Hevy vs Muscle Odyssey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hevy
Log workouts, track progress, and discover new routines with this comprehensive fitness tracker. Features include exercise guides, social sharing, and automatic rest timers. Offers personalized coaching with a premium subscription.
- Log sets, reps, and volume
- Exercise library with videos
- Social features and progress sharing
- Automatic rest timers
- Strength progression graphs
- Offline workout logging
- Apple Watch integration
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The workout tracker featured by Apple and trusted by 15M+ lifters. Rated 4.9 on the App Store. 112M+ workouts logged in 2025 alone. Log every set, follow any program or split, and track your lifts and volume. Learn how to do any exercise with high-quality videos and step-by-step instructions. Free, with no ads. Train alongside millions of lifters, follow friends and family, compare your stats, and share your progress in their feed. No program? No problem. Whether you're new and overwhelmed or a gym veteran, browse Hevy's large, free library for a full split or individual workouts. And now, Hevy Trainer gives you the coaching you need, available with Hevy Pro. It builds a program tailored to your experience, goal, available equipment, and preferences. Trainer tracks your progress and consistency, and guides you through each workout with tips and progressive overload. (Even if you only have dumbbells and a workout mat.) WHY HEVY? • Log weights, reps, duration, and RPE in seconds without breaking the flow of your sets. • See last session's weights and reps for every exercise, right where you need them. No guessing, no scrolling back through history. • Log supersets, drop sets, warm-ups, and failure sets alongside your regular sets. • Stay on track with automatic rest timers between sets. • Monitor your strength progression and PRs with graphs for every exercise. • Add progress photos, body weight, and measurements to see how your training is paying off. • Follow friends and athletes from around the world, see their workouts in your feed, and compare your lifts. • Stay consistent with monthly, yearly, and multi-year calendars and streak tracking. • Work out offline. Your data syncs across all your devices. • Automatically sync your workouts to Strava for hybrid training. APPLE WATCH • Log sets, start rest timers, and finish your workout without touching your phone. • Monitor your heart rate during your workout. • Add Hevy complications to your watch face. • Workouts save automatically when your watch reconnects to your phone. Hevy uses HealthKit and CareKit to export your workouts to the Health app. You can turn this on in Settings. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING "Hevy blends workout tracking with social motivation, making it a top pick if you thrive on accountability and community support." Men's Journal "By far my favorite workout tracking app." The Morning Show Podcast "I've experimented with enough strength training apps that I know which ones are out there, and I definitely have a favorite: It's Hevy." Beth Skwarecki, senior health editor, Lifehacker Whether you work out at home or at the gym, want to build muscle or lose fat, train twice a week or every day, Hevy is the last workout tracker you'll ever need. Give it a try. HEVY PRO • Hevy Trainer: a program and ongoing guidance based on your experience, goal, available equipment, and preferences. • Unlimited routines and custom exercises. • Your complete training history. If you choose to purchase Hevy Pro, payment will be charged to your Apple account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off automatic renewal at any time in your Apple account settings. You have the right to withdraw from your initial subscription within 14 days of starting it. If you don't purchase Hevy Pro, you can keep using Hevy for free. Terms & Conditions: https://www.hevyapp.com/app-terms-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://www.hevyapp.com/privacy-policy/
Muscle Odyssey
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One rep today changes who you are tomorrow. Muscle Odyssey turns building a workout habit into a game you'll want to keep playing. Muscle Odyssey is a simple habit app for strength training at home or at the gym. Just tap the exercises you did today. No complicated forms to fill in. The more you train, the more your character grows through five stages of evolution, all the way to its ultimate form. Perfect if you: • Want to start working out but struggle to stay consistent • Find detailed workout logs too tedious • Want to see your effort pay off in a visible way Key features • Log workouts with a single tap: 10 home exercises and 10 gym exercises • Watch your character evolve through 5 stages as you keep training • Complete 10 exercises in a day to add one day to your total • Clear all 20 exercises in a day to earn a special Perfect Medal • Each journey lasts 365 days. Finish it to earn a star and start your next lap • Keep your records when you switch iPhones, as long as iCloud Backup is on • Clear, beginner-friendly exercise names like push-ups and squats • Available in English, Japanese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese and Korean Premium features (subscription) • Analytics: current streak, monthly completion rate and a calendar of past workouts • Body weight log with a progress chart • Protein intake log No expertise needed. Start your journey today and grow stronger alongside your character, one day at a time. ―――――――――― About subscriptions • Premium is available as a monthly or yearly subscription. • New subscribers can start with a 7-day free trial. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, or when the free trial ends. • Your subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. • Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://y1693618-lang.github.io/muscleodyssey-privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Muscle Odyssey at every 2 days against Hevy's weekly. Hevy's advantage is chart position (#25 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Hevy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Muscle Odyssey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hevy ships an update weekly, Muscle Odyssey every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hevy | Muscle Odyssey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (103K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 98.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 103K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #25 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 295 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hevy Studios S.L. | Yoshihiko Okano |
Bugs and requests
Hevy
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incorrect volume calculations when editing workout dates
- Syncing issues between mobile app and Apple Watch
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to add notes to individual exercises
- Option to track drop sets and other advanced set types
- Improved barbell weight calculation and tracking
- Weekly/monthly workout summary and muscle group analysis
- Seamless integration with Apple Health and other fitness apps
Muscle Odyssey
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hevy
- Hevy Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Hevy Pro - Monthly$3.991 Month
- Hevy Pro - Yearly$23.991 Year
- Hevy Pro - Lifetime$74.99
Muscle Odyssey
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$42.991 Year









