Hevy vs Fitbod vs Strong vs Get Gains (2026): Which Wins?
Only in Get Gains
What none of the others do
- Calorie and macro tracking with barcode scanning, next to your workouts
- Supplement tracking with dose reminders
- AI meal logging from a photo (Snap Meal, on Pro)
- An AI coach that sees your training and your food (Titan)
£0 with Get Gains
Free here, paid elsewhere
- Workout logging, PBs, 1RM and progress chartsFreePaid on Fitbod (7-day trial, no ongoing free plan described)
- Body measurementsFreePRO on Strong
- Chart history beyond the last 3 monthsFreeHevy free shows the last 3 months only
- Food diary with barcode scanningFreeNot offered by Hevy, Strong or Fitbod, free or paid
- Supplement tracking with remindersFreeNot listed by Hevy, Strong or Fitbod, free or paid
Why Get Gains exists
Progress needs fuel, training and recovery. Track them apart and you never see the link.
- Fuel. Log what you eat: calories, protein, carbs and fat.
- Train. Log every set, rep and PB in the same app, on the same days.
- Recover. Connect your watch or ring. On Titan, each morning's Daily Outlook reads your resting heart rate and tells you: rest, easy, as planned or push.
- Learn. Put your eating, lifting and recovery side by side and see what works for your body. On Pro and Titan, our AI reads them together and tells you.
A food-only app can't see your training, a gym-only app can't see your plate, and neither knows whether you've recovered. Get Gains sees all three.
Get Gains is the only app here that tracks your workouts, your calories and your supplements in one place, and all three are on its free plan with no ads. Beyond that, the split is simple: Fitbod plans workouts for you, while Hevy and Strong are logbooks for a plan you bring yourself. Get Gains logs your own plan for free and adds AI-generated workouts on Pro. It’s the difference between a satnav and a road atlas, except Get Gains also keeps the receipts for the fuel.
We make Get Gains, so weigh our view accordingly. Every Hevy, Strong and Fitbod fact below comes from the company’s own website, help centre or UK App Store listing, checked on 31 October 2026. We compared the apps from those sources; we did not test them hands-on.
Hevy vs Strong vs Fitbod vs Get Gains: the short version
The short version is that Get Gains is the only one with a food diary and supplement tracker built in, Fitbod is the only one built around planning sessions for you, and Hevy and Strong are the long-standing logbooks.
| Hevy | Strong | Fitbod | Get Gains | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calorie and macro tracking | ❌ Not described | ❌ Shows data from other apps only | ❌ Doesn’t track calories | ✅ Free, with barcode scan |
| Supplement tracking | ❌ Not listed | ❌ Not listed | ❌ Not listed | ✅ Free, with reminders |
| AI meal logging from a photo | ❌ Not listed | ❌ Not listed | ❌ Not listed | ✅ Pro (Snap Meal) |
| AI coach that sees training and food | ❌ Not listed | ❌ Not listed | ❌ Not listed | ✅ Titan (Gains Coach) |
| Body measurements | Not stated | ❌ PRO only | Not stated | ✅ Free |
| Ongoing free plan | ✅ Free plan | ✅ Free plan | ❌ 7-day trial only | ✅ Free, no ads |
| Progress charts on free | ❌ Last 3 months only | Some free; all charts on PRO | ❌ No free plan | ✅ Free, history not capped |
| Main job | Log your own plan | Log your own plan | Plans workouts for you | Log your own; AI workouts on Pro |
| Paid from (UK) | £2.99/month | £4.99/month | £14.99/month | £10.99/month |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, watches, web | iPhone, Android, Apple Watch | iOS, Android, watches | Android, web, iPhone coming soon |
Why Get Gains is the strongest all-rounder
Get Gains is the only app on this page that covers the whole job: training, eating and supplements, in one log. Hevy, Strong and Fitbod are all good at the gym half, and none of them logs a meal.
