Comparison

Everyday Lift vs Plato

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

Head to head
About

Everyday Lift

This strength training app automatically builds your workout schedule from imported programs. Log sets on your iPhone or Apple Watch, track progress with automatic calculations, and access built-in training plans. Enjoy a seamless gym experience with features like live activity and exercise swapping.

Highlights
  • Import programs from CSV/Google Sheets
  • Automatic workout schedule generation
  • Log sets on iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Automatic rest timers and wrist buzzes
  • Track compound lifts and estimated 1RM
  • Includes 4 built-in training programs
  • Live Activity for lock screen and Dynamic Island
Features
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Everyday lift is a strength training app built around your program — whether that's one you designed, got from a coach, or found online. Import it from a CSV file or Google Sheets link and the app builds your full schedule automatically: workout days, exercises, sets, reps, tempo, rest times. From there, just train. Logging: Log sets on your iPhone or Apple Watch. The Watch UI is built for the gym — Digital Crown for weight, tap for reps, rest timer starts automatically after each set and buzzes your wrist when time's up. Everything syncs back to your phone. Progress: Your key compound lifts are tracked week over week with simple charts. Weight progression and estimated 1-rep max (Epley formula) are calculated automatically from your logs. Built-in programs: If you don't have a program yet, there are four included: PPL 6-Day PPL 3-Day Upper/Lower 4-Day Bro Split 5-Day Each includes periodization structure, tempo prescriptions, and technique notes. Other things worth knowing Live Activity shows your current exercise, set count, and rest timer on the lock screen and Dynamic Island You can swap any exercise mid-workout without modifying your program One-time purchase — logging, importing, Watch sync, and progress charts are all included, no subscription

About

Plato

This app helps you quickly log your weightlifting sets and plan your weekly training. It offers a clean interface with no account required to start, and displays your active workout on your Lock Screen. Track your progress with detailed history and charts.

Highlights
  • Fast workout logging with custom keypad
  • Built-in timers for exercises and rest
  • Workout planning and weekly scheduling
  • Progress tracking with charts and history
  • Live Activity for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
  • No account required to start
  • Customizable themes and accent colors
Features
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Free. No ads. No pop-ups. No paywalls. No BS. Plato is a workout tracker for lifting and cardio, and that's all it is. Open it, log your sets, see your progress, get back to training. Nothing will ever pop up asking you to rate the app, upgrade, start a trial or turn on notifications. Not on your first workout, not on your five hundredth. WHAT YOU WON'T FIND • Ads • Rate-us prompts, upgrade screens or "come back" nags • Notifications. Plato doesn't send any • Subscriptions or in-app purchases. Every feature is free • Tracking. Your workouts are never sold or used for ads • A sign-up wall. The whole app works without an account LOG LIFTS FAST • 600 built-in exercises — barbell staples, machines, cables, bands, calisthenics, sports and neck work — each with a guide to doing it right, and one tap to find a video demo • A keypad built for the gym: enter weight and reps, then jump to the next field in one tap • Copy your previous set in one tap • Built-in timers for planks, dead hangs and other timed sets • An optional rest timer between sets, from 30 seconds to 5 minutes • Works with no signal: log a whole session in a dead zone and it syncs when you're back online TRAIN SMARTER • Every lift shows your best set, your estimated one-rep max and a chart of where it's heading • A muscle map of what you've hit this week, and what you've skipped • Streaks, total volume, sets and time on the Stats tab • Your fastest mile, 5K and 10K, and your distance week by week • Full workout history, a tap away CARDIO • Runs, walks, hikes, rides, swims, rows, ellipticals and stair sessions • On Apple Watch: live heart rate and calories, plus distance and pace on runs, walks, hikes, rides and swims, and mile or kilometer splits on runs, walks, hikes and rides • No watch? Runs, walks and hikes get their distance, pace and splits from your iPhone's step counter • Sessions your watch tracks save to Apple Health, so they count toward your rings APPLE WATCH • Log the workout in progress from your wrist: the next set's weight and reps are ready, the Digital Crown adjusts them, and one tap logs it • The rest countdown, right on your wrist • Start a template from the watch • Put Plato on your watch face LIVE ACTIVITY • Your workout lives on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a running clock, your set count and the rest countdown START WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT • No sign-up, no email, nothing to fill in • Everything stays on your phone until you decide otherwise • Create an account later and everything you've logged comes with you PLAN YOUR TRAINING • Reusable workout templates, started in one tap • A weekly split: a template for each day, already picked when you tap Start workout • Plan workouts ahead on the calendar BODY WEIGHT • Log weigh-ins and watch the trend • Pull-ups, dips and other bodyweight moves count at what you weighed that day, so a new weigh-in never rewrites what you've already lifted • Pounds or kilos, your call MAKE IT YOURS • Light or dark, or follow your phone • Seven accent colors, and your home screen icon changes to match YOUR DATA • Sign in with Apple, Google or email to sync across devices • Delete your account and all your data anytime, right from the app Plato is for training. Everything else got cut.

Screenshots

Everyday Lift3 screens
Plato4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Plato at 15.1 against Everyday Lift's 26.2. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Everyday Lift against 5.0 for Plato. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Everyday Lift versus Plato: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEveryday LiftPlato
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.215.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid FuerstFull Stach LLC

In-app purchases

None

Everyday Lift

No in-app purchases

None

Plato

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Everyday Lift free?
Everyday Lift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plato free?
Plato is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Everyday Lift or Plato?
Everyday Lift and Plato are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Everyday Lift or Plato have ads?
Neither Everyday Lift nor Plato shows ads.

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