Hevy App Review: Is Hevy Pro Worth $23.99 a Year?

It depends on whether you want Hevy to plan for you. As of October 2026, Hevy Pro costs $2.99 or $3.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 once on the US App Store. Pay if you want Trainer to build a program and tell you when to add weight, if your program has more than four different workouts, or if you want a year or more of charts. Stay free if you follow a program of up to four workouts and pick your own weights. Free Hevy has no time limit and no ads.

I build GainsLog, a workout app that competes with Hevy, so read this with that in mind. Every Hevy price, limit and rule below comes from Hevy's US and Swedish App Store listings, its help center and its website, read on 22 October 2026. The help center articles used were updated between 7 and 19 October 2026.

Yes. The download is free, the app has no ads, and its listing says "If you don't purchase Hevy Pro, you can keep using Hevy for free" (App Store). Hevy describes no free trial, and the free version doesn't expire. None of the 90 articles in Hevy's help center mentions a trial.

Free Hevy logs as many workouts as you like. Its limits are on what you save and what you see (Hevy, Hevy):

• 4 routines. A routine is a saved workout you start from.
• 7 custom exercises, on top of Hevy's own library.
• Workout and stats history for the last 3 months. Stats can also show the last 30 days.
• Body weight and waist as the only body measurements.

Free also includes the Previous column that shows last session's weight and reps while you train, the plate calculator, rest timers, RPE logging, the social feed and Strava sync (Hevy, Hevy). Hevy's library has 26 ready-made programs you can save, and the list of Pro features doesn't include it. Saving a program puts each of its workouts in your list as a routine (Hevy). Hevy doesn't say whether those count toward the four, so check before you save a five-day program.

Neither listing says which of the two monthly products the app will offer you (App Store, App Store), so check the price on the paywall. A year of the cheaper monthly plan costs $35.88, against $23.99 for the yearly plan. Lifetime costs as much as about 3.1 years of the yearly plan in the US and 3.4 years in Sweden, so it pays off only if you'll still use Hevy after that.

A few times a year, Hevy runs a sale with 50% off the first year of the yearly plan. It's only for people who have never had Pro, it never applies to lifetime, and the plan renews at the full yearly price after the first year (Hevy). If you've never had Pro, the sale halves the price of your first year.

Pro covers one account. It isn't part of Apple's Family Sharing, and the App Store and Google Play sell one subscription per account. To pay for a partner or a child, Hevy points you to its website (Hevy, Hevy).

Hevy's help center lists the difference (Hevy, Hevy, Hevy). Logging, personal records and the feed carry no Pro label in Hevy's features guide (Hevy).

Most of what Pro adds is more of what free Hevy already does. Trainer is different. It builds a program for you, and Hevy says its "progressive overload feature" will "let you know when to increase your weight and by how much based on your performance". Hevy says the programs come from an algorithm, not AI (Hevy).

To start, Trainer asks eleven questions: your goal, experience, gender, birthday, weight, height, equipment, how often you want to train, whether to add cardio, how long workouts should be, and which muscle group to focus on (Hevy). The goals are Gain Strength, Build Muscle and Fat Loss. How often you train sets the default split (Hevy):

• 1 to 3 days a week: full body.
• 4 days: upper, lower, upper, lower.
• 5 days: push, pull, legs, upper, lower.
• 6 days: push, pull, legs, twice.

You can pick another split that fits your frequency, but changing the split, the goal or the number of days starts a new program and removes the current one's progress report (Hevy). Level, equipment, focus muscle, workout length, rest times, cardio, excluded exercises and injuries can change without a restart. With a custom equipment setup you can enter the dumbbells and plates you actually have, so Trainer suggests weights you can load. A variety setting decides whether your exercises stay the same, change after about six weeks, or can change every week.

Hevy's Trainer page says you get a recommended starting weight if you've logged the exercise at least once in Hevy (Hevy). It doesn't say what Trainer suggests for an exercise you've never logged. How Trainer decides to add weight after that is compared with other apps in the progressive overload app comparison.

