Hevy vs Strong: Prices, Free Limits and Which to Pick

It depends mostly on how many different workouts your program has. As of October 2026, Hevy's free version saves four routines and Strong's saves three. Pick Hevy if your program has four workouts, you want to log on the web or a Wear OS watch, or you'd pay for Trainer to build your program. Pick Strong if three routines cover your program and you want a private log with no social feed. If you'd rather have each session's weight and reps set for you, GainsLog, which I build, does that on its free version, on iPhone.

I build GainsLog, a workout app that competes with both, so read this with that in mind. It's the third option here: an iPhone app, with an Apple Watch companion, that sets each session's weight and reps from what you logged, on the free version too. Ready-made programs for muscle growth are on Premium. I compare it with each app in GainsLog vs Hevy and GainsLog vs Strong. Before I built it, I tried RepCount, StrengthLog, RP Hypertrophy App and Strong.

Every Hevy and Strong price and limit below comes from their own pages: their US App Store listings, help centers and websites, checked on 8 October 2026. Several comparisons that rank for this search get the limits and prices wrong; the corrections are near the end.

Free limits come from Hevy's help center, Strong's help center and Strong's App Store listing. Prices come from the Hevy and Strong US App Store listings, which show more than one product for some periods. The table gives the lowest and highest.

A routine is a saved workout you start from. Neither app caps how many workouts you log. Strong's listing says the free version saves unlimited workouts (App Store), Hevy's comparison page says the same for Hevy (Hevy), and both apps let you start an empty workout without a routine (Strong, Hevy). The caps are on saved routines and charts. Hevy's free version also caps custom exercises at seven (Hevy).

Strong's free version saves three routines, which it calls templates (Strong). Hevy's saves four. Neither help center says whether the example routines each app ships with count toward the limit. If you drop from Hevy Pro back to free, you keep the routines you already made but can't create new ones past four (Hevy).

So count the different workouts in your program. Here's how that works out for the example programs on this site and two common splits:

• Two days of full body: one workout, repeated. Fits both free versions.
• Three days of full body: one workout, repeated three times. Fits both.
• Push/pull/legs: three workouts. Fits both, and uses all three of Strong's free routines.
• Four-day upper/lower: Upper A, Lower A, Upper B and Lower B. Four workouts. Fits Hevy's free version, not Strong's.
• Push/pull/legs with separate A and B days: six workouts. Fits neither free version.

Hevy's free version shows your stats for the last 30 days or 3 months. Pro adds the one-year and all-time views. Your workouts stay stored when you leave Pro, so the longer views come back if you subscribe again (Hevy).

Strong's help center lists each exercise's history and records without a PRO label, and says the charts tab is PRO only (Strong). That page was last updated in 2021. Strong's App Store feature list mentions volume and 1RM graphs without saying whether they need PRO, and its home page says "Visualize your progress with Strong PRO" (Strong). I couldn't confirm the current free version from Strong's pages alone.

If you mostly look at last session's numbers, neither limit matters much. For a graph of a year of bench press, Hevy requires Pro, and Strong's 2021 help page says charts need PRO.

On the US App Store, Hevy Pro is $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 once for lifetime access (App Store). Strong's own listing states $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year for Strong PRO, and lists Strong PRO Forever at $99.99 (App Store).

Both listings also show other products: a $3.99 monthly plan for Hevy, and for Strong a $3.99 product with no period named, $19.99 for six months, $23.99 a year and $79.99 Forever. The listing doesn't say which one the app will offer you, so check the price on the paywall before you pay. With the lowest listed products, Strong ties Hevy at $23.99 a year. For monthly, yearly and lifetime, Hevy's lowest listed price is at or below Strong's.

Hevy's lifetime purchase costs about three years of its yearly plan ($74.99 against $23.99). Strong's costs 3.3 years at the prices its description states ($99.99 against $29.99).

Both are logs first. Hevy shows what you lifted last time in a Previous column while you train (Hevy). In Strong you build your own templates (Strong), and its help pages describe nothing that picks the next weight for you.

Hevy Trainer is the exception, and it's Pro only. It asks about your goal, experience, equipment and schedule, among other things, and builds a program. Hevy's help center says it tells you when to increase the weight and by how much, and Hevy's feature page says it adjusts working weights automatically. Hevy says Trainer runs on an algorithm, not AI (Hevy, Hevy). Strong's help center describes no program generator.

I built GainsLog to make the next target easier to choose. How it does that, and what it costs, is near the end. If you already run a program you like and only need somewhere to write it down, Hevy or Strong is enough.

