Can I log my gym sets by speaking Hinglish?

The short answer

• You can speak Hindi, Hinglish or English. The recording goes to a model that is told the speech may be in any language, and that gym and machine names are often said in English inside a sentence in another language, mixed in the same breath.
• The interface is English only. Every screen, button, label and exercise name. There is no Hindi version of the app.
• Your history reads in English. The exercise is stored and matched under its English name, and your own Hindi phrase is saved beside it, exactly as you said it.
• Numbers work in either language. "Teen set" and "three sets" both land. So do "saath kilo" and "sixty".
• It learns your words. A phrase you confirm once is remembered and fed back in next time, so your gym's own Hindi name for a machine matches on its own afterwards. Up to 30 confirmed phrases ride along with each recording.
• Nothing saves until you look at it. Every voice log opens a review screen first, with the numbers in fields you can fix.
• It will not make numbers up. Anything you did not say stays blank.
• Price: $4.17 a month (billed $49.99 a year) after a 3-day trial, or $7.99 a month, or $3.99 a week. iPhone only, iOS 17 and up.

What is in Hindi, and what is not

Say this plainly before anything else, because the App Store listing will not: SayLift has no Hindi interface. The Today page, the Log tab, the settings, the coach's one-line advice and all 873 exercise names are in English, and that is the only language the app displays.

Two things accept Hindi. The first is voice logging: what you say into the mic. The second is routine import: what you paste in as a plan. Both run through the same engine, and both were built on the assumption that the sentence will not be in one language.

So if you need an app your father can read in Devanagari, this is not it. If you can read gym English fine and just do not want to type out eighteen sets in a language you would never speak them in, that is the gap this fills.

Four Hinglish lines, and what SayLift writes down

These are the shapes of sentence people actually use. Say them after the session, not between sets.

1. आज chest किया। Bench press के तीन set लगाए, हर set में 10 reps, 60 kg.

In English: did chest today, three sets of bench press, 10 reps each, 60 kg. Note that the set count is Hindi ("teen set") and the reps are English, in the same sentence. SayLift writes: Bench Press, 3 sets, 10 reps at 60 kg each.

2. Wide grip lat pulldown किया। पहले 40 kg पर 12 reps, फिर 45 पर 10, और last set 50 पर 8.

In English: did wide grip lat pulldown, 12 reps at 40 kg, then 10 at 45, then 8 at 50 on the last set. Three different weights across three sets, and none of them get flattened into an average. SayLift writes: Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown, 40 kg x 12, 45 kg x 10, 50 kg x 8. The word "wide" survives, so it can never come back as a close-grip pulldown.

3. Squat से पहले एक warm-up set लगाया, 40 kg पर 10 reps। फिर तीन working set, 90 kg पर 8-8 reps.

In English: did one warm-up set before squats, 10 reps at 40 kg, then three working sets of 8 at 90 kg. SayLift writes: Barbell Squat, one set at 40 kg x 10 tagged as a warm-up with a W badge, then 3 sets at 90 kg x 8. The warm-up does not take a set number and does not count toward the coach's working-set target, so a light ramp-up never drags your next session's weight down.

4. Dumbbell bicep curl 15 kg पर तीन set, दस-दस reps। फिर 10 kg पर drop करके 8 reps और निकाले.

In English: three sets of dumbbell bicep curl at 15 kg, ten reps each, then dropped to 10 kg for 8 more. SayLift writes: Dumbbell Bicep Curl, 3 sets at 15 kg x 10, plus a separate drop set at 10 kg x 8 with a D badge. A drop set is its own set object and it does count toward your records.

In all four, your own spoken phrase is kept in a separate field word for word. The exercise name you see in your history is the English one, because that is what the exercise database is searched on.

How Indian lifters actually talk at the gym

This is the part most language support gets wrong, so here is what a voice logger has to survive.

