Comparison

Lyfta vs STYX

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

Head to head
About

Lyfta

This app helps you track your gym workouts, build custom routines, and monitor your strength progress. It offers a vast exercise library with video guides and social features to connect with friends. Enhance your training with advanced insights and expert programs through an optional premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Log sets, reps, weight, RPE, and notes
  • Organize supersets, warm-ups, and drop sets
  • Automatic rest timers between sets
  • Create custom exercises and routines
  • Explore 5,000+ exercises with video demonstrations
  • Track personal records and strength graphs
  • Connect with friends and share workouts
Features
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Join over 5 million gym-goers getting stronger with Lyfta. Track your workouts and create unlimited routines for free, with no ads. See your progress, challenge yourself and make every session count. LOG EVERY SET. MAKE EVERY WORKOUT COUNT. See your previous weights and reps while you train. Record each set without losing focus, then use your workout history to guide what comes next. • Track sets, reps, weight, RPE and notes • Log weight lifting workouts with barbells, dumbbells or machines • Organize supersets, warm-ups, drop sets and failure sets • Stay on track between sets with automatic rest timers • Add custom exercises to match the way you train YOUR WORKOUT PLAN, READY WHEN YOU ARE Walk into the gym knowing what to do. Choose a ready-made program or build your own gym workout routine around your goals, schedule and equipment. Follow a push pull legs routine, organize an upper/lower split or create a full body workout plan. Customize exercises, sets and reps, then return to your saved routine for your next session. TRAIN WITH CONFIDENCE Explore 5,000+ exercises with video demonstrations and search by muscle group or equipment. Build your bodybuilding routine or find an alternative exercise when equipment is busy, so you can keep your workout moving. SEE YOUR HARD WORK ADD UP Track personal records and see how your weights, reps and training volume change over time. Compare sessions, explore strength graphs and check your estimated one-rep max. Make progressive overload easier to follow: use your previous performance as a starting point and work toward another rep, a little more weight or your next personal best. NEW TO STRENGTH TRAINING? Start with a beginner-friendly gym routine and learn each movement with exercise videos. Keep your workouts organized and track your progress as you get more comfortable lifting. Training at home? Create dumbbell workouts or bodyweight sessions around the equipment you have. MORE REASONS TO KEEP SHOWING UP Follow friends, share workouts and celebrate personal records together. Monthly challenges, streaks and milestones help you stay connected to your training. Choose a public or private profile to control what you share. CONNECT YOUR TRAINING Log workouts with Apple Watch, sync with Apple Health and share completed sessions to Strava. Access your training faster with widgets and shortcuts. GO FURTHER WITH LYFTA PREMIUM • Train smarter with advanced workout insights • See your all-time progress • Follow expert workout programs Download Lyfta and start building on your progress, one workout at a time. Lyfta offers optional Premium subscriptions that renew automatically unless canceled. Prices are shown before purchase. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.lyfta.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.lyfta.app/terms

About

STYX

This app helps users break free from adult content consumption cycles. It provides tools for identifying triggers, managing urges, and preventing relapses through a structured method and community support.

Highlights
  • Identify risk triggers
  • Reduce exposure to triggering content
  • Focus mode for urge management
  • Content filter to prevent relapses
  • Anonymous community support
  • Structured method for lasting change
Features
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STYX - the app you've been waiting for to break free from adult content and take back control of your life It always follows the same pattern. A trigger sets it off. The urge builds. You give in. Then come the guilt and the shame, and it starts over. Without a system, getting out of it for good is hard. STYX is built to break that cycle step by step, with tools that are simple and concrete. Why people use STYX: 1. STYX SEES IT COMING Risky moments aren't random. Tired, bored, stressed, alone - those are patterns. STYX helps you spot them early, so you can take control before things get away from you. 2. STYX CUTS OFF YOUR TRIGGERS What you scroll past, what you see, what keeps you stimulated all day - it all feeds straight into your behavior. STYX cuts your exposure to hypersexualized feeds and to everything that fuels the urge, so relapses get less likely. 3. STYX HELPS YOU RIDE OUT THE URGE When the urge hits, thinking straight gets hard, and that's when people give in. Focus Mode cuts the distractions, locks out the triggers and keeps you steady through the moments that count. 4. STYX MAKES YOUR PROGRESS STICK When you're one tap away from relapsing, STYX is on your side. The filter blocks explicit websites outright, so one bad night doesn't cost you everything you've built. Change your habits for good and take back control of your life. 5. YOU'RE NOT DOING THIS ALONE The STYX community is anonymous. Share what you're going through, learn from people further along, and move forward with everyone else taking their life back. Because staying the course is a lot easier when you're not on your own. One app, one complete method: STYX is the only method that brings all of it together: seeing the urge coming, shutting down the triggers, getting through the craving, blocking access when you're at risk, and the support to keep going. Each piece leads into the next, so the whole thing pulls you out of the relapse cycle. The goal: help you take back control of what you consume, so you get your time and your energy back and put them into what actually matters to you. TAKE BACK CONTROL, STARTING NOW. DOWNLOAD STYX. Terms of Use: https://www.styx-app.com/conditions-generales Privacy Policy: https://www.styx-app.com/politique-confidentialite

Screenshots

Lyfta4 screens
STYX4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lyfta at 4.8 against STYX's 4.2. Lyfta also leads on ratings volume (7.2K vs 17) and chart position (#62 vs unranked). STYX's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, monetization model 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. Lyfta sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. STYX asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lyfta holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lyfta has 7.2K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Lyfta's written reviews are positive against 88% of STYX's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lyfta ships an update weekly, STYX every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Lyfta versus STYX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLyftaSTYX
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (7.2K ratings) — better4.2 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews84.8% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7.2K — better17
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#62 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size141 MB126 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperLindberg Development ASSTYX APP LLC

Customer experience

Lyfta

All ratings7,188 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews665 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral4.5%
Negative10.7%

STYX

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Bugs and requests

Lyfta

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Workouts not resetting properly after completion
  • Leg workout tracking not working as expected
  • Delayed or unresponsive set timer notifications

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more advanced analytics and data visualization
  • Improve Apple Watch connectivity and standalone usage
  • Allow more customization of the user interface
  • Expand the exercise library with more niche movements

STYX

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Lyfta

Subscriptions10
  • Lyfta Premium$5.991 Month
  • Lyfta Premium$11.491 Month
  • Lyfta Premium$12.991 Month
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  • Lyfta Premium$17.991 Year
  • Lyfta Premium$29.991 Year
  • Lyfta Premium$49.991 Year
  • Lyfta Premium14 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Lyfta Premium1 Month trial$59.991 Year
  • Lyfta Premium14 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Lyfta Premium14 Days trial$79.991 Year
None

STYX

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lyfta free?
Lyfta is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is STYX free?
STYX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lyfta or STYX?
Lyfta is rated higher. Lyfta averages 4.8 out of 5 from 7.2K ratings, while STYX averages 4.2 from 17 ratings.
Do Lyfta or STYX have ads?
Lyfta shows ads; STYX does not.
Which is updated more often, Lyfta or STYX?
Lyfta ships an update weekly, and STYX every 2 weeks. Most recently, Lyfta was updated on October 31, 2026 and STYX on October 31, 2026.

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