What workout app subscriptions cost, app by app

The short answer

Cheapest to most expensive, on the annual plan, US prices.

• Hevy Pro: $23.99 a year, or $2.99 a month, or $74.99 once.
• Strong PRO: $29.99 a year, or $4.99 a month, or $99.99 once.
• Liftoff Pro: $39.99 to $79.99 a year, or $12.99 a month.
• Superset: $49.99 a year, $7.99 a month or $3.99 a week, after a 3-day trial. No one-time purchase.
• JEFIT Elite: $69.99 a year, or $12.99 a month.
• Fitbod: $79.99 a year, or $12.99 to $15.99 a month.
• Alpha Progression: $79.99 a year, or $12.99 a month.

The full price list

The three-year bill

Nobody keeps a training log for six weeks. If it works, you keep it for years, so the annual sticker price is the wrong unit. Three years of the annual plan looks like this:

• Hevy: $71.97, or $74.99 once and never again.
• Strong: $89.97, or $99.99 once.
• Liftoff: $119.97 at the lower yearly price.
• Superset: $149.97.
• JEFIT Elite: $209.97.
• Fitbod and Alpha Progression: $239.97 each.

Monthly plans cost about twice as much

Every app here discounts the annual plan hard, and the gap is bigger than most people assume. Strong is $59.88 a year if you pay monthly against $29.99 if you pay yearly, so the monthly plan doubles the price. Fitbod is $155.88 monthly against $79.99 yearly. Superset is $95.88 monthly against $49.99 yearly, and its weekly plan works out at $207.48 over a year, which is four times the annual price.

The practical rule: pay monthly for the first month while you decide whether the app survives contact with your actual gym routine, then switch to annual. Two months of monthly billing costs less than the money you waste on an annual plan for an app you abandon in March.

The one-time purchases are worth a moment of arithmetic. Hevy's $74.99 unlock breaks even against its $23.99 annual plan after about three years and two months, and Strong's $99.99 breaks even after about three years and four months. If you already know you are a lifelong logger, those are good deals and nothing else on this list offers one.

What happens to your log when you stop paying

This is the part of the price that never appears on a pricing page, and it varies a lot.

Hevy and Strong drop you back to their free tiers. Your history is still there and still readable inside the caps, so lapsing is annoying rather than destructive. JEFIT returns you to the ad-supported version. Fitbod stops generating workouts.

Superset has no free tier at all, so a lapsed subscription puts the paywall back in front of the whole app. The workouts you already logged stay in your cloud backup rather than being deleted, and they come back when you resubscribe, but you cannot read them in the meantime. That is a real difference from Hevy and worth knowing before you start.

The other cost nobody prices is the exit. Ask whether you can get your training out as a file before you put five years into an app. Hevy and JEFIT can hand you your data. Superset has no CSV export today, and no tracker here imports another app's completed workout history.

Why Superset costs $49.99 rather than $23.99

Superset sits at twice Hevy's price and it should be judged on whether the reason for that gap applies to you. The subscription buys voice logging: you speak the finished session out loud and an AI model returns the exercises, sets, reps and weights, structured, with a review screen before it saves. Running that model on every workout has a per-use cost that a tap-based logger does not carry, and it is the one thing no competitor on this list offers.

The same subscription includes 873 exercises with photos and instructions that work with no signal, a coach that sets your next working weight for each lift, paste-in routine import, the progress dashboard and cloud backup. The 3-day trial unlocks all of it, and it converts into a paid subscription unless you cancel in Settings before it ends.

Where the price is hard to defend. The app is new and has no App Store ratings, against 85,100 for Hevy. It runs on iPhone only. The shipping build has no Apple Health sync, no CSV export and no rest timer, supersets and drop sets are notes rather than grouped sets, and voice logging needs a connection. Someone who will never use the microphone is paying $26 a year more than Hevy for fewer features, and should buy Hevy.

How to spend the least

• You mainly need the caps lifted: Hevy Pro at $23.99 a year is the floor for a serious app.
• You are certain you will log for years: buy Hevy's $74.99 unlock and stop thinking about it.
• You are not sure yet: pay monthly for a month first. Two months of monthly is cheaper than one wasted year.
• You want the workout written for you: budget $79.99 a year for Fitbod. No cheaper app does that job.
• You want to log by talking: Superset at $49.99 a year is the only option, and there is a 3-day trial to test it in a real gym.
• You want to pay nothing at all: Strong's free tier logs unlimited workouts within three custom routines, and Hevy's gives you four routines. Superset has no such tier.