What a workout app subscription costs: $23.99 to $79.99 a year

The short answer

Cheapest to most expensive on the annual plan, US prices. Every app in the category sits between $23.99 and $79.99 a year, so the whole market fits inside about $4.70 a month.

• Hevy Pro: $23.99 a year, or $2.99 a month, or $74.99 once.
• Strong PRO: $29.99 a year, or $4.99 a month, or $99.99 once.
• Liftoff Pro: $39.99 to $79.99 a year, or $12.99 a month.
• SayLift: $4.17 a month (billed $49.99 a year), $7.99 a month or $3.99 a week, after a 3-day trial. No one-time purchase.
• JEFIT Elite: $69.99 a year, or $12.99 a month.
• Fitbod: $79.99 a year, or $12.99 to $15.99 a month.
• Alpha Progression: $79.99 a year, or $12.99 a month.

The full price list

What you get before paying anything

• Hevy: 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, 3 months of graphs.
• Strong: unlimited workouts, capped at 3 custom routines.
• Liftoff: logging works, and the ranked features are locked.
• JEFIT: ad-supported logging with limits.
• Fitbod: a handful of generated workouts, then you pay.
• Alpha Progression: limited plan generation.
• SayLift: a 3-day trial with every feature unlocked, then the paywall. No permanent free tier.

The three-year bill

Nobody keeps a training log for six weeks. If it works you keep it for years, which makes the annual sticker price the wrong unit. Three years on the annual plan looks like this:

• Hevy: $71.97, or $74.99 once and never again.
• Strong: $89.97, or $99.99 once.
• Liftoff: $119.97 at the lower yearly price.
• SayLift: $149.97.
• JEFIT Elite: $209.97.
• Fitbod and Alpha Progression: $239.97 each.

Monthly plans cost about twice as much

Every app here discounts the annual plan hard, and the gap is bigger than most people assume. Strong is $59.88 a year if you pay monthly against $29.99 if you pay yearly, so monthly billing doubles the price. Fitbod is $155.88 monthly against $79.99 yearly. SayLift is $95.88 monthly against $49.99 yearly, and its weekly plan adds up to $207.48 over a year, four times the annual price.

The two one-time unlocks are worth a moment of arithmetic. Hevy's $74.99 breaks even against its own annual plan after about three years and two months, and Strong's $99.99 after about three years and four months. Both are only a deal if you already know you are a lifelong logger, and neither includes anything the annual plan does not.

The practical rule for everyone else: pay monthly for the first month while you find out whether the app survives contact with your actual gym routine, then switch to annual. Two months of monthly billing costs less than a wasted year on an app you abandon in March.

What happens to your log when you stop paying

This part of the price never appears on a pricing page, and it varies a lot.

Hevy and Strong drop you back to their free tiers. Your history is still there and still readable inside the caps, so lapsing is annoying rather than destructive. JEFIT returns you to the ad-supported version. Fitbod stops generating workouts.

SayLift has no free tier, so a lapsed subscription puts the paywall back in front of the app. Everything you logged stays in your cloud backup rather than being deleted, and it all comes back the moment you resubscribe, but you cannot read it in the meantime.

One more cost nobody prices is the exit. Ask whether you can get your training out as a file before you put five years into any app. Hevy and JEFIT can hand you your data. SayLift cannot export to CSV today, and no tracker on this list can import another app's completed workout history.

What the extra $2 a month buys

SayLift is $4.17 a month (billed $49.99 a year) against Hevy's $23.99. That gap is $26 a year, which is $2.17 a month, or about a third of one protein shake. What it buys is the ability to stop typing.

You finish your last set, say the session out loud, and an AI model turns your speech into exercises, sets, reps and weights, on a review screen you check before it saves. Bench one three five for eight, then two sets of ten becomes three logged sets. No scrolling through an exercise picker between sets, no phone in your hand while your hands are chalky, no forgetting what you lifted because you logged it after you got home. Running that model on every workout costs money per use, which is the reason a voice logger is not priced like a tap logger. It is also the one thing nothing else on this price list does at any price.

The same $49.99 covers unlimited manual logging, 873 exercises with photos and instructions that work with no signal, a coach that picks your next working weight on every lift, paste-in routine import, the progress dashboard and cloud backup. The 3-day trial unlocks all of it, and it turns into a paid subscription unless you cancel in Settings before it ends.

Worth knowing before you pay. SayLift is iPhone only, voice logging needs a connection, and the shipping build has no Apple Health sync and no CSV export. Supersets are not grouped, so a pairing goes in as a note.

Which one to pay for

• You want to log by talking: SayLift, $4.17 a month (billed $49.99 a year), and the 3-day trial lets you test it in a real gym before you pay.
• You want the workout written for you: Fitbod, $79.99 a year. No cheaper app does that job.
• You want ranked lifts and competition: Liftoff, from $39.99 a year.
• You just need the free caps lifted on a tap logger: Hevy Pro, $23.99 a year.
• You are not sure yet: pay monthly for one month first, whichever app you pick. Two months of monthly is cheaper than one wasted year.
• You want to pay nothing at all: Strong's free tier logs unlimited workouts inside three custom routines, and Hevy's gives you four routines.