Comparison

Persistence Athletics vs Loadex

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

Head to head
About

Persistence Athletics

This app helps you manage your fitness journey by booking classes, following custom workout plans, and tracking your nutrition and progress. It also offers AI coaching to guide your training.

Highlights
  • Class booking
  • Personalized strength & conditioning programs
  • AI coach chat
  • Nutrition logging
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Persistence Athletics is your all-in-one gym companion. Book classes, follow your personalized strength & conditioning program, chat with your AI coach, log nutrition, and track your progress, all in one place

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 workout log for strength training and running, with progressive overload built in. It sets next session's weight and reps from what you logged, suggests today's run, and builds your weekly running around your lifting. IMPORT YOUR HISTORY Bring your logged training over from Strong or Hevy. Export a CSV and Loadex reads the sessions, sets and exercises and matches them to its library. LOGGING Set, rep and weight entry built for speed. Rest timers run on the lock screen. Supersets and circuits, warm-up and plate calculators, and a full history with per-exercise records. RUNNING AND HYBRID TRAINING Record a run from the home screen and follow distance, time and pace as you go. 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. Suggested runs progress around your lifting and keep long runs and hard sessions clear of heavy leg days. Or run your own plan: an easy run, long run, tempo, intervals or strides, counted in your week. Runs, rides, rows, hikes, swims and team sports from Apple Health join your history, recognized by name. A hard run, ride or hike in the 48 hours before a leg day shows on that day's guidance card. A Cardio page in Insights: 12 weeks of training time by intensity beside your lifting, and best efforts per distance. Training load, monotony and strain read lifting, running and conditioning together. EXERCISES Over 1,000 exercises with muscle maps and instructions. Create your own. AUTO-PROGRESSION Pick a scheme per exercise (Linear, Double Progression, Percentage-Wave, Top Set and Back-off, or Manual). Loadex writes next session's 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 hypertrophy ranges (MEV/MAV/MRV), strength trajectory per lift, a squat, bench and deadlift total for powerlifting, effective volume by logged RIR, and bodyweight and energy trends. READINESS Loadex reads sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and respiratory rate from Apple Health, 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 of resistance training's afterburn, 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. COACH A weekly or monthly review of your logged training in plain language: new records, what is trending, and what to try next. 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, two suggested runs a week, Easy and Long custom runs, 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 and suggested runs, Tempo, Intervals and Strides custom runs, 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

Persistence Athletics4 screens
Loadex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Persistence Athletics at none against Loadex's 2. Persistence Athletics also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Loadex's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (18 vs 5). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Persistence Athletics 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 Persistence Athletics against 5.0 for Loadex. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 18 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Persistence Athletics ships an update every 3 months, Loadex every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Persistence Athletics versus Loadex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPersistence AthleticsLoadex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings518 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB58 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTech.FitLoadex Lift LLC

Customer experience

Persistence Athletics

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Loadex

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Persistence Athletics

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Loadex

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

Questions

Is Persistence Athletics free?
Persistence Athletics 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, Persistence Athletics or Loadex?
Persistence Athletics and Loadex are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 18 ratings respectively.
Do Persistence Athletics or Loadex have ads?
Neither Persistence Athletics nor Loadex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Persistence Athletics or Loadex?
Persistence Athletics ships an update every 3 months, and Loadex every 4 days. Most recently, Persistence Athletics was updated on October 31, 2026 and Loadex on November 2, 2026.

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