# Boostcamp vs Hevy: program library versus social logger, compared evenly

Updated: 2026-08-23
Published: 2026-08-23
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Boostcamp and Hevy are both excellent free-first lifting apps with different centres of gravity: Boostcamp is built around running published programs with auto-progression, Hevy around logging routines with a social feed. This page compares them from their own materials.

Checked against:

- Boostcamp on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boostcamp-workout-programs/id1529354455) on 2026-08-23
- Boostcamp website and Pro page (https://www.boostcamp.app/pro) on 2026-08-23
- Hevy on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hevy-workout-tracker-gym-log/id1458862350) on 2026-08-23
- Hevy website and tutorial (https://www.hevyapp.com/hevy-tutorial/) on 2026-08-23

> **In short.** Pick by where the program comes from. Boostcamp ships 130+ coach programs and thousands of community programs with auto-progression filling in your weights, gives away its tracker, RPE and RIR logging, and an uncapped program builder free, but has no Apple Watch app and no web app. Hevy is a social routine logger with a feed, Apple Watch support, iPad, and a web app at hevy.com, with a cheaper paid tier but a tighter free one. Both run on iPhone and Android. Neither is built around self-written multi-week programs on dates.

## The short version of each app

**Boostcamp** describes itself as the app with the world's most popular strength programs built in, among them nSuns, GZCLP, 5/3/1 variants, Reddit PPL, PHUL, and PHAT, plus thousands of community programs. Auto-progressions fill in your weights. The tracker logs sets with RPE and RIR, tracks PRs and estimated 1RM, supports supersets, drop sets, and warm-up templates, includes a rest timer and plate calculator, and works offline. A custom program builder with multi-week periodisation is free with no cap, with AI assistance described on the site. Boostcamp Pro adds exclusive coach programs, a strength score, a per-muscle volume heatmap, and advanced analytics. On the date checked its App Store rating was about 4.8 stars across roughly 10,000 ratings.

**Hevy** is a routine-based gym logger with a social layer of feed, follows, likes, comments, and leaderboards. It logs sets with automatic per-exercise rest timers, marks warm-up, drop, and failure sets, supports supersets, runs on Apple Watch with live sync, exports workouts into Apple Health, and lists Strava integration and RPE among its features. There is a web app at hevy.com and a routine library. On the date checked its rating was about 4.9 stars across roughly 88,000 ratings.

## Side by side

Every fact below comes from each app's App Store listing or website on the date shown at the top of this page.

| | Boostcamp | Hevy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Centre of gravity | Running published programs with auto-progression | Logging routines with a social feed |
| Program library | 130+ coach programs, thousands of community programs | Routine library described on the site |
| Custom building | Program builder with multi-week periodisation, free, no cap | Routines; free tier caps at 4 |
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Vision | iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch, Apple Vision, web app |
| Apple Watch | No, per Boostcamp's site | Yes, with live sync |
| RPE and RIR | Both, free | RPE in the feature list |
| Supersets and drop sets | Yes, free | Yes |
| Rest timer | Yes, plus plate calculator | Automatic, per exercise |
| Offline | Stated | Not mentioned |
| Apple Health | Bodyweight and workouts, per the listing | Exports workouts into the Health app |
| Social | Not a focus | Feed, follows, likes, comments, leaderboards |
| Free tier | Full tracker, library, builder, RPE and RIR, PRs and e1RM | 4 routines, 7 custom exercises |
| Paid tier (USD, date checked) | $14.99 per month, $59.99 per year, 7-day trial on annual, no lifetime | $2.99 or $3.99 per month, $23.99 per year, $74.99 lifetime |
| Minimum iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |

## Where Boostcamp is stronger

**The program comes with the app.** If you want to run a known program with its progression built in, this is the entire pitch, and nothing in Hevy's materials matches it. The weights fill themselves in from the program's rules.

**Free-tier breadth.** The tracker, the library, RPE and RIR, PRs, estimated 1RM, supersets, and an uncapped builder are all free. A lifter who never pays gets a complete product.

**Effort logging.** RPE and RIR both, stated plainly, free.

## Where Hevy is stronger

**Apple Watch.** Routines on the wrist with live sync. Boostcamp says it has no watch app.

**Surfaces.** A web app and, on the date checked, the broader device list.

**Community.** The social layer, if accountability is what keeps you going.

**Price when paying.** $23.99 per year against $59.99, and a lifetime option Boostcamp does not offer.

## What neither does

Neither app is built for training you write yourself as multi-week programs of dated sessions with per-set prescriptions, where the plan and the log stay separate. Boostcamp's builder is the closer of the two, and its centre remains the library. If self-written programming on a calendar is your model, that is the job of a program-first tracker; [Method](/) is built for it, and the trade-offs are laid out in [Method vs Boostcamp](/boostcamp-alternative) and [Method vs Hevy](/hevy-alternative). If you want a proven program handed to you, Boostcamp. If you want a social gym log, Hevy.

## Common questions

### Is Boostcamp or Hevy better?

It depends on where your program comes from. Boostcamp is the stronger choice for running a published program such as nSuns, GZCLP, or 5/3/1 with weights filled in automatically, and its free tier is broader. Hevy is the stronger choice for social accountability, Apple Watch logging, a web app, and iPad.

### Which has the better free tier?

Boostcamp's free tier includes the full tracker, the program library, RPE and RIR logging, PRs and estimated 1RM, supersets, and an uncapped custom program builder. Hevy's free tier caps routines at four and custom exercises at seven. On free-tier breadth, Boostcamp wins.

### Which is cheaper if I pay?

On the date checked, Hevy Pro was $23.99 per year with a $74.99 lifetime option. Boostcamp Pro was $59.99 per year with a 7-day trial on the annual plan and no lifetime option. Hevy is the cheaper subscription; Boostcamp gives more away free.

### Does either support Apple Watch?

Hevy does, with routines on the watch and live sync to the phone. Boostcamp's site states it does not currently have an Apple Watch or Wear OS app.

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