Train. Grow.
Evolve.
Log your sets, follow evidence-based programs and turn your progress into ranks and constellations. No ads.
- 907
- exercises in the library
- 189
- with hand-written technique
- 9
- ranks to climb by training
Programs with the best exercise for each muscle
None of them is an empty template: the exercise selection and the set split come from the hypertrophy literature, and every program says in writing why it is built that way. Adopt it and your week is done; change all of it if you want, because it becomes yours.
- Upper Lower 4 days
- PPL + Upper Lower 5 days
- PPL 6 days
- Full Body 3 days
- Full Body 2 days
- Strength 5x5
- Gym Starter
- Home Dumbbells
- Push Pull 4 days
- Pyramid ML 3 days
- Calisthenics 3 days
- Glutes and legs 4 days
- Glutes and legs 3 days
- Glutes at home 3 days
The same three criteria in all of them: each muscle twice a week, 12-20 effective sets per muscle per week, and the movement that performs best in the studies instead of the classic one out of habit.
Logging a set costs less than doing it
Weight and reps come prefilled with what you lifted last time. Tick the set and the rest timer starts by itself.
- PR mark and estimated 1RM the moment you close the set
- Set by set pyramids: 12-10-10-8-6, each with its own weight
- Left and right side marks, and supersets
- A stopwatch for planks, hangs and cardio
You see which muscle you work, not just the exercise name
Every exercise lights the main muscle in red and the assisting ones in cyan, on a real anatomical illustration.
- 189 exercises with a hand-written technique paragraph
- The bench angle, what you should feel and the classic mistake
- Alternatives ordered by the evidence behind them
- And your whole week, muscle by muscle, to see what you neglect
Numbers that mean something
Weekly volume, sets per muscle, balance between groups, personal records and a consistency map. Nothing made up. And when to stop: if you have strung together weeks without backing off, or lifts are not moving, it says so and shows its workings.
- Collective challenges every two weeks
- A league only among the people you follow
- You decide what is visible about you, including nothing
From stardust to cosmic deity
Every set you log adds cosmic power, and that power is not a decorative bar: it comes from your volume, your records, your streak and your relative strength. Nine ranks, and very few people earn the last one.
The nine ranks
- StardustEverything starts as dust
- Wandering SparkThe first light will not go out
- Nebula ApprenticeYou are learning to shape matter
- StarforgerYour strength already bends space
- Sun SummonerYou ignite what others only watch
- Warden of the VoidYou hold up the weight of nothing
- ArcanautYou sail where physics gives up
- Titan of NovastraYour name weighs more than the bar
- Cosmic DeityYou no longer train: you create universes
Everything it does
The full inventory, no small print. What is on this list is in the app today. Anything without a tag is free; the ones marked “— premium” are paid, and that is ten lines out of sixty. Bringing your Strong or Hevy history in is free. The detail and the price are further down.
