Hevy alternative
A Hevy alternative with no routine limit.
Hevy’s free plan stops at four routines and seven custom exercises. Arclift’s free plan has no cap on either, needs no account and brings your Hevy history with it. If you want more, Arclift Pro costs less than Hevy Pro by the year and for life.
Best Hevy alternatives in 2026
Most people looking for a Hevy alternative want the same fast logging without the free-plan caps, or without the social side. This is how Arclift, a free iPhone tracker, compares on what decides a switch, including the rows where Hevy comes out ahead.
| Feature | Arclift | Hevy |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes. Free forever, no trial clock | Yes. Free forever, no ads |
| Workouts you can log for free | Yes. Unlimited | Yes. Unlimited |
| Routines on the free plan | Yes. Unlimited templates | Partly. Up to 4 |
| Custom exercises on the free plan | Yes. Unlimited, with your own photos | Partly. Up to 7 |
| Progress charts on the free plan | Partly. This week’s totals; charts and PRs need Pro | Partly. Graphs for the last 3 months |
| Pro price | $2.99 a month, $19.99 a year, or $49.99 once | $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year, or $74.99 once |
| Works without an account | Yes. No sign-up; your data stays in your iCloud | No. Needs a sign-up with a username and password |
| Platforms | iPhone | iPhone, Android and the web |
| Apple Watch app | No. A Lock Screen Live Activity logs sets instead | Yes. Logs sets, rest timers and heart rate |
| Lock Screen Live Activity | Yes. Logs the next set and runs the rest timer | Yes |
| Coaching | Progression coach on your own routine: next targets, plateaus and deloads, with reasons (Pro) | Hevy Trainer builds a program with progressive overload (Pro) |
| Recovery tracking | Yes. Recovery map with live decay and 7-day load per muscle (Pro) | Partly. Muscle distribution and sets per muscle group per week |
| Social feed | No. No feed or followers; share cards for Photos | Yes. Feed, followers and leaderboards |
| Apple Health | Yes. Writes workouts; reads body weight, heart rate and sleep | Yes. Exports workouts to Health |
| Strava sync | No | Yes |
Hevy facts checked on against hevy.com/pricing, Hevy’s feature list and Hevy’s App Store listing. Prices are US prices; yours may differ.
Why lifters switch
What changes when you move to Arclift.
Four differences you notice in the first week. The progression coach is part of Arclift Pro; the other three are free.
No cap on routines or custom exercises
Hevy’s free plan holds four routines and seven custom exercises, and Pro removes the limit. In Arclift both are unlimited for free, for good. Save every session you repeat as a template, add custom exercises with your own photos and target muscles, and log as many workouts as you like.
How templates workYour Hevy history comes with you
Export a CSV from Hevy and Arclift turns it into ordinary finished workouts, with every exercise, set, weight and rep. Exercise names are matched to Arclift’s library and you see a preview before anything is saved, so your past lifts are there from your first session.
A coach for the routine you already run
Hevy Trainer builds a new program for you. Arclift’s progression coach works on the routine you already follow: it reads your history, sets the weight and reps for your next session, spots plateaus, calls deloads, and explains every call. After a night of poor sleep or low HRV, targets hold steady instead of going up.
See the progression coachA private log, with no account
There’s nothing to sign up for: no email, no password, no profile. Your workouts are stored on your iPhone and synced through your own iCloud account, which we can’t read. There’s no feed and no followers, and a session is only public if you share a card yourself.
What’s free and what’s Pro
Move your Hevy history in a few minutes.
Arclift reads the CSV file Hevy exports. Nothing is saved until you’ve seen what will come in.
- In Hevy, open Profile and tap the gear icon for Settings.
- Tap Export & Import Data, then Export Data, then Export Workouts, and save the file to Files. Switching Hevy’s language to English first helps the exercise names match.
- In Arclift, open Settings, choose Import from Hevy or Strong, and pick that file.
- Check the preview and the exercise matches, then import. Your sessions appear in History as finished workouts.
Honest tradeoffs
Where Hevy still wins.
Arclift isn’t the better pick for everyone. If one of these matters most to you, Hevy is probably the right app.
- Progress graphs on the free plan
- Hevy’s free plan keeps three months of graphs for every exercise. Arclift’s free plan shows this week’s totals and keeps charts, personal records and per-exercise progress for Pro, so if you want free charts and never plan to pay, Hevy shows you more.
- Android, the web and Apple Watch
- Hevy runs on iPhone, Android and the web, and its Apple Watch app logs sets, starts rest timers and tracks your heart rate from the wrist. Arclift is iPhone only and has no Watch app; the Lock Screen Live Activity is the closest it gets.
