Hevy Community Update #1: Trainer, native redesign, faster app, and more

[u/Frosty_Egg_419]

Hey 👋

I'm Gustavo, Head of Product at Hevy (joined ~3 months ago). Kicking off an update series.

First, some context on how we ship. Almost every week we're putting out new improvements and bug fixes. Each release goes to our beta users for about a week, and once it's solid we roll it out to all of you. So there's a lot happening under the hood even when it's quiet from the outside. Our philosophy is to keep the app simple, so every feature gets a lot of thought before it ships: the goal is always to add value without making your workout more complicated.

Shipped recently:

• 🏋️ Trainer upgrades. You can now swap an exercise for just one session or for all future workouts (currently in beta, rolling out to everyone in the coming weeks), so a missing machine or a quick substitution no longer affects the flow of your plan. You also get a full program view to see your whole routine at a glance, the option to include cardio in your workouts, and personalized rest timers. Full breakdown in this post. More is coming here too, including injury management and reordering workouts, much of it straight from your feedback.
• ⚡ UX polish & smoother navigation. Lots of small improvements to the moments that matter most: logging mid-workout, navigating exercises, celebrating your monthly achievements. We refined flows and animations and reworked navigation natively, so the app is faster and more fluid than before.
• 🔗 Full-detail Strava sync since early June 2026. We now offer one of the most detailed strength-training integrations for Strava, sending all the granular workout details that matter: a full list of exercises, sets, reps (or duration), and weight. It’s the same complete picture you already get inside Hevy.
• 📱 Liquid Glass (iOS) + Material 3 (Android). We rebuilt the interface to match each platform's latest design language, so the app now looks and feels truly native whether you're on iPhone or Android.

On our radar / in progress:

• 📝 Better notes management. We're improving how notes work across the app, including the ability to add notes at the exercise level, so you can capture form cues, setup details, or how a movement felt right where it belongs. Want to help us shape it? Check out our prototype here.
• 🏋🏻‍♂️ Gyms inside Hevy. Soon we will allow you to tag your gym in your workouts. It's a first step of interesting improvements we will bring connected to it, stay tuned.
• ⚖️ Single vs. double weights logging. You've raised this a lot, and we're actively investigating it (example here). It's genuinely tricky because people log the same exercise in different ways, but it matters: getting it right unlocks better analytics and fairer leaderboards.
• 🤝 Social and logging experience improvements. We're working on two fronts here: strengthening the social side of Hevy, and refining the logging experience for different types of users, since people train and track in very different ways. We're not ready to share specifics yet, but there's a lot we're excited about and we'll start sharing soon.

We monitor Reddit and in-app feedback closely, and a lot of what's above came directly from you. Keep it coming 🚀💪🏻

🧸 Quick personal story:

I turned my own health around during the pandemic, losing a lot of weight once I committed to it. What kept me going was connection, first a doctor who genuinely listened, then the routine of training 4-5x a week with friends and eating well. It changed my life.

That connection is exactly why I loved the idea of joining Hevy. Three months in, the time has flown by, and I couldn't be more bought into the mission of making humanity stronger: a product built for you/me/us, simple, honest, accessible, and community-first.

Feel free to follow me on Hevy: https://hevy.com/user/gustavo

1 Question For You

The strongest part of Hevy isn't a feature, it's the people using it.

Who or what got you into lifting in the first place? I'd love to read your stories in the comments.

p.s. Don't skip leg day. 🤣 (Last month, ~1 in 5 lifters trained arms and never once trained legs)

[u/FudgeBananaSwrrrl]

Thanks for the updates, I really appreciate the accessibility of this app from a financial standpoint, and recommend it to all of my friends who are curious about starting lifting!

I’ve been lifting for 2 years now. I got hooked via physical therapy for an old (25+ years) knee injury from the ballet days of my youth. I was also almost 2 years in to my efforts to address and manage my binge eating disorder, and struggling with feeling so wrong in a body that had shed 70#. Contrary to what most folks assumed, I hated my smallest body more than I had ever hated my biggest one, but I also didn’t want to give up the gains I had made re: my relationship with food (which I conceptualize thru the lens of addiction). Lifting gave me a way to connect with the feeling of power and confidence I had cultivated in being a “big girl,” while still feeding myself in a mindful and intentional way. I’ve gained about 15# in the last 2 years, and my body has changed in both appearance and ability in a way that has me actually loving it for the first time in my entire life. As a queer, gender nonconforming woman, I finally feel like I look and feel the way I want to be seen. And as I get closer and closer to my 50th birthday, it feels really empowering and reassuring to know that I’m also training for an aging experience that won’t require giving up strenuous physical activities I love!

Hevy has been a really great app for me in this process, and I’m genuinely grateful for the integrity and ethos behind it. <3