Your data is yours.

Every set, program and message you put into POWALIFTA leaves with you in one click, as files any app can open. Here's what we keep, who sees it, and how to take it or delete it.

What we keep

  • Training. Every set you log (date, lift, weight, reps, RPE, notes), your weigh-ins, goals and meets.
  • Programs. The block you're on, every block before it, and a coach's templates.
  • Coaching. Check-ins, session notes, messages and form-check videos.
  • Apple Health (in the iPhone app from its next update, and only once you turn it on). Weigh-ins you bring in from Health become ordinary weigh-ins, which your coach sees. Your sleep, resting heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) come to us only if you switch on Share with your coach, and your daily calories and protein only under the separate Share food with your coach; both are off by default, and only you and your current coach see what they send. Turn a switch off, turn Apple Health off, or leave your coach, and what it sent is deleted straight away. Everything else read from Health stays on your phone, unless you send last night's sleep as an answer to your coach's check-in question. The privacy policy's Apple Health section has the detail.
  • Your account. Name and email, plus the photo, country, bio and Instagram or TikTok handles if you add them.

No ad trackers, no location tracking, and never a card number: payments are handled by Apple or Lemon Squeezy. The iPhone app removes a form-check video's location tag before it uploads; a clip sent from a web browser goes as your camera saved it. The full detail is in the privacy policy.

Who sees it

You
All of it, always.
Your coach
Your training, program, check-ins and notes, while you're on their roster. Leave, and they stop seeing those. The messages you've sent each other stay in both your inboxes, like any conversation.
Your club
The numbers on the club boards. Never your program, your log, your messages or your email.
Everyone
Only what you choose to publish: a place on the leaderboard, or a coach's public profile.
Us
Only what it takes to run POWALIFTA. We don't sell data and there are no ads.

Take everything with you

  1. Open Your data.On your phone: You → Your data. On a laptop: Settings → Your data. Coaches on the desk can also press ⌘K and type “export”.
  2. Download everything.One zip of CSV files. Coaches get every lifter's, with the lifter's name on each row.
  3. Open it anywhere.Any spreadsheet app opens the files. Weights are in kilograms. everything.json holds the same data in one file, for moving to another app.

What's in the zip:

  • training-log.csv
  • program.csv
  • past-blocks.csv
  • check-ins.csv
  • session-notes.csv
  • messages.csv
  • bodyweight.csv
  • meets.csv
  • goals.csv
  • health.csv
  • everything.json

A coach's zip has every lifter's program in programs.csv, plus athletes.csv, templates.csv and their private notes. A file only appears when there's something in it.

Export works on every plan, free included, and keeps working if a paid plan ends. Form-check videos stay in the app; the zip lists each one with its reply.

Bring your history in

Years of training come with you. Coaches choose Import history: on a laptop from a lifter's page or ⌘K, on the phone under You → Your data. Paste the rows or pick a CSV, then choose whose history it is.

  • One row per set works best: the date, the exercise, the weight and reps, and RPE if you have it.
  • CSV exports from the popular training apps work as they are. So does a written log (“2 Mar 2026 · Squat 180x5 @8”) and a past block written like a program.
  • You see what will come in before anything is saved: the sets it read, the rows it skipped and why, the dates it covers, and the PRs it makes.
  • Import the same file twice and nothing is added twice. Picked the wrong unit? Press Undo, or open the same file again and remove what it brought in, then import it the right way.

The sets count like any other: estimated maxes, PRs and progress charts fill in from the first day in the file.

Delete it

You → Your data → Delete my account, then type DELETE to confirm. Your account and everything in it are erased at once, not queued for later. The one exception is purchase records that tax law makes us keep, with your name and email removed.

Your sets are stored under your own account. If your coach deletes theirs, yours stays.

No lock-in. No contract, nothing to ask us for, no format only we can read. If POWALIFTA stops being right for you, take your data and go.