Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout
Fitness Buddy offers a comprehensive workout and exercise library that users find helpful for achieving fitness goals, but it is plagued by frequent app crashes, excessive premium pop-ups, and poor customer service, especially after recent iOS updates.
Fitness Buddy provides a large database of exercises and structured workout plans, which many users credit for helping them build muscle and lose weight. However, recent updates have introduced significant stability issues, including frequent crashes and data loss, alongside an aggressive monetization strategy with numerous pop-up ads for premium features.
What users like
- Extensive library of exercises with clear instructions and demonstrations, suitable for various fitness levels and equipment availability.R4R19R28R51
- Effective for achieving fitness goals like weight loss and muscle gain, with users reporting significant progress.R4R12R31R70
- Offers structured workout plans and programs that keep users motivated and provide a clear path for progress.R8R32R56R58
- Helpful for beginners to understand proper exercise form and explore different workout options.R19R53R72R91
What users complain about
- Frequent app crashes, especially during workouts or when the phone goes to sleep, leading to lost progress and frustration.R7R23R39R41
- Excessive and intrusive pop-up ads pushing for premium upgrades make the free version nearly unusable.R2R16R20R29
- Poor or non-existent customer service, making it difficult for users to resolve billing issues or technical problems.R13R15R17R24
- Workout logs and custom workouts are sometimes deleted or not saved, undermining progress tracking.R25R38R40R42
- Difficulty understanding serving sizes in meal plans and other features not working as expected.R8R18R21
- Lack of Apple Watch integration, requiring users to carry their iPhone during workouts.R5R19
Latest update · v6.0.6
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Thank you for downloading Fitness Buddy! New: • Bug fixes and performance improvements
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This app is for individuals seeking a comprehensive library of exercises and structured workout plans to guide their fitness journey, especially beginners or those looking to build muscle and lose weight R4R12R19R31. It is not for users who expect a stable, ad-free experience without a premium subscription, or those who require responsive customer support R2R13R20R23.
Evidence note: The recent review sample skews significantly negative, with many users reporting critical bugs and dissatisfaction with monetization. However, the lifetime rating is very high, suggesting that while the core content is valued, recent updates have introduced serious issues that are not reflected in the overall historical rating. The positive themes are heavily supported by older, highly-rated reviews, while the negative themes are strongly supported by recent, lower-rated reviews.
Frequently asked
Does Fitness Buddy offer free content, or is it entirely paid?
Is Fitness Buddy compatible with Apple Watch?
Are there issues with the app crashing or losing data?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 100 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.
- [R4] My thoughts: I have only been using this app for 4 months but it has already shown a big difference. It has allowed to lean out, build muscle and do the exercises wherever I wanted to. It is a very useful app that is well organized with a lot of helpful content.
- [R19] Love this app: I love this app! It makes my workouts soo much better😜 it’s nice to have someone showing you have to properly do and explain the different work outs. I love the fact that it reminds me when I need to work out and you can design those workouts to fit your needs. I just wish that I could get it on my Apple Watch, but other then that it’s an amazing workout buddy! I highly recommend it
- [R28] Fitness Buddy: Very helpful and user friendly. This app provides multiple exercises that the only thing hard to find is an excuse not to work out.
- [R51] Great app. Get it!: Just amazing. Simple to use and full of useful exercises
- [R12] Fat taquitos burner: Easy to follow,hits the spots that you want to work on your body ! I start at 245 pnds now I am at 215! My goal 185! And i am getting there with this program! Thank you guys!
- [R31] Great app: I started to use this app when I began to take working out seriously.This app is a great way to get started and the results are in the pudding. I started weighing in at 195 pounds and now I’m currently weighing in at 175 pounds. Diet is extremely important so when you incorporate diet and regular exercising as well as using this app, you will get results. I could easily lose more weigh
- [R70] Massive gains: I'm 17 years old and following these workouts has helped me gain a decent 2st 8lbs in 64 days
- [R8] Workouts are great, some features dont work: The overtraining test and meal plan test don’t give me any results. I wish the (+) icon at the bottom right was accessible from every screen, it’s annoying to have to click over to another screen before adding my food, weight, etc. The workouts are awesome and really help me push myself. Love the feeling of having a plan. Thanks.
- [R32] Me: I’ve found a program that keeps me interested
- [R56] Amazing App!!!: This app is great! Really well structured workouts and very clear instructions make this app great for getting in shape.
- [R58] Really useful: Fab piece of kit. Great way to tailor circuits to your personal needs
- [R53] Wow: What a fantastic App. I'm a beginner in weight training and this fantastic App is superb. Can't believe how much you get with it.
- [R72] Excellent: Does exactly what it's meant to do. Good list of workouts and helpful if your a beginner.
