SHRED
SHRED is a highly motivating fitness app with effective, personalized workouts, but recent updates have introduced numerous bugs, glitches, and rigidity, frustrating long-time users.
SHRED is praised for its motivating interface and personalized workout plans that adapt to user goals and available equipment, leading to significant fitness improvements for many. However, recent updates have led to a decline in app stability, with frequent crashes and glitches, alongside complaints about the AI's effectiveness and lack of workout customization options.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent bugs, glitches, and crashes, especially after recent updatesR2R5R19R87
- AI coach is often ineffective, unresponsive, or makes poor workout adjustmentsR2R22R41R52
- Lack of flexibility and customization for workoutsR1R4R37R70
- Workouts can be repetitive or lack variety over timeR18R22R96R238
- App can be difficult to navigate and use, especially during workoutsR4R52R70R88
- Issues with billing, unauthorized charges, and poor customer service for some usersR24R30R59R63
- Workouts may not align with available gym equipment or personal limitationsR10R55R72R96
- Inability to edit past workout data or skip exercises/circuitsR53R70R76R121
Latest update · v5.4.9
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Dynamic Warm-Ups: Now you can easily add a Warm-Up to your workout before you get started, helping you prepare your body, move better, and train harder from the first rep. Intelligent Exercise Alternates: Exercise Alternates just got smarter. We’ve rebuilt the system behind the scenes using deeper muscle-level metadata and science-based training logic—resulting in more accurate, better-matched exercise swaps. We’ve also refined how alternates appear before and in workouts, making the feature faster, more transparent, and easier to use when it matters most. AirPods Pro 3 Heart Rate Integration: We now support heart rate tracking directly from your AirPods Pro 3, bringing an entirely new layer of insight and intensity to your workouts. Whether you’re wearing AirPods or an Apple Watch, your real-time heart rate is now visible during sessions—helping both you and your coach push harder, sm
Recurring themes
Who it's for
SHRED is for individuals seeking a motivating, structured workout plan that adapts to their equipment and goals, especially those new to consistent gym routines or who travel frequently R9R25R36. It may not be ideal for experienced lifters who desire more granular control over workout customization R1, those with specific physical limitations not covered by the AI , or users in busy public gyms who need flexibility to swap equipment R10R39R88.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew more negative than the lifetime rating, focusing heavily on bugs and lack of flexibility. While positive reviews exist, they are less detailed about specific features and often from long-term users who note a recent decline. The developer's release notes for the latest update claim improvements to warm-ups and exercise alternates, but recent user reviews directly contradict this, with many still reporting issues with AI adjustments and glitches.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R1] Motivating but needs customization: I feel Shred is one of the most motivating fitness apps I’ve used and I’ve used them all. It has just enough of the community element without being distracting or influencer driven. The workouts are challenging and you can customize based on frequency and equipment. So why four stars? For anyone who’s mildly experience with training or weight lifting, you’ll fi
- [R3] This app is awesome!: Love this app The only thing wish you could communicate with other people that would be good. But other than that Worth the money I spend every month. Complete workout app so far the best app I’ve had.
- [R8] Phenomenal App: Whether I’m working out on the go or at my home gym, this app can do it all. Though the company has true fitness gurus, it also has a strong continuous improvement mindset which has shown app improvements on a regular basis. Any company can scam you one time, but a great company makes you want to do business with them year after year. I appreciate the tailored workouts and interac
- [R36] Just do it!: I had a hard time concentrating when I tried to do my workouts alone. This app has helped me tremendously! Try it out. You won’t be sorry. Get out and move!
- [R6] Awesome: I’ve tried a number of apps, spreadsheets, and online workout programs over the years and this is by far my favorite. No more wasted set trying to remember what weight to start at and I like the rotation of workouts. I’ve been using consistently it for over a year and will continue!
