HeavySet alternative: what to move to in 2026

What is HeavySet?

HeavySet is a gym log from Runloop Ltd, first released on 21 January 2017. It is aimed at people who program their own training and want to set up rep ranges, percentages and rest presets before each session. The logging screen fills in suggested values from your previous set.

It is free to download. Improvised workouts are unlimited, but as a non-paying user you are limited in how many times you can run the routines you have created, and routines produced by importing or duplicating are not available to you at all. The upgrade is an in-app purchase sold by user level, which lifts those limits.

The current version is 2025.1, released on 20 August 2025. It needs iOS 16.6 or later.

Why people look for a HeavySet alternative

• Nothing has shipped since 20 August 2025. The App Store listing is the checkable fact here. For an app that has to keep up with new iOS releases every September, a gap over a year long is the reason most of this page's readers are here.
• The free tier rations your own routines. Improvised sessions are unlimited, but a routine you built yourself can only be run a set number of times before the upgrade prompt arrives. A routine you imported or duplicated will not run at all until you pay.
• Every set is typed. Suggested values help, but it is still a screen you handle with chalky hands between sets. There is no way to say what you did.
• You supply the exercise knowledge. HeavySet lets you add any movement you like and attach notes and a training max to it. What it does not carry is a library of exercises with photos and step-by-step instructions for the moment you are standing at an unfamiliar machine.
• It expects you to be your own programmer. Training-max percentages, deload rules and rep ranges are all yours to configure. Nothing in HeavySet reads your last few sessions and decides today's weight on its own.

SayLift vs HeavySet

The two apps disagree about where the effort should go. HeavySet puts it in the plan: you describe the session in advance with ranges, percentages and rest presets, and then the workout is mostly confirming what you already specified. SayLift puts it in the record: there are no ranges or presets to fill in beforehand, you train, and afterwards you hold a button and say "bench press, three sets of eight at 135, then incline dumbbell press, ten, ten and eight at fifty." The audio reaches a model that returns the exercises, sets, reps and weights already structured, and a review screen appears before anything saves.

If you keep abandoning trackers because logging became a chore around week three, the microphone fixes that. Twenty seconds of talking at the end of a session replaces a screen of taps between every set.

SayLift also carries 873 exercises stored on the device, each with photographs and written instructions, available with no signal in a basement gym. And its importer takes a plan in whatever shape you have it, including a message from your coach or a paragraph you paste in, rather than a specific plain-text format.

• Speak a full session instead of typing it. One recording, six exercises, no taps.
• 873 exercises with photos and instructions, stored on the phone and readable offline.
• Import a routine in any format. Paste your coach's message or speak the plan; the app structures it into training days.
• A coach that picks the next weight from what you actually lifted, rather than a percentage you configured months ago.
• Still under active development, with an iOS 26 era release rather than a 2025 one.
• No account required. You can go straight past the sign-in screen as a guest.

Who SayLift is for

SayLift suits you if the part of tracking you hate is the tracking. You finish your sets, talk for twenty seconds, and you are done. Your existing routine comes over when you paste it in, and the coach works out the next weight so you never have to set percentages. It is also an app that is still being updated.

Try it free for 3 days with every feature on. After that it is $4.17 a month (billed $49.99 a year), $7.99 a month or $3.99 a week in the US.