Hevy Review (2026): Free Tier Limits, Pro Price and What Hevy Admits in Its Own Help Centre

Hevy is one of the most popular gym logging apps, with a 4.9 rating from about 94,000 reviews on the US App Store and 4.9 from about 268,000 on Google Play when we checked on 21 September 2026. Most reviews of it repeat the same list of features. This one reads Hevy’s own help centre, App Store listing and privacy policy line by line, because that is where the limits are written down, including several no ranking review mentions.

How we put this together. We have not used Hevy ourselves; this is a research-based review. Prices come from the US App Store and Google Play, and feature details from Hevy’s own help centre and website, all read on 21 September 2026. Where Hevy’s documents disagree with each other, we say so.

Hevy at a glance

What Hevy is

Hevy is a workout logger. You build routines, start a workout, and record each set’s weight, reps and type as you go. It times your rest, flags personal records live, and turns your history into charts. On top of that sit a social feed, leaderboards, a Strava connection, and, for Pro subscribers, Hevy Trainer, which generates a programme from your goals. Hevy’s about page names Guillem Ros as co-founder and CEO and Desmond McNamee as co-founder and CTO, and the company behind the app is Hevy Studios, S.L., based in Spain according to its privacy policy.

It is not a coaching app in the way Fitbod or Dr. Muscle are. By default it records what you choose to do rather than telling you what to do. That is the main reason people pick it: it is fast, cheap, and stays out of the way.

Pricing: free, Pro and lifetime

The US App Store listing shows four in-app purchases: Hevy Pro Monthly at $2.99, Hevy Pro Monthly at $3.99, Hevy Pro Yearly at $23.99 and Hevy Pro Lifetime at $74.99. Two monthly prices are listed and the page does not say which a new buyer sees, so expect one or the other. Google Play shows a range of $2.99 to $74.99 per item.

Hevy’s help article on its sale explains the discounts you may see: a 50% sale applies to the first year of an annual plan, for first-time Pro subscribers only, a few times a year, and it renews at the regular annual price. It also says plainly that “Lifetime subscriptions are never discounted.” If you are waiting for a lifetime deal, there will not be one.

What free includes, and where it stops

Hevy’s Free vs Pro table is the clearest statement of the limits. Free gets 4 routines, 7 custom exercises and 3 months of stats history. Pro gets unlimited routines and custom exercises, all-time history, the warm-up set calculator and Hevy Trainer. Its downgrade article adds that free accounts can record only body weight and waist circumference as body measurements, and that stats show 30 days or 3 months of history rather than 1 year or all time.

Workout logging itself is unlimited on free. So are the plate calculator, supersets, RPE, the Apple Watch and Wear OS apps, and Strava sync, none of which Hevy lists as Pro. For a beginner running one or two programmes, the free plan is genuinely usable. The pinch comes when you want more than four routines, a fuller exercise list, or to look back further than three months.

The “unlimited routines” contradiction

One oddity is worth knowing before you download. Hevy’s own App Store listing, under its general features, says “Create an unlimited amount of routines”, and its Google Play description says the same. The help centre caps free at 4. The listing also has a separate Pro section saying “Create unlimited routines”, so the unlimited line most likely describes Pro. Read the help centre, not the store blurb, for what free really includes.

Other billing details

• No Family Sharing. Hevy’s help centre says the subscription “isn’t included in Family Sharing”; subscriptions for other people have to be bought on its website.
• Coached users can be billed twice. If you join a coach on Hevy Coach, a monthly or annual Pro subscription keeps charging “since the two subscriptions are not linked”, and Hevy’s help article recommends cancelling it. Lifetime Pro stays on the account.
• Trial. We did not find Pro trial terms in Hevy’s help centre or store listing. The App Store text notes a right to withdraw within 14 days of starting a subscription.

Features

Logging

Hevy’s features page lists a warm-up set calculator, weight plate calculator, RPE, supersets, an automatic rest timer, live personal record notifications, a Live Activity on the lock screen, home screen widgets, progress photos, a monthly report and a year in review. Sets can be marked as warm-up, normal, drop sets or failure. RPE is switched on in settings and, per its RPE article, lets you pick a value from 6 to 10 for each set. Its superset article says you can “create as many supersets as you want”, with multi-exercise supersets working as a circuit. The exercise library is described in Hevy’s help centre as 400+ exercises plus custom ones.

