Lifting vs Beast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lifting
This tool helps calculate your one-rep max and determine the weight needed for your lifts. It also breaks down plate combinations and includes a notes section for tracking maxes and workouts.
- One rep max calculation
- Weight to put on bar calculation
- Plate breakdown for each side
- Notes section for maxes and workouts
- Supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod
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With this calculator you can calculate your one rep max or calculate how much weight to put on the bar using your one rep max. When calculating a percent of your max, Lifting Calculator not only tells you what that percent is, but also breaks it down into how many of each plate you put on one side of the bar. It also comes with a note section for writing down your maxs or writing your workout for the day.
Beast
Log your gym sessions quickly and efficiently with this workout tracker. It allows for easy data import from other apps, offers a rest timer, and provides detailed progress charts for each exercise and muscle group. You can also edit past workouts and add custom exercises.
- Import training data from other apps
- Log sets with one-tap repeat
- Automatic rest timer with notifications
- Extensive exercise library with custom options
- Muscle heat maps for volume tracking
- Progress charts for individual exercises
- Editable workout logs
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Beast is a workout tracker with no account and no subscription. Import years of training from another app, then log your next session in about ten seconds. SWITCH WITHOUT STARTING OVER Most workout trackers make you start at zero. Export your data from the app you use today and Beast reads it. Years of training, thousands of sets. Your PRs, your volume, your charts and your muscle map are all there on day one. LOG A SET IN ONE TAP Beast shows what you lifted last time next to every set. Repeating it? One tap on the checkmark logs it. Going heavier? Type the number and tap. Warm-up, working, drop and failure sets each get their own badge, and warm-ups never disturb your set numbering or steal a personal record. A REST TIMER THAT KEEPS RUNNING Rest starts itself the moment you log a set. Adjust it by 15 seconds, skip it, or leave the app entirely. A notification tells you when rest is up, even with your phone locked. 500+ EXERCISES, PLUS YOUR OWN Browse a library of hundreds of movements with instructions, filtered by muscle and equipment. Anything missing, you add yourself. A custom exercise fills in the muscle map and earns records exactly like a built-in one. SEE EVERY MUSCLE YOU TRAINED Every workout gets a muscle heat map: front and back body maps shaded by how much volume each muscle actually took, with a ranked breakdown underneath. Your profile shows the same map across your entire training history, so a neglected muscle group is impossible to miss. WATCH YOUR LIFTS GO UP Every exercise has its own progress chart: heaviest set, estimated 1RM or total volume, plotted session by session. Personal records are stamped onto the workout that earned them, so you can see the day you hit them. YOUR WHOLE TRAINING LOG, ADDED UP The profile tab is your lifetime numbers: total volume lifted, workouts completed, week-by-week training streaks, an activity grid of every day you trained, and your best set on every lift you have ever done. Tap any day to open that workout. FIX A WORKOUT LATER Logged 225 when you meant 245? Every finished workout is fully editable: title, date, duration, units, notes and every set of every exercise. Correct a weight and the personal record hands itself back to the workout that really earned it. BUILT FOR LIFTERS Barbell, dumbbell, machine, cable or bodyweight. Push-pull-legs, upper-lower, full body, 5x5, or whatever you wrote on the back of an envelope. Beast does not tell you what to train. It keeps an honest record of the work you did.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lifting at none against Beast's shown. Lifting also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lifting against 5.0 for Beast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Lifting ships an update every 10 days, Beast weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lifting | Beast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Isaiah Brandt-Sims | Rishi Masand |
Customer experience
Lifting
Beast
In-app purchases
Lifting
No in-app purchases
Beast
No in-app purchases









