WEIGHTLIFTING APP COMPARISONS
Best Weightlifting + Cardio Apps of 2026
For people who are serious about both.
Disclosure: WeightliftingApps.com is owned by LivinDreamLife LLC, developer of eFitLog.
Plenty of people lift weights and do cardio.
The problem is that many fitness apps are really built around one or the other. Weightlifting apps are great at tracking strength. Running and cardio apps are great at tracking endurance.
But what if you care about both?
We took some great workout apps — eFitLog, Fitbod, JEFIT, and Hevy — and asked a simple question:
What happens when you throw cardio into the conversation?
Well, here's what we found.
Quick Comparison
| App | Cardio | Cardio Progress | Wearable Integration | Best Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| eFitLog Our Pick | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Serious about strength AND cardio |
| Fitbod | ✓ | Limited | Limited | Cardio programmed with workouts |
| JEFIT | ✓ | Limited | ✓ | Broad workout tracking + cardio |
| Hevy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Primarily lift, but also do cardio |
BEST OVERALL
eFitLog — Best Overall for Strength + Cardio
Some people lift and occasionally do cardio.
Others train both.
eFitLog is built for the second group.
On the strength side, eFitLog gives you dedicated workout logging, routines, planning, lift history, progress tracking, PRs, and strength analytics. For the broader strength-only comparison, see our Best Weightlifting Apps of 2026.
And cardio gets its own place too.
Cardio Central lets you record cardio sessions such as running, walking, cycling, rowing, hiking, and more. Cardio Progress then lets you follow those sessions, statistics, and performance over time.
Wearable Data That Actually Becomes Useful
Compatible wearable integration takes it further.
When the data is available, eFitLog can use information from Apple Health or Android Health Connect to enrich cardio sessions with things like heart rate, distance, calories, pace, and speed — and turn that data into useful analysis such as heart-rate graphs, average and maximum heart rate, mile splits, fastest mile, and best 5K.
Your wearable collects the data. eFitLog makes it useful.
More importantly, cardio doesn't have to live inside your lifting workout.
Strength has its place.
Cardio has its place.
Your progress in both stays together.
Our Take
eFitLog didn't add cardio to the workout. It added cardio to the platform.
If you're serious about strength and cardio and don't want multiple apps to understand your training, eFitLog offers the best overall experience we found.
🏆 Best Weightlifting + Cardio App of 2026
Fitbod — Cardio in the Program
Fitbod approaches cardio through its workout-programming system. If programming is the priority, we compare that approach more directly in our Best Workout Apps for Following a Strength Program in 2026.
Depending on your goals and preferences, Fitbod can incorporate cardio into the workouts it generates, including placing cardio before or after strength training.
That's useful if you want the app helping decide where cardio fits into your program.
The cardio experience itself isn't nearly as developed as the strength-programming side, but that's not really what Fitbod is trying to be.
Our Take
Fitbod programs cardio.
It's a good fit for someone who wants cardio incorporated into automatically generated workouts rather than a dedicated cardio training and progress system.
JEFIT — Cardio in a Broader Workout System
JEFIT supports cardio alongside its large collection of strength exercises and workouts.
You can record cardio activities and keep them alongside the rest of your training. JEFIT also offers wearable functionality through supported Apple Watch and Wear OS devices, although the experience and available data don't necessarily translate equally across every wearable.
It's a capable way to keep different kinds of exercise inside the same broad workout system.
What it doesn't provide is the same dedicated cardio experience we found in eFitLog.
Our Take
JEFIT supports and logs cardio.
If you want a broad workout platform that can accommodate cardio along with a large variety of other training, JEFIT handles it.
Hevy — For Lifters Who Also Do Cardio
Hevy does more with cardio than you might initially expect.
During our testing, cardio wasn't front and center. We started an empty workout, searched for Walking, and added it just like another exercise.
Once you find it, there's useful functionality behind it.
Hevy can track cardio information including time, distance, and pace. It also keeps cardio exercise history and statistics such as best pace, longest distance, and longest time. Supported wearable integrations add even more information.
So Hevy certainly isn't ignoring cardio.
Hevy added cardio to the workout.
And that can work very well if you're primarily a lifter who also wants to record cardio.
Our Take
If lifting is your primary focus and you want cardio to come along for the ride, Hevy gives you plenty to work with.
But if cardio matters as much to you as lifting, there's a difference between adding cardio to your workout and giving cardio its own place in your training.
What We Found
The differences turned out to be pretty simple.
All four can handle cardio.
But there's a big difference between being able to record cardio and building an app around someone who is genuinely trying to progress at both strength and cardio.
If You're Serious About Both
Maybe you lift four days a week and run three.
Maybe you strength train and cycle.
Maybe you lift and hike.
Maybe walking is an important part of your cardiovascular training.
Maybe you're simply trying to become stronger and improve your cardiovascular fitness.
You shouldn't necessarily need one app for your lifting, another for your cardio, and a wearable app sitting somewhere in between.
That's where eFitLog stood out in this comparison.
It doesn't make cardio compete with strength for attention.
Both matter.
Both have somewhere to live. Both can be tracked. Both can produce useful progress information.
OUR 2026 PICK
🏆 eFitLog
Best Weightlifting + Cardio App of 2026
Best for: People serious about both strength training and cardio who want one place to track and understand their training.
One athlete. One training platform. Strength and cardio.