Liftoff vs Hevy
These two get compared constantly because they look like the same idea: a well-made logger with other people in it. They are not. Hevy is a tracker with a feed of people you chose to follow. Liftoff is a tracker built around ranking your lifts against everybody. That difference decides which one you will still be using in six months, and it is worth being honest with yourself about which sort of motivation actually works on you.
Updated August 2026
The short answer
- Pick Liftoff if being ranked makes you train harder, and you like seeing where a lift sits against everyone else's.
- Pick Hevy if you want a feed of friends rather than a scoreboard, plus a web app and the cheapest subscription of the two.
- Price: Hevy is $2.99 a month or $23.99 a year, with a $74.99 lifetime option. Liftoff Pro is $12.99 a month, or $39.99 to $79.99 a year depending on the plan you land on.
- Free tiers: Liftoff lets you log for free and gates the ranked features behind Pro. Hevy lets you log free too, but caps you at 4 routines, 7 custom exercises and 3 months of graph history.
- Ratings are near-identical: Hevy 4.92 from 85,100 US ratings, Liftoff 4.83 from 89,162.
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Get Superset freeTwo different bets on why people keep training
Liftoff's bet is competition. Your lifts get a score and a place in a distribution, and the app is designed so you feel that placement. For a certain kind of lifter this is genuinely the thing that gets them under the bar on a bad Tuesday — and if that is you, nothing else on this page matters.
Hevy's bet is community. You follow people you know, they see your sessions, and the pressure is softer and more social. It also has the widest surrounding product of the two: a web app for looking at training on a real screen, and a ChatGPT integration for building routines.
The failure mode of Liftoff is chasing the number — testing rather than training, because a ranked single pays off today and a good rep at a boring weight does not. The failure mode of Hevy is that the feed becomes noise you scroll past, and you end up paying for a logger you could have had free.
Side by side
| Liftoff | Hevy | |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 4.83 (89,162) | 4.92 (85,100) |
| Social model | Ranked against everyone | Feed of people you follow |
| Free tier | Logging free, ranked features gated | 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, 3 months of graphs |
| Subscription | Pro $12.99/mo, $39.99–$79.99/yr | $2.99/mo, $23.99/yr |
| One-time purchase | — | $74.99 |
| Web access | — | Yes |
| Platforms | iPhone, Android | iPhone, Android, web |
If you want neither the scoreboard nor the feed
A lot of people arrive at this comparison because they want the logger and would happily skip the social layer entirely. That is a fair position, and it changes what you should be looking at — you are not choosing between these two, you are choosing whether to pay for a feature you plan to ignore.
Superset has no social layer at all, and takes a different swing at the annoying part of tracking: you talk through the session and its AI writes down the exercises, sets, reps and weights. Unlimited logging, 873 exercises with instructions and photos that work offline, and an AI coach that sets your next working weight are all free; voice logging is the only paid feature, and the first one is free.
Where it loses to both. No ranking, no feed, no friends — if social pressure is what keeps you training, this is the wrong app and Liftoff in particular will serve you better. It is iPhone-only, so Android users can stop reading. And it is new, with no App Store ratings yet, against nearly 90,000 for each of these two.
How to choose without wasting a month
- Answer one question honestly: has a leaderboard ever made you train harder for more than two weeks? If no, skip Liftoff Pro.
- Log a week in both free tiers. Both let you log without paying, so this costs nothing but attention.
- Watch what you do on a bad day. The app you open when you cannot be bothered is the right one.
- Check the price against the feature you actually used. Liftoff Pro at $12.99 a month is four times Hevy's subscription — worth it if you use the ranking, poor value if you don't.
- Do not pay annually in the first month. Neither app is going anywhere, and monthly for a while is the cheaper mistake.
Frequently asked questions
Is Liftoff better than Hevy?
They are rated almost identically — Hevy 4.92, Liftoff 4.83 — so it comes down to the social model. Liftoff ranks your lifts against everyone, which works well if competition motivates you. Hevy shows you a feed of people you follow, has a web app, and costs $2.99 a month against Liftoff Pro's $12.99.
Is Liftoff free?
Logging is free. The ranked features that make Liftoff distinctive sit behind Pro, which is $12.99 a month or between $39.99 and $79.99 a year depending on the plan. If you only want the logger, you never have to pay — but you are also not using the reason the app exists.
Which is cheaper, Liftoff or Hevy?
Hevy, clearly. It is $2.99 a month or $23.99 a year, and it also sells a $74.99 lifetime unlock. Liftoff Pro is $12.99 a month. Over two years that is roughly $48 against roughly $312 if you pay monthly.
Does Hevy have leaderboards?
No. Hevy's social layer is a feed of the people you follow, not a ranking against the whole user base. If you specifically want to see where your bench sits against everyone else's, that is Liftoff's core feature and Hevy has no equivalent.
Is there a good gym app with no social features at all?
Superset has none — no feed, no rankings, no friends. It is a free iPhone tracker you can log by talking, with 873 offline exercise guides and an AI coach that sets your next weight. The trade-offs are that it is iPhone-only and has no App Store ratings yet, so it is a newer, smaller bet than either of these.
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