Is Hevy free?

The direct answer

• Free tier: 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, and 3 months of graph history.
• Logging itself is not capped, so record as many workouts as you like.
• Hevy Pro is $2.99 a month or $23.99 a year, and there is a $74.99 one-time purchase, which is unusual and good value if you intend to stay.
• Hevy holds 4.92 stars from 85,100 US ratings, the highest in this category.
• The cap that bites is the 3-month graph history. Everything else you can work around; a training chart that forgets last season is the one people resent.

Which limit will actually reach you

Four routines sounds tight but usually isn't. A push/pull/legs split is three; upper/lower is two. You only feel this if you keep separate routines for travel, deloads or a second gym.

Seven custom exercises is generous for most people, because Hevy's built-in library already covers standard movements. It becomes a problem if you do a lot of machine work with equipment the library names differently, or if you like recording variations precisely.

Three months of graph history is the real one. Progressive overload is a story told over seasons, not weeks, and the whole point of logging is to look back further than you can remember. If you train consistently, you will hit this in your first quarter and it will keep annoying you.

So the practical read is: Hevy free is an excellent logger and a limited analyser. If you only want a record of what you did, free is fine indefinitely. If you want to look at trends, budget for Pro from the start.

If you would rather not pay at all

There are two honest routes. One is to accept Hevy's caps and use it as a pure logbook, which is genuinely viable, and it is still one of the best-made apps in the category.

The other is a tracker that does not ration history at any tier. SayLift keeps unlimited logging, your full progress dashboard, personal records, an AI coach that sets your next working weight, 873 exercises with instructions and photos that work offline, voice logging and cloud backup, with no history window and no routine cap. The catch is the price: it is $49.99 a year after a 3-day trial, with no free tier, so it is a straight subscription rather than a free alternative to Hevy's caps.

Where Hevy still wins. It has a real free tier, a social feed, a web app for reviewing training on a computer, Android support, a ChatGPT routine builder, and 85,100 ratings behind it. SayLift has none of those, is iPhone-only, and has no App Store ratings yet. Hevy Pro is also half the price at $23.99 a year. If any of that matters to you, Hevy is the right answer.