Cornerstone Strength vs Liftspan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cornerstone Strength
This app helps users track workouts, build strength, and gain muscle with custom programs and advanced analytics. It offers detailed logging for exercises, progress tracking, and a large exercise library.
- Custom workout program creation
- Advanced training algorithm
- Detailed workout logging (weight, reps, RPE, RIR)
- Progress charts and analytics
- Extensive exercise library
- Personal record detection
- Workout sharing
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STOP GUESSING. TRAIN WITH CONFIDENCE. Cornerstone Strength helps you know what to do next, and understand why. Every set you log becomes useful context: what the plan called for, how you performed, how hard it felt, and how your training is trending. Cornerstone turns that context into clear guidance while keeping you in control. KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT Get your next weight, sets, and reps suggested right on the workout screen. Smart Suggestions use your recent performance, logged effort (RPE/RIR), time between sessions, and program targets. Every suggestion includes a plain-language reason. Apply it with one tap, adjust it, or keep your plan. It is a starting point, not a rule. EVERY WORKOUT HAS A PURPOSE Choose from programs written by real strength coaches using proven periodization for strength, hypertrophy, athleticism, or a mix. Enter your numbers and train, customize a program, or build your own from scratch. Percentage-based programs calculate working weights from your training maxes automatically, so the plan is ready when you are. SEE THE TREND BEFORE THE NEXT PR Understand whether the work is working: - Estimated 1RM (e1RM) trends - Training volume by muscle group - Weekly volume and muscle-balance insights - Personal-record history and automatic PR detection - Workout consistency and streaks - Month, 3-month, year, and all-time views LOG WITHOUT LOSING YOUR FLOW - Weight, reps, RPE, RIR, and AMRAP support - Previous performance beside today’s set - Structured program sessions or quick workouts - Background rest timer with audio and vibration alerts - Exercise swaps, notes, and duration tracking - Band tracking for accommodating resistance - Apple Health workout sync 500+ EXERCISES Find movements for a commercial gym, garage gym, or anywhere in between. Browse by muscle group or equipment, including barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, machines, cables, bodyweight, trap bars, specialty bars, and more. SHARE THE WORK Turn a completed workout into a clean card with PRs, top lifts, and muscle-group balance. Share it to Instagram Stories, save it to Photos, or send it to a training partner. START WITH 30 DAYS OF PRO- FREE Every new account gets 30 days of Cornerstone Pro with every program, Smart Suggestions, and full analytics unlocked. No credit card required. When the 30 days end, keep logging free forever or subscribe to keep Pro. BUILT FOR LIFTERS - Dark and light themes - Fast, focused interface - No ads Cornerstone does more than remember what you lifted. It helps the next training decision feel clear. --- Privacy Policy: https://cornerstonestrength.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscription details: - Cornerstone Pro Monthly: $7.99/month - Cornerstone Pro Annual: $49.99/year Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase.
Liftspan
This app creates personalized strength training plans that adapt to your joint pain and physical limitations. It can import existing workout routines, track your progress, and offer alternative exercises to protect your body. Stay motivated with streaks and share your progress with friends.
- Personalized workout plans based on joint pain
- Import and adapt existing workout routines
- Real-time session adjustments based on how you feel
- Timer for holds with Lock Screen and Dynamic Island support
- Train in various environments with different equipment
- Streak tracking for showing up, not just lifting
- Share progress with a streak partner
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Strength training that works around your joints. Most lifting apps hand everyone the same plan and hope your shoulder agrees. Liftspan asks what hurts first. Tell it about a cranky shoulder, a bad knee or a sore lower back and it builds every session around them, tells you exactly what to lift, and moves the weight when you've earned it. Snap your program. Got a program from a coach, a book or the whiteboard at your gym? Take a photo. Liftspan reads every line, matches every move, keeps your sets and reps, swaps anything that loads a joint you told it about, and coaches you through it. Your first import is free. Chosen around your body. Every movement in the library carries a joint and lower-back rating. Tell it your shoulder or your back is a problem and those lifts stop being offered, replaced with a named alternative that trains the same muscle. Load jumps get halved. Blocks deload sooner. And the joint filtering is free. (It's not medical advice; see below.) Tell it how you feel. Type "shoulder's cranky and I slept badly" and today's session reshapes: overhead work swaps out, a set comes off, the load eases. Just for today. Time your holds. Planks and carries count up, turn green at your target and keep going so you can beat it. The timer shows on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on Apple Watch. Train wherever you are. Full gym, home gym, hotel, bodyweight, dumbbells only, bands only. 267 movements, including machines, cables, landmine work and carries. Switch mid-week and every weight you've worked up to carries across. A streak for showing up, not just lifting. Log a walk, a bike ride, yoga, or "something else" and your flame stays lit; lifting days count on their own. Bank a full training week and you earn a freeze that covers a missed day. The Liftspan widget puts it on your Home Screen. Turn on reminders and you get a Monday heads-up, a nudge when your week is about to slip, and a 10 am reminder on days you haven't logged yet. Keep it with a friend. Invite a streak partner and keep a shared streak together. They see whether you logged today, your flame, and the streak you've built as a pair. Never your weights or your history. Proof you're actually getting stronger. Estimated 1RM on every lift, every all-time best recorded the moment you hit it, and your weekly hard sets measured against what the science says. Save your workout card straight to Photos when you want to share it. Bring your history. Already on Strong or Hevy? Import your CSV and your sessions and working weights come across, never above what you've actually lifted. It exports right back out too. Free to start. Free forever: log every workout, a starting plan that works around the joints you tell it about, the daily streak and one streak partner, the streak widget, badges and levels, your training synced to every device, and full export. No ads, no session limits, nothing ever deleted. Pro is the coach in full: the daily check-in, progression that keeps moving the weight, building your own program, unlimited swaps and the whole library, every training environment, the hold timer, reminders, Apple Health sync, the rest timer in your Dynamic Island and on Apple Watch, and the progress screen. Try Pro free for 7 days. Lifting, for the long haul. Not medical advice. If something hurts, stop, and talk to your doctor before starting a training program. Liftspan Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. - Monthly: $4.99/month - Annual: $29.99/year - Includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms: https://liftspan.fit/terms Privacy: https://liftspan.fit/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Liftspan at freemium against Cornerstone Strength's subscription. Liftspan also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). Cornerstone Strength's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Cornerstone Strength sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Liftspan sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cornerstone Strength against 5.0 for Liftspan. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cornerstone Strength has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cornerstone Strength ships an update every 3 weeks, Liftspan every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Cornerstone Strength | Liftspan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | K&G Apps | Dave Newman |
Customer experience
Cornerstone Strength
Liftspan
In-app purchases
Cornerstone Strength
- Monthly Subscription$7.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$49.991 Year
Liftspan
- Liftspan Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Liftspan Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- 1 Streak Freeze$0.99
- 1 Program Import$0.99
- 5 Streak Freezes$2.99
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- 5 Program Imports$2.99









