Comparison

ControlMyWeight vs Liftstuff

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

Head to head
About

ControlMyWeight

Track your food intake and exercise to achieve your weight goals. This app offers a comprehensive food database, barcode scanning, and progress charts to help you manage weight loss, gain, or maintenance. It supports offline use and detailed nutritional tracking.

Highlights
  • Personalized calorie and workout targets
  • Accurate food database
  • Barcode scanner
  • Progress charts
  • Offline diary for meals and exercise
  • Recipe calorie calculation
  • Nutritional tracking (fat, sugar, protein, etc.)
Features
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Lose weight and get healthy with CalorieKing. Our food & exercise diary is the easiest and most accurate available. We understand that managing your weight isn’t easy. If you lose weight on a diet, you often gain it right back when you stop! Let us use our years of experience to help you achieve your goals! FEATURES: • Know exactly how much you should eat and workout to reach your weight goal. • Powered by America’s most accurate food database. • Barcode scanner • See yourself progress with motivating charts. • Quick and easy to use diary for tracking meals and exercise. Works offline. • See how many calories are in your favorite recipes! • Support for weight loss, weight gain and weight maintenance. • When you've reached your goal weight, your calorie target changes to maintenance level. • Track more than calories and carbs: Fat, sugar, sodium, cholesterol, fiber, protein, calcium and much more. Start a new life today with ControlMyWeight!

About

Liftstuff

Features
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LiftStuff — Workouts, Nutrition & Progress, All in One LiftStuff is the all-in-one fitness tracker for people who want to train hard and eat right — without juggling five different apps. Log your lifts, cardio, and meals in a single daily view, then watch your strength, weight, and habits trend in the right direction. Built to be fast, offline-first, and genuinely useful whether you're a beginner or years into your training. TRACK YOUR TRAINING • Log workouts set-by-set, with your last session's weight and reps shown as placeholders so you always know what to beat • Track cardio sessions and calories burned • Build custom workout plans, or let the plan builder generate one for you from your goals and equipment • Exercise video library so you can check your form on any movement DIAL IN YOUR NUTRITION • Log meals in seconds — or snap a photo and let AI estimate the calories and macros for you • Track calories, protein, carbs, and fat against your daily targets • Intermittent fasting support • Home-screen widget for calories and macros at a glance MEASURE WHAT MATTERS • Log body weight, measurements, and check-ins over time • Progress photos with a side-by-side compare tool • Rich statistics for strength, volume, weight, and nutrition trends STAY CONSISTENT • Set goals and watch your streaks build • Earn achievements as you hit milestones • Reminders so you never forget to log A COMPLETE TOOLKIT Free built-in calculators: macros, TDEE, BMI, body fat, one-rep max, ideal weight, lean body mass, target heart rate, running pace, plate loader, and calories burned. YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE LiftStuff works offline and stores your data on your device, with secure cloud backup so nothing is lost when you switch phones. Start training smarter today — LiftStuff turns every workout and meal into progress you can see. Terms of Use (EULA): https://flapduck.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: https://flapduck.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

ControlMyWeight4 screens
Liftstuff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Liftstuff at none against ControlMyWeight's shown. ControlMyWeight's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. ControlMyWeight sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Liftstuff sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ControlMyWeight ships an update every 6 weeks, Liftstuff monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ControlMyWeight versus Liftstuff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterControlMyWeightLiftstuff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (24K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings24K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB76 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperCalorieKingRune Vestvik

Bugs and requests

ControlMyWeight

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Freezing or crashing issues, especially after iOS updates
  • Login problems and inability to access account
  • Inconsistent or missing nutritional information for some foods

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more exercise options beyond just common activities
  • Ability to track macros, vitamins, and minerals separately
  • Integration with Apple Health or other fitness apps
  • Option to disable automatic exercise calorie deduction
  • Improved barcode scanning and food database coverage

Liftstuff

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ControlMyWeight

Subscriptions3
  • Remove Ads$1.491 Month
  • Remove Ads$3.993 Months
  • Remove Ads$11.991 Year
2 purchases

Liftstuff

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly subscription$4.991 Month
  • Yearly subscription$49.991 Year

Questions

Is ControlMyWeight free?
ControlMyWeight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Liftstuff free?
Liftstuff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ControlMyWeight or Liftstuff have ads?
ControlMyWeight shows ads; Liftstuff does not.
Which is updated more often, ControlMyWeight or Liftstuff?
ControlMyWeight ships an update every 6 weeks, and Liftstuff monthly. Most recently, ControlMyWeight was updated on October 21, 2026 and Liftstuff on October 11, 2026.

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