LiftCortex vs GymLog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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. Plan your blocks. Run your sessions. Hit your macros. Drink enough. Log the cardio. Watch it all add up. 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, and there are no ads. If LiftCortex earns a place in your training, you can spot the dev with a one-time purchase that rings a brass bell on every PR. That's it. SEE WHERE YOU'RE HEADED Progression bars for every lift, weekly and monthly recaps, your biggest movers, lifetime milestones, and body-weight trends that smooth out the daily noise. PRs, week-after-week consistency and comebacks are each noticed and celebrated at a scale that fits. 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 scan a barcode: with your OK, only the number goes to Open Food Facts. 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. WATER AND CARDIO, IN THE SAME LOG Save the vessels you drink from — one tap logs the name and the amount, and your daily goal follows your bodyweight and what you trained. Run, ride, row or walk with a stopwatch that keeps ticking on the Lock Screen. Both land in the same history and weekly totals as your lifting. REMINDERS AT YOUR OWN TIMES Opt-in nudges around when you actually eat and train — learned from your own log, weekly program or Push/Pull/Legs rotation included, or set by you. They stay quiet once you've logged, and they're scheduled on your phone. AN EVIDENCE GUIDE, NOT A RECOMMENDATION A read-only reference to the published research on 69 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, water, session start and countdowns. BACKUP & RESTORE YOU CAN TRUST Automatic iCloud Backup, restored on a new device in seconds. Merge or replace when importing. WORLDWIDE-READY 12 languages, the 2,000+ foods included: type "chicken," "pollo" or "鸡胸肉" and land on the same item, all on-device. Exercise names and form cues use each language's own gym vocabulary — the words lifters actually say. 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. Pick a finish and the app is made of something: Flat, Matte, Forged, Anodized, Carbon or Heavy Forged. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Workouts, macros, water, cardio, countdowns — all stored locally unless you opt into iCloud Backup. No account required. No tracking. No telemetry. Your training stays yours.
GymLog
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记录训练,本该很简单。 GymLog 是一款专注于「简单记录训练」的健身日志 App。 没有复杂的功能,没有干扰的信息, 只为帮助你专注记录每一次训练,并清晰地看到自己的进步。 ——— 【核心功能】 ■ 训练记录 动作由你命名,不必从庞大的动作库中寻找, 快速记录每次训练的组数、重量和次数, 界面简洁克制,遵循系统级设计语言, 交互自然流畅,让记录成为一件轻松的事。 ■ 训练分享 一键生成训练卡片,清晰展示训练内容, 方便分享到朋友圈或与朋友交流训练成果。 ■ 心率数据 在获得授权后,App 可读取训练时间内的心率数据, 自动展示本次训练的最大心率,帮助你更好了解训练强度。 ■ 训练地点记录 可记录每次训练的地点,并在地图中查看历史训练足迹。 ——— 【设计理念】 希望打造一款: 不复杂、不打扰、但足够好用的训练记录工具。 界面遵循系统级设计语言, 保持简洁、自然与克制, 尽可能减少训练过程中的操作和干扰。 你只需要专注训练, 剩下的,交给 GymLog。 ——— 【隐私说明】 • 心率数据来自 Apple Health,仅用于训练展示 • 不会上传或分享任何健康数据 • 定位信息仅在记录训练时使用,不进行后台追踪 ——— 开始记录你的每一次训练, 看见进步的发生。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: LiftCortex at 3 against GymLog's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. LiftCortex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GymLog sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LiftCortex ships an update every 5 days, GymLog every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | LiftCortex | GymLog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tatzel Labs LLC | 宏策 麻 |
In-app purchases
LiftCortex
- Remove Ads$4.99
GymLog
- GymLog 完整版$2.99









