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athlate vs Lyfta
Last updated 15 September 2026
Lyfta is a Norwegian workout app from Lindberg Development AS in Kristiansand, with a very large exercise library, a public API and a coaching product. athlate is a training log built as a spreadsheet, with progression rules you can read in the cell. Here is how they compare.
| Feature | athlate | Lyfta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Logging and the spreadsheet are free. The Rytme subscription is $11.99 a month or $119.99 a year. | Logging, workout plans, the exercise library and expert programs are free. Premium is $9.99 a month, $49 a year or $149 lifetime. |
| Exercise library | 228 exercises. No video. | 7,641 exercises with images and video. |
| Weight and progression | Weight as % of 1RM, % of another exercise's 1RM, last session plus X, last week plus X, RPE, or a formula you write in the cell. Reps as a number, a range, n or more, AMRAP or time. Free. | Sets with weight, reps and RIR, with rep ranges. The program builder we looked at is a flat list of workouts, with no week to week progression and no % of 1RM. |
| Records | Records marked in the set that made them: heaviest weight, heaviest at that rep count, and estimated 1RM. Free. | Gold, silver and bronze records per set, counted on each workout in the feed. |
| Muscle map | Muscle map. Free. | A weekly muscle map and a heatmap of the year. In-depth muscle group analysis is Premium. |
| Import and connections | CSV from Strong, Hevy, JEFIT, StrengthLog, Fitbod and MyFitnessPal, sync from the Hevy API, and Apple Health or Health Connect. All integrations. | Apple Health, Health Connect, Strava and ChatGPT. |
| Watch | No. | Apple Watch and Wear OS. |
| API | No public API. | A personal API key, free, and a read-only MCP server for AI assistants. |
| Coaching | No. | Lyfta Coach: free for coaches, with Stripe payouts where Lyfta takes 3% of each payment. |
| Availability | Not in the App Store or Google Play yet. Join the waitlist. | In the App Store now. |
Where Lyfta is better
- It is out. Lyfta is in the App Store today and says it has millions of users. athlate is still on a waitlist.
- The exercise library is more than thirty times bigger, and every exercise has video. athlate has 228 exercises and no video.
- Apple Watch and Wear OS apps. athlate has neither.
- A public API and an MCP server, so you can read your training from other tools. athlate has no public API.
- A coaching product with payments built in. athlate has no coaching product.
Where athlate is ahead
Where athlate is ahead: progression you write as a rule or formula in the cell, the Excel and PDF export, and imports from six other apps' CSV files.
What we write about Lyfta comes from its own website, help pages and App Store listing, per September 2026. All prices, ours too, are in US dollars as listed in the US store. Your own store shows them in your currency. Apps change quickly. If something here is out of date, tell us at hey@athlate.com and we will fix it.