Watches and other apps

Hevy’s platforms article lists iPhone, Android, web, Apple Watch and Wear OS, all available on the free plan. The Apple Watch app live-syncs with the phone and tracks heart rate, according to the App Store listing. On Wear OS, Samsung watches older than the Galaxy Watch 4 are not supported because they run Tizen, per Hevy’s Wear OS article. Workouts can be written to Apple Health, and Strava sync is free.

Garmin is the notable gap. Hevy’s Garmin article states that “Garmin has rejected Hevy’s application for access to their API”, and that the workarounds Garmin proposed do not meet Hevy’s standards, so “we will not be able to move forward with Garmin integration at this time.” If you train with a Garmin watch, that matters.

Social features

Hevy is built to be social: a feed, likes, comments, leaderboards and a Strength Level comparison against users of the same sex, age group and bodyweight on 13 lifts. You can make your profile private, hide suggested users and keep workouts private. What you cannot do, according to Hevy’s privacy settings article, is get rid of the feed: “The Discover feed will remain on the Home screen. As of right now, there is no way to remove this feature.” Lifters who want a purely private log should know that before they commit.

Hevy Trainer and the AI question

Hevy Trainer, a Pro feature introduced in February 2026, builds a programme from your goals (gain strength, build muscle or fat loss), 1 to 6 training days a week, equipment and injuries, with progressive overload suggestions. Its settings article adds a Program Variety setting that keeps exercises consistent, rotates them after about six weeks, or changes them weekly.

Hevy is unusually direct about what Trainer is. Its Trainer article says: “Our programs are generated using an algorithm and do not rely on AI to create users’ programs.” Any review calling Hevy Trainer an AI coach is describing something Hevy says it is not.

Hevy does connect to AI tools in another way. Its ChatGPT app works inside a ChatGPT conversation when you type @hevy, can analyse your workout history, and can save plans to your Hevy account. September 2026 releases added sending a finished workout to ChatGPT or Claude directly.

Limits worth knowing

• 150 sets per workout. Hevy’s help centre says “All workouts and routines have a 150-set limit, even with the Pro version.” Few people will hit it, but long sessions logged as one workout can.
• Import is one-way and one-time. Per its import and export article, Hevy only imports CSV files from the Strong app, in English, and a tutorial notes “You can only do one data import.” Export of workouts and measurements is available.
• Garmin: no integration, as above.

Making the free plan go further

Because the free limits are on routines, custom exercises and history rather than on logging, a little planning stretches them a long way. These follow directly from the limits Hevy publishes.

• Build routines as training days, not variations. A four-day split, such as upper, lower, push and pull, fits the four free routines exactly. Swap exercises inside a routine rather than saving a new routine for every tweak.
• Use the built-in library first. With 400+ exercises available and only 7 custom slots on free, save custom exercises for movements the library genuinely lacks.
• Export before history ages out of view. Free stats show 3 months, though Hevy says older history stays stored on its servers. If you want your own long-term record without Pro, export your workouts periodically.
• Decide on lifetime early. Lifetime is $74.99 and never discounted, while the yearly plan is $23.99. If you expect to use Hevy for more than about three years, lifetime works out cheaper by simple arithmetic; if you might switch apps, yearly keeps your options open.

Moving your data in and out

Switching workout apps is painful because years of history live inside them, so it is worth checking the exits before you start. Hevy is the only major tracker that imports another app’s history, and only from Strong: its import accepts Strong’s CSV export in English, once. Nothing else can be imported. On the way out, Hevy lets you export your workouts and measurements from the app. That means Hevy is a good destination for Strong users, and a reasonable place to keep data you might want to take elsewhere, but it will not merge history from Fitbod, JEFIT or a spreadsheet.

If you are coming from Strong, export from Strong first, then run Hevy’s import before logging new workouts, so your history and your new sessions sit in one timeline.

Privacy

The US App Store privacy label lists purchases, contact info, contacts and usage data as data linked to you, and identifiers, sensitive info and diagnostics as data not linked to you. It declares no data used to track you. Google Play’s data safety section says no data is shared with third parties and that you can request deletion. Hevy’s privacy policy, last updated 4 June 2026, lists analytics and advertising among its purposes and names Adjust, which it describes as an advertising service, alongside Amplitude and Google Analytics. There are no ads inside the app. We report both documents as written rather than interpret them.

Hevy Coach, for trainers

Hevy has a separate product for personal trainers. Hevy Coach pricing showed a 30-day free trial with no card required and $25 a month for 1 to 10 clients when we checked, with clients getting Hevy Pro free. Larger tiers load by script and were not read. If you coach clients, our guide to AI tools for personal trainers compares the coaching platforms.

