Comparison
A free Fitbod alternative that stays free
Fitbod has no free tier. You get seven days, then the app needs a subscription. This page sets out exactly what you get for nothing in TotalBodyIQ, what you don’t, and the two other free apps worth considering before you install anything.
Who wrote this
We make TotalBodyIQ. We are a small team in the UK, so read this as an argument, not a review. The competitor figures below come from each company’s own published pricing, checked on the date shown, and we have named the free apps that beat ours on their own terms.
“Free” means four different things
Every app in this category calls itself free to download. What happens next varies enormously, and it is worth knowing which of the four you are signing up for.
Fitbod is a trial: seven days, then it stops. Hevy and Strong both have genuine free tiers with caps on how much you can build. Ours is unlimited and permanent, with the intelligence layer as the paid extra. None of these is dishonest. They are just different bargains, and the trial one is the one people mistake for a free app.
Fitbod, Hevy and Strong pricing checked against each company’s published pricing pages, 31 July 2026. Prices and tier limits change; check in-app before subscribing.
What you get for nothing
The free tier of TotalBodyIQ is not a demo. There is no expiry date, no routine cap and no history cut-off.
Free, forever
- Unlimited logging of sets, reps and weights
- Full history, no three-month window
- Body heatmap and muscle load by group
- All 472 exercises, each shown in two positions with cues
- Rest timer and body measurements
- GPS runs, walks and rides with heart-rate zones
Pro · under £35 a year
- Your next session generated from your history, kit and readiness
- Sessions scaled down when readiness is low
- Progressive-overload targets per lift
- Coaching insight and estimated 1RM trends
14-day trial. Cancel in Settings.
The split is deliberate: everything you need to record and understand your training is free, and the part that makes decisions for you is what you pay for. No wearable is required for either, as every score is derived from the sets you log.
Free tiers, side by side
| App | What free gets you | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| TotalBodyIQ | Unlimited logging, full history, body map, muscle load, all 472 exercises, cardio and GPS | Under £35/yr |
| Fitbod | 7-day trial, then the app stops | $15.99/mo, $95.99/yr |
| Hevy | Unlimited logging, but 4 saved routines, 7 custom exercises and 3 months of graph history | $2.99/mo, $23.99/yr, $74.99 lifetime |
| Strong | Unlimited logging, small number of saved routines | $4.99/mo, $29.99/yr |
If you want free, look at Hevy too
Hevy’s free tier is excellent and it would be dishonest to leave it out of a page about free apps. If one or two routines cover most of your weeks and you self-programme, Hevy free is a better logger than most paid apps, and it has a social layer and a review count we cannot match. Its Pro tier is also the cheapest in the category, with a one-off lifetime option. We wrote a fuller Hevy comparison rather than pretend it isn’t good.
Where our free tier pulls ahead is what it shows you rather than what it stores. Every set you log is attributed to the muscles that produced it and scored against weekly set-volume landmarks, so you get the heatmap, the per-group percentage of target and your cardio in the same weekly picture, without paying. Those are the parts most apps put behind the paywall, and every number has a one-tap explanation of what fed it.
A small team, and a direct line to it
We have been straight about being newer and smaller than the alternatives, and listed it as a weakness. This is the other side of it.
Every message gets a reply
There is no support tier and no ticket queue. You email support@totalbodyiq.co.uk and it reaches the people who build the app, usually answered within 24 hours. Bug, question, or “this bit annoys me”. All of it lands in the same inbox.
Requests actually ship
A large app weighs your suggestion against millions of other users and a roadmap set months ago. Here it gets weighed against a short list. If what you are asking for is right for the app, it gets built, and if it is not, you will get an honest reason rather than silence.
And the app tailors itself
Sessions are generated from your history, the equipment you actually have and today’s readiness, not from a template with your name on it. Tell it you train at home with two dumbbells and that is the programme you get.
Tell us what your training needs and we will build it or explain why not. That is the one thing a large company cannot offer you.
Pay for Fitbod instead if…
- You are on Android, and neither our app nor a free version of it exists there.
- You want a generated session every day and no free tier will satisfy you, because generation is the whole product you are buying. Fitbod’s is the most refined in the category.
- You value a decade of tuning and a very large review base over price.
Otherwise: install ours free, log a fortnight of training, and see whether the body map tells you anything you didn’t know. Nothing expires if it doesn’t.
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