11 Best Fitness Apps for Android

Updated August 2026 · every rating, review count, price and advertising label re-read from Google Play, and the comparison rebuilt around what each free tier actually gives you

Eleven apps, compared on the four things you can check before installing: what the free tier gives you, what the subscription costs, whether the listing carries advertising, and what its Data Safety section admits. Verified against the Play Store listings on 19 August 2026 · full breakdown below.

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Best for running and cycling

Rating 4.6 from 1,167,471 reviews · Installs 100,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $2.99 to $249.99 per item · Developer Strava Inc. · Listing updated 17 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.6 (1,167,471) · read 19 August 2026

Strava is the pick if you run or ride outdoors, because the people you train with are already on it and segment leaderboards only work when they are. Its listing carries no advertising label and says in its own words that Strava includes both a free version and a subscription version with premium features, with in-app purchases of $2.99 to $249.99 per item. The blunt catch is privacy: its Data Safety section declares that it may share your data with third parties.

What the subscription takes is set out on the listing itself. Strava groups route discovery, Live Segments, the training log and best efforts, goals and its AI insights under a heading that reads Get even more with a Strava subscription, so the analysis most runners want is the paid half of the app rather than a locked extra.

• Good: Its own listing states plainly that there is both a free version and a subscription version, so the free half is not a countdown
• Good: In the largest install band here at 100,000,000+, which is the entire point of segments and clubs
• Good: No advertising label on the listing, and it was updated on 17 August 2026
• Con: Its Data Safety section declares that it may share your data with third parties
• Con: Route discovery, Live Segments and the training log sit under its own subscription heading, and in-app purchases reach $249.99 per item
• Con: It does not record lifts itself: its own description says strength work shows up by syncing from another device or app

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Skip this if. Skip it if you train indoors and want a lifting log.

Choosing between them. Choose Strava over adidas Running when the social layer is the point, and adidas Running over Strava when you would rather see advertising than declare your data to a third party.

Best free guided workouts

Rating 4.3 from 372,736 reviews · Installs 10,000,000+ · Free · No in-app purchases listed · Developer Nike, Inc. · Listing updated 27 April 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.3 (372,736) · read 19 August 2026

Nike Training Club is the most genuinely free guided training on this page: its listing showed no in-app purchases and no advertising label, and its Data Safety section declares no data shared with third parties, a combination only Google Fit also has here. The blunt catch is upkeep: the listing has not been updated since 27 April 2026, the oldest here, so treat the library as settled rather than growing. The price is a Nike account rather than money.

Nike sets the terms out on its own Play listing, where the description reads Nike Members get free access to the latest strength training, conditioning, yoga, pilates, recovery and mindfulness content. Membership is the condition, and the listing names no paid tier above it.

• Good: No in-app purchases listed and no advertising label, so the whole workout library costs nothing
• Good: Data Safety declares no data shared with third parties
• Good: Rated 4.3 from 372,736 reviews across a 10,000,000+ install band
• Con: Its listing has not been updated since 27 April 2026, nearly four months ago and the oldest of the eleven
• Con: Free access is tied to a Nike Member account, in Nike’s own wording on the listing
• Con: It does not track routes itself: its own listing says runs are recorded by the separate Nike Run Club app

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Skip this if. Skip it if you want to build and log your own program rather than follow one.

Choosing between them. Choose Nike Training Club over Centr when cost decides it, because Centr sells a membership after a seven day trial and this asks for an account instead.

Best for logging lifts

Rating 4.3 from 42,671 reviews · Installs 1,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $0.99 to $99.99 per item · Developer Strong Fitness PTE. LTD. · Listing updated 10 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.3 (42,671) · read 19 August 2026

Strong does one job, recording sets, reps and weight without getting in the way, and it is the fastest thing here at it. The blunt catch is the front door: the app opens on an account wall, and its first screen offers no way to look around before registering. Its listing carries no advertising label, its Data Safety section declares no data shared with third parties, and in-app purchases run $0.99 to $99.99 per item.

