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RightRep vs Fitbod.
An honest look.

Fitbod is the strength world's longest-running AI workout planner — on iOS since 2015, its algorithm picks today's exercises, sets, reps and starting weights from a claimed 400 million logged workouts, steering around muscles it models as unrecovered. That planner is real machinery, and this page concedes it plainly. What Fitbod never does is watch a rep: no camera, no form check, no rep counting — and after a short trial the subscription is the only path. RightRep is the mirror image: the camera measures the set — 33 body landmarks per frame on the device, a 0–100 score for every completed repetition — with strength, nutrition and GPS running in one app, and the form-check core free forever. Every Fitbod claim on this page is cited to Fitbod's own materials or named sources, and the places where Fitbod clearly wins are listed as plainly as the rest.

The two products

What each one is, in its own words — before the side-by-side.

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Fitbod

Fitbod, Inc.'s AI workout planner, on iOS since 2015 — "a personalized workout planner and fitness app that creates strength training plans based on your goals, fitness level, and available equipment" (fitbod.me). Two engines decide the session: the Exercise Selector (muscle-recovery status, trainer-rated appropriateness, your swap history, split compatibility) and the Capability Recommender (sets, reps and weights from an estimated-1RM version of the Epley Formula, periodic Max Effort Days, reps-in-reserve logging), trained on a claimed corpus of 400 million logged workouts. An exercise library of over 1,600 exercises with HD demonstration videos — their help center's current count, already past the "over 1000" on the store listing — a per-muscle recovery heat map, Apple Watch and Wear OS apps with a quick-start Tile. 4.81★ from 285,959 App Store ratings, Apple Editors' Choice, 1M+ Play installs. The download is free; the trial is short and the subscription that follows is the only path.

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RightRep

A live form coach first: prop your phone, and the camera watches the set — 33 body landmarks per frame measured on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint, spoken cues mid-rep, a 0–100 score for every completed repetition, and an automatic rest timer that starts when the counted set ends — plus GPS run/walk/hike/ride recording, periodized race-goal training plans, strength and nutrition logging in the same app, and coach chat. Live form checks are free forever; Pro is $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial.

Side by side

The same eight questions, asked of each product.

Question	Fitbod	RightRep
What is the product built around?	The algorithm's answer — today's workout generated from recovery, goals and equipment	The filmed set — camera form checks with a 0–100 score per rep
What happens during a set?	Nothing observes it — you type the sets, reps and weights after watching a demo video	The camera measures it — 33 body landmarks per frame on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint
What do you get per rep?	Typed numbers and a reps-in-reserve question — "how many more reps do you think you could have completed?"	A 0–100 score and the exact rule that failed, for every counted repetition
How is today's workout decided?	Muscle recovery 0–100% per group with a published rest curve, swap learning, split compatibility — a claimed 400-million-workout corpus	You pick the session; race-goal running plans are deterministic and benchmarked to your fitness — we claim no strength-side generator
Exercise library?	Over 1,600 exercises with hi-res demo videos (help-center count)	46 bundled Position Profiles, and Machine Scan drafts a new profile from a photo of an unfamiliar machine
Beyond strength?	Nothing native — no nutrition logging, no GPS workouts; Strava and Fitbit integrations hand those jobs elsewhere	Nutrition with macros and an adaptive calorie goal, GPS run/walk/hike/ride recording, and an AI coach chat between sessions
Devices & languages?	iOS + Apple Watch, Android + Wear OS with a quick-start Tile; localized in 3 languages (EN/PT/ES)	iOS, Android and a web PWA in six locales; Apple Watch and Wear OS companions; Health Connect and Apple Health; .gpx/.tcx export and Strava upload
Price & free tier?	Free download, short trial, then subscription only — $12.99–$15.99/month US, R$29,90–R$34,90/month BR	Live form checks and GPS runs free forever; Pro $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial

Fitbod column per Fitbod's own site, engineering posts and store listings (sources below). RightRep column per shipped behavior — the features page documents each row.

Where RightRep wins

The honest case for our side — grounded in what the app does today.

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Fitbod never watches a rep

There is no camera, no pose estimation and no rep counting anywhere in Fitbod's app or site — form support is a video you watch before the set. RightRep measures the actual set: 33 body landmarks per frame, joint angles against the exercise's ruleset, one spoken correction at a time, a 0–100 score per completed rep. Fitbod predicts the workout; nobody in it checks the rep.

