Fitbod: Gym & Fitness Planner

Need more legs

Absolutely love this app. It has helped me so much this past year. The auto generated workouts saved me time and helped me stick to a routine. Things I would love to see in the future: - a way to program in my own warmup and cool downs. For example, I start each workout with a one mile walk on the treadmill, and end my workouts with another walk. Right now I have to manually enter them everyday. - go heavier on the abs. 1 ab workout usually leaves me wanting more and adding additional exercises is kind of annoying.

I enjoy the app, though my main concern is the need for an internet connection to use it. More features should work on the device when offline. Please allow us to download assets. Some gyms I visit lack internet, and my cellular signal is weak, so I cannot view exercise videos, my history, or trends, or even create a workout from my plan. When I attempt this, the message reads “looks like you’re offline, so today’s workout may differ from your plan.” Otherwise, the app works well with a connection.

Need to add wrist deviation and, supination pronation(rotations)

There is very little ability to control what exercises you do. It wants to have all the control. Every time you customize it to create custom workouts it erases them and comes up with its own. I’ve had numerous exercise routines deleted. Overall not good and won’t be renewing my subscription

I have used the app a long time and I like it but it doesn’t integrate with a lot of other fitness apps I work with. I wish it could populate my lifts into ai platforms or Coros.

This app used to be wonderful. The new Beta Coach is simply terrible. Recommending six reps when you typically do 20-25 on any given day exercise. It doesn’t adapt to your progress the way the app used to. They should not be charging people money for this.

I love the app but hate getting asked for a rating after each workout. I will keep submitting 1-star ratings until that changes.

Need to do a better job at tracking the sets that do and increase the weight to keep driving growth

Longtime user, love the app, but please bring Duo support soon. I’m excited to see what you guys will do with it!

I’ve been lifting for 30 years and I like the app because I don’t have to plan my workout. I do not like that I cannot change body part focus on my workouts for an extended period of time. It is getting better. I am interested in how the injury feature works.

I really like being able to try different programs without much thought and just go for it. I’ve seen results in the mirror within a couple months and the progression feels real. Minus one star for the following wish list: I wish I could chat with an AI agent that can see my history for recommendations or how to use the app or workout specific advice for me personally. Bar selection is currently cumbersome when I need to switch an exercise from an Olympic 45lb to an EZ bar and it doesn’t remember my selection. The screen on a specific set will randomly switch back to the full workout screen. Also I’d like to see my BPM on any screen. Apple Watch integration lags the app somewhat. And the rest timer chime doesn’t always work. Can I have some options for that chime too? Please add a de-load option and/or automatically ask if I want to de-load after a time frame where I didn’t work out.

I have over 4500 workouts logged. I used to love this app and the community. I was even on the early adoption team for new releases. This app has not kept up with others in the space. I only use it to keep my workouts logged, although there are better and less expensive apps out there for this. Note: the only reason I’m writing the review is because the app kept annoying me to give it a rating.

I’ve been subscribed to Fitbod since 2024, yet I still do virtually all the workout programming myself. Despite extensive training history, exercise substitutions, preferences, and corrections, I routinely rebuild its recommendations rather than follow them. The Beta Coach mostly points out the obvious like identifying the element of an upcoming workout instead of delivering actionable insights. Progress reports emphasize activity totals while overlooking meaningful strength progression and exercise-specific personal records. I continue subscribing primarily for strength scores and my workout history data (baselines/ records), not personalized programming. These tracking features alone hardly justify premium pricing when the app’s core functionality still requires extensive manual intervention. Fitbod claims its AI learns from training and workout adjustments to deliver personalized programming. After more than two year of providing both, why am I still doing virtually all the programming myself and what actually justifies $96 annually?

The week starts on Sunday and there’s no way to change it. It messes up the schedule especially if you take Sunday off. I also think it doesn’t take into consideration your age. So you guess they fixed this so the week starts whenever I want, in my case Mondays. Thank you. There’s still the age factor. Any chance you add that?

Been using this since the start of the year, overall, very pleased. That said, it would be nice if there was a note you could add when you skipped or cut an exercise short so AI can read and learn whether a skip is temporary or not. I have and injury and cut an exercise short but the app figured I was just starting over or something. The injury beta should also include a rehab rather skip- scaled back but still working it out. The LLM or MCP being used doesn’t seem as intelligent as it it could be.

Very generic workout suggestions, and the app is poorly designed and glitchy (closes out active timers and sets, and just seems to have a mind of its own). I regret spending money on this. It’s definitely way overpriced. AI could produce an app like this in two days.

