Planet Fitness alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 64 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R3] Planet Fitness 3/5 · US Horrible: It is extremely slow and won’t work or load 90% of the time
2. [R7] Planet Fitness 1/5 · US App not working on latest IOS: July 8 2026, iphone 17 Pro, app won’t open. Spinning wheel. Also all the reviews talking about their experience in a particular PF are ridiculous. This is where the APP is reviewed. Yall cluttering up the place
3. [R10] Planet Fitness 2/5 · US Bugs: The app was working fine for the first couple days, then it was glitching and it wasn’t showing me the crowd meter. I didn’t care that much. Now it has been stuck on the opening loading screen for days and I cannot go to the gym because I cannot scan the barcode. I’ve done everything, redownload, force close, restart my phone, nothing has worked.
4. [R15] Planet Fitness 3/5 · US honestly the app is terrible but the place is great: my app literally will not load how else am i supposed to check in especially as a teen with the summer pass.
5. [R1] Planet Fitness 1/5 · US Membership: Doesn’t allow me to cancel my membership. Everytime I reload it says there’s an error.
6. [R16] Planet Fitness 1/5 · US Might be deleting: I don’t appreciate how I haven’t had this app or a membership for 2 months yet and I’m already being charged a yearly fee, that’s dumb I don’t recommend this to anyone. And I want my money back because they already charge a late fee which is crazy cause if I’m late why go up on the price? That’s very inconsiderate of what’s coming to my bank account then proceed to charge an ext
7. [R18] Planet Fitness 1/5 · US Brattleboro Planet Fitness: They claimed it was only one dollar for the first month and then didn’t tell me about all the extra fees and how they charge, I ended up getting charged almost $70 for “two months” of membership after only four weeks. Deceptive and dishonest.
8. [R26] Planet Fitness 1/5 · US Can’t cancel: They are impossible to cancel. Website is always down, and then you have to go in person. Brutal
9. [R4] Planet Fitness 1/5 · US Not very good: New to PF. Figuring out the app is infuriating. There should be a search button on the home page that actually links you to all information about each piece of equipment. I can find no operator manuals for anything I have used to date. Also, all equipment locations should be able to be found without walking down the entire facility. I have never seen the real time crowd meter over
10. [R6] Planet Fitness 3/5 · US Could be better: I wish there was a scanner for each gym so we can see how the gym is formatee and we can know where we’re going. I’d also like to say that the crowd rate isn’t accurate most of the time, I wish we could be the ones to say whether it’s packed or not. Also the offers suck sometimes like they aren’t valid unless you’re a first time consumer of the company the offer belongs to. That’s
11. [R9] Planet Fitness 3/5 · US Need more: The app is great for checking in and watching some videos for how to do different things like use the machines, free weights or just stretching. I love the idea of tracking your journey…. But there’s such limited options to add activities. I would’ve thought you’d at least be able to select the activities of the machines that are actually in the gym. There’s not even an option to add an
12. [R23] Planet Fitness 4/5 · US Useful but not always accurate.: The app is useful for the sake of not needing to carry a card to check in @ the gym, but it’s not very accurate with the “crowd meter”, if almost never says anything over about 1/4 full even when the place is packed.
13. [R12] Planet Fitness 3/5 · US Too many freaks: Planet Fitness is a joke, you get what you pay for.
14. [R47] Planet Fitness 4/5 · US .: overall app is good inside gym is lacking for girls and glute lifters. some people may feel uncomfortable with going glute lifts where the guys bench at.
15. [R52] BetterMe 5/5 · US House Gym: Awesome exercises
16. [R54] BetterMe 5/5 · US Perfect plan: Been consistent for almost 2 months. Feeling motivated & great.
17. [R56] BetterMe 5/5 · US Videos are great: I love the exercise videos. But I really don’t use anything else with this app. So in my case, it’s a little pricey. But if you’re using everything they offer it’s worth the money for sure.
18. [R57] BetterMe 5/5 · US Love it!: BetterMe has helped me so much! It is amazing and gets me so motivated, makes me wanna stick with it!
19. [R51] BetterMe 1/5 · US Cash grab workout plan: This better me app sucks. A few times over the years I’ve fallen to their ads and I’m always disappointed. I bought a $20 package in March and was recently charged a full $100 despite not authorizing it or being active on the app. No warning in my emails about an upcoming subscription or anything. I quit after three days because they advertise weight loss and toning but the
20. [R55] BetterMe 1/5 · US Don’t sign up/ charges/ lame: It’s an absolute waste. Things remain behind paywall, you have to let the entire workout play or you cannot select other variations. If you can’t sync to your tv, you’re stuck watching a tiny screen. Hella emails and hard to cancel.