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A real free tier, not a trial in costume

Fitbod's own listing says it: "After your free trial has ended, this app includes an auto-renewing subscription" — third-party reviews count the trial at three workouts. RightRep's floor is real: form checks, the exercise library, history and GPS runs are free forever, and Pro at $9.99/month or $99.99/year undercuts Fitbod's $12.99–$15.99 monthly while including the camera, nutrition and GPS that Fitbod doesn't have.

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The whole athlete, one app

Fitbod does resistance training and stops: no nutrition logging, no GPS workouts — its integrations hand those jobs to Strava or Fitbit. RightRep ships the surrounding life in one place: calories, macros and hydration with a weekly AI nutrition review, GPS run/walk/hike/ride recording, race-goal plans beside the lifting, and coach chat between sessions.

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Your data has a door

Fitbod's export is an in-app workout-data CSV, and its materials show no web dashboard — the log lives in the phone app. RightRep gives you a full web app, cloud sync, and .gpx/.tcx export plus a Strava upload, so the record you build is portable by design. Leaving should be easy; that's why we make it easy.

Where Fitbod wins

The other side of the comparison — because a page that only praises one column is an ad.

The planner is real, and it's been tuning for a decade

The Exercise Selector picks today's exercises from muscle-recovery status, trainer-rated appropriateness, your swap history and split compatibility; the Capability Recommender sets sets, reps and weights from an estimated 1RM (a version of the Epley Formula), with 10–20 sets per muscle group per week, periodic Max Effort Days and reps-in-reserve logging. The corpus claim is 400 million logged workouts, and the recovery model is published: 0–100% per muscle group, 48–72 hours typical, "fully recovered (back to 100%) after seven days of rest". RightRep has no per-muscle recovery model and no strength-side generator today — the honest loss on this page, stated plainly.

A video library of 1,600+ exercises

Over 1,600 exercises with HD demonstration videos — their help center's current count, already past the "over 1000" still on the store listing — searchable by muscle and equipment: the breadth shoppers compare first in the store screenshots. RightRep bundles 46 Position Profiles and Machine Scan drafts new ones from a photo of the machine; on pure shelf breadth, Fitbod wins.

Ten years, one promise, and the Editors' Choice

On iOS since 2015, 4.81★ across 285,959 ratings, Apple Editors' Choice, a claimed 15M+ downloads and 120M+ workouts logged. "AI plans my training" brand trust was bought with a decade, not a model release. RightRep is a young app earning each user; we say so rather than pretend otherwise.

The Wear OS quick-start Tile

Fitbod's Play listing promises "quick access to your workout with the Tile" — one tap on the wrist and the session starts. RightRep's Wear OS companion tracks and shows the session but ships no quick-start Tile today; theirs is a small, genuinely good pattern we haven't matched.

HSA/FSA and the family doors

Fitbod is HSA/FSA eligible in the US, sells gift and redeem codes, and runs For Families and For Business programs — a mature monetization surface around the same core. We don't have those doors; if your fitness spend is insurance-eligible, that matters and we won't pretend it doesn't.

The honest summary: an algorithm with a decade of tuning and a published recovery model that decides today's workout, and never watches a single rep? That's Fitbod, and the planner is genuinely good at it. A camera that measures every repetition, a real free tier, and strength, nutrition and running in one app? That's the job RightRep does that Fitbod doesn't try to do.

How RightRep's form check works

What actually happens between "start session" and the summary screen.

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Measured, not guessed

An on-device pose model tracks 33 body landmarks per frame. Joint angles are compared against the exercise's Position Profile — acceptable ranges, phase durations, left/right symmetry tolerances. Occluded joints are never scored: hidden is hidden, not guessed.

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Rules you can read

Profiles are pure data — 46 bundled Position Profiles today, and Machine Scan drafts a new one from a photo of an unfamiliar machine that the same scorer then uses. Every cue and every score traces back to a rule in that profile, not to a model's mood.

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Counted sets, timed rest

The same phase state machine that scores reps decides when a set is complete — and starts the rest timer from that moment, with a per-exercise default and a spoken cue when rest is over. The metronome of the workout, driven by what actually happened.

Comparison questions

The questions people actually ask before choosing.

Does RightRep generate your workout like Fitbod does?

Not for strength, and we won't pretend otherwise. Fitbod's generator decides the session from muscle recovery, goals and equipment — a mechanism ten years in the making. RightRep's deterministic plans today are the running side: race-goal plans benchmarked to your fitness. In the gym you pick the session, and the camera's job is measuring how every rep moved. Programming on top of observation is on our roadmap; an algorithm we don't ship is not something we'll claim.

