Hevy Alternatives, Compared

Decide which Hevy limit is actually bothering you

Two different problems send people looking for a Hevy alternative, and they point at different workout trackers. One is the free tier: a routine cap of four, seven custom exercises, and graph ranges up to three months. The other is that Hevy's automatic weight adjustment comes with Trainer, its generated programming, rather than with a routine you wrote yourself. Hevy free tier, Hevy Trainer.

If price is what is bothering you, read where Hevy is still the better buy first. At $23.99 a year, Hevy Pro is the cheapest subscription in this comparison. The only paid option here that costs less is HeavySet's one-time unlock, and HeavySet is iPhone-only.

We publish GymEvo, one of the alternatives below. This page compares publisher documentation and listed US-dollar prices checked on 7 September 2026 and rechecked on 29 September 2026, not hands-on testing of every app, apart from two clearly labeled opinions: one on Boostcamp's interface and one on Hevy's social focus. Store prices and offers vary by region and platform.

Switching does not mean starting your log from zero. GymEvo imports a Hevy CSV export for free, once per account, so your logged sets, exercise history, and personal records come with you. Take your Hevy history with you has the steps.

Hevy alternatives at a glance: platforms, free limits, and pricing

Hevy is the only app in this table with watch apps for both Apple Watch and Wear OS on its free plan, and its subscription is the cheapest. Most alternatives win on something else: a larger free allowance, nutrition tracking, or a free program library.

Prices and platforms were rechecked on 29 September 2026 on each publisher's own site and on its US App Store and Google Play listings. Listings change, so check the store again if a price or a watch matters to you. Sources: Hevy platforms, Strong platforms, Jefit on Google Play, and the price sources listed under other alternatives.

What you would be leaving

Hevy free allows four routines and seven custom exercises, and limits graph ranges to three months. Your workout history stays in your account after Pro expires; the routine cap and the graph limit restrict what you create and analyze, not what you keep. Pro is listed at $2.99 monthly, $23.99 annually, and $74.99 for advertised lifetime access. Hevy also documents RPE logging, a warm-up set calculator that is part of Pro, and data export, including importing an English CSV from Strong. If you are the one leaving Strong, the Strong comparison covers that move.

That is a capable app at a low price. The reasons to move are specific, so check that yours is one of them before rebuilding your routines somewhere else.

Reason 1: You want a training tool, not a social feed

Social features are a big part of how Hevy sells itself. Its homepage tagline promises you can "build routines and track progress with friends", and after the logging and progress sections comes a community section about following other athletes, liking and commenting on workouts, and competing with others to stay motivated. Hevy.

If training in front of other people is what keeps you consistent, that is a fair reason to stay. Our view, and we are not neutral here, is that Hevy feels closer to Instagram for lifting than to a training tool. The social feed gets the attention, while the parts that decide whether you progress sit behind Pro: automatic load adjustment, which comes only with Trainer programs, and graphs beyond three months. If you never open the feed, much of what the app puts first is not aimed at you.

GymEvo has friends too. You can add people, open their public profiles and shared plans, and choose who sees what. There is no social feed, and no likes or comments. The effort goes into the records, charts, and nutrition logging covered below.

Reason 2: You want more than a log out of the free tier

GymEvo's free tier marks personal records for weight, estimated one-rep max, reps at a given weight, and volume, with duration in place of reps on timed exercises, and gives you two exercise goals with achievement feedback. The current record of each type is free; the full record history and rep-record table are Premium.

Charts deserve a specific mention, because this is where Hevy's three-month graph range bites. GymEvo's free tier charts your estimated one rep max across your whole logged history, with no window limit, and that is the graph that tells you whether a lift is moving. Premium opens the full set of exercise and profile charts and adds the weekly and monthly reviews, but the long-range progression graph is not the part you would be paying for.

See how GymEvo handles progressive overload per exercise.

Reason 3: You want workout and nutrition tracking in one app

GymEvo's free tier includes nutrition tracking alongside the training side: food, calorie, macro, and bodyweight logging, barcode scanning, custom foods, a calorie target you set or calculate, and bodyweight history with a gain, loss, or maintenance target. If you currently run a workout log plus a separate nutrition tracking app, that consolidation is the clearest practical difference.

GymEvo Premium is listed at $6.99 monthly or $44.99 annually. The free versus Premium breakdown lists what each tier includes, including the free creation limits. GymEvo US pricing.

Where Hevy is still the better buy

Say this plainly: Hevy Pro costs $23.99 a year against GymEvo Premium's $44.99, and advertises $74.99 lifetime access. If what you want is generated programming with automatic load adjustment at the lowest price, Hevy already sells it for less than the alternatives here.

Hevy also wins if you log from your wrist. It lists both an Apple Watch app and a Wear OS app, and GymEvo has no watch app on either platform.

The free allowances are also worth comparing carefully, because the units differ, and every free tier in this field counts something slightly different. Hevy free gives four routines and seven custom exercises. GymEvo free gives two custom splits, where a split is a weekly schedule that holds your workouts, and does not cap custom exercises at all. On the plan side neither allowance is simply larger, so count what your week actually needs. On custom exercises the comparison is one-sided: if you log machine variations or lifts a stock database does not carry, seven of them runs out quickly.

Other alternatives worth a look

Sources: Boostcamp Pro and features, Strong App Store, Alpha Progression Pro, Jefit membership plans, Fitbod FAQ.

Boostcamp advertises performance-based progression inside its free offering, which makes it the first stop if cost is the whole reason you are leaving Hevy. We tried it, and found the interface cluttered and unintuitive. Treat that as one opinion and try it yourself, because the free programs are worth the look regardless.

