Fitness App Pricing 2026: Fitbod vs Hevy vs Strong vs SensAI — What Free Actually Gets You

You want to know two things: what each app actually costs in 2026, and whether the free version is a real product or a sales funnel with a login screen.

Here’s the short version. Strong offers the only free tier with truly unlimited workout logging — capped at 3 routines.¹ Hevy’s free tier is the most generous overall for lifters who don’t hoard routines: 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, 3 months of history.² Fitbod has no permanent free tier at all — 7 days, then pay or stop.³ And SensAI is trial-then-paid, because running a live AI coach on real LLM inference has a marginal cost that ad-supported loggers don’t.⁴

So “free” means three very different things in this category: trial-only (Fitbod, SensAI), capped-free (Hevy), and feature-gated free (Strong). The rest of this post puts exact numbers on every cell.

The 2026 Price Table: All Four Apps at a Glance

App	Monthly	Annual	Lifetime	Free Tier	Free Trial
Fitbod	$15.993 ($12.99 legacy)	$95.993 ($79.99 legacy)	—	None	7 days
Hevy Pro	$2.995	$23.995	$74.995	Yes (capped)	—
Strong Pro	$4.991	$29.991	$99.996	Yes (gated)	—
SensAI	$6.994	$69.994	—	None	7 days, no card

And what the free tiers actually contain:

Free Tier Limit	Hevy Free	Strong Free
Workout logging	Unlimited, with ads2	Unlimited1
Routines	42	31
Custom exercises	72	Limited
Analytics history	~3 months2	Full
AI / adaptive features	None	None

Prices verified June 2026 against App Store listings and official help pages. Fitbod and SensAI have no permanent free tier.

Fitbod Pricing in 2026

Fitbod costs $15.99/month or $95.99/year in 2026, with a 7-day free trial and no free tier.³

The pricing has a quirk: two SKUs coexist. Subscribers who locked in before the 2026 price hike still pay the legacy $12.99/month or $79.99/year, while new subscribers see $15.99/$95.99.³⁷ If you cancel and come back, expect the new price.

Is there a free version of Fitbod? No. When your 7-day trial ends, the app stops working — you can’t even keep logging workouts on a limited plan. There is no Hevy-style capped tier and no Strong-style gated tier. If you want a free Fitbod alternative, the honest answer is Strong or Hevy for logging — neither generates workouts for you, but both let you train forever for $0.

What does ~$96/year buy? The most polished workout generator in the category: rules-based machine learning (not an LLM) that builds each session from your logged history, equipment, and muscle recovery estimates. It picks your exercises, sets, and plate-by-plate loading so you never program a session yourself. Our full Fitbod review digs into where that algorithm shines and where it plateaus.

Worth being clear about what the price doesn’t buy: Fitbod doesn’t read HRV, sleep, or recovery data from your wearable, and it can’t explain its decisions in conversation. At $95.99/year you’re paying coach-adjacent prices for a generator — which is fine, as long as a generator is what you want.

Hevy Pricing in 2026 and Free Version Limitations

Hevy has the most generous free tier of any major workout tracker — and the cheapest paid upgrade.

Hevy Pro costs $2.99/month, $23.99/year, or $74.99 once for lifetime access.⁵ The free tier is a genuinely usable product, with three caps you’ll eventually hit:²

• 4 routines — enough for most 3- or 4-day splits
• 7 custom exercises — fine until your gym has odd machines
• ~3 months of analytics history — your old logs exist, but charts and stats stop looking back

Is Hevy Pro worth it? Run a quick self-test. If you rotate more than 4 routines, care about year-over-year progression charts, or want Hevy’s Trainer features, the $23.99/year is two months of coffee — yes. If you’re a simple 3-day-split lifter who checks last session’s numbers and nothing else, the free tier may genuinely be all you ever need.

The lifetime math: $74.99 ÷ $23.99/year ≈ 3.1 years to break even versus annual. Buy lifetime only if you already have a year of Hevy history and no itch to switch. We compared the two loggers head-to-head in Hevy vs Strong if you’re choosing between them.

