Hevy alternative: log the session by talking

What is Hevy?

Hevy is a workout tracker built by Hevy Studios, available on iPhone, Android and the web. It combines a very fast logging interface with a social feed — you follow friends, see their sessions, and get comments on yours. It is one of the highest-rated fitness apps on the store: 4.92 stars from 85,100 ratings in the US at the time of writing.

The free tier is generous but capped: 4 routines and 7 custom exercises, with body weight and waist as the only recordable measurements. Hevy Pro removes those caps at $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year, or $74.99 once for lifetime access. There is also HevyGPT, a custom GPT that generates a program in ChatGPT and imports it into your Hevy profile — though on the free tier an imported plan cannot exceed four routines.

If you like tapping and you want an audience, Hevy is excellent and this page will not pretend otherwise.

Why look for a Hevy alternative?

• You still log by hand, every set. Hevy's logger is fast, but it is a form. Six exercises means dozens of taps while your rest timer runs down.
• Four routines on the free tier. If you run an upper/lower plus a deload plus a travel day, you are at the cap before you have started.
• Seven custom exercises. Anything your gym has that Hevy's library does not — a specific machine, a variation your coach named — eats into a small allowance.
• Measurements are limited on free. Body weight and waist only, unless you pay.
• The social feed is the point. For some lifters that is motivating; for others it is another feed to perform for. Hevy is built around it either way.
• HevyGPT generates plans, it does not read yours. If your program already exists as a text file or a photo from a coach, the ChatGPT route is designed to write a new one, not import the one you have.

Superset vs Hevy

The actual difference: what you do after a set

In Hevy, you finish a set and reach for your phone. Find the exercise, tap the set, confirm reps, confirm weight, hit the checkmark. It takes a few seconds and Hevy has made those seconds as short as anyone has managed.

In Superset, you finish the set and do nothing. At the end of the workout you hold the mic and say "bench press, three sets of eight at 135, incline dumbbell press ten, ten and eight at fifty, then cable crossover three by twelve at thirty." The audio goes to a multimodal AI model that returns all of it structured — exercise, sets, reps, weight — and shows you a review screen before saving. One interaction for the whole session instead of one per set.

The second difference is what happens next. Hevy shows you charts and lets you draw your own conclusions. Superset reads your history and gives one instruction per exercise for next time: add weight, hold and chase reps, back off, deload, or restart lighter after a long break — with the actual number to put on the bar. That coaching is free in Superset; in Hevy, progression is your job.

The third is what a free account gets you. Superset caps nothing you have created: unlimited routines, unlimited custom exercises, your full history, the whole 873-exercise library offline, and cloud backup. The only paid thing is the microphone.

• One spoken sentence replaces a whole session of tapping.
• No routine or custom-exercise caps, at any price.
• 873 exercises with instructions and photos that work with no signal — Hevy needs a connection.
• Paste your existing plan as plain text and have it built for you.
• Progression advice included free, not left to you.

Where Hevy is stronger

Several things, and they matter.

• It is proven. 4.92 stars from over 85,000 ratings against Superset's zero. Hevy has been refined for years; Superset is new.
• It is on Android and the web. Superset is iPhone-only. If you or your training partner are not on iOS, this comparison ends here.
• The social feed is genuinely good. Following friends' sessions keeps a lot of people consistent. Superset has no social features at all.
• Pro is cheaper. $2.99 a month, or $74.99 once for life. Superset's voice subscription is $7.99 a month or $39.99 a year, and there is no lifetime option.
• The tap logger is better than Superset's. If you are going to tap anyway, Hevy's is faster and more refined.
• Hevy Pro removes limits permanently for a one-off payment. Very few fitness apps still offer that.

Who should switch

Choose Superset if the phone-fiddling is what you actually hate. If you train alone, on an iPhone, and want to say what you lifted and be done — or you want progression advice without paying $12–16 a month for it — Superset is built for exactly that. It also suits anyone who has hit Hevy's four-routine ceiling and does not want to pay to keep organising their own training.

Stick with Hevy if you want the social feed, you need Android or the web, you train with an Apple Watch, or you simply want the most proven, most reviewed logger on the store. Hevy at $2.99 a month is a lot of app for the money, and "more reviews than any new app can have" is a real argument.

They are not really the same product. Hevy is the best version of tapping your workout into a phone. Superset is an attempt not to.