Gym Hero vs LiftDiff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gym Hero
This app provides private workout guidance and fast logging for Apple users. It integrates with Apple Health to offer contextual prompts and encouragement during training sessions, helping you stay consistent and informed about your recovery.
- Fast workout logging
- Private in-workout guidance
- Apple Health integration
- Offline tracking
- Cross-device sync
- Recovery and sleep trend analysis
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Gym Hero: Private Workout Guidance for Apple Users Gym Hero is a workout and recovery app for people who want to train with less friction. It combines fast workout logging, Apple Health context, and private guidance in one Apple-native experience. Workout Buddy, Right When You Need It • Get short, contextual prompts when momentum drops mid-workout. • Receive haptic encouragement and simple next steps without breaking focus. • Built for real sessions, not generic chat. Log Workouts Without Friction • Track strength and cardio workouts offline. • Sync across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, widgets, and Live Activities. • View heart rate, calories, sets, reps, and workout progress in real time. Train with Health Context • Connect Apple Health for HRV, sleep, weight, hydration, steps, VO2 Max, and more. • Use recovery and sleep trends to judge when to push or ease off. • Keep workout data and health context in one place. Private and Apple-Native • Guidance is designed around on-device processing and secure iCloud sync. • Native experiences on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, with support for light and dark mode. • Share workouts, export logs, and personalize the app with themes and icons. Subscription Options Unlock the full experience with monthly, quarterly, and yearly plans. Manage your subscription anytime through your iTunes Account settings. Learn more: Privacy Policy: https://www.gymhero.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.gymhero.app/terms Website: https://www.gymhero.app/ Gym Hero helps lifters stay consistent with fast logging, better health context, and private in-workout guidance.
LiftDiff
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Simplified gym log. ■ Press. Slide. Logged. Hold the start button and your routines fan out under your thumb. Slide onto the one you came here to do — one thumb, one motion, from anywhere in the app. Favorites sit closest to your thumb, and you can start empty and add exercises as you go. ■ Lift more. Tap less. The set ends, the timer starts, and you put the phone down. Rest runs in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen — never unlock to check it, and never open the app to start the next set. Complete a set from the Lock Screen, or expand for the next exercise, sets left, and time remaining. ■ See where the load landed. Every set you log feeds a per-muscle recovery estimate, drawn on a body map. Not a single "readiness" number — seventeen muscles, each decaying at its own rate. Which muscle is most fatigued is reasonably reliable. How fatigued it is — the absolute number, the percentage — is a rough guide only. Sleep, nutrition, stress and age are not part of this calculation. ■ Week by week, exercise by exercise. See your progress, not just your logs. Every week is diffed against the one before it, and what moved is marked ++ or −. Every exercise keeps its own estimated 1RM, top weight and volume over time, with every set you have ever done under the chart. ■ Friends. Share only a summary of the workout you finished. Friends see that you trained, how long, how many sets, and which muscles — exercise names and weights only if you choose to include them. Your actual records, the sets and the notes, never leave your device. Per-exercise rankings — estimated 1RM, top weight, and sets this week — let you line up against friends who train the same lift. ■ Import anything. Export everything. Bring your history in from anything — another app's export, a spreadsheet, your own notes. Strong and Hevy CSVs import directly. For anything else, the app hands you a prompt that converts it, and RPE becomes RIR on the way in. Take it back out as JSON or CSV, as a file or straight to the clipboard in one tap. RIR, notes and warm-up sets all survive the round trip. It is one SQLite file on your device, with no third-party analytics SDKs. The schemas are public, so anything can read it. Including you. liftdiff.history/v1 · liftdiff.routine/v1 ■ The essentials. ・175 exercises ・RIR & RPE ・Supersets ・Warm-up & drop sets ・Plate calculator ・Rest timer ・Home Screen widgets ・Shareable images ・Per-muscle set counts ・Custom exercises ・Short-version routines ・Favorites ・iCloud sync ・English & 日本語
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LiftDiff at none against Gym Hero's 3. LiftDiff also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Gym Hero's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price and ads 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
Both are free to download. Gym Hero sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. LiftDiff asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gym Hero ships an update every 4 days, LiftDiff daily. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | Gym Hero | LiftDiff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel James Tronca | Yoshiaki Nozaki |
In-app purchases
Gym Hero
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Gym Hero Subscription$6.993 Months
- Gym Hero Subscription7 Days trial$24.991 Year
LiftDiff
No in-app purchases









