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Fitbod vs phase.fitness
Fitbod answers «what should I do today». phase.fitness answers «what should the next four weeks be». Both are real questions, and the honest version of this page is that they are not the same one.
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The short answer
Fitbod generates a personalised workout each time you open it, from your logged history, your available equipment and which muscles it considers recovered — and its own FAQ says the app is built exclusively for resistance and strength training, with cardio-like movements appearing only occasionally. phase.fitness plans in the other direction: a periodized block of roughly four weeks, laid out on a calendar in advance, covering strength, endurance and bodyweight skills, and rewritten when the block ends. One optimises today; the other commits to a plan you can see.
What Fitbod is
A strength-training app that generates each session algorithmically from your training history, your equipment and a model of muscle recovery, on iOS and Android.
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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How far ahead you can see
A plan you cannot see in advance is hard to arrange a life around.
What it plans
Whether the running in your week is planned or merely tolerated.
Equipment constraints
Both handle a half-equipped gym; it is worth saying so rather than scoring a point.
Price
The number one question, and one of these does not answer it publicly.
Fitbod
Not published on the pages we read; the site sends you into the app to start.
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phase.fitness
Where you train
Whether the session can leave the app it was written in.
Fitbod
The pages we read describe logging in the app and do not mention sending sessions to another app or a watch.
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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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When Fitbod is the better choice
- You want to open an app and be told what to do in the next hour, with no plan to maintain.
- Your training is resistance work only, and you like that the app decides the split for you.
- Your schedule is unpredictable enough that a four-week calendar would only make you feel behind.
- You want a native app today rather than a web app.
When phase.fitness is
- You want to see the block before it starts, and to know why Thursday is easy.
- Your week contains endurance work that needs to be ordered against the lifting.
- You want the sessions to arrive in Hevy, Liftosaur or your watch.
- You are training toward a date — a meet, a race, a season — rather than toward today.
Where to start in phase.fitness
- Hypertrophy program built on volume landmarks — phase.fitness writes a hypertrophy block from the volume landmarks its generator reads: start each muscle near its minimum effective volume, climb toward the adaptive range across the block, and deload before the maximum recoverable volume becomes a problem.
- Full body, three days a week — Three full-body days a week is what the frequency document recommends for the first years of lifting, and phase.fitness writes it the way it should be written: two sessions that alternate, the big patterns every time, and progression that starts session to session.
- 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 beginners
- phase.fitness for people with three hours a week
- phase.fitness for hybrid athletes
Questions
Is phase.fitness a Fitbod alternative?
If what you want is a plan for the next four weeks, yes. If what you want is a good session generated on the spot, Fitbod does that and phase.fitness deliberately does not — it plans a week in advance so you can see it.
Does Fitbod plan cardio?
Their own FAQ says the app is built exclusively for resistance and strength training, and that cardio-like movements appear only occasionally, for conditioning or warm-ups. phase.fitness plans cardio as a modality with its own sessions and zones.
What does Fitbod cost?
We could not find a price published on their site when we checked in September 2026, so we have left the cell empty rather than repeat a number from somewhere else. phase.fitness is $34.90 every three months or $104.70 a year.