Comparison

Workout Cave vs Loadex

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

Head to head
About

Workout Cave

This app provides structured power-based cycling workouts and live performance metrics for cyclists. It connects to bike trainers and sensors via Bluetooth, displaying real-time data and offering customizable training zones.

Highlights
  • Structured interval-based workouts
  • Live speed, cadence, power, and heart rate display
  • FTMS-compatible trainer and sensor connection
  • Customizable power zones based on FTP
  • Accurate wall-clock timing
  • Workout summary with performance data
Features
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Workout Cave is a focused training tool for cyclists who care about power. Connect your bike via Bluetooth and ride structured workouts built around your FTP and power zones, or just spin with live metrics and no plan. Either way, the screen stays clean and the data stays accurate. Structured workouts Follow interval-based workouts with target power zones, interval names, cues, and a large countdown timer. Current zone and target zone are always visible. Skip controls let you move through intervals on your terms. Just Ride mode No structure, no pressure. Live speed, cadence, power, and heart rate — when your heart rate monitor is available — displayed clearly while you pedal. Live Bluetooth metrics Workout Cave connects to FTMS-compatible bike trainers and sensors. Speed, cadence, and power update in real time. Heart rate supported when available. Power zones built around you Set your FTP and Workout Cave calculates your training zones. Target and current zone are shown throughout every structured workout so you always know where you stand. Accurate timing, always Wall-clock timing survives backgrounding and screen lock. Your intervals stay on track even if you switch apps or your screen goes dark. Workout summary Every session ends with a summary of average power and heart rate so you can see exactly how you performed. Your setup, your way Choose mph or kph. Light, dark, or system appearance. Full adaptive layout for iPhone and iPad.

About

Loadex

Track your strength training progress with advanced features like progressive overload, readiness scoring, and detailed insights. Import your history, log workouts efficiently, and access over 800 exercises with instructions. Optimize your training based on your body's readiness and historical data.

Highlights
  • Progressive overload planning
  • Readiness scoring via Apple Health
  • Import from Strong or Hevy
  • Over 800 exercises with instructions
  • Detailed performance insights
  • EPOC-based calorie estimation
  • Workout history and per-exercise records
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Loadex is a clean, high-performance tracker for lifting and running. It manages heavy barbell progression, set logging, GPS runs, and cardio circuits in one unified app with a easy 1 click migration so you never lose your past data from Strong or Hevy. IMPORT YOUR HISTORY Bring your logged training over from Strong or Hevy. Export a CSV and Loadex reads the sessions, sets and exercises, matches them to its own library, and skips duplicates. LOGGING Set, rep and weight entry built for speed. Rest timers keep running through a locked screen. Supersets and circuits, warm-up and plate calculators, and a full history with per-exercise records. RUNNING Record a run from the home screen and follow distance, time and pace as you go. Pause and finish from the lock screen. A finished run has its own page with your splits, route, the intensity it landed in, and your previous best at that distance. Runs are written back to Apple Health. Turn on cardio import and your runs, rides and other cardio from Apple Health join your history, counting toward your calendar, week streak and consistency. A Cardio page in Insights: twelve weeks of training time by intensity with your lifting alongside it, how much of your recent cardio was easy against the published guideline, and best efforts per distance. Training load, monotony and strain read lifting, running and conditioning as one athlete. EXERCISES Over 1,000 exercises with muscle maps and instructions. Create your own with custom equipment, muscles and tracking. AUTO-PROGRESSION Pick a scheme per exercise (Linear, Double Progression, Percentage-Wave, Top Set and Back-off, or Manual). Loadex writes next session's weight and rep targets onto your workout when you finish. The Progression Report shows what advanced, what held, and where a lift has stalled. INSIGHTS A weekly muscle heatmap, sets by body part, weekly volume against published MEV/MAV/MRV ranges, strength trajectory per lift, muscle balance ratios, effective volume by logged RIR, consistency, bodyweight and energy trends. READINESS Connect Apple Health and Loadex reads your sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and respiratory rate, scores each against your own baseline, and flags when today's intensity is worth easing. A one-tap daily check-in works with no wearable. Target adjustments are opt-in and reversible. CALORIES An EPOC-based estimate that accounts for the afterburn of resistance training, written back to Apple Health. CONDITIONING AND STRETCHING A circuit routed around the muscle groups your lifting is about to fatigue, plus stretches for the ones you just trained. Generated before you lift and locked for the session. COACH A weekly or monthly review of your logged training in plain language: new records, what is trending, and what to try next. It names only lifts you have performed. PRIVACY Your training is stored on your device. Health data is read through Apple Health and is never sold. It leaves your device only when you sign in and back up, and there is no automatic cloud sync. FREE AND PRO Free includes 4 workout blueprints, 1 program folder, unlimited history, recorded runs and cardio import, the Linear and Manual schemes, the record side of Insights, and two conditioning blocks a week. Pro removes the blueprint and program limits, adds the Double Progression, Percentage-Wave and Top Set and Back-off schemes with an RIR floor, unlimited conditioning, the Coach review, workload and monotony tracking, recovery correlation and next-session guidance. Loadex Pro is an auto-renewing subscription ($7.99/month or $39.99/year). Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.loadexlift.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.loadexlift.app/privacy

Screenshots

Workout Cave3 screens
Loadex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Workout Cave at none against Loadex's 2. Loadex's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (18 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. Loadex sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Workout Cave asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Workout Cave against 5.0 for Loadex. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Loadex has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workout Cave ships an update every 2 weeks, Loadex every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Workout Cave versus Loadex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkout CaveLoadex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings118 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS1717.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB52 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCassandra WallaceLoadex Lift LLC

In-app purchases

None

Workout Cave

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Loadex

Subscriptions2
  • Loadex Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Loadex Pro Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Workout Cave free?
Workout Cave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Loadex free?
Loadex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Workout Cave or Loadex?
Workout Cave and Loadex are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 18 ratings respectively.
Do Workout Cave or Loadex have ads?
Neither Workout Cave nor Loadex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workout Cave or Loadex?
Workout Cave ships an update every 2 weeks, and Loadex every 3 days. Most recently, Workout Cave was updated on October 7, 2026 and Loadex on October 5, 2026.

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