Tabatach vs Lift Assist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tabatach
Create and manage personalized interval training routines for various fitness activities like HIIT, Tabata, and Crossfit. Utilize distinct whistle sounds and text-to-speech for clear workout guidance, allowing you to focus on your exercise.
- Customizable work and rest intervals
- Personalized workout creation
- Distinct whistle sounds for cues
- Text-to-speech for exercise names
- Pause and restart sessions
- Visual screen flashes
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TABATACH Timer is an easy to use app for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). It helps you to do Tabata, Crossfit, Kettlebell, Running, Yoga, Cycling or any interval fitness training. Define your workout intervals (work, rest, cycles ) and create unique, personalized workouts. TABATACH is loaded with different types of Whistle Sounds that help identify what part of a workout you are in, interval beeps for example tell you when a new interval has started. It will help you focus on your workout and forget about the time. • Simple and intuitive interface • Distinguishable different types of whistle sounds • The text to speech option will read out exercise names • Customize work time • Customize rest time • Adjust the number of cycles to match your pace • Easy to check the information of Exercises • Restart session where you left off if interrupted • Mute sound • Screen flashes for visual cue • Jump between intervals in the middle of a workout as needed • Pause your workouts if needed • Create your own sets and workouts + WHAT’S HIIT + High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is an enhanced form of interval training, an exercise strategy alternating periods of short intense anaerobic exercise with less-intense recovery periods. HIIT is a form of cardiovascular exercise. Usual HIIT sessions may vary from 4–30 minutes. These short, intense workouts provide improved athletic capacity and condition, improved glucose metabolism, and improved fat burning. This definition comes from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_training) where you can find a lot more informations. It explains some very popular program, like the TABATA. HIIT is also a common practice in Crossfit trainings. Thank you for using TABATACH. Please reach out to tabatach@saltycrackers.net with any issues or suggestions. ** Stay tuned, TABATACH is getting better!
Lift Assist
This app provides a flexible training log for weightlifting, along with tools like a rest timer and calculators for warm-ups and estimating 1RMs. Track progress with detailed charts and easily scale your workouts. Ideal for various lifting disciplines.
- Flexible training log
- Rest timer
- 1RM estimation
- Warm-up generation
- Progress charts
- Cloud storage
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Lift Assist is a user-friendly weight lifting app that combines a flexible training log with some handy tools, such as a rest timer and calculators for generating warm-ups and estimating 1RMs. Whether you're into Olympic lifting, powerlifting, bodybuilding or simply love lifting weights, Lift Assist can help you get the most out of your workouts. FEATURES – Fast and flexible training log – Scale work sets – Generate warm-ups on the fly – Estimate 1RMs – Forecast future milestones – Rest timer with interval or stopwatch operation – Charts for PRs, volume and progress timelines – Metric and imperial units – Share sheet for exporting top sets – Cloud storage – Light and dark modes TRAINING LOG Lift Assist has been designed with speed and flexibility in mind. There’s no need to waste time creating a user account or building and maintaining complex workout plans. Simply add a folder for the lift you wish to track and start logging immediately. (Hint: Hit the Repeat button to record sets across in a flash.) Want to dig deeper? For each set, you can add a category (e.g. warm-up or back-off) and a Rate of Perceived Effort (RPE). For each record, you can add notes and a URL (e.g. a link to a video). There are even options to include an estimated 1RM and bodyweight ratio calculated from your top set. (Hint: Long-press the + button to quickly select a category for the set.) CHARTS The Progress chart provides a sleek timeline of progress made for each lift. This chart emphasises the trend over time. Reviewing the last three months? You’ll see your heaviest lifts for each week. Reviewing the last year? You’ll see your heaviest lift for each month. Reviewing the last five years? The trend will still be clear. Sometimes you can get a better picture of your progress by comparing estimated 1RMs. You can do that too. This is great when following programs that vary rep ranges and intensities over long periods of time. The Heaviest chart displays PRs for the selected timeframe, either as logged sets or estimated 1RMs. The Volume chart displays the volume of each lift for the selected timeframe, either by reps or weight. This can provide valuable insight when assessing your workout program. CALCULATORS The principal calculator provides a convenient way to scale an input weight by a selected percentage, increment/decrement