- Food and gym in one app. Log meals from a food database with a barcode scanner, with calories and macros (protein, carbs, fat), right next to your sets. On the others you’d need a second app. Strong can show nutrition from other apps, Fitbod says it doesn’t track calories directly, and Hevy’s features page describes no nutrition tracking.
- Supplements with dose reminders. Add your creatine or vitamin D and get a reminder you can log the dose from. None of the other three lists this.
- A generous free plan with no ads. Unlimited workouts, sets, reps and weights, a rest timer, progress charts, PBs, estimated 1RM, a muscle heatmap, body weight, body measurements and body-fat %, plus a social feed. Fitbod has a 7-day free trial rather than a free plan, so everything on our free plan is free with us and paid with Fitbod.
- AI that sees both halves (Titan). Gains Coach is an AI coach that remembers you and sees your training and your food together, so a question about a stalled bench can take what you’ve been eating into account. On Pro, Snap Meal logs a meal from a photo (up to 30 a day) and AI workouts build sessions for you (up to 15 a month).
Running a gym app and a calorie counter side by side is like having two remotes for one telly: it works, but you’re always picking up the wrong one.
Why track food in a workout app?
Because your training log tells you what happened, and your food diary often tells you why. Protein helps your muscles repair and grow after a session, and carbs top up the energy your hardest sets run on, so a stalled lift or a flat week often starts on the plate rather than under the bar. A workout app on its own can’t see that. It’s like judging a car on its lap times without ever checking what’s in the tank.
That’s why Get Gains was built. Your training log and your food diary sit in one app, on the same days, so you can put a week of PBs next to a week of eating and learn what actually works for your body instead of guessing.
Then AI reads the two together, which is where it gets genuinely useful:
- Coaching insights (Pro): on your progress report, AI weighs your calories and protein against your targets alongside your training volume, sets per muscle group and PBs, and gives you three personal insights.
- Gains Coach (Titan): every reply sees your recent workouts and PBs together with today’s macros, your last few meals, your weight trend and your calorie balance. Ask “why has my bench stalled?” and you get an answer from a coach that knows what you’ve been eating.
Two separate apps can’t do this, because neither can see the other’s half of the story.
What about recovery?
Training is the stimulus, but recovery is when your body actually adapts. If you can’t recover, you can’t progress, however good your plan or your diet. Knowing when to take an easy day and when to go hard matters as much as being fuelled and following a good programme. Think of a phone: it can run the best apps in the world, but if it never charges overnight, it’s flat by lunchtime.
That’s where a watch or ring earns its place. With Get Gains on Titan:
- Connect through Health Connect (Android): steps, active calories, heart rate and weight sync from your watch, ring or band.
- Daily Outlook: each morning it compares your resting heart rate with your own normal, alongside your recent training, and makes the call: rest, easy, as planned or push.
- Gains Coach: if your resting heart rate stays about 5 bpm above your normal for a week, a common sign you’re not recovering well, the coach messages you about it.
Fuel, training and recovery, read together in one app: that’s the whole picture of your progress. More on what a tracker can and can’t tell you: do you need a fitness tracker?
What do you get for free?
Get Gains, Hevy and Strong all have a free plan you can keep using; Fitbod has a 7-day free trial instead.
- Get Gains free: unlimited workout logging with a rest timer, progress charts, PBs and 1RM, a muscle heatmap, nutrition logging with a food database and barcode scan, body weight, measurements and body-fat %, supplement tracking with reminders, a social feed, and data export. Up to 3 routines and 5 custom exercises. No ads, no card, no time limit.
- Hevy free: unlimited logged workouts, up to 4 routines and 7 custom exercises, and graphs for the last 3 months.
- Strong free: workout logging that Strong says you can always do for free, and up to 3 workout templates. PRO adds unlimited templates, all charts, body measurements and the plate calculator.
- Fitbod: a 7-day free trial available to all users. Its site doesn’t describe an ongoing free plan.
A trial is a test drive; a free plan is a car you can keep. Ours comes with the boot space for your food diary too.
How much do they cost?
