Heavier vs GymTorch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heavier
This AI-powered strength training app analyzes your workout data to provide insights on progress and areas for improvement. It offers a daily AI coach with workout plans and allows for hands-free logging via voice commands.
- AI-assisted strength training
- Progressive overload tracking
- Workout volume, frequency, and balance analysis
- Daily AI coach and workout plans
- Voice-activated lift logging
- Hands-free operation
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HEAVIER - AI-Assisted Strength Training Progressive overload for lifters who mean business. Log Your Lifts. Zero Friction. AI analyzes your volume, frequency, and balance. You get the truth: what's working, what's lagging, where you stand. AI coach delivers a daily run-down of your workout, and a daily plan for how to get stronger. Leave your phone in the locker. Tell Siri "Record a lift in Heavier," then dictate your work: "Romanian Deadlift, 3 sets of 10 at 135 pounds." Done. Back to training. Built for lifters chasing strength, not likes.
GymTorch
This app provides a system to track and understand your gym workouts, visualizing your consistency and progress. It helps you plan your week, log sets and reps, and offers detailed analytics to identify patterns and improve your training.
- Weekly workout planning and calendar view
- Detailed set, rep, and weight logging
- Consistency tracking and streak visualization
- Weekly and monthly performance reports
- Custom exercise creation
- Workout reminders and scheduled breaks
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Most gym apps help you log workouts. GymTorch helps you understand them. When you open GymTorch you see your entire week in front of you. What you planned, what you completed, what you missed. Your consistency is no longer a feeling. It becomes something you can see, track and protect. Most people do not fail at the gym because they lack effort. They fail because they have no system. GymTorch gives you that system. Log your sets, reps and weight as you train and watch that data become a picture of who you are in the gym. Your patterns, your habits, your strengths and the gaps you never knew existed. Weekly and monthly reports show exactly how consistent you have been and whether you are building momentum or falling off. GymTorch is for anyone who takes training seriously. The one thing that separates people who get results from people who do not is consistency. GymTorch makes yours visible. HOME The home page is your training dashboard. Your streak, recent activity, upcoming sessions and key analytics are all visible the moment you open the app. Completed workouts, weekly and monthly reports can all be opened from the home page through dedicated cards. Everything is connected so you can find what you need wherever you are in the app. CALENDAR Schedule your workouts before you step foot in the gym. Plan your entire week in advance so you always know what is coming and never have to decide what to train when you are already there. The colour coded calendar makes your week instantly readable at a glance. Completed sessions, missed workouts and rest days are all visible in one place so there is no hiding from your own consistency. Set reminders for planned workouts so you never forget a session. If you need to take time off for injury, travel or any other reason you can log a scheduled break that does not count against your streak. View the full details of any completed workout directly from the calendar tab without having to dig through your history. Weekly and monthly reports are built directly into the calendar so your progress is always one tap away. STREAK AND CONSISTENCY Your streak is one of the most powerful motivators in GymTorch. Watch it build session by session and feel the pull to protect it. Consistency compounds and GymTorch makes that visible. Scheduled breaks for injury, illness or planned time off do not affect your streak so you are never punished for taking care of yourself. WORKOUT LOGGING Log every set, rep and weight in seconds without interrupting your flow. Swap any exercise instantly if equipment is unavailable and keep your session moving. Create your own custom exercises so GymTorch fits your training style rather than forcing you to fit its library. Your full workout history is always saved and accessible so you can look back at any session at any time. ANALYTICS AND INSIGHTS GymTorch goes deeper than any standard workout tracker. Weekly and monthly performance reports break down your training volume, session frequency, consistency and progress over time. You can identify patterns in your training that you would never notice just by logging sessions. Understanding your data is what turns good intentions into real long term results. SHARING Share your streak, completed workouts, weekly reports, monthly reports and individual exercise results directly from GymTorch. Choose from light, dark or transparent background cards designed to look great on social media posts, stories and videos. APPLE ECOSYSTEM GymTorch is built for every Apple device. Log sets from your Apple Watch mid-lift without touching your phone. Everything syncs automatically through iCloud across your iPhone, iPad and Watch. Connect with Apple Health for body weight tracking alongside your training data. No email sign up required and your privacy is respected from the moment you open the app. Download GymTorch and train with purpose. Terms of Use: https://gymtorch.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://gymtorch.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GymTorch at 5.0 against Heavier's 4.2. GymTorch also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Heavier's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, update cadence and ads 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. GymTorch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Heavier asks for nothing beyond the download.
GymTorch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Heavier has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Heavier ships an update every 4 days, GymTorch every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heavier | GymTorch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 245 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strategic Information Services | Diego Lechiancole |
Customer experience
Heavier
GymTorch
In-app purchases
Heavier
No in-app purchases
GymTorch
- GymTorch Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- GymTorch 6 Months7 Days trial$29.996 Months
- GymTorch Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year