by small plates and round the output to a selected value. This is ideal for calculating top sets based on previous PRs, but it’s also great for calculating back-off sets and de-loads on the fly. Once you’ve calculated your top set, it’s a cinch to produce a list of warm-ups by selecting from a list of common percentages. Lift Assist displays the weight increments between each warm-up set to help you optimise your routine for your condition on the day. Want to get really precise? You can enter your own custom percentages, too. (Hint: Can’t find any small plates? Swipe the warm-up rows to round up or down to the nearest 5 kg / 10 lb.) The 1RM calculator contains seven different formulas, rounding options and will even provide an estimated body weight ratio if provided with a body weight. (Hint: You can use the output of the 1RM calculator to scale weights based on an estimated 1RM, which is great for programs such as 5/3/1.) The Milestone Calculator helps you to plan for your next PR. Input the number of expected increments between two dates, and it will show you the expected weight you’ll be lifting. Enter in your target weight, and it will display the approximate date of your next PR attempt. REST TIMER Lift Assist’s rest timer helps you time and count rests between lifts. You can use this as an interval timer or stopwatch, or switch between the two. Ever lost count of which set you were on? Let the rest timer keep you on track. FEEDBACK For support and feedback, drop us a line at feedback@freshtake.design. And don’t hesitate to send any requests for new features – this is only version 1.0!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lift Assist at 5.0 against Tabatach's 4.1. Lift Assist also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months). Tabatach's advantage is ratings volume (54 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Tabatach costs $1.99 and Lift Assist $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lift Assist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tabatach has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Tabatach's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lift Assist's.
Tabatach ships an update every 6 months, Lift Assist every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tabatach | Lift Assist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (54 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EUIHYUNG JUNG | Fresh Take |
Customer experience
Tabatach
Lift Assist
Bugs and requests
Tabatach
Reported bugs
25 issues- Feedback button not working
- Music starts playing again after being muted
- App skipping exercises during a workout
- Timer freezes
- Audio won't play unless headphones are in
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- App doesn't always play in the background
- App 'spazzes out' when returning from another app
- Pausing app immediately pauses music
- App freezes when a text message is received
- Scrolling functionality not working on older iPhones
- DJ feature not working
- Test speaker not working
- App crashes on launch
- Workout DJ spelling error ('WOKROUT')
- Workout DJ not working on iPhone 4s
- Cannot reach settings below text-to-speech on smaller screens
- Cannot add more than 5 workouts or 3 exercises due to button placement on smaller screens
- Sound stopped working entirely
- App not filling screen on newer iPhones
- Music stops when workout is paused
- App not accessible with VoiceOver
- Scrolling down not working on iOS 7
- Cannot delete workouts easily
- App not running in background when screen is locked
- Robot voice pronunciation of 'cycle'
Requested features
36 requests- Sharing workouts with friends
- Repeating complete workout sets/circuits
- Adding workout motivation songs/rhythms
- Differentiating between music and countdown/announcement sounds
- Specifying number of times to run entire circuit
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- Setting rest time to zero
- Folders for organizing programs
- Adding rounds as exercises are added
- Adding information about exercises
- Watch version (Apple Watch)
- Adding rest between each movement
- Repetition mode (mix of reps and timing)
- Rearranging workouts
- Adding a donate feature
- Total workout time display
- Chinese language support (speech and fonts)
- Apple Watch app with haptic feedback
- Cloud backup/sync for workouts
- Copy and paste intervals for repeated cycles
- Skipping announcement for single cycle
- Ability to change music mid-workout
- Ability to move to next set/exercise without canceling
- Clap at the end of workout
- Log workouts
- Add weight for resistance training
- See workout duration while customizing
- Dark mode
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Ability to look at routine while doing it
- Skipping an exercise or going back during a routine
- Subdividing exercise time
- Context for exercises/sets left
- Integration with Spotify/Play Music
- Modifying existing workouts to create new ones
- Login with Facebook
- Adding a log feature
Lift Assist
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tabatach
No in-app purchases
Lift Assist
No in-app purchases
Questions
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