Method vs Hevy: a workout tracker comparison for people who plan their training

The short version of each app

Hevy describes itself as a workout tracker and gym log. You create routines, log sets, mark warmup, drop, and failure sets, use automatic rest timers per exercise, follow other athletes, and like and comment on workouts. Hevy Pro lifts the routine and custom exercise limits. Hevy's listing says it uses HealthKit to export workouts into the Health app, and its feature list includes Strava integration and RPE.

Method is a workout planner and tracker for athletes who write their own training. The web app is the planning surface. A program has blocks, weeks, and sessions. A session holds strength exercises and cardio activities, each with a prescription. Sessions are scheduled to dates. The iPhone app starts the scheduled session, logs it, and keeps the completed record separate from the plan. Nothing in Method generates or periodises a program for you.

Side by side

Facts about Hevy come from its App Store listing and website on the date shown at the top of this page. Facts about Method come from the shipped product.

Where Method is stronger

The plan is the first-class object. A Method program is a structure you can edit as a whole. Duplicate a week and choose how many copies. Reorder days and apply that order across weeks. Bulk edit a field across the current session, selected weeks, a week range, or every week. Swap an exercise across the whole program, including strength for cardio. The editor caps are 52 weeks, 20 sessions per week, 100 exercises per session, and 50 sets per exercise.

Prescriptions carry more detail. Each set can hold a rep target as an exact number, a range, or AMRAP, an intensity target in RIR or RPE including half values, rest seconds, tempo, and notes. Intensity is stored once as reps in reserve and shown as RIR or RPE depending on your preference, so switching the preference re-labels analytics, export columns, and suggestions together.

Suggested loads come from your own log. With the setting on, Method takes your most recent eligible set for the exercise, estimates a one rep max with the Epley formula using reps plus reps in reserve, and inverts it for the target reps and RIR of the set in front of you. The explanation is shown with the number, for example "Based on 100 kg x 8 @ 2 RIR on 2026-08-01, 6 reps @ 1 RIR suggests 108.11 kg." It is a calculation, not a recommendation engine.

Cardio lives beside lifting. Twenty activity types can be logged on iPhone or Apple Watch, with GPS routes for outdoor run, walk, and ride, heart rate, and manual laps. Apple Watch and Apple Fitness workouts arrive through Apple Health, including route and heart rate series. Completed cardio is written back to Apple Health.

The log separates what was planned from what happened. Every completed workout stores the prescription it was started from, so Method can show a session as partial when an exercise fell short, and analytics never confuses an ad hoc set with a programmed one.

Where Hevy is stronger

Platforms. Hevy runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision, with a web app. Method is iPhone plus web, with a cardio-only Apple Watch app. If anyone you train with is on Android, or you log on an iPad, Hevy is the practical choice.

Lifting on the wrist. Hevy's listing describes using routines on Apple Watch with live sync to the phone. Method's Watch app records cardio only. Strength sets are logged on the phone.

Community. Hevy has a social feed, follows, likes, comments, and leaderboards. Method has none of that and does not plan to be a social network.

Maturity and reach. Hevy's App Store listing shows tens of thousands of ratings. Method launched in April 2026.

Pricing, read carefully

Both apps are free to start and both sell a Pro tier as a subscription or a lifetime purchase. The lifetime prices were identical on the date checked, $74.99. The monthly and yearly prices are within a dollar of each other.

The free tiers limit different things. Hevy's free plan caps routines at four and custom exercises at seven. Method's free tier caps total programming at 6 weeks across all your programs, shows the last 30 days of history, and allows 4 saved sessions and 25 custom exercises. Method warns at 3 and 5 weeks before the 6-week wall, and a lapsed Pro account keeps its data, with programs over the budget archived rather than deleted.

Method's web prices are set in your region's currency and shown on the pricing page. App Store prices for either app follow Apple's price tiers and can differ by country.

Who should pick which

Pick Hevy if you want a polished logger with social accountability, you train from routines rather than dated programs, you are on Android or iPad, or you want to leave the phone in the locker and lift from your Watch.

Pick Method if you write your own multi-week programs, you want a real editor on a big screen with bulk edits, you care about RIR or RPE targets and suggested loads derived from your own sets, you want cardio and Apple Health workouts in the same history as your lifting, and you want CSV and PDF exports of that history.

What Method does not do

Method has no Android app, no iPad app, no social feed, no lifting on Apple Watch, and no import of Hevy history. The web app does not log workouts. Method does not write programs for you.