The tiers are named on the developer’s own site rather than on the listing. Its home page says Strong accounts are free forever and puts best sets, max 1RM and body fat percentage under Strong PRO, and the help centre linked in that page’s footer sets out the rest: it says advanced features are reserved for paid users and lists what PRO buys as unlimited workout templates, body part measurements, access to all charts, the plate calculator, the warm up calculator and themes, on its Strong PRO page, read on 19 August 2026 and stamped there as last revised in 2021. Unlimited templates being the first thing PRO buys is the developer’s own way of saying the free version caps how many workout templates you can save, and that is the limit a gym logger meets first. The Play listing disagrees with both pages: it prints the body measurements tracker, the plate and warm up calculators, the progress graphs and the one rep max in one flat FEATURES list with no tier marked at all, which is why its in-app purchase range is the only price signal it publishes.

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• Good: No advertising label on the listing and no third party data sharing declared
• Good: In-app purchases stop at $99.99 per item, well under what the coaching apps here ask
• Good: Its help centre states that your workout data stays available whether you pay or not, and that the free version can always be used to record workouts
• Con: The free version caps how many workout templates you can save: unlimited templates is the first thing its help centre says Strong PRO buys
• Con: The capture above shows its opening screen: nothing is visible before registering or signing in with Google, Facebook or Apple
• Con: It records what you did and does not plan what to do next

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Skip this if. Skip it if you want a program written for you: Strong records, it does not coach.

Choosing between them. Choose Strong over Fitbod when you already know your program, and Fitbod over Strong when you want the session planned for you.

Best tracker with nothing listed to buy

Rating 4.6 from 1,724,800 reviews · Installs 50,000,000+ · Free · No in-app purchases listed · Developer adidas · Listing updated 19 August 2026 · Contains ads: Yes · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.6 (1,724,800) · read 19 August 2026

adidas Running, which many people still call Runtastic, carries the second largest review base on this page at 1,724,800, behind MyFitnessPal and its listing showed no in-app purchase range at all when it was read. Its Data Safety section declares no data shared with third parties, unlike Strava. The blunt trade is printed on the listing itself: it is one of only two entries here that carries advertising, so what you spend is attention rather than money.

Read the empty in-app purchase field carefully. It means the listing publishes no price, not that no paid tier exists anywhere, and adidas names none in its description either. What the listing does state is the advertising label, and that is the only funding this page can show you.

• Good: The second largest review base on this page, 1,724,800 reviews at 4.6, behind MyFitnessPal alone
• Good: No in-app purchase range on its listing, one of three entries here with none
• Good: Data Safety declares no data shared with third parties, which four other entries here cannot say
• Con: Its listing carries advertising, one of only two entries on this page that does
• Con: The listing names no paid tier at all, so nothing on it tells you how to remove the advertising
• Con: Its own description leads on tracking more than 90 sports and activities rather than depth in any one of them

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Skip this if. Skip it if advertising inside a workout breaks your concentration.

Choosing between them. Choose adidas Running over Strava when you would rather not have your data declared as shared with third parties, and accept the advertising in exchange.

Best for food logging

Rating 4.4 from 2,910,338 reviews · Installs 100,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $0.99 to $99.99 per item · Developer MyFitnessPal, Inc. · Listing updated 14 August 2026 · Contains ads: Yes · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.4 (2,910,338) · read 19 August 2026

MyFitnessPal has the food database the rest of the category quietly borrows from, and 2,910,338 reviews is the largest body of feedback on this page. It is free to install, with in-app purchases from $0.99 to $99.99 per item. Two things to know before you start logging: its listing carries advertising and its Data Safety section declares that it may share your data with third parties, the only entry here that does both.

What the subscription takes is printed on the listing under its own heading. The Premium block names barcode scan, meal scan and voice logging, custom macro goals, Net Carbs Mode, and ad-free logging is a Premium feature there too; Premium Plus adds meal planning and grocery delivery on top. The description also opens by inviting you to start a free Premium trial, so the first days are not what the free tier looks like.

