Ultra+ vs Hevy: Which Workout Tracker to Pick

Hevy is a logbook, and it is one of the best made. You build routines, you follow them, it records what you did, and it shows you what you lifted last time. What happens next is your job. If your bench stalls for three weeks, Hevy will show you three identical weeks and say nothing about them.

Ultra+ starts from the same place and then answers the question. Every set shows your previous set and your all-time best set, so the number to beat is on screen while you decide what to load. After the session you get the volume change against the last time you ran that workout. Once a week you get a card that reviews the week you actually trained, built from your own numbers rather than a template.

The part Hevy has no equivalent for is Blaze. It is a chat inside the app that reads your recent workouts, your exercise history, your nutrition and your bodyweight trend before it answers. Ask it why your bench stalled and it looks at the bench sets you logged. Hevy's HevyGPT works the other way round: you get a plan out of ChatGPT and import it. That is useful, and it is not the same thing as something that has read your last eight weeks.

Price. Hevy's free tier is a full logger with no ads, and Pro is $2.99 a month or $23.99 a year. Ultra+ has no free tier at all: a 7-day trial, then $12.99 a month or $74.99 a year. If you want to spend nothing, this comparison is already over.

Reach. Hevy has an Apple Watch app, a Wear OS app and a web app at hevy.com. Ultra+ has none of those. If you log from your wrist, or you plan your week on a laptop, Hevy does something Ultra+ cannot do at all.

Small tools. Hevy has a plate calculator and a warm-up calculator. Ultra+ has neither. It also exports your data, which Ultra+ does not.

Food. Hevy does not track nutrition. Ultra+ has a food search, barcode scanning, macros, bodyweight and sleep in the same app, which matters if you are trying to gain muscle and want your protein and your training in one place instead of two apps.

The number to beat. Hevy shows your last session. Ultra+ shows your last set for that exercise and your best ever set, on the set you are about to do. It is a small difference on screen and a large one in a gym, because progressive overload is a comparison you have to make set by set.

Your first week. Ultra+ builds a finished week of training from your quiz answers before you open the app, based on your equipment, your injuries and how many days you train. Hevy starts you with an empty routine list.