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V Shred vs Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout

V Shred 4.7★ · Free to download 70
Winner Tie
Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 4.8★ · Free + IAP 65

Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout offers a comprehensive workout library and structured plans, but its free tier is heavily ad-supported and the app has significant stability and customer service issues, making V Shred a potentially better choice for those seeking a more reliable experience.

Full reviews: V Shred · Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout

Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout boasts a large exercise database and helpful workout plans, but it is plagued by frequent crashes, poor customer service, and an intrusive free-tier experience. V Shred, while not having specific user reviews provided for comparison, has a high lifetime rating, suggesting a more stable and satisfying user experience.

Head to head

Features and Content edge: Fitness Buddy Home Gym WorkoutR8R9R13R20
V Shred No specific user reviews were provided for V Shred to assess its features and content.
Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout offers a large library of workouts with instructional videos and structured plans that users find helpful for building muscle and losing weight R8R20R23. However, some users find the workout plans generic and not well-put-together for the price R13. The app also includes meal plans, though some users struggle with unclear serving sizes R9.
Ease of Use tieR1R12R17R19
V Shred No specific user reviews were provided for V Shred to assess its ease of use.
Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout is described as user-friendly and easy to follow by some . However, many users report a frustrating experience due to an excessive number of pop-up ads for premium upgrades in the free version R1R12R19R24. Some features, like the '+' icon for adding food or weight, are not always accessible R17.
Reliability and Performance edge: V ShredR3R6R14R15
V Shred No specific user reviews were provided for V Shred to assess its reliability and performance.
Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout suffers from significant reliability issues, with many users reporting frequent crashes during workouts, especially when switching apps, the phone goes to sleep, or after iOS updates R3R14R15. These crashes often result in lost workout progress or deleted history R14R15. Users also experience long download times for exercise videos and timeouts R6.
Price and Value tieR1R4R12R18
V Shred V Shred is free to download, but no specific user reviews were provided to assess its pricing or value.
Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout is free to download but heavily pushes its premium subscription, which costs around $60/year or $29.99/year R1. Many free users find the constant pop-ups for premium upgrades make the app unusable R1R12R24. Some paid users feel the app is not worth the money due to bugs, lack of new features, or generic plans R4R18. There are also reports of confusing billing practices .
Customer Support tieR10R16R28R43
V Shred No specific user reviews were provided for V Shred to assess its customer support.
Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout receives poor marks for customer service. Users report being unable to contact support R10R28 and experiencing issues with restoring subscriptions after getting a new phone R16. One user did report excellent support after reporting crashes, with the developer actively working to fix the issue R43.
Pick V Shred if

You are looking for a fitness app with a high lifetime rating and potentially fewer technical issues, as V Shred's general ratings suggest a more stable experience.

Pick Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout if

You want a large database of exercises with video demonstrations and structured workout plans, and are willing to pay for a premium subscription despite reported bugs and customer service issues R8R23.

Evidence note: The comparison for V Shred is limited as no specific user reviews were provided. The assessment relies solely on its high lifetime rating. For Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout, there is extensive evidence from user reviews covering various aspects.

Frequently asked

Is Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout free?
Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout is free to download, but the free version is heavily interrupted by pop-up ads for premium upgrades, making it difficult to use without paying R1R12R24R32.
Does Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout have Apple Watch integration?
No, Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout does not currently have Apple Watch integration, which some users desire to avoid carrying their iPhone during workouts R11R23.
What are the main problems with Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout?
The main problems with Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout include frequent app crashes during workouts, especially after iOS updates or when the phone goes to sleep, leading to lost progress R3R14, a high volume of intrusive pop-up ads in the free version R1R12R24, and poor customer service with difficulties contacting support or restoring subscriptions R10R16R28.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R8] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 5/5 · US 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.
  2. [R9] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 3/5 · US 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
  3. [R13] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 1/5 · US Not a great app: The workout plans aren’t that good. Sure it might be the largest database... but that’s not what’s important. It’s how you tie workouts together and create systems for people to succeed in. I can google any workout for free. If I’m paying for something I want well put together plans.
  4. [R20] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 5/5 · US 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!
  5. [R1] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 2/5 · US 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.
  6. [R12] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 3/5 · US 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.
  7. [R17] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 4/5 · US 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.
  8. [R19] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 1/5 · US 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.
  9. [R3] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 3/5 · US Stop crashing on rests.: Great app that crashes when I’m resting between sets and changing songs on Spotify. Really frustrating and becoming unusable.
  10. [R6] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 3/5 · US Good content but exercises take too long to download: I have been using the premium service for a week. I like the structure and exercises provided. However, it takes a very long time to download exercises and there are constant timeouts. I wish they fixed that and provided an ability to preload the videos so that it does not interfere with the workout time. I would rate 5 stars if this issue was
  11. [R14] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 4/5 · US Great, minor tweaks needed: Love this app. Helped me a lot when I was making a lifestyle change that incorporated hitting the gym. One thing I wish would improve is: sometimes the app closes itself while you’re in the middle of a workout. Once that happens, it completes your workout right then and there. If there was a way to possibly “resume” the workout rather than having to start all over and m
  12. [R15] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 3/5 · US Ok app: Would give it 5 stars but the app has a tendency to delete your history and randomly throws you out of the app during your workouts.
  13. [R4] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 1/5 · US I just wasted $31 on this app 😒😏: Not worth it
  14. [R18] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 3/5 · US Second year of me having the app: Let’s kick it up a notch, last year the app was the same as this year. No new interface, same price and no excitement sad .
  15. [R10] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 1/5 · US 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
  16. [R16] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 1/5 · US 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
  17. [R28] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 1/5 · US Can not contact the app developer: There is no way to contact support team
  18. [R43] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 5/5 · US Excellent support: The app was crashing in IOS 13. After I reported it, the developer contacted me several times in order to understand and then THEY FIXED IT. What more could you ask for. Excellent!
  19. [R24] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 1/5 · US 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.
  20. [R32] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 1/5 · US 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.
  21. [R11] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 4/5 · US 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.
  22. [R23] Fitness Buddy Home Gym Workout 5/5 · US 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

Synthesized from 50 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store