Everything people ask before switching workout trackers: programs, logging, privacy, platforms and price.
Roarer is a workout tracker built around training programs. You create a multi week program or copy a ready made template, follow it session by session, and the app keeps a clean history of every set. It also logs free workouts, body measurements, a training schedule with reminders, and optional session photos. You can share a program link. There is no social feed.
No. Roarer is made by software developers, not doctors or certified coaches, and nothing in it is medical advice, physiotherapy, a diagnosis or a coaching plan. Ready made programs and any filters such as back friendly or knee friendly are browsing aids and templates, not plans designed for your body, your injuries or your experience. You are expected to edit them. Choosing what to train and with how much weight is your decision and your risk. Speak to a doctor before starting or changing how you train.
A program is a plan: several weeks, each with its own workouts, each workout with exercises and target sets, reps and weight. You follow it in order and the app tells you which session is next. A free workout has no plan behind it. You start it, add exercises as you go, and log your sets. Both end up in the same history, so a week of improvised training is still recorded properly.
Yes. Roarer ships with base programs you can browse and save to your own account as an editable copy. From there you can rename it, change the number of weeks, swap exercises, or delete the sessions you do not want. Nothing is locked, because a program you cannot adapt to your gym and your schedule is a program you will abandon in two weeks.
Yes, both are core to the app. Completed workouts are saved automatically as you log them, and you can reopen any past session to see the exercises, the sets and the exact weights. Body measurements are separate: weight plus ten circumferences, recorded whenever you take them, so you can see progress that the scale alone does not show.
Yes. Roarer is free with every feature included: no subscription, no ads, no trial and no paywall limits on programs, exercises, history, charts or measurements. If that ever changes, it will be announced clearly before anyone is asked to pay, and nothing you have already logged will be locked away.
Not yet. Roarer is in development and being tested internally on iOS first, with Android to follow. Store links will appear on this site as soon as the first public builds ship. Until then, the blog and the comparison pages are the best way to see how the app approaches programs and logging.
Roarer is for people who train with intent: lifters who follow a program, want to log each set honestly, and care what they did six weeks ago. If you want a social network with a barbell attached, a daily streak to protect, or an algorithm inventing workouts for you, other apps do that better and you will find Roarer sparse on purpose.
A spreadsheet can hold the same numbers, but it is slow between sets, painful on a phone, and easy to abandon after a bad week. Roarer is built for the thirty seconds you have while you rest: pick the exercise, type the weight and reps, hit add. It also keeps the structure a spreadsheet loses, showing which session is next and how far through the program you are.
Every set you log carries the weight and reps, so each exercise builds its own diary. Open an exercise and you see every set, newest first, plus a chart of weight, reps or time over a week, month or year. Weekly stats show workload, sets and reps. Ready-made programs also come with difficulty levels you can step up over time. That answers the only progressive overload question that matters: is today heavier, or for more reps, than last time?
For logging, yes once a workout is open. You can keep adding, editing and deleting sets with no signal; they wait on the phone and upload when you are back online. That is the basement-gym case. Starting or finishing a session and editing a program still need a connection. Your history lives on our server so a lost phone does not wipe a year of training.
No. Roarer does not read from or write to Apple Health or Google Fit, and there is no Apple Watch or Wear OS app. An Apple Health connection is not available in the current app. Your training data lives in Roarer. If you create a share link, that preview is public until you revoke it.
Roarer is built for strength training. A session is exercises, sets, reps and weight, which fits barbell, dumbbell, machine and bodyweight work well, and fits a five kilometre run badly. You can log a free workout with any exercise you like, but there is no GPS, no route map and no pace tracking, and none is planned.
Your training data is yours. It is stored to run the service, never sold and never used for advertising. You can delete sets, workouts, photos, measurements or the whole account from inside the app. A program share link is public until you revoke it. The website does not store IP addresses in its statistics. The privacy policy spells out the rest.
This website is available in English, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian. The app itself currently ships in English and Russian, with more languages planned as the release approaches. Exercise names and tags come from the server already translated, so a new language does not need an app update.
As many as you want, but only one is active at a time. The active program is the one the app tracks: it decides which session comes next and how much of the plan you have finished. The rest sit in your library ready to be switched to, and finished ones can be archived so the list stays short without losing the history.
Yes. You can send a link to a program you own. Anyone with the link sees a preview (name, structure, username) and can save a copy in the app. There is no follower graph. Revoke the link when you no longer want it public.
Yes, if you allow notifications. You can set training days and a time, pause the schedule, and turn measurement reminders on or off separately. News and offers are a separate switch and are off unless you opt in.
Yes. Photos you add to a session are stored with that session on our server so they survive a new phone. Share cards you build on the device can use a photo from the camera roll without uploading it. You can delete session photos in the app.