CataLift vs Lido
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CataLift
Easily log complex gym workouts, track progress with detailed charts, and follow structured training programs. Features a large exercise library with form tips and video analysis for technique improvement. Stay motivated with streaks and achievements.
- Distraction-free workout logging
- Structured program builder
- Personal record tracking
- 1350+ exercise library with form tips
- Video recording for form review
- Motivation through streaks and badges
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CataLift is a workout tracker and gym log that turns your training into an RPG. Log your sets, follow your program, track every PR, and watch your cat level up with every workout. Log workouts fast • About 1,100 exercises, with search that knows their other names • Weight, reps, RPE, supersets and drop sets • Rest timer with lock-screen controls, plus a plate calculator • Widgets: this week's workouts and your next workout Programs and progress • Build programs, or import them from CSV, JSON or a spreadsheet • Personal records, progress charts and body-weight tracking • Reads steps, workouts and heart rate from Apple Health (read only) Your cat, your RPG • Every workout earns XP and levels up your cat • 4 stats from real training: Strength, Endurance, Consistency and Volume • 6 classes, set by how you train: Rookie, Powerlifter, Runner, Hybrid, Bodybuilder and Calisthenics • Quest Board: 3 weekly quests built from your own numbers • Monthly Boss: beat your best to take it down, whether you lift, run or train with bodyweight • Trophy Room: over 100 trophies to earn The Climb: join it from your Quest Board. Each run is a fresh roguelike mountain map, and every workout moves your cat one step (up to 4 a week). Pick your route, clear Elites, rest at Campfires, collect relics and face the guardian at the Summit. Missed days never cost you. Earn cosmetic gear for your cat (107 items), unlock classes as you train and level up their mastery, and meet two new villains: the Treadmill Troll and the Battle Rope Basilisk. Train with friends • Feed, friends and direct messages • Friend challenges, including step challenges • Opt-in weekly leaderboards • Open a friend's workout, see their PRs and start it yourself Free to use, Premium optional Logging, programs, PRs, friends and every game feature are free. Premium adds advanced progress analytics (stalled lifts, predicted 1RM, strength standards), form videos and higher limits. Eligible new subscribers can try Premium free for 1 month. Terms of Use (EULA): https://cataliftlegal.netlify.app/eula Privacy Policy: https://cataliftlegal.netlify.app/privacy
Lido
This app provides a hands-free workout timer with spoken cues and alerts, even when the screen is locked. It also features a unique visual log where a toy floats in a pool after each completed workout, with rare gilded toys appearing occasionally.
- Hands-free spoken exercise cues
- Halfway and 5-second alerts
- Workout log with collectible toys
- Untimed checklists with rest clock
- Control Center/Lock Screen integration
- Screen lock and background operation
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Lido is a workout timer with a pool. Build your workout, press play, and put the phone down. Lido speaks — it announces each exercise, calls halfway so you know when to switch sides, and counts down the last five seconds, even with the screen locked. Finish a workout and a toy floats in your pool: a rubber duck, a beach ball, an orca, a flamingo. One toy per workout, a fresh pool every month. It's a workout log you'll actually want to look at — and every so often, a gilded toy turns up. THE TIMER • Timed circuits with spoken cues — hands-free from first exercise to last • Untimed checklists for gym days: sets, reps, and a rest clock • Halfway and five-second alerts, per exercise • Keeps talking with the screen locked or the app in the background SETS • A standalone rest clock for the bench — tap when you rack the bar, lift when it says go • Start it from Control Center or the Lock Screen without opening the app THE POOL • One toy per finished workout, in your workout's color • Monthly pools you can swim back through • Rare gilded toys, if you're lucky SHARE • Send a workout to a friend as a link — it opens in their Lido, ready to add • No account needed on either end EVERYWHERE • Home Screen widgets for your week and your pool • Lock Screen accessories • Night Swim — a dark mode that lights the pool after sundown PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking, no subscription • Everything stays on your phone • Shared workouts travel inside the link itself — no server ever sees them Free. Made by one person and a rubber duck.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lido at none against CataLift's 2. Lido also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). CataLift's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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. CataLift sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Lido asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CataLift against 5.0 for Lido. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
CataLift ships an update weekly, Lido every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CataLift | Lido |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Elias | Brandon Lukas |
In-app purchases
CataLift
- Premium Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Premium Yearly1 Month trial$29.991 Year
Lido
No in-app purchases