Hevy imports a Strong CSV file. Export it from Strong's settings (Strong), with Strong set to English. Hevy's guide asks for an unedited export. One part of it says weights should be in kilograms, another says units are handled automatically (Hevy).

The import brings your workout history, not your saved routines. Supersets arrive as separate exercises. Exercises Hevy can't match become custom exercises, and the guide doesn't say whether those count toward the free version's seven. You can only have one import at a time, and you can undo it.

I found no import article in Strong's help center, and its 2021 export page says Strong's own exports can't be imported back into Strong (Strong). Strong exports a CSV file. Hevy exports a file you can open in a spreadsheet, which its comparison page calls CSV. Neither app's export article mentions a paid plan (Hevy, Strong).

GainsLog has no import or export, so moving to it from either app means starting a fresh log.

• Protokl and Fitness AI Trends say Hevy's free version has unlimited routines. Hevy's help center says four (Hevy). Hevy's own App Store description lists "Create an unlimited amount of routines" among its features, and further down lists unlimited routines as a Pro benefit.
• Fitness AI Trends says "Hevy has no comparable lifetime option." The US listing sells Hevy Pro Lifetime for $74.99 (App Store).
• Fitness AI Trends puts Hevy Pro at about $8.99 a month or $59.99 a year. That doesn't match the US App Store listing, which shows $2.99 or $3.99 a month and $23.99 a year (App Store).
• Fitness AI Trends says Hevy has no plate calculator. Hevy's help center explains how to use it (Hevy), and Hevy's comparison page lists it as free (Hevy). Strong's 2021 help page makes it a PRO feature (Strong).
• Gym Note Plus says export is on the paid tiers. Neither app's export article says so (Hevy, Strong).
• Protokl says neither app has a progressive overload algorithm. Hevy Trainer suggests weight increases, on Pro (Hevy).

• Pick Hevy if your program has four workouts, you want a web or Wear OS app, you want three months of charts without paying, or you'd pay for Trainer to build your program. Hevy also has a feed where you follow friends and copy their routines (App Store).
• Pick Strong if three routines cover your program and you want a private log. Hevy's own comparison page calls Strong "a personal logbook with no social features" (Hevy). If your gym mixes kilo and pound equipment, Strong's listing says it supports a combination of both (App Store). I didn't find the same statement on Hevy's pages. GainsLog has one setting for the whole app, kilograms or pounds.
• Pick on price only if you plan to pay. Both free versions log unlimited workouts.

GainsLog works differently from both. Its free version sets each session's weight and rep targets from the weight, reps and reps in reserve you logged, for every exercise (Premium). Premium adds ready-made programs and a program builder that rates a program against a range of weekly sets for each muscle, 10 to 15 for a muscle you prioritize. GainsLog's published substitution rule says a swap has to train the target muscle through the same main joint movement (exercise alternatives).

Premium costs more. It is $5.99 a week with a free trial, or $39.99 a year, against $23.99 a year for Hevy and $23.99 to $29.99 for Strong. GainsLog's free version keeps three saved workouts, like Strong's. Hevy and Strong also do things GainsLog doesn't. Both run on Android, where GainsLog's app is in closed beta. Hevy runs on the web and Wear OS and has a feed. Both have been on the App Store for years longer than GainsLog, which came out in November 2025. All three sell a lifetime purchase; GainsLog's is $79.99 (App Store, checked 22 October 2026).

The full comparisons are GainsLog vs Hevy and GainsLog vs Strong.

If you'd rather follow a program than write one, and have each session's weight and reps set from your last, see how GainsLog works. It's compared with each app in GainsLog vs Hevy and GainsLog vs Strong.

Researched and drafted with AI assistance from Hevy's and Strong's App Store listings, help centers and websites, and GainsLog's App Store listing and code, then checked against those pages on 8 and 9 October 2026 and reviewed by me. Prices and limits change, so the pages used are listed below.

• Hevy on the US App Store: prices, features, platforms
• Strong on the US App Store: prices, free routine limit, features
• Hevy help: what Hevy Pro includes
• Hevy help: switching from Pro to free
• Hevy help: Hevy Trainer
• Hevy website: Hevy Trainer
• Hevy help: importing Strong data
• Hevy help: exporting your data
• Hevy help: previous workout values
• Hevy help: plate calculator
• Hevy website: platforms
• Hevy's own Hevy vs Strong page: free plate calculator
• Strong help: what Strong PRO includes
• Strong help: templates
• Strong help: exercise detail and charts
• Strong help: exporting workout data
• Strong help: plate calculator
• Strong help: recording a workout
• Strong website
• GainsLog on the US App Store: prices, platforms, release date