Overall, I like this app and have used it for years. It will put together workouts for you, let you create your own, focus on splits, etc. It’s good to track workouts and progress over time. My biggest complaint is that it does not suggest very good weights to use a lot of the time. For example, in my last workout, it calculated I should use 7.5 pound weights for a specific exercise, when the last time I did it, I used 40 pound weights. The app said it was because it had been so long since I had done that exercise. It had been three months and I did similar exercises in the meantime. Or it won’t update weights. It continues to suggest the same weight for squats, going on ten weeks now. Great that it plans workouts, but far less useful when it does things like that. And it doesn’t always go too light - do three sets of 8 pull-ups, now the app says you can do 13 reps. And it seems to get stuck in a loop with the weights. I have dumbbells that go in 2.5 pound increments, but 95%of the time, the app only suggests 27.5 pounds, 32.5, 37.5, etc. I have no idea why it acts like it’s allergic to 25, 30, 35, but its suggestions and calculations take away the benefit of being able to slowly increase weight by 2.5 pounds. That’s just more of an annoyance than a problem with the app, but it still impacts how it plans workouts, limiting the usefulness.

I’ve been using this app for three years now and I can honestly say that it’s been worth the cost. It keeps me on track and motivated. Along with my iwatch it takes care of tracking and planning my workouts. What I would like to see though are options within the exercises where you can change focus from one muscle group to another,as well as changing focus to specific parts of the muscle group. Being able to target upper chest by switching grip or focusing on not just the glute but the different areas some exercises that target specific parts of the glute. Also my weights are limited but fornsome reason all of my exercises are less reps and sets than I have been doing. Just curious about that.

I’ve had this app for almost 5 years. I think that says enough, but I’ll continue. I love the versatility of the app, by that I mean there are multiple “automatic” settings that you can set if you want the app to build workouts for you, help you figure out how many exercises you should be doing and more. I generally use it more to help my build my own workouts and keep track of what I like. It helps track your goals and progress as well. There are some things I’d change but that can be said for basically every app in existence. For the devs: my only recent thought would be that it’d be awesome if there was a calendar tab in the app. To see what workouts were upcoming and more. For me I like building weeks ahead what workouts I’m going to do and I’m sure other people would feel the same. That way if people only like runs or bikes on certain days, instead of having to change the exercise everytime the app says to do it. They can plan ahead what workouts for what days and what exercises they’re going to do. I’m sure it would help people stay on track and look ahead at what the app has in store for them. It would also help a great way to track progress and see future benchmarks. Also a way to write notes on the app, for different exercises and such.

I wanted to lose weight. I didn’t have the money for a trainer and when I got to the gym reading the machine instructions and feeling pressure from just not knowing what to do and how to do it correctly to efficiently lose weight was overwhelming. I used the trial and was sold. Thai app eliminated the mental drain for what and how to do my workout. It makes it so simple that I grew a confidence that normally comes with years in the gym with just one week of use. I am going strong 3-4 years and still love it. I do wish it were easier to personalize the workout equipment available per space for big gyms like chuze define etc. and an option to sync your weight muscle mass and visceral fat from a connected scale versus only one way sync from Fitbod to Apple health.

I'm not new to lifting, but I rely on apps like this for guidance. Earlier this year I used Fitbod consistently and built up to a solid weight. Then life happened, and I started having multiple weeks between sessions. The AI coach would say "I see you've been gone for a month," and then the first workout back would be a "max effort day" at or above my peak weight. It recognizes I've been away, and instead of a gradual reintroduction, it puts me in a position to get injured. I'm shocked the app expects me to lower the weights myself after time off. That's exactly what I'm paying it to do! Adapting to real life fluctuations is the feature that should justify the price.

I liked this app before but since I purchased the family subscription it’s seems like a waste of money. Its not like we can see each other workouts automatically or we can track each others progression or notify each other of what the other is doing like “MapMyRun” does. Do not purchase the family pack until they update it properly

Does a decent job of giving workout advice, but doesn’t seem to use history to update the weight set points. I’ve had a few times when I can do more weight or less than what the app recommends and it doesn’t update the next time it pulls up that lift. Doesn’t seem to really progress you month over month, you have to tell it you’re doing more.

This is a good app. If you added a way to add notes it could be a great app. Not having any notes is very limiting. I find myself using RepCount instead.

Update: Still haven’t gotten a refund. Fitbod charges me a renewal charge of $86.39 on 7/31/26. I contacted them IMMEDIATELY on 7/31/26 when I saw the charge. NOTHING. Then again on 8/10/26 and 8/20/26. CRICKETS!! I didn’t want the app because it is inconsistent and clearly the developers don’t see it worth their time to fix it. They rather collect $$$. Alternative: turn to LLM, tell it the gym equipment you’re using. Tell LLM the weights, the reps, and any other details necessary to log your workout. You can even ask it to keep track of your workouts and your progress. You don’t even have to type it. You could just dictate it to the LLM.

Add stretching to the work out

I like the overall concept but the number of exercises are limited and I find I have to find something similar to an exercise rather than having a more in depth library of exercises and being able to log the actual exercise. Seems like that should be the simplest thing to improve because all they have to do is add it. I use the app almost everyday so I like it but just disappointed that they don’t do that but continue to bill me.

This app has been very helpful. How often do you update the equipment inventory? Would be awesome if there was a belt squat addition to the app!

