Best Wear OS gym tracker apps

Hevy is the safest pick for most people: a shipping Wear OS app that logs your routines without the phone, on a phone app with a free tier. GymRun is the best plain notebook with a standalone mode. Gravl is the one to try if you want the watch to tell you what to lift and will pay for it.

Wear OS is thinner ground than Apple Watch. Several popular lifting apps have no Wear OS app at all: Strong lists only iPhone, Android and Apple Watch, and Boostcamp and Alpha Progression both say they have no watch app yet. What follows is the set of apps whose own listings describe a Wear OS app that logs sets, checked in September 2026. We make Beatweek, which is on the list with its gaps stated.

Hevy

Hevy’s Wear OS app runs the routines you built on the phone. You mark sets as warm-up, normal, drop or failure, see your heart rate, and start from a Wear OS tile. Hevy says you can leave the phone in the locker room and track the whole workout from the watch; the workout saves when the phone reconnects. It needs a Galaxy Watch 4 or newer, or another Wear OS watch; older Tizen Galaxy watches are not supported.

The phone app is free with limits of 4 routines and 7 custom exercises. Pro is about $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 lifetime. Hevy is a notebook: you decide the weights, except inside Hevy Trainer programs, a Pro feature that raises the weight when you hit the top of the rep range. It also has a full social feed, if you want one.

GymRun

GymRun is a logger (its Play listing now titles it Workout Tracker & Gym Plan Log) with the most explicit description of how its watch app works. There are two modes: companion mode keeps a live link to the phone during the workout, and standalone mode needs no phone, syncing routines before and results after. It supports Samsung Galaxy and other Wear OS watches, and Garmin. Heart rate is recorded.

On the phone it has routines with supersets, a rest countdown per exercise, a plate calculator, pre-filling from your history, and CSV export. It does not decide your weights. Google Play lists its in-app purchases at about $2.49 to $23.99 per item; the listing does not spell out which features are paid.

Gravl

Gravl plans the session for you. It estimates your one-rep max from your history, climbs reps set by set and steps the weight up when the ladder fills, snapped to the plates you have. Its listing describes a standalone Wear OS app that logs sets and reps, runs rest timers and finishes a session from the watch, plus tiles. The catch is that the Wear OS app is a Premium feature. On the US App Store Premium is about $14.99 a month, with yearly plans listed at $59.99 to $89.99.

JEFIT

JEFIT’s Wear OS app live-syncs a workout with the phone and tracks heart rate, sets and calories from the wrist. JEFIT has a large exercise library, a feed with friends and contests, and an AI progression system in Elite that suggests weight and reps from your logs. Elite is about $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year, and JEFIT’s Elite page lists watch app support as an Elite feature, so plan on paying if the watch is the reason you are there. We found no vendor statement on whether it works without the phone.

Fitbod

Fitbod generates each workout from your recovery, equipment and history and adjusts load and reps as you go. Its Wear OS app can start a workout and log and add sets, but Fitbod’s help centre says the workout must be saved from the phone, logging a set on the watch does not start the rest timer, and changing exercises or weights needs the phone. There is no free tier; the subscription is about $15.99 a month or $95.99 a year.

Beatweek

Beatweek was built for this case. Its Wear OS app logs sets with no phone, buzzes at the end of rest with the screen off, and mirrors to the phone within a second when they are together. Every exercise gets a target from your last sessions (add weight, add a rep, hold, or deload), free on one exercise per workout and on all of them with Pro ($3.99 a month, $29.99 a year, $79.99 lifetime). Logging, history, the watch app, and import from Hevy and Strong are free. What it lacks: it is a young app in beta, the iPhone and Apple Watch apps are a beta, and there is no feed or community. See Beatweek vs Hevy and how to import your history.

What the watch does on its own

Google Health custom workouts let you set sets, reps and weights per movement and log them from a Pixel Watch, and Google has announced a new on-wrist strength training experience for Pixel Watch 5 as coming soon. Samsung added a rep counter for about 20 exercises, including squat, deadlift and bench press, on the Galaxy Watch4. Both are fine for a session’s heart rate and a rough count; neither keeps routines and set history the way a lifting log does.

Who should pick what

• You want a proven, free-to-start Wear OS logger: Hevy.
• You want a notebook with a clearly defined standalone mode, or also use Garmin: GymRun.
• You want the app to plan every session and are fine paying: Gravl, or Fitbod if you keep the phone nearby.
• You want a social app with contests: JEFIT, with Elite for the watch.
• You follow your own program and want the target set by set, free watch app included, and can live with a beta: Beatweek.
• You use Strong, Boostcamp or Alpha Progression: none has a Wear OS app yet. For Apple Watch, see the Apple Watch list.