength week; no running programme | Not offered: "Not a cardio app" — some conditioning movements, no running plan | Offered: Running and interval training are first-class, plus cycling and rowing |
| Nutrition coaching | Offered: In the same app and the same account: targets, logging and a coach's read on the day | Partly, or in a limited form: Gravl Macros is a separate app with its own subscription, sold as a bundle | Not offered: "Fitbod doesn't track calories directly" | Partly, or in a limited form: A Nutrition Coach with meal plans, in a separate app and a separate subscription tier |
| A named coach and method | Offered: You pick a coach whose declared programming drives the plan, and you can read their approach first | Partly, or in a limited form: "Dialed by AI, backed by real coaches" — coaches answer in-app rather than owning a method | Partly, or in a limited form: A proprietary algorithm with expert demos and cues; no coach persona | Offered: The Coach is the product and the paid tier is named after it |
| Watches and wearable data | Partly, or in a limited form: A Bluetooth heart-rate strap or watch during an Android session, with zones afterwards; no Apple Health, Garmin or Strava sync | Offered: Standalone Apple Watch, Wear OS and Garmin apps; syncs Apple Health, Health Connect, Garmin and Strava | Offered: Apple Watch and Wear OS companions; Apple Health, Health Connect, Fitbit and Strava | Not published by the vendor: Not stated on the pages we checked |
| Where you can use it | Partly, or in a limited form: A full web app and an Android app; no iOS app yet | Offered: iOS, Android and watches; a signed-in web app exists, and we did not test its scope | Partly, or in a limited form: iOS and Android; the web is "for on-boarding purposes only" | Partly, or in a limited form: iOS and Android; no web training app is advertised |
| Languages | Partly, or in a limited form: English and German | Offered: Eight, German among them | Partly, or in a limited form: English, Spanish and Portuguese — no German | Offered: English and German among others |
| Price | Offered: Free during early access, no credit card — and twelve free months afterwards for early-access members | Not published by the vendor: Free to start, Gravl Premium monthly, yearly or lifetime; the amounts appear only at checkout | Offered: USD 15.99 a month or USD 95.99 a year on their website, with a 7-day trial | Not published by the vendor: A free tier, then Training or Nutrition & Training over 3, 6 or 12 months; the amounts appear only at checkout |
If one of these matters more to you than a multi-discipline plan, the honest answer is to use that app.
Wearables and watches. Gravl runs a whole session from an Apple Watch, Wear OS watch or Garmin and syncs with Apple Health, Health Connect, Garmin and Strava. We read a Bluetooth heart-rate strap during an Android session and show the zones afterwards — and we sync with none of those accounts. Its one-rep-max mechanics and its Strength Score against population standards are also further along than our progress views.
Depth in the gym, and iOS. Over a thousand exercises, every one with a demo video and written cues, a recovery-driven pick of which muscles to train next, and an iPhone app — which we do not have yet. If your training is lifting, and only lifting, Fitbod's library and its session-to-session adaptation are hard to beat.
Breadth of workout styles and a very large library. 700+ exercises, thirty plans, bodyweight HIIT that needs no equipment at all, a free tier you can train on, and badges, streaks and skill progressions that keep people coming back. For training at home with nothing but a floor, it is a better fit than we are.
Not more features — a different unit of work. These four things follow from planning a block instead of a session.
Strength, running, HYROX and nutrition sit in the same account and the same plan, so your lifting week knows about your long run and your calorie target knows about both. With Gravl and Freeletics, nutrition is a second app and a second subscription; with Fitbod there is no nutrition side at all.
You see the whole plan up front: how the weeks are structured, where the deload falls, how the taper lands on a race date. A session-by-session app is excellent at answering what to do today and cannot tell you what the next eight weeks are for.
Running is its own training stimulus with its own goals, from 5K to marathon, rather than cardio bolted onto a lifting week. For HYROX the plan covers the eight stations, running under fatigue, a race simulation and a taper that ends on your start day.
You swap an exercise because of equipment, because something hurt, or because you would rather do something else. The alternative is re-checked against the same rules the plan was built with and its load recalibrated rather than inherited — and if the same movement keeps hurting, the plan stops prescribing it.
A full gym, a functional box, home with a pair of dumbbells, outdoors — or a different one on different days. Special equipment is never assumed: the planner and the check that approves the plan read one equipment model, so a plan cannot prescribe a machine you do not have.
Daily calorie and protein targets, an honest read on the day you logged, and what to eat next — and it works whether or not you have a training plan. If you only want food logging, a dedicated tracker will log faster; the point here is that one coach sees both sides.
Everything in the three competitor columns comes from these pages. The GetMyCoach column was checked against our own shipped app.
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