Trackist vs Hevy: which one fits your training?

Which one should you pick?

Pick Hevy if you mostly want a fast place to log sets, on any phone or an Apple Watch, with friends following along.

Pick Trackist if you want the plan to react to you: to a shoulder that hurts on the bench, to a week that was too hard, and to how your last plan went.

What Hevy does well

Hevy has a 4.9 rating from roughly 94,000 App Store ratings. Logging a set is quick and the charts are good. Hevy's free tier logs unlimited workouts, with a cap on saved routines, so it does not stop you after 3 sessions. It runs on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. It also has the strongest social feed in this category: you follow people, see their sessions and react to their personal records.

Hevy Pro costs $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 once for lifetime access.

Hevy Pro includes Hevy Trainer. It asks 6 questions: your experience, goal, equipment, how often you train, how long you have and which muscles to focus on. Then it builds a program with sets, rep ranges and rest times. It adds weight when you hit the top of the rep range on every set, offers 4 alternatives when you replace an exercise, and can work around an injury you flag. If your history is already in Hevy, Trainer gives you a plan without leaving the app.

Where Trackist is different

Trackist asks more before it writes anything. The 14 questions cover your goal, experience, equipment, joints, schedule, session length and age. The plan runs for 4 to 12 weeks, with every exercise, set, rep target and rest chosen. In a plan of 6 weeks or more, the last week is a deload: a lighter week at 60% of the sets.

Then the plan keeps changing while you use it:

• A session is too hard: say so, for the day or the week. The first report is noted. A second report in the same week leaves the plan as it is for now. If it comes back in a later week, Trackist rewrites the day or rebuilds the rest of the plan. Hevy says Trainer adjusts your weight when you slip back, but it does not say it rewrites the plan.
• Something hurts: name the exercise, the joint and how bad it is. The coach picks a replacement that trains the same muscle, or you pick one from the library. Either way, Trackist keeps the limitation on your profile.
• The plan ends: the next plan is written from this one, using your log, the sessions you skipped and everything you reported. The coach's notes say what changed and why. You can also restart the same plan.

During a session you see last session's numbers under every set and one line with the weight to try today. That weight comes from your last sets and their RPE, a rating of how hard each set felt from 1 to 10. A rest timer keeps running on the Lock Screen, and a summary appears after the last set.

Compare them side by side

We checked prices and limits on the US App Store and on each app’s own site in September 2026. Both change, so the App Store has the final word.

What Trackist does not have

Hevy wins on these outright:

• No Android app yet, and no Apple Watch or iPad app.
• No social feed, followers or reactions. You can send a share card of your week, and that is all.
• No offline logging. Logging needs an internet connection.
• A library of 201 exercises, against a much larger one in Hevy. Each has written form cues and a muscle map, not a video.

Which one fits you

Choose Hevy when the programming is the fun part, when a coach or a spreadsheet already decides your week, when you train on Android, or when you want a free log with unlimited workouts.

Choose Trackist when you have run the same 4 exercises for a year, when a plan you bought stopped fitting by week 3, or when a sore joint keeps cutting your week short. See how the plan is written, or start from a proven split and see how Trackist runs it.