Jefit review

Jefit next to its closest alternatives

Jefit wins on depth: the library, the analytics and every platform. Hevy is the cheaper, cleaner logger. RIRLift is the one that sets your next weight for free, if you train with an iPhone.

What to know before you pay for Jefit

• Free logs everything, and caps the rest

  Every Jefit account logs workouts in full. Free keeps 2 plans, 7 custom exercises and 3 Apple Watch sessions. A 4-day split built as separate plans hits the cap on day three.

• Elite is where the coaching is

  Elite turns on Load Progression, which suggests the weight and reps for your next session on any plan, and the Adaptive Plan, a 12-week program built around your goal. It also lifts every cap above and adds heart rate and calories to Watch sessions.

• The library and charts are the real strength

  1,400+ exercises with HD video, set tags, supersets, and charts for volume, weekly sets per muscle, 1RM, muscle recovery and body measurements. Few trackers go this deep.

• Every platform, including Android

  Jefit runs on iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, Wear OS and the web, and syncs between them. If anyone in your house trains on Android, that matters.

• Where RIRLift is different

  RIRLift suggests a weight for every set for free, from your reps and how many you had left, on the iPhone and the Watch. It's iPhone only, with no public feed and no 1,400-video library. How it decides.

  

Jefit or something else, in two real situations

Free Jefit, a 4-day split, and the 2-plan cap

Ines runs an upper/lower split four days a week on an iPhone, with Jefit's free tier. She wants her weights suggested and a second block saved, without another subscription if she can help it.

App	What it does here	For this lifter
Jefit	Elite lifts the plan cap and turns on Load Progression for $12.99/month or $69.99/year. She keeps her history and her plans.	Fits if she'll also use the Adaptive Plan and the charts.
Hevy	4 routines free, so the split fits. Weights are suggested only through Hevy Trainer, on Pro.	Fits as a free logger. She still picks every weight herself.
RIRLift	4 active routines and a suggested weight for every set, free. Her Jefit log doesn't import, so she types her current working weights once.	Fits: the split and the suggestions without paying.

The deciding question was who picks the weight. Jefit does it with Elite, RIRLift does it free, Hevy leaves it to her.

Her first upper day after switching

Ines's upper day in RIRLift, with the working weights she typed in on day one. This is what it set from her sets.

Exercise	You logged	Next session	Why
Incline Barbell Bench Press	Set 1: 145 lb × 10, 4 left (planned 10 with 2 left)	Set 2: 150 lb × 10	Two more left than planned: 145 × 43 ÷ 41 ≈ 152 lb, loaded as 150 lb.
Seated Cable Row	130 lb, 12 / 12 / 12 reps, 2 left (range 8–12)	140 lb × 8	Every set at the top of the range: one step up the stack, reps back to 8.
Hammer Curl	25 lb, 10 / 10 / 9 reps, 1 left (target 9, range 8–12)	25 lb × 10	The weakest set hit today's target of 9. Same dumbbells, one more rep.

Three lifts, three different calls, and none of them needed a subscription.

Plans for a lifter leaving Jefit

• The best workout routine for the days you can train

  4 days a week: upper/lower

  Ines's four days, in RIRLift's 4 free routines.

  4× a week · 68 sets a week · ~40 min

  Add to RIRLift

  Add to RIRLift

  Scan with your iPhone camera to add this plan.

  See the plan

• The best workout plan for muscle gain, for where you are now

  Past a year of lifting, gains have stalled

  For a lifter past a year of training whose numbers stopped moving.

  4× a week · 76 sets a week · ~50 min

  Add to RIRLift

  Add to RIRLift

  Scan with your iPhone camera to add this plan.

  See the plan

Make it fit you

• Export your Jefit log before you go

  Jefit's export is on jefit.com, under Settings, Data Controls. RIRLift doesn't read Jefit files, so keep it as your record.

• Type in the weights you know

  Enter your current working weight for each main lift. It's marked Yours, and the app works from it after your first sets.

• Turn set tags into reps in reserve

  A set you tagged failure is 0 left. A working set you stopped short of failure is 1 to 3 left. RPE 8 is 2 left.

• Tell it your equipment

  Pick what your gym has once. Every weight rounds to a step your plates, dumbbells and stacks can actually make.

When a different app fits better

• You train on Android or Wear OS. Jefit, or Hevy. RIRLift is iPhone and Apple Watch only.
• You want video for every exercise you might try. Jefit, with 1,400+ exercises filmed.
• You log RPE or tag sets and want to keep doing it. Jefit or Hevy. RIRLift logs reps in reserve.
• You want friends and a feed. Hevy. Neither Jefit's community nor RIRLift has a feed like it.

Questions

Read next

• Jefit alternatives

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• Hevy vs Jefit

  The switch most Jefit users consider first.

• Jefit vs Fitbod

  If you'd rather have each workout built for you.

• Strong vs Jefit

  The minimal logger against the deep one.

• How RIRLift picks your next weight

  Where the 150 lb came from.

• Hevy app review: free vs Pro, and who should pay

  The cleaner free logger, reviewed.

More ways lifters use RIRLift

• JEFIT on Apple Watch, compared with RIRLift

  JEFIT live-syncs the Watch with your iPhone. RIRLift runs the session and sets the weight on the wrist.

• Jefit alternatives

  Seven apps for lifters leaving Jefit, ranked by what you used Jefit for.

• Hevy vs Jefit

  Hevy is the roomier free logger, Jefit the deeper one. Here's which fits you.

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