Switching to Badger

Coming from another tracker? Bring your history over first so your PRs and graphs start out full, then pick the guide that fits how you train.

Your first 5 minutes

1. Save an export from your old app. Importing from another app says where each app keeps it.
2. In Badger, open the import page during first-launch onboarding, or later go to Settings → Backup, import and export → Import from another app.
3. Choose your old app: FitNotes, Strong, Hevy, or StrongLifts. In onboarding, the main button then reads Import from that app. The screen shows that app's export steps first; tap Choose file and pick the file.
4. Check the preview: exercises, workout days, sets, and the weight unit. Hevy and StrongLifts files set the unit. Strong and FitNotes show a Weight unit in this file choice to check.
5. Tap Import. Badger saves a safety copy of your current log first, so you can go back.

What carries over

• Your exercises, your workouts, and every set in them.
• Weights in their original unit, with no rounding or conversion.
• New exercises land in an "Imported" category for you to sort. A FitNotes backup is the exception: it brings your own categories.
• Strong, Hevy and StrongLifts sessions arrive as new workouts, so a day you already logged gains another workout. A FitNotes backup adds its sets to that day's workout. Nothing you logged is overwritten.

The 3 things to know

• Your PRs are worked out from the imported history, with no extra step.
• Import each file once. A second import adds its sets again on any day you already have, and the preview warns you before that happens.
• Only a FitNotes backup brings routines. From any other app, start from a built-in program or build your own.

Your old app

How much comes across depends on what your old app exports.

• FitNotes The backup is a database, so your categories, library, routines, body weight and measurements come too.
• Strong A CSV that brings your RPE and your notes with it, and warmups and failure sets when the export marks them.
• Hevy The richest CSV of the four. It marks set type, so your warmups arrive as warmups.
• StrongLifts A CSV with every set, your session times and body weight. Warmups are not marked, so they arrive as working sets.

Now pick your path

With your history in place, choose the guide that fits how you train: just lifting, running a program, or tracking the data. Or browse everything Badger does.