Logbook vs Hevy: which gym app fits how you actually train?
Both apps have a feed. The difference is who's in it. Hevy's social layer is follow-based and open: you follow individual athletes, their workouts land in your feed, and the app is built around that community: 15M+ athletes, by Hevy's own figure. Logbook's feed is made of the clubs you've joined, in plain reverse-chronological order, with invite-only the default when you create one and no algorithmic ranking anywhere. Pick Hevy if you want a large fitness community to train alongside. Pick Logbook if you want the same logging speed with a smaller room and a training history you'll still trust in five years.
A training record with a feed you actually chose
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Honest dimensions, both products. Every Hevy row was checked against their own published information on .
On the currencies: Logbook is priced in NZD and AUD above because New Zealand and Australia are our main markets, with USD in brackets. Hevy publishes US App Store pricing, so that is what their column shows. Don't read the two columns as a direct price comparison: compare the USD figures, or check Hevy in your own App Store storefront.
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How they're actually different
Hevy and Logbook both let you log a workout fast on iPhone, and both open onto a feed. Anyone telling you the difference is 'social vs not social' is selling you something.
The real difference is the unit. Hevy's unit is the follow: you follow individual athletes, their sessions arrive in your feed, and the product is built to make that pool large and lively. That has produced one of the best fitness communities online: more than 15 million athletes by Hevy's own count, a genuine flywheel.
Logbook's unit is the club. Your feed is the sessions posted to clubs you joined, newest first, and nothing else. Create a club and it's invite-only unless you change it. There are public clubs, and they're easy to find and join. The point isn't that Logbook is a walled garden, it's that the wall has a door you opened on purpose.
If you've ever opened a fitness app and felt like you had to perform for a room you didn't pick, that's the design difference. Both apps show you other people's training. Logbook makes you choose the room first.
Where Logbook draws the line differently
Three things Logbook is built around:
Nothing is ranked. Your feed is in the order things happened. There's no engagement scoring, no 'top posts', no algorithmic reordering, and no plan to add one. Clubs and challenges do have leaderboards, because a challenge without a standing isn't a challenge, but they sit inside a club you joined, not on your home screen.
Recovery state, not just volume. Hevy shows training volume per muscle group and a volume heatmap. Logbook models recovery state day by day (recovery percentage per muscle group, status, and hours until you're back to full), so the question is 'is my back ready', not 'did my back get the most sets'. This is part of Logbook Pro, the same way Hevy's heatmap is part of Hevy Pro.
Owned history, exported on demand. Your training record is the most valuable thing in the app. Full account data export is in the app, free. There's no ad business and no sale of training data; Logbook makes money from the optional Pro subscription. You can delete everything at any time.
If your motivation comes from a wide community, meaning people you haven't met noticing your work and a bigger pool to follow, Hevy's social engine is better at that than ours, and it isn't close. They've been at this longer, the iOS app is excellent, they're on more platforms than we are, and the free tier covers the core. If you want reach, go there.
Lifters who train with a small crew and want to choose their audience.
FAQ
- Is Logbook free like Hevy?
- The model is similar. Logbook's core training journal is free: unlimited logging, history and PRs, and unlimited club membership. Creating clubs is capped at 2 on Free and 5 on Pro, and the custom exercise library is capped at 5 on Free. Logbook Pro is an optional subscription (monthly or yearly) that unlocks the deeper analytics, including per-muscle recovery, and raises the AI Coach daily message limit from 5 to 25.
- Can I import my Hevy data into Logbook?
- Not at launch. Hevy supports CSV export of your workout history, and a Hevy importer is on our post-launch list, but it isn't built yet, so please don't buy on the strength of it.
- Does Logbook have an Android app like Hevy?
- No. Version 1.0 is iPhone only. Hevy is on iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and web today. If you're on Android, Hevy is the app that works for you right now.
- Does Logbook have a feed?
- Yes, and we'd rather say so plainly. Home is a feed of the sessions posted to clubs you've joined, plus your own, newest first. What it isn't: algorithmically ranked, open to strangers you haven't joined a club with, or public by default. New profiles are private, new clubs are invite-only, and every finished session asks whether you want to post it or save it privately.
- Can strangers see my workouts on Logbook?
- Only if you choose it. New profiles are private and new clubs are invite-only. If you make your profile public or post to a public club, that content is visible to people outside your circle, which is exactly what those settings are for. The control is per-account, per-club, and per-session.
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