LiftCal: LiftCal – Track your lifting, analyse your workouts

I originally built this app for myself. I wanted something to help with my gym workouts, not just to calculate calories, but to show which exercises I was struggling with, which ones were going well, and how my training looked over time. About 13 years ago, I wrote a basic C program to calculate calories. Most calorie calculators are designed around cardio and don’t handle weightlifting particularly well, so I built something specifically around resistance training. The result back then was crude and a bit wild, but it worked. Fast forward to 2024. I bought a new Mac, picked up some old coding projects, and decided to rebuild this idea properly. A year later, that became LiftCal, based on those original ideas but far more refined. LiftCal isn’t really a traditional calorie calculator. It’s more of an analyser. It estimates calories for weightlifting sessions, tracks every exercise you perform, and uses that data to highlight what’s working and what needs attention, so you can make better decisions about your training over time. LiftCal soft-launched last year when many features were still in progress, and there is much more to come. The app is priced at just 99p, allowing early users to try it out without a big cost. Cardio tracking and refined analytics are planned for future updates, but the focus has always been on building something genuinely useful for lifters while continuously improving the calculations and insights.