A workout tracker, program builder, and analytics suite built for every strength discipline: Competitive or casual powerlifting, weightlifting, strongman, calisthenics, and general fitness, plus the strength and conditioning behind football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, and wrestling. Train solo, under a coach, or both, with individual lifters using the full platform for free and everything staying in sync across iOS, Android, and web.
Ægir Iron is a strength training platform for competitive powerlifters, weightlifters, and strongman athletes, for varsity team athletes, and for general lifters who just want to watch their numbers move. It runs on iOS, Android, and the web.
Your training data belongs to you, whether you're an athlete or a coach, and no matter which coach you train under. Move freely from self-coached to coached and back. Change disciplines, train through an injury and return. Your history follows you through every chapter. Start from a prebuilt template, import your own, or build one and save it for reuse. Add your full training history, past meets, and prior lifts by batch or manually.
And where most apps stop at logging, Ægir Iron can also assist. Turn on the optional Ægir Assistant Coach and it reads your own results to answer questions, or builds a program, logs a session, or updates a max from a plain-language request, with every change confirmed before it saves. It is off by default, and everything here works fully without it.
| What strength athletes need | Ægir Iron | Typical fitness app |
|---|---|---|
| Cycle / Block / Week / Day periodization | Built in, with a guided wizard | Usually a flat workout list |
| Guided program development | The wizard writes a full periodized plan for your discipline, priced from your own maxes, auto-progressing each cycle | A black-box quiz, or nothing |
| Training for a sport | Programs for every part of the season, built around the sport: sprints and jumps first, injury-prevention work every week, and short in-season sessions that fit around practice and games | Gym templates with a sport's name on them, or none |
| In-app AI assistant | Optional, grounded in your own data, and confirms every change before it saves | A generic chatbot, or none |
| Meet planning and competition scoring | Wilks, DOTS, IPF GL, Sinclair | Rare or absent |
| Load monitoring and recovery | ACWR with an EWMA companion, % of 1RM intensity zones, make rate, and an anatomical Body Map | Limited or none |
| Coach and athlete workflow | Real time sync, athletes join free | Often paywalled per athlete |
| Cost for individual lifters | Free, full platform, no card | Often subscription gated |
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Real tools for real training. This is the platform from the inside, in any of its 15 color palettes.
Auto-awarded PRs for every rep max from 1RM to 15RM, plus 16-20RM. Progress charts across more than 1,000 exercises, in pounds or kilograms, or as a multiple of your bodyweight. Set goals for a lift, a hold, a carry or a run, and see how close you are. An anatomical Body Map reads out muscle recovery and weekly volume. Add historical lifts and prior meets to keep your full history in one place.
Analyze any program before you run it. Weekly sets per muscle against a target, and a distribution donut that shows where the week goes: chest, back, shoulders, arms, legs and core, with every muscle's share listed. A set counts toward each muscle it works, so a bench press feeds chest, shoulders and triceps, by weights drawn from 117 published studies and reviews. How every exercise is mapped.
Attempt and warmup selection for powerlifting, weightlifting, and strongman. Strongman events scored by weight, reps, distance, or time. Meet plans sync between coach and athlete in real time. Every meet plots on a performance chart with Wilks, DOTS, IPF GL, and Sinclair scoring.
Roster health at a glance, led by the athletes who need you. Keep private notes on each athlete (injuries, schedule changes, likes and dislikes) and see a current injury or an absence right on the roster. Schedule check-ins and track who has paid (tracking only: clients pay you directly, and the app never handles the money). Programs and meet plans push to athletes automatically. Coaches train alongside their athletes. Your branding throughout.
I’ve only had the app for a week, but I love it already. Free version includes program builder and great analytics! Inputting my readiness data and looking at volume metrics on the body map is actually translated for me in a way that is actionable. It’s very stylish, as well as functional. Developer is super responsive to hiccups or suggestions. So far I have only input my own program, but I will give the program generator and the AI coach a try at some point as well.
I was using a different free app to track how much I was lifting. When I learned about this app, I decided to give it a shot. Wow. This one is so much better!! Beautiful interface, lots of great features. I especially love the color coded human map that shows what I’ve recently worked, what is recovering, and what is ready for more.
This app is a joy to use at ANY level of lifting. The UI and UX are top notch, and it’s designed to be as hands on or hands off as needed. I’ve been thrilled and couldn’t recommend this more to anyone looking to take their training to the next level.
I am in the over 50 basketball league and I use the basketball training program to keep fit. Exercises are easy to swap (I have a trouble hamstring) a session for a whole block.
As a coach this app has been amazing. Getting programs to my athletes has been so easy and what I love is the ability to add past training and track progress.
I love how easy it is to use and diverse. It easily caters to those that do this professionally and easy enough to use for those who don’t.
this is a great app for tracking your lifting metrics and potential. very user-friendly as well!
very well put together app. my coach uses this and i love! i highly recommend.
It is very functional and easy to follow and it generates good work outs
Enjoying learning about load management
Amazing app highly recommend
Browse more than 85 ready-to-run programs across powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, strongman, and team sports. Or answer a few questions and the Program Wizard writes a full Cycle / Block / Week / Day plan around your goal, experience, and equipment, with dedicated deep steps for powerlifting, weightlifting, strongman, and calisthenics. It will also pair two disciplines into one week, or give a lift a heavy day and a volume day.
18 programs, from Foundations and 5x5 to 5/3/1, Sheiko, Smolov and a 12-week meet peak. The wizard adds low or high bar squat, RPE or percentage of 1RM loading, weak-lift emphasis, and a competition peak block.
Beginner through peaking programs for the snatch and clean and jerk. Choose full competition lifts or power variants, percentage or RPE loading, and snatch or clean and jerk emphasis.
