Alternatives to Liftosaur
Open-source weightlifting planner and tracker with programs written in a plain-text scripting language. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Liftosaur
Open-source weightlifting planner and tracker with programs written in a plain-text scripting language.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Liftosaur.
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 programs and automatic progression, but it is closed source, mobile only and lacks scriptable progression rules.
Hevy
Workout tracker and gym log for strength training, with routines, progress charts and social features.
Hevy is a free, proprietary gym log with detailed set types, charts, offline watch apps and social features, without plain-text program scripting.
Strong
A workout tracker and gym log for planning strength training and logging sets.
Strong is a closed-source quick gym log for iOS and Android, with detailed progress charts only in Strong PRO and no programmable progression.
JEFIT
A gym workout planner and log for building routines and tracking strength progress.
JEFIT offers detailed custom plans with supersets and adaptive progression from phone or watch, but is proprietary and puts some features behind paid plans.
StrongLifts 5x5
Gym workout tracker that plans and adjusts barbell programs such as StrongLifts 5x5.
StrongLifts 5x5 is a free proprietary app that automates progression and deloads for its own barbell programs, with less control over custom rules.
Fitbod
A strength training app that builds workout plans from your goals, equipment, recovery and progress.
Fitbod is a paid, closed-source app that generates adaptive strength workouts automatically from goals, equipment and recovery instead of user-written programs.
wger
Open-source workout manager with nutrition tracking that you can use online or host yourself.
wger stays open source and adds nutrition tracking and self-hosting, but offers a workout manager rather than scriptable progressive overload programs.
FitNotes
Simple, ad-free Android app for logging gym workouts and reviewing training progress.
FitNotes is a free, ad-free Android-only gym diary with simple logging, closed source and without built-in programs or progression logic.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Ladder
A subscription strength training app with coach-written daily workout plans, video demonstrations and progress tracking.
Centr
A mobile strength and fitness coaching app with guided workouts tailored to your equipment and goals.
Freeletics
Fitness app with an AI coach that builds personalized bodyweight, gym and running training plans.
Nike Training Club
A free workout app from Nike with bodyweight, yoga, HIIT and full-equipment training programs.
Sweat
A subscription fitness app for women with guided workout programs for home and the gym.
Seven
A mobile workout app built around short seven-minute bodyweight sessions that need no equipment.
