Comparison

LIFTL vs Mark

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

Mark

Log your gym sessions with ease, tracking sets, weights, and notes. Quickly recall past performance for your next workout and build custom routines. Visualize your progress with charts and export your data.

Highlights
  • Log sets, weights, and notes
  • Recall previous lifts and personal records
  • Create and manage unlimited routines
  • Browse workouts on a calendar
  • Export lift history as CSV
  • Customizable themes and modes
Features
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Log workouts like Notes. Find what you lifted last time. Mark-1 is a workout journal for iPhone that keeps your sets, weights and training notes together. Write in your own shorthand or follow a saved routine. WRITE YOUR WORKOUT Type “bench press 185x8,8,7” to record three sets. Mark-1 recognizes supported exercise names, weights and reps and organizes them into your training history. Add a note about how a set felt without leaving your workout. REMEMBER YOUR LAST LIFT Look back at previous weights and reps. Explore exercise history, personal records and progress charts, so you have something concrete to refer to for your next session. FOLLOW A ROUTINE Create unlimited routines for free. Check off completed sets, adjust weights and reps, and reorder exercises to match your session. KEEP YOUR TRAINING TOGETHER Browse past workouts on the calendar. Correct an entry or add a workout you missed. Export your performed lift history as a CSV. MAKE IT YOURS Choose sage, rose or lavender, with light, dark and system modes. MARK-1 PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Core logging, routines, history and charts stay free. Mark-1 Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription ($4.99 per month in the US) that adds training plans built around your schedule and Insights on your lifts. Coaching is in a limited early rollout and is not included for new subscribers yet. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically each month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mk1.energy/privacy Your workout, your words.

Screenshots

LIFTL4 screens
Mark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: LIFTL at every 2 days against Mark's every 5 days. LIFTL also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LIFTL sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Mark sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 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 Mark. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LIFTL has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LIFTL ships an update every 2 days, Mark every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
LIFTL versus Mark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLIFTLMark
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB10 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPhenomical LLCMark-1 Performance LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LIFTL

Subscriptions1
  • LIFTL Pro14 Days trial$2.991 Month
1 purchases

Mark

Subscriptions1
  • Mark-1 Premium$4.991 Month

Questions

Is LIFTL free?
LIFTL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mark free?
Mark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, LIFTL or Mark?
LIFTL and Mark are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do LIFTL or Mark have ads?
Neither LIFTL nor Mark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LIFTL or Mark?
LIFTL ships an update every 2 days, and Mark every 5 days. Most recently, LIFTL was updated on October 22, 2026 and Mark on October 29, 2026.

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