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Head-to-head

Hevy vs Fitbod

Hevy 4.9★ · Free to download 90
Winner Hevy
Fitbod 4.8★ · Free + IAP 65

Hevy is the better choice for most users due to its robust free tier, strong community features, and reliable performance, while Fitbod struggles with subscription issues and recent negative updates.

Full reviews: Hevy · Fitbod

Hevy offers comprehensive workout tracking, progress visualization, and a supportive community, with many features available for free. Fitbod provides AI-driven workout generation but is hampered by mandatory subscriptions, cancellation difficulties, and recent app updates that have frustrated long-time users.

Head to head

Features edge: HevyR3R7R8R9
Hevy Hevy users praise its ability to track progress, visualize data with graphs, calculate 1RM, and offer built-in timers and exercise demos R3R7R8. Users can create custom routines and add exercises with videos or GIFs R12. It also integrates with Apple Fitness, Apple Watch, Strava, and Apple Health R12R14R20R32. Some users wish for calorie tracking R9 or more CrossFit/kettlebell options .
Fitbod Fitbod offers personalized workout plans, progressive weight recommendations, and a variety of exercises with demonstration videos . However, users report issues with repetitive routines , workouts not scaling well for experienced lifters , and a lack of specific exercises, especially bodyweight options . Recent updates have removed the ability to easily select target muscle groups and have been criticized for poor workout generation .
Ease of Use edge: HevyR2R3R10R15
Hevy Hevy is consistently described as simple, clean, user-friendly, and easy to use for tracking workouts and creating routines R2R3R10R15. Users appreciate the intuitive interface and straightforward tracking R10R18.
Fitbod Fitbod is generally found easy to follow for its pre-planned workouts . However, some users find it difficult to personalize or navigate after recent updates, which made selecting muscle groups less intuitive . There are also reports of glitches, such as the app getting stuck or crashing during workouts .
Reliability edge: HevyR1R14R16R30
Hevy Hevy is generally reliable, with users reporting flawless operation for tracking, timers, and weight inputs R14R16. The main reliability concern is battery drain, with some users noting significant battery usage during workouts R30. One user reported Apple Watch disconnections R1.
Fitbod Fitbod has significant reliability issues, including frequent crashes during workouts , profiles resetting and erasing history , and timers glitching when switching apps . Users also report that the app sometimes gets stuck when adding new exercises or takes a long time to refresh workouts .
Price/Value edge: HevyR2R5R8R15
Hevy Hevy offers a highly valued free tier with many essential features, including up to four custom routines R2R5R8R15. The premium version is considered affordable at about $20 a year or $75 for lifetime access, with users willing to pay to support the developers rather than out of necessity R5.
Fitbod Fitbod is heavily criticized for its pricing model. Many users feel misled by ads claiming it's free, only to encounter a mandatory subscription paywall immediately after onboarding, with prices around $95.99 a year or $8 a month R61. The free trial often requires payment information, and users report extreme difficulty canceling subscriptions, leading to unauthorized charges R64R73R76.
Support/Community edge: HevyR3R5R24R25
Hevy Hevy fosters a positive community aspect, allowing friends to like, comment on, and share workouts, which users find motivating and intimate R3R5R24R25. There's no direct feedback on customer support, but the active community suggests a healthy ecosystem.
Fitbod Fitbod users report a lack of attention to feedback or feature requests . More critically, many users describe a nightmare experience with customer support when trying to cancel subscriptions, with repeated unauthorized charges and unresponsiveness R64R73R76.
Pick Hevy if

you want a reliable, user-friendly app with a strong free tier for tracking strength training, visualizing progress, and engaging with a supportive community R2R3R8.

Pick Fitbod if

you are looking for an AI-driven workout generator and are willing to pay a premium subscription, provided you are confident in managing subscriptions and potential cancellation issues .

Evidence note: Fitbod's negative reviews are heavily skewed towards subscription and cancellation issues, which may not reflect the core app experience for paying users. However, recent feature changes have also drawn criticism from long-term users, indicating broader dissatisfaction beyond just pricing . Hevy's reviews are overwhelmingly positive, with minor complaints about battery drain or specific feature requests.

