What is the best alternative to Hevy?

For the same job done slightly differently, Strong — simpler, cleaner, weaker on analytics. For programme building and progression suggestions, Alpha Progression. For a free option with a large exercise library, Jefit. If the reason you are looking is that Hevy cannot see your running, none of those three change anything.

Is Strong better than Hevy?

Strong is simpler and faster to log in. Hevy has better charts, a social feed and a more generous free tier. Neither has any concept of endurance training. It is genuinely a preference call between two well-made loggers doing the same job.

Does Hevy track cardio or running?

Only as a manually entered activity with a duration. It does not read your runs from your health data, does not model endurance load, and nothing about your running enters any calculation it makes about your lifting. For a lifter who only lifts that is fine; for a hybrid athlete it is half the picture missing.

What lifting app works with running?

Very few, which is the actual gap. Garmin Connect holds both and logs lifting shallowly. Base holds both and treats them as separate capacities sharing one recovery and energy budget, which is the reason it exists. Most lifting apps and most running apps are structurally single-discipline.

Is there a free Hevy alternative?

Jefit and FitNotes both log sets for free, and FitNotes in particular is fast and offline. Hevy's own free tier is already generous, so the free-alternative question usually resolves back to Hevy unless you specifically want an offline-only logger with no account.

Hevy Alternatives for Lifters Who Also Run

What Hevy is already best at

Logging speed, the free tier, the exercise library, previous-set prefill, and the charts. If your complaint is any of those, you are unlikely to do better.

Where it is genuinely thin, and where the alternatives compete:

Progression is manual. It records what you did and suggests nothing.
Endurance does not exist. A run is a duration you typed in, or nothing.
Nutrition does not exist.
Fatigue is unmodelled. Nothing in Hevy knows you are underslept or three weeks into a build.

The alternatives

Strong — the same job, simpler

Faster to log, cleaner interface, worse analytics, less generous free tier. This is a taste decision between two mature loggers, not an upgrade path. The direct comparison.

Alpha Progression — progression suggestions

The clearest step up for a lifter who wants the app to have an opinion. It builds programmes, tracks volume per muscle group, and proposes load and rep increases rather than waiting for you to decide.

Its volume modelling is the best of the pure lifting apps. It still has no idea you run, so the volume it recommends is computed as if lifting were your only fatigue source — which is exactly wrong for a hybrid athlete in a build block. What the volume evidence actually says.

Jefit — free, large library, dated

A big exercise database and a free tier that covers the basics. The interface shows its age and the social features are mostly noise. Reasonable if cost is the constraint.

FitNotes — offline, no account, free

Fast, local, no login, no subscription, no charts to speak of. For someone who wants a notebook that adds up, this is it.

Boostcamp — programmes rather than logging

Runs established programmes properly — 5/3/1, GZCLP, nSuns — rather than asking you to build one. If your problem is "what should I run", this solves it and Hevy does not. Where Boostcamp stops.

The gap none of them close

Every app above is a strength app. That is a definitional statement, not a criticism, and it has a consequence.

Your weekly set volume target depends on your endurance load. The volume that drives hypertrophy when you are lifting only is not the volume you can recover from during a marathon build. The research on concurrent training does not say cardio kills gains; it says the interference is dose-dependent and shows up in exactly the region where total load is high. What the interference-effect literature actually found.

So a lifting app recommending volume from lifting data alone is confidently wrong on the weeks it matters most — and it will never know, because the miles are invisible to it.

The same applies to:

Deload timing. Hevy sees stalled lifts. It cannot see that your endurance minutes ramped 40 percent.
Calorie needs. A repetitive lifting week and a week with two long runs are not the same energy week. How far apart, in calories.
Session-order decisions. Lifting and running on the same day has a right order and a wrong one.

The comparison

	Hevy	Strong	Alpha Progression	Boostcamp	Base
Set and rep logging	Excellent	Excellent	Good	Good	Yes, with RIR
Previous-set prefill	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Progression suggestions	No	No	Yes	Programme-driven	Autoregulated double progression
Weekly volume per muscle	Basic	No	Best of the loggers	No	Yes, fractional
Endurance sessions	Manual duration	No	No	No	Prescribed and graded
Endurance load affects lifting advice	No	No	No	No	Yes
Nutrition	No	No	No	No	Adaptive, same ledger
Recovery scoring	No	No	No	No	Own baseline
Free tier	Generous	Limited	Limited	Generous	Beta

The honest recommendation

Stay on Hevy if you only lift, or if your running is casual enough that it does not affect your recovery. It is the best tool for that and switching gains you nothing.

Move to Alpha Progression if you want the app to make progression decisions and your training is lifting-dominant.

Move to Boostcamp if you want a proven programme rather than a log.

Move to FitNotes if you want less app, not more.

Look outside lifting apps if your endurance volume is high enough to change what you can recover from. At that point the missing information is not a feature Hevy lacks — it is a discipline it does not model. What one ledger for both halves looks like.

Either way, count your actual weekly hard sets per muscle group. Most lifters running a serious endurance block are carrying more strength volume than they can recover from, and the set count is where that shows up first.