Hevy has the cheapest paid plan and Fitbod the most expensive monthly plan; Get Gains sits between, and its paid tiers add AI rather than unlocking the basics. UK prices for Hevy, Strong and Fitbod are from their UK App Store listings, which often show several prices for the same plan, so check what the app offers you at checkout.
- Get Gains: the free plan covers logging. Pro is £10.99 a month or £109.99 a year. Titan is £17.99 a month or £144.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial. UK prices include VAT.
- Hevy Pro: the UK App Store lists £2.99 a month, £23.49 a year or £74.99 lifetime (a £3.99 monthly price is listed too). Hevy’s own site shows $2.99 a month, $23.99 a year or $74.99 lifetime in US dollars.
- Strong PRO: Strong’s site doesn’t publish a price and says “Prices may vary between regions”. The UK App Store lists several PRO prices, including £4.99 a month, yearly options from £21.99 to £29.49, and £99.99 for “Strong PRO Forever”.
- Fitbod: the UK App Store lists £14.99 a month and £99.99 a year, alongside lower and “legacy” prices. Fitbod’s own FAQ shows $15.99 a month or $95.99 a year in US dollars.
If you’d otherwise pay for a gym app and a calorie counter, compare our price with the two added together. It’s the meal deal logic: the sandwich alone looks cheaper until you buy the drink and crisps separately.
Planning vs logging: do you want to be told what to do?
Fitbod writes each session for you, Hevy and Strong expect you to bring your own plan, and Get Gains does both: your own routines on free, AI-generated sessions on Pro.
- Get Gains logs your own routines on the free plan. Pro adds AI-generated workouts (up to 15 a month) for days when you’d rather be handed a session.
- Fitbod builds workouts with what its FAQ calls a “proprietary algorithm” that uses your goals, equipment, recovery and logged performance. Its home page says it creates a personalised plan that updates with your progress. You can also save workouts you’ve created and reuse them, but planning is the main job.
- Hevy is a logbook first: you build routines and log sets. Pro adds Hevy Trainer, which builds a full programme from your goals, equipment and schedule “based on a sophisticated algorithm”.
- Strong is a logbook only. You set up templates and log against them. Its site lists no workout generator.
If you already follow a programme, such as an upper lower split or push pull legs, any logbook will do. Not sure where to start? Our beginner workout plan works in any of these apps. Some people like the satnav voice saying “turn left”; others switch it off at the first roundabout. Get Gains lets you keep the atlas and borrow the satnav when you want it.
How do they use AI?
Get Gains has the most AI features, and the only ones that look at food as well as training. Fitbod and Hevy use algorithms to plan training, and Strong lists none.
- Get Gains: Pro adds Snap Meal (log a meal from a photo), AI workouts, AI recipes, AI meal plans and supplement stacks, and coaching insights. Titan adds Gains Coach, an AI coach that remembers you and sees your training and your diet, plus adaptive TDEE worked out from your real data.
- Fitbod: its proprietary algorithm is the whole product. Its FAQ doesn’t call it AI.
- Hevy: Hevy Trainer is an algorithm-based planner on Pro. Hevy also has a ChatGPT plugin that’s free for Hevy users and works with a free ChatGPT account.
- Strong: no AI features are listed on its site.
A coach who only sees your training is like a mechanic who checks the engine but never asks what fuel you’ve been putting in.
Can you track food too?
Only Get Gains has a food diary built in. The others are for training.
- Get Gains: log meals from a food database with a barcode scanner, track calories and macros, body weight and measurements, and log supplements with reminders, all next to your workouts.
- Hevy: no nutrition tracking is described on its features page.
- Strong: can show nutrition from other apps through Apple Health or Google Fit, or calories you type in by hand.
- Fitbod: its FAQ says it doesn’t track calories directly.
If you’re cutting or bulking, one app instead of two saves a lot of switching, a bit like having your bank card and train ticket in the same wallet. Our calorie deficit calculator gives you a starting target.
Which app is the most social?
Hevy has the biggest community; Get Gains has a feed of its own on the free plan. Hevy’s home page says “Follow and compete with other athletes to stay motivated”, with likes, comments and saving other people’s routines, and Hevy says it’s loved by 17+ million athletes. The feed can be disabled in settings.
