PlanetaryLifts vs Progressive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlanetaryLifts
Track your weightlifting progress with an intuitive logging system. Get help with plate calculations, visualize your gains with charts, and manage muscle balance with targeted suggestions. Your data is securely stored and synced across devices.
- Log lift details
- Plate calculation assistance
- Progress visualization
- Muscle saturation tracking
- Lift suggestions
- iCloud sync
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Planetary Lifts is the best companion for your weightlifting journey! - Log the details of every lift with an intuitive editor - Skip the math on which plates to use - View progress over time in beautiful charts - Keep track of muscle saturation to keep your body in balance - Target underworked muscle groups with lift suggestions - Stored privately in iCloud, synced across all your devices Planetary Lifts is ad-free and subscription free. I hope you enjoy it!
Progressive
This app helps you track your strength training progress with a focus on progressive overload. It allows you to log sets, reps, and weight, visualize trends, and maintain clarity during workouts. Built for consistent, trustworthy progress.
- Progressive overload tracking
- Log sets, reps, and weight
- Exercise history review
- Track top set weight, volume, reps
- Visualize strength trends
- iCloud data sync
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Progressive is a workout tracker designed for progressive overload. Train with focus and keep your progress grounded in real sessions. Progressive helps you stay oriented during training and turn completed effort into clear, per-exercise progress—so you always know where you are and what to improve next. With Progressive, you can: • Stay oriented during training with clear, up-to-date context • Capture sets, reps, and weight naturally as you train • Review complete history for every exercise • Track top set weight, total volume, and total reps separately • Visualize strength trends over weeks and months • Sync your data securely with iCloud Built for lifters who want clarity, consistency, and progress they can trust.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Progressive at 5.0 against PlanetaryLifts's 4.8. Progressive also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). PlanetaryLifts's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
Progressive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PlanetaryLifts ships an update every 3 weeks, Progressive weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlanetaryLifts | Progressive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Schmidt | Vignesh Iyer |
Customer experience
PlanetaryLifts
Progressive
In-app purchases
PlanetaryLifts
No in-app purchases
Progressive
No in-app purchases