Strong Pricing in 2026

Strong’s free tier is the best pure free logging deal in fitness: unlimited workout logs, full history, no ads — gated at 3 custom routines.¹

Strong Pro costs $4.99/month, $29.99/year, or $99.99 lifetime.¹⁶ Pro removes the routine cap and unlocks extras like plate math and advanced charts.

For a beginner running Starting Strength or a 5x5 — programs with exactly 2-3 routines — Strong free is the answer to “what’s the best free Fitbod alternative for logging.” You install it once and never see a paywall.

Two caveats. First, the lifetime breakeven is $99.99 ÷ $29.99 ≈ 3.3 years, and Strong’s feature velocity has historically been slower than Hevy’s — paying once for an app that evolves slowly is a real risk we covered in the Hevy vs Strong comparison. Second, Strong logs; it doesn’t program. You bring the plan.

SensAI Pricing in 2026

SensAI costs $6.99/month or $69.99/year — $5.83/month effective on annual — after a 7-day free trial that requires no credit card.⁴

There’s no free tier and no lifetime option, and the reason is structural rather than greedy: SensAI’s coach runs on live LLM inference. Every conversation, every mid-workout adjustment, every recovery-based plan change costs real compute. An ad-supported free tier doesn’t cover that; a one-time lifetime payment definitely doesn’t.

That cost buys a different product class. Think of it as three rungs on a ladder: Strong and Hevy log your training, Fitbod generates it, and SensAI coaches it — pulling HRV, sleep, and recovery data from Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, or WHOOP via HealthKit, then adapting your plan and modifying sessions mid-workout when the data says you’re cooked. Our SensAI review covers what that looks like day to day, and the four-way app comparison shows where each class fits.

The honest caveat: if all you want is a digital logbook, SensAI is more app than you need. Use Hevy or Strong free and spend the $69.99 on protein.

Cost Per Year of Actual Use: The Real Math

Sticker price isn’t the number that matters. Total cost over your realistic usage window is.

App (best plan)	1 year	3 years	5 years
Fitbod (annual)	$95.99	$287.97	$479.95
Hevy Pro (annual)	$23.99	$71.97	$119.95
Hevy Pro (lifetime)	$74.99	$74.99	$74.99
Strong Pro (annual)	$29.99	$89.97	$149.95
Strong Pro (lifetime)	$99.99	$99.99	$99.99
SensAI (annual)	$69.99	$209.97	$349.95

Lifetime breakevens: Hevy ~3.1 years, Strong ~3.3 years.

Now the uncomfortable data. Health and fitness apps retain only a fraction of their users past the first month — Business of Apps’ benchmarks put 30-day retention in the single digits to low teens for the average fitness app.⁸ Most people who subscribe in January aren’t opening the app in April.

And we’re systematically bad at noticing what that costs us. In C+R Research’s subscription-spending survey, consumers estimated they spent $86/month on subscriptions; their actual average was $219 — a $133/month blind spot, with 74% admitting recurring charges are easy to forget.⁹¹⁰

The research community has named the underlying pattern. Nikos Ntoumanis, professor of motivation science and lead author of a large meta-analysis of self-determination theory interventions, found that health-behavior changes stick when they’re driven by autonomous motivation — not by the sunk cost of a subscription.¹¹ Paying for an app doesn’t make you train; it makes you billed. Similarly, the Utrecht meta-analysis led by Roxanne Gal and epidemiologist Evelyn Monninkhof found that wearable- and app-based interventions produced real but modest activity increases — the tool helps, but only while you actually engage with it.¹²

So the decision rule writes itself:

1. Start monthly. Even at Fitbod’s $15.99, one month is cheaper than an abandoned annual plan.
2. Go annual after 3 months of consistency. That’s when retention data says you’ve beaten the curve.
3. Buy lifetime only with a year of history in that specific app. A breakeven 3+ years out assumes you’ll still be there.

