On Lifting vs PBSplits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
On Lifting
This private workout log allows users to track strength training progress with a focus on speed and privacy. It offers detailed exercise tracking, routine management, and insightful progress charts, all while keeping data offline and on your device.
- Private, offline workout logging
- Fast logging with smart defaults
- Extensive exercise library with videos
- Customizable routines and set types
- Detailed progression charts and insights
- Apple Watch and widget integration
- CSV export and Apple Health integration
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On Lifting is a fast, private workout log: no account, no ads, no tracking. Most sets take one tap to log, and you can follow your progress in depth. Key Features • Private by default. Your data stays on your device and in your own backups. Logging works fully offline. • Designed for speed: smart defaults and a dedicated keyboard keep logging quick. • Family Sharing included at no extra cost. Free to download, no account needed. Your first 10 workouts are free, and imported workouts don't count. Still not sure On Lifting is right for you? Keep going with a free trial: 3 months on the yearly plan or 1 month on the monthly. Cancel anytime. One subscription covers your family through Family Sharing, and your history, charts and exports are always available whether you subscribe or not. Here's what you get: Workouts & Routines • Find a program for your level and schedule in the program library. Each one explains what it's for, how it works and how to progress. • More than 270 exercises with short, to-the-point how-to videos. • Create your own exercises to complement the built-in library. • Set up routines and programs, and reorganize them as your training evolves. • Group exercises into supersets in your routines and workouts. • Configure different set types: warm-up, drop sets, to-failure, work sets. • Define targets for reps, weight, duration, or intensity per set (great for progressive overload). • Supports Reps in Reserve (RIR) and Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) for tracking intensity. • Flexible rest timers that automatically track rest between sets. Customize by exercise, routine, or both. • Add notes to exercises, routines, and workouts. Track form cues, machine settings, or how a session felt. • Supports imperial (lb) and metric (kg) units. Progression & Insights • Visualize gains with charts that show trends in volume, strength, one rep max, and more. • Pin your core lifts and track their progress over time with detailed charts and personal records. • See which muscles your training covers with a body map and a 12-week heat map. • Set a weekly workout goal and build a streak. • Track progression at the program level: workouts, volume, personal records, and consistency. • Log body measurements like weight and body fat percentage with trend charts. • Browse your workout history with a full calendar. Zoom from month to year to multi-year for a bird's-eye view of your training. Apple Ecosystem • Apple Watch app mirrors your workout, showing the upcoming exercise, current set target, previous set data, rest time, and more. • Follow your workout on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for your streak, workout calendar, heat map and pinned lifts. • Integrates with Apple Health on your iPhone and Apple Watch, including body measurements. Your data, your rules • Privacy first. I don't collect or store any of your data. • Export your workouts to CSV anytime. • Import your history from other popular apps. Imported workouts don't count toward your free limit. • Daily backups to your iCloud Drive or iPhone, easy to restore. This is just the beginning I am a solo self-funded developer with low overhead — no big company or investors here. I am making something I love and use every day, built to respect your privacy. I hope to provide a lot of value, far greater than what I charge, supported by a like-minded audience. As the primary user, I have a long roadmap ahead, and I am committed to keeping the app affordable, clean, fast, and privacy-focused as it grows. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PBSplits
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PBSplits is a free app that finds your fastest split at every standard distance across your run history. Most personal-best tools only know your finish times. If you've never raced a 5K, they think you've never done one. PBSplits looks inside each run and finds the fastest continuous window for every distance on the ladder, so the best 5K you ever ran shows up even if it was the middle 5K of a 12 K training jog. Three tabs, and it opens on the first. Runs is every run in your Health data — pull to refresh, tap any one to open it, even the ones that never hit a standard distance. Trends plots a distance over time, as pace or as finish time, with a year-over-year view to lay this season against the last; it also holds the Power Curve, your season's distance against last year's, and your weekly run streak. Me is your season and all-time totals and the record book: the ladder from 400 m to 100 K, grouped Short / Road / Ultra. Tap any effort and you get the whole run — the route on a map with the record-winning segment highlighted, a mile-by-mile splits table, and pace and elevation charts. Tap a split and its window lights up on the map and across the charts, so you can see exactly where you found the time. Season and all-time crowns mark the efforts that took a podium. Great for: • Runners who want PBs from training, not just races • Tracking progress over a season or a year • Finding the fastest you've ever covered a 5 K, 10 K, half, or marathon • Comparing efforts across short, road, and ultra distances • Anyone whose watch knows more than they do What you get: • Best-effort engine that finds your fastest continuous split at every distance, not whole-run averages • Full distance ladder from 400 m to 100 K, grouped Short / Road / Ultra • Every run, browsable: pull to refresh, and open runs that never hit a standard distance • Trend charts, progression and year-over-year, by pace or by time, pinch to zoom either axis • Mile-by-mile splits: tap a split to highlight its window on the map and the charts • Your watch's own laps and workout intervals, each in their own table • Power Curve: your best pace at every duration, from 30 seconds to your longest run, switchable to heart rate, for a season or your own date range • Weekly run streak, with every run day's distance on a heatmap • Export any run as a GPX or FIT file • Map view per effort, with the winning segment highlighted on the route • Season and all-time crowns on podium efforts • Share cards for a new PB, a podium, or your whole record book • Pick your pace units: min/km or min/mi • PBSplits reads your workouts from Apple Health and never writes to it • Your run data stays on your device Free to download — no subscription, no account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PBSplits at none against On Lifting's 2. PBSplits also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. On Lifting sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. PBSplits asks for nothing beyond the download.
On Lifting ships an update every 3 weeks, PBSplits every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | On Lifting | PBSplits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joy of Dev AB | Cow Cow Technologies LLC |
In-app purchases
On Lifting
- On Lifting - Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- On Lifting - Yearly3 Months trial$14.991 Year
PBSplits
No in-app purchases









