Frequently asked questions

Start a workout from the home screen, then add an exercise for each thing you do. Fill in a set and tap the next one; the workout stays open until you end it yourself.

Strength keeps sets, reps and weight. Run keeps distance, time and pace or speed, and fills in the third whenever you give it two. Timed keeps a single duration, typed or taken from the built-in stopwatch. Interval runs a planned session of work and rest.

Pick one with the row of icons at the top of an opened exercise, and change it whenever you like.

Your own history. Taking a suggestion also brings back that exercise's type and what you did last time, so a returning exercise arrives set up instead of blank.

What you did for that exercise the last time you trained it. It is there to be beaten, and it is never counted as part of this workout.

Hold Save at the bottom of the workout to keep it, or hold Delete to throw it away. Both are holds rather than taps so that neither happens by accident. Settings › Controls › Hold to Confirm sets how long.

Yes. It stays open, including if you close Lifty entirely, and you are offered it again when you come back. Settings › Workouts › Auto-Resume turns that offer off.

Settings › Workouts › Keep Screen On holds the display awake while a workout is open.

Ending a workout can copy a written summary of it to the clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Settings › Workouts › Workout Summary chooses what goes in it and whether it is copied automatically.

A plan built out of blocks — warm-up, work, rest, cool-down — and loops that repeat a group of them a set number of times. Build one on the Intervals screen, then run it as an exercise inside a workout.

Yes, from the editor on the running timer. Your place is kept by block and round, and so is the time already served on the block you are standing on: stretching a rest from 2:00 to 3:00 a minute into it leaves 2:00, not 1:00.

Cutting a loop shorter than the round you are on carries you past the loop rather than starting it again.

Yes. The session carries on, the sounds keep playing, and the Lock Screen shows which step you are on and how long is left.

Turn the phone and it follows. The button on the timer pins it to the orientation you are in, for when you would rather it stayed put.

Settings › Workouts › Interval Settings covers the sounds, the count-in and what the timer shows.

Recording, history, charts, notes and interval sessions are free, with a limit of 1 workout a week.

It is a rolling seven days rather than a calendar week, so a workout stops counting against you seven days after you did it — not on a Monday.

Workouts without the weekly limit, routines, statistics, and photos attached to an exercise.

Tap the This Week card on the home screen. It shows what your training adds up to over a week, a month, a year or all of it: how often, how much, your bests and your streak, with a card you can share.

Time trained only counts workouts recorded since that was added. It is measured from when you were actually doing things in a workout, not from when it was opened to when it was saved, so a workout set up early or left open afterwards does not inflate it.

Settings › Help & About › Restore Purchases, signed in to the Apple Account that bought it — it is also on the Pro screen. A subscription belongs to the account rather than the phone, so a new device restores it rather than buying it again.

Apple handles the subscription, not Lifty: open iOS Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. Cancelling takes nothing away from what you have already recorded.

Yes, through your own private iCloud. Sign in to the same Apple Account with iCloud turned on for Lifty, and your workouts follow you.

Syncing happens in the background and needs both devices online. Opening Lifty on the other one and leaving it a moment is usually all it takes.

Nobody. There is no Lifty account and no Lifty server: everything lives on your device and in the private part of your own iCloud, which only you can read.

It records where a workout happened so it can be shown on a map in that workout's details. Location is only read while a workout is open, it goes no further than your own iCloud, and the whole thing is off unless you turn it on in Settings › Workouts.

That is deliberate. The number you typed is kept and relabelled rather than converted, because converting it would quietly rewrite what you actually lifted. Distances and paces do convert, since those are measured rather than read off a plate.

Settings › Data › Delete All Data. It removes every workout, exercise, routine and interval session, and the deletion syncs to your other devices. There is no undo.

Settings › Controls › Haptics switches off every buzz in the app at once.

Settings › Controls › Celebrate Finished Workouts turns off the confetti and the sound, including the bigger send-off a landmark workout gets — your first, tenth, fiftieth and every hundredth — and the jump to light speed as the last work block of an interval session runs out. The buzz that confirms the save belongs to Haptics, in the same section.

The confetti is also skipped on its own if you have Reduce Motion switched on in iOS Settings › Accessibility › Motion, and the sound follows the phone's ring/silent switch like any other short sound an app makes.

Each one shows once and then retires. Settings › Help & About › Reset Tips brings them all back the next time you open Lifty.

Settings › Help & About › Welcome Tour runs it whenever you like.