# 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.

phase.fitness · Compare · Updated 2 October 2026 · HTML version: https://www.phase.fitness/compare/fitbod

## 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.

Every value below was read on Fitbod's own site (https://fitbod.me) on 20 September 2026. "Not stated" means we could not find it on the pages we read, not that the product cannot do it.

## Side by side

| | Fitbod | phase.fitness | Sources |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **How far ahead you can see** | Session by session: the app recommends what to train next from your history and recovery. | A phase of roughly four weeks, laid out on a calendar before it starts. | [Fitbod](https://fitbod.me) · [phase.fitness](https://www.phase.fitness/ai-periodization) — checked 20 September 2026 |
| **What it plans** | Resistance training. Their FAQ says the app is built exclusively for it, with occasional cardio-like movements for conditioning. | Strength, cardio and calisthenics in one program, with the hard days ordered against each other. | [Fitbod](https://fitbod.me) · [phase.fitness](https://www.phase.fitness/hybrid-training) — checked 20 September 2026 |
| **Equipment constraints** | Equipment settings cover bodyweight, bands or limited gear, and the plan adjusts to the setup. | The program is written from an equipment list, with mapped substitutions when a pattern has no tool. | [Fitbod](https://fitbod.me) · [phase.fitness](https://www.phase.fitness/features) — checked 20 September 2026 |
| **Price** | Not published on the pages we read; the site sends you into the app to start. | $34.90 every three months, or $104.70 a year, on the pricing page. | [phase.fitness](https://www.phase.fitness/pricing) — checked 20 September 2026 |
| **Where you train** | The pages we read describe logging in the app and do not mention sending sessions to another app or a watch. | 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. | [phase.fitness](https://www.phase.fitness/integrations) — checked 20 September 2026 |
| **Platform** | Android and iOS. | A web app installable from the browser; an iPhone and Apple Watch app is coming soon. | [Fitbod](https://fitbod.me) · [phase.fitness](https://www.phase.fitness/about) — checked 20 September 2026 |

## 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.

## The evidence

Read more in the knowledge base:

- [What a training phase is, and how phase.fitness manages it](https://www.phase.fitness/learn/posts/what-is-training-phase-how-phase-manages)
- [Linear versus undulating periodization: what the research says](https://www.phase.fitness/learn/posts/linear-vs-undulating-periodization-research)
- [Progressive overload: mechanisms and optimal rates](https://www.phase.fitness/learn/posts/progressive-overload-mechanisms-optimal-rates)

## Frequently asked 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.

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