TitanLog/Comparisons/vs Hevy
The honest comparisonHevy is popular for good reasons: a genuinely useful free tier, a modern interface, and a community you can train alongside. TitanLog is for lifters who want pure speed, privacy, and a one-time payment with no feed attached. This is less a feature fight than a difference in philosophy — here they are side by side so you can pick the one that matches how you actually train.
Last updated August 2026
$19.99 once — free to download and try
$2.99/mo • $23.99/yr • $74.99 lifetime
Hevy is the cheaper subscription in this category and its free tier is generous. It is still a subscription, and the free tier is where the ads live.
| TitanLog | Hevy | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free to download and try the full logging flow. No ads at any tier. | Unlimited logging, capped at ~4 routines and ~7 custom exercises, limited history. Ads on free. |
| Paid | $19.99 one time | $2.99/mo • $23.99/yr • $74.99 lifetime |
| Cost after 1 year | $19.99 | $23.99 |
| Cost after 3 years | $19.99 | $71.97 |
| Cost after 5 years | $19.99 | $119.95 annual, or $74.99 lifetime |
| Future updates | Included, free, forever | Included with Pro or Lifetime |
| Stop paying → | Nothing changes. You own it. | Back to the capped free tier, with ads |
| TitanLog | Hevy | |
|---|---|---|
| Social feed | Never. There is no feed to turn off. | Core to the product |
| Ads | None, at any tier | On the free tier |
| Logging speed | Sub-3-second, one-handed, quick-rep chips | Fast and well designed |
| Exercise library | 1,111 built in | 400+ |
| Video demonstrations | 1,035 looping demos included | Animations on most exercises |
| Form guide on every exercise | Numbered steps and key cues, custom lifts included | Written instructions |
| Add your own video link | Any exercise, built-in or custom | ✕ |
| All features in one purchase | ✓ | ✕ Pro tier required |
| Body-weight-aware volume | Pull-ups, dips, assisted lifts | ✕ |
| Volume for planks and carries | Time under load | ✕ |
| Full backup & restore | Lossless JSON | CSV export only |
| Import your Hevy history | CSV import, fuzzy exercise matching — in 2.4 | — |
| Template sharing | As a file, iPhone ↔ Android, works offline | Shared routines through the Hevy community |
| Account required | No. Local-first, fully offline. | Yes |
| Coaching / trainer product | ✕ | ✓ Hevy Trainer |
| Community routine library | ✕ | ✓ |
| Languages | EN, ES, FR, DE, PT, JA — fully translated | Multiple |
The last three rows are Hevy wins. If a trainer product and a community library are what you came for, TitanLog does not have an answer for you — and no amount of one-time pricing changes that.
Hevy's feed works. Seeing that three people you follow trained this morning is real motivation for a lot of lifters, and dismissing that would be dishonest. Community routines mean you can pull a proven programme instead of building one from scratch.
TitanLog takes the opposite position on purpose: there is no feed, no follower count, no likes, and no discovery surface, because every one of those is a reason to still be holding your phone ninety seconds after your set ended. The app is designed to be closed. Everything in it exists to get the set recorded and get you back to the bar.
Honest read: if the feed is what keeps you turning up, Hevy is doing something for you that TitanLog deliberately will not. If the feed is what keeps you on your phone between sets, that is exactly the problem TitanLog was built around.
TitanLog ships 1,111 exercises, 1,035 of them with looping video demonstrations, and a perfect-form guide — numbered technique steps plus key cues — on every single one, including custom lifts you create yourself. Coverage spans barbell, dumbbell, kettlebell, machine, cable, bodyweight, band, and suspension work. You can also paste your own video link onto any exercise if you prefer a specific coach's demonstration; it syncs across devices and is included in your backup.
Hevy's library sits around 400+ exercises with animations on most and written instructions. That covers mainstream training comfortably. It gets thinner if you work in unusual implements or accessory variations.
