Hevy is a workout logger and planner its makers call "the Strava of weightlifting"; RightRep is a live form coach whose camera measures the set. They overlap on gym training and social, and diverge on the one thing that matters: what the app does while you lift. This page compares them side by side, every Hevy claim cited to Hevy's own materials or named sources, and the places where Hevy clearly wins listed as plainly as the rest.
What each one is, in its own words — before the side-by-side.
A workout logger and planner built around the routine: ordered exercises with sets, reps and weight, superset grouping, an automatic rest timer, automatic PRs and volume charts, a streak calendar, and a social feed with athlete and routine search — a community its makers count at 16M+ gym athletes. The free tier logs unlimited workouts with 4 routines, 3 months of history and 7 custom exercises; Pro is $2.99/month, $23.99/year or $74.99 lifetime.
A live form coach first: prop your phone, and the camera watches the set — 33 body landmarks per frame measured on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint, spoken cues mid-rep, a 0–100 score for every completed repetition, and an automatic rest timer that starts when the counted set ends — plus GPS run/walk/hike/ride recording, an in-app community feed with clubs and challenges, and AI training plans and coach chat. Live form checks are free forever; Pro is $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial.
The same eight questions, asked of each product.
| Question | Hevy | RightRep |
|---|---|---|
| What happens during the set? | You log it — sets, reps and weight typed between efforts, with superset grouping | The camera measures it — 33 landmarks per frame on the device, faults flagged joint-by-joint |
| What do you get per rep? | The numbers you entered, with automatic PR detection on your lifts | A 0–100 score and the exact rule that failed, for every completed repetition |
| Planning a whole workout? | Routines — ordered exercises with sets and reps, reusable and shareable; 4 free, unlimited on Pro | One filmed exercise per session today; multi-exercise routines are planned, not shipped |
| Rest timer? | Automatic and customizable per exercise | Automatic after each counted set, per-profile defaults, spoken "rest over" cue |
| Load and volume tracking? | Per-set weight, automatic PRs, volume charts, body measurements on Pro | None, deliberately — the signal RightRep records is movement quality, not load |
| Social? | Feed, follows, athlete and routine search — a community they count at 16M+ | In-app feed with filmed clips, kudos and comments, clubs, challenges and live run broadcasts |
| Cardio? | Not the focus — cardio enters as duration-based entries | GPS run, walk, hike and ride recording with split cues, heart rate and live broadcast |
| Platforms & price? | iOS, Android, web, Apple Watch and Wear OS companions; free tier with 4 routines; Pro $2.99/month, $23.99/year or $74.99 lifetime | iOS, Android and a web PWA; live form checks free forever, Pro $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial |
Hevy column per Hevy's own pricing page, help center and feature pages (sources below). RightRep column per shipped behavior — the features page documents each row.
The honest case for our side — grounded in what the app does today.
A logger trusts your typing. RightRep measures the actual set: 33 landmarks per frame, joint angles against the exercise's ruleset, one spoken correction at a time, a 0–100 score per completed rep. That measurement — every set, not just the ones you remember to log — is the product.
Hevy's reps are what you typed between sets; RightRep's phase state machine counts the repetition as it completes — and the rest timer starts from real completions, with a spoken cue when it's time to go again. The record of the set is the set.
Hevy's focus is the gym log; cardio is a duration entry. RightRep records GPS runs, walks, hikes and rides with jitter-filtered routes, kilometer split cues, BLE chest-strap heart rate, a walking analyzer for gait, and live broadcasts when you want an audience.
Hevy's feed carries the workout summary you logged. RightRep's feed carries the filmed set — clips, kudos, comments, clubs and challenges — so the thing your training social graph sees is your actual movement, not a table of numbers.
The other side of the comparison — because a page that only praises one column is an ad.
Hevy's core object is the routine: plan a whole session of ordered exercises with sets, reps and supersets, reuse it every week, share it, pin it to your profile — 4 free, unlimited on Pro. RightRep films one exercise per session today; multi-exercise routines are on our roadmap, not in the app.
