LIFTL vs TrainReview
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LIFTL
Track your lifting progress with advanced analytics. Monitor workload, recovery, and strength gains with detailed insights and visual representations. Log workouts quickly during training and analyze deep data on a web portal.
- Workload management (acute-to-chronic load)
- Recovery readiness tracking
- Estimated 1RM and strength curves
- Muscle heatmaps and balance checks
- Live set tracking with rest timer
- Workout templates and custom exercises
- Pro web portal for desktop analysis
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You put in the work. LIFTL proves if it's paying off, and where. Anyone can store your sets and reps. LIFTL watches what a good coach watches: how hard you're loading, how well you're recovering, where your strength is heading, and what's quietly falling behind. Then it hands it back to you in plain numbers. Fast to log while you train, deep to dig into when you want answers. Built by a lifter who actually uses it every day. A COACH'S EYE ON YOUR TRAINING • Workload management: Your acute-to-chronic load, the kind of math used in sports science, so you push when you're fresh and ease off before you're running on empty. • Recovery readiness: See which muscles are fresh and which you've been hammering, so your next session lands where it should. • Strength curves: Estimated 1RM tracked week to week, for every lift that matters. • Muscle heatmaps: A full-body picture of where your volume is going. • Balance checks: push/pull/legs and volume-by-muscle make blind spots obvious. • Plus rep-range breakdowns, weekly volume trends, and your full PR history. THE PART NO PHONE-ONLY APP GIVES YOU Your Pro web portal turns months of logs into a real desktop dashboard: strength trends, rep-range analysis, training frequency, and more than ten views of your training most apps never show you. Log on your phone, study it on the big screen. Bring your history over from another app in a couple of clicks, and export everything to CSV whenever you like. Your data stays yours. LOG WITHOUT THE FRICTION • Live set tracking. Tap in sets, reps, and weight as you go, and volume, intensity, and estimated 1RM are worked out for you. • Templates. Build your routines once, load them in seconds. • Quick Start. Skip the template and free-form a session anytime. • Rest timer. Per-exercise rest that auto-starts after each set, with audio cues so you keep your rhythm. • Nearly 500 exercises, across every major muscle group and equipment type, from barbells to bands. • Custom exercises. Don't see your movement? Add it with your own muscle and equipment tags. CELEBRATE EVERY PR Hit a new personal record and LIFTL makes sure you feel it. The work should never go unnoticed, because progress is the whole point. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Logging your workouts is free, for as long as you want. When you're ready for the full analytics suite, subscribe to Pro and your first 14 days are free before any billing. After that it's $2.99 a month, and you can cancel anytime. BUILT DIFFERENT No investors to answer to, and no dark patterns. No fake streaks guilting you back in, no bloat you'll never use. Just a tool made by someone who trains on it consistently, shaped around the way lifting actually feels. Your history is your edge. LIFTL helps you use it. Terms of Use: https://liftl.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://liftl.io/privacy
TrainReview
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TrainReview plans your training, watches what you actually do, and adjusts what comes next — showing its reasoning, with you making the final call. Finish a workout and the app compares every set you logged against what the plan asked for. It reaches a verdict on each exercise — Progress, Repeat, or Reduce — and shows the evidence behind it: your reps, your loads, how much you had left in reserve. Accept a decision and it becomes the target in your upcoming sessions. Nothing changes until you say so. Your first workout review is included, so you see what the app has to say before deciding whether to keep it reviewing. PLAN YOUR WAY Choose the amount of guidance that works for you: • Guided: answer a few questions and get a complete plan. Every goal — New to Training, Strength, Muscle Growth, Weight Loss, and General Fitness — is free to plan. Athlete Premium blends a second and third goal into one program balanced for all of them. • Build It Yourself: begin with a blank slate and take full control of training days, exercises, and progression. • Just Start Training: no plan yet. Pick exercises as you go, log your sets, and every finished workout is kept as a day of your plan. Seal the week, and TrainReview reviews the next one against it. All three paths live together in Your Plans, and every one of them feeds the same review loop. TRAIN WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS Follow today's workout and log your work set by set. Use the built-in rest timer, record left and right sides, run timed holds, skip or substitute exercises, and carry a substitution into the rest of your plan when it makes sense. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Trends built from the work you actually completed, never from a projected curve: working weights, session history, and estimated 1RM over time. Reopen any finished workout to see how it went, and explore exercises with muscle diagrams and clear equipment details. GO FURTHER WITH ATHLETE PREMIUM • Post-workout review grounded in what you actually completed • Next cycle written from what you lifted, with the evidence shown • Adaptive advanced plans • Multi-goal blending: one program balancing up to three goals • Estimated 1RM trends and longer-range analytics Guided plans for every goal, Build It Yourself plan authoring, workout logging, and training history remain available for free. There is no account to create: your training data stays on your device and can sync through your private iCloud account. Plan with intent. Train with focus. Progress from what you actually did. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LIFTL at 15.1 against TrainReview's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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. LIFTL sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and TrainReview sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LIFTL ships an update every 2 days, TrainReview every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LIFTL | TrainReview |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Phenomical LLC | 1532432 B.C. LTD. |
In-app purchases
LIFTL
- LIFTL Pro14 Days trial$2.991 Month
TrainReview
- Athlete Premium$4.991 Month
- Athlete Premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year