• Good: The only entry here that logs food at all, and its own listing counts 20.5M+ foods in the database
• Good: Rated 4.4 across 2,910,338 reviews and a 100,000,000+ install band
• Good: Free to install, and its in-app purchases stop at $99.99 per item
• Con: It both carries advertising and declares that it may share data with third parties, the only entry here that does both
• Con: Barcode scan, the feature most people install it for, sits in its own Premium block
• Con: The listing opens by offering a free Premium trial, so what you first use is not the free tier

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Skip this if. Skip it if you want calorie logging without an account and without advertising.

Choosing between them. Choose MyFitnessPal over anything else here for food, because none of the other ten log meals at all.

Best for planned gym sessions

Rating 4.4 from 30,624 reviews · Installs 1,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $9.99 to $129.99 per item · Developer Fitbod · Listing updated 15 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.4 (30,624) · read 19 August 2026

Fitbod writes the session for you, picking lifts around what you trained recently and the equipment you say you have, which is genuinely useful if you would rather not plan. The blunt catch is that there is no free tier to settle into: its own FAQ names a seven day free trial and then a membership. Its listing carries no advertising label, its in-app purchases run $9.99 to $129.99 per item, the third highest floor here after Centr and Peloton, and its Data Safety section declares that it may share your data with third parties.

The listing names no free tier, and the developer’s own FAQ page, read on 19 August 2026, says why: it names a seven day free trial available worldwide and then monthly and annual memberships, so the free part is the trial rather than a tier you can stay on. That same page prices the memberships at $15.99 a month and $95.99 a year when they are bought on the developer’s own website, which is not what Google Play publishes: the listing’s in-app purchase range runs $9.99 to $129.99 per item. The two do not agree, and this page states both rather than choosing between them.

• Good: It plans each session around your recent training and the equipment you have
• Good: No advertising label on the listing, and it was updated on 15 August 2026
• Good: Rated 4.4, level with MyFitnessPal, JEFIT and Centr
• Con: Its Data Safety section declares that it may share your data with third parties
• Con: Its own FAQ names a seven day free trial and then a membership, so there is no free tier underneath it
• Con: Only 30,624 reviews, so the rating rests on a much smaller base than Strava or MyFitnessPal

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Skip this if. Skip it if you already follow a program, because the planning is what you are paying for.

Choosing between them. Choose Fitbod over JEFIT when you want the plan generated, and JEFIT over Fitbod when you want a library to pick from and a published price.

Best zero effort step tracking

Rating 3.4 from 684,011 reviews · Installs 100,000,000+ · Free · No in-app purchases listed · Developer Google LLC · Listing updated 19 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 3.4 (684,011) · read 19 August 2026

Google Fit is free in the plainest sense on this page: no in-app purchases, no advertising label, and a Data Safety section that declares no data shared with third parties and an independent security review, the only entry here that reports one. It also carries the lowest rating here by a wide margin, 3.4 from 684,011 reviews, while every other entry here sits at four stars or above. Take that seriously rather than dismissing it, because it is a very large sample.

The health claims on this entry are Google’s own, made on its own Play listing and read there on 19 August 2026, and this page repeats them as claims rather than as findings. Google states there that Heart Points came out of a collaboration with the World Health Organization and the American Heart Association, that one point is earned for each minute of moderate activity and double for more intense activity, and that the phone camera can measure heart rate and respiratory rate. None of that is presented by Google as a medical measurement, and nothing on this page checks it.

• Good: Genuinely free: no advertising label, no in-app purchases listed, no third party sharing declared
• Good: Its Data Safety section reports an independent security review, and no other entry here does
• Good: Its own description names Strava and MyFitnessPal among the apps that write into it, on a 100,000,000+ install band
• Con: Rated 3.4 from 684,011 reviews, the lowest here by a clear margin and on a very large sample
• Con: It counts movement and tracks basic activity: it does not log sets and reps at all
• Con: It is a summary layer, and its own description points you at other apps and devices for the training data itself

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Skip this if. Skip it if you want to record training rather than count movement.

