Hevy vs Strong

Pick Hevy if you want the larger free tier, a lower Pro price, Wear OS or the web, or a social feed. Pick Strong if you want a plain logger with no feed and an Apple Watch app with a long record, and you are fine paying for the calculators and more than three routines.

Both apps are workout notebooks: you choose the exercises and the weights, they record them and chart the result. We make Beatweek, a third app, and we have no stake in which of these two you pick. It comes up once near the end.

Hevy and Strong compared feature by feature
Feature	Hevy	Strong
Platforms	iPhone, iPad, Android, web (hevy.com), Apple Watch, Wear OS.	iPhone, Android, Apple Watch. No web app yet (listed as in progress). No Wear OS app.
Free tier	4 routines, 7 custom exercises, stats that look back up to 3 months (older workouts stay stored).	Unlimited workouts; 3 custom routines. Some charts, measurements and both calculators are Pro.
Paid tier (US App Store)	About $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 lifetime.	About $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year; a lifetime “Forever” option is listed at about $79.99 to $99.99.
Apple Watch	Log sets from your routines, heart rate, set types, complications; workouts can run with the phone left behind.	Full watch app that logs with or without the iPhone: set types, RPE, rest timer on the Digital Crown, heart rate. The plate and warm-up calculators are not on the watch.
Wear OS	Yes: log sets, heart rate, a tile; works without the phone and syncs when it reconnects. Galaxy Watch 4 or newer.	None.
Deciding what to lift	A Previous column. Hevy Trainer (Pro) builds a program and raises the weight when you hit the top of the rep range on every set.	1RM and volume charts; no built-in weight or rep suggestions.
Plate and warm-up calculators	Plate calculator free; warm-up calculator Pro.	Both Pro; the warm-up formula can be edited.
Social	A feed, followers, likes, comments, leaderboards among people you follow, routine sharing.	Share a workout or template as a link. No feed.
Export	CSV of workouts and of measurements.	CSV. Strong cannot import its own export back.
Import from another app	Strong CSV only.	None from other apps; Apple Health data can be pulled in.
Account	Sign in with email, Google or Apple; data lives on the account.	You are asked to sign up before using the app.

Hevy

Hevy is a logger with a social network built in. The home tab is a feed of workouts from lifters you follow, with likes and comments; there is a discover feed, leaderboards on common lifts among people you follow, and one tap to copy someone’s workout as a routine. If other lifters keep you consistent, this is the main thing Strong lacks.

The free tier allows 4 routines, 7 custom exercises and stats that look back up to 3 months; older workouts stay stored for when you upgrade. If Pro lapses, nothing above the limits is deleted; you just cannot add more. Pro is about $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 once on the US App Store.

Hevy covers more devices. Besides iPhone and Android there is an iPad app, a web app at hevy.com, an Apple Watch app and a Wear OS app. Both watch apps can run a workout with the phone left in the locker; the Wear OS one saves the workout and syncs it when the phone reconnects. It needs a Galaxy Watch 4 or newer, or another Wear OS watch.

On what to lift, the free app shows your previous numbers next to each set. Hevy Trainer, part of Pro, generates a program and raises the working weight once you reach the top of the rep range on every prescribed set. It applies to the programs it builds, not to routines you wrote yourself.

Hevy exports workouts and measurements as CSV, and it imports one other format: Strong’s CSV. That makes Strong-to-Hevy the easiest move between the two.

Strong

Strong’s strongest part is its Apple Watch app: it logs a full workout with or without the iPhone, with set types, RPE, heart rate and a rest timer you adjust with the Digital Crown, and it can run live on the phone and watch at once. If you train with an iPhone and an Apple Watch and want nothing else on screen, it is hard to beat.

The free version keeps unlimited workouts but only 3 routines. Strong PRO unlocks unlimited templates, measurements, all charts, the plate calculator and the warm-up calculator, whose formula you can edit. On the US App Store PRO is about $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, with a lifetime option listed at about $79.99 to $99.99. The calculators are not on the watch.

There is no feed and no followers. You can send a workout or template as a link, and whoever taps it gets a copy. If Hevy’s feed feels noisy, that absence is the point.

Strong runs on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. There is no Wear OS app and no web app; Strong’s help centre lists the web app as being worked on. You are asked to create an account before using the app. Export is a CSV from settings, and Strong says plainly that the file cannot be imported back into Strong, or from any other app.

Where the two are the same

Both write one CSV row per set, so your history is portable.
Both chart your one-rep max and volume over time.
Both support warm-up, drop and failure sets and RPE.

A third option, briefly

If what you want from either app is a target on every set of your own routine, that is what Beatweek does: it reads your last sessions and says add weight, add a rep, hold, or deload, with a one-line reason. It imports both Hevy and Strong CSVs for free and has a Wear OS app that logs without the phone. It is also young: in beta in 2026, the iPhone and Apple Watch apps are a beta, and there is no feed or social features at all. Head to head: Beatweek vs Hevy and Beatweek vs Strong. For a wider list, see apps that tell you what to lift.

Who should pick what

You want friends or a community in the app: Hevy.
You wear a Wear OS watch: Hevy. Strong has no Wear OS app.
You want the most for free: Hevy (4 routines, plate calculator free) over Strong (3 routines, calculators paid).
You log on an Apple Watch and want no feed: Strong.
You already own Strong’s lifetime licence: stay, unless you need Wear OS or a web app.
You want to be told the weight on every set: neither out of the box; look at progressive overload apps.

Questions

Is Hevy or Strong better?

For most people starting today, Hevy: it has a bigger free tier (4 routines against 3), costs less for Pro, and runs on more devices, including Wear OS and the web. Strong is the better pick if you want a quiet logger with no social layer and a mature Apple Watch app that runs without the iPhone.

Is Hevy free?

Hevy has a free tier with limits of 4 routines, 7 custom exercises and stats that look back up to 3 months. Hevy Pro removes them for about $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 lifetime on the US App Store as of September 2026.

How many routines does Strong allow for free?

Three. The free version saves unlimited workouts but is limited to 3 custom routines. Strong PRO is about $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year on the US App Store as of September 2026.

Does Strong work on Wear OS?

No Wear OS app was listed on Strong’s Google Play page or site as of September 2026. Strong’s watch app is for Apple Watch. Hevy has a Wear OS app.

Can I move my Strong history to Hevy?

Yes. Export a CSV from Strong’s settings, then in Hevy go to Profile, Settings, Export & Import Data, Import Data, Import Strong CSV. Hevy only accepts Strong CSVs, and the file must be in English.

Can I move my Hevy history to Strong?

Not through Strong: it has no import from other apps. Beatweek imports both Hevy and Strong CSVs for free if you want to keep your history in a third app.

As of 27 September 2026. Competitor prices, platforms and limits were checked on each vendor’s own site or store listing that week; prices are US store prices and change, so check the store before you pay. The other apps named here belong to other companies and are not affiliated with Beatweek.

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