Hevy review: the cheapest seat in the house, and proud of it

★★★★☆4.3 / 5

Analysis: Reese Calderwood · Last updated June 2, 2026

Official site: hevyapp.com

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The case for a logger

Hevy is honest about what it is, and that honesty is the point. It is a place to record the sets you already plan to do, not a coach telling you what to do. If you write your own routines, the value is obvious: every session lands in a tidy history, your last working weights are right there when you start the next one, and you spend less time fighting the app than with anything else on our list. It does not try to be your trainer, which is exactly why self-coached lifters take to it.

What it tracks well

Logging is fast. You build a routine once, then tap through it set by set, with rest timers and previous numbers sitting where you need them mid-workout. The history and progress charts are genuinely useful for spotting whether a lift is moving, and the free tier covers most of this outright, with Pro adding deeper analytics and unlimited routines for $3.99 a month. For tracking your own training, it does the core job as cleanly as the paid apps, at a fraction of the price.

Where it stops

The limit is the whole pitch in reverse. Hevy will not write you a program, progress your load, or tell you what to train on a given day. If you do not already have a plan, it leaves you to flounder, because pointing you in a direction is simply not its job. There is no coaching, no guided block, and no hand to hold. For a beginner who needs structure, that gap is the difference between training and guessing.

Score, point by point

Logging speed		10/10
Progress tracking		9/10
Free tier usefulness		9/10
Value for money		10/10
Coaching and structure		3/10
Beginner support		4/10
App interface		9/10
Exercise database		8/10
Offline access		8/10
New content cadence		7/10
Stability		9/10
Availability in the US		9/10

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Best if you

Hevy is the right call for a lifter who already knows the lifts and follows their own program, whether that came from a book, a past coach or years in the gym. At under four dollars a month it tracks that training better than anything else we tried, and it gets out of the way while doing it. If you want to be told what to do each session, this is not the app, and Ladder earns its higher price by filling exactly that role.

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