# Lifting Lab — Weightlifting training coach

> Weightlifting training coach (iPhone/iPad app by David Hicka.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lifting-lab/id6804514003 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [David Hicka](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792594192)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Sports
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 25 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-22
- Data updated: 2026-10-25

## What is Lifting Lab?

Lifting Lab is a training app built for one sport: the snatch and the clean & jerk.

Tell it how you feel and it builds today's session, or follow a periodized program. Film your lifts, see them split into phases, find out why you missed, and walk into meet day ready. No sensor needed, and no subscription needed to log your training.

IT BUILDS TODAY'S SESSION
Energy, soreness, your equipment, the time you have. Lifting Lab builds the day around them: the right lift for today's rotation, strength work that avoids what's sore, accessories that balance it. Then it is yours to reorder, swap, or dial up or down.

IT PROGRAMS THE CYCLE
Periodized cycles, from technique and strength through specification, peak and masters, built off your real PRs, not a generic table. Every set arrives with target weight, percentage and plates already loaded. Miss a session and it reschedules it.

IT SEES THE LIFT
Film a set on your phone. Bar Trace plots the bar path and splits it into first pull, transition, second pull, turnover and catch. Peak speed, mean pull speed and bar height, and a side-by-side compare against your best lift. No sensor, no pairing.

IT TELLS YOU WHY YOU MISSED
Technique Doctor names the fault, the likely causes and corrective drills, and flags it when the same fault shows up twice.

IT KNOWS THE SPORT
Sinclair, openers, Prilepin ranges, plate math for your gym's actual inventory, warm-up ramps shaped the way a coach would set them, and strength ratios that show where your lifts sit against each other.

MEET DAY
The warm-up room runs on attempts, not the clock. It counts your warm-ups, tells you when to take the next one, and tracks your six attempts on the board.

TRAIN WHERE YOU TRAIN
Set a gym profile for your bar, plates and equipment. Switch supported lifts to dumbbells when the barbell isn't there. An illustrated exercise library covers every lift and accessory.

PROGRESS THAT IS COUNTED, NOT INVENTED
PR tracker, charts, levels, streaks and badges, all computed from your log. Finished workouts write to Apple Health; every Health toggle is optional. Export your data to CSV.

FREE
Unlimited training log and history, the adaptive daily workout builder, the Beginner Foundation program, Technique Doctor for recent lifts, PR tracker, exercise library, every calculator, warm-up generator, and three bar-path analyses every month. No account required.

LIFTING LAB PRO
Unlimited bar-path analyses with side-by-side compare, full Technique Doctor history, the full program library, Meet Day, and import from a VBT sensor you already own.

Bar Trace works best side-on with the whole bar in frame and a steady phone. When a clip isn't good enough to measure, Lifting Lab says so and shows you why, instead of giving you a number it can't back up. Video analysis runs on your device.

Pro is $12.99 per month or $99.99 per year, charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions.

Terms: https://liftinglab.app/terms/
Privacy: https://liftinglab.app/privacy/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Monthly | $12.99 | per month |
| Pro Annual | $99.99 | per year |


## Is Lifting Lab safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Lifting Lab.

## Is Lifting Lab legit?

Lifting Lab has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lifting Lab is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2 — 2026-10-25

Sharper bar paths, smarter picks, and a new way to see your balance.

NEW
- Strength ratio chart: see where your lifts sit against each other at a glance.
- Athlete thumbnails beside every exercise in the library and the picker.
- Body-mechanics pictures for seven calisthenics movements, and a new Sit-Up.
- Squats now get their own ramp-up, and squats, pulls and presses get proper warm-ups.
- Exercises you can't do with your equipment now name the equipment you're missing.
- Pro is now the single plan.

BETTER
- Bar Trace no longer awards speed from a stretch where tracking was lost, and the path no longer smooths across it.
- Importing, analyzing and filming a bar trace is more reliable.
- Your own bodyweight is kept when you build a custom workout.
- Ending a program is now a clear button.
- The exercise library drops its category icons for a cleaner list.

### 1.1 — 2026-10-13

Train where you actually train, and with dumbbells when the barbell isn't there.

NEW
- Pick your gym for each workout. A "Training at" row at the foot of the check-in, the workout builder and the live session sets which bar, plates and equipment the workout uses. Switch mid-session and the loading updates, and sets you've already logged stay as they are.
- Switch a lift to dumbbells. Front squats, split squats, lunges, Romanian and stiff-leg deadlifts, strict and push press, and bent-over rows can be done with a dumbbell in each hand. Weight is per hand, with a picture of the pair that grows as the weight goes up.
- Body: log an injury and the app trains around it. Check in with a pain reading, get safer swaps, and ease back in stage by stage.

BETTER
- The rest timer no longer resets when it shouldn't.
- Pyramid sets progress the way they're written.
- Weight changes carry through the rest of an exercise.
- The "Back Under the Bar" bar no longer covers the buttons on program and builder screens.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-22

No release notes.

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