This App would be perfect if you could add your own custom exercises and track them in the same way that the inapp exercises are tracked. While they do have a lot to choose from there are some niche or uncommon exercises that are missing. Expanding upon the achievement system, similar to other apps where you get badges for monthly/weekly challenges, compete on leaderboards with your friends or the local community would be cool The pricing for workout apps are expensive these days, $15 a month or $80 a year is insane with no option for permanent ownership, though Im sure if it were an option itd be $180+ . Overall its not a bad app, but could definitely do more if they wanted to.

My only complaint is that sometimes the workouts become extremely difficult for no reason. Recently I was recommended to do 5 sets of 200 crunches in one workout. There’s also been times where the app seems to want to destroy one muscle group despite it being fatigued from the last workout.

Falta el calentamiento y estiramiento final en las rutinas

Fitbod is a strong app for a lot of people. I had been working out kind of the same for a year and a half and was getting bored and needed to change things up. Fitbod helped push me to do different exercises. I like that it allows you to add your gym, which is about 95% accurate on what weight they have. However, it does not allow you to do the same thing with the second gym if you got more than one gym. I like that has timers between sets that you can change, but it doesn’t learn if you like less time between sets. The standard is pretty long, like two minutes on a lot of exercises. If you have not done a lot of weight workouts, this will help you train you how to do them and push you to do different things. So probably a five star rating for a beginner or an intermediate person. For someone like me who’s worked out for a number of years, it still needs a little bit of development

Great app. Sometimes just repetitive work outs

Great product with a lot of potential. One simple improvement could make Fitbod significantly better: allow users to save the sports they play or are training for in their preferences. The AI could then incorporate those sports into its existing variables when building workouts. For example, if I select golf and surfing, Fitbod could tailor my strength, mobility, power, and recovery work around the physical demands of those sports while still considering my goals, available equipment, training history, muscle recovery, and workout duration. It seems like a natural extension of what Fitbod already does well and would make the AI-generated workouts feel much more personalized and purposeful.

previously the algorithm worked great, advanced my weight and reps in a reasonable way and at a reasonable pace, but with the most recent update this AI coach was like “hey i saw you maxed out at 3 sets of 6 reps on 25lbs… and then didnt work out for like a month… how about we ease back into it with 4 sets, 8 reps on 30lbs?” like it just added sets, reps, and weight all at once for no reason.

Great app but needs more exercises to target specific areas of chest and other body parts after using for a while but it’s good and simple

This app is good for somebody who is just starting out and very, very beginner. Otherwise, this app does not correct for somebody who is intermediate or at least has a one year of experience going to the gym

Would love to provide some context to what I want and support my personal inputs, ie 56, female, etc and design around me. Or that I want 8 excesses focusing on 5 legs and 3 upper. Just very generic.

I really enjoy this app, but my biggest critique is that I wish they would continuously add more exercise workout equipment to expand upon its library and planning capabilities.

Been using this for a few years for better and worse. I like the beta coaching. It doesn’t update with my changes yet. But #Beta. Some nice touches would be more yoga/mobility integration and the ability to inform the AI of injuries or reasons to adjust weights beyond its assumption of capability. (Unless the “memo” spot is doing that and I missed it.) Thanks team!

This app is honestly very helpful if you work out alone or want to start I used to only go with people or when I was by myself I couldn’t push myself the way I could having someone else there it really helps you get the most out of each gym visit as well showing you new things to do with a great video guide I love it my only note would be a way to remove a added set when in the workout also give it a try it has a free trial if you don’t like

This app has made a huge difference in the consistency of my workouts. It also tracks progressive overload really well. Only complaint is that it’s hard to add in an exercise if it’s not already there.

My major complaint is there no way to input an injury so the whole system goes out of whack.

I really don’t understand the hype. This app has several fundamental flaws that cannot be tolerated. Most critically, the exercises are not ordered properly. You cannot expect me to max out bicep curls then go straight into pull ups. The complex moves need to be primary, then the basic ones last. Additionally, randomly assigning warmup sets mid workout is pointless and wasteful. I will not renew.

Some days I want to take my dog for a walk and there is not a way to add a workout with a weighted vest. Not every day do I lift weights so it would be nice to have suggested aerobic activities outside.

Love that it’s programmed and that you don’t have to guess the workout. Love the motivation scripts as well. I just don’t like that you can’t search for the alternatives you have to scroll to find it and sometimes it’s not available but other than that love!!

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

The workouts are good when you start but then as you go is significantly increases your weight, reps and sets in between just one session.

I really love this app. I feel there is enough variety and challenge that I don’t get bored and I love that it is very customizable and geared toward my personal goals. When I first started using it there were some glitches with the number of reps or with equipment but I don’t see that as much any more so it has either learned me or has been fixed. My only complaint is that I wish there was a dedicated core workout or that core was more of a focus for the workouts. Pretty much all I get are deadbugs and planks but I don’t always want to go searching to add other exercises, so typically I turn to YouTube to do an actual guided core workout after my Fitbod workout. Adding more core-focused sets would make this app pretty much perfect!