Best Apps to Grow Your Glutes
Six glute apps compared on the thing most of them skip: whether anything checks the rep you just did.
The Butt Lift teamUpdated 2026-08-13
Short answer
Butt Lift is the pick if you want personalised glute training with automatic rep counting and form scoring. The iPhone camera counts each rep and scores it live on depth, tempo and control.
Sweat and Nike Training Club beat it on library size. Fitbod beats it on gym programming. 30 Day Butt Challenge Pro and Booty Builder beat it on simplicity. None of those four check a single rep.
The short version
- Butt Lift uses the iPhone camera to count each rep and score it live on depth, tempo and control, which none of the other five apps here do.
- Butt Lift builds a 28 day plan from your onboarding answers: program, strength, weekly frequency, session length and focus areas.
- Fitbod is the honest pick on Android, and it decides your gym sets, reps and weights from what you log.
- Nike Training Club gives you a large, professionally produced video library at no cost, and Sweat gives you named trainers plus a community.
- Booty Builder and 30 Day Butt Challenge Pro are the simplest options, but both rely on you self-reporting that the work was done.
| App | Best for | How workouts run | Counts reps / checks form | Personalised plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butt Lift | Personalised glute training with automatic rep counting and form scoring | Live camera session, coach voice set to Sweet, Sassy or Savage | Yes. Every rep counted and scored on depth, tempo and control | Yes. A 28 day plan built from your onboarding answers |
| 30 Day Butt Challenge Pro | A ready-made no-equipment 30 day home routine | Pre-recorded video and still-image demos you copy yourself | No | No. One fixed progressive 30 day challenge |
| Booty Builder | A simple ad-free squat streak | Pick a squat target, tick off daily milestones. Text instructions only | No | No. You choose a total, the app splits it |
| Sweat | Trainer-authored programmes with a big community | Guided workout screen, written notes, demo videos | No | Chosen at selection time: level, duration, substitutions |
| Nike Training Club | A large free library of guided video workouts | Trainer-led video classes, whiteboard workouts, multi-week programs | No | No. You pick from the library or a program |
| Fitbod | Gym strength training with the programming decided for you | A generated list of sets, reps and weights you log by hand | No | Yes, algorithmically, from your logged sets and edits |
Our picks
- Best for rep counting and form scoring: Butt Lift the one here whose camera counts each rep and scores it on depth, tempo and control.
- Best for a glute-specific plan: Butt Lift Three shape programs, and a 28 day plan built from your own answers.
- Best for Android and for gym strength work: Fitbod Runs on Android, and its non-linear periodization picks your weights and reps.
- Best free video library: Nike Training Club A large, professionally produced library across strength, HIIT, yoga and recovery, at no cost.
- Best for trainer-led programmes and community: Sweat Named trainers, home and gym variants, challenges and an in-app forum.
- Best for a simple ad-free streak: Booty Builder Pick a squat total, tick off milestones, nothing else to think about.
- Best for a hands-off home challenge: 30 Day Butt Challenge Pro A fixed 30 day no-equipment plan with HealthKit sync and habit reminders.
The one thing that separates these apps
Almost every glute app on the App Store is a video and a tick box. You watch, you copy, you mark the day done.
Nothing checks whether the rep you did matches the rep you were shown. Depth drifts, tempo collapses, and the app still congratulates you.
Camera-based tracking closes that gap, and it is the biggest difference between the six apps below.
The apps, and who each one genuinely suits
Butt Lift is the camera-led option.
It counts each rep and scores it live on depth, tempo and control, with a coach voice in Sweet, Sassy or Savage, plus streaks and session ranks.
It is free to download, Pro unlocks the full plan, and no account is required.
30 Day Butt Challenge Pro hands you a fixed 30 day no-equipment plan with video and image demos, HealthKit sync, five diet plans and a water reminder. Completion is self-reported.
Booty Builder is a 4-week squat challenge. Pick a total of 600 to 3000 squats and tick off daily milestones. Free, ad-free, no video at all, squat instructions in text.
Sweat brings programmes from Kayla Itsines, Kelsey Wells, Britany Williams and Cass Olholm, with home and gym variants, Guided Runs and a large community layer. Weights are logged by hand.
