What Hevy Coach does well
Hevy Coach is the trainer side of Hevy, the workout tracker. You build workouts and multi-week plans in a web app and assign them, and your clients follow them inside the Hevy app, with Hevy Pro unlocked at no cost to them. Progress tracking covers exercise performance, adherence, body measurements and progress photos, and there is a client chat and a shared library for coaching teams.
It is not only an online tool. The Hevy Coach phone app lets you start a session from a client's profile and record their sets, reps and weights while they train, and the finished workout lands in the client's history. Programming, client data and billing stay in the web app.
For a lifter who already logs in Hevy, no other tool on this page makes the handoff this easy. That is the honest starting point.
What Hevy Coach costs as the roster grows
There is one plan, priced by client count. The first tier is the cheapest paid entry in the category; the steps after it are where the bill moves. Hevy Coach bills monthly, and its pricing page offers no annual plan.
| Clients | Hevy Coach | Step up at the next tier | Onyx Coach |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | $25 | +$25 at client 11 | €29 |
| 11 to 25 | $50 | +$40 at client 26 | €29 |
| 26 to 50 | $90 | +$70 at client 51 | €29 |
| 51 to 100 | $160 | +$90 at client 101 | €29 |
| 101 to 200 | $250 | +$110 at client 201 | €29 |
| 201 to 1,000 | $360 to $700 | Four more tiers | €29 |
Read from the client-count selector on the Hevy Coach pricing page. Every tier is the same plan with the same features; only the client count changes. The page's own FAQ says it accommodates "from 1 client to 500", while the selector runs to 1,000.
Who outgrows it, and why
The trainer whose roster passes ten. Client 11 doubles the bill from $25 to $50, and client 26 takes it to $90. Up to ten clients Hevy Coach is cheaper than Onyx, $25 against €29. From 11 to 25 it costs more, and the gap widens at every tier after that.
The trainer who runs a business, not only a program. Hevy Coach's pricing and features pages list workouts, plans, progress tracking, chat, teams and a public invite link. They list nothing for bookings, payments, nutrition or check-in requests. If you take money in one app, book sessions in another and send programs in Hevy, you have outgrown it in the other direction.
The trainer whose clients are not Hevy people. Every Hevy Coach client needs a Hevy account: you invite them by email and they are coached inside the Hevy app. That is the point for lifters who already use it. For a client who has never logged a workout, or one who will not install anything, it is one more thing to set up.
The trainer who wants help writing programs. Neither page mentions AI program writing. Every other tool in the list below except TrueCoach advertises an AI workout or program builder.
Who should stay
Stay on Hevy Coach if you coach ten people or fewer, they lift, they already track in Hevy or are happy to, and you do not mind handling payments and scheduling somewhere else. At $25 for ten clients with Hevy Pro included for each of them, nothing on this page costs less between six and ten clients, and the 30-day trial with no card is twice the length of ours.
Stay, too, if the client's side of the experience matters most to you. Hevy is a polished tracker used by millions, by Hevy's own count, and when you remove a client they keep their whole workout history and carry on logging on a free account.
The alternatives, by the reason you are leaving
Onyx Coach
€29 a month, unlimited clientsTrainers who coach in the gym and have passed ten clients.
Built for the same moment as Hevy Coach's phone app: the session on the gym floor. You log sets, reps, RPE and rest live from your phone, a 1RM is stored per exercise so percentage prescriptions recalculate themselves, and a client who will not install anything can still be tracked. Online clients use the free Onyx app. Check-ins with photos and measurements, a calendar, your own exercise library, AI program writing and a connection to Claude or ChatGPT are all in the plan, with no client tiers.
What it does not do: meal plans, in-app payments, video calls, a white-labelled app, or an open chat with clients (each check-in carries the client's note and your feedback instead). The trial is 14 days, not 30.
Onyx Coach pricingEverfit
Free to 5 clients, then $29 at 10 and $49 at 20Trainers who want the business side on a small budget.
Pro includes booking and scheduling, forms and questionnaires, food journal and macro tracking, and basic meal plans, none of which Hevy Coach lists. It is priced on a slider: $19 for 5 clients, $29 for 10, $49 for 20, $95 for 50. Automations, the full meal planner and payments are add-ons from $29, $39 and $9. At 20 clients it is a dollar under Hevy Coach; at 21 to 25 it moves to the 35-client stop at $75.
Everfit pricing, explainedABC Trainerize
$25 for 5 clients, $50 for 15, $79 for 30Online coaches who need nutrition, payments and a branded app.
The most complete of the group, and the one most sold in pieces. Pro is priced in tiers at 5, 15, 30, 50 clients and up, and meal plans ($20 to $45), scheduling ($25), video calls ($10), in-app payments ($10) and a branded app ($169 one-time) are add-ons. At 20 clients the base plan alone is $79 against $50 on Hevy Coach.
Trainerize pricing, explainedMy PT Hub
$59 a month, unlimited clientsTrainers who want nutrition and payments in one flat price.
Premium at $59 covers unlimited clients, workouts and nutrition plans, an AI workout builder, automated check-ins, payment processing, and 1-to-1 and group bookings. Starter is $25 but stops at three clients. From 26 clients up it costs less than Hevy Coach's $90 tier and covers everything Hevy Coach leaves out. The trial is 30 days with no card.
My PT Hub pricingTrueCoach
$29.98 to $164.98 a monthOnline coaches with a stable roster under 20.
Three plans capped at 5, 20 and 50 active clients, each with MyFitnessPal nutrition tracking, messaging and payments built in; Standard and Pro add wearables and a custom-branded app. Billed annually the plans work out at $26.34, $57.99 and $136.99 a month. The caps are the catch: client 21 moves you from $69.98 to $164.98 on monthly billing.
TrueCoach alternativesMoving off Hevy Coach
Hevy Coach's own help centre says there is not yet an easy way to bring client data and programs over from another coaching tool, and Onyx has no importer for Hevy either. Plan on rebuilding the templates you use most rather than exporting everything.
Two things make the move easier than it sounds. Your clients keep their workout history in their own Hevy account when you remove them, so nothing they logged is lost. And on Onyx, human support in every plan helps you onboard your first clients and rebuild existing programs. Run the trial with two real clients before you move the rest.
