Steady Increment · Android
Every other lifting app is a place to write down what you did. Steady Increment tells you what to do — and it can only ever ask for a weight your gym can physically make. Open it, log the set, close it.
Free to install, and free forever as a log. Works with no signal and no account. If you want the engine, you buy it once.
The idea
Plenty of apps will suggest a number. The number is usually useless, because it is arithmetic rather than a weight: 187.5 lb on a machine whose stack moves in tens, or 200 lb on a rack that only has 45s and 25s left on it.
Steady Increment models the equipment. It knows the bar, the plates you actually have, and each machine’s own smallest jump — which it works out from your log rather than asking you. Then it snaps every recommendation onto something that exists. On that half-stripped rack it will ask for 195, because three 25s a side is reachable and 200 is not.
It also knows when a lift has stopped moving, and says which of the three things to do about it rather than leaving you to notice. That is the difference between a log and an engine.
What is in it
More than one gym, each with its own equipment, its own plates and its own increments. Per-machine memory for seat height, pad and pin — and a ceiling, so it never recommends 280 on a machine that stops at 275.
Searchable by equipment, muscle or nickname — “pec deck” finds Chest Flys. The clip is one tap away mid-set, at the machine.
Treadmill, bike, rower, stair and elliptical each get their own progression, their own intervals and their own console units — not a text box labelled “cardio”. No GPS, no outdoor running; this is an app for the gym floor.
Strength standards across 70+ movements, from published tables rather than bodyweight multiples — because a sled leg press is a very different lift at 110 lb bodyweight than at 290.
Couple mode shows your partner’s sessions set by set, and never mixes them into your own history.
Full body, upper/lower, push/pull/legs, machines only, bodyweight — or build your own week.
The coach
Every number in this app comes from a deterministic engine running on your phone. The coach reads those numbers and tells you what it makes of them — what moved, what stalled, what to do next session. It is included when you buy the app.
There is no field in which a language model could put a weight. That is a structural guarantee rather than a promise: the model is handed the engine’s output and asked for judgement, so a recommendation is always reproducible and never invented.
If you want the coach to be a language model rather than the built-in one, that is a separate $4.99 a month, and it is optional. It is charged monthly because it costs us every month. Everything else is a one-off. Offline, it says so and answers from the engine.
Price
| Price | What you get | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, forever | An honest log: unlimited custom exercises, your full history and a chart for every lift, the whole exercise library, one active plan, and a fact after every set. |
| Lifetime | $59.99 once | The engine, forever — recommendations, increment snapping, stall detection, readiness, standards, multiple gyms, couple mode, the reports, and the built-in coach. Nothing renews. |
| AI Coach | $4.99 / month | Optional. Upgrades the coach to a language model that reads your session. |
Your first ten sessions include the whole engine, free. Not ten days — ten sessions, because an engine with no history to work from is not yet the product, and a clock would run out before you had seen it work.
$59.99 is the founding price. Three things are never behind any tier, on any plan: reading your own log, exporting all of it, and logging a set. An app that holds your training history hostage is an app nobody should trust.
Coming from somewhere else
Export from Alpha Progression, Strong or Hevy and open the file here. It keeps every set. Checked against real exports of all three:
| Export | Sets | Lost | Exercises matched automatically |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Progression, 16 months | 2,846 | none | 87 of 87 |
| Strong | 1,903 | none | 19 of 22 |
| Hevy | 330 | none | 35 of 44 |
Anything it is not sure about it asks you about once, rather than guessing. How switching works →
Your data
The database on your phone is the source of truth, not a cache. Every screen reads from it, which is why the whole app works in a basement with no signal. You can start using it without making an account at all.
Export everything to CSV or JSON whenever you like, free, forever. Progress photos never leave the device. There is no third-party analytics in the app. If you delete your account, the server copy goes first, and the app refuses to finish if that fails.
Get it
Free to install. Get it on Google Play →
iOS is not out yet and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Questions: support@lonexa.ai.