Quick or complete
Four questions if you're in a hurry, or the long form with group focus and exclusions.
Four answers and you have a program.
Goal, days per week, available equipment, and level. With that, the AI distributes muscle groups per session, chooses exercises from the library, and adjusts sets and reps to the goal you gave it.
With whatever you have
Full gym, dumbbells at home, or bodyweight. It only proposes what you can actually do.
Cardio when appropriate
For weight loss, it adds alternating cardio blocks. For hypertrophy, not unless you ask for it.
With a safety net
It is validated against real exercises and out-of-range values are corrected before saving.
And then, the session.
Generating the routine is the easy part. The hard part is the screen you glance at between sets, in a hurry and sweating. That one is redesigned around a single thing: the stopwatch.
Time, front and center
Large, easy-to-read stopwatch at a glance. It doesn't start on its own: it starts when you start.
Manual or automatic
Log each set yourself, or let the app chain sets and rests for you.
Voice and vibration
Spoken and haptic alerts so you don't have to look at the screen in the middle of a set.
Detects your records
If you beat your mark in an exercise, the app recognizes it and logs it as a personal record.
Why the routine you downloaded from the internet doesn't work for you
The routines floating around forums and videos are written for an imaginary reader: someone who trains five days, has access to a squat rack, carries no injuries, and has an hour and a half.
You train three days, two of them in a hurry, in a gym where the rack is always taken. Copying that routine means skipping exercises, improvising substitutions on the fly, and ending up training the same group three times while another goes untouched for a month.
VortLoop's generator starts from the opposite end: first your constraints, then the program.
What you ask it and what it builds
There are two paths. The fast mode asks for the minimum: goal, days per week, equipment, and level. The full mode adds fine control: which groups to emphasize, which exercises to exclude, maximum exercises per session, and cardio preferences.
With that, generation distributes muscle groups across available days avoiding absurd overlaps, picks specific exercises from an 887-movement library, assigns sets and reps coherent with the goal, and orders each session placing strength work before cardio.
- Goal: hypertrophy, strength, weight loss, or maintenance. Changes rep ranges, rest, and cardio presence.
- Days: from one to as many as you want. With few days it groups; with many, it specializes.
- Equipment: full gym, home equipment, or bodyweight only.
- Emphasis: if you want to prioritize back or legs, it reflects in the assigned volume.
- Exclusions: exercises you don't want to see, due to injury or preference.
An AI with guardrails
A loose language model invents non-existent exercises, sets twelve squat sets, and proposes forty-second rests for max strength work. That's not a routine, it's text that looks like one.
That's why generation isn't published as is. Before saving, it checks that each proposed exercise actually exists in the library and adjusts values outside reasonable ranges. If the AI misses the required cardio block, it's added with a fixed rule instead of leaving it halfway.
The result is that the routine reaching your screen is always executable: all exercises exist, all have instructions, and none ask for equipment you said you don't have.
A generated routine isn't untouchable. You can edit any day, change exercises, add sets, or delete what doesn't fit. AI gives the starting point, not the final word.
887 exercises with instructions and 3D viewer
The library covers 887 movements with their name in your language, execution instructions, needed equipment, and muscles worked.
And not just the main muscle: each exercise has an activation map distributing from zero to one hundred the involvement of each muscle. This lets us tell you your week is push-heavy and pull-short, instead of just counting exercises.
There is also a three-dimensional anatomical viewer to see which area engages in each movement, especially useful when learning a new exercise or choosing between variants.
Cardio is not a separate app
When your goal is fat loss, the routine includes cardio blocks spread across strength days, avoiding heavy cardio right after a leg session.
During training, a cardio block doesn't behave like a set: it has its own card with a countdown, voice alerts at sixty and ten seconds, a halfway hydration reminder on long blocks, and auto-completion at zero.
If you prefer going outside instead of the treadmill, that's the other pillar: GPS cardio and territory conquest.
Knowing if your routine is well-built
Each program has an analysis screen answering questions no one usually answers: which muscle groups it covers and which fall short, how long each session really lasts counting rests, and the strength-to-cardio ratio.
It's the difference between training with a plan and training with a list. A list tells you what to do today; a plan tells you if the whole makes sense.
Routines from others, and your trainer
You can clone routines published by other users and adapt them to your equipment, and review the ones you've tried so good ones rise and bad ones sink.
And if you work with a trainer using VortLoop, their plans reach your app directly: they edit from their dashboard and you train from your phone, with the same session engine. Explained fully on the VortLoop for professionals page.
Compared to other AI trainers
Freeletics is the benchmark in algorithm-generated training. The main difference is who controls the plan: broken down in VortLoop vs Freeletics.
What is free and what isn't
The 887-exercise library, the viewer, unlimited manual routine creation, the voice and haptic training engine, personal records, and history are in the Free plan.
AI generation is part of paid plans, with a daily generation limit and a brief interval between them to prevent abuse. Check the plans comparison.
Routine questions
Is the AI-generated routine safe?
It's built only with real library exercises, respects your indicated equipment, and out-of-range values are automatically corrected before saving. That said, it's a planning tool, not a medical prescription or technique assessment. If you have an injury or condition, consult a professional before following any program.
Can I train without equipment?
Yes. By indicating you only have bodyweight, the library filters to exercises needing no equipment and the program is built solely with them.
Can I modify the generated routine?
Completely. You can add or remove exercises, change sets, reps, and weights, reorder days, and rename the program. The routine is marked as modified so you know it's no longer the original.
How many routines can I have at once?
As many as you want. You can keep multiple programs in parallel —for example one gym and one travel— and switch between them whenever convenient.
Do I need to pay to use the routines?
No. Creating routines manually, using the 887 exercises, and training with the stopwatch, voice, and set tracking is free. What belongs to the paid plans is automatic generation with AI.