Recent updates

Hevy ships often; its help centre says “We typically update every 1-2 weeks”, and the App Store version history bears that out. In 2026 the releases added Hevy Trainer and its variety and injury settings, HYROX exercises, a redesigned set row with an RPE colour scale, progressive overload for reps-only exercises, gym tagging, templates aimed at women, five new languages and sending workouts to ChatGPT and Claude. No price change appeared between our 17 and 21 September checks.

What ranking reviews get wrong

We read the six Hevy reviews ranking on 21 September 2026. One quotes Pro at $5.99 a month and $34.99 a year, which does not match the store, and says Hevy does not connect to wearables, though it has Apple Watch and Wear OS apps. Another calls Trainer “algorithmic AI” and says Pro unlocks CSV export, which Hevy’s own documents do not say. Most of the rest are published by companies selling competing apps. None of the six mentions the Garmin rejection, the 150-set cap, the feed you cannot turn off, the no-discount rule on lifetime, the lack of Family Sharing or the double billing for coached users.

Pros and cons

Who Hevy is for

• Beginners and budget lifters: the free plan covers most of what you need, and Pro is among the cheapest in the category.
• Android and Wear OS users: Hevy supports both on the free plan.
• Lifters who like accountability: the feed, leaderboards and Strength Level are built in.
• People leaving Strong: Hevy is the one app that imports Strong’s CSV export.

Look elsewhere if you train with a Garmin watch and want your lifts on it, want a log with no social features at all, or want an app that tells you what to lift each day. For the last, see our Fitbod review or our guide to the best AI workout apps.

Hevy vs Strong and the alternatives

The obvious comparison is Strong, the other big pure logger. Strong has no social feed, a long-established Apple Watch app and a free plan capped at 3 templates; its Pro is $3.99 to $4.99 a month or $23.99 to $29.99 a year in the US. Our Strong app review covers it in full and our Hevy vs Strong comparison puts them side by side. If you are new to lifting, our best workout apps for beginners covers guided options.

Hevy compared with other trackers

Hevy’s main competition is other loggers, not AI coaches. This table uses each app’s US App Store listing or help centre, read on 21 September 2026.

On this evidence Hevy is the cheapest paid tracker of the group, and it supports Wear OS on its free plan. Strong is the closest like-for-like rival; Caliber is the pick if free AI analysis matters; Fitbod is a different product that plans your sessions for you; FitNotes is the zero-cost option on Android. Our guide to the best free workout apps sorts the whole field by what free really includes.

Hevy’s 2026 in releases

Hevy’s App Store version history shows how the product moved this year. Dates are as Apple lists them.

Almost all of the year’s new features landed on Trainer, which is a Pro feature. The free logger has stayed stable, which is arguably what a logger should do.

Questions to answer before you commit to Hevy

• Do you wear a Garmin? If so, Hevy will not sync with it, by Hevy’s own account.
• How many routines do you run? Four or fewer and the free plan may be enough indefinitely.
• Do you mind a social feed? You can make everything private, but the Discover feed stays on the home screen.
• Will anyone else in your household use it? Without Family Sharing, each person needs their own subscription.
• Do you want the app to plan your training? That is Hevy Trainer, on Pro; if you want AI planning specifically, look at Fitbod instead.
• Are you coming from Strong? Import your Strong CSV before you log anything new, because Hevy allows one import.

Our verdict: 4.3 out of 5

Hevy is the best value workout tracker for most people. The free plan is usable rather than a trial, Pro is cheap, and it runs on every major platform, including Wear OS. It loses marks for things its own help centre admits: a free tier tighter than its store listing suggests, no Garmin integration, a feed you cannot switch off, and billing quirks around coaching and families. None of those is a reason to avoid it, but each is worth knowing before you build two years of training history inside it.

Where the facts on this page come from

• US App Store and Google Play listings for Hevy, read 21 September 2026: prices, ratings, privacy label, version history.
• Hevy help centre articles on Free vs Pro, downgrading, sales, import and export, Trainer, Garmin, Wear OS, Family Sharing, Hevy Coach billing, privacy settings, platforms, the set limit, RPE and supersets, read 21 September 2026.
• hevyapp.com features, about and ChatGPT pages; Hevy’s privacy policy (updated 4 June 2026); Hevy Coach pricing page.
• Six ranking Hevy reviews, read 21 September 2026.

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