Honest comparison
Hevy alternative
Hevy is 4.9 from about 89,000 ratings. Gear is 5.0 from 17. Hevy is bigger. That’s the honest scoreboard, not a slight.
If you want a Hevy alternative because the social layer is the point, Gear is the social first lifting app. Friends in the feed, set by set.
We are not going to pretend 17 ratings beats ~89K. Plenty of lifters should stay on Hevy. This page is for the ones who want Strava for weightlifting.
Hevy · 4.9 / ~89K
Established logger. Huge review base. iOS and Android. The default a lot of people already trust.
Gear · 5.0 / 17
Newer. iOS only. Tiny sample. A perfect score on 17 ratings means less than Hevy’s volume. We’ll say that out loud.
Where Gear is different
The feed is the product. Logging is how you show up for the people you lift with.
You already log. You want your training group to see the work without a group chat of screenshots. Same comparison, different query: Gear vs Hevy.