Hevy vs Fitbod
This comparison trips people up because the two apps are not really competitors. Hevy is a logger: you bring a programme, it records it beautifully and cheaply. Fitbod is a generator: it decides what you train today, based on what it thinks has recovered. Picking between them comes down to whether you have a plan already, and whether you want one made for you every session, at $12.99 to $15.99 a month.
Updated August 2026
The short answer
- Pick Fitbod if you do not have a programme and do not want to build one. Generating the session is the entire product and it is good at it.
- Pick Hevy if you already know what you are training this week and want it logged, graphed and out of the way, for a quarter of the price.
- Price is the sharpest difference: Hevy is $2.99 a month or $23.99 a year, with a $74.99 lifetime option. Fitbod is $12.99 to $15.99 a month, or $79.99 a year, and it is a paid app in practice, since the free tier is a handful of workouts.
- Ratings: Fitbod has the larger review base by far at 4.81 from 280,106 US ratings; Hevy is rated higher at 4.92 from 85,100.
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Start the free trialWhat each one is actually for
Fitbod asks what equipment you have and what you are training for, then builds each session (exercises, sets, target weights), rotating movements and tracking which muscle groups it thinks are recovered. For someone who opens the gym door with no idea what to do, that is genuinely valuable and it removes the decision that makes people skip sessions.
Hevy assumes the decision is already made. Your routines live in the app, you run them, and it handles the recording, the history and the graphs. It adds a social feed and a web app on top, and it is one of the cheapest subscriptions in the category.
The mistake people make is paying Fitbod prices while ignoring Fitbod's product. If you already run push/pull/legs and you follow it, you are spending $150 a year on a workout generator whose output you overwrite. That is the single most common reason people go looking for a Fitbod alternative.
Side by side
| Hevy | Fitbod | |
|---|---|---|
| Core job | Log the plan you have | Generate the plan |
| App Store rating | 4.92 (85,100) | 4.81 (280,106) |
| Free tier | 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, 3 months of graphs | A handful of workouts, then required |
| Subscription | $2.99/mo, $23.99/yr | $12.99–$15.99/mo, $79.99/yr |
| One-time purchase | $74.99 | None |
| Social feed | Yes | No |
| Web access | Yes | No |
| Platforms | iPhone, Android, web | iPhone, Android |
The middle option most people are actually after
There is a gap between these two. Plenty of lifters do not want a session invented for them every day, but they do want to be told what weight to put on the bar next. That is the one decision that genuinely benefits from being automated, because it depends on data you have already recorded and would rather not read.
SayLift sits there. You run your own programme, and its coach reads your logged history and returns one instruction per exercise, with the working weight to use: increase, hold, decrease, deload, restart or calibrate. That comes with unlimited logging, voice logging, the progress dashboard and 873 exercises with instructions and photos that work offline, on a $49.99-a-year subscription with a 3-day trial. You can also paste an existing routine in as plain text rather than rebuilding it by hand.
Where it loses to both. It does not generate sessions, so it is not a Fitbod replacement for someone who wants the workout decided for them. It has no social feed and no web app, so Hevy wins there. It is iPhone-only, and it has no App Store ratings yet against Fitbod's 280,000 and Hevy's 85,000.
How to decide
- Write down what you are training this week. If you cannot, you want a generator, and Fitbod is the best one here.
- If you can, ask whether you actually need help choosing exercises or only help choosing weights. Those are different products at very different prices.
- Try Hevy's free tier for two weeks before subscribing to anything. It is enough to know whether the logger suits you.
- Check Fitbod against your own gym. Generated sessions are only as good as the equipment list you gave it.
- Compare on the annual price rather than the monthly. The gap between $23.99 and $79.99 a year is the real decision.
Frequently asked questions
Is Fitbod better than Hevy?
They do different jobs. Fitbod decides what you train today and is very good at it; Hevy records a programme you already have, cheaply and cleanly. If you have a plan, Hevy at $2.99 a month does what you need. If you don't, Hevy will not fill that gap and Fitbod will.
Is Hevy cheaper than Fitbod?
Substantially. Hevy is $2.99 a month or $23.99 a year and also sells a $74.99 lifetime unlock. Fitbod runs $12.99 to $15.99 a month or $79.99 a year with no lifetime option, so over two years the difference is roughly $48 against roughly $160 on annual plans.
Does Hevy build workouts for you?
Not in the way Fitbod does. Hevy has a ChatGPT integration for creating routines, but the app's job is logging a plan you own rather than generating a fresh session each time based on recovery. If daily session generation is what you want, that is Fitbod's core feature.
Is Fitbod free?
Only briefly. There is a short free allowance of workouts and then a subscription is required, at $12.99 to $15.99 a month or $79.99 a year. Treat it as a paid app when you compare it to Hevy, whose free tier can be used indefinitely within its routine and history limits.
Is there an app that tells you what weight to lift without generating the whole workout?
SayLift does exactly that: you run your own programme and its coach reads your logged history to set the next working weight for each exercise. It costs $49.99 a year after a 3-day trial, which sits between Hevy Pro and Fitbod on price. It does not invent sessions like Fitbod, and it has no social feed or web app like Hevy. It is also iPhone-only with no App Store ratings yet, and it has no free tier, where Hevy does.
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