Strong has been around long enough that a lot of people's entire lifting history lives in it. It does one thing and does it cleanly: log the set, see the last numbers, move on. If that is the whole of what you need, it remains a perfectly good answer.
This page is about what happens when it is not the whole of what you need.
What each app covers
| OneRep | Strong | |
|---|---|---|
| Workout logging and routines | Yes | Yes |
| Previous set numbers shown inline | Yes | Yes |
| Rest timer | Yes | Yes |
| Plate calculator, warm-up sets | Partial | Yes |
| Food logging (search, barcode, photo) | Yes | No |
| Recipes and meal planning | Yes | No |
| Body measurements and check-ins | Yes | Yes |
| Combined training + nutrition trends | Yes | No |
| AI coach working from your own logs | Yes, 10 requests/mo free | No |
| Video form analysis | Yes, 5 analyses/mo free | No |
| Web app as well as phone | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Yes, permanent | Yes, limited |
Where Strong is the better choice
- Pure logging ergonomics. Strong has had a decade of sanding down the set-logging flow, and the small conveniences (the plate calculator, warm-up set generation) are genuinely nice.
- You want nothing else. No food tab, no coach, no measurements. Some people find every additional feature is a distraction from the only thing they open the app to do. That is a legitimate preference and Strong serves it.
- Your history is already there. Years of logged sets are not nothing.
Where OneRep is the better choice
Food is in the same app. This is the whole argument, and it is worth being blunt about it. Training data without nutrition data explains about half of what happens to your body. If you are tracking both, having them in two apps means you are the integration layer.
It runs everywhere, including a browser. OneRep is a web app that installs to your home screen, plus native iOS and Android builds. Log a set on your phone at the gym, review the week on a laptop at home, and it is the same account with the same data in real time.
The free tier is genuinely free. Unlimited workout logs, food, water, supplements, progress, body metrics and cross-device sync, with no trial window and no expiry. Even the AI features are open to free accounts: they run on a monthly allowance of 10 requests rather than behind a wall, so you can try Coach and Form Coach before deciding whether the subscription is worth it.
Coach knows your context already. OneRep Coach reads the training, food and goals in your account. Tell it your gym's dumbbells stop at 30 kg and it remembers, and every plan from that point is built around it without a reminder. Ask for a shorter session and it drafts the change against your real routine, shows it to you side by side with what you have now, and only saves once you approve.
Form Coach. Film a set, and pose estimation runs on your own device. The video does not leave your phone. What comes back is measurements: joint angles, tempo, range of motion, left-right symmetry, each finding tied to the number it came from. The corrections are rendered on your own skeleton, not a stock illustration.
Offline by default. Basement gyms break a lot of tracking apps. OneRep queues your logs locally and syncs when you have signal again, so a dead zone between sets is not a lost workout.
What you give up
Honestly: some of Strong's logging polish, and any social element. OneRep does not have a feed, does not have followers, and is not trying to. If accountability from other people is what keeps you logging, that is a real gap.
Pricing
OneRep Core is free forever, and the AI features are usable on it within a monthly allowance. OneRep Coach is €4.99 a month, raises that allowance from 10 requests to 500, and is billed through Stripe on the website; cancel any time. Strong has a free tier with limits and a paid subscription; check Strong's site for the current price, since quoting it here would go stale.
Try it
Create a free account and log one week. If you keep opening a second app for food, that is your answer.
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