Cadence Lift
Log faster. Lift smarter.
A lifting logger built around the three numbers that move when you grow: weight, reps, and time. More weight, more reps, or the same lift in less time. All three are progress. Pick hypertrophy, strength, or conditioning and the app adapts. On-device, no account, no ads.
Free for iPhone, Apple Watch & Android
More weight. More reps. Less time.
Three numbers move when you grow. Cadence Lift makes them impossible to ignore, and the rest timers keep running in the background (a Live Activity on the iPhone Lock Screen, a persistent notification on Android) so dead time doesn't creep back in.
Three taps to a set
Tap the weight, type. Tap reps, type. Tap save. Plate calculator one tap away. Undo five seconds long. Logging stops being the slowest part of your session.
Suggestions that show their work
Every set comes with a suggested weight and reps, plus a label that tells you where the number came from: "from yesterday," a specific date, or "starting estimate." No black box.
Yours, on your device
No sign-up, no account, no telemetry. Your data persists on-device (SwiftData on iPhone, Room on Android), and Apple Health or Health Connect gets your finished workouts only if you opt in.
What's in the app
Designed around the moment you're between sets and need a number, fast.
Predictive set suggestion
Every set comes with a suggested weight and reps, plus a label that tells you where it came from: "from yesterday," "starting estimate," or a specific date.
Pick your split on first launch
Choose a starter routine (Push/Pull/Legs, Upper/Lower, Arnold, PHUL, Bro Split, or Full Body) or start blank. Add exercises ad-hoc mid-workout and they're auto-adopted into your template.
Plate calculator
Tap "Plates" on the weight stepper for a per-side breakdown. Works for any barbell setup.
Personal records, automatic
Heaviest weight, best Epley e1RM, best single-set volume. A trophy badge marks the row that holds each PR.
Progress that matters
GitHub-style 12-week heatmap, tonnage trend, sessions per week, volume by muscle group. Per-exercise weight + e1RM charts.
Share to anywhere
Export any session as Markdown or JSON. Paste into ChatGPT or Claude for analysis, or save it for your own records.
Rest timer that survives backgrounding
A local notification fires when your rest target hits, even with the app closed, on both platforms. On iPhone it also shows as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
Apple Health & Health Connect
Finished sessions write to Apple Health on iPhone (so they show in Fitness rings) or to Health Connect on Android. Body weight syncs both ways. Optional, off by default.
Workout reminders
Per-weekday reminder schedule. Local notifications only. Nothing routes through a server.
Apple Watch & Wear OS companions, included
On Apple Watch: log sets with a Digital Crown weight scrubber, watch the rest timer on Always-On Display, trigger rest detection from your heart rate, and double-tap to log on Series 9+. It installs automatically with the iPhone app. On Wear OS: see your active session, log sets from your wrist, and use heart-rate rest detection, with everything syncing to your phone.
Smart Stack widgets and complications (iPhone & Apple Watch)
On iPhone and Apple Watch, quick-glance status on the Lock Screen and watch face, with a "Repeat last workout" quick-start one tap away on the watch idle screen.
What's intentionally not here
The list of things Cadence Lift will never have is part of the design.
No account
Open the app and start lifting. There is nothing to sign into.
No ads
Not anywhere, ever. Especially not during the active workout flow.
No telemetry
No analytics, no tracking, no profile of your training on our servers. On iPhone, the only automatic server touch is a transient rest-timer update (the Android rest timer is fully on-device); the AI Coach reaches our server only if you ask it, on either platform. We keep no database of your workouts; the privacy policy spells out the short-lived anti-abuse records.
No social feed
Your training is your business. There's no leaderboard, no friends list, no public profile.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need an account?
No. There is no account, no email signup, no login. You install the app and start logging. All of your data lives on your device.
Does it sync to other devices?
Your watch does. A paired Apple Watch (on iPhone) or Wear OS watch (on Android) syncs with your phone in real time: log a set on your wrist and it shows up on the phone, and vice versa, without any account. To move to a new iPhone, turn on iCloud Backup (Settings → Data → iCloud Backup) and restore on the new phone; on Android, JSON export is the manual way to carry your history across. Continuous phone-to-phone sync is still on the roadmap.
What about Apple Health and Health Connect?
Optional on both platforms. If you grant permission, finished workouts write to Apple Health on iPhone (so they show in Fitness rings) or to Health Connect on Android, and body weight syncs both directions. The app works completely without any health-platform access.
Is there a paid tier?
Cadence Lift is free at launch with no ads. If a paid tier ever lands, it would gate things that cost money to deliver (cloud sync, AI weekly review), not core logging. There won't be ads regardless.
What devices does it support?
On Apple devices: iPhone running iOS 18 or later, plus an Apple Watch companion for watchOS 10 or later (covers Series 4 and up) that installs automatically when you install the iPhone app on a paired Apple Watch. On Android: phones running Android 9 or later, with a Wear OS 3+ smartwatch companion.
Your training data is yours
No account, no telemetry, no third-party tracking, no ads. Cadence Lift was built from day one as a single-user, on-device app.
Get Cadence Lift
Free on the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch, and on Google Play for Android.
Questions? Reach us at steve@lightpathapps.com