Trackist vs Hevy

The short answer

Pick Hevy if you already know what you are doing in the gym and want a fast, clean place to record it, with friends watching.

Pick Trackist if deciding the plan is the part you want handled: the split, the exercises, the sets, and the weight to try today.

What Hevy does well

Hevy earned its 4.9 rating across roughly 94,000 App Store ratings. The logging screen is quick, the charts are good, and the free tier logs unlimited workouts rather than nagging you after three sessions. It runs on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch, and it has the strongest social feed in this category: you follow people, their sessions show up, their personal records get a reaction.

Hevy Pro is $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year, or $74.99 once for lifetime access. That is the cheapest serious subscription in this comparison, and the lifetime option is rare.

If you want a training partner's eyes on your week and a tracker that gets out of the way, that is a good app and a fair price.

Where Trackist is different

Trackist starts a step earlier. You answer six questions once — goal, experience, equipment, anything that hurts, the days you can train, your age — and it writes a block of four to twelve weeks, with the exercises, sets, target reps and rest already chosen, and a deload in the last week when the block is long enough.

Then it keeps moving:

• A session lands wrong and you say so. Too hard or too easy, on the day or on the week. The first report is noted; a repeat rewrites that training day, and a pattern across weeks rebuilds the rest of the block around where you actually are.
• Something hurts. You name the exercise, the joint and how bad it is. The movement is swapped for one that trains the same muscle without that pattern, and the limitation stays on your profile, so nothing puts it back next block.
• The block ends. The next plan is written from what happened in this one: your logs, your check-ins, the sessions you skipped, everything you reported. It tells you, by name, what changed and why.

Between those, the small things that make a session run: last week's numbers under every cell, one line above the table that says what to try today, a rest countdown that keeps running on the lock screen, and a summary when the last set lands.

Side by side

Prices and limits were checked on the US App Store and the apps’ own pages in September 2026. Both change, and the store is the source of truth.

What Trackist does not have

Hevy wins on a few things outright, and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to lose your trust:

• No Android app yet, and no Apple Watch app.
• No social feed, no followers, no reactions.
• No lifetime purchase.
• A library of 200 movements, chosen for programming, against a much larger catalogue in Hevy.

Which one fits you

Choose Hevy when the programming is the fun part, when your coach or your spreadsheet already decides the week, or when you train on Android today.

Choose Trackist when you have been running the same four exercises for a year, when a plan you bought once stopped fitting in week three, or when the honest reason you skip is that you do not know what today should be. See how the plan is built, or start with a proven split and read how the app runs it.