Nike Training Club is a big free library of trainer-led classes across strength, HIIT, yoga, pilates, recovery and mindfulness, with an Apple Watch remote.
It verifies attendance, not execution.
Fitbod builds a gym session with recommended sets, reps and weights from over 1000 exercises, then adapts from what you log. Glutes are served indirectly, through muscle-group targeting.
- Butt Lift: camera-verified glute training, iPhone
- 30 Day Butt Challenge Pro: fixed home challenge, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision
- Booty Builder: free squat streak, iPhone
- Sweat: trainer programmes and community, Apple ecosystem wide
- Nike Training Club: free video library, iPhone and Apple Watch
- Fitbod: adaptive gym programming, iPhone and Android
Why Butt Lift is different
It trains 10 glute focused exercises: glute bridge, hip thrust, squat, sumo squat, lunge, donkey kick, fire hydrant, curtsy lunge, single-leg bridge and step-up.
The plan is built, not picked. Onboarding asks about program, strength, weekly frequency, session length and focus areas, then builds a real 28 day plan rather than one fixed plan for everyone.
Three shape programs steer it: Lift & Sculpt for upper glute lift, V-Shape Builder for side glutes and waist, Full Curve for balanced all round shape.
It bends to your situation: bodyweight up to bands and dumbbells, sessions of about 5 to 25 minutes, and it reroutes exercises around flagged knees, hips, lower back or wrists.
The scoring is honest with you. Sloppy reps score lower and get a cue, and clean reps in a row drive the combo.
Pose detection runs on device, with no video recorded, stored or uploaded.
Where the rivals genuinely win
Butt Lift is iPhone only. On Android, Fitbod is the honest recommendation, and it will programme your gym sessions properly.
Want a large free library across many modalities? Nike Training Club is free and professionally produced.
Want named trainers, progressive powerbuilding and people to train alongside? Sweat wins on authorship and breadth.
If you want the least app possible, Booty Builder gives you a number to hit and nothing else. Butt Lift does not compete with any of them on catalogue size.
How to choose in 30 seconds
Pick on what you are missing. No structure, take Sweat or Nike Training Club. No gym programming, take Fitbod. No habit, take Booty Builder.
If what you lack is feedback on whether the rep was any good, a bigger library will not fix it. None of those five verify a single rep.
That is the gap Butt Lift is built for: glute training measured while you do it, not ticked off afterwards.
Questions people ask
Can you cheat the rep counter?
Half reps do not score well. Every rep is judged on depth, tempo and control, so a sloppy one is scored lower and flagged with a cue. Clean reps in a row build the combo.
Does Butt Lift record me?
No. Pose detection runs on device, and no video is recorded, stored or uploaded. The camera reads movement, it does not capture footage.
Do I need equipment?
No. Butt Lift adapts from bodyweight up to bands and dumbbells. All 10 exercises are glute focused, including glute bridge, hip thrust, donkey kick and fire hydrant.
What if my knees or lower back play up?
Flag knees, hips, lower back or wrists in onboarding and the app reroutes exercises around them. It trains and measures, it does not treat injuries. See a clinician for pain.
Is there an Android version?
Not for Butt Lift. It is iPhone only. Fitbod runs on Android, so that is the honest pick if you are not on iOS.
How long are the sessions?
About 5 to 25 minutes. You choose in onboarding, along with weekly frequency and focus areas.
Train glutes with reps that actually count
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Sources
App features change. Each competitor detail below was checked against a current source on the date shown.
- Butt Lift: Glute Workouts on the App Store checked 2026-08-13
- 30 Day Butt Challenge Pro on the App Store (developer: Rumble) checked 2026-08-13
- Booty Builder on the App Store (developer: Adam Lewis Hunt, v1.4.0, 4.6 MB) checked 2026-08-13
- Sweat: Fitness App For Women on the App Store checked 2026-08-13
- Nike Training Club: Wellness on the App Store checked 2026-08-13
- Fitbod: Gym & Fitness Planner on the App Store (subtitle: AI Personal Trainer & Workouts) checked 2026-08-13