Android, no sign-up
No sign-up, no login, no account to delete
Most fitness apps open on a wall: email, password, and a privacy policy nobody reads. FitTrack opens on a workout. There's no account because there's no backend for an account to live on.
What the wall is for
Why Apps Ask, and What It Costs You
An account isn't usually there to help you log a bench press. It's there because the record of your training is on a server, and the server needs to know whose it is. Once that exists, so does everything downstream of it: a row with your email in it, a password to protect, a profile that can be analyzed, and an asset that can be sold with the company.
Sometimes that trade is worth it. If you want your sessions readable on a laptop and a tablet as well as in your hand, or you want a feed with people you train near, an account is the only way anyone has built that. Those apps aren't doing anything sinister by asking. The wrist is the exception: FitTrack pairs its watch app directly to the phone, so that one costs you no account at all.
FitTrack doesn't ask, because it has nowhere to put the answer. There's no server component, so there's no row with you in it, and no sign-up screen standing between installing the app and logging your first set.
That's also why the app keeps working when the network doesn't, which is its own argument and has its own page. How it behaves with the network off
Four absences
What Is Not There
Security you don't have to trust anyone about, because the thing being protected was never handed over.
No email address
Nothing to verify, nothing to add to a mailing list, and nothing to appear in a breach disclosure two years from now. We don't have one for you, so we can't lose one.
No password
No reset flow, no reused credential to worry about, and no account for anyone to take over. The lock on your training history is the lock on your phone.
No profile
Your weight, your measurements and what you lifted aren't attached to a person in a database, because there's no database and no person record to attach them to.
Nothing to delete
Deletion isn't a request you file and wait on. Settings, then Reset All Data, erases everything on the device, and uninstalling removes its private storage. Neither needs our approval.
The exceptions
The Two Things That Do Leave
A page like this is worthless if it rounds down to zero when the real number is two. Both are in the privacy policy in the same words.
One: the subscription check
If you subscribe to Pro, the app asks Google Play whether that subscription is active. It's anonymous, it carries none of your training, and it doesn't happen at all on the free tier.
Two: your own Android backup
If you have Android Backup switched on, Android copies the app database into your own Google account so it can be restored on a new phone. That copy belongs to your Google account rather than to us, and we can't read it. Switching it off is a setting on your phone, not a favor we grant.
Compared
Which Android Trackers Make You Sign Up
One question only. The full comparison covers what each of these is actually good at, which is a different and longer answer.
| App | Account | What that buys, or costs |
|---|---|---|
| FitTrack Ours | None | No sign-up at all. Install and log a set. |
| FitNotes | None | The other Android tracker that asks for nothing. Logging and graphs only. |
| Hevy | Required | Built around syncing and a social feed, so the account is the point rather than the cost. |
| Strong | Required | An account gets you sync across devices, including a phone and a laptop. |
| Jefit | Required | Account bound, with the deepest exercise library and a long-running community. |
| MyFitnessPal | Required | Mandatory account, advertising on the free tier, and a privacy policy describing sharing with third parties. |
The cost
What Having No Account Costs You
If you lose the phone and Android Backup was switched off, and you had not exported a file, your history is gone. There's no server holding a copy and no support ticket that can recover it, because we never had it. An account-based app protects you from that, and this is the trade you're making.
There's also no sync, so your training lives on one phone at a time, and no web version to open at a desk. Moving in from another tracker works if that tracker will hand you a file: FitTrack reads a Hevy, Strong or FitNotes CSV export. Anywhere that doesn't document an export, there's nothing to read, and that history stays where it is.
None of that's an argument against having no account. It's the bill for it, and you should see the bill before you install.
Questions
Common Questions
Do I need an account to use FitTrack?
No. There's no sign-up, no login and no user accounts of any kind. You install the app and start logging. There's nothing to create and nothing to remember.
What data does FitTrack collect about me?
None that identifies you. Your workouts, body measurements, activity history, goals and streaks are written to storage on the phone itself. There's no analytics, no advertising and no profile.
Does anything leave my phone?
Two things, and both are listed in the privacy policy. An anonymous check that a Pro subscription is active, which only happens if you subscribe, and your own Android backup if you have that switched on. That backup goes to your Google account rather than to us, and we can't read it.
How do I get my data if there's no account to log into?
Settings, then Export to File. Every workout, weigh-in, measurement and setting is written to a single JSON file in a folder you choose, readable in any text editor. Import from File puts it back. Both are free on the free tier and on Pro.
Without an account, how do I move in from another tracker?
By file, not by login. Export a CSV from Hevy, Strong or FitNotes, then pick it in Settings, then Backup, then Import training history. FitTrack never asks for a password to that app and never contacts it; the file is read on your phone and merges into your history without duplicating a re-import.
If I pay for Pro, do I need an account then?
No. The subscription is billed through Google Play and belongs to your Google account, not to a FitTrack account, because there's no such thing. Restoring Pro on a new phone is Settings, then Restore purchases.
What happens to my history if I lose my phone?
That's the honest cost of having no account. If Android Backup was switched on, Android can restore the app database onto a new device. If it wasn't, and you had not exported a file, the history is gone. An account-based tracker protects you from that, and this one doesn't.
Open It and Start Logging
Training, food and recovery in one Android app, with no account to make. The training features are free.