Fitbod: Gym & Fitness Planner

App is not working all day. What is wrong with it?

Most recent update broke the Apple Watch sync. And now the app no longer syncs heart rate with your workout. Impacts the total amount of calories burned. This has happened again and again it’s honestly really tiring and I’m going to cancel my subscription because of it. With every new update they break existing features, it’s very frustrating. Not sure if they are vibe coding things and reducing dev staff but QA process needs to be dramatically improved.

I’ve been using the app for over a year, and while I have really enjoyed it, a recent update is causing me a lot of problems. I am unable to change my training split. I sent a screen recording to support but kept getting unhelpful replies from an AI bot. I liked the “notes” function to save notes on my setup on different machines, but those no longer save/appear. Also, not sure if the AI trainer function changed, but it was much more helpful before. Overall not happy at the moment.

I used to love this app. Then I started using a walking pad while working from home so, I would use this bc I couldn’t use my watch on my wrist as I was using the laptop. This works perfectly for those moments. sometimes, I do more than one workout a day and I may track the other one using the Apple Watch however, I realize I can’t use both as one will override the other. If I do 3 miles on the walking pad and track on the app and later in the day, I use the Apple Watch to track a walk outside, I can’t keep both and idk if it’s a watch or app bug but it’s frustrating!

When supersets are unbalanced as in one has a warm up and the 3 sets with the opposite just having a plain 3 sets, the timer is out of sync. Instead, you must manually jump out after logging the warmup set back into the starting exercise in order to properly start the sequence. It’s an annoying feature on a paid app that is easily fixed through a software fix.

I’ve been using the app for over a year, and lately it’s becoming less stable. For example, if you create a custom workout out with two cardio options it doesn’t work. Secondly, why are there now multiple sets of cardio? Like when you select a weight exercise

Very good for progression building, but the UI struggles communicating between the app and Apple Watch. Constantly desync. It does the job, it could do it better.

Fitbod is no longer working with my Apple Watch! I hate carrying my phone around in the gym. Fix this bug fast please!!!

So far the app looks good. I’m on day 6. You only get 1 week to try and that’s not enough. Update Oct 2026.I paid for a month to give it more of a chance. Seems buggy and has a very confusing interface. It’s wasted two workouts plus frustration and time. Good luck with support. So far I got an AI answer.

I like the new update but, my Fitbit Charge 6 is not showing my heart rate on the app, I can connect it with heart rate on machine and it’s connected but I am not able to see it on the app

Seems to be an issue on their side, probably vibe-coding server side… This wasn’t an issue until recently. Very frustrating.

I can’t follow my routine in my apple watch

It used to be great, but now it’s not working on Apple Watch. I’ve downloaded multiple times and now it won’t even install on watch. There was an update to fix this -however the icon still doesn’t show on my Apple Watch face. Minor inconvenience, but fully functional.

I’ll try to put my weight and height and when I put next it will just freeze my entire app making me reset it and just for it to do the same thing.

Watch app keeps freezing and that’s the only reason I have this damn app

Was already overpriced garbage with useless “suggested workouts” you can’t turn off. Would’ve dropped it long ago I just didn’t want to lose my history. Now it won’t work on my Apple Watch and they added AI bloat to useless features…

Doesn’t work on Apple Watch though

I used to really like this app because it paired well with the Apple Watch, but now the app no longer works. Have tried updating phone and watch but still does not work because the app crashes. Will edit the review once resolved.

Love this app and being able to log sets using the watch but that was lost with the latest update

Watch says to open app but the app is already open on the iPhone. Then it closes when you try to reopen on the watch.

I’ve sang this app’s praises for years now, but after today they’ve gotta get their stuff together and be lucky my subscription literally rolled 2 weeks ago. Had the “AI Coach” just suggest I jump an excercise from last week by an extra 40 lbs, with 2 additional reps, and it called it “a conservative jump”. Absolute madness. I’m actually considering a chargeback and jumping to literally any other app before being slopped with this trash.

I’ve been using Fitbod for just about 3 years now and it helps me go to the gym and know exactly what to do. It helps a ton with keeping track of my recovery and what muscles to do next. Very good implementation with Apple fitness, though the one bug that doesn’t seem to get fixed is the Apple Watch going into tracking mode when you start a workout from the app. You need to open Fitbod on the watch manually for it to track your heart rate otherwise it just guesses. Support is phenomenal. I explained my situation and they’re extremely responsive, competent and effective. Thank you Chase for helping me out!

