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Edge vs phase.fitness
Both plan lifting and running together, which is rarer than it should be. The difference is where the sessions live, and what else can be in the week.
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The short answer
Edge builds one adaptive plan for running, strength and HIIT from a questionnaire on your level, goals, races, schedule and equipment, and runs it in its own iOS, Android and web apps; Flexi Swap moves sessions and rebalances the week, and runs come in from Strava, Garmin, COROS or Apple Health. phase.fitness plans strength, cardio and calisthenics in one periodized program and sends each session out — to Hevy, Liftosaur, Garmin or Intervals.icu — then writes the next phase from what comes back.
What Edge is
A hybrid training app that builds one adaptive plan for running, strength and HIIT, with mobility sessions, on iOS, Android and the web.
Everything below comes from their own site, read on . Where a page did not say something, the row says so rather than guessing — “not stated” means we could not find it, not that the product cannot do it.
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What it plans
Whether the whole week is planned, or only part of it.
How the plan is built
What the plan starts from, and what makes it change.
Edge
From a questionnaire on level, goals, races, schedule, equipment and preferences, ready in the app within 24 hours; Flexi Swap moves sessions and rebalances the week.
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phase.fitness
Written from the knowledge-base documents for your case, laid out a phase at a time, and rewritten from your logs when each phase ends.
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Bodyweight skills
Whether a muscle-up or a front lever can be a goal inside the same plan.
Edge
The pages we read describe running, strength, HIIT and mobility, and do not mention skill progressions such as the muscle-up or the front lever.
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phase.fitness
Bodyweight skills on progressions with mastery standards, run in a built-in player, inside the same week as the rest.
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Where you train
Whether the session can leave the app it was written in.
Edge
Strava, Garmin, COROS and Apple Health connect, and runs are logged into Edge from your watch; the page does not describe sending sessions back out.
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phase.fitness
Two-way with Garmin, Hevy, Intervals.icu and Liftosaur: planned sessions go out, completed ones come back. Sessions finished in phase.fitness can also be posted to Strava.
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Price
The first question, answered from each side's own page.
When Edge is the better choice
- You want a native app today, on Android as well as iPhone.
- Your week is running, strength and HIIT, and bodyweight skills are not part of it.
- You would rather train inside one app than send sessions to the ones you already use.
When phase.fitness is
- You log strength in Hevy or Liftosaur, or train cardio from Garmin or Intervals.icu, and want the plan to land there.
- You train skills — a muscle-up, a front lever, a handstand — alongside the lifting and the running.
- You want to see the knowledge-base document each number comes from.
Where to start in phase.fitness
- Running and lifting in the same week — Running and lifting in the same week is not two plans stapled together. phase.fitness writes one: the order of the days is a decision the plan makes, one quality leads per phase, and the strength stays heavy and short so it never eats the run that matters.
- Hyrox training plan: running, stations and strength in one week — Hyrox is a pacing problem built on strength, an aerobic base and grip, and phase.fitness plans all three in one week — the exact case its hybrid-fitness document was written for, and the one a running app or a lifting app cannot hold on its own.
- Strength, cardio and calisthenics: one periodized program — Two barbell days, one endurance session and one skill day, planned together and counted together — not a lifting app plus a running app plus a YouTube playlist. This is the program the rest of the site is about, and the one no other planner writes.
- phase.fitness for hybrid athletes
- phase.fitness for Hyrox athletes
- phase.fitness for runners who lift
Questions
Is phase.fitness an Edge alternative?
If you want strength and running planned together, both do it, and the difference is where the sessions go and what else is in the week. Edge runs its plan in its own app; phase.fitness sends the sessions to Hevy, Liftosaur, Garmin or Intervals.icu and adds bodyweight skills as a third modality.
Does Edge plan calisthenics skills?
The pages we read in October 2026 describe running, strength, HIIT and mobility, and do not mention skill progressions such as the muscle-up or the front lever. phase.fitness programs those on progressions with mastery standards, in the same week as the rest.
What does Edge cost?
Its site lists £19.99 a month, £49.99 every three months or £119.99 a year, after a seven-day free trial, as of October 2026. phase.fitness is $34.90 every three months or $104.70 a year, with no monthly plan.