Fitness App Pricing 2026: Is Fitbod Free? What Hevy, Strong, and SensAI Actually Cost

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	$99.991	Yes (gated)	—
SensAI	$6.994	$69.994	—	None	7 days, no card

Two wrinkles the sticker prices hide. Strong also sells a 6-month SKU at $19.99, and its App Store listing currently shows promotional pricing alongside the standard rates — $23.99 against the $29.99 annual, and $79.99 against the $99.99 lifetime.¹ Hevy likewise runs a second monthly SKU at $3.99 next to the $2.99 one.⁵ Regional and promotional pricing is normal in this category, so treat every number here as the standard US rate and check the in-app checkout screen before you commit.

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 re-verified July 2026 against App Store listings and official help pages. Fitbod and SensAI have no permanent free tier.

Fitbod Pricing in 2026: Is Fitbod Free?

No — Fitbod has no free version. It costs $15.99/month or $95.99/year, with a 7-day free trial, and when that trial ends the app stops working.³ You can’t keep logging on a limited plan, there’s no Hevy-style capped tier, and there’s no Strong-style gated tier. Trial, then pay, or stop.

If you came here looking for a free Fitbod alternative, the honest answer is Strong or Hevy. Neither generates workouts for you — that’s the tradeoff — but both let you train forever for $0.

The paid 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/$95.99.³⁶ If you cancel and come back, expect the new price.

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

Hevy Pro vs Free: What the $23.99 Actually Unlocks

The free-versus-Pro question comes down to four caps: routines, custom exercises, analytics history, and ads. Everything else — workout logging, the social feed, PR tracking, body measurements — is identical on both tiers.

	Hevy Free	Hevy Pro
Workout logging	Unlimited, with ads2	Unlimited, ad-free5
Routines	42	Unlimited5
Custom exercises	72	Unlimited5
Analytics history	~3 months2	Full history5
Price	$0	$2.99/mo, $23.99/yr, or $74.99 lifetime5

Read that table honestly and most lifters land in one of two camps. If you run a fixed 3- or 4-day split and check last session’s numbers before you lift, free covers you indefinitely — this is not a crippled demo. If you rotate training blocks, program around unusual gym equipment, or want to see this year’s squat curve against last year’s, you’ll hit all three caps within a training cycle.

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, and put Hevy against the category’s best generator in Hevy vs Fitbod, 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, with a $19.99 six-month option sitting between the monthly and annual plans.¹⁷ Pro removes the routine cap and unlocks extras like plate math and advanced charts.

That six-month SKU is quietly the most useful plan in this entire comparison, and not because of the price. Six months is long enough to prove you’ll keep training but short enough that abandoning it costs $19.99 instead of $99.99 — it’s the closest thing in the category to a hedge against your own optimism.

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.

Fitness App Pricing FAQ

How much does the Hevy app cost? Hevy Pro costs $2.99/month, $23.99/year, or $74.99 for lifetime access.⁵ The free tier costs nothing and stays usable forever, capped at 4 routines, 7 custom exercises, and roughly 3 months of analytics history.²

Is Fitbod free? No. Fitbod offers a 7-day free trial and then requires a subscription at $15.99/month or $95.99/year.³ There is no permanent free tier — when the trial expires, the app stops working.

What is the difference between Hevy Pro and Hevy free? Pro removes four caps: unlimited routines instead of 4, unlimited custom exercises instead of 7, full analytics history instead of ~3 months, and no ads.⁵² Workout logging is unlimited on both tiers.

How much does Fitbod cost per month? $15.99/month for new subscribers, or $95.99/year (about $8.00/month).³ Subscribers who joined before the 2026 price increase keep legacy rates of $12.99/month and $79.99/year.³⁶

Which workout app has the best free version? Strong, for most people — unlimited logging, full history, and no ads, gated at 3 custom routines.¹ Hevy free allows 4 routines but shows ads and limits analytics history to about 3 months.² Fitbod and SensAI have no free tier.

Is a lifetime workout app subscription worth it? Only if you already have a year of history in that specific app. Hevy’s $74.99 lifetime breaks even against annual at roughly 3.1 years, and Strong’s $99.99 at about 3.3 years — both bets require you to still be training in that app three years from now, which fitness app retention data suggests is a minority outcome.⁸

Does SensAI have a free plan? No. SensAI runs a 7-day free trial with no credit card and no feature restrictions, then $6.99/month or $69.99/year.⁴ The subscription funds live LLM inference, which has a real per-conversation cost that ad-supported loggers don’t carry.

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 July 2026. https://push-pull.app/blog/push-pull-vs-hevy ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

3. Fitbod, Inc. “Frequently Asked Questions.” Fitbod.me, accessed July 2026. https://fitbod.me/faqs/ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

4. Origami, Inc. “SensAI: Fitness Sensei.” App Store listing, accessed July 2026. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sensai-fitness-sensei/id6738963099 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

5. Hevy Studios. “Hevy — Gym Log Workout Tracker.” Google Play / App Store listing, accessed July 2026. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hevy ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²

6. Push/Pull. “Fitbod Pricing 2026: Cost, Free Trial, Cheaper Alternative.” Push-Pull.app, accessed July 2026. https://push-pull.app/blog/push-pull-vs-fitbod ↩ ↩²

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

8. Business of Apps. “Health & Fitness App Benchmarks (2026).” BusinessOfApps.com, accessed July 2026. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/health-fitness-app-benchmarks/ ↩ ↩²

9. C+R Research. “Subscription Service Statistics and Costs.” CRResearch.com, 2022, accessed July 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/ ↩