Comparison

Intensity vs PowaLifta

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Intensity

This app helps you optimize your training for progression by tracking your strength and progress. It offers a user-friendly interface for planning and logging workouts, with in-depth stats, custom goals, and personal record tracking.

Highlights
  • Workout planning and logging
  • In-depth training statistics
  • Customizable goals and personal records
  • Support for popular powerlifting programs
  • AI program generation
  • Cloud sync across platforms
  • Apple Watch app
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An ad free workout tracking app to optimize your training for progression. Intensity is focused on getting you better than you were yesterday. Intensity has an interface that makes tracking easy. Plan an entire workout in advance, or log it as you go. Designed for progression, it has everything you need right at your finger tips. This includes in-depth stats to identify trends in your training, custom goals to push you to progress, and the ability to easily view your personal records. Intensity includes popular powerlifting programs such as 5/3/1, Starting Strength, Stronglifts 5x5, The Texas Method, Smolov, Scheiko, The Juggernaut Method, GZCL, Candito programs, Kizen programs, and practically every other popular powerlifting program you can think of. If you can't find what you are looking for, you can build your own programs, customize existing programs, import programs, or use AI to generate a program. With your workouts stored securely in the cloud, access your data whenever you need it. You can access your data on all major platforms. Apple Watch app to access your workouts with or without your iPhone You can import data from popular apps such as Strong, Hevy, FitNotes, and Stronglifts 5x5. You can also export all your workouts for further analysis. Intensity includes social features where you can add your friends, share workouts, and compete on the leaderboard. Other features include: • Sync your workouts with Apple Health • Timer & stopwatch • Interval timer • Bodyweight tracker • 1RM calculator • Plate calculator with custom plate settings • IPF-GL, Wilks, and DOTS calculator • Warmup calculator with the ability to add custom warmup methods • Light/dark mode • Supports multiple languages Use Intensity as the ultimate tracking tool that will last you your entire lifting lifetime. Intensity is free to download and use. Should you choose to upgrade to Intensity Premium, we offer an auto-renewing subscription option for $2.99USD/month, an auto-renewing subscription option for $17.99USD/year, and one singular payment option for $34.99USD: Payment will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. There is no increase in price when renewing. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in iTunes after purchase. Once purchased, refunds will not be provided for any unused portion of the term. Read our full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy at https://www.intensityapp.com/terms-conditions and https://www.intensityapp.com/privacy-policy.

About

PowaLifta

Features
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POWALIFTA is a powerlifting app built for the barbell. Log every set by weight, reps and RPE, watch your total climb, and train with your club and your coach in one place. TRAIN - The next set is always the first thing you see. Logging it is one tap. - Log by RPE. Your e1RM updates automatically, competition-equivalent across squat, bench and deadlift variants. - Smart rest timer: heavier and harder sets rest longer, and it keeps counting on your Lock Screen. - No coach? Build an 8-week block from your best lifts, or write your own program. PROGRESS - e1RM over time for every lift, your PRs, DOTS, IPF GoodLift score and weight class. - Weekly volume, a training calendar, lift balance and meet results. - Plan meet day: openers, seconds and thirds from your real numbers. CLUBS - Join your gym team, uni club or barbell crew. Find clubs by name or city, or join with a code. - Share any set, PR or whole session to your club's feed. - Climb your club's leaderboard, ranked by DOTS or this week's training. - Clubs can be public or private. Private clubs approve who joins. - Your club sees what you share and your stats, never your program or logs. COACHING - Get your program from your coach, message them, send form-check videos and do weekly check-ins. - Coaches: manage your roster, see who trained and who's stalling, build RPE programs, save templates and give one program to many athletes at once. - Free for coaches with up to 3 athletes. Bigger rosters are available as in-app subscriptions. Free for lifters. Built for the barbell. Terms of Use: https://www.powalifta.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.powalifta.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Intensity4 screens
PowaLifta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PowaLifta at none against Intensity's 3. PowaLifta also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Intensity sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. PowaLifta asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Intensity ships an update every 4 weeks, PowaLifta every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Intensity versus PowaLifta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIntensityPowaLifta
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (191 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings191 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTaylor HamlingKishore Gurnani

Bugs and requests

Intensity

Reported bugs

25 issues
  • Workouts not saving
  • App randomly closes
  • Metrics shifting between kg and lb
  • App crashes with 'Unable to Load App' error
  • Workout diary not accurately tracking days
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  • App freezes/crashes and deletes logged workouts
  • Buttons overlapping or disappearing
  • App navigates to random dates during logging
  • Annoying red bar covering exercises
  • Deleted all data after update
  • Sets not being saved
  • Updates to weight/reps not saved
  • Erasing parts of previous workouts
  • App requests clipboard access
  • New update causes app to lock up
  • Search bar not bringing up past exercises
  • Pop-up about settings not working
  • App stops registering taps in correct locations
  • App not responding to taps
  • Losing training notes after updates
  • Sets disappearing after adding
  • Diary not showing logged workouts
  • Resetting diary not possible
  • Units converting incorrectly
  • Workouts being erased

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add widgets
  • Dark mode option
  • Display RPE on main screen
  • Track RPE with every set
  • Abbreviate drop sets/super sets
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  • CSV interop with Excel
  • Rest timer during set updates
  • Copy diary option
  • Optimized for iPhone X screen
  • Plate calculator more accessible
  • Offline mode

PowaLifta

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Intensity

Subscriptions2
  • Intensity Premium$2.991 Month
  • Intensity Premium Yearly$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • Intensity Lifetime Premium$34.99
None

PowaLifta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Intensity free?
Intensity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PowaLifta free?
PowaLifta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Intensity or PowaLifta have ads?
Neither Intensity nor PowaLifta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Intensity or PowaLifta?
Intensity ships an update every 4 weeks, and PowaLifta every 5 weeks. Most recently, Intensity was updated on October 21, 2026 and PowaLifta on October 28, 2026.

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