TitanLog/Comparisons/vs Strong
The honest comparisonBoth apps are built for serious lifters who just want to log sets and go. Strong is the veteran minimalist logger with years of polish behind it. TitanLog is the newer, one-time-purchase alternative focused on logging speed, real form videos, and never paying again. Here is the side-by-side breakdown so you can decide in under three minutes.
Last updated August 2026
$19.99 once — free to download and try
$4.99/mo • $29.99/yr • $99.99 lifetime
Strong is generous on its free tier and honest about its paid one. The question is not whether Strong Pro is worth $29.99 a year — it is whether you want to answer that question every year.
| TitanLog | Strong | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free to download and try the full logging flow | Unlimited logging, capped at 3 workout templates |
| Paid | $19.99 one time | $4.99/mo • $29.99/yr • $99.99 lifetime |
| Cost after 1 year | $19.99 | $29.99 |
| Cost after 3 years | $19.99 | $89.97 |
| Cost after 5 years | $19.99 | $149.95 annual, or $99.99 lifetime |
| Future updates | Included, free, forever | Included with Pro or Lifetime |
| Stop paying → | Nothing changes. You own it. | Pro features lock on the subscription tiers |
| TitanLog | Strong | |
|---|---|---|
| Logging speed | Sub-3-second, one-handed, quick-rep chips | Fast, well-tuned, keyboard-driven |
| Exercise library | 1,111 built in | Large library |
| Video demonstrations | 1,035 looping demos included | Animated demos, growing library |
| Form guide on every exercise | Numbered steps and key cues, custom lifts included | Detailed written instructions |
| Add your own video link | Any exercise, built-in or custom | ✕ |
| All features in one purchase | ✓ | ✕ Pro tier required |
| Body-weight-aware volume | Pull-ups, dips, assisted lifts | ✕ |
| Volume for planks and carries | Time under load | ✕ |
| Two-dumbbell ×2 toggle | ✓ You control it | ✕ |
| Full backup & restore | Lossless JSON | CSV export only |
| Import from Strong | CSV import with fuzzy exercise matching | — |
| Template sharing | As a file, iPhone ↔ Android | Share links within Strong |
| Works fully offline | Local-first, no account required | ✓ |
| Apple Watch app | ✕ Rest timer lives on the lock screen and Dynamic Island | ✓ Mature companion app |
| Ads or social feed | Never | No ads, no feed |
| Languages | EN, ES, FR, DE, PT, JA — fully translated | Multiple |
Where a cell is marked in orange for TitanLog, Strong is genuinely ahead. We would rather tell you that here than have you find out after you have paid.
Strong earned its reputation by getting out of the way, and it still does. If you have logged a thousand sets in it, your thumbs already know where everything is, and no comparison table is going to beat that.
TitanLog's angle is narrower: log the set without typing. Thumb-reachable controls, 6 / 10 / 12 quick-rep chips that commit the set on a single tap, auto-fill from your last session, and your previous best sitting right there for reference. The target is under three seconds, one-handed, standing at the rack between working sets — and the screen stays awake while the workout is running so you are not re-authenticating with chalky hands.
Honest read: if you are coming from a spreadsheet, both will feel like a revolution. If you are coming from Strong, this is a refinement, not a reason on its own to switch.
TitanLog ships 1,111 exercises, of which 1,035 have looping video demonstrations you can pull up mid-workout, and every single exercise — including custom lifts you invent yourself — carries a perfect-form guide with numbered technique steps and key cues. Coverage runs across barbell, dumbbell, kettlebell, machine, cable, bodyweight, band, and suspension work. If you prefer a particular coach's demonstration, you can paste your own video link onto any exercise and it syncs across your devices and rides along in your backup.
Strong has a large library with animated demonstrations and detailed written instructions. It is good, and it has been growing. It is not the same as a thousand-plus video demos with a structured form guide behind each one.
