WristSet vs LiftCortex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WristSet
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WristSet is a gym workout and nutrition logger built for Apple Watch and iPhone. Plan your routines, record every set from your wrist, track meals and macros, and see your progress in one place. TRAIN YOUR WAY • Build reusable workout plans or start a quick workout • Log weight, reps, duration, rest, notes, and effort • Organize warm-ups, circuits, and exercise order • Use rest timers and Live Activities to stay on pace BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH • Complete a full workout without holding your phone • Keep plans, sets, timers, heart rate, and calories in sync • Review your summary as soon as the session ends LOG MEALS AND MACROS • Add food manually, describe it, or take a photo for an AI estimate • Track calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat against daily targets • See calorie intake alongside the energy you burn • On supported iPhones, use LiDAR guidance to improve portion estimates SEE YOUR PROGRESS • Explore workout history by session, day, and month • Follow volume, reps, bodyweight, and exercise trends • Sync workouts, heart rate, active energy, weight, and nutrition with Apple Health when you choose • Export a clean workout summary for your notes or AI coach YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE Continue as a guest, or sign in with Apple or Google to sync securely across devices. Health access, camera access, and AI features are always optional. WristSet is free to use. Premium removes ads and unlocks features including editing past workouts and extended multi-week analytics through monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscriptions. A 7-day free trial may be available. Payment is charged to your Apple ID, and subscriptions can be managed or cancelled in App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wristset.app/privacy/
LiftCortex
Track workouts, log macros, and set countdowns for your goals. This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for lifters and athletes, with a focus on customization and privacy. Enjoy all features for free, with an option to remove ads.
- Workout planning and live session logging
- Macro and calorie tracking with extensive food library
- Customizable countdowns for goals
- Apple Watch and Home Screen widgets
- Automatic iCloud backup and restore
- Multilingual support and localization
- Personalized app interface and settings
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The all-in-one app for lifters, athletes, and nutrition trackers. Plan your blocks. Run your sessions. Hit your macros. See your progress add up. Everything you need, none of the fluff. NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO PAYWALL. NO FEATURE GATES. Every feature is unlocked from day one — Apple Watch, widgets, iCloud Backup, the full food library, all of it. Nothing is held back for a paid tier. Ad-supported; a one-time Remove Ads purchase clears them. That's it. SEE WHERE YOU'RE HEADED A Progress tab turns weeks of training into a story you read at a glance: progression bars for every lift, weekly and monthly recaps, your biggest movers, lifetime milestones, and body-weight trend lines that smooth out the daily noise. Keep the metrics that drive you, hide the rest. EVERY WIN, CELEBRATED The app watches for the moments that matter — a personal record, week-after-week consistency, a comeback after time off — and celebrates each at a scale that fits. Progress should feel like progress. WORKOUTS THAT KEEP UP WITH YOU Browse a full exercise library by muscle and build a split with live muscle-coverage as you go. Run live sessions with timing, pause/resume, and quick set check-offs. Log warm-ups, drop sets, rest-pause, failure, and supersets inline. Finish to a review that calls out PRs, rep gains, and pace. The plate calculator handles barbells in pounds or kilos — never math your warm-up sets again. MACROS, DIALED IN Point your camera at a nutrition label and LiftCortex reads the calories and macros for you — entirely on your device, nothing uploaded. Or pull from a built-in library of 2,000+ lifter-focused foods with serving sizes auto-filled. Save a multi-ingredient meal as one entry. Set hard goals or flexible ranges. Reorder which macros lead the hero card — make protein your hero. A FOOD LIBRARY THAT SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Every one of 2,000+ entries is translated and searchable in your native language. Type "chicken," "pollo," or "鸡胸肉" and land on the same item. All on-device, all instant. No account. No internet. AN EVIDENCE GUIDE, NOT A RECOMMENDATION A read-only reference to the published research on 67 supplements lifters ask about. Each entry carries an evidence tier that grades how strong the research is — not how good the supplement is — alongside its actual citations: journal, authors, year. Plenty land on "Emerging / Mixed"; some on "Ineffective / Caution". LiftCortex and its creators don't suggest or endorse taking any supplement. No brands, no shopping links, no affiliates. For educational purposes; not medical advice — consult a doctor or nutritionist before taking anything. COUNTDOWNS FOR MEET DAY, RACE DAY, GAME DAY Countdowns for competition day, cut deadlines, and training milestones — with icons, colors, and optional photos, ticking down on your Home Screen. APPLE WATCH + HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Log sets, check off exercises, and glance at remaining macros — without unlocking your phone. Widgets for macro rings, session start, and countdown days-remaining. BACKUP & RESTORE YOU CAN TRUST Automatic iCloud Backup. Restore on a new device in seconds. Merge or replace when importing into existing data. Your data, your call. WORLDWIDE-READY Translated by native speakers into 12 languages: English, Mandarin (Simplified), Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Urdu, Indonesian, and German. Exercise names and form cues read in each language's own gym vocabulary — the words lifters actually say, not literal translations. Native right-to-left layouts for Arabic and Urdu. MAKE IT YOURS Reorder features. Hide what you don't use. Pounds or kilos. Accent colors, high-contrast modes, app icon variants. The app bends to your training, not the other way around. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Workouts, macros, countdowns, settings — all stored locally unless you opt into iCloud Backup. No account required. No tracking. No telemetry. Your training stays yours. Built for the lifter who shows up. Train with focus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LiftCortex at every 5 days against WristSet's every 2 weeks. LiftCortex also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. WristSet sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and LiftCortex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WristSet ships an update every 2 weeks, LiftCortex every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WristSet | LiftCortex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kam To Cheng | Tatzel Labs LLC |
In-app purchases
WristSet
- Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Remove Ads Yearly7 Days trial$44.991 Year
LiftCortex
- Remove Ads$4.99