Frequently asked

Is Hevy truly free to use?
Yes, Hevy offers a robust free tier that includes many essential features like tracking workouts, creating up to four custom routines, and accessing exercise demos, making it highly functional without a subscription R2R8R15R18.
What are the main complaints about Fitbod?
The main complaints about Fitbod revolve around its mandatory subscription model (around $95.99/year), which many users feel is deceptively advertised as free, and significant difficulties in canceling subscriptions, leading to unauthorized charges R61R64R73R76. Users also criticize recent app updates that removed useful features and introduced glitches .
Does Hevy integrate with other fitness platforms?
Yes, Hevy integrates seamlessly with Apple Fitness Tracker, Apple Watch, Apple Health, and Strava, allowing users to sync their workout data across platforms R12R14R20R32.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R3] Hevy 5/5 · US Favorite app: Hevy is awesome. It keeps you motivated by seeing how much you lift per month, tracks your progress, built in workout timer. All my friends are on it, we like and comment on each others workouts. The interface is super clean and easy to use
  2. [R7] Hevy 5/5 · US Best Weightlifting App: I have been trying to get back in the gym and take care of my health. This app has helped me do that. Other apps weren’t helpful enough and trying to keep track of stuff on my own was cumbersome. This app is beginner friendly and gives some helpful advanced metrics. I highly recommend this app!
  3. [R8] Hevy 5/5 · US Best workout app for college students: Best gym app!!! I love being able to see all my workouts in one place. Clean, motivating, and gives all the info you need. It also calculates 1RM based on past lifts and remembers PRs. As a college student, I don’t have the money to spend on a paid app. This is the best free app I’ve found, and I’ve tried so many!
  4. [R9] Hevy 5/5 · US review: would be nice if there was a calories tracking food portion that matched up with this
  5. [R2] Hevy 5/5 · US Must have for lifting: LOVE this app, it keeps me regular with my workouts, easy to use, shows your PRs, has timers etc and is free, I have been way busier in the gym since I got this
  6. [R10] Hevy 5/5 · US Best w/o app!: I’ve used many workout apps over the years and this is by far the simplest, cleanest, most trackable and personable app I’ve used
  7. [R15] Hevy 5/5 · US Good too keep track of weight: Free and easy too use a lot of workouts to chose would recommend
  8. [R1] Hevy 2/5 · GB Apple Watch keeps disconnecting: Was great until recently, it can. never stay connected to the watch
  9. [R14] Hevy 5/5 · US Perfect Gym Companion: Works perfect. Customized my own workouts, and have it connected to my Apple Watch as a perfect workout setup. Rest timers, rep counts, weight inputs, all work flawlessly and has improved the efficiency of my workouts. Highly recommend.
  10. [R16] Hevy 5/5 · US Perfect in all aspects: Covers everything you would think of in a workout routine/progress tracking app. 10/10
  11. [R30] Hevy 4/5 · US Great app, kills your battery: This app is great and has the perfect amount of free features. You can have 4 plans, which is perfect for my 4 day split. You can easily add sets and change your weights. It is easy to reorder or switch out an exercise as well. With that being said, it kills my battery. I had a 1 hour workout and my battery was drained 19% from this app, yet it was only on the screen
  12. [R5] Hevy 5/5 · US Great app: Love this app. Keeps me on target and reminds me what weight I’m on. Great for challenging yourself and friends. Free is good but I have no complaints about the lifetime membership. My wife, my daughter and I all use it. The like the coach option so they don’t have to figure out what they are doing for each workout, it just tells them what they should do.
  13. [R24] Hevy 5/5 · US Exactly what I needed: Hevy keeps my lifting progression moving forward. It does a great job keeping history and providing analytics, while not being overly robust to the point of being cumbersome. It’s allowed me to share routines with friends. It also allows me to compare myself to friends, when I need that little push to go a little harder. Love the app!!!
  14. [R25] Hevy 5/5 · US Grateful for Small community: I use this app amongst myself and two other friends. We all started marathon training around the same time and we simply use it to like and comment on each other’s posts. I really appreciate that it isn’t such a large community. It feels far more intimate than Strava or Nike Run Club.
  15. [R18] Hevy 5/5 · US Simple useful neat: Really like the simple structure of the app and the built in timers. It’s nice to have to take one less thing to the gym ( as I don’t have to take my notebook). That said I’m dipping if they make the essential stuff super limited and put a paywall, or if they add too many adds.
  16. [R61] Fitbod 1/5 · US Nooooooooo: Horrible it told me on an add it was completely free but no over 95.00$ a year!
  17. [R64] Fitbod 1/5 · US Charging me: Even though I try to cancel subscription it keeps on charging me money 1/10 i would definitely not recommend🤮🤢
  18. [R73] Fitbod 1/5 · US Scam: Once they have your credit card information, they make it impossible for you to cancel. Absolutely a nightmare. The free trial is a bait, they don’t let you see what the app is really about until they get your information and then good luck getting it to cancel.
  19. [R76] Fitbod 1/5 · US STOP TRYING TO TAKE PAYMENT: I’ve been trying for weeks to figure out how to stop this app from taking a payment from my Apple Cash! They are trying to take $69.99 because I did a trial three days through the Planet Fitness app and evidently there was also another three day trial directly through the Fitbod app that’s trying to take out $95.99, but they are trying to charge me both charges and try
  20. [R12] Hevy 5/5 · US This is it: This is the app I’ve been looking for ever since bodybuilding.com ruined their app. You can create your own routines and add an exercises if they don’t have in their library. You can also add gifs, videos, or photos of how to do that exercise. You can track your progress and snap progress pics with the option of keeping it private or sharing. Easy works with apple fitness tracker and m
  21. [R20] Hevy 5/5 · US Great Tracking App: love this app use it everyday and it sinks with apple health and strava
  22. [R32] Hevy 5/5 · US Simple and effective: It tracks and records your workouts, uploads to Strava, does what it is supposed to do. What more can you ask for.

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store