Hevy - Workout Tracker Gym Log 4+

Words can’t describe how much I love this app. For several years I used BodySpace religiously and loved it but in 2022 it kept crashing and it was clear they weren’t upkeeping it much anymore. I did some trials with a few other workout tracking apps and decided to stick with this one. I bought the lifetime membership (PLEASE don’t ever remove this option, its value is unbelievable). I track every lift meticulously and always have, and this app makes that effortless and intuitive. The graphs to track different kinds of progress are incredible for my fitness journey. I honestly can’t even think of a suggestion to improve it (and as much as I loved BodySpace, there was quite a few things I felt could be improved but they never did).

I’m now working on retroactively adding all my workouts from BodySpace into Hevy (over 800 workouts so this will take a long time) - which made me realize I do have one suggestion! When editing the date when a workout took place, I really wish there was a dropdown to select the year. Right now I have to scroll back until the year I need (I’m adding 2016 workouts right now and that scroll takes quite a while).

Huge props to everyone who develops this app. Lifting is a huge part of my life and having something as reliable and perfect as Hevy is an absolute game changer. I look forward to using it for the decades to come.

This is by far my favorite workout tracking app, and I’ve tried quite a few over the past year including the popular Strong app. You can tell that the creators of this app actually work out themselves because they know how important it is to be able to label drop sets, failure sets, supersets, etc, which you can do very easily within the app. It allows me to track everything I need, and when if it’s been a while since I did an exercise I can easily take a look at my history, view graphs of my strength progression over time, and so on.

I started out with the free version but have since upgraded to the Lifetime membership because I needed to create more than 5 custom exercises since I do quite a few unusual calisthenics things, but most gym-goers can probably stick with the free version and have everything they need.

The social feature - being able to follow other members - is also nice. That said, I wish there was a way to upload short video clips of workout sets so that there would be some somewhat verifiable proof of what people are lifting, rather than just having to blindly accept the weight people enter into the app as being true. But, this isn’t that important. The important thing for me is that this app allows me to easily track every aspect of my workout so that I can see my progression and know where I’m at.

I was using Gymverse and it was fine to start with but there were a few things that ultimately led me to looking for another app. I downloaded and played around with about 5 weight lifting tracking apps and I was looking specifically for these features:

1. Data sync between iPhone and iPad

2. Ease of use

3. Affordability

Hevy checked all the boxes and offers much more than I will probably ever use. It’s great being able to make updates to workouts and track progress while having access on iPhone and iPad. The app is very intuitive with a large amount of pre-made workouts that fit the equipment in my home gym with just a few so far that I’ll be adding in. You don’t have to pay for a plan if you’re not concerned about long term exercise history being available or don’t plan on creating more than 4 workout plans, but I liked the functionality, customization, and data availability provided with Hevy so much that I ended up paying the 1 time lifetime fee of less than $80! Most, if not all of the other apps I considered were charging about $75-$100 for annual subscriptions. No regrets after choosing this app, just wish I had a better idea of what I really wanted from a workout/weight training app before paying for a subscription through Gymverse a few months ago.