- [R91] Workout: I think this is ideal for beginers gives you a big choice
- [R7] Stop crashing on rests.: Great app that crashes when I’m resting between sets and changing songs on Spotify. Really frustrating and becoming unusable.
- [R23] Trash: If you want an app to crash on you mid workout, Look no further. Do you want certain features on the app not to work and lock up your phone? You’re in luck. This app is too buggy. It crashes at random times. It’s not a good app
- [R39] Crashes: Cool app but crashes if the phone goes to sleep. Also crashes when trying to save a workout. Would pay if it worked.
- [R41] Lots of bugs: I get kicked out of a work out when my screen times out. Whole workout log is erased. Terrible terrible bugs, very frustrating. I want my money back
- [R2] More pop-ups than a 1990s illegal music site: This used to be a great app. I loved using it for my workout tracking but now it’s not even usable unless you pay $60/year. Just be prepared to have a pop up with every click you do. Deleting it because it’s pointless battling a “go premium” pop-up every time I click within the app.
- [R16] Wow... everything I hate: I workout regularly, and just wanted an app to keep track of my lifts/weights/reps. This stupid app bombards me with ads to upgrade and then wants to act like a social media app by tagging friends/pics/locations. I work out for myself, not so people can see me do it. Get wrecked fitness A hole, I don’t want a buddy like you.
- [R20] Please Read!!!: There are a ton of different apps that basically all do the do the same thing, the hard part is choosing which one suits you. This workout app is ABSOLUTELY trash. There are a insane of obnoxious ads that don’t go away unless you pay for the month subscription. Im not even going to bother giving it a try with so many options available.
- [R29] Too Many Pop-Ups: I would rate this app higher but I just wanted to try it out and every few clicks when trying to close the ads at the bottom would pop-up the ad to upgrade to premium. I couldn’t deal with it and just deleted the app, I think to have it constantly pop-up while using the app is too much of a deterrent for the content.
- [R13] Complete waste of money-HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE: I tried to send them a message about the app not working and received a “failure” message every time. I just got this app today and I’m completely dissatisfied. This was the message I repeated tried to send to them : “ Hi, I purchased your app today and I’m not satisfied with it at all. It set up a basic 12 week program for me to lose weight but I
- [R15] Bad service: I bought a new phone try to restore my subscription and it won’t let I’m sub until March 2020 contact customer service show them proof and yet still can’t restore my subscription never again
- [R17] Wrong Impression on Billing: Hi, I just got your app and it said it was $2.99 per month and it just billed me $33.99. I would like to cancel this because I was under the impression I would only be charged $2.99 PER MONTH, not $33.99. Which it said it’s only supposed to be $29 a year. So I am very confused and I would really appreciate a refund. I’m a college student and don’t have enough money to
- [R24] Can not contact the app developer: There is no way to contact support team
- [R25] Novice, better alternatives: Fails to remember workout logs (kind of a big deal if you want to track gains and remember weight amts), the automated regimen are generic, repetitive, and hardly worthy of such a price point. I feel ripped off. Spend the extra $20 more for fitbod or grab a pencil and paper.
- [R38] Waste of money: Every time you do one set of you don’t log the next set in under 1 minute it resists and you have to restart the whole workout. At $29.99 a year it is a waster of money I spent more time trying to log my workout than I did working out in the gym. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.
- [R40] Great app BUT: That app works great and all but sometimes for no reason all of my saved weight and reps are deleted. Super frustrating
- [R42] Crashed: This app just crashed and lost all my tracking for the last 2 plus years. When you create a custom workout you can’t add a timer between sets. I don’t recommend.
- [R18] Serving sizes please!: I am a premium member and I have a question I can’t seem to figure out. While browsing the meal plans, I’m having a very hard time figuring out what a serving is. For example, the crispy rosemary chicken and potatoes, what is a serving size? It says 551 calories per serving, but I have no clue what a serving size is. This seems to be a frequent question at every large meal p
- [R21] Servings: Hey y’all can someone tell me how much a serving size is supposed to be? I just started using the app and it’s not entirely user friendly finding information.
- [R5] Good workout app: Its a good workout app. Has all the workouts in the library. One thing i wish it had was apple watch integration. Carrying iPhone during workout in a hassle. If the app had apple watch integration, it would be my perfect workout companion.
- [R27] This app is stupid: I downloaded this app thinking it would good for me but It would only let me create two custom workouts and then I have to upgrade to premium to add another workout! And then I couldn’t even chose some exercises unless I upgraded to premium! I swear apps will do ANYTHING to get money these days. Even in ridiculously stupid ways! I’ll never download this app again.
- [R10] I just wasted $31 on this app 😒😏: Not worth it
- [R33] Just make it a solid price: Everything costs money on this app - just make it a paid app and be done with it.
Synthesized from 100 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store