Choosing between them. Choose Google Fit over everything else here only when you want zero setup and zero cost, and nothing more.

Best all in one program, at a price

Rating 4.4 from 17,267 reviews · Installs 1,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $19.99 to $179.99 per item · Developer Centr · Listing updated 17 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.4 (17,267) · read 19 August 2026

Centr bundles training, meal plans and guided sessions into one program, and its listing carries no advertising label. The number that decides it is the price: the description opens by offering the app free for seven days and then sells memberships by the month, the quarter and the year, with in-app purchases from $19.99 to $179.99 per item, the highest floor on this page. There is no free tier underneath the trial by its own account.

Three entries here sell a trial rather than a free tier, and Centr is the one that says so on the store listing itself rather than on a support page: the first line of its own description offers seven days free and the last block explains that a membership renews automatically unless auto renewal is turned off. Read the in-app purchase floor as the real entry price.

• Good: Training, food and recovery in one program rather than three apps
• Good: No advertising label and no third party data sharing declared
• Good: Its own description names a HYROX certified training program and workouts running from five to sixty minutes
• Con: Its own description sells seven days free and then a membership, so there is no free tier to settle into
• Con: In-app purchases start at $19.99 per item, the highest floor on this page
• Con: Only 17,267 reviews, the second smallest feedback base here

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Skip this if. Skip it unless you actually want the meal plans, which is most of what you are paying for.

Choosing between them. Choose Nike Training Club over Centr if guided sessions are all you want, since those cost nothing.

Best published subscription price

Rating 4.4 from 89,713 reviews · Installs 5,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $0.99 to $359.99 per item · Developer Jefit Inc. · Listing updated 18 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.4 (89,713) · read 19 August 2026

JEFIT is the only entry here that publishes its subscription price in plain sight: its own Play listing calls the app a free workout tracker and then prints JEFIT Elite at $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year. It carries no advertising label and declares no data shared with third parties. The blunt figure is the in-app purchase range on the same listing, $0.99 to $359.99 per item, the widest span and the highest ceiling on this page.

Elite is what the money buys, and its own Play listing names the parts: an adaptive AI coach, a premium analytics dashboard, an Elite routine library and what it calls pro training tools, priced in the same description at $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year. Read the rest of that description carefully before assuming the remainder is free. It calls JEFIT a free workout tracker and heads the block above Elite as its core features, but two of the four Elite items shadow things that block already lists, a routine library and progress charts, so the listing does not settle where the free version stops and Elite begins.

• Good: Its own description names built-in bodybuilding programs, splits and strength routines you can follow without writing one yourself
• Good: The only entry here that publishes a plain subscription price on its own listing, $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year
• Good: No advertising label on the listing and no third party sharing declared
• Con: In-app purchases reach $359.99 per item, the highest ceiling on this page
• Con: Its own listing puts the adaptive AI coach, the premium analytics dashboard and the Elite routine library behind the subscription
• Con: Its own feature list is far longer than Strong’s for the same logging job, which is clutter if logging is all you want

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Skip this if. Skip it if you want the fastest possible logging, where Strong is cleaner.

Choosing between them. Choose JEFIT over Fitbod when you want to pick a routine yourself and see the subscription price before you install.

Best for yoga

Rating 4.9 from 377,722 reviews · Installs 5,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $2.99 to $249.99 per item · Developer Yoga Buddhi Co. · Listing updated 12 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.9 (377,722) · read 19 August 2026

Down Dog is rated 4.9 from 377,722 reviews, the highest score on this page and on a sample large enough to mean something. It builds a different class each time rather than replaying videos, carries no advertising label, and declares no data shared with third parties. The catch is the shape of the money: its listing says one subscription unlocks the full library of practice types, and in-app purchases run $2.99 to $249.99 per item.

