A Hevy alternative that keeps your history
Hevy is built for social workout logging: routines, a social feed, and community features. If sharing workouts with friends is central to your training, Hevy serves that job well. Symmetric Strength is built around a different center: your strength score, any credible cohort comparison available for it, and what to train next to move up.
Example result
Sample lifter
Strength score
Symmetry
89%- Squat
- 71.8
- Floor Pull
- 76.4
- Horizontal Press
- 68.2
- Vertical Press
- 54.6
- Pull-up / Row
- 66.0
Smart Coach: Vertical Press trails the other four patterns. Train it first.
Who each app is best for
Hevy is better if you want
- A social feed of your friends' workouts
- Custom routines, a 400+ exercise library, and community
- Workout logging across mobile, desktop, Apple Watch, and Wear OS
Symmetric Strength is better if you want
- A score identity with labeled cohort percentiles when credible data is available
- A private-by-default Strength Passport with separately labeled competition context when comparable
- Fastest Path: the exact lift and kilos that get you to the next tier
- Coach recommendations that show their reasoning and track their results
Feature comparison
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| Feature | Hevy | Symmetric Strength |
|---|---|---|
| Workout logging | Yes, social and polished | Yes, with scoring built in |
| Social feed | Yes, core feature | Focused sharing: proof cards and challenges instead of a feed |
| Strength score and tier | Personal records, detailed statistics, and exercise leaderboards | Yes, per lift and overall, with a published method |
| Percentile vs real lifters | Friend and follower exercise leaderboards | Shown only with a credible, labeled cohort; comparable competition context is separate |
| Profile you can publish | Social profile with a private option | Available when you publish your Strength Passport |
| Weak-point analysis | Muscle split and detailed workout statistics | Yes, across movement patterns |
| Next-tier planning | Personal records and exercise statistics | Yes, Fastest Path shows the cheapest lift to improve |
| CSV export | Yes | Yes, and CSV import from Hevy |
What Symmetric Strength adds
Strength Passport
A private-by-default Strength Passport that shows your score, tier, and any available cohort percentiles in one place. You choose whether to publish it.
Labeled cohort context
When a credible cohort exists, Symmetric Strength labels the percentile, source, sample, and confidence. App cohorts leave out members who turned off community statistics; comparable OpenPowerlifting competition context is shown separately when available.
Fastest Path to your next tier
The app tells you which single lift to improve, and by how much, to reach your next strength tier with the least added weight.
A coach that shows its reasoning
When the Coach can issue a recommendation, it includes the rationale: which weak point it targets, what evidence triggered it, and what result it expects.
Bring your Hevy history with you
Switching costs you nothing but the export click. Bring your Hevy CSV into Symmetric Strength: the preview is parsed in your browser, and your Strength Passport is built from the training history you already have.
Not sure yet? Enter your lifts in the free calculator and see your score, tier, and weak points in about a minute. No account needed.
Calculate my strengthCommon questions
Can I use Hevy and Symmetric Strength together?
Yes. Keep your social logging in Hevy and import your CSV whenever you want your scores, Passport, and any available cohort percentiles updated.
Is Symmetric Strength free?
The calculator and score are free. You can get a full strength analysis without creating an account, then create a private Passport and choose whether to publish it.
How is the percentile different from Hevy's stats?
Hevy documents side-by-side profile stats and friend or follower exercise leaderboards. Symmetric Strength labels each available percentile with its cohort and sample, and shows comparable OpenPowerlifting competition context separately when it exists.