Switching to Badger

Moving to Badger from Hevy

If you want the same log without an account behind it or a subscription on top, your Hevy export comes with you. Here is what it brings across and what changes.

What the CSV carries across

Hevy's CSV is the most detailed of the exports Badger reads, so after a FitNotes backup it is the one that brings the most across.

  • Warmups stay warmups. Hevy's export marks set type, so your ramp-up sets arrive flagged and stay out of your PRs and volume. Failure sets stay failure sets too.
  • Supersets, as supersets. Exercises you grouped in Hevy arrive grouped in Badger.
  • Every set, with its date, exercise, weight, reps, distance, and time.
  • Your RPE, on each set.
  • Your exercise notes, on the exercise they belong to, and each workout's title and description as the note on that session.
  • Session times. Imported workouts show when they started and how long they ran.
  • Kilograms or pounds, kilometers or miles, read from the file's column names and kept in the unit you logged. A miles export stays in miles, and Badger shows it in your distance unit.
  • Your PRs, worked out from the imported history, so your records and graphs start out full.

What does not come across:

  • Your routines. The export holds history only. Start from one of Badger's ten built-in programs or build your own.
  • Your folders and categories. New exercises land in an "Imported" category for you to sort. An exercise already in your Badger library is matched by name.

Doing it

In Hevy, go to Profile → Settings → Export & Import Data → Export Workouts (Export Measurements has no workouts in it), save the file on the phone you train with, then open Settings → Your data → Import from Hevy in Badger. Import each file once. The full steps are in importing from another app.

What you get, and what you give up

What you get:

  • No account. Your log lives on your phone, with nothing to sign in to.
  • No paywall. No cap on routines, history or graphs, and exporting is free. The no-subscription guide compares the trackers people usually weigh up.
  • Gym and machine tracking, with PRs kept per machine. How it works.
  • More per-exercise analysis: estimated 1RM, eleven graphs per exercise, muscle balance and plateau detection. What it tracks.

What you give up:

  • The social side. No feed, no followers, no shared workouts. If that is what keeps you training, Badger is the wrong move.
  • Sync between devices. Your log lives on one phone. Moving to a new one means carrying a backup file across: moving to a new phone.

Getting back out again

Leaving is as easy as arriving. Every set exports to CSV, and the whole database backs up to a file you keep. Routines, exercises and equipment share as .badger files, a documented format you can read in any text editor.

About the name

Hevy is a trademark of its owner, and Badger is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to it in any way. This page describes compatibility only: Badger reads the CSV file that Hevy exports.