The developer states the approach in one line on its own site: Every practice is generated just for you. That is the difference from a fixed video library, and it is why a session here does not repeat. What the free part amounts to is set out on its own FAQ page, read on 19 August 2026: since it changed its pricing model in 2018 the app has given a brief free trial with full access to every feature, and after that a subscription is required. So the free access is complete while it lasts, and there is no reduced free tier underneath it.

• Good: Rated 4.9 across 377,722 reviews, the highest here by a clear margin
• Good: It generates a new sequence each session rather than replaying a fixed video library
• Good: No advertising label and no third party sharing declared
• Con: Its own FAQ says the free trial is brief and that a subscription is required after it, so there is no lasting free tier
• Con: In-app purchases reach $249.99 per item, and its listing sells one subscription rather than describing a free tier
• Con: It does yoga and adjacent practice only: no lifting, no run tracking

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Skip this if. Skip it if you want strength training, which it does not attempt.

Choosing between them. Choose Down Dog over Nike Training Club for yoga specifically, and Nike Training Club over Down Dog for general strength work at no cost.

Best instructor led classes

Rating 4.0 from 15,319 reviews · Installs 1,000,000+ · Free to install · In-app purchases $12.99 to $289.00 per item · Developer Peloton Interactive, Inc · Listing updated 15 August 2026 · Contains ads: No · checked 19 August 2026

Google Play listing · 4.0 (15,319) · read 19 August 2026

You do not need the bike: the Android app runs instructor led strength, running, yoga and Pilates classes on a phone, tablet or TV, and its listing carries no advertising label. Its own description sets out an App Membership charged monthly or annually until you cancel and names no free tier, with in-app purchases from $12.99 to $289.00 per item. It is also rated 4.0 from 15,319 reviews, the smallest sample on this page and the second lowest score, above only Google Fit.

The subscription terms are on the listing rather than in a review: it states that the membership renews automatically until cancelled, that auto renewal is turned off in your Play account settings, and that a cancellation part way through a month does not end that month. Read that before the first charge, not after.

• Good: Instructor led classes across running, strength, yoga and Pilates without owning any hardware
• Good: No advertising label on the listing, and it was updated on 15 August 2026
• Good: Its own description states the renewal and cancellation terms in plain words
• Con: Rated 4.0 from 15,319 reviews, the smallest sample on this page and the second lowest score, above only Google Fit
• Con: Its Data Safety section declares that it may share your data with third parties
• Con: In-app purchases reach $289.00 per item and its listing describes no free tier at all

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Skip this if. Skip it if you will not pay a monthly fee, because its listing describes no free tier at all.

Choosing between them. Choose Peloton over Centr for the class library, and Centr over Peloton if you want the meal planning too.

How to choose a fitness app for Android

Start with the money, because it separates these eleven more sharply than any feature does. Three list no in-app purchases at all: Nike Training Club, adidas Running and Google Fit. Two of those three carry no advertising label either; the third, adidas Running, carries one instead.

Everything else installs for nothing and sells a paid tier on top, and the in-app purchase range on each listing is the only figure that settles what that tier costs. It runs from $0.99 per item at the bottom up to $359.99 per item on JEFIT, and JEFIT is the only entry here that also prints a plain subscription price on its own listing. Three of the eight sell a trial rather than a tier, and each says so itself: Centr opens its own store description with seven days free, Fitbod names a seven day free trial in its own FAQ, and Down Dog says in its FAQ that a brief free trial with full access is followed by a required subscription.

Then privacy. Four of the eleven declare in their own Data Safety sections that they may share data with third parties: Strava, MyFitnessPal, Fitbod and Peloton. The other seven declare that they do not, and Google Fit reports an independent security review on top, the only entry here that does.

Ratings run from 4.9 down to 3.4 and the spread is informative rather than noise. Down Dog sits at the top on 377,722 reviews and Google Fit at the bottom on 684,011, so both are very large samples, and every other entry sits at 4.0 or above. A low score on a large sample is a finding, not an accident.

