A Hevy alternative that needs no signal

If you are looking for somewhere else to log your lifts, this is a free workout app with 158 free-weight exercises in it. It runs in your browser and adds to your home screen, so there is nothing to download from a store. You do not need an account to view any of it, there is nothing behind a subscription, and there are no ads.

The thing worth knowing about it before anything else is what happens in the dead spot at the back of the gym.

Nothing you log waits on a server

When you bank a set here, it is banked. The workout builder keeps your session on the device in your hand, and nothing you do in it needs to reach anything to work. No signal, no problem, and no moment where the app is thinking about whether it can save.

If you have signed in, the session goes up afterwards, when there is a connection to go up on. That order matters and it is the whole design: the network is where your log goes later, never something it has to get through first.

One more thing about your log: a session you have finished cannot be quietly rewritten. The database is set up to accept new sessions and to delete them, and to refuse edits outright. Not as a policy, as a permission.

Nothing to be logged out of

Every exercise page here is open. No sign-up, no email, no wall in front of any of it, and that is a permanent decision rather than a current setting.

The workout builder works signed out too. An account exists if you want one, and the only thing it does is carry your history between your phone and your laptop. It holds the unit you lift in and nothing else. No name, no height, no bodyweight, because none of that is needed to tell you what you lifted last Tuesday.

It works in a gym with no connection

A page you have opened before will open again without one. If you want the whole library available offline, you can download it from settings in one press, about 32 MB.

That download never happens on its own. It is not ours to spend your data on because you opened a page.

It tells you which muscle is meant to be doing the work

This is the part it was built for, and it is a narrower thing than a list of muscle groups.

Most exercise pages tell you which muscles an exercise involves. That is useful and it is not the question you are actually asking mid-set. What runs together in that list is the muscle that should be driving the lift and the ones that are only holding you steady, and those are not the same job. A mirror will show you the shape of a lift. It will not show you where the load is going.

So every page here splits them: what does the work, and what only steadies you. If you have ever finished a set and wondered whether you felt it in the right place, that is the question this answers.

Start anywhere in the library, or with a goblet squat or a deadlift.

The guides name their sources

There are eleven guides on the questions that come up across exercises. How long to rest, how many sets, how many reps, whether to train to failure, and what progressive overload actually requires.

Every figure on them traces to a named paper with an author, a year and an identifier. That is enforced rather than promised. A script checks each citation against a stored copy of the paper, and the site will not build if a citation has no record behind it. It fails too if an author's name does not match the one on the paper.

Start with progressive overload or how many reps to build muscle.

And it logs what you lifted

The workout builder lets you pick the muscles you want, take the exercises out of them, set your reps and rest, then log each set against a weight.

When you come back to an exercise it shows you what you lifted last time. That is the number you actually need standing in front of a rack, and it is the whole reason to keep a record at all.

Common questions

What happens if you log a set with no signal?

It is logged. The workout builder keeps your session on your own device and nothing you do in it waits on a server, so a dead spot in the gym costs you nothing. If you have signed in, the session goes up later when there is a connection to go up on.

Do I need an account?

Not to view anything. All 158 exercise pages are open, and they always will be. You can use the workout builder without one too. An account exists only if you want your logged sessions to follow you from your phone to your laptop.

Is FreeWeightDojo free?

Yes, and there is no paid tier to move up to. Nothing in it sits behind a subscription, a trial or an upgrade prompt, because there is nothing to sell you.

Can you use it in a gym with no connection?

A page you have already visited will open again without one, and you can download the whole library from settings if you want all of it available offline. That download is about 32 MB and it is never automatic.

What do you get on each exercise page?

A written description, and a muscle panel that separates the muscles driving the lift from the ones only holding you steady. That last part is the reason it exists.

Can a session you have logged be changed afterwards?

Not quietly. The database is set up to accept new sessions and to delete them, and to refuse edits outright. It is a permission rather than a policy, so there is no setting anybody can change.

Is the training advice sourced?

Every figure on the guides traces to a named paper with an author, a year and an identifier, and a script checks each citation against a stored record of the paper before the site can ship.

About this page

Hevy is a separate product made by Hevy Studios S.L. and this site is not connected to it. It is free to download, and it sells a Pro subscription which on the UK App Store was listed at £2.99 a month, £23.49 a year or £74.99 once, checked on 27 August 2026. Prices and features change, so check their own listing for anything current.

This page says what this site does and leaves you to compare it. It is not a scorecard, and nothing here is a claim about how well anybody else does the same job. There are other comparisons in this lane written the same way.

Every page here is written by hand rather than generated, and nothing is sold on this site, which is why this page can just tell you what you get.