One more cost that never shows up on the pricing page: switching. All four apps let you log similar data, but moving years of workout history between them ranges from tedious (CSV export and re-import) to lossy (custom exercises rarely map cleanly). That friction is worth pricing in before a lifetime purchase — it’s the quiet reason people stay subscribed to apps they’ve stopped loving.

There’s also a question worth asking that most pricing pages dodge: what does the paid tier actually change about your training? For Hevy and Strong, Pro removes caps — your training is identical, your bookkeeping improves. For Fitbod, paying is binary: no payment, no app. For SensAI, the subscription is the product — the coaching adapts week to week, so the value compounds with use rather than sitting flat.

Verdict: Which App to Pay For (and When to Stay Free)

• Best free overall: Strong — unlimited logging, full history, no ads. Unless you need more than 3 routines, in which case Hevy free (4 routines) takes it.
• Best paid logging value: Hevy Pro at $23.99/year — nothing else in the category comes close per dollar.
• Best generated workouts: Fitbod — $95.99/year, with no free fallback when the trial ends.
• Best coach, not logger: SensAI at $69.99/year — about 73% of Fitbod’s price, and the only one of the four that reads your recovery data and adapts in real time.
• Stay free entirely if you program your own training and just need a logbook. That’s not a compromise; for self-coached lifters it’s the correct answer.

The bottom line: the cheapest app is the one you’ll actually use in month four. If that’s a free logger, take the free logger and don’t look back. If you keep stalling because nothing adapts when life and recovery intervene, the $5.83/month for a coach that watches your wearable data is the rare subscription that gets cheaper per use the longer you keep it — but earn that conclusion with the free trial first, against your own data. Our broader fitness app comparison is the next read if you’re still mapping the field.

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Footnotes

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2. Push/Pull. “Hevy Free Version Limitations (2026): 4 Routines, 7 Exercises, 3-Month History.” Push-Pull.app, accessed June 2026. https://push-pull.app/blog/push-pull-vs-hevy ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

3. Fitbod, Inc. “Frequently Asked Questions.” Fitbod.me, accessed June 2026. https://fitbod.me/faqs/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

4. Origami, Inc. “SensAI: Fitness Sensei.” App Store listing, accessed June 2026. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sensai-fitness-sensei/id6738963099 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

5. Hevy Studios. “Hevy — Gym Log Workout Tracker.” Google Play / App Store listing, accessed June 2026. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hevy ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

6. PRPath. “Strong App Review: Is It Worth It in 2026?” PRPath.app, accessed June 2026. https://www.prpath.app/blog/strong-app-review-2026.html ↩ ↩²

7. Push/Pull. “Fitbod Pricing 2026: Cost, Free Trial, Cheaper Alternative.” Push-Pull.app, accessed June 2026. https://push-pull.app/blog/push-pull-vs-fitbod ↩

8. Business of Apps. “Health & Fitness App Benchmarks (2026).” BusinessOfApps.com, accessed June 2026. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/health-fitness-app-benchmarks/ ↩

9. C+R Research. “Subscription Service Statistics and Costs.” CRResearch.com, 2022, accessed June 2026. https://www.crresearch.com/blog/subscription-service-statistics-and-costs/ ↩

10. Dickler J. “Most consumers underestimate monthly subscription costs by at least $100, study says.” CNBC, September 6, 2022. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/06/consumers-underestimate-monthly-subscription-costs-by-at-least-100.html ↩

11. Ntoumanis N, Ng JYY, Prestwich A, Quested E, Hancox JE, Thøgersen-Ntoumani C, Deci EL, Ryan RM, Lonsdale C, Williams GC. “A meta-analysis of self-determination theory-informed intervention studies in the health domain: effects on motivation, health behavior, physical, and psychological health.” Health Psychology Review, 2021;15(2):214-244. PMID: 31983293. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31983293/ ↩

12. Gal R, May AM, van Overmeeren EJ, Simons M, Monninkhof EM. “The Effect of Physical Activity Interventions Comprising Wearables and Smartphone Applications on Physical Activity: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.” Sports Medicine - Open, 2018;4(1):42. PMID: 30178072. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30178072/ ↩