Alternatives to Ladder
A subscription strength training app with coach-written daily workout plans, video demonstrations and progress tracking. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Ladder
A subscription strength training app with coach-written daily workout plans, video demonstrations and progress tracking.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Ladder.
Centr
A mobile strength and fitness coaching app with guided workouts tailored to your equipment and goals.
Centr offers guided strength plans that adapt to your equipment and fitness level, with HYROX and longevity programmes, as a paid mobile subscription.
Freeletics
Fitness app with an AI coach that builds personalized bodyweight, gym and running training plans.
Freeletics uses an AI coach to build plans covering strength, HIIT, running and gym work, has a free tier, and relies less on a human coach's programme.
Fitbod
A strength training app that builds workout plans from your goals, equipment, recovery and progress.
Fitbod generates strength workouts from your goals, equipment and recovery rather than following a coach's weekly programme, and is available on Android and iOS.
Sweat
A subscription fitness app for women with guided workout programs for home and the gym.
Sweat provides more than 70 structured home and gym programs with recipes, is iOS only, and is designed mainly for women.
Boostcamp
Workout tracker and strength training program app with thousands of free coach-designed programs.
Boostcamp is free, with a large library of coach-designed strength programs and automatic weight progression, but lacks Ladder's video coaching and access to coaches.
Peloton App
Subscription fitness app streaming instructor-led strength, yoga, cycling, running and other workout classes.
Peloton App streams instructor-led classes across more than 15 workout types including strength, with Peloton IQ plans, and requires a paid membership after the trial.
Nike Training Club
A free workout app from Nike with bodyweight, yoga, HIIT and full-equipment training programs.
Nike Training Club is free, with more than 185 strength, HIIT, yoga and bodyweight workouts, but no personal record alerts or access to coaches.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Hevy
Workout tracker and gym log for strength training, with routines, progress charts and social features.
Strong
A workout tracker and gym log for planning strength training and logging sets.
JEFIT
A gym workout planner and log for building routines and tracking strength progress.
StrongLifts 5x5
Gym workout tracker that plans and adjusts barbell programs such as StrongLifts 5x5.
