Hevy vs Superset

The short answer

• Buy Hevy if you want the safest purchase in the category. Cheaper, far more tested, runs on iPhone, Android and the web, and its free tier covers a lot of people permanently.
• Buy Superset if the reason your log has gaps is that you will not handle your phone between sets. You speak the session and its AI writes down the exercises, sets, reps and weights.
• Price: Hevy is $23.99 a year, $2.99 a month, or $74.99 once. Superset is $49.99 a year, $7.99 a month or $3.99 a week, after a 3-day trial, with no one-time option.
• The thing most people miss: Hevy's free tier caps you at 4 routines, 7 custom exercises and 3 months of graph history. Superset has no free tier, so the trial is the whole trial.
• Platforms decide it for some people outright: Superset is iPhone only, so Android, iPad, web and Apple Watch users are choosing Hevy whatever else this page says.

What Hevy is

Hevy is the best-liked tap-based logger on the App Store, and the numbers back that up: 4.92 stars from more than 85,000 US ratings, which is a level of scrutiny almost nothing in this category has survived. You build routines, run them set by set, and the app records the work with a flow other developers have visibly copied.

The free version is generous enough to be a real product: unlimited workouts, capped at 4 routines, 7 custom exercises and 3 months of graph history. Hevy Pro at $2.99 a month or $23.99 a year removes those caps, and a $74.99 one-time purchase removes them permanently.

It also has the things a mature app accumulates. An Android version, a web app for looking at your training on a real screen, an Apple Watch app, a social feed if you want one, and a data export so your history is portable.

What Superset is

Superset is an iPhone workout tracker built around the microphone. You train without touching your phone, then hold the mic and describe the session out loud: "bench press, three sets of eight at 135, then incline dumbbell press for ten, ten and eight at fifty." The recording goes to a multimodal AI model rather than through a plain speech-to-text stage, and comes back as structured exercises, sets, reps and weights, with a review screen before anything saves.

Around that sit the parts that make the log useful: a coach that sets your next working weight per lift and picks one of six actions (increase, hold, decrease, deload, restart or calibrate), 873 exercises with photos and step-by-step instructions stored on the phone for offline use, paste-in routine import that takes a plan in any text format, a progress dashboard, and cloud backup from the first session.

The commercial shape is different from Hevy's. There is no free tier and no tiers of any kind: a 3-day trial with everything unlocked, then $49.99 a year, $7.99 a month or $3.99 a week.

Side by side

Where Hevy is stronger

Most of the table, honestly, and anyone recommending Superset without saying so is selling you something.

• It costs half as much. $23.99 a year against $49.99, and it has a $74.99 lifetime unlock that pays for itself in about three years. Superset has no one-time price.
• 85,100 ratings at 4.92 stars. Superset launched in August 2026 with none. Years of other people finding the bugs is worth real money.
• It runs everywhere. iPhone, Android and a web app, plus an Apple Watch app for logging from your wrist. Superset is iPhone only.
• Your data can leave. Hevy exports. Superset has no CSV export today, so your history stays inside the app.
• There is a free tier. Four routines and three months of graphs is enough for a lot of lifters forever. Superset locks the whole app behind its paywall once the 3-day trial ends.
• The social feed and the rest timer. Following friends' sessions keeps some people training, and Hevy's timer runs between sets. Superset has neither.

Where Superset is stronger

• Voice logging. Hevy has no equivalent. Its ChatGPT integration generates routines; it does not take a spoken session and write your sets down.
• The load call. Superset's coach sets the next working weight for each lift from your own history. Hevy records what you decide and leaves the decision to you.
• The offline library. 873 exercises with photos and instructions on the phone, which matters in a basement gym with no signal.
• Routine import from plain text. Paste four training days in whatever format you have them and the app builds them, instead of an evening of typing.
• No sign-up wall. Superset lets you start as a guest and attach an account later. Hevy asks for one up front.

Who should pick which

Pick Hevy if you log reliably today, if you want the cheapest good app, if you use Android or an Apple Watch, or if you want your data exportable. That covers most lifters, and it is the recommendation this page would give a friend who had not told us anything else about themselves.

Pick Superset if your training log has holes in it because logging mid-session is the thing you skip. Speaking one recording at the end of a workout is a different behaviour from tapping thirty times during it, and if that is your failure point, $26 a year more is a cheap fix. The 3-day trial unlocks voice logging, so two real sessions will tell you.

They are not the same kind of purchase. Hevy is the safe default with a decade of polish behind it. Superset is a bet on one capability, priced accordingly, from a new app with no ratings yet.