Free strength and conditioning software, and what "free" means
Search for a free app for your team and almost everything you find is a trial. That is not the same thing, and the difference matters most to the coaches who searched for the word in the first place.
Search this and you get paid products
The results for "free strength and conditioning software" are, with very few exceptions, software that costs money. Every one of these publishes a price or requires a quote, checked 25 August 2026 against each vendor's own site:
| Vendor | What it actually costs |
|---|---|
| TeamBuildr | $900 a year, entry Silver plan, up to 50 athletes |
| Volt Athletics | $900 a year up to 30 on the high school page; $1,200 on the college page |
| PLT4M | "Plans start at just $500", quote required |
| BridgeAthletic | No published price; /pricing returns a 404 |
| TrainHeroic | Tiered monthly, plus $9.99 a month per assistant coach |
| Hevy Coach | From $25 a month |
That is not vendors being dishonest — it is a search term with almost no supply behind it. Which makes it worth being precise about what is genuinely free here, and what is not.
Three different things called free
A free trial
Full access for a fixed window, then it stops. Useful for evaluating, useless for running a season. Both TeamBuildr and Hevy Coach work this way, Hevy's stated at 30 days with no card required. Plan for the trial to end in the middle of your pre-season, because it will.
A free tier
A permanently free plan, usually capped on athletes or features. Genuinely rare in this category. Most vendors publish paid tiers only, and PLT4M does not publish a rate card at all, listing a starting price of $500 and directing you to request a quote.
Free for the athletes
The program pays and the athletes never do. This is the one that decides whether your roster actually uses the thing. Any cost that lands on a sixteen-year-old will quietly remove a third of your team, and it will not be a random third.
What you can run a team on without paying
Honestly: not much, if you want a coach's view of the roster. What is free almost everywhere is the athlete's side, and there is more you can do with that than coaches expect.
On EatSleepRep an athlete account is free forever with no roster attached: they log food, sleep and training, keep a streak, and use the movement library and the prebuilt sessions. You can write a session on the whiteboard and have thirty athletes log it individually at no cost to anyone. What you do not get that way is the roster screen, the boards, assigned sessions on their calendar, or any view of who has stopped showing up.
The coach's side is where the money is, and it starts at $249 a year for up to thirty athletes. There is no trial clock on it, because you can build the team, put up a week of sessions and see the whole console before there is any card involved.
One case where the console is free outright
If you are a personal trainer rather than a team coach, and three or more of your clients hold their own paid accounts, the coach console costs you nothing. The reasoning is simple: your clients are already paying for the product, so charging you as well to look at their numbers would be charging twice for the same thing. Below three clients it is still free — that bar is where it stops being a trial and starts being permanent.
The thing to actually check before you commit
Not the price. Whether your athletes will still be logging in week six. Every product in this category demos well in a quiet room in July. The one that survives is the one a tired seventeen-year-old opens on the bus, which is a question about how few taps it takes to log a set, not about features.
So run it on one squad first, for three weeks, before you pay for anything. If half the roster has gone quiet by then, no price was the right price.
Try it with one team
Make a team, put this week's sessions up, and text the join code to your athletes. Nothing to install for you, no card to start, and if it is not for you the team deletes in one click and every athlete keeps their own log.
Common questions
Athletes are free forever and can log everything individually, so you can run a whiteboard session at no cost to anyone. The coach console — the roster view, boards, assigned sessions and the who-has-gone-quiet list — is part of a paid team plan, starting at $249 a year for up to thirty athletes.
No. You can create a team, assign sessions and use the console before any card is involved. There is no countdown that cuts you off mid-season.
For personal trainers: once three or more of your clients hold their own paid accounts, the console is free. Below that it is also free — three paying clients is the point at which it is guaranteed.
More in this series
- What the category costs — Published prices for TeamBuildr, Hevy Coach, PLT4M and EatSleepRep side by side.
- Cost per athlete, every published price — The whole category divided by its roster caps, then divided again by a roster of thirty — which reverses the order.
- What "plans start at $500" leaves out — A floor with no tiers, no roster cap and no ceiling, and what that does to a budget line.
- The assistant coach bill — TrainHeroic charges $9.99 a month per assistant on top of the athlete tier. What a staff of four costs.
- Volt's two price sheets — The same plan and the same roster cap cost $900 on one page of Volt's site and $1,200 on another.
- When nobody lists a price — BridgeAthletic, Teamworks and PLT4M will not quote without a call. Five questions that turn a demo into a number.
- Choosing for a high school — Mixed phones, summer, subs, and the parent who asks what the app collects.
All eight are listed on the for-coaches index.
Prices and plan details for other products were read from each vendor's own pricing page on 25 August 2026 and are quoted as published. They change; check before you buy. EatSleepRep's own prices are on the product page.