Per-set weight entry, automatic PRs, volume and strength charts, body measurements — Hevy tracks the numbers strength training runs on. RightRep deliberately records movement quality instead, and has no load ledger at all; if you train for tonnage and PRs, Hevy's charts are real and ours don't exist.
Hevy Pro is $2.99/month, $23.99/year or $74.99 once, with a free tier that keeps full logging. RightRep Pro is $9.99/month or $99.99/year. The camera is the reason for the difference; the bill is still the bill.
Hevy ships Apple Watch and Wear OS companions and a full web app, and runs athlete and routine search over a community it counts at 16M+. RightRep ships iOS, Android and a web PWA in six locales and is field-testing its first cohort — younger on every axis that is not the camera.
The honest summary: planning sessions and tracking load over months? Hevy earns its keep — it is the better logbook. Getting your squat actually corrected, filmed set after filmed set? That's the job RightRep does that Hevy doesn't try to do.
What actually happens between "start session" and the summary screen.
An on-device pose model tracks 33 body landmarks per frame. Joint angles are compared against the exercise's Position Profile — acceptable ranges, phase durations, left/right symmetry tolerances. Occluded joints are never scored: hidden is hidden, not guessed.
Profiles are pure data — 46 bundled Position Profiles today, and Machine Scan drafts a new one from a photo of an unfamiliar machine that the same scorer then uses. Every cue and every score traces back to a rule in that profile, not to a model's mood.
The same phase state machine that scores reps decides when a set is complete — and starts the rest timer from that moment, with a per-exercise default and a spoken cue when rest is over. The metronome of the workout, driven by what actually happened.
The questions people actually ask before choosing.
Both — for different jobs. If the gym job is planning sessions and logging load, Hevy is the better logbook. If the job is being corrected on your squat or bench, filmed set after filmed set, that's RightRep. Plenty of people will use both: Hevy as the log, RightRep as the camera.
Not yet. A RightRep session films one exercise — scored reps, rest timer, a summary you can share — and you start the next exercise yourself. Multi-exercise routines that chain the session end to end are planned work, and we say so rather than demo it.
No — deliberately. RightRep's record of a set is per-rep movement quality, not a manual load ledger; duplicating what a logbook does would add UI in the live session without adding a measurement. If you need tonnage, PRs and volume charts today, Hevy does that well.
Hevy: free tier logs unlimited workouts with 4 routines, 3 months of history and 7 custom exercises; Pro is $2.99/month, $23.99/year or $74.99 lifetime. RightRep: live form checks, exercise library, history and GPS runs are free forever; Pro — higher AI quotas, cloud sync, no ads — is $9.99/month or $99.99/year after a 7-day free trial.
RightRep's live analysis runs on the device — live-check video is not uploaded; sharing a clip or posting to the feed is an explicit action you take. Hevy is account-synced by design, as any multi-platform logger has to be.
Every Hevy claim on this page traces to Hevy's own materials or named sources — checked September 2026.
Hevy Pro prices ($2.99/month, $23.99/year, $74.99 lifetime): hevy.com/pricing. Free vs Pro split — 4 routines, 3-month history, 7 custom exercises free; unlimited with Pro: Hevy Pro subscription (help.hevyapp.com).
Three pillars — logging, progress, social: hevyapp.com and the Google Play listing. Rest timer: workout rest timer. Streak calendar: gym consistency. 16M+ community claim: how we built Hevy.
"Strava of weightlifting" positioning and the no-paid-acquisition growth story: RevenueCat podcast with Hevy's founder. Download and revenue estimates: Sensor Tower. Platform matrix and known gaps: FitCoin review. Analysis base: the HEVY_ANALYSIS research doc on our docs site.
Prices and features change; this page is reviewed quarterly and on known Hevy pricing changes. RightRep claims describe shipped behavior documented on the features page.
Trainer vs video review vs self-check vs live AI — the method-level comparison this product-level page sits next to.
The running sibling of this page — adaptive race plans and the watch workout push, cited the same way, including where Runna wins.
If something here reads wrong — either column — tell us. This page is meant to be argued with, and gets updated.