Is Liftoff free?

The direct answer

• Logging is free. You can record workouts in Liftoff without a subscription.
• The ranked features are gated. Liftoff Pro is what unlocks the competitive layer the app is built around.
• Pro costs $12.99 a month, or between $39.99 and $79.99 a year depending on which plan you are offered — the app runs more than one live annual price.
• Liftoff holds 4.83 stars from 89,162 US ratings, so this is a mature, well-liked app either way.
• The honest catch: using Liftoff free means using it as an ordinary logger, and there are ordinary loggers that cost less or nothing.

What you are actually paying for

Liftoff's whole idea is that your lifts get scored and placed against everybody else's. That is not a bolt-on — it is the reason the app exists and the reason people stay in it. So the free tier is best understood as a preview: it will record your training perfectly well, but it withholds the thing that makes Liftoff Liftoff.

This means the value question is unusually clean. If a ranking makes you train harder, Pro is cheap. If it doesn't, you should not be paying $12.99 a month for a logger, and you probably should not be using Liftoff at all — not because it is bad, but because you would be using 40% of an app built around the other 60%.

Be honest with yourself using evidence rather than intention. Have you ever trained harder for more than two weeks because of a leaderboard? If the answer is no, that is your answer.

The free options if you decide against Pro

If you want to log for free and skip the competitive layer entirely, the two obvious routes are a cheap established tracker or a free one.

Hevy is the cheap established route: $2.99 a month or $23.99 a year, with a free tier that allows 4 routines, 7 custom exercises and 3 months of graph history. Strong is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, with a free tier that logs unlimited workouts but caps you at 3 custom routines.

Superset is the free route: unlimited logging, an AI coach that sets your next working weight, a progress dashboard with personal records, 873 exercises with instructions and photos that work offline, and cloud backup — none of which are paywalled. Its one paid feature is voice logging, where you speak the session and the AI writes down the exercises, sets, reps and weights; the first one is free, then it is $3.99 a week, $7.99 a month or $39.99 a year.

Where Superset is the wrong answer. It has no rankings, no leaderboard and no social features of any kind, so it replaces nothing about why you were looking at Liftoff. It is iPhone-only, and it has no App Store ratings yet against Liftoff's 89,162.