All of TitanLog's library is inside the $19.99 — it is not a content tier that gets rented back later. Browse the full library →
At $23.99 a year Hevy Pro is the most affordable subscription in this comparison, and if you are on its free tier you may never pay at all. The distinction is not really about the monthly number — it is about whether the app is yours.
With TitanLog, one $19.99 payment ends the transaction permanently. Every future version is included; 1.9, 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 all shipped free to existing owners, and there is no premium tier waiting to be introduced later. Stop paying attention to it for two years and nothing gets taken away, because nothing is being rented.
With Hevy, stopping payment returns you to a capped free tier — around four routines, around seven custom exercises, limited history — with ads.
Hevy is account-based by design; that is how the social layer functions at all. Your training data lives on its servers so that the feed, the community routines, and cross-device sync can work.
TitanLog is local-first. Your data sits on your device, cloud sync is optional and private, there are no third-party servers in the path, no tracking, and no data resale. Lock-screen redaction hides workout names from anyone glancing at your phone. There is no profile because there is nobody to show it to.
On the way out, TitanLog does a full-fidelity JSON backup and restore that puts you back exactly where you were — every workout, set, template, and PR — plus CSV and PDF export. Hevy exports CSV, which keeps your history but not the full structure.
On the way in, version 2.4 reads that Hevy CSV directly, fuzzy-matching your lifts onto TitanLog's library so the switch does not cost you your training history. Leaving should be easy in both directions, including out of this app.
Eight strict pull-ups is real work. Most trackers log it as zero volume because the bar had no plates. TitanLog counts your body weight — read automatically from your phone's health app, the single value it asks for — subtracts the assist on assisted lifts, counts both hands on two-dumbbell and two-kettlebell moves through a ×2 toggle you control, and gives planks and carries credit for time under load.
Hevy does not do body-weight-aware volume. For a barbell-first programme that is irrelevant. For a hybrid or gymnastics-leaning one it changes what your charts are actually telling you.
Yes — a native Hevy importer lands in version 2.4. Export your training from Hevy as CSV and TitanLog reads it directly, fuzzy-matching every lift against its own 1,111-exercise library so your history arrives named properly instead of as hundreds of unrecognised custom entries. It is the same import path Strong's CSV export already uses. Until 2.4 ships, keep Hevy installed as a read-only archive of your old training. The importer is part of the one-time purchase, like every other update.
No, and it is not a roadmap item. There is no feed, no followers, no likes, no leaderboards, and no discovery surface. The one thing you can share is a workout template as a file — by AirDrop, Messages, Mail, Quick Share, or anything else — which lands directly in your training partner's app without either of you having an account.
Over any meaningful timeframe, yes. TitanLog is $19.99 once. Hevy Pro is $23.99 a year, so it passes TitanLog's total in year one and reaches $119.95 over five years. Hevy's $74.99 lifetime tier is still close to four times TitanLog's price. If Hevy's free tier genuinely covers your needs, though, free beats $19.99 — that is a fair answer.
No, at any tier, ever. There is no ad-supported free tier because there is no advertising in the app at all. It is free to download and try, and a single $19.99 purchase unlocks everything.
Yes. It is local-first: no account is required, and full functionality works offline in a basement gym with no signal. Cloud sync exists but is optional and private, with no third-party servers involved.
Yes, on Google Play, at feature parity with iPhone. Templates share as a file in either direction, custom lifts included, and importing the same template twice never duplicates your exercise library.
Download TitanLog free. Try it for a session. Pay $19.99 once when you're ready — and never pay again.
Last updated: August 2026. Hevy pricing and free-tier limits were taken from Hevy's published plans in August 2026; free-tier caps are approximate and Hevy adjusts them from time to time. Prices vary by region and store, and any app can change its pricing at any time — verify current pricing on Hevy's own site before you decide. TitanLog is made by Yost Group LLC; we have an obvious interest in this comparison, which is exactly why we have marked the rows where Hevy is ahead. Hevy is a trademark of its respective owner and is not affiliated with or endorsing Yost Group LLC.