Beginner and intermediate blocks that train events the way strongman loads them. Carries, sled, and yoke log by distance or for time. The wizard pins your contest events onto the events day and builds implement or barbell-gym versions of every day.
Full body, upper / lower, and push pull legs templates, plus dumbbell-only and two-day minimalist options. Build size and strength on whatever equipment you have.
Bodyweight progressions from beginner to advanced skill work like the planche, front lever, and handstand, plus kettlebell strength and conditioning. The wizard programs your chosen skills at an experience-matched rung, with holds prescribed in seconds.
Off-season, pre-season, in-season, and post-season programs for football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, and wrestling, each built around its sport: sprints and jumps first, injury-prevention work in every week, and lighter in-season weeks that fit around practice and games. The wizard also builds for running, baseball, and mountain biking.
Heavy compounds at the front of the session, bodybuilding accessories behind them, and the two halves progressing in opposite directions across the block. PHUL, PHAT, Jacked & Tan 2.0 and 5/3/1 with Boring But Big are in the library, or the wizard builds one for you. Powerbuilding in Ægir Iron · what powerbuilding actually is.
Powerlifting and calisthenics. Strength work and the Olympic lifts. Pick a primary and a secondary and the wizard composes one week from both, where the primary keeps its own real split and each day is built the way that discipline builds it. How to build a hybrid program.
Every plan shares the same controls: 2 to 6 days a week, a 4 to 16 week length, experience gating that keeps advanced lifts away from beginners (asked per discipline on a paired plan), equipment selection so you only get movements you can load, an optional cardio add-on, and, where your week trains a lift twice, the choice to make that second session a volume day. The wizard also reads the training maxes you already have: it pre-selects percentage loading when they cover your main lifts, suggests an emphasis when one lift clearly lags, and offers one-tap estimates for anything missing, with every suggestion yours to override. Log your AMRAP top sets and auto-progression proposes training-max bumps each cycle, then re-prices the whole program automatically.
Prefer to describe it in plain words? With the optional Ægir Assistant Coach turned on, you can type something like "build me a 4 day powerlifting block" and it drafts the same kind of periodized plan for you to review and confirm, with no wizard steps. The Assistant Coach is a separate add-on, off by default, and the wizard and templates work fully without it.
Every good program waves on purpose: it builds, it backs off, it peaks. Ægir Iron draws that wave across the block and lays your logged results right on top, by lift or by whole movement pattern, so a block that is drifting shows itself at a glance.
See how periodization works →Ægir Iron includes an optional in-app Ægir Assistant Coach. It is off by default, it is a separate add-on, and the entire platform, the wizard, the analytics, and the coaching tools, works exactly the same whether you ever turn it on or not.
Follow the program your coach loads. Log sessions, track PRs, and coordinate meet plans. Switch coaches or go solo and your data stays with you.
Build your own programs, track every lift, analyze your progress, and run your own meet prep, whether you compete or simply want your numbers to keep moving. The full platform is yours for free.
Manage athletes, write their programs, and watch their progress. Schedule check-ins and track who has paid you (the app records payments, it never takes them). Coordinate meet day from one place. Track your own training alongside the roster, with your branding throughout.
Football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, and wrestling programs are written the way a strength and conditioning coach writes them. Sprints and jumps open the session while you are fresh. The injury-prevention work each sport needs is built into the programs: Nordic hamstring curls and Copenhagen adductions for hamstrings and groin, single-leg balance for ankles, rotator cuff work for hitters, and neck strength for football and wrestling. The dose follows the season, down to short in-season sessions placed around your games. The library programs are built from published studies, and every source is listed.
Switch coaches, go from self-coached to coached and back, change disciplines entirely. Your training data, PRs, and history follow you through every transition. No starting over.
Add prior meets, prior lifts, and historical PRs for any exercise, from bicep curls to power snatches. Keep your entire lifting life in one place.
Set your display unit in Settings and change it anytime. Every weight, PR, chart, and analytic converts instantly. Storage stays canonical, so nothing drifts when you switch.
Coaches build programs and meet plans that push to athlete accounts automatically. Update a training block or adjust meet attempts and athletes see it instantly.
Coaches program and track their own training alongside their athletes. No separate account. Your coaching roster and your own training live side by side.
Coaches assess recovery, workload, and readiness trends across the whole roster, down to a per-athlete Body Map of muscle recovery and volume. The dashboard leads with the athletes who need you, so a roster of 30 reads as fast as a roster of 3. Solo lifters track the same patterns in their own training over time.
Apps on iPhone and Android. On iOS, an Apple Watch companion with face complications, Home and Lock Screen widgets, a rest-timer Live Activity, Siri shortcuts, and Apple Health auto-fill. A full web app in any browser. Your data stays in sync across every device.
Most apps bolt on a generic chatbot, if they have one at all. The optional Ægir Assistant Coach reads your own logged results and analytics, answers questions grounded in them, and can build a program, log a session, or update a max from plain language, with every change confirmed before it saves. Off by default, and the platform works fully without it.
All 922 strength exercises in the catalog were reviewed muscle by muscle, one movement family at a time, against 117 published studies and reviews, then read again by an independent second pass. Those weights drive the Body Map, weekly volume and the program analyzer. Where the research is silent, the call is written down and labelled as ours. How we mapped them and all of the app's more than 200 sources.
Every individual lifter gets the full platform for free, whether self-coached or training under a coach, with no time limit and no card required. Coaches pay only for the roster tools they use, and each plan starts with a 30-day free trial. Everything a coach gets is on the page for coaches.
Individual lifters get every feature for free from day one, and coaches start with a 30-day trial on any roster plan.