- [R9] My Personal Trainer, No Matter Where I Am: I’ve been using Shred since the beginning, and it continues to get better every year. As an athlete who travels frequently, consistency in training is critical, and Shred makes that easy. The app provides structured, effective workouts wherever I am, eliminating the need to constantly create new programs or figure out what to do in the gym. Whether I’m tr
- [R15] Great app: I just swapped from using Fitbod to Shred and completed my first workout today. In one workout I felt more challenged and more fulfilled than I ever did with Fitbod. It had a great selection of exercises and reps that actually make sense. Will be sticking with this over anything else on the market
- [R25] Shred gave me direction!: I was always going to the gym & just did workouts following some videos online but these weren’t coherent. So when I finally saw shred being recommended by an AI search on google I gave it a try & what I love is it keeps track of my workout history & knows my goals and how to combine all my workouts to make me achieve my body goal. If you’re finding yourself here, then yo
- [R13] Best app ever: This app has been tracking my progress and offering a lot of optional workouts you can do at home or elsewhere when you're not at the gym. Very Happy I recommend to everyone
- [R44] Best workout app on the market: I’ve found SHRED to be an incredibly versatile and powerful workout app. You can fully customize your training based on equipment, duration, workout type, and so much more, it truly adapts to your lifestyle and goals. What really sets it apart, though, is the outstanding customer service. The team is consistently responsive, professional, and genuinely invested in he
- [R45] Amazing workout App: Easy to use, builds workouts based on what equipment you do have or don’t have and tracks it all shows videos of how to do the exercises
- [R20] Avid user: I’ve been using this app for the past like 5+ years. I appreciate that it has helped me shape workout routines that work with my lifestyle and I’m probably in the best shape of my life using this application. My only critique is I wish the app automatically built in rest days, because it constantly feels like you cannot rest with the way the app engages with you.
- [R42] Shred: The best training app out there. Lots of variety in the provided workouts to keep things new and to prevent plateaus. Excellent workout tracking which helps show progression.
- [R60] 🔥🔥🔥🔥: This app is awesome!! I’ve tried a ton and none are like this! Track workouts, get plans and alternates (if ppl are using equipment) Tracks your progress, strength, weight, all of it. You can even pair up and follow your friends. There’s a calendar in there that shows all the workouts you did each month. I started at 255lbs and down to 210 in list under a year following the workouts, as
- [R12] Best app: This is the best fitness app out there. Support team is crazy responsive and the workouts and options are incredible. Has changed my workouts and commitment to the gym and fitness. For 100$ a year people spend that more on drinks for a night out. Invest in yourself, download the app, and get after it.
- [R34] amazingUpdate: love everything about this app and customer service is so attentive and helpful! They shine!!!
- [R2] Membership Cancelled - glitchy and useless ai: I’ve been using the app for almost a year now and over the past few months it has become extremely glitchy The ai does not make adjustments to workouts despite that being advertised, i think I’ve told it over 5 times over the past few months to give me more machine oriented workouts (yes the relevant equipment is selected in settings) and it just doe
- [R5] Crash / Bugs: This app has decent workouts, but I’m constantly emailing support to find out when a bug is going to get fixed. The most recent makes the app unusable. Do a trial before buying
- [R19] Love the Workouts Hate The App: The workouts are great, however the app is plagued with bugs and glitches. Certain exercises are spoken in a different language when the app says them. Also the app constantly freezes causing me to have to close and reopen then app to get it to start working again.
- [R87] Keeps Crashing: Been using for a couple of years. My favorite workout app. However, the new update causes it to crash non-stop. Hard to even use.
- [R22] Loved it at first: Loved this app at first but over time I found it to be extremely glitchy. The AI assistant is just okay - many times it was just wrong or wouldn't let me change (although it said it had). Customer support tried to be helpful but it didn't help with the issues I was having. The workouts were okay but got old quick. Even though they offer many different programs they are all reall
- [R41] Had High Hopes, but Ultimately Disappointed: This app consistently has failed to impress me. Today’s malfunction has made me seriously consider deleting the app and asking for a refund. For the last 4 workouts I’ve tried to ask my “Coach” a question and my question won’t submit. When I finally finish the workout, my question can finally be submitted. The coaches are one of the main selling point
- [R52] Hard to use and useless AI: Great exercise range but it’s barely customizable. You learn to use it as you go. Exercises are arranged as if you have a whole gym to yourself. The AI feature is useless
- [R4] Too rigid: Interface once your workout has started is awful. Doesn’t include all equipment or all options for muscle groups.
- [R37] Great app, occasional glitches: Overall, this is a great app. I’ve been using it to log my lifting workouts for the last year and three months. I have very few complaints. There is currently a glitch where the video does not play on the main exercise screen. I’d like to see a little bit more ability to customize my own workouts. The app limits you to working out only certain muscle sets together.
- [R70] Lots to like; too inflexible: It really puts you in a tunnel. You need to be doing THIS exercise in THIS circuit. Well, if you need to skip to a different exercise for any of dozens of reasons, good luck. This one usability struggle is a deal-breaker for me because it takes the focus off pumping and onto the phone. Also: it’s too indirect to enter / review / edit reps and weights. So incorrect
- [R18] Declining app: Not sure what has happened with this app lately, but I’ve been dealing with shutdowns, inaccurate displays, and lack of variety in exercises. I’ve been using this app for years and within the last 1 1/2 years, I’ve been extremely frustrated. I’ve been needing to create my own circuits to have a variety of excercises. Sadly I stay on to keep my history.