• Hinglish is the default, not an edge case. The grammar is Hindi and the nouns are English. The sentence opens in Hindi, the exercise name and the numbers arrive in English, and it switches back before the full stop. "आज shoulders किया, shoulder press के चार set" is not someone struggling for a word. That is how the sentence is built.
• Numbers go either way, often inside one line. Counts and weights are very commonly said in English even when the rest is Hindi, and "paanch", "aath" and "bees" turn up just as naturally. Both have to work, and in SayLift numbers may be spoken in any language.
• "Set" and "reps" are borrowed, not translated. Nobody says a Hindi word for a rep. It is "teen set lagaye", "chaar set", "das reps". The verb around them is Hindi and the noun is English.
• Reduplication means "each". "दस-दस reps" and "8-8 reps" mean ten reps each and eight reps each. It is everywhere in Indian speech and it is the normal way to say every set had the same count.
• Weight is in kg, always. India is kg. So it is "saath kilo", or just "saath", or "sixty" in English. If you say a number with no unit at all, SayLift uses the unit set in the app, kg or lbs, and it never converts the number you said into the other one.
• Exercise names are almost always English. Bench press, lat pulldown, squats, deadlift, incline dumbbell press. The Hindi sits around them, not in place of them: "aaj chest kiya", "leg day tha", "halka tha", "bhaari laga".
• Script is a real question for anything that stores your words. Hindi gets written in Devanagari and in Roman, and gym chat is usually Roman. Here the exercise is filed under its English name, so your log reads the same either way, and your own phrase is kept as you said it.
• Picking a language before you record is what breaks. A tool locked to Hindi hears "bench press" and spells it out phonetically in Devanagari, so the exercise never matches. A tool locked to English does the same thing to "teen set lagaye". Half the sentence turns to noise, and it is usually the half holding the numbers. SayLift has no language picker in front of the mic, so the whole line goes in as one line.

Which gym apps let you log a set by talking

The honest column here is the first one: whether the app has any documented path to logging a set out loud at all. Where a vendor does not document it, the cell says so rather than guessing.

The other apps, briefly

Hevy and Strong are very good tap loggers, and both put your last session's numbers beside the field you are filling in. That is a tap-and-type flow, and if you are happy with it, Hevy at $23.99 a year is the cheapest serious option in the category. Fitbod, JEFIT, Liftoff and Alpha Progression each have their own strengths. None of the six logs a finished session from speech in any language, so the question of how they handle Hindi does not arise.

For the full comparison of voice logging across apps, that lives on the best app for logging a workout by voice. For the mechanics of doing it in English, step by step, see how to log a workout by voice on iPhone. This page sticks to the Hindi and Hinglish side of it.

How to log a workout in Hindi with SayLift

1. 1Install SayLift and start the 3-day trial. Set your unit to kg in Settings, since you will be saying kg numbers.
2. 2Train. Do not touch the phone between sets. Logging as you go is the thing this is meant to replace.
3. 3After your last set, open the Log tab and hold the mic. The hint on screen says you can give it exercises, machines, sets, reps and weights in any language.
4. 4Say the whole session in one go, the way you would tell a friend. Hindi, Hinglish, English, switching mid-sentence is fine. Say a warm-up as a warm-up if you want it tagged as one.
5. 5Read the review screen. Each exercise shows with its English name and your sets underneath. Fix anything wrong by tapping the field, and if an exercise matched badly, correct it once.
6. 6Save. The correction you just made is remembered, so your own Hindi word for that machine matches by itself from the next session on.
7. 7Open Today next session. The coach has read your logged sets and put a weight on each exercise, computed on the phone, so it is there even with no signal in the basement.

The honest limits

Voice logging needs an internet connection, because the recording goes to a model. It is capped at 10 recordings an hour and 20 a day, which is plenty for one session and not a tool for bulk entry. Manual logging, your history, the coach's targets and all 873 exercise guides work with no connection.

The interface stays English. There is no Hindi version coming that this page can promise you.

It is iPhone only, iOS 17 and up. In India that rules out most phones, which is a bigger problem here than in the US, so say it straight: if you are on Android, this app cannot help you and Hevy or Strong are the better answer.

It is paid after the 3-day trial, with no free tier underneath. Supersets are not grouped, so a pairing done back to back goes in as two exercises with a note. There is no Apple Health sync, and the app is new enough to have no App Store ratings yet.

Who SayLift is for

• You speak Hinglish and you are tired of typing in English. You think in one language and the form wants another. Talking removes the translation step.
• You train in a busy Indian gym and will not stand there tapping between sets. You say the session once at the end instead.
• You can read gym English. Bench press, lat pulldown, incline. If that is comfortable, the English interface costs you nothing.
• You have a plan a trainer sent on WhatsApp. Paste it in, in Hindi, Hinglish or English, with the bullets and day headers however they came, and it goes in as training days. More on that: workout apps that import the routine you already have.
• You are on an iPhone. No Android, no iPad, no Apple Watch, no web.
• Not for you if you need the app itself in Hindi, or you train where there is no signal and voice is the only reason you are here.