Hevy logs your lifts flawlessly.
It just can't tell you how strong you are.
That's the whole gap. Stronger keeps the fast logging you already love, then turns every set into a Strength Score, ranks you Beginner to World Class, and drops you onto a leaderboard with your friends. Hevy remembers the work. Stronger tells you if it's working.
Rank yourself right now.
This is the number Stronger hands you after a single workout, and the one Hevy, after a thousand, never will. Drag your bench.
// illustrative model, men's/women's bench standards relative to bodyweight
A 1.22×-bodyweight bench puts you in Advanced. Hevy will happily log it forever and never once tell you that.
A log is a record.
A score is a verdict.
Hevy is a beautiful record of the past, every set, perfectly preserved. But a record can't tell you if you're winning. Stronger reads the same lifts and delivers the verdict you actually train for: stronger, or just busy?
// logged. filed. and then... nothing.
We counted every row.
Nineteen rows, an honest winner called on each. Hevy takes seven, and not one of them is about getting stronger. Stronger takes the five that are: a Strength Score, your weakest muscle, a rank you can actually move. One of those columns is the reason you're here.
Stronger- Fast logging, PRs, RPE, rest timers
- ✓ mature
- ✓ + Quick Log
- Supersets, plate & warm-up calculators
- ✓ all three WIN
- Not confirmed
- Set cap per workout
- 150 max
- No hard cap
- Strength Score, ranked vs standards
- ·
- Core feature WIN
- Weak-point analysis, by muscle
- Muscle charts
- Ranked & flagged WIN
- Long-term history reports
- Last month only, in-app
- Score trend + daily insights
- Social feed & community
- 13M+, full feed WIN
- Smaller, growing
- Ranked challenges & leaderboards
- Social comparison
- Built around the Score WIN
- AI program generation
- Hevy Trainer + HevyGPT
- AI & adaptive routines
- Progression on your existing routine
- Trainer = generated plans only
- Adapts your own WIN
- Estimated 1RM & muscle-volume graphs
- ✓ detailed
- ✓ + tier-ranked
- Strava auto-post
- ✓ WIN
- Not confirmed
- Daily insights, what to train next
- ·
- Yes WIN
- Garmin integration
- ✗ Garmin declined
- ✗
- Apple Watch · Wear OS · iPad · web
- All four WIN
- iPhone + Android · Watch unclear
- Public API · CSV export · imports
- API + CSV + import WIN
- Export only
- Coach / client tooling
- Hevy Coach WIN
- Consumer-only
- Price, monthly / lifetime
- $2.99 / $74.99 WIN
- $9.99 / none
Read that tally again. Hevy wins the rows about price, platforms, and plumbing. Stronger wins the rows about whether you're actually getting stronger. Only one of those is why you lift.
So… which one is right for you?
Tap what actually matters to you. We'll call it honestly, even when the answer is Hevy.
Most serious lifters land on Stronger, but if your list leans toward price, platforms, and data control, Hevy's genuinely the smarter buy.
Where Hevy really does win
We're not going to pretend Hevy is bad, because it isn't. So here's exactly what it does better. Then look closely, because every one of these wins has an edge worth seeing.
It's cheaper, and the free tier is real
$2.99/mo, $74.99 once, plus a free plan with 4 routines and 3 months of history, no ads. Genuinely generous. But logging was always the cheap part to build. You pay Hevy less because you get less: a tidy record, not a read on whether any of it is working.
It logs from your wrist
Apple Watch, Wear OS, iPad and web, broader and more mature than ours. If you train phone-free from your watch, Hevy wins this outright and we'll say so plainly. (Then read what their own watch users actually report.)
Your data exports anywhere
A public API, CSV, and Strong import. Real, and we don't match it. But notice why power users reach for it: they pipe their logs into spreadsheets and outside AI to get the analysis Hevy won't give them in-app. A great export is what you need when the app won't read your numbers for you.
Your friends are already on it
Thirteen million lifters, a real social graph, and yes, we're smaller. But it's a feed of everyone's sets: a timeline, not a scoreboard. It shows you what your friends lifted and never once where you rank, which is the one thing you actually opened it to find out.
It works for trainers
Hevy Coach is a real coach-and-client product, and Stronger isn't built for that. If you program for other people, go with Hevy without a second thought. Just know it's a tool for running someone else's training, not for sharpening your own.
And no, it's not "behind on AI"
Hevy Trainer and HevyGPT are live, and they build and progress real programs. So the honest gap was never "no AI", it's what the AI does. Trainer hands you a brand-new generated plan, while Hevy's own users keep asking for progression on the routine they already run, and call what shipped "basic and rudimentary." Having AI and having the one lifters actually want aren't the same thing.
Every five-star review has a "but."
We read hundreds of App Store reviews and r/Hevy threads. The stars are for the logging, and Hevy earns them. But there's almost always a second paragraph, and it's never about logging. It's about everything Hevy doesn't do after.
"I just use my phone and leave the watch as a rest timer, because the watch is awful."