The practical route is to pick by what you do. Running or cycling outdoors leads to Strava for the social layer, or adidas Running if you would rather see advertising than have your data declared as shared. Lifting leads to Strong for logging or Fitbod for planning. A guided program at no cost leads to Nike Training Club. Yoga leads to Down Dog. Food leads to MyFitnessPal, because nothing else here logs meals at all.

Checked 19 August 2026: all eleven Play listings were re-read and every rating, review count, install band, price, in-app purchase range, advertising label and Data Safety section on this page now carries the date it was read. The page was rebuilt around one question, what the free tier actually gives you and what the subscription costs, because that is the question this category turns on. The comparison table used to print the word Free in eleven rows, which told a reader nothing; it now carries a sourced free versus paid column and the in-app purchase range exactly as each listing prints it. Ten claims did not survive the rebuild: three were assertions about a free tier that no source on this page could show you, one was a claim about what an app is for, three were dated claims that had gone stale in six days, and three were superlatives this page contradicted elsewhere on itself. Withdrawn from Down Dog: The free tier repeats a narrow band of difficulty until you subscribe. Its own FAQ page describes the opposite shape, a brief free trial with full access to every feature and a subscription required after it, so there is no reduced free tier there to repeat anything. Withdrawn from Peloton: that you should skip it because the free tier is a preview. Its own description sets out an App Membership charged until cancelled and names no free tier, which is the sourced version of the same warning. Withdrawn from adidas Running: that it lists no in-app purchases, so no paywall on the tracking itself. An empty in-app purchase field means the listing publishes no price, not that no paid tier exists, and the entry now says so. Withdrawn from Strava: Useless as a gym log. Strava’s own description says strength work shows up automatically when it is synced from a device or a strength app, so the honest version is that it does not record lifts itself. Two claims that stood on the page with nothing behind them are kept and sourced rather than cut, because the developer publishes both. Strong’s free version does cap how many workout templates you can save: its own help centre names unlimited workout templates as the first thing Strong PRO buys, and that help centre is linked from the footer of the developer’s home page. Fitbod’s free part is a trial: its own FAQ page names a seven day free trial and then memberships at $15.99 a month and $95.99 a year bought on its website, against a Play in-app purchase range of $9.99 to $129.99 per item, and the page now prints both figures instead of choosing. One claim contradicted another claim on the same page. adidas Running was called the best rated app on this page by review volume and credited with The largest review base on this page, while MyFitnessPal, four sections further down, was credited with the largest body of feedback on this page. MyFitnessPal has the larger base of the two and adidas Running is second, so the adidas entry now says second and names what it sits behind. The third superlative was Peloton’s, and it failed the same way. Peloton was credited with the lowest rating and the smallest sample of any app here bar Centr. The smallest sample is right, at 15,319 reviews; the lowest rating is not, because Google Fit is rated 3.4 against Peloton’s 4.0. Peloton is the second lowest, and the entry now says that instead. Three dated claims went stale in six days and are corrected. Google Fit was described as having a listing updated a month before every other actively maintained app here, and its listing was updated again on 19 August 2026. Down Dog was called the most recently maintained app on this page, and it no longer is. Strong was called one of the freshest on this page, and at 10 August 2026 it is now the oldest of the actively maintained entries. Nike Training Club still holds the other end, unchanged since 27 April 2026. Ten of the eleven review counts moved between 13 and 19 August 2026 and Nike Training Club’s did not, holding at 372,736 on a listing untouched since 27 April 2026, so all eleven fact lines, the table and the closing advice now carry the date they were re-read rather than last week’s. The How we verify box was replaced and moved. It described three tiers of evidence this page does not carry and framed the work as something done inside the apps, which is not how anything here was established. It now describes what was actually read, and it sits after the app sections rather than above them. The one screenshot on the page, of the first screen Strong shows, is dated in its own caption and is unchanged.