If you want one prescribed workout a day and a finish-time number to chase, FORMD is the tightest product in this category, provided you own an iPhone. If you want a coach that adapts to your schedule, your kit and your recovery rather than handing you a fixed programme, that is what Kracey does. If you mostly want to log sessions and see where you sit against the field, ROXFIT is free and does that well.
We build one of these apps, so read this the way you would read any comparison written by a competitor. What we have tried to do is make it useful anyway: every app below gets a straight answer on who it is for, we have named the two cases where you should pick something other than Kracey, and every price and platform claim was checked against the vendor’s own site in August 2026 rather than lifted from someone else’s roundup.
Key Takeaways
- There is no single best HYROX app. There are four different jobs (prescribe, coach, track, benchmark) and the apps are not interchangeable across them.
- FORMD is iOS only at $19.99/mo. If you are on Android, the shortlist is shorter than the roundups suggest.
- ROXFIT is free and the easiest way to benchmark yourself against other athletes without paying for anything.
- Pick Kracey if your training week is messy and your equipment access changes. Pick something else if you want phone-native offline logging, because we do not have a native app.
- Every app in this category is worth less to you than fixing your running. Running is about 52% of your race time, and no subscription changes that.
The Comparison
| App | Platform | Price | Really good at | Weakest at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FORMD | iOS only | $19.99/mo, 3 days free | Finish-time prediction and naming your worst station | No Android; one fixed workout a day is rigid if your week is not |
| ROXFIT | iOS + Android | Free | Tracking and benchmarking against other racers | Not a coaching product; you still decide what to train |
| Kracey | Web | Free to start | Adapting a plan around your real schedule, kit and recovery | No native app, so no offline session view |
| Edge | iOS + Android | Paid tiers | Multi-sport athletes; broad wearable support | HYROX is one sport among several, not the whole product |
| TrainingPeaks | iOS + Android + web | Paid tiers | Structured load management at high volume | No HYROX-specific logic; you or a coach supply that |
| Strava | iOS + Android | Free tier | Running volume and community | Not a plan, and it does not understand stations |
FORMD: the most focused product here
FORMD does one thing and does it narrowly: it predicts your HYROX finish time, tells you which station is costing you the most, and gives you a single workout each day. Its own site puts it plainly, “one clear workout each day, no guessing”.
That focus is a real strength. If you have raced before, you know your weak station is the wall balls, and you want to be told what to do this morning without deliberating, this is the cleanest product in the category.
Two things to know before you subscribe. It is iOS only, so if you are on Android it is not an option at all, and that fact is quietly missing from most of the roundups that rank it first. And the one-workout-a-day model assumes a fairly regular week. If you train five days some weeks and two others because of work travel, a fixed daily prescription turns into a list of sessions you did not do.
Pick FORMD over Kracey if: you want a prescription rather than a conversation, you own an iPhone, and your training week is genuinely consistent.
ROXFIT: the best free option
ROXFIT is free on Google Play, runs on both iOS and Android, and positions itself as the app for HYROX and hybrid racing. Its centre of gravity is tracking and race intelligence rather than coaching: you log, you compare, you see where you sit.
For a first-timer this is the sensible starting point. You do not need to pay anything to find out whether you like structured HYROX training, and benchmarking yourself against other athletes in your division does more for your consistency than a spreadsheet ever will.
What it will not do is decide your training for you. There is an Ultra tier advertised, but as of August 2026 it is a waitlist rather than a product you can buy, so judge the app on what ships today.
Pick ROXFIT over Kracey if: you are not ready to pay for coaching and you mainly want to log and compare.
Kracey: a coach that adapts rather than a plan that does not
This is ours, so here is the specific claim rather than the marketing one. Kracey builds your plan around the things that actually break training plans: a schedule that changes, a gym without a sled, a sensitive knee, a week away every month, the fact that you skip breakfast before early sessions. It reads your own training data and adjusts, and you can ask it why it prescribed something and argue with the answer. It is free to start.
The honest limitations. There is no native iOS or Android app. If you want to open your phone in a dead zone in the gym basement and see today’s session offline, we are the wrong choice today and FORMD or ROXFIT are better. We also do not run a live race-day leaderboard or a results database, so if benchmarking against the global field is the feature you care most about, ROXFIT does that and we do not.
What we would point at instead: the free tools work without an account and without a subscription. The HYROX pace calculator turns a goal time into per-run splits, the finish time predictor gives you a realistic target from your running pace, and the training zone calculator sets your heart rate zones. Use them whether or not you ever pay us anything.
Pick Kracey if: your week is inconsistent, your equipment access varies, or you have tried a fixed 12-week plan before and abandoned it in week five.
Edge: for athletes who do more than HYROX
Edge is a hybrid-training app that supports HYROX rather than a HYROX-first app, and that distinction matters more than it sounds. If HYROX is your only event, a HYROX-first product will go deeper on stations, divisions and race-day logic. If you race triathlon in the summer and one HYROX in the winter, a single app that handles both beats two subscriptions that each half-cover your year.
