How much does Hevy cost? 2026 pricing ($2.99/mo or $74.99 lifetime)

Quick answer: Hevy itself is free, with no trial deadline. Hevy Pro costs $2.99/month, $23.99/year, or $74.99 once (lifetime). The free tier is genuinely usable forever — it caps you at 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, and 3 months of graph history. Most casual lifters never need to pay.

We build Trainer Gym AI, a different kind of app (an AI plan generator rather than a logger). Hevy's pricing facts below come from Hevy's own site and help centre — treat those as the useful part, and the recommendation at the end as ours to earn.

Hevy pricing at a glance (2026)

Annual is roughly a 33% discount against paying monthly ($23.99 vs $35.88 a year). The lifetime tier breaks even against the annual plan at about 3 years, 2 months.

For context, that makes Hevy Pro one of the cheapest paid apps in the category — Fitbod is $79.99/year, more than 3× Hevy's annual price.

Is Hevy free?

Yes, and this is the part that makes Hevy unusual. Most fitness apps use "free" to mean "free trial." Hevy's free tier has no deadline and includes:

• Unlimited workout logging, forever
• The full exercise library
• Progress graphs and personal-record tracking
• The social feed and routine sharing

What the free tier actually caps

Three limits, and they're worth knowing before you build your training around it:

The one that bites people over time is 3 months of graph history. Strength training is a multi-year activity, and after your first year the free tier will only ever show you the most recent quarter of it. If long-term progress charts are why you log at all, that limit is the reason to upgrade.

The 4-routine cap is less restrictive than it sounds — a push/pull/legs split is 3 routines, an upper/lower is 2.

What Hevy Trainer adds

Hevy Trainer is the Pro-only feature that builds a program for you rather than making you write one. You answer questions about your goal, experience, equipment and available days, and it produces a full program with exercises, rep ranges and starting weights, then adjusts your working weights session to session based on how your sets went.

One detail worth being precise about, because the marketing around fitness apps blurs it constantly: Hevy describes Trainer as "an adaptive strength programming system based on a sophisticated algorithm," and its help centre puts it plainly: "Our programs are generated using an algorithm and do not rely on AI to create users' programs." That's not a criticism — a well-tuned progression algorithm is a genuinely good way to run linear strength progression, and it's predictable in a way generative models are not. It's just a different thing from an AI coach that reads your context in plain language and explains its reasoning back to you.

Is Hevy Pro worth it?

Skip Pro if: you run one split, log it, and mostly care about what you lifted last session. The free tier does this indefinitely and does it well.

Get Pro if: you rotate through many routines, program unusual or machine-specific exercises, care about multi-year progress charts, or want Trainer to write the program instead of writing it yourself. At $23.99/year it's an easy call.

Get lifetime if: you've already used Hevy for a year or more and know it's your long-term home. Otherwise the annual plan is cheap enough that locking in $74.99 isn't necessary.

If you don't know what to program in the first place

Hevy is a logger — it's excellent at recording what you did and showing you the trend. It assumes you know what to do when you walk into the gym, or that Trainer's algorithmic program is the structure you want.

If the actual problem is that you don't know what to do, that's a different tool. Trainer Gym AI is $5.99 once (R$29.90 in Brazil) and generates the plan itself — grounded in 17 peer-reviewed strength and conditioning meta-analyses, with onboarding written for people who have never trained, plus on-device 3D form correction. It's iOS-only, and it doesn't try to be a social logging platform.

Against Hevy's $74.99 lifetime, ours is $5.99 once — about 1/12 the cost for a permanent purchase. But they aren't substitutes, and plenty of people are best served running Hevy free.

For the full side-by-side, read Trainer Gym AI vs Hevy. If you're weighing Hevy against Fitbod specifically, we wrote Fitbod vs Hevy. For the wider field, see 7 Hevy alternatives.

FAQ

How much does Hevy cost? Hevy itself is free. Hevy Pro costs $2.99/month, $23.99/year, or $74.99 as a one-time lifetime purchase. The annual plan works out to about $2.00/month, which makes Hevy one of the cheapest paid workout apps available.

Is Hevy free? Yes, genuinely — and unlike most 'free' fitness apps it has no trial deadline. You get unlimited workout logging, the full exercise library, and progress graphs forever. The free tier caps three things: 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, and 3 months of graph history.

What does Hevy Pro unlock? Unlimited routines (instead of 4), unlimited custom exercises (instead of 7), all-time graph history (instead of 3 months), no ads, and Hevy Trainer — Hevy's programming tool that builds a routine for you and auto-adjusts your working weights.

Is Hevy Pro lifetime worth it? At $74.99 the lifetime tier pays for itself against the annual plan in a little over three years. It's worth it if you're certain Hevy is your long-term logger. If you're not sure yet, the annual plan at $23.99 is low-risk enough that there's no need to commit.

Do I actually need Hevy Pro? Most people don't. If you run one training split and log it, 4 routines and 7 custom exercises are enough, and the free tier stays fully usable indefinitely. You need Pro if you rotate through many routines, program unusual exercises, or want Hevy Trainer to write the program for you.

Get Trainer Gym AI on the App Store →