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LiftSense — Workout Logging App

Common Questions

Do I need an account? No. LiftSense has no sign-in of any kind — everything is stored locally on your device.

Will my data sync to a new phone? Not yet. LiftSense is local-only, so a backup file is your only current safety net — and the App can remind you to make one. See the FAQ for details.

I'm switching from another app — can I bring my history? Yes. Profile → Bring Your History Over imports from Strong, Hevy, FitNotes, or any app that exports a CSV.

Where's the privacy policy? See our Privacy Policy.

User's Guide

How LiftSense fits together

Getting Started

What LiftSense is and how the app is organized

LiftSense is a strength-training workout logger. You organize your training by location and workout, log sets against a 550+ exercise catalog, and review your history and progress over time.

The four tabs

• Locations — your home screen. The gyms and places you train, each with its own workouts.
• History — every set you've logged, grouped by week, with trend arrows against your last session of each exercise.
• Progress — charts and stats across four views: Overview, Muscles, Recovery, and Balance.
• Profile — theme, units, your body weight, backup and restore, the Exercise Library, and this guide.

Locations & Workouts

Organizing where and what you train

Locations are the gyms, home setups, or hotels you train at. Each location holds its own list of workouts — user-named routines like "Push Day" or "Leg Day."

Managing locations

• Tap + to add a location, or restore one you've archived.
• Long-press a location to archive it (hides it from your home screen without losing its history) or, for a location you created yourself, delete it entirely.
• Deleting a custom location lets you choose whether to keep the sets you logged there or erase them along with it.

Inside a location, add workouts the same way — drag to reorder, long-press to rename or delete.

Exercises

Building a workout's exercise list

Open a workout to see its exercises, toggled between My Order (the order you'll do them in) and By Body Part.

Adding exercises

• Tap + to search the exercise catalog by name (fuzzy search handles typos) or browse by body part.
• Select multiple exercises at once to add them all to the workout.
• Don't see what you need? Create a custom exercise right from the same screen, and tag it with the body parts it trains.
• Give it a picture by taking a photo, choosing one from your phone, or borrowing any of the 550+ illustrations that come with the app.

Logging a Workout

Entering sets and using the rest timers

Tap an exercise to open its entry screen. Enter weight and reps for each set — LiftSense shows your previous session's numbers alongside so you can beat them.

Rest timers

Four built-in rest timers start automatically after you log a set, so you always know when to go again.

History

Reviewing what you've logged

The History tab merges every session for an exercise across every workout it's been logged in, grouped by week, with a summary of total workouts, time, weight moved, and your current week streak. Each tab has a search box that matches what that tab lists — workout or location name, exercise name or muscle group, or body part.

Editing a past workout

Tap the pencil icon on a closed workout's card to change its date, time, location, or name after the fact. The sets themselves stay untouched.

Progress

Charts, trends, and personal records

The Progress tab breaks down your training over a chosen time period — today, the last 7 or 30 days, 3 or 6 months, this year, all time, or any two dates you pick — across four views:

• Overview — workout and time stats, a frequency chart, how much weight you moved each month, your top strength gains, a personal-record rail, then any single exercise's best-set trend and PR history, your average workout length, and a breakdown of which routines you actually did.
• Muscles — an anatomical figure shaded by how hard each area has been worked. Drag to turn it around, pinch to zoom, tap any muscle for its numbers. Underneath, a close-up of every muscle in turn with its share of the total.
• Recovery — an estimate of how ready each muscle is to be trained again, worked out from how much you did and how recently, rather than just counting days.
• Balance — whether you're training evenly. Each muscle is compared with its opposite, scored out of 100, with the biggest gaps called out and how many sets would close them.

Profile & Settings

Theme, units, body weight, backup, and the exercise catalog

Open Profile from the bottom tab bar.

Appearance

Choose Light, Dark, or Auto theme.

Units

Switch every weight in the App between pounds and kilograms. It changes what's shown and what you type — nothing you've already logged is altered, so you can switch back at any time.

Body weight

Pull-ups, dips and push-ups move your own body, so without this they count as no weight at all. Tell LiftSense what you weigh and they start counting properly. It's a dated list rather than a single number, so a set from last year is valued at what you weighed then — add a new entry whenever your weight changes, or the App keeps crediting you with the last figure you gave it.

Backup & Restore

Back Up Data writes everything — locations, workouts, exercises, every logged set, your body-weight log, and all your photos — to a single file you can save to iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or anywhere else. Restore Data rebuilds it all on the same phone or a new one. Underneath the button you'll see when you last backed up.

Backup reminders

Remind Me To Back Up nudges you weekly, fortnightly or monthly. The reminder comes from your own phone — LiftSense has no account and no server, so nothing about you is sent anywhere — and it only speaks up when you've logged sets that aren't in a backup yet. A month away from the gym is a month of silence. Your phone asks permission the first time you pick an interval.

Coming from another app

Bring Your History Over imports your training log from whatever you were using before. Pick the app you're leaving and LiftSense tells you where that app keeps its export, then you choose the file it gives you.

• Strong, Hevy and FitNotes are listed by name. Strong and FitNotes export from the phone; Hevy exports from its website rather than the app.
• Any other app works too — choose "Any Other App" and pick its CSV. LiftSense finds the columns by their headings rather than their order, so the file needs only a date, an exercise name, a weight and a rep count, one row per set.
• Importing adds to what you already have rather than replacing it, a backup is saved first so you can undo the whole thing, and importing the same file twice is safe — workouts already in LiftSense are skipped rather than duplicated.
• Exercises are matched to LiftSense's own catalog by name. Anything the importer isn't sure about is listed for you to confirm, with close matches to tap between.

Exercise Library

The full exercise catalog lives here — rename, retag, add a photo to, or delete any exercise, including the built-in ones. Nothing is locked.

Your Data

Local-only storage — no accounts, no cloud

LiftSense has no accounts and no server — everything you log is stored only on your device. That means it's completely private, but it also means nothing is backed up automatically. Use Profile → Back Up Data to save everything to a file and keep a copy somewhere off the phone; without one, uninstalling the App or switching phones will permanently erase your workout history. Turn on Remind Me To Back Up and LiftSense will prompt you when there's something logged that isn't in a backup yet. See our Privacy Policy for full details.

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