A free JEFIT alternative

If you're looking for somewhere else to log your lifts, this is a free workout app with 158 exercises in it, 123 with a free weight and 35 bodyweight. It runs in your browser and adds to your home screen, so there is nothing to download from a store. You don't need an account to view any of it, there is nothing behind a subscription, and there are no ads.

Free, and there is no upgrade

Not free with a paid tier waiting. There is no Pro, no Elite, no trial that ends. Nothing in it has a price on it, so nothing in it can be taken away and sold back to you later.

That is worth saying plainly because it is the thing people ask about first, and because it is easy to check: look for a pricing page. There isn't one.

Nothing to be logged out of

Every exercise page here is open. No sign-up, no email, no wall in front of any of it, and that is a permanent decision rather than a current setting.

The workout builder works signed out too. It keeps your sessions on your own device. An account exists if you want one, and all it does is carry four things between your phone and your laptop: your history, your starred lifts, your exercise notes and whether you lift in kilograms or pounds.

It holds nothing else about you. No name, no height, no bodyweight, because none of that is needed to tell you what you lifted last Tuesday. And you can delete the account from inside the app, which takes the data with it.

One more thing about your history: a session you have logged cannot be quietly rewritten. The database is set up to accept new sessions and to delete them, and to refuse edits outright. Not as a policy, as a permission.

Nothing in front of you before you start

No ads. No pop-ups asking you to rate the app while you are between sets. No chat bubble on top of the screen you are trying to read.

It asks you for exactly one thing, once: whether you want to add it to your home screen. One dismissible bar on the library, never on an exercise page and never while you are training. Say no and it is not asked again.

It tells you which muscles are meant to be working

This is the part it was built for.

Most exercise pages give you a list of muscles. That list runs together the muscle that should be driving the lift and the ones that are only holding you steady, and those are not the same job. A mirror will show you the shape of a lift. It will not show you where the load is going.

So every page here splits them: what does the work, and what only steadies you. If you have ever finished a set and wondered whether you felt it in the right place, that is the question this answers.

Start anywhere in the library, or with a goblet squat or a deadlift.

The guides name their sources

There are eleven guides on the questions that come up across exercises. How long to rest, how many sets, how many reps, whether to train to failure, and what progressive overload actually requires.

Every figure on them traces to a named paper with an author, a year and an identifier. That is enforced rather than promised. A script checks each citation against a stored copy of the paper, and the site will not build if a citation has no record behind it. It fails too if an author's name does not match the one on the paper.

Start with progressive overload or how many reps to build muscle.

It works in a gym with no signal

A page you have opened before will open again without a connection. If you want the whole library available offline, you can download it from settings in one press, about 32 MB.

That download never happens on its own. It is not ours to spend your data on because you opened a page.

And it logs what you lifted

The workout builder lets you pick the muscles you want, take the exercises out of them, set your reps and rest, then log each set against a weight.

Weight moves in steps of 0.25 kg, up to 200. In pounds it's 0.5, up to 441. On a lift you're creeping up on, those are the increments that exist, and rounding them away is how a log stops being true.

Every session you finish lands on a history screen, so the record is a record and not just the last number.

It counts your rest so you don't have to watch it

Set your rest once and it runs on its own. The last 3 seconds beep and zero buzzes, so you can look at the weights instead of the phone.

The screen stays on while a lift or a rest is up, and only then. A phone that locks between sets costs you the countdown, which is the reason it was on the bench in the first place.

The lifts you always do, and the numbers you always forget

Star the lifts you take every session and they're one press away, in the order the library keeps rather than the order you starred them.

You can also leave a note on an exercise. Seat 4, pin 7, elbows tucked. It stays with the exercise rather than with the workout, so it's there the next time you meet that lift and not buried in a session from March. A note is meant to be rewritten, which is exactly why it's kept apart from the log, where nothing is.

Common questions

Is FreeWeightDojo free?

Yes, and there is no paid tier to move up to. Nothing in it sits behind a subscription, a trial or an upgrade prompt, because there is nothing to sell you.

Do I need an account?

Not to view anything. All 158 exercise pages are open, and they always will be. You can use the workout builder without one too. An account carries four things between your devices, your history, your starred lifts, your exercise notes and your unit, and it holds nothing else about you.

Are there ads?

No. There is no advertising anywhere in it, and nothing appears in front of you before you can start a session.

What do you get on each exercise page?

A written description, and a muscle panel that separates the muscles doing the work from the ones only holding you steady. That last part is the reason it exists. You can filter the library by 14 muscles, 5 kinds of weight and 3 levels, and the muscle filter matches what drives the lift rather than what steadies it.

Can you use it in the gym without signal?

A page you have already visited will open again without a connection, and you can download the whole library from settings if you want all of it available offline. That download is about 32 MB and it is never automatic.

Does it track your lifts?

Yes. The workout builder logs each set against a weight, and it tells you what you lifted last time for that exercise, which is the number you actually need mid-session.

Does it time your rest?

Yes. Set your rest once and it runs on its own. The last 3 seconds beep and zero buzzes, and the screen stays on while a lift or a rest is up, so the phone does not lock between sets.

Is the training advice sourced?

Every figure on the guides traces to a named paper with an author, a year and an identifier, and a script checks each citation against a stored record of the paper before the site can ship.

About this page

JEFIT is a separate product made by Jefit, Inc. and this site is not connected to it. Its published details were last checked on 25 August 2026, and prices and features change, so check their own listing for anything current.

Every page here is written by hand rather than generated, and nothing is sold on this site, which is why this page can just tell you what you get.