SimpleLifts vs Braced

Log your lifts. Track your runs. Sync your devices. SimpleLifts is a privacy-first gym and run tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch — with no account, no ads, and no servers. Built for people who want a clean, fast workout log without giving up control of their data. WHAT YOU CAN DO • One-tap set logging — weight, reps, perceived effort, all from the watch or phone • Apple Watch companion — start a workout from your wrist, with live heart rate and calories captured through HealthKit • Outdoor runs — GPS route, pace, distance, and elevation, alongside your lifts in the same app • Indoor runs — log treadmill sessions by distance, speed, and time • Templates and programs — save your routines, build multi-day splits, run them in sequence • Exercise library — hundreds of bundled exercises with images, plus your own custom ones • Apple Health integration — completed workouts save to Apple Health and contribute to your Activity rings • Widgets and complications — see your last workout and weekly volume at a glance on your home screen and Watch face • Share extension — paste a workout from any app (Notes, Messages, the web) and SimpleLifts parses it into structured sets PRIVACY BY DEFAULT SimpleLifts has no backend server. Your workouts live on your device and — if you choose — sync to your other devices through your own iCloud account, never through us. We don't collect personal information, we don't run analytics, and we don't sell data. • No account or sign-up required • No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions • No analytics SDKs or tracking • Location used only during outdoor runs (when in use, never in the background) • Optional Notion sync — connect a Notion database to mirror workouts there if you keep a training journal in Notion ICLOUD SYNC Your lifts, templates, history, and exercise library sync between your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch via Apple's CloudKit framework. It's the same mechanism Notes and Reminders use — your data never touches a SimpleLifts server, because there is no SimpleLifts server. APPLE WATCH The Watch app is a fully native watchOS companion. Start a workout from your wrist, log sets via the digital crown or on-screen buttons, capture heart rate and active energy through HealthKit, and review your last session — all without your phone nearby. Outdoor runs use the Watch's built-in GPS. ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE Where SimpleLifts uses AI — for example, parsing a workout you share into the app from another source — it runs on Apple's on-device Foundation Models framework. No workout text is ever sent to a cloud AI service. (Requires iOS 26 or later on a device with Apple Intelligence enabled.) FREE, FOREVER SimpleLifts is free. There are no ads, no in-app purchases, and no premium tiers. If you'd like to support development, the best way is to leave a review and tell a friend. QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? Email azeltzdev@gmail.com — we read everything.

Braced is one app for your strength training and your cardio. If you lift and run, you can stop switching between two apps. It’s free and works offline. Your workouts stay private until you decide to share them. AT THE GYM - Log weight and reps set by set, or time and distance when an exercise needs them. Last time’s numbers are right there. - Mark warm-up and drop sets so they stay out of your working numbers. - There’s a rest timer between sets. You can follow it on the Lock Screen and tick off sets there too. - Start from your own template, one of Braced’s or an empty workout. - The exercise library explains each movement and the muscles it works. Missing one? Add your own. - On a Garmin watch, your templates are on your wrist, and the workouts you finish there are saved in Braced. RUNS, WALKS, HIKES AND RIDES - Record them with GPS and follow your distance, pace and splits on a live map. Voice feedback and auto-pause are there if you want them. - Your run stays on the Lock Screen while you record. - Afterwards you get the route, your splits and your best efforts. - Import runs and rides from your watch through Apple Health, route and heart rate included. YOUR PROGRESS - See your history as a list or on a calendar. - Statistics show your volume by muscle and by equipment, your personal records and how each lift is going. - After every workout, a recap shows the muscles you trained and how it went compared with last time. - The Cardio tab shows your distance and time by week and month. Pro adds pace trends, race predictions and this year against last. - Every month, Braced Rewind sums up your training as a short story. BODY MEASUREMENTS - Log your weight, body fat and tape measurements like waist, chest and arms. Braced works out your BMI from your height, and Pro adds charts and goals. - Braced can read your weight, body fat and waist from Apple Health. It never writes anything to it. AI ANALYSIS (PRO) - AI reads your recent training and tells you what’s going well, what to watch and what to try next. It only uses what you’ve logged, and it isn’t medical advice. FRIENDS - Follow people, see their workouts in a feed, like and comment, and post your own. - Add a photo or a video of up to 15 seconds to a workout. - Share your profile or a template with a QR code or a link. - Your profile can be public, private or hidden, and you choose who sees each workout. - People who can see your runs see their maps too, with the first and last 200 m hidden. You can hide more, add private areas around home or work, or keep a map to yourself. ALSO IN BRACED - Dark mode and 11 languages. - Sign in with Apple, Google or email. - Coming from Hevy or Strong? Import your workouts, and your measurements from Hevy or openScale. You can export a backup or a spreadsheet at any time. BRACED PRO Braced is free for logging, GPS recording, up to 3 personal templates, personal exercises, history, calendar, and a workout-frequency overview. Pro adds unlimited personal templates, the full Braced template catalog, advanced statistics including cardio trends and race predictions, body measurement charts and goals, and AI analysis. Pro is an auto-renewing subscription available monthly or annually; the annual plan includes a 7-day free trial that becomes a paid subscription unless cancelled before it ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Questions or feedback: support@getbraced.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getbraced.app/privacy