Growth that comes from backing off.
Discipline is also knowing when to taper.
Tapertrophy — from taper, to deliberately back off, and -trophy, from Greek trophē, growth. Growth that comes from backing off. Same root as hypertrophy and atrophy.
Every training app tracks what you did. Almost none track what you've recovered from. This one reads what you log — sleep, sessions, how you're actually feeling — and tells you straight whether today's a day to push.
Works when your week doesn't.
Irregular schedule, shift work, a newborn, constant travel — every program-based app assumes a fixed weekly split. Tapertrophy assumes nothing. It reads what actually happened, whatever shape your week took.
Read is this app's own score for the day, relative to your own normal — not a clinical number. Contributing is what moved it, and by how much. Tap the number in the app and you see exactly what moved it. No black box, no proprietary score you're asked to trust.
A set of twelve curls and a heavy single count identically in every app on the market. They shouldn't. Tapertrophy weights each session by what it actually demanded — a max-effort single costs more than a set of muscle-building work at the same perceived effort, and the arithmetic is right there on screen.
It also asks about irritability, because that's the one most lifters notice in themselves before the numbers drop.
Free · one in-app purchase · no subscription
Today's read is free forever, and so is logging. Once your baseline is built, history and trends unlock for $9.99, once. That's the whole pricing page.
Coming soonTapertrophy isn't a doctor and doesn't pretend to be one. It can't measure anything about your body — it reads what you log and shows you patterns you'd miss on your own. Nothing in it is medical advice.
If something feels wrong — pain that isn't normal soreness, fatigue that won't lift — talk to a doctor or a qualified professional.