Pro's set count per muscle group shows how many sets each muscle got over a period. Hevy counts a set as 1 for the exercise's main muscle and 0.5 for each secondary muscle, and it counts warm-up sets too (Hevy). Four sets of an exercise with chest as its main muscle and triceps as a secondary one count as 4 chest sets and 2 triceps sets. Hevy's article says research commonly suggests about 10 to 20 sets per muscle a week "can be an effective range for muscle growth", and calls that a general guideline.

Because warm-ups count, the number can be higher than your working sets. Two warm-up sets before your first chest exercise, in each of two sessions a week, add 4 sets to your chest count. Subtract the warm-ups if you want a count of working sets only.

GainsLog's program builder, on Premium, counts differently, and it counts the program you plan rather than the sets you logged. It adds a program's working sets to the one muscle each exercise targets, with no half sets and no warm-ups, and checks each muscle against a range of weekly sets, such as 10 to 15 for a muscle you prioritize. The other ranges differ by muscle, and some by gender. The volume calculator uses the same numbers, and the training volume guide explains them.

Routines and custom exercises you made beyond the free limits stay, and you can still use them, but you can't create new ones (Hevy). Measurements that free Hevy doesn't track stay visible, but you can't add new ones. The 1-year and all-time views disappear and free Hevy shows the last 3 months, but Hevy keeps the history on its servers, and it comes back as soon as you subscribe again (Hevy, Hevy).

Cancel where you bought: in your Apple account for the App Store, in Google Play for Android, or in Hevy's settings for a website purchase. To switch plans, for example from monthly to lifetime, Hevy says to cancel the old plan first and buy the new one after; Pro lasts until the paid period ends (Hevy). Cancelling doesn't refund anything. Apple handles App Store refunds, and Hevy says requests within 14 days of purchase are usually approved without questions. On Google Play, Hevy's support reviews requests for the latest monthly payment, a yearly plan in its first 3 months, or lifetime in its first 6 months (Hevy).

• Pay if you want the app to build your program and suggest your weights, which is what Trainer does. For comparison, RP Hypertrophy, which also plans your training, cost $299.99 a year in October 2026.
• Pay if your program has more than four different workouts, such as push, pull and legs with separate A and B days. Free Hevy saves four. How common programs fit the free limits is in Hevy vs Strong.
• Pay if you want to see a year or more of progress on a lift, or measurements beyond weight and waist.
• Stay free if you already follow a program of up to four workouts and choose your own weights from last session's numbers in the Previous column.
• Buy lifetime only if you expect to use Hevy for longer than it takes to break even, about 3.1 years at US prices. Lifetime is never on sale, so there's no reason to wait for one.

GainsLog, which I build, is a workout app for iPhone and iPad. It sets each set's weight and rep targets from the weight, reps and reps in reserve you logged. Those targets are free for every exercise you've logged before. On Hevy, weight suggestions come with Trainer, which needs Pro. GainsLog's ready-made programs and program builder are Premium, at $5.99 a week with a free trial or $39.99 a year (Premium).

Hevy is cheaper and runs on more devices. Hevy Pro's yearly plan is $23.99, against the $39.99 a year on GainsLog's Premium page. Hevy runs on Android, the web and Wear OS. GainsLog's Android app is in closed beta, and there's no web app. Hevy's free version saves four routines to GainsLog's three, and Hevy has a feed. GainsLog has no import or export, so moving from Hevy means starting a new log. The full head-to-head is GainsLog vs Hevy.

If you'd rather have each session's weight and reps set from your last workout without paying for a program generator, see how GainsLog works.

Researched and drafted with AI assistance from Hevy's App Store listings, help center and website and from GainsLog's code, checked against those pages on 22 October 2026 and reviewed by me. Prices change, so the pages used are listed below.

• Hevy on the US App Store: prices, Pro features
• Hevy on the Swedish App Store: prices
• Hevy help: what Hevy Pro includes
• Hevy help: switching from Pro to free
• Hevy help: Hevy Trainer explained
• Hevy help: Hevy Trainer settings
• Hevy website: Hevy Trainer
• Hevy help: 50% off the first year
• Hevy help: cancelling or changing your plan
• Hevy help: refunds
• Hevy help: Family Sharing
• Hevy help: sets per muscle group
• Hevy help: features guide
• Hevy help: routine and program library
• Hevy help: previous workout values
• GainsLog on the US App Store