Comparison

Clift Climbing vs WorkoutSmith

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

Head to head
About

Clift Climbing

Features
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Clift - Every Climb Connects Discover new routes, play games, track your progress, and stay connected with the Clift community. The Clift app is here to make your climbs more fun, more connected, and more rewarding. Whether you’re tracking your progress, competing with friends, or pushing your limits, this app is built for climbers, by climbers. Explore Infinite Routes Access a vast collection of routes and boulders on your Clift-enabled wall. Whether you’re preparing for a gym session or planning a personal challenge, explore and select from countless options before even stepping into the gym. Save time, maximize your effort, and climb with purpose. Instant Start, Rate & Share Start a route, rate it, share your experience, and leave tips, all with a single tap. Exchange feedback with the Clift community, inspire others, and learn from fellow climbers. The app turns every climb into a shared experience. Create, Share, and Inspire Create your own routes with just a few taps. Get creative and share them with the climbing community. Be part of the dynamic and growing Clift ecosystem, where inspiration flows both ways. Your creativity can motivate others and keep the stoke alive. Track Your Progress Monitor your progress with detailed stats like grades, duration, and session history. Visualize your improvement, analyze your achievements, and identify areas to work on. The Clift app helps keep you motivated and shows just how far you’ve come. Join Local and Global Challenges Compete in challenges, earn exclusive rewards, and push yourself alongside other climbers from around the world. Local and global competitions keep you driven and focused while giving you a chance to win prizes and recognition. Connect with the Clift Community Join a passionate community of climbers. Share insights, ask for advice, and grow together with like-minded athletes. Whether online or in the gym, the Clift community is here to support, inspire, and challenge you. Who Should Download the Clift App? • Beginner Climbers: Learn and explore safely, and get inspired by experienced climbers. • Experienced Climbers: Track progress, create routes, compete, and connect. • Coaches and Trainers: Design tailored training plans, track performance, and give meaningful feedback. • Routesetters: Unlock new tools for creative, app-driven routesetting. • Gym Owners: Enhance the climbing experience, engage your members, and build a more dynamic community.

About

WorkoutSmith

Log workouts, track steps, and compete with friends in custom challenges. Features an extensive exercise library, RPG-style motivation, and Apple Watch integration. Offers optional AI coaching and real-time race building.

Highlights
  • Log every workout set
  • Track steps and set goals
  • Build custom workout plans
  • Compete in step and workout challenges with friends
  • Extensive exercise library with video links
  • RPG-style progress incentives
  • Apple Watch support
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I built this app for my family and me, but was advised to share it. I wanted an easy-to-use app on my phone and watch to log every set in structured workout programs built by me, AI, or a real trainer. Also, my mom missed our old step challenges after the app we used removed them; they were fun, and we all walked more. Finally, motivation for me is an issue, so I wanted some sort of progress incentives in an RPG like format. This App: - Syncs with Apple Health for steps and metrics. - Log every set, track steps, build custom plans, share workouts, invite friends and create custom challenges (for steps and workouts) for them. - Set your step goal, earn badges and passport stamps, and create a virtual walking journey to real destinations that turns your miles into a trip toward landmarks. - Expansive exercise library with over 350 exercises, including 30+ Yoga Poses. All have short descriptions and public video links to watch how to do them. Catalog searchable by name, muscle, and equipment. Build your multi-day exercise program with custom exercises, rests, sets and reps counts, leverage heart-rate zone targets, or time based as applicable. - Create your workout plan in the App or on a Google Spreadsheet (your account). Edit it there, and import your changes back. - Invite your friends to compete with them on workouts. Challenges are free and support eight metrics: workouts, tonnage, sets and points, plus steps, distance and running time from your watch. Everyone is scored against their own daily goal, so a beginner and a marathoner race honestly. Keep private groups of friends, cheer somebody mid-set, and climb eight weekly league divisions. - Race in real life by building a course of up to twelve stops anywhere. Races are private and invite-only: people you ask, or people who used your link and whom you approved. The board shows each racer's last checked-in stop and when they reached it. - RPG-style game underneath with points, levels, stats, achievement ladders, and a trophy case for a little extra motivation if you need it. - Apple Watch support to run the workout session: log sets, see live heart-rate zones, pause, resume and mark a segment. It can run a whole workout on its own with no phone nearby. - Coaching: A real coach can build and share an exercise plan with you. Adopt their program, train it, and share back how it went, one toggle per person, and off until you turn it on. Your coach can then see your shared progress and provide feedback. - Muscle map colored by what you trained this week, a lighter week offered when your lifts slip, an opt-in view of your overnight heart rate, HRV and sleep, and progress charts going back as far as you do. - AI: Bring your own or don't use it at all. The optional AI coach runs on a free Google Gemini key you fetch yourself and paste into Settings. We do not sell you AI and we never charge for tokens: the key stays on your device. Everything else here works with no key at all. - Private by Default: Your training history, health data, and home location stay on your phone. Your home is a coordinate, never an address, and it never leaves the device. No feed and no messaging, by design. Social features do nothing until you sign in, sharing is opt-in per metric, and adding a friend shares nothing. Export everything as JSON or delete it anytime. - Free, no subscription: steps, streaks, journeys and routes, friends, groups, challenges, history, progress and export. - Two Plans (renew monthly until cancelled): - WorkoutSmith Premium, $4.99 a month, adds your daily training session, plan building, races and leagues, and coaching up to two people. - WorkoutSmith Coach, $24.99 a month, is for trainers who coach more than two people: it adds their plans, their progress and their shared workouts in one place. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mig1278.github.io/workoutsmith/privacy

Screenshots

Clift Climbing4 screens
WorkoutSmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clift Climbing at none against WorkoutSmith's 2. Clift Climbing also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). WorkoutSmith's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, 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. WorkoutSmith sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Clift Climbing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clift Climbing ships an update every 5 weeks, WorkoutSmith every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Clift Climbing versus WorkoutSmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClift ClimbingWorkoutSmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB30 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCliftMichael Lee

In-app purchases

None

Clift Climbing

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

WorkoutSmith

Subscriptions2
  • WorkoutSmith Premium3 Months trial$4.991 Month
  • WorkoutSmith Coach3 Months trial$24.991 Month

Questions

Is Clift Climbing free?
Clift Climbing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WorkoutSmith free?
WorkoutSmith is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clift Climbing or WorkoutSmith have ads?
Neither Clift Climbing nor WorkoutSmith shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clift Climbing or WorkoutSmith?
Clift Climbing ships an update every 5 weeks, and WorkoutSmith every 3 days. Most recently, Clift Climbing was updated on November 7, 2026 and WorkoutSmith on November 6, 2026.

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