Starting Strength (Legacy)

Name: Starting Strength (Legacy)
Price: 14.99 USD
Rating: 4.349754 (3447 reviews)
Author: Shabu Pty Ltd

By: Shabu Pty Ltd

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Features & Capabilities

Starting Strength Official is the ultimate app for absolute novices to strength training, based on Mark Rippetoe's renowned Starting Strength method. With a 4.9-star rating from thousands of users, this app brings the bestselling book's proven program directly to your phone. Designed to guide beginners through foundational barbell exercises — including squat, press, deadlift, bench press, and power clean — it features detailed multi-angle videos, photo instructions, and workout logging tools.

The app offers customized progression plans, warmup and workset calculators, a rest timer, and the ability to add notes for each workout. With cloud sync support, users never lose their progress and can export training data as CSV. Additional benefits include metric and imperial unit options, safety tutorials, and even form checks from Starting Strength coaches, making it a comprehensive companion for anyone beginning their strength training journey.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Version:

1.77 Last updated: 2025-03-13

Version code:

494

Creation date:

2015-08-18

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Permissions:

android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS Very high risk
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE High risk
android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW High risk
android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS High risk
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE High risk
com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID Moderate risk
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE Low risk
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE Low risk
android.permission.INTERNET Low risk
android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS Low risk

Size:

262.49MB

Price:

14.99

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he*****@shabu.co

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Source:

Google Play Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-05

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Ranking

# 347,293 ▼ 870

Other platforms

Starting Strength Official (v6.002)

4.80

(2,526)

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Developed by:

Shabu Pty Ltd

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shabu.startingstrength

Email:

he*****@shabu.co

Website:

http://app.startingstrength.com

User Reviews

Users value the app's strong foundation in the Starting Strength program, praising its guidance, tracking, and instructional content. The plate calculator and auto progression simplify workouts. However, many criticize frequent bugs, unintuitive and cluttered UI, reliance on internet connection, and annoyances with timers and data backup. Despite these issues, the app remains useful especially for novices following the program.

Pros

Effectively guides users through the Starting Strength exercises and program.
Includes a useful plate calculator and automatic weight progression.
Provides instructional content with videos and excerpts from Starting Strength books.
Helps track workouts easily and improves user consistency and confidence.
Includes a timer feature that aids workout pacing and rest periods.

Cons

App has frequent bugs such as changes not applying properly and needing multiple attempts to update settings.
User interface has become less intuitive and more cluttered with confusing navigation and small buttons.
App often requires internet connectivity, making it challenging in low or no Wi-Fi environments.
Timer and notification features can be annoying, such as needing multiple taps to dismiss notifications.
Data backup often requires frequent logins, and the app can be slow or unresponsive at times.

Recent reviews

This is not a rating of the Starting Strength program, which is excellent. This is a rating of the app. The app is great, overall, and guides the user through the exercises well. There are a few bugs, however, and places where the user experience could be improved. I have notice a few things, but because of the char limit I will mention one small annoyance. If I am looking at another app on my phone, the exercise timer will send a Push notification when it's done. But I have to click it twice.

Ja*****, 2024-10-16

Somewhat functional, but bugged. All I want is to go into the app and have it figure out that since I did the press last time, I need to do the bench today. Instead I have to manually set the second exercise every time. It's also as other reviewers have noted, slow and occasionally unresponsive. Data storage should be local first, not cloud first, and the app should opportunistically sync. Second star for functioning well enough as a weight calculator.