Host wger without installing anything
The workout log that keeps every set, draws the progress curve, and does not sell your body weight to an advertiser.
Starting at €8.99/month
Introduction
wger installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. A workout log and nutrition tracker: strength training routines, body measurements, a food diary with a food database. Useful to coaches and to community gyms alike. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Confort at €8.99/month incl. VAT — 4 GB of memory. wger is a Django application on top of PostgreSQL, and it carries more than it looks: the exercise database with its images and translations, synchronised from the project's public server; food search, which queries a database of grocery products by name or barcode; and the computation of progress charts, which reads back the whole history of an exercise. The 4 GB let several people use it at once without waiting.
What gets replaced here is a strength-training app that charges a subscription to export your own data, or a paper notebook. The difference is twofold: nothing goes to a vendor, and the instance can serve several people. An official mobile app connects to your instance once you enter its address, so you can log your sets between two exercises without getting out a computer. And a REST API makes everything readable by program if you want to build your own dashboard.
What managed hosting changes
Routines described down to the set
A routine is made of days, each day of exercises, each exercise of sets with their repetitions and their load. The exercise database arrives with images and descriptions and synchronises from the project server; you can add your own, including movements specific to your gym.
Progress as a curve, not a memory
Every logged session feeds the history of an exercise: the load rises or stalls, and the chart says which. Body weight and measurements are tracked the same way, which lets you relate what you lift to what you weigh.
A food diary with barcodes
Food search queries a database of grocery products, by name or by scanning a barcode from the mobile app. You build a plan with calorie and macronutrient targets, then log what you actually ate.
A gym mode for instructors
wger can run as a gym: trainers, a member list, routines assigned to each, and contracts and documents attached to the record. That is what makes it usable by a sports club and not only by an individual.
Why hand it over rather than install it
Someone who wants to see progress
Three sets of eight at 60 kg in January, at 72.5 kg in June: the curve shows it, and it shows the March plateau too. That is more motivating than today's number, and it stops you repeating the same routine for ever.
A coach with ten clients
Each person has their own account and assigned routine, and the coach sees what was actually done between two sessions. The conversation is about data rather than impressions.
A community gym
Members, their routines, their contracts and signed documents live in one place, with no per-member subscription. The committee changes every two years; the tool stays.
Serious food tracking
The bag of rice is scanned, the home-made dish is entered once and reused, and the day's total is compared with the target. Useful during a training block, pointless to keep up all year.
Measurements followed over time
Arm, thigh and waist circumference, morning weight: measurements are taken weekly and read as a curve. That shows a change the scales alone do not.
Hosted in France
Weight, measurements, diet, injuries: this is health data. Yours stays in our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves, and serves as nobody's raw material.
Frequently asked questions
No, and it is better to know that first. wger has no bridge to smartwatches or to the phones' health services: sessions and measurements are entered by hand, in the mobile app or in the browser. If your need is to collect a heart rate or a step count automatically, this is not the right tool. If your need is to know exactly what you lifted last week, it is a very good one.
Yes, an official app exists for Android and iOS; you enter your instance address and it works against it, including scanning a food barcode. The exercise database is maintained by the project community and synchronises from its public server: it covers the classic movements broadly, with images and descriptions. For anything missing — a particular machine, a club-specific movement — you create your own exercises, with photographs if you like.
It is not a coaching app: no filmed demonstrations, no automatically generated programme. Foods come from a collaborative database, so record quality varies from product to product — a major brand yoghurt will be well described, a regional product much less. The gym mode is functional but austere; it does not replace membership software with dues and direct debits. And the interface is that of a tracking tool, not of a consumer app.
App Confort, at €8.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 4 GB of memory where the application asks for 1 GB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes, and with health data that counts twice over. wger is free software: we host it, we do not own it. The REST API lets you read everything back, logs export, and the PostgreSQL database reinstalls elsewhere as it is.