LiftBar vs Mark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiftBar
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LiftBar is a workout-tracking app that gives you the most simple user experience possible. It has no Ai-coach, social-feed or any other feature that distracts you from just logging your workouts and moving on with your day. It’s also completely free and has no ads. LiftBar’s core features are logging workouts, viewing your exercise progression, and making templates. A more comprehensive list: Auto-Fill (my personal favorite): Fill every set in your workout with your previous values, plus whatever amount you enter. Exercise Tracking: Track your exercise progression with a graph, or view the best set from each workout under the "Top Sets" header. Failure Marking: Mark any set as a failure set. Workout Clock: Keep track of how long your workout has been. Workout Cards: Every logged workout gets its own card in the History tab. Open it to view the workout or save it as a template. Template Creation: Create templates so you don't have to add the same exercises every time. Workout Logging: Start a workout from a template or create one from scratch.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LiftBar at none against Mark's 1. Mark's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Mark sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. LiftBar asks for nothing beyond the download.
LiftBar ships an update every 10 days, Mark every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiftBar | Mark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ghassem Taeb | Mark-1 Performance LLC |
In-app purchases
LiftBar
No in-app purchases
Mark
- Mark-1 Premium$4.991 Month