If you would rather have the whole block planned than pick routines yourself, Mesostrength, RP Hypertrophy, and JuggernautAI sit above this price bracket and organise training as a mesocycle. All three appear in our the best workout apps compared roundup with their load suggestion logic and current prices.

The apps below come up often as a Hevy alternative but sit outside the table above. Their prices and free limits come from each publisher's site or US App Store listing, checked on 29 September 2026.

FitNotes: a free Android workout log

FitNotes is the minimal answer on Android: a free workout log with a routine planner and progress charts, no load suggestions, and no nutrition tracking. It solves the free-tier complaint in the bluntest way, because there is no subscription to push you toward. It also skips what Hevy adds on top of logging, so there is no social feed and no generated programming. If you left Hevy because four routines were not enough and you never used Trainer, FitNotes is worth installing before you pay for anything. FitNotes.

HeavySet, Liftin', and SmartGym: iPhone-first trackers

HeavySet, Liftin', and SmartGym are workout trackers built around the iPhone. Liftin' and SmartGym also run on the Apple Watch, while HeavySet's App Store listing shows no watch app. They answer a different Hevy limit from the others on this page: you want a tracker that feels native to Apple's platforms rather than a cross-platform app with a social layer.

Their free versions are tighter than Hevy's. HeavySet limits how often you can run the routines you enter and sells unlimited use as a $19.99 one-time purchase. Liftin' logs five workouts a month for free, then costs $24.99 a year or $99.99 for lifetime access. SmartGym's free version holds two routines and three workouts, and its Premium+ subscription is $59.99 a year. If you train with an Android phone or a Wear OS watch, check first whether the app is on Google Play at all. Sources: HeavySet, Liftin', SmartGym.

Caliber: a free tracker with an optional coach

Caliber's app is a free strength tracker with unlimited workouts and more than 100 plans designed by its coaches. Caliber Plus, listed at $72 a year, adds personalized progress tracking and nutrition targets. The paid step up from that is Premium Coaching, where a personal trainer writes your training and nutrition plan and reviews your progress every week. Coaching solves the Trainer limit differently: instead of paying Hevy for generated programming that adjusts the load, you pay for a person making those calls, so compare it against the price of a trainer, not against Hevy Pro. Sources: Caliber app, Caliber on the App Store.

Take your Hevy history with you

GymEvo imports a Hevy CSV export, so your logged sets move across instead of staying behind. The import is free and does not require Premium.

1. In Hevy, open your profile, then Settings, then Export & Import Data, then Export Data, and choose Export Workouts. When the file is ready, save it to your phone or share it to yourself. Hevy's export documentation.
2. In GymEvo, go to Profile, then Settings, then Data, then Import training history, and choose that file. UTF-8 CSV files up to 5 MB are accepted.
3. Work through the review screen. GymEvo matches the exercise names in the file against its own library, and you resolve the rest by choosing an exercise, creating a custom one, or skipping it. Sessions that overlap history you already logged in GymEvo are flagged so you decide whether to keep them.
4. Confirm. The file is parsed on your phone and only the history you approved is uploaded.

Hevy writes its export under fixed English column headers whatever language you run the app in, so the file matches regardless of your app language. Warm-up sets are excluded, RPE values are rounded to the nearest whole number, and distance entries are skipped, since GymEvo tracks reps and time. Once imported, those workouts feed previous-set history, exercise history, and personal records like any session you log yourself.

You get one history import per account, so take the review screen slowly.

Test the move with one training week

Export your Hevy data before you change anything, then rebuild a single normal training week in the app you are considering. Check the exercises you actually use, your rep ranges, the weight increments available to you, and how the app shows last session's numbers while you log.

Do that week before you import, not after, because the import runs once. The same export file is what the import takes, so nothing is wasted if you decide to stay.

One week tells you more than a feature table. If your routines still fit inside Hevy's four and the price suits you, staying is a reasonable answer. For the full field, see all ten workout apps compared.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free Hevy alternative?

Yes. Boostcamp gives you free programs and uncapped manual program building, GymEvo's free tier has no custom exercise limit and includes nutrition tracking, and FitNotes is a free Android workout log. Each free tier counts something different, so compare them on what your week needs. The free workout tracker apps page lists the limits side by side.

Does Hevy's routine cap apply to Pro?

No. The routine cap of four and the seven custom exercises are free-tier limits, and Hevy Pro lifts them. If you downgrade, your workout history stays in your account; the cap limits what you create, not what you keep. Hevy free tier.

Can I move my Hevy workout history to another app?

Yes, if the new app reads Hevy's CSV export. Hevy exports your workouts as a CSV file you save or share from your phone, and GymEvo imports that file for free, once per account. The steps are in Take your Hevy history with you. For any other app, check its import options before you rely on it.

Which Hevy alternative works on Wear OS?

Of the apps in the comparison table, Hevy and Jefit have Wear OS apps. Hevy doesn't list watch support among its Pro features, while Jefit puts it in Elite at $69.99 a year. Strong has an Apple Watch app but no Wear OS app, Boostcamp and Alpha Progression show no watch app on either store, and GymEvo has no watch app. If logging from a Wear OS watch matters, confirm it on the Google Play listing before you move.

Is there a Hevy alternative without a subscription?

FitNotes is free with no subscription. Several paid options also sell lifetime access as a one-time purchase: Hevy Pro at $74.99, Strong PRO Forever at $79.99 to $99.99, HeavySet at $19.99, and Liftin' at $99.99 (US App Store, checked 29 September 2026). GymEvo, Boostcamp, Jefit, Alpha Progression, and Fitbod sell subscriptions only. GymEvo, Boostcamp, and Strong all keep a free tier that works without paying.

Other comparisons: Strong alternative, Fitbod alternative, Jefit alternative, Alpha Progression alternative, and free workout tracker apps.