- A big community
- More than 17 million lifters use Hevy. You can follow friends, see their workouts in a feed, compare lifts, climb leaderboards and sync sessions to Strava. Arclift has no social layer at all; sharing means a card you post yourself.
- Ready-made programs, and tools for trainers
- Hevy’s routine library has complete splits you can start today, Hevy Trainer builds a program from your goal and equipment, and Hevy Coach lets personal trainers assign workouts to clients. Arclift builds one starter template during setup and otherwise expects you to bring your own routine.
Questions about switching from Hevy
Is Hevy free?
Yes. Hevy’s free plan logs unlimited workouts, but it caps you at four routines and seven custom exercises and shows only the last three months of graphs. Hevy Pro removes those limits for $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 once, according to Hevy’s pricing page.
Is Hevy Pro worth it?
If you want Hevy’s Android or Apple Watch apps, its feed, or Hevy Trainer, Pro is reasonable at $23.99 a year. If what you’re missing is unlimited routines on iPhone, Arclift’s free plan already has them, and Arclift Pro, at $19.99 a year or $49.99 once, is for its statistics, recovery map and progression coach.
Can I move my workouts from Hevy to Arclift?
Yes, for free. In Hevy, go to Settings, Export & Import Data, Export Data, and export your workouts as a CSV file. Then choose Settings, Import from Hevy or Strong in Arclift and pick the file. Your past sessions come in as finished workouts, and you see a preview before anything is saved.
Is Arclift free?
Yes. Logging, unlimited templates and custom exercises, your full history, iCloud sync, Apple Health and share cards are free forever, with no account. Arclift Pro adds full statistics, progress charts, the recovery map and the progression coach for $2.99 a month, $19.99 a year or $49.99 once.
Does Arclift work on Android or Apple Watch?
No. Arclift is an iPhone app, and there is no Android, web or Apple Watch version. In place of a Watch app, a Live Activity on the Lock Screen shows your current set and the rest that’s left, with buttons that log the next set without opening the app.
Does Arclift have a social feed like Hevy?
No, and that’s deliberate. There are no followers, likes or leaderboards, and nothing you log is visible to anyone else. When you want to show off a session, Arclift puts it on a share card over your own photo, in story or square format, and saves it to Photos for you to post anywhere.
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- Hevy vs Strong
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- Fitbod alternatives
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- JEFIT alternatives
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- Strong alternatives
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Use cases
- Bodybuilding
Weekly sets per muscle on a body map, recovery you can read, drop sets that don’t skew your targets, and double progression set for you.
- No subscription
Logging, templates and history free for good, with no account and no ads, and a one-time option for Pro. Plus what other trackers charge.
- Progressive overload
Pick a progression rule per exercise and get the next weight and reps for every set, with plateaus and deloads called for you.
Free tools
- RPE calculator
Estimate your one-rep max from any set, find the weight for a target RPE, and read the full RPE chart.
- Plate calculator
Enter a target weight and get the plates for each side of the bar, in kg or lb, with only the plates you have.
- One-rep max calculator
Estimate your 1RM from any set with Epley and six other formulas, and get your working weights from 50 to 100%.
- Warm-up calculator
Enter your working weight and get warm-up sets that ramp up to it, with the reps and the plates for each side.
- Workout log template
A free spreadsheet for Excel, Google Sheets and Numbers, one row per set, plus a printable PDF log.
- DOTS calculator
Score your powerlifting total with DOTS, Wilks and IPF GL points, for men or women, classic or equipped.
Guides
- Deload week: when to take one and how to run it
What a deload is, how to tell you need one, three ways to run it with sample weeks, and what the research actually shows.
- Push pull legs: a complete routine and how to run it
A complete push pull legs routine for three or six days a week, with sets, reps, rest, weekly volume per muscle and a rule for progressing it.
- How long should you rest between sets?
Rest times for building muscle, strength and endurance, by goal and by lift, what the studies found, and how to fit longer rests into a short session.
- How many sets per muscle group per week?
Weekly sets for building muscle, by experience and by muscle group, how to count compound lifts, and when to add or cut volume.
- Upper lower split: a complete 4-day routine
A complete four-day upper lower routine with sets, reps and rest, a beginner version, weekly volume per muscle and how it compares with other splits.
Bring your Hevy history and keep lifting.
Arclift is free on iPhone, with unlimited templates and no account. Import your Hevy workouts in a few minutes and your past lifts are there for your next session.
See what’s free and what Pro costs