"Hevy Trainer is extremely basic and rudimentary. It mostly just bumps the weight after you hit max reps."
"Love the app, but it's too social-media-y. I just want to turn the feed off and save my workouts privately."
"You can only set RPE after you start the workout, not when you build the routine. So I keep my target RPEs in the notes."
"In Strong, Return jumps to the next field. In Hevy you tap every input specifically. It grinds my gears."
"Feature requests have been ignored for years. I'm starting to think my lifetime purchase was a mistake."
Five stars for the logbook, earned. But every "but" above is the same missing layer: the one that reads your training back to you and tells you what to do next. Hevy treats it as an afterthought. For Stronger, it's the whole point.
It finds the weak point you've been ignoring.
Hevy can show you that your bench stalled. Stronger tells you why: it ranks every muscle group, surfaces the one that's holding the rest back, and puts a target on it. The difference between a chart you interpret and a coach that points.
Yes, Hevy is cheaper.
No, that's not the question.
Seven dollars a month is the price of the answer Hevy can't give you. If your strength isn't worth a coffee a week, Hevy's the right call, genuinely.
Hevy
cheapest serious tracker- Routines4
- Custom exercises7
- History3 months
- AdsNone
Stronger
7-DAY FREE TRIAL- ✦A Strength Score & global ranks
- ✦Weak-point analysis
- ✦Adaptive progression on your routine
- ✦Ranked friend challenges
Our annual price is inconsistent across surfaces right now. We'll own that. Take the in-app plan screen as the real one.
Nobody leaves Hevy on day one.
They leave on month eight, when the logging stops being the hard part and one specific itch won't go away. In their words:
"Hevy is the best tracker I've used but it's missing progressive overload and periodization for my own routines."
"I used Hevy for a year, then went back to a spreadsheet. I needed better notes, more set types, more flexibility than it gave me."
"After a while I wanted deeper long-term analysis: lift trends over a year, the charts a plain log just doesn't give."
"Can I put my current program into Hevy Trainer?" Hevy's answer: not yet; Trainer is for people without a program.
Read those again. Not one of them is "Hevy can't log my sets." They're all the same person, a few months in, asking the question Stronger was built to answer. (The 150-set cap, the missing Garmin, the month-only stats, those are just the seams you find on the way there.)
Questions a Hevy user asks
Is Stronger better than Hevy?
Better at one specific thing: telling you how strong you are and what to do about it. Hevy is better at price, free tier, platforms, API and community. If "am I getting stronger?" is the question keeping you up, Stronger's your app. If it isn't, stay on Hevy with our blessing.
Is Hevy cheaper than Stronger?
Yes, $2.99/mo, $23.99/yr, or $74.99 lifetime, with a generous free tier, against Stronger's $9.99/mo and a 7-day trial. We don't compete on price, and we won't pretend to.
Doesn't Hevy already have AI?
It does. Hevy Trainer and HevyGPT, and they're good. The gap isn't "no AI." It's that Trainer hands you a new generated plan, while Hevy's own users keep begging for progression on the routine they already run. That's the exact thing Stronger's adaptive engine does.
Does Stronger work on Apple Watch?
Honestly: our features page says yes, our App Store listing reads iPhone-first, and that gap is real. Hevy's Watch and Wear OS story is clearer today. If wrist logging is non-negotiable for you, Hevy is the safer pick right now. We'd rather tell you that than lose your trust.
What exactly is the Strength Score?
One number that turns your lifts into a comparable rating, adjusted for bodyweight, gender and training age, placed against global standards from Beginner to World Class, per muscle and overall. Scroll back up and drag the calculator; that's it, live.
How does Stronger fit between Hevy and Strong?
Strong is the polished minimalist logger; Hevy is the social one with the bigger free tier. Stronger is the third path: it keeps the logging but adds the layer neither has: a Strength Score, ranked competition, and adaptive progression. If "log it" is already solved for you and "interpret it" isn't, that's the gap.
Is there a free version of Stronger?
There's a 7-day free trial, and a free Workout Planner with visual guidance remains after it, but the Strength Score, deep analytics, AI routines and full library are Premium. Hevy's permanent free tier is more generous, full stop. If "free forever" is the hard requirement, Hevy's your app.
Can I import my Hevy data into Stronger?
Not in one click. There's no Hevy→Stronger importer today. Keep your Hevy CSV export as your archive, recreate the 2–4 routines you actually run, and let the Score build from your next week. It's a week of double-logging, not a migration project, and it's the honest way to test the switch.
Who should not switch from Hevy?
Anyone whose list leans Hevy in the chooser above: you want the lowest price or a lifetime plan, you log from your Apple Watch, you live in spreadsheets through the API, or your whole crew is already on Hevy's feed. We'd genuinely rather you stayed than switched and churned in a month.
You already know how to log.
Find out how you stack up.
Keep Hevy. Run three workouts in Stronger free. If your first Strength Score doesn't change how you train, you've lost nothing but a week, and you'll have your answer.
