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 apps. One is the free tier: four routines, 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 the last section first. Hevy Pro is the cheapest paid plan in this comparison and nothing here undercuts it.

We publish Lift, one of the alternatives below. This page compares publisher documentation and listed US-dollar prices checked on 7 September 2026, not hands-on testing of every app, apart from one clearly labeled personal impression of Boostcamp's interface. Store prices and offers vary by region and platform.

What you would be leaving

Hevy free allows four routines and seven custom exercises, and limits graph ranges to three months. Older workouts stay in your account after Pro expires; the cap is on analysis, not on your history. 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, and data export, including importing an English CSV from Strong.

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 progression on the routine you already run

Trainer's documented rule raises the weight once you reach the top of the prescribed rep range on every set. That behavior is described for Trainer-generated programs. Do not assume a routine you built by hand receives the same automation.

Lift puts the progression settings on each exercise inside your own plan. Your squat can carry a different rep range and weight increment from your lateral raise, and the rule follows the exercise rather than the program it came from. That configuration is free. Premium is what calculates the next target from your logged sets, with an optional energy check before the session.

Without Premium, you still see your previous sets on the set you are about to log, which is enough to run double progression or a fixed weight increment yourself.

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

Lift's free tier tracks personal records for weight, estimated one-rep max, reps, time, and volume where they apply to the exercise, and gives you two exercise goals with achievement feedback. Multi-week periodization is free as well: four example cycles, or a custom schema you save and reuse.

Charts deserve a specific mention, because this is where Hevy's three-month graph range bites. Lift's free tier charts 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.

Reason 3: You want training and calories in the same app

Lift's free tier includes food, calorie, macro, and bodyweight logging alongside the training side: 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 logger plus a separate nutrition app, that consolidation is the clearest practical difference.

Lift 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. Lift US pricing.

See how Lift handles progression per exercise.

Where Hevy is still the better buy

Say this plainly: Hevy Pro costs $23.99 a year against Lift 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.

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. Lift 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.

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.

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 seven progressive overload apps compared.