Compare Calm vs Hevy

Calm

Meditation and sleep app built around Sleep Stories, guided sessions, and soundscapes for people who struggle to switch off at night.

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Hevy

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Fast, clean workout logger with a generous free tier, a social feed of 15 million lifters, and an optional adaptive Trainer on Pro.

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Pricing

Pricing Comparison

Calm

Free$0

One breathing exercise, day one of each programme, and a rotating free Sleep Story

Premium Monthly$14.99 to $16.99/mo

Full library including Daily Calm, all Sleep Stories, and Masterclasses

Premium Annual$69.99/yr

Identical access at roughly $5.83 per month

Family$99.99/yr

Up to six separate accounts

Lifetime$399.99 to $499.99 one-time

Permanent access including future content

Hevy

Free$0

Unlimited workout logging with caps on routines, custom exercises, and graph history

Pro Monthly$2.99 to $3.99/mo

Unlimited routines and custom exercises, all-time history, Trainer, warmup calculator

Pro Annual$23.99/yr

Same Pro features at roughly $2 per month

Pro Lifetime$74.99 one-time

Permanent Pro access with no recurring fee

Features

Feature Comparison

Calm

Sleep StoriesGuided MeditationsDaily Calm SessionBreathing ExercisesSleep SoundscapesAmbient MusicFocus MusicMasterclassesCalm Body StretchesMood Check-InsGratitude JournalStreak TrackingOffline DownloadsKids ContentTimed MeditationsCelebrity NarrationBedtime RemindersApple Health Sync

Hevy

Fast Set LoggingRoutine PlannerExercise LibraryDemonstration VideosAutomatic Rest TimersWarmup SetsDrop SetsProgress ChartsPersonal RecordsOne Rep MaxCustom ExercisesSocial FeedRoutine SharingApple Watch AppWearOS AppWeb VersionHevy TrainerPublic API

Fit

Best For & Not For

Calm

✅ Best For

✅People whose primary problem is falling asleep rather than learning formal meditation technique

✅Anxious sleepers who respond better to narrated stories and soundscapes than to silent breath-focused practice

✅Households wanting one subscription across up to six separate profiles with individual histories and favourites

✅Complete beginners who want a polished, ad-free environment rather than sifting through free apps of variable quality

✅Parents looking for age-appropriate sleep and calming content for children in the same app they use themselves

❌ Not For

❌Experienced meditators seeking teacher variety and depth, where free libraries such as Insight Timer offer considerably more

❌Anyone wanting clinical mental health treatment, since Calm is a wellness product and not therapy

❌Budget users hoping the free tier will suffice, as it is limited to a single breathing exercise and day one of each programme

❌People who dislike celebrity-narrated content, which forms a large part of the flagship sleep catalogue

❌Users wanting detailed progress analytics, since tracking here is largely limited to streaks and session counts

Hevy

✅ Best For

✅Lifters who already know their program and want the fastest, least fiddly place to record it

✅People motivated by social accountability who want friends seeing and reacting to their logged sessions

✅Budget-conscious trainees, since the free tier covers unlimited logging with no trial deadline attached

✅Apple Watch and WearOS users who want to leave the phone in the locker and log entirely from the wrist

✅Developers and data enthusiasts who want programmatic access to their training history through the public API

❌ Not For

❌Anyone who wants sessions generated from recovery data, since Hevy Trainer works from logged performance rather than sleep or HRV

❌Runners and endurance athletes, as the app is built almost entirely around resistance training

❌Free tier users running a long-term split, who will hit the routine cap and the limited history window quickly

❌People wanting a conversational AI coach that explains programming decisions in plain language

❌Lifters who need nutrition or macro tracking bundled into the same subscription

Availability

Platform & Accessibility

Calm

mobileweb-based

Hevy

mobileweb-basedapi

Use & Audience

Tasks & Who It's For

Calm

Tasks

ai-healthcare ai-education

Who it's for

student solopreneur freelancer

Hevy

Tasks

ai-healthcare ai-data ai-productivity

Who it's for

solopreneur freelancer student

Integrations

Calm

Analytics

Apple Health

Other

Apple WatchAlexaSpotify

Hevy

Analytics

Apple HealthStrava

Other

Apple WatchWearOS

Webhooks & API

Hevy API

Use Cases

Real-world Use Cases

Calm

Ravi has struggled with racing thoughts at bedtime for years, plays a Sleep Story most nights for a month, and starts falling asleep before the narration ends more often than not.

Hannah runs the Daily Calm on her commute every weekday and builds a ninety day streak, the first meditation habit that has ever survived past week two for her.

Marco downloads six sessions before a fourteen hour flight and uses the breathing exercises to get through takeoff without the usual white-knuckle grip.

Hevy

Karan logs every set from his Apple Watch and leaves his phone in the locker, finishing sessions without once pulling it out to check what comes next.

Elise follows three friends on the Hevy feed, and the quiet pressure of them seeing her missed weeks turns two gym days a week into four.

Ravi hits the free tier's routine cap after building a full six day split, does the maths on the lifetime licence, and pays $74.99 once instead of subscribing forever.

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