For some reason, it will not let me in. I keep getting stuck on the free trial screen I do not want to activate my free trial.

Watch app and phone app fight each other a lot. Otherwise a good app.

The calories never match what my watch or other apps track, and seems random. I can do a heavy leg day, hit a 90 min, 18k weight moved and it registered 190 calories burned but do a 40min upper routine that I barely broke a sweat on and it says I burned 700+ calories. Couple that with glitching out in the middle of a set or workout and it’s pretty frustrating to pay so much for an app that is barely subpar.

I absolutely cannot say enough good things about this app. It has literally been one of the foundational things that helped me lose 72 pounds over the last year. It has pushed me to be bigger better and stronger than I’ve ever pushed myself in my entire life. however, this latest update seems to have completely scaled the app back to where it is not scaling reps correctly anymore. It is no longer pushing me and the insights that it gives are completely useless. If you’re going to use an AI assist thing it should at least tell you the reason why am I loading or deloading because I have a Max lift coming up or because I struggled with something last time but it just tells you silly nonsense that doesn’t assist with anything. You guys really need to rework this last update. My workouts are not as good as they used to be so now I’m fighting them every day checking histories to see what i should push. This might drive me away from this app if it is not fixed somewhat soon.

Tried to set up an account and reset the password 3 times! Still didn’t work,trash!

Won’t reload my bench press weights also needs AI to search and ask questions about specific lists why and which would be better

Zero AI functionality after initial login. Not worth the sub

The app asks what equipment I have, but then recommends exercises that require equipment I never selected. I specified that I have one kettlebell, and it suggested exercises requiring two kettlebells and a weight plate.

I’ve been using this app for about 2 months and some change now… it’s been great for generating workouts… unfortunately there is 2 glaring issues so far. 1) I spent quite some time letting the app know the equipment I have at home vs the gym… it will still generate workouts correctly but it’s frequently giving me weight targets that don’t exist (what was the point of spending time building my equipment list what if it’s recommending weights that I don’t have) 2) if you add a custom workout in the workouts (something you want to try and end up liking etc) are not added by the AI to the workouts it will generate… you have to do any of your custom workouts manually each time you want to add it in. Pretty frustrating having to figure out the plate issues or bar weight for smith machine vs Olympic in the middle of the workouts while also dealing with it recommending weights that can not be reached with the gear you have. It happens frequently enough that I’m considering looking for an alternative. But this is a good app for generating workouts on a macro level

This app doesn’t show in subscriptions so you cant cancel free trial or subscription that is not fair and needs to be fixed do not download.

This app is such a scam your subscription doesn’t show up on your iCloud subscriptions and even if you cancel your free trial they still try and charge you 105 dollars completely a scam. Pen and paper is way more affective if you know what your doing in the gym

My complaint is when I try to add my weight and my height it just sends me to the website to go and download the app instead of sending me to a place where I can change my height and weight I can’t do that at all again it just sends me to some website and I can only login just to get sent to the website to download the app again. I just don’t understand why this issue isn’t fixed and why it’s working this way. Could you guys please resolve this issue? Thank you.

The swap feature is not working correctly. It just reverts back to the current workout instead of swapping within the training split as intended.

Overall a solid app. Has all the basic functionality and a couple more advanced features you'd want from an exercise app. I'm giving it a 3 out of 5 because there's a plethora of UX/UI behavior issues I've run into over the years that have somehow never been fixed that degrades the experience and makes it frustrating at times.

I’ve been a user for years and have cancelled my subscription this week after constant functionality decline. It’s clear Fitbod are trying to integrate AI to improve their workout suggestions, but it’s resulted in consistently awful results. What used to be thoughtful weight increases over time and integration of new exercises has become a totally incomprehensible mess. One week I’ll do 10 reps of 50lb dumbbell presses, the next week they’ll suggest a “Max Effort Day” with 6 reps 35lb sets. Their support team is nice enough, but sadly unhelpful, often trying to rationalize clearly nonsensical advice from the app. What a sad story from a previously great app.

This “Ai” program gives me weights and reps that look like it doesn’t know what I did last week or last month. It will give me less weight and reps or say something like I haven’t performed and exercise in a while and I do it every week. I’ll be leaving when my subscription is up for another app because I’m using this to log my workouts and that’s it. Very pricey for being a glorified notebook.

This is the buggiest app I’ve ever used. Here is an idea - test the update before publishing. Now I can’t listen to Spotify while using FitBod. Eye roll.