Moving from Hevy: a Hevy alternative that keeps your whole history

Hevy is a good log, and if its feed and its trainer are what you use, stay. People leave it for three reasons: they want a logger with no account and no caps on the free plan, they want their numbers read back to them by a coach or by their AI assistant, or they want a lifetime instead of a subscription. GymYuz covers those three, and the move takes an afternoon because the Hevy export imports in one step.

Export from Hevy

In Hevy, open your profile, then settings, then the export option, and export your workouts. Hevy gives you a CSV named workout_data.csv. Save it to cloud storage or your computer, and keep that file untouched; a copy is your safety net if anything goes wrong.

Do not delete Hevy or your Hevy account yet. The two-week rule below depends on it.

Import into GymYuz

In GymYuz, open You, then Data, then Import from another app, and choose Hevy. Pick workout_data.csv. The import runs on the phone; nothing is uploaded. When it finishes it says how many sessions came in.

What carries over from the Hevy file:

• Every workout with its date and title.
• Every set with weight and reps; kilograms and pounds are both read, so your unit setting does not matter.
• Warm-up sets, kept as warm-ups, so they stay out of your volume and your records.
• RPE, where you logged it.
• Set durations for timed exercises.

What does not carry over, because Hevy’s file does not contain it: routines, progress photos, and your feed. Rebuild the three or four routines you actually use; the rest you were not using.

Check three workouts

Open one workout from last week, one from a month ago and one from at least six months ago, in both apps. Compare the date, the exercises, and each set’s weight and reps. If the oldest one is off, it is almost always a unit mismatch, so check kg against lb.

Then scan the exercise list for the same lift under two names, such as “Bench Press (Barbell)” and “Barbell Bench Press”. GymYuz maps the common Hevy names to its catalogue, but a custom exercise keeps its Hevy name. Pick one name and use it from now on; records and strength curves are built per exercise, and two names means two half-histories.

Keep Hevy for two weeks

Log every session in GymYuz, and keep Hevy installed and untouched as a reference. Six or so sessions is enough to know whether the move was right. If it was not, nothing is lost: Hevy is still there and so is the original file.

At the end of the two weeks, export from Hevy once more to catch anything logged there in between, archive it with the first file, and then decide about the Hevy account. GymYuz can export in Hevy’s own format too, so the door stays open in both directions.

What you get on the other side

The logger is free with no account and no caps on routines or history. Pro adds the coach, which picks the weight for each set from the history you just brought over, sync and backup across your devices, and your training in ChatGPT and Claude. The first connection to your assistant gives seven days of Pro at no cost. Prices and the Founders lifetime are on the home page under Free and Pro, and the full comparison is in Hevy vs Strong vs GymYuz.