LODE vs Anneal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LODE
This app helps you plan, log, and track your strength training progress. Organize workouts, record every set, and view detailed insights. It offers optional cloud sync and health integrations.
- Workout planning and templates
- Log sets, reps, weight, and rest
- Track progress over time
- Calendar history and workout details
- Exercise progress and training insights
- Optional cloud sync
- Apple Health integration
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LODE is a strength-training and workout-tracking app built to help you plan workouts, log every set, and track progress over time. Create workout templates, organize them into folders, schedule training, browse exercises, and log reps, weight, rest, and notes. View calendar history, workout details, exercise progress, and training insights in one place. LODE also supports optional cloud sync, Apple Health integration, and Apple Watch workouts. A free tier is available. LODE is a fitness tracking tool for general wellness only. It is not medical advice. Exercise carries a risk of injury, so talk to a qualified healthcare professional before starting a new program. LODE Premium unlocks unlimited saved workouts and plans, Insights, exercise progress charts and Apple Watch workout sync. Subscriptions auto-renew monthly or annually unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Service (EULA): https://legal.clad-ventures.com/lode/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://legal.clad-ventures.com/lode/privacy/
Anneal
This strength training app automatically progresses your workouts, explains weight changes, and tracks muscle recovery. It adapts to your readiness using health data and allows for custom program building. Get insights into your progress and future performance.
- Automated workout progression
- Transparent weight and rep explanations
- Muscle recovery tracking
- Readiness adaptation via health data
- Custom program building
- Progress and forecast charts
- Gym profiling
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Anneal is the strength trainer whose engine progresses you, and shows its work. Most workout apps hand you a plan, then go quiet. Anneal keeps progressing you, knows which muscles are still sore, and tells you why a weight moved. EVERY LIFT KNOWS ITS NEXT STEP A deterministic, evidence-based engine (linear, double progression, DUP) sets weight and reps for your program and generated sessions. Loaded lifts you add to any workout progress too. Finish and see next time's targets. IT ADJUSTS WHILE YOU TRAIN Rate a set's effort and that lift's remaining sets adjust: a grinder eases the load, an easy set nudges it up, always within tight bounds. One tap undoes it. LOG IT HOW YOU LIFT Long-press Add set for a drop set, myorep or partial reps. They stay in your history and never change your next prescription. Illustrated demos cover hundreds of lifts. IT KNOWS WHAT'S STILL SORE Every set you log shows on a muscle recovery map: fatigued, recovering, or fresh. After a session, a five second check-in shares its guess. Confirm or correct it, and Anneal learns how fast your muscles recover. Muscle detail shows weekly sets and which lifts counted. IT ADAPTS TO HOW RECOVERED YOU ARE Anneal reads heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and sleep from Apple Health to estimate today's readiness. With Pro, a low score trims load and volume, and a rough day reshapes the session, with before and after shown. This data never leaves your device. NO BLACK BOX, EVER Tap any prescribed set and see the rule that fired and the data behind it. A weekly changelog lists progressions, deloads, and new PRs. SEE WHERE YOU'RE HEADED Progress charts each lift's estimated 1RM and your bodyweight trend. Pro's 8-week forecast runs the same engine forward, with the likely deload week. Set a Goal Lift and see a projected date. BUILD YOUR OWN PROGRAM Pick the days, lifts, and how each progresses. Vary reps over time: lighter to heavier, heavier to lighter, or undulating. Or save a workout as a routine. Free keeps one custom program or routine, Pro is unlimited. Templates are always free, with dumbbell and bodyweight plans for beginners. A QUIET START Your first sessions stay simple: a short workout for your equipment and one goal at a time. More appears as you train. LIFE HAPPENS. ANNEAL PLANS FOR IT. Away mode shrinks your weekly target and quiets notifications. Back after 10 days or more? Weights ramp you back in. YOUR DATA IS YOURS, AND IT COMES WITH YOU Switching from Strong, Hevy or Fitbod? Import their CSV and pick up where you left off. No account needed. Your data stays on your device by default, and CSV export is always free. IT WORKS WITH THE GYM YOU ACTUALLY HAVE Profile any gym with your real plates and dumbbells. A coverage report shows which muscles you can fully train. BUILT AGAINST BURNOUT No daily streak, no guilt copy. Set a weekly target, and rest days count toward it. Trials are 28 to 75 day arcs. Nothing ever resets you to day one. IPAD, APPLE WATCH AND SIRI On iPad, a sidebar and side-by-side columns show your session, recovery, and progress at once. On Apple Watch: your next set, a haptic rest timer, and adjustable reps and weight, free on every plan. Ask Siri to log a set or start your workout. HONEST PRICING Every new install starts with 14 days of full access: every Pro feature, free, no signup, no card. Then choose. Free keeps the full logger, every template, one custom program or routine, live RPE adjustments, 90 days of history, and unlimited export. Pro adds workout generation, readiness adjustments and reshaping, unlimited custom programs, the 8-week forecast, pain and soreness patterns, full history, and optional cloud sync. Monthly, yearly, or once for lifetime. Anneal does not use AI to write your program. It runs published, testable rules, the same every time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sviewstudios.com/anneal/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LODE at 5.0 against Anneal's 1.0. LODE also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). Anneal's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. LODE sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Anneal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LODE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LODE has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LODE ships an update every 4 days, Anneal every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LODE | Anneal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 422 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CLAD Ventures | Joseph Ting |
Customer experience
LODE
Anneal
In-app purchases
LODE
- LODE Premium Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- LODE Premium Annual3 Months trial$14.991 Year
Anneal
- Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$149.99








