LiftCortex vs SAJL
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, 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.
SAJL
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SAJL — everything you do counts. Strength or padel, gym or court — SAJL is the training log that keeps up. Built for logging between sets, not typing between them. LOG IN SECONDS • Fast weight and reps wheels — zero typing • Your last session on screen: copy it with one tap • Automatic rest timer after every completed set • Timed exercises: plank, jump rope, treadmill — a minutes:seconds wheel YOUR SPORT COUNTS • 13 sports: padel, football, swimming, running, boxing and more • Score, distance, laps, rounds — every sport gets its own details • Every activity feeds the same streak — not just the iron PROGRESS YOU CAN SEE • Private progress photos — visible only to you, safely synced across phones • A before/after slider that shows the change • Ghost-overlay camera so every photo lines up with the last NUMBERS THAT TALK • Weekly volume, strength trends, and projected next records • Week streaks that keep you consistent — with freezes when life happens • A year-long activity heatmap SHOW OFF THE WORK • Premium share cards — your score and streak, or your own photo on them • Sized for Instagram and TikTok stories FOOD THAT COUNTS • Log meals by search, barcode or by hand • Photograph your plate for its calories and macros, approximately • A daily target worked out from your goal, weight and height • Stats that link your protein to your performance • Works with Apple Health Built in Arabic, not translated — right-to-left on every screen, down to the numbers. Fully bilingual. Workout logging, history, routines and stats are free. The food section needs a SAJL Plus subscription: • Monthly — SAR 9.99 per month • Yearly — SAR 59.99 per year • 14-day free trial Prices vary by region. Subscriptions renew automatically for the same period and price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://st-rd.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://st-rd.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: SAJL at none against LiftCortex's shown. LiftCortex's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases 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. LiftCortex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SAJL sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LiftCortex ships an update every 5 days, SAJL fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiftCortex | SAJL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tatzel Labs LLC | Rowad Alhamda |
In-app purchases
LiftCortex
- Remove Ads$4.99
SAJL
- SAJL Plus — Monthly14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- SAJL Plus — Yearly14 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Streak Freeze$0.49