Training
- Log sets with weight, reps or seconds
- Set types: warm-up, drop, to failure, eccentric and per side
- Effort as RPE or RIR, whichever you use
- Rest starts when you tick the set, and alerts you even if you close the app
- Stopwatch for timed sets (planks, hangs)
- Supersets, drag to reorder and swap an exercise without leaving
- Plate calculator and a per-exercise bar weight
- Daily protein and calories, from your weight and your recent sessions — premium
- What you did last time, your record and what weight is due today
- Volume, sets and records live while you train
- On two-dumbbell exercises volume counts both
- Minimise the workout to look something up and come back where you were
Routines and programs
- Complete programs built on the evidence, not templates
- Adopting one copies the whole thing: from then on it is yours
- Create your own programs and routines, with weekdays: 3 programs and 12 routines on the free plan, and what you adopt from the catalogue does not count
- Set-by-set targets: pyramids, ramps and per-side sets
- Description and tempo per exercise inside the plan
- Duplicate, move to another program and share with a link
- Repeat any workout from your history or turn it into a routine
- A week cycle: pile up a few weeks and the app drops the sets on the easy one — premium
The library
- 907 exercises with the movement animated
- The technique written out: setup, execution, what to feel and the usual mistake
- Primary and secondary muscles marked on the body
- Filters that combine: muscle, equipment and calisthenics
- A search box that also understands muscle and equipment
- Favourites and alternatives ranked by evidence
- Your own exercises, with your technique and your equipment — premium
- Flag the one that gives you trouble: it stops being suggested and you get a swap
Progress
- Volume per week and per muscle, over the period you pick — premium
- Estimated 1RM and full history for every exercise — premium
- How a program splits: sets per muscle and which day they come from — premium
- When an easy week is due: weeks in a row and lifts that are not moving — premium
- Strength relative to your bodyweight, with targets — premium
- Muscle balance: what you are doing and what you are neglecting — premium
- Consistency map, day by day — premium
- Full history, with no age limit
- Ten body measurements with their curve
- Progress photos, before and now side by side
Cosmos: the social side
- A star name: your name and email are never used
- A public profile you control box by box
- Other people's programs, to adopt like the catalogue's
- Collective challenges and an optional leaderboard
- A feed with what the people you follow are doing
The game
- Nine ranks, from Stardust to Cosmic Deity
- Cosmic power: strength, consistency and volume in one number
- Runes and constellations unlocked by training
- Astral flame: your streak of weeks hit
- A shareable workout card, with your rank
Your data
- With your Google account, your history comes back on a new phone
- Three spreadsheet CSVs and a full JSON backup
- Restore the backup, and bring in your Strong and Hevy history, free
- Health Connect: your workouts on your watch or in Google Fit
- Delete your account and everything on the server, from the app
And the details
- Full Spanish and English, switched in one tap
- Works offline: the catalogue and your history live on the phone
- A widget: what is due today and your streak without opening the app
- Icon shortcuts, naming the routine that is due today
- A reminder on your training days that shuts up if you already went
- The same account on novastra.fit, to build routines with a mouse and keyboard
- Training and supplement guides, with the level of evidence
The difference, in one table
Without naming anyone: on the left, what you normally find in a gym app; on the right, what you get here. Compare before you install anything.
| This | The usual | In Novastra |
|---|---|---|
| The free plan | A handful of routines and not much else | Full history, the 907-exercise library, all 14 catalogue programs complete, and 3 programs and 12 routines written by you |
| Training programs | The paid part, or none at all | Complete and free, with the reasoning behind each choice |
| What weight is due today | Automatic progression: paid | Free, on every exercise, with what you did last time in front of you |
| Getting your data out | Exporting is usually paid | Free: three CSVs and a full backup. And it can be brought back in |
| Coming from another app | Start from scratch, or pay to bring it in | Free: your Strong or Hevy history joins yours, as many times as you need |
| Ads | There are some, or you pay to remove them | There are none, and there never will be |
| Exercise technique | In English, or machine-translated | Written by hand, with the usual mistake for each exercise |
| Building routines with a mouse and keyboard | Phone only | Also from your computer, with the same account |
| The rest-over alert | Lost when the system freezes the app | It is a system alarm: it fires with the app closed and the screen off |
| Two dumbbells | Volume counts one | It counts both, which is the weight you actually moved |
| Your photos and measurements | To the server with everything else | Photos never leave the phone, and measurements never show on your profile |
Coming from another app? Compared figure by figure, with the date each one was checked: Novastra against Strong and Novastra against Hevy. And if your mind is made up, how to bring your history over free, step by step, from Strong or from Hevy.
Your workouts are yours
Novastra keeps your history in your Google account so that changing or losing your phone does not take it away. That is everything it does with your data.
- No ads
- No analytics
- No tracking identifiers
- No selling your data
- No asking for your gallery or contacts
And if you want to know why
Nine training guides written for this app: volume, proximity to failure, progression, protein and sleep. No hype, sources in plain sight.
Start out as stardust
Android 8 or newer. Free to download, and the next two versions too.