Comparison

LiftCortex vs Awzan

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Awzan

Features
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Awzan is a workout tracker built on a simple belief: your training app should work as hard as you do, and then get out of the way. No streaks to protect. No guilt when you rest. No socials, and absolutely no ads. Just a quiet place to log your training and see it add up. LOG SETS IN SECONDS A workout screen designed for the gym floor — big touch targets, smart defaults from your last session, and a rest flow that doesn't fight you. Supersets included. FOLLOW YOUR SPLIT Pick from proven splits like Push/Pull/Legs or Upper/Lower, or build your own 7-day cycle. Awzan tells you what today is and hand-picks exercises per muscle — or you bring your own saved workout. A LIBRARY THAT COVERS YOUR TRAINING 210 exercises across every muscle group and equipment type, searchable and filterable. YOUR PROGRESS, VISIBLE Every session builds your history: personal records, per-exercise charts, end-of-workout volume comparisons, and a training log you can actually read. APPLE WATCH COMPANION Start a workout on your phone and it opens on your wrist. Log sets from the watch, keep your phone in your pocket. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Awzan works completely offline. Your training lives on your device — no account required, ever. An optional free account adds private cloud backup and sync across devices. No analytics, no advertising, no data sold. That's a promise written into our privacy policy, not marketing. FREE TO TRAIN WITH, FOREVER Full workout tracking, the complete exercise library, splits, templates, history, personal records, export, cloud sync, and the Apple Watch app — all free, with no time limit. Awzan Pro is an optional subscription for those who want the deep analysis: weekly volume, muscle balance, activity heatmap, body-weight trends, estimated 1RM tracking — plus unlimited custom exercises, custom splits, unlimited templates, and favorites. Your training is recorded either way; Pro unlocks the analysis retroactively whenever you subscribe. 7-day free trial, $4.99/month or $29.99/year, cancel anytime. Awzan means "weights" in Arabic. Built by one lifter who wanted a tracker with warmth and restraint — and figured others might too. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://awzan.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

LiftCortex4 screens
Awzan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Awzan at none against LiftCortex's shown. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LiftCortex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Awzan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LiftCortex ships an update every 5 days, Awzan every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
LiftCortex versus Awzan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiftCortexAwzan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTatzel Labs LLCMohammad Tarish

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LiftCortex

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
2 purchases

Awzan

Subscriptions2
  • Awzan Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Awzan Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is LiftCortex free?
LiftCortex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Awzan free?
Awzan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LiftCortex or Awzan have ads?
LiftCortex shows ads; Awzan does not.
Which is updated more often, LiftCortex or Awzan?
LiftCortex ships an update every 5 days, and Awzan every 4 days. Most recently, LiftCortex was updated on October 15, 2026 and Awzan on October 14, 2026.

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