Comparison

LiftCortex vs 1LIFT

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

1LIFT

Features
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Track your workouts, your meals and your weight in one place — and let Petra make the connections you can't make on your own. PETRA, THE COACH WHO SEES YOUR DATA Photograph your plate, describe it in a sentence, or say it out loud: Petra recognises the food and works out the macros. She also reads your sessions, your sleep and your weight — and puts them together. "You've stalled because your volume doubled while you started sleeping less" is not something a dashboard will ever tell you. TRAINING A logbook that fills in fast: sets, loads, rest, personal records. Programs built around your level and your equipment, supersets and intensification techniques, rest timer. And the statistics that go with it: volume per muscle group, week-after-week progress, personal records and strength curves. NUTRITION Over 10,000 foods, barcode scanning, recipes, meal plans. The values come from the French Ciqual reference and Open Food Facts — not from a database filled in at random. And not just macros: vitamins, minerals and trace elements are tracked too, with your day-by-day coverage. COMMUNITY Nobody grows alone. Post your sessions and your transformations, follow your friends, challenge them on volume, strength or personal records — and chat one to one or in groups. YOUR DATA We don't sell it, we don't use it for advertising, and we embed no tracking tools. Wellness and cycle data are optional and require your explicit consent. You can delete your account from inside the app, in two taps. SUBSCRIPTIONS 1LIFT is free to use. Pro, Premium and Ultime add the verified badge, statistics and app colours — plus a monthly allowance of Petra usage. Tiers and allowances are detailed inside the app. Terms: https://1lift.app/terms Privacy: https://1lift.app/privacy

Screenshots

LiftCortex4 screens
1LIFT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: 1LIFT at none against LiftCortex's shown. LiftCortex's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LiftCortex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and 1LIFT sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LiftCortex ships an update every 5 days, 1LIFT weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LiftCortex versus 1LIFT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiftCortex1LIFT
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB88 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTatzel Labs LLCOscar Wallyn

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LiftCortex

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
6 purchases

1LIFT

Subscriptions6
  • 1LIFT Pro · Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • 1LIFT Premium · Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • 1LIFT Ultime · Monthly7 Days trial$22.991 Month
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  • 1LIFT Pro · Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • 1LIFT Premium · Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • 1LIFT Ultime · Yearly7 Days trial$179.991 Year

Questions

Is LiftCortex free?
LiftCortex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 1LIFT free?
1LIFT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LiftCortex or 1LIFT have ads?
LiftCortex shows ads; 1LIFT does not.
Which is updated more often, LiftCortex or 1LIFT?
LiftCortex ships an update every 5 days, and 1LIFT weekly. Most recently, LiftCortex was updated on October 15, 2026 and 1LIFT on October 20, 2026.

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