- [R96] Decent: This app is ok for workouts. I used it for 6 months before I got burned out on it. There is very little variety in the workouts. There are NO forearm workouts. But my biggest issue is that I workout in a commercial gym and it doesn’t offer exercises for half the equipment.
- [R238] 4 now years same workouts: This app is great! But after been on it for 4 years, I thing the developers have abandoned this app. There has not been a new workout. The only update I’ve seen are facelift of the app itself which was never the issue! Please update these old workout with some new and improve workout routines! Also the workout arrangements are kinda all over the place! Some of the sets w
- [R88] Very confusing: It is incredibly hard to navigate the workouts. My gym is busy so I often have to choose whatever machine is available but the app makes that very confusing. It’s also difficult to see what exercise comes next if you make changes. Also impossible to see what weight you should use for your next set until it’s starts so you can’t get your weights ready in advance. It’s just too confu
- [R24] Horrible: THEY TOOK MY MONEY WHEN I CANCLED THE SUBSCRIPTION SO I DONT RECOMMEND THEM ANY WORKOUT APP BETTER THAN STEALING MONEY
- [R30] Good workouts, nonexistent customer service: I downloaded this app using a promo code, but Apple Pay kept bouncing back the charges. After the two week trial I was essentially kicked out, but I pressed the button to re-enroll and this time it worked but only at full price. I wrote to customer service for two issues- this issue with the billing, and about a creepy guy harassing me and wanting to ex
- [R59] Unauthorised charge: I tried the app for 2 days and cancelled, but they still charged my card for a full month
- [R63] Fraud don’t subscribe: I signed up for free trial and was told to check my email for password assistance as adding a password at the time was not an option. However I needed a password to sue the app. I checked my email, spam folder etc. nothing received. I “reset password“ several times nothing. I contacted them several times on their website using “report a problem” explaining the issue. Still
- [R10] Equipment order: App has you using 2 different types of equipment in one round not gonna work in a public gym with equipment on different areas of the gym and packed with people
- [R55] Gone downhill: I’ve had shred for 11 months now. Started off great and tailored workouts to my equipment. Now I can’t do a leg day without a leg press machine, which my gym doesn’t have, and it can’t give me a workout without it. This was never an issue until the past two months. I didn’t change the program and made sure I only had the equipment listed that I was able to use. Same for ab workout
- [R72] It told me to get better equipment: I have a small home gym with just dumbells, bench, treadmill, bike, resist bands, loop bands, kettleball, and a Total Gym. First off, the app is not accessibility friendly. I had to make my text tiny just to be able to answer the questions. And then after all that, the AI said it couldn’t come up with a program with the equipment I had. It told me to upgrade my
- [R53] Basic functions missing: Why can’t I skip an exercise or circuit in the app? There should be an easy way to do that. Why can my AI coach not look up the exercises? I’ve done in the past and suggest a weight? Why does it not automatically start me from the place? I was last time with an exercise instead of picking its default suggestion? There’s a lot of great things in this app, but there’s also
- [R76] Rearrange: I don’t like that we can add which workout come 1st as rearrange and we can add a custom set !
- [R121] Very buggy: Forget about recording your reps and weight - it will invent them and refuse to save yours. No keeping track of jack on here
- [R23] Love it: I love it, but a little glitchy
- [R7] Game changer: Better than any fitness coach or individual workout plan
- [R38] Updated review: Everything cost money now
- [R31] Simplicity: Back when i got the app everything was simple and all my workouts were pretty much straightforward and now it’s overly complicated and i have to manually select what workouts i want
- [R39] Good but Glitchy: I haven’t been in a gym in 20 years, so I was really intimidated and nervous about going to the gym. This app made it way easier to get back and know what to do. After a few days my anxiety went down and my confidence started increasing. My only complaint is the app is a bit glitchy and it lacks some basic functionality. For example, if the equipment I need for my circuit is i
- [R101] DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!!: I selected the monthly with a free 7 day trial, I was charged $19.99 for a month. They will not reply. I have to live off SSI, they do not care. Do yourself a favor and skip this scam!!!
- [R186] Love this app but price is too much for me: Love shred, it’s helped me a ton. But unfortunately I do not make enough to sustain the monthly cost :( wish it was cheaper
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store