Hevy vs Jefit

Hevy and Jefit, row by row

Hevy over Jefit for a free or cheap logger with a feed; Jefit if you'll pay for the library and charts. If you're on iPhone and want the weights picked for you, RIRLift does it free, which neither of the other two does.

Where Hevy and Jefit actually differ

• Free tier: Hevy is roomier

  Both log unlimited workouts and keep 7 custom exercises. Hevy keeps 4 routines, Jefit 2 plans, so a 3- or 4-day split fits Hevy free and not Jefit.

• Apple Watch: Hevy is free, Jefit counts sessions

  Hevy logs sets, runs the rest timer and tracks heart rate on the Watch for free. Jefit's free accounts get 3 Watch sessions; Elite makes them unlimited and adds heart rate and calories.

• Depth: Jefit

  1,400+ exercises filmed in HD, set tags, and charts for movement balance, muscle recovery and body measurements. Hevy's free graphs cover the last 3 months.

• Who picks the weight: both charge

  Jefit's Load Progression is Elite. Hevy Trainer, which builds a program and progresses it, is Pro. On either free tier you choose every weight yourself.

• Where RIRLift is different

  RIRLift logs reps in reserve and sets the next weight after every set on the iPhone or the Watch, free, with 4 active routines. It's iPhone only and has no public feed.

  

Hevy, Jefit or a third option

Jefit's free Watch sessions ran out

Rafa runs push/pull/legs three days a week, phone in the locker, logging on an Apple Watch. Jefit's 3 free Watch sessions are gone and he doesn't want to pay $69.99 a year to keep going.

App	What it does here	For this lifter
Hevy	Logs every session on the Watch for free. His three days fit in 4 routines.	Fits. He picks the weights himself, as he did in Jefit's free tier.
Jefit	Elite makes Watch sessions unlimited and turns on Load Progression.	Fits if the suggestions are worth $69.99 a year to him.
RIRLift	Free Watch logging, and the next weight shows on the wrist after every set.	Fits on iPhone. He starts his lifts from the weights he knows.

If he only wanted to log, Hevy. If he wanted the weights picked too, it was Jefit Elite or RIRLift free.

Rafa's pull day, on the Watch

The same pull day in RIRLift, rows planned at 8 reps with 2 left in an 8–12 range. What the Watch did with each set.

Exercise	You logged	Next session	Why
Pendlay Row	Set 1: 135 lb × 8, 1 left	Set 2: 135 lb × 8	Closer to failure than planned, but he got the reps, so the weight holds.
Pendlay Row	Set 2: 135 lb × 6, nothing left	Set 3: 130 lb × 8	Below the 8–12 range: 135 × 35 ÷ 39 ≈ 121 lb, but one set only drops a small step, so 130 lb, marked as a correction.
Face Pull	50 lb, 15 / 15 / 15 reps, 1 left (range 12–15)	60 lb × 12	Every set at the top of the range: one stack step up, reps back to 12.

A bad second set cost one lighter set, not the whole session's plan.

Plans for a three-day lifter

• The best workout routine for men, for your week

  Busy: 3 gym days, push/pull/legs

  Rafa's three days: push, pull and legs.

  3× a week · 48 sets a week · ~40 min

  Add to RIRLift

  Add to RIRLift

  Scan with your iPhone camera to add this plan.

  See the plan

• The best workout for back: width, thickness and traps

  Full gym, back twice a week

  A fuller back day, with rows and face pulls like the example.

  2× a week · 22 sets a week · ~30 min

  Add to RIRLift

  Add to RIRLift

  Scan with your iPhone camera to add this plan.

  See the plan

Make it fit you

• From Hevy: import the CSV

  Export your workouts from Hevy and import the file in RIRLift. Your first weights are worked out from them and marked From history.

• From Jefit: type your working weights

  RIRLift doesn't read Jefit's export. Enter your current weight for each main lift; it's marked Yours and adjusts from there.

• Turn RPE into reps in reserve

  RPE 8 is 2 left, RPE 9 is 1. Set targets once per exercise.

• Pick Ask first if you want the final say

  With Ask first, next session's weights wait on the recap until you confirm them.

When a different app fits better

• You're on Android or Wear OS. Hevy, free on both. Jefit runs there too; RIRLift doesn't.
• You want a feed and friends' workouts. Hevy.
• You want filmed demos and deep charts, and will pay. Jefit Elite.
• You log RPE and want to keep it. Hevy. RIRLift logs reps in reserve.

Questions

Read next

• Jefit review

  Jefit's free tier and Elite in full.

• Jefit alternatives

  Hevy and six more, ranked.

• Liftosaur vs Hevy

  Hevy against a scripted program tracker.

• Hevy on Apple Watch, and what RIRLift does differently

  What Hevy does on the wrist.

• How RIRLift picks your next weight

  Where the 120 lb correction came from.

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

  Hevy's free tier and Pro in full.

More ways lifters use RIRLift

• 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.

• JEFIT on Apple Watch, compared with RIRLift

  JEFIT live-syncs the Watch with your iPhone. RIRLift runs the session and sets the weight on the wrist.

• Jefit review

  What Jefit's free tier covers, what Elite adds, and who should pick something else.

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