Does Fitbod check your form?

No. There is no camera, no pose estimation and no rep counting anywhere in Fitbod's app or site — form support is video demos you watch before the set, and human help is by email. Form measurement is a camera problem, and it is the thing RightRep is built to do: 33 body landmarks per frame on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint, a 0–100 score for every completed repetition.

Which one for the gym?

Depends which problem hurts. If choosing what to train is the bottleneck — split decisions, recovery, analysis paralysis — Fitbod deletes that decision every day, honestly well. If executing well is the bottleneck — depth, back angle, left/right symmetry, reps nobody counts — that's what the camera does and Fitbod doesn't. Plenty of lifters will keep both: a planner that decides, a coach that watches.

What does each cost?

Fitbod: free download, a short trial, then an auto-renewing subscription as the only path — $12.99 or $15.99 a month in the US (two price points surface per tier), $79.99/$95.99 a year for Elite; in Brazil R$29,90/R$34,90 a month and R$199,90/R$209,90 a year. RightRep: live form checks, exercise library, history and GPS runs free forever; Pro — higher AI quotas, cloud sync, no ads — is $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial.

I'm in Brazil — which one?

Fitbod ships fully in pt-BR with live BRL pricing — and its Brazilian footprint is small: 820 iOS ratings here against 24,493 for Hevy, the logger half of the same strength cluster. Inside Brazil the cluster question — planner, logger or coach — is live, and this page adds the third option: the camera. RightRep ships everything in pt-BR — form checks, cues, plans, the web app — with no region gates on any feature.

Who sees my video?

RightRep's live analysis runs on the device — live-check video is not uploaded, and sharing a clip or posting to the feed is an explicit action you take. Fitbod has no camera at all, so nothing films you there; your Fitbod account data has an in-app workout-data export (CSV) and a documented deletion path (sources below).

Sources

Every Fitbod claim on this page traces to Fitbod's own materials or named sources — checked September 2026.

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Price & model

Free download, then "After your free trial has ended, this app includes an auto-renewing subscription" — US in-app purchases $12.99/$15.99 monthly · $79.99/$95.99 yearly Elite, 4.81★ · 285,959 ratings, Editors' Choice, v8.34.0 (2026-09-16), "Explore over 1000 exercises": App Store listing. Brazil in-app purchases R$29,90/R$34,90 monthly · R$199,90/R$209,90 yearly Elite, 4.73★ · 820 ratings, #103 Health & Fitness: App Store BR listing. 1M+ installs, ~31K reviews, the Wear OS quick-start Tile and the price-complaint review ("8$/ month or almost $100 annually"): Google Play listing. The 3-workout trial count is third-party: Lifehacker review.

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The algorithm & recovery model

Exercise Selector inputs, Capability Recommender, estimated 1RM ("a version of the Epley Formula"), 10–20 sets per muscle group per week, Max Effort Days, reps-in-reserve, and the 400-million-workout corpus claim: How Fitbod Generates Your Personalized Workouts. The recovery model — 0–100% per muscle group, 48–72h typical, "fully recovered (back to 100%) after seven days of rest": Fitbod on muscle recovery · the recovery-percentage mechanics and the current over-1,600-exercise count: Fitbod help center. Pillars, the 15M+/120M+/250K+ scale claims, HSA/FSA, For Families / For Business: fitbod.me.

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Scale & platforms

Store figures per the listings cited above; app version, languages (EN/PT/ES) and the Hevy-Brazil comparison number (4,95★ · 24,493 ratings) per the Apple iTunes lookup API. The "effectively a paid app" framing: Autonomous.ai review. Rating counts move; this page re-verifies quarterly.

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Data & community

The in-app "Export Workout Data" CSV and the third-party tooling ecosystem around it, community-documented: r/fitbod. Account deletion and data storage: Fitbod help center. Analysis base: the FITBOD_ANALYSIS research doc on our docs site.

Prices and features change; this page is reviewed quarterly and on known Fitbod changes. RightRep claims describe shipped behavior documented on the features page.

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The approaches comparison

Trainer vs video review vs self-check vs live AI — the method-level comparison this product-level page sits next to.

Compare the approaches

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RightRep vs Hevy

The logger sibling in the same strength cluster: routines, load and automatic PRs vs the filmed set — cited the same way, including where Hevy wins. In Brazil it's the cluster's heavyweight: 24,493 ratings to Fitbod's 820.

See the Hevy comparison

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RightRep vs Fitbod.An honest look.