Boostcamp vs Hevy

Boostcamp vs Hevy, side by side

Boostcamp wins on programs and a free tier without routine caps; Hevy wins on price, social and watch apps. If what you want is the next weight decided for you without paying, neither does it on free, and RIRLift does.

Boostcamp and Hevy, point by point

• Programs: Boostcamp

  Boostcamp's library holds 130+ coach-designed programs, most of them free, from Greg Nuckols and Eric Helms to nSuns and GZCLP, plus thousands of community plans. Hevy has no named-program library; its built-in plan, Trainer, is part of Pro.

• Free tier: Boostcamp

  Boostcamp's free program builder has no cap. Hevy's free tier keeps 4 routines, 7 custom exercises and 3 months of charts; Pro removes all three.

• Price to upgrade: Hevy

  Hevy Pro is $2.99/month, $23.99/year or $74.99 once in the US. Boostcamp Pro is $14.99/month or $59.99/year, with no lifetime option.

• Watch and social: Hevy

  Hevy has watch apps for Apple Watch and Wear OS, plus a feed where you follow friends and copy their routines. Boostcamp has no watch app; it shows a Live Activity on the iPhone.

• Where RIRLift is different

  Boostcamp sets weights from your performance only with Pro, and Hevy shows what you did last time. RIRLift works out every set's weight from your load, reps and reps in reserve, free, on the Watch too.

  

Which one fits, in two real situations

Finished a Boostcamp program, wants to write their own

Two years in, just finished a 12-week PHUL block from Boostcamp. Now wants a push/pull/legs split of their own, and trains with two friends who all use Hevy.

App	What it does here	For this lifter
Boostcamp	The free program builder writes the split with no cap, and the friends feature compares lifts.	Fine if you'll go back to a named program after this one.
Hevy	Builds the routines, puts the workouts in the friends' feed and lets them copy the split. Four routines on free is enough for push/pull/legs.	Best fit for training with Hevy friends.
RIRLift	Builds the split, or Coach writes it from a sentence, and sets each weight from the last set. No public feed.	For the lifter who'd rather have the weights decided than the workouts shared.

Social pulls toward Hevy; deciding the weights pulls toward RIRLift.

Moving three years of Hevy history to RIRLift

A Hevy user exports a CSV and imports it in RIRLift. The first shoulder day starts from history instead of an estimate.

Exercise	You logged	Next session	Why
Machine Shoulder Press	100 lb, 10 / 10 / 10 reps, 2 left, target 10	100 lb × 11	The starting 100 lb came from the Hevy history, marked From history. Not every set reached 12, so it holds; the weakest set hit its target of 10, so it aims for 11.
EZ-Bar Curl	Set 1: 60 lb × 10, 4 left	Set 2: 65 lb × 10	14 reps to failure against a planned 12, so 60 × 43 ÷ 41 ≈ 63 lb, loaded as 65 lb.

Three years in Hevy became the starting weights, not a blank slate.

Plans in RIRLift for either kind of lifter

• A push pull legs workout you run from your Apple Watch

  3 gym days: one push, one pull, one legs

  The push/pull/legs split from the first example, three days, run from the Watch.

  3× a week · 38 sets a week · ~35 min

  Add to RIRLift

  Add to RIRLift

  Scan with your iPhone camera to add this plan.

  See the plan

• The best workout routine for the days you can train

  4 days a week: upper/lower

  A four-day upper/lower in the shape of PHUL, inside the 4 free routines.

  4× a week · 68 sets a week · ~40 min

  Add to RIRLift

  Add to RIRLift

  Scan with your iPhone camera to add this plan.

  See the plan

Make it fit you

• Coming from Hevy: import first

  Export a CSV from Hevy and import it in RIRLift on the iPhone. Your first weights are worked out from that history.

• Coming from Boostcamp: rebuild the days

  Copy the program's exercises, sets and rep ranges into routines, or build it in the web planner and import it. The weights come from your sets.

• Set RIR targets

  RPE 8 is 2 reps left, RPE 9 is 1. Set a target once per exercise.

When a different app fits better

• You want nSuns, GZCLP or another named plan as written. Boostcamp.
• You want a feed, Android or Wear OS. Hevy. RIRLift has no public feed and runs on iPhone and Apple Watch only.
• You log RPE. Either Boostcamp or Hevy. RIRLift logs reps in reserve.

Questions

Read next

• Boostcamp review

  Free and Pro, in detail.

• Boostcamp alternatives

  Six other apps, ranked.

• MacroFactor Workouts vs Hevy

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• How RIRLift picks your next weight

  Where the 65 lb curl came from.

• Best workout log app

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• Hevy app review: free vs Pro, and who should pay

  Hevy's free and Pro tiers in detail.

• Hevy vs Strong: which workout log to pick

  Hevy against the other big logger.

• The best Hevy alternatives, ranked

  If Hevy is the one you're leaving.

More ways lifters use RIRLift

• Boostcamp review

  Boostcamp's coach programs, what Pro adds, what it costs, and when another app fits better.

• Hevy on Apple Watch, and what RIRLift does differently

  Hevy's Watch app logs sets and rest. RIRLift adds reps in reserve and sets the next weight on the wrist.

• The push pull legs app that remembers every day of the split

  3-day or 6-day PPL with each day prefilled from last time and weights that move when your sets earn it.

• The gym tracker that turns your logs into your next weight

  Bring your old logs, chart every lift, and see a stall answered before it eats another month.

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