The pricing consequence matters here too: in TitanLog the entire video library is part of the $19.99, not a content tier that gets rented back to you later. Browse the full library →
A set of eight strict pull-ups moved your body across a range of motion. In a lot of trackers that lands as zero volume, because the bar had no plates on it. TitanLog counts your body weight — pulled automatically from your phone's health app, so the number stays current without you maintaining it by hand — and subtracts the assist on assisted lifts. Two-dumbbell and two-kettlebell movements count both hands via a ×2 toggle you control rather than one the app guesses at. Planks and carries earn credit for time under load.
Strong does not do body-weight-aware volume. If your programme is heavily barbell-based this will not matter to you at all. If you run a lot of calisthenics, gymnastics work, or loaded carries, it changes what your charts mean.
Both apps work in a basement gym with no signal. The difference is architectural. TitanLog is local-first: your training data lives on your device, cloud sync is optional and private, there are no third-party servers in the path, no tracking, and no data resale. Lock-screen redaction hides workout names from anyone glancing at your phone on the rack.
Strong works offline and is not an ad company either — it does not run ads or a social feed, and it deserves credit for that. It does have account-based features, which is a reasonable trade for cross-device continuity, just a different default than TitanLog's.
TitanLog does a full-fidelity JSON backup and restore that returns you to exactly where you were — every workout, every set, every template, every PR — plus CSV and PDF export for anything else you want to do with your numbers. Strong exports CSV on its paid tier, which preserves your history but not the full shape of your data.
Moving in is handled: TitanLog imports Strong's CSV export directly, with fuzzy exercise matching so your lift names line up instead of landing as hundreds of unrecognised entries. The same importer takes Hevy's CSV export in version 2.4, if you have history sitting in both apps.
Yes, and it is not close. TitanLog is $19.99 once. Strong's annual plan is $29.99 per year, which passes TitanLog's total price inside the first year and reaches $149.95 over five years. Even Strong's $99.99 lifetime tier is five times TitanLog's one-time price. The only scenario where Strong costs less is if you already own its lifetime tier.
Yes. Export your data from Strong as CSV, then use TitanLog's built-in Strong CSV import. It uses fuzzy exercise matching, so your lift names map onto TitanLog's library instead of arriving as hundreds of unrecognised custom entries. Your workout history, sets, and dates come across.
No — not today. This is the clearest area where Strong is ahead, and we would rather say so plainly. What TitanLog does have on iPhone is a live rest timer on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, a chime that cuts through your music, and a screen that stays awake for the duration of the workout. If wrist-based logging is central to how you train, Strong is the better tool right now.
It is a fair question, and if you have already bought it the answer is simple: stay put, you have paid. If you are choosing now, the comparison is $99.99 against $19.99 — five times the price for a comparable "own it forever" outcome. TitanLog's $19.99 also includes the full 1,035-video form library from day one rather than as a separate content tier. Strong's lifetime option is real and worth crediting; it is just priced like a lifetime option, not like a one-time app purchase.
No. TitanLog is free to download and you can put it through a real session before deciding. The $19.99 is a single in-app purchase you make when you are ready, and it unlocks everything — including the full 1,035-video library. There is no trial countdown and no subscription to remember to cancel.
No. The one-time purchase covers every future update, and versions 1.9, 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 have all shipped free to existing owners. There is no premium tier held back for later and no upgrade pricing planned.
Yes, on Google Play, at feature parity with iPhone. Workout templates share as a file in either direction — an iPhone user can hand a programme to an Android training partner and it opens with every exercise and target intact, custom lifts included.
Download TitanLog free. Try it for a session. Pay $19.99 once when you're ready — and never pay again.
Last updated: August 2026. Strong pricing and free-tier limits were taken from Strong's own App Store in-app purchase listing and published plans in August 2026. Prices vary by region and store, and any app can change its pricing at any time — verify current pricing on Strong's own site before you decide. TitanLog is made by Yost Group LLC; we have an obvious interest in this comparison, which is exactly why we have marked the rows where Strong is ahead. Strong is a trademark of its respective owner and is not affiliated with or endorsing Yost Group LLC.