Comparison

LIFTL vs Show Up

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Show Up

This AI-powered fitness app provides personalized workout plans, nutrition guidance, and daily check-ins. It adapts to your schedule and recovery, offering real-time adjustments and motivation through chat.

Highlights
  • AI Coach chat for motivation and adjustments
  • Smart, adaptive workout plans
  • Daily readiness check-ins
  • Personalized nutrition and meal planning
  • Progress tracking and PR logging
  • Daily accountability score
Features
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Show Up plans your training, logs every set and coaches you on what you actually lift. Everything you log is yours, and it stays free. FREE, FOR GOOD • Log every workout, on the plan we build you or your own • Every lift, PR and workout you log, and your whole story • Your streak, with a freeze every month and a sick pause • Your Show Up Score and what's behind it • Log sets from your lock screen, even with no signal • Video demos for 312 exercises and guides for all 630 • Food logging with a barcode scanner, 140+ recipes and a meal planner • Crews, cheers and challenges with your friends • Import your history from other apps, and export yours any time • No ads SEE YOUR PLAN FIRST Answer 8 quick questions and see your plan before you make an account. After your first workout, Pro is yours for 14 days. No card, nothing to cancel. PRO, IF YOU WANT MORE • A coach without the daily limit (free accounts get 3 chats a day) • Where you're heading: your next PR on every lift, your goal-weight date, and where you'll be in 3, 6 and 12 months • Why a lift stalled, and the one change to make • Your coach's read on every week and month • Each lift's chart over time, and Replay Stop Pro any time and keep everything you logged. Questions? email: support@showup.run The best workout is the one you actually do. Show Up. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

LIFTL4 screens
Show Up4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LIFTL at none against Show Up's shown. LIFTL also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Show Up's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LIFTL sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Show Up sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LIFTL against 5.0 for Show Up. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LIFTL ships an update every 2 days, Show Up every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
LIFTL versus Show Up: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLIFTLShow Up
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB95 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPhenomical LLCALEXANDER REED RODGERS

Customer experience

LIFTL

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Show Up

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LIFTL

Subscriptions1
  • LIFTL Pro14 Days trial$2.991 Month
2 purchases

Show Up

Subscriptions2
  • Show Up Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Show Up Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is LIFTL free?
LIFTL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Show Up free?
Show Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LIFTL or Show Up?
LIFTL and Show Up are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do LIFTL or Show Up have ads?
Show Up shows ads; LIFTL does not.
Which is updated more often, LIFTL or Show Up?
LIFTL ships an update every 2 days, and Show Up every 5 days. Most recently, LIFTL was updated on October 31, 2026 and Show Up on November 5, 2026.

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