Fitbod vs Hevy on Android: which strength app to use

Fitbod and Hevy are the two strength apps people compare most, and searches for Hevy have climbed sharply this year. They are not the same kind of product. Fitbod writes your workouts for you. Hevy records the workouts you write. On Android the difference shows up in price, in the watch app and in what reaches Health Connect. Prices below are as listed at the time of writing (October 2026).

What is the real difference between Fitbod and Hevy?

Fitbod is a programmer. You set your equipment, your goal and how long you have; it builds each session from your logged history and an estimate of how recovered each muscle group is, and adjusts as you train. Runs and rides you import count toward that recovery picture.

Hevy is a logger. You build routines, or copy them, and Hevy records sets, reps and weight, keeps your history and charts progress. It has a social feed and a large community. Pro adds a programming feature, Hevy Trainer, but the core of the app is recording what you planned.

If you know what you want to lift, Hevy gets out of the way. If you walk into the gym without a plan, Fitbod hands you one.

How much do they cost?

Fitbod does not publish prices on its website; it sells in-app, so the Play Store listing on your phone is the final word. The figures above come from the App Store in-app purchase listings recorded in March and April 2026. Earlier reviews listed Fitbod at $12.99 a month or $79.99 a year, so it has gone up. Hevy's free tier is genuinely usable for logging; the limits bite when you want more than four routines or long-term charts.

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Which works better on a Wear OS watch?

Both have Wear OS apps, with different limits.

• Fitbod on Wear OS lets you start a workout, see each exercise with sets, reps and weight, log sets and finish. It needs the phone nearby over Bluetooth, the workout only saves once you open Fitbod on the phone, you cannot edit sets or swap exercises on the watch, and logging on the watch does not start the rest timer.
• Hevy offers its Wear OS app on the free plan, alongside Android, iPhone, web and Apple Watch. It does not support older Samsung watches that run Tizen, which means anything before the Galaxy Watch 4.

If you train with the phone in a locker, test the watch app during the trial. That is where these two feel most different.

What does each share with Health Connect?

On Android, Health Connect is how your lifting reaches the rest of your apps.

• Fitbod syncs both ways. It can save each completed workout to Health Connect, and it can import runs, rides, rows, swims, walks and stair climbing so they affect its recommendations. It does not import yoga or HIIT.
• Hevy writes workouts to Health Connect; you turn it on under Profile, Settings, Integrations. Its help centre notes it has no Garmin integration, because Garmin turned down its API application.

Either way, your watch will also record the gym session as a workout. Pick one source for workouts in Health Connect, or the session is counted twice. The setup is in how to combine Garmin, Samsung Health, Strava and Hevy.

Which one should you use?

Runners who lift should keep the strength work simple and steady; strength training during a half marathon block covers how much is enough.

What neither app knows

Fitbod estimates muscle recovery from the sessions it sees. Neither app sees your sleep, your heart-rate variability or how hard Tuesday's intervals were unless that run was imported. A plan that suggests heavy squats after a short night and a long run is following its model correctly and still giving the wrong answer for that day.

How PeakU fits

PeakU, in private beta for Android, Wear OS and the desktop browser, reads your lifts from Hevy alongside runs, sleep and HRV from your other apps, and adjusts the day around all of it. It is not a logger, so you keep logging where you like. It is not yet available to buy.

Hen Eytan · Founder, UPeak

Builds the UPeak apps and writes up the research behind them.