What is Lyfta?
Lyfta is a workout tracker and gym planner. You log sets, reps, weight and RPE, pick a program or build your own routines, and watch the charts move. Lyfta says more than 7 million people use it and that they've logged over 600 million lifts between them.
It's free to use, with a Premium tier on top. The app is sold on the App Store by Lindberg Development AS, a company based in Kristiansand, Norway, and it gets updated often: 25 iPhone releases between mid-March and mid-October 2026, and an Android update on October 23.
Key Features
Logging that remembers last time
Sets, reps, weight, RPE and notes, plus warm-up sets, drop sets, failure sets and supersets. Your previous numbers show while you train, rest timers run on their own, and personal records are picked up automatically.
5,000+ exercises with video
The library has more than 5,000 exercises with video demonstrations, searchable by muscle group or equipment. If yours isn't there, you can add it.
Programs
Ready-made plans (Push Pull Legs, Upper/Lower, Full Body and well-known ones like StrongLifts 5x5, nSuns and GZCL, which Lyfta notes it isn't affiliated with) or routines you build yourself and plan weeks ahead with.
Progress and body tracking
Strength and volume charts, weekly and monthly statistics, muscle group insights, and body weight and measurements over time. Premium adds all-time charts, deeper analysis and recaps, and strength standards.
Watches and the web
An Apple Watch app with live tracking, a Wear OS app with Tiles for starting a workout quickly, and widgets on iPhone. There's also a web app, and free browser calculators for one-rep max and strength level on Lyfta's site.
Friends and challenges
Follow training partners, share routines, join monthly challenges and climb global leaderboards. Profiles can be public or private.
What it does with Strava
Lyfta to Strava. Its Google Play listing says you can share completed workouts on Strava, and a 2023 post on Lyfta's site says to switch the connection on from the Strava option in Lyfta's settings. Strava named Lyfta among its new strength integrations on September 15, 2026.
What a Lyfta workout looks like once it reaches Strava isn't documented: Lyfta doesn't say which details are sent, and Strava's strength help article doesn't include Lyfta in its list of partners whose exercise-level data (exercise names, sets, reps, weight and working time) comes through. Nothing describes Strava activities coming back into Lyfta.
Lyfta also lists Apple Health, Health Connect, Garmin and Fitbit among its integrations, and says it doesn't work with Google Fit.
Who It's For
- Lifters who want their gym days on Strava next to their runs and rides
- Program followers who'd rather pick a known plan than write one
- People switching phones or watches, since it covers iPhone, Android, Apple Watch and Wear OS
- Anyone who wants a free log and may never need the paid extras
What it doesn't do
It doesn't spell out what it sends to Strava. Premium programs, all-time progress charts, strength standards and rankings, and the plate calculator and warm-up tools are paid.
How much is Lyfta Premium?
Lyfta doesn't publish one price, since prices vary by country. It offers monthly and annual plans, a lifetime option called Lyfta for Life in some regions, and commonly a 14-day free trial. In the US App Store, the in-app purchases run from $5.99 to $79.99, all labelled Lyfta Premium, without saying which is which.
Does Lyfta track me?
Its App Store privacy label says identifiers and usage data may be used to track you, and its privacy policy names Amplitude and Google Analytics. Health data from Apple Health is read only if you choose to share it, and the policy says Health Connect data isn't used for marketing. The policy is dated July 2024.