Its stated strength is breadth of wearable support, which is the right thing to optimise for a multi-sport athlete whose data lives in several places.
TrainingPeaks and Final Surge: the load-management veterans
Neither of these knows what a sled push is. They are general endurance platforms built around structuring and monitoring training load over months, and they have been doing it far longer than anything HYROX-specific exists.
They earn their place on this list for one type of athlete: if you are training four or more days a week, you care about managing accumulated fatigue across a season, and you either coach yourself competently or work with a human coach who wants a proper platform, TrainingPeaks is a better tool than any HYROX app for that particular job. Final Surge covers similar ground with a more generous free tier, which makes it the sensible pick if you are following a simple three-day plan and mainly want somewhere to record it.
What you do not get from either is anything that understands the race. Station weights, division standards, Roxzone transitions, the fixed running-station alternation: you supply all of that yourself.
Strava: not a training app, and that is fine
Strava is on every one of these lists and it does not belong on any of them as a training app, because it does not prescribe training. It tracks running well, its community is the best in fitness, and most HYROX athletes will keep using it alongside whatever else they pick. Treat it as complementary, not as a candidate.
How to Actually Choose
Work through it in this order.
Start with the platform. If you are on Android, FORMD is out, and the shortlist becomes ROXFIT, Kracey, Edge or TrainingPeaks. This single question eliminates more options than any feature comparison, and it is the one most roundups bury.
Then ask what job you are hiring the app for. Being told what to do today is a different product from having a plan built around your life, which is different again from logging and benchmarking. Most disappointment in this category comes from buying a prescription tool when you actually wanted a coach, or vice versa.
Then be honest about your consistency. A fixed daily prescription rewards a regular week and punishes an irregular one. If the last plan you bought died in week five because life happened, the problem was probably not the plan’s content and buying a more detailed one will not fix it.
Then check what you are paying for. Free tiers here are real. ROXFIT is free, Strava’s free tier is fine for running, and our tools work without an account. There is no reason to pay for anything in month one.
Then, before you subscribe to any of them, go and look at your 5K time. Running is roughly 52% of your total HYROX race time. An athlete who takes two minutes off their 5K will beat their previous self by more than an athlete who optimises every station split with a better app. Our own guide to what counts as a good HYROX time sets out how the two trade off, and the HYROX training plan guide covers what a well-built programme looks like whichever app ends up holding it.
FAQ
What is the best HYROX training app?
There is no single best one, because the apps do different jobs. FORMD is the most focused prescription tool if you are on iOS and have a consistent week. ROXFIT is the best free option for tracking and benchmarking. Kracey is built for athletes whose schedule and equipment access change week to week. TrainingPeaks is the strongest load-management platform if you train four or more days a week and supply the HYROX knowledge yourself.
Is there a free HYROX training app?
Yes. ROXFIT is free and runs on both iOS and Android. Kracey is free to start, and its pace calculator, finish time predictor and training zone calculator all work without an account or a subscription. Strava’s free tier covers run tracking. You can put together a workable setup in this category without paying anything in your first month.
Is there a HYROX app for Android?
Yes, but fewer than the roundups imply. ROXFIT, Edge and TrainingPeaks all run on Android, and Kracey runs in the browser so platform does not apply. FORMD, which several comparisons rank first, is iOS only as of August 2026. Check this before you read any further into a recommendation.
Do I need a HYROX-specific app, or will a normal training app do?
A general platform like TrainingPeaks handles training load better than most HYROX apps, but it does not know the race: station weights by division, the fixed station order, Roxzone transitions, or how station fatigue interacts with your eight runs. If you already understand those and just want somewhere to structure the work, a general platform is fine. If you do not, you will end up manually supplying exactly the knowledge you were hoping to buy.
How much should I expect to pay for a HYROX training app?
Paid HYROX apps cluster around $15 to $25 a month, with FORMD at $19.99/mo as a representative example. General platforms like TrainingPeaks run on tiered plans that are typically cheaper annually. Given how usable the free options in this category are, treat a subscription as something you upgrade into once you know what you need, not something you start with.
Will an app get me a better HYROX time?
Only indirectly. An app improves consistency, structure and pacing decisions, and those are worth real minutes. But the biggest single lever on your finish time is your running, which accounts for around 52% of it, and every app in this comparison is downstream of whether you run. Pick the one you will still be opening in week eight, then go and do the sessions.
The Short Version
If you are on iOS, want to be told what to do, and your week is predictable, FORMD is the tightest product here. If you want to start without paying, ROXFIT is free on both platforms and benchmarks you against the field. If your training week is messy and you want a plan that bends around it rather than breaking, that is what we built Kracey to do, and you can start for free and use the pace calculator and finish time predictor without ever signing up for anything.
Whichever you pick, check the platform first, be honest about your consistency second, and go and look at your running third.