Comparison

Liftosaur vs Trackload

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

Head to head
About

Liftosaur

This app automates strength training by allowing users to build custom progressive overload programs or use pre-built routines. It tracks workouts, visualizes progress, and automatically adjusts weights and reps based on user-defined logic, making it a smart fitness companion.

Highlights
  • Automated progressive overload
  • Scriptable workout builder (Liftoscript)
  • Pre-built popular lifting programs
  • Workout tracking and progress visualization
  • Rest timers and plate calculator
  • Body weight and measurement tracking
  • Cloud backup and cross-device sync
Features
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Liftosaur is the most customizable weightlifting app and strength training tracker and planner. # Automate Your Strength Training Build your own progressive overload programs or start with proven routines like GZCLP, 5/3/1, or Basic Beginner Routine. Track every workout, visualize your progress, and fully automate your training — all in one smart fitness app. Stop guessing your next weight. Liftosaur automatically increases or decreases your weights and reps based on the logic you define. It allows to implement any possible progressive overload logic, so you can focus on lifting while the app handles the math. Liftosaur introduces Liftoscript — a simple text language for building workouts like code. Define exercises, sets, and logic once right in text, and the app updates it automatically after each session. Example: ``` # Week 1 ## Day 1 Bent Over Row / 2x5, 1x5+ / 95lb / progress: lp(2.5lb) Bench Press / 2x5, 1x5+ / 45lb / progress: lp(2.5lb) Squat / 2x5, 1x5+ / 45lb / progress: lp(5lb) ## Day 2 Chin Up / 2x5, 1x5+ / 0lb / progress: lp(2.5lb) Overhead Press / 2x5, 1x5+ / 45lb / progress: lp(2.5lb) Deadlift / 2x5, 1x5+ / 95lb / progress: lp(5lb) ``` This makes Liftosaur the only scriptable workout app — perfect for lifters who love structure, logic, and data. # Popular Programs Included Liftosaur comes with pre-built lifting programs and templates from the strength community: • All GZCL programs: GZCLP, P-Zero, The Rippler, VHF, VDIP, General Gainz, etc • 5/3/1 and its variations • Basic Beginner Routine from r/Fitness • Strong Curves • And many more! Every program is written in Liftoscript, so you can customize every detail — sets, reps, progression rules, and deloads. # Track Everything Liftosaur isn’t just a gym tracker — it’s your complete workout planner and data companion. • Rest timers & plate calculator • Body weight and measurement tracking • Graphs for exercises and progress over time • Equipment rounding & exercise substitutions • Cloud backup and cross-device sync • Web Editor for faster program creation on desktop # Made for Powerlifters and Beginners Alike Whether you’re starting your first strength program or fine-tuning an advanced powerlifting routine, Liftosaur adapts to your style. It’s a lifting program builder, progress tracker, and gym log app — all working together to make you stronger. Weightlifting is a long game, and if you're serious about lifting, building strength and sculpting your body, Liftosaur would be a great partner in your journey. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Trackload

Features
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Trackload is a barbell tracker. It holds twelve training programs, works out what you lift next, and stays out of the way while you lift it. THE PROGRAMS, WHOLE Twelve programs: linear progressions, upper/lower and push/pull/legs splits, and percentage-driven waves. Each one carries its own percentage table rather than an approximation of it. Where a structure could not be represented faithfully, it was left out instead of guessed at. THE NEXT WEIGHT, ALREADY DECIDED Open the app and the session is laid out: every lift, every set, every weight, rounded to plates you actually own. Six progression schemes run underneath, from straight linear to AMRAP-driven to double progression to percentage waves. When a lift stalls, the app tells you the weight held and why. It does not console you. LOGGING THAT GETS OUT OF THE WAY A set is one tap. Add RPE if you want it, or leave it off. A rest timer runs on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so the phone can go back in your pocket between sets. WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY - Weekly hard sets and tonnage per muscle, with the anatomy map lit by volume - Intensity distribution, so you can see whether your heavy days are actually heavy - Push to pull and quad to hamstring balance - Estimated one-rep max per lift, Epley or Brzycki - Progressive load charts for every exercise WHERE YOUR TRAINING LIVES On your phone, in one file. No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs, no advertising. Optional iCloud backup keeps a copy in your own iCloud so your history survives deleting the app. Optional Health export writes finished sessions as strength training workouts. Both are off until you turn them on, and the app is complete without either. An optional Bluetooth heart rate strap can show live heart rate during a session. It needs a strap; everything else works without one. BUILT FOR ONE THING Barbell strength. No cardio scoring, no recovery index, no readiness number, no streaks to keep. Trackload shows you the number and the rule that produced it, then gets out of the way. Requires iPhone with iOS 18 or later. Free, with no in-app purchases.

Screenshots

Liftosaur4 screens
Trackload4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trackload at none against Liftosaur's 3. Liftosaur's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Liftosaur sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Trackload asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Liftosaur versus Trackload: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiftosaurTrackload
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (436 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings436 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLiftosaur, LLCEnrique Alabort

Bugs and requests

Liftosaur

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App crashes frequently after updates
  • Syncing issues with iPhone Health app
  • App freezes on startup screen, requires reinstallation
  • Changes to program not saving correctly
  • Error when trying to set different warm-ups for different weeks
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  • Cannot change equipment type from cable to barbell
  • Pulls reps and weight from wrong days
  • Newest update crashes the app, prevents program selection/editing

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to use kgs for barbell and lbs for dumbbells
  • More intuitive UI for beginners
  • Improved documentation/organization of ideas

Trackload

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Liftosaur

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Subscription$99.99
None

Trackload

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Liftosaur free?
Liftosaur is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trackload free?
Trackload is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Liftosaur or Trackload have ads?
Neither Liftosaur nor Trackload shows ads.

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