Lifts vs Progress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lifts
Easily create, organize, and track your weight-lifting routines. Record sets, monitor progress with charts, and utilize automatic increments for progressive overload. Supports various weight units for a personalized experience.
- Create custom workout programs and exercises
- Record sets and get rest timer notifications
- Track progress with exercise charts
- Automatic incrementing for progressive overload
- Support for pounds, kilograms, and plates
- View workout history
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Lifts is a free App that allows you to create, organise and track your weight-lifting workout programs in a simple, and clean interface - Use pre-made Strength and Hypertrophy programs - Create custom programs, workouts and exercises - Record sets as you complete them and be notified when its time to start your next one - Use pounds, kilograms or plates to track your weight - Automatic incrementing helps with progressive overload - See your workout history and track your progress - See your numbers go up with exercise progress charts
Progress
This app automates workout progression and provides AI-driven training and nutrition plans. It offers detailed exercise tracking, personalized program generation, and progress visualization. Seamlessly syncs with Apple Watch and Apple Health.
- Automated progressive overload
- AI program and workout builder
- Personalized AI nutrition plans
- Detailed workout logging
- Strength progress charts
- AI coach for advice
- Apple Watch integration
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Progress your way. Progress tracks your workouts, automates your progression, and takes the guesswork out of your training — so you can focus on lifting. WORKOUT TRACKING Log every set, rep, and weight with a clean, distraction-free interface. Built-in rest timers keep you on pace. Exercise notes keep your cues close. ADVANCED TRAINING Automatic progressive overload — set a weight increment per exercise and the app adds it after every successful session. No spreadsheets. No manual tracking. Pyramid sets — assign each set its own weight and rep target. The app sequences through automatically and the plate calculator updates for each set. Supersets — group exercises back-to-back with a live display of what's next so you never lose your place. Plate calculator — built into every exercise. Shows exactly which plates to load, updated for every set. Full exercise customisation — control weight type, sets, reps, rest time, and progression settings per exercise. AI PROGRAM BUILDER Answer a few questions about your goals, experience, available equipment, and any injuries or constraints. The AI builds a complete multi-week training program tailored to you. Not a template. Ask the AI to adjust it if anything isn't right. AI WORKOUT BUILDER Need a single session? Generate a workout built around your goals and equipment in minutes. AI NUTRITION PLANS Tell the AI your goals and dietary preferences — it generates a personalised nutrition plan with calorie targets, macros, and meal guidance. Export it as a PDF to keep on hand. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Every lift you log builds your history. Per-exercise charts show your strength trends over time — weight moved, estimated 1RMs, and personal records in one view. AI COACH Ask the built-in AI coach anything — form tips, program adjustments, recovery advice. It knows your history and gives answers based on your actual data, not generic advice. APPLE WATCH Leave your phone in your bag. Track full workouts from your wrist with heart rate monitoring and a live rest timer. LIVE ACTIVITY & DYNAMIC ISLAND Your rest timer lives in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen — always know when it's time for the next set. iCLOUD SYNC Your workouts, programs, and history sync automatically across your iPhone and Apple Watch. APPLE HEALTH Progress writes your completed workouts to Apple Health, keeping all your fitness data in one place. MAKE IT YOURS Choose from four themes — Forest, Ocean, Bloom, and High Contrast — and set your preferred weight units. Download Progress and start training your way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Progress at 5.0 against Lifts's 4.0. On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Progress holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Lifts ships an update weekly, Progress every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Lifts | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bad Ivy | Ian Farr |
Customer experience
Lifts
Progress
In-app purchases
Lifts
No in-app purchases
Progress
No in-app purchases









