Top free workout apps in 2026, ranked by what free actually includes
"Free workout app" usually means a trial with a paywall standing behind it. So instead of ranking marketing pages, this list ranks what the free tier actually includes, permanently, for each app. Every app here has a genuinely usable free core; they just give you very different things for your zero dollars.
We build MyRepsCount, one of the apps below. The others' details come from their store listings and sites as of August 2026.
Nike Training Club
Free gets you: guided video workouts, all of them.
Nike dropped the paywall in 2020 and never brought it back. Two hundred plus follow-along sessions across strength, HIIT, yoga, and mobility, with production quality nobody else on this list can match. If your ideal workout is pressing play and following a coach on screen, this is the best free product in fitness, full stop. What it does not do is track much of anything: no logging to speak of, no counting, no progression data.
Hevy
Free gets you: clean strength logging and a community.
Hevy is the current favorite gym logger for a reason: fast set entry, a solid exercise database, progress charts, and a social feed of training partners. The free tier covers real training indefinitely. You do the counting and the typing; it does the remembering.
Jefit
Free gets you: the biggest exercise database and detailed logs.
Jefit has been logging workouts since before phones were good at it, and its library, with written and visual instructions per movement, is still among the largest. The free tier carries ads and holds back some analytics, but the core logging is all there. Power users of routines and data pick Jefit; people who want speed pick Hevy.
Boostcamp
Free gets you: over 1,000 structured programs.
Boostcamp's free tier is programs: 5/3/1, GZCLP, famous coach templates, and community plans, presented as day-by-day schedules you follow and check off. If your gap is "I do not know what to do on Wednesday", Boostcamp fills it for free better than anything else here.
Freeletics
Free gets you: bodyweight HIIT sessions.
Freeletics' free tier includes single workouts and basic bodyweight sessions; the adaptive coach that made it famous sits behind the subscription. Fine as a free library of hard conditioning workouts, and the upgrade pitch is at least a real product.
MyRepsCount (ours)
Free gets you: the only automatic rep counting on this list.
Everything above assumes you count and log your own reps. Ours is the one where the phone does it: prop it up, train, and the camera counts over 60 exercises hands-free, from six push-up variations through squats, lunges, pullups, kettlebell swings, and cleans. The free tier includes the counting, a workout builder with reps, time, Tabata, and AMRAP formats, live leaderboards, and the Focus blocker that locks your social apps until you have trained. Where the others beat us: we have no follow-along video coaching like Nike, and our logging is built around counted workouts rather than freeform gym sessions like Hevy.
Pick by the gap in your training
| Your gap | Best free pick |
|---|---|
| "Coach me through a session" | Nike Training Club |
| "Remember what I lifted" | Hevy (or Jefit for depth) |
| "Tell me what to do each day" | Boostcamp |
| "Hard conditioning, no equipment" | Freeletics |
| "Count my reps for me" | MyRepsCount |
These are complements more than competitors; a Boostcamp program logged in Hevy is a classic stack. If the counting is the part you want, ours is on the App Store and Google Play, and the workout library is free on the web.