Hevy Free Alternative: Best No-Subscription Loggers

Hevy's free tier is generous by app-store standards — unlimited logged workouts, a real social feed, decent charts. The limits show up quietly: around 4 saved routines, 7 custom exercises, and an analytics window that trims to roughly 3 months. None of that stops you from using the app; it just nudges you toward Hevy PRO ($2.99–9.99/mo, $23.99/yr, or $74.99 lifetime) once you've been training long enough to notice.

If you want out from under those caps without paying, here's where to go.

1. Stay Fit

Unlimited custom routines and custom exercises, full analytics history from your first logged workout, and no account required to start. Stay Fit also includes goal tracking, body measurements, and progress photos that Hevy doesn't offer at any tier. What you give up versus Hevy: the social feed, web access, and iOS/Apple Watch support — Stay Fit is Android-only.

2. FitNotes

An ads-instead-of-subscription model with a full feature set unlocked from install — unlimited routines, custom exercises, and history, no analytics window trim. The interface is more utilitarian than Hevy's, and there's no social component at all.

3. Plates

Deliberately minimal — no social feed, no calorie tracking, just sets, reps, weight, and progressive overload with unlimited history and routines. If Hevy's feed never got used anyway, Plates strips away exactly what you weren't using.

4. Iron Log

Built around progressive overload specifically, with ghost-set pre-fill from your last session. No routine or exercise caps, full local history, and export in TXT, CSV, or JSON — useful if you want to feed your training log into an AI coach for programming feedback.

5. GymMane

Open source, no internet permission requested, 360+ exercises, 6 calculators. The most different pick on this list in both interface and philosophy — worth it specifically if code-level privacy verification matters to you more than a polished UI.

What you actually lose by leaving Hevy

Be honest about this before switching: the social feed, cross-platform sync (iOS, Android, web, Apple Watch), and Hevy Trainer's AI-generated programming (itself a PRO feature) don't exist in any of the five alternatives above. If any of those three is the actual reason you use Hevy, staying — and eventually paying for PRO — is the more sensible option. This comparison is for people who were using Hevy purely as a logger and just want the logger without a ceiling.