- Get Gains: a feed where you follow lifters, share a workout, photo or note, and like posts. It’s newer and smaller than Hevy’s: more Sunday league than Premier League.
- Strong: lists workout sharing, but no social feed is described on its site.
- Fitbod: no social features are described on its site.
Can you export your data?
Get Gains, Strong and Hevy all let you get your data out; Fitbod’s site doesn’t describe a file export.
- Get Gains: request a copy in the app (Settings, then Privacy) and you’ll get an emailed link to a JSON file, on the free plan.
- Strong: export a spreadsheet-friendly CSV from the app’s settings. Exported files can’t be imported back into Strong.
- Hevy: an Export & Import Data section in settings, with a built-in Strong CSV import.
- Fitbod: its FAQ lists integrations with Apple Health, Fitbit, Health Connect and Strava, but doesn’t describe downloading your history as a file.
Your training history is like your phone’s photos: you only find out whether it’s backed up when you try to move it.
Where the others are stronger
To be fair, the others still win on devices and moving your history across.
- Platforms and watches. Hevy runs on iOS, Android, Apple Watch, Wear OS and the web at hevy.com. Strong runs on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch, with a fully featured Apple Watch app that works with or without your iPhone. Fitbod runs on iOS and Android, and its FAQ lists Apple Watch and Wear OS companion apps (it says the web version is for onboarding only). Get Gains is on Android (Google Play) and the web at app.getgains.co, and the iPhone app is coming soon. There’s no watch app yet, though Titan syncs wearable data through Health Connect.
- Importing history. Hevy can import Strong’s CSV. Get Gains can’t import from other apps, so you’d start a fresh log.
- Price and maturity. Hevy’s paid plan is cheaper if you only want a logbook, Strong has a long track record, and Fitbod is the pick if hands-off planning is all you want.
We’re the one mate still waiting for his new phone to arrive in the post. If you need an iPhone or a wrist app today, that’s a fair deal-breaker.
Pick Get Gains if…
Pick Get Gains if you want training, food and supplements in one app, with a free plan that covers all three and no ads.
- You’d otherwise run a gym app and a calorie counter side by side.
- You want barcode scanning, body measurements and long-term charts without paying.
- You take supplements such as creatine and want reminders.
- You’d like AI workouts and photo meal logging on Pro, or a coach that sees your training and food on Titan.
- You’re on Android, or happy to wait for the iPhone app.
Pick Hevy if…
Pick Hevy if you want a free logbook on any device, with a big community.
- You use an Apple Watch, Wear OS watch or a browser.
- You want the cheapest paid plan, or a one-off lifetime purchase.
Pick Strong if…
Pick Strong if you want a focused, private logbook with a long track record.
- You use an Apple Watch and want to log without your phone.
- You value maturity: the UK App Store shows 4.9 out of 5 from about 24,000 ratings.
Pick Fitbod if…
Pick Fitbod if you want the app to decide every workout and you’re happy to pay for that.
- You don’t want to write or research a programme.
- You use Apple Health, Fitbit, Health Connect or Strava and want workouts to sync there.
Want to look at more apps? Our best workout tracker apps in the UK adds JEFIT and Boostcamp, Hevy vs Strong vs Get Gains goes deeper on the two logbooks, and Strong alternatives covers moving your history. Our 1RM calculator helps you set starting weights in whichever app you choose.
How we wrote this: drafted with AI assistance, then fact-checked against the sources below and edited by Alex Lawrence. Prices and features were checked on each company’s own website and UK App Store listing on 31 October 2026 and can change. We make Get Gains, so weigh our view accordingly. Read our editorial policy.
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- Fitbod: FAQs, price, trial, watch apps, integrations and calories (checked 31 October 2026)
- Fitbod blog: Saved Workouts (updated 19 October 2022; checked 31 October 2026)
- Fitbod Workout & Gym Planner, UK App Store listing (checked 31 October 2026)
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