Fitness Coach vs Fitbod
Fitbod is the better choice for those serious about their fitness journey, offering more robust workout generation and tracking, despite its higher price point and occasional glitches.
Fitbod offers a more comprehensive and personalized workout experience, with users consistently reporting significant results and long-term satisfaction. Fitness Coach struggles with a restrictive free tier and reports of billing issues, though some users find its free content helpful for basic tracking and motivation.
Head to head
Evidence note: Both apps have a significant number of negative reviews related to billing and subscription cancellation issues, which skews recent ratings. Fitbod's overall lifetime rating is higher, but recent complaints about glitches and subscription management are prominent. Fitness Coach's free tier is very limited, leading to many complaints from users expecting more free content.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R5] Fitness Coach For the time that I used it for free, this app was extremely good, highly recommend!: This app is awesome! I liked that I was able to track almost everything; from water consumption to steps, to calories intaken and burnt, to even weight tracking weight progress. I also liked that there are just so many different workout options on here, it's soo diverse! From the public to even personalized worko
- [R9] Fitness Coach Decent for free: I mean if your looking for a free workout app that you don’t (have) to pay for, this is it. It’s just all the things that are actually good are way to expensive and you have to pay money. I’m a kid working out and it’s just not worth the extra money that I don’t have.
- [R12] Fitness Coach It good: I have used it for one week now and I think it’s doing something but they use a lot of the same stuff so it can get boring after a while
- [R19] Fitness Coach Ehh: Yes, you have to pay. But it gives you pretty much the same workout routine every week and it break down a lot. So there are some days when the app doesn’t even open or in the middle of your workout it just stops working.
- [R4] Fitness Coach This makes me frustrated!: Can someone tell me how to carry on after the question that says “How do you consider your current fitness level?” Because it keeps on bringing me to pictures of random users and I can’t get off the screen :( I was looking forward to using this app
- [R8] Fitness Coach Fitness Coach Pros & Cons From My Personal Experience!: Overall this workout app is well designed and is perfect for an experienced and already been working out prior to this app type of person. The daily workout’s recommended for your wants and needs already start at a level of flexibility some people (including me) are not at yet. This is not something I was expecting or thought I would have had
- [R28] Fitness Coach Medium.: When I saw an ad for this app, I was not impressed and continued to scroll. As I kept seeing it repeatedly, I decided to download it. I’ve been trying to become more comfortable in my body with workouts, so I gave this a shot. At first, it was nice. The quiz was really simple and had everything suitable for me. Although, when I got onto day 2, it gave me 7 minute workouts my 12 year old b
- [R59] Fitness Coach Such a fun app!!: I love this app so much, It makes me excited to excersize every morning and I love how it gives you a survey in the beginning about what you need help with I’m happy with the fitness coach I chose and the excersizes are very fun. Totally recommend -Sophia
- [R49] Fitness Coach Inaudible: Audio Instructions went away. Fix it
- [R51] Fitness Coach .: A lot of features but step counting doesn't work
- [R61] Fitbod Great but glitchy: Fitbod got popular now the app makers got lazy. It’s become terribly glitchy and gets stuck on adding new exercises or generating a new workout for hours. Basically I can’t use the app unless it finishes thinking which is taking forever!!!
- [R1] Fitness Coach Scam: I tried this apps free trial and they charged me 14 dollars. I’m trying to get my money back but I’m unsure if I can. I personally wouldn’t recommend using.
- [R15] Fitness Coach Good But: The fitness coach app was good don’t get me wrong. The workouts were easy it was good at showing what to do but when I was going to do my second day to work out, it tried to force me to do a free trial in no matter what I tried to do to try to get out of it I couldn’t do my work out or do any of the other challenges without a thing popping up saying that I have to sign up for the free tr
- [R16] Fitness Coach Total scam if you don’t want to pay: I found this app as an ad on SnapChat and was super excited. First it talks about your wait, age, and a few other things. Then it immediately asks for you to pay $5 either every week or month. Some people might not care, but all I wanted to be just a little fit for the summer! Is that too much to ask?!
- [R18] Fitness Coach Ok: So it does not let you use it for free for a long time
- [R40] Fitness Coach I was scammed: My money was taken and they’re refusing to refund me
- [R79] Fitbod Scam: Once they have your credit card information, they make it impossible for you to cancel. Absolutely a nightmare. The free trial is a bait, they don’t let you see what the app is really about until they get your information and then good luck getting it to cancel.
- [R82] Fitbod STOP TRYING TO TAKE PAYMENT: I’ve been trying for weeks to figure out how to stop this app from taking a payment from my Apple Cash! They are trying to take $69.99 because I did a trial three days through the Planet Fitness app and evidently there was also another three day trial directly through the Fitbod app that’s trying to take out $95.99, but they are trying to charge me both charges and try
- [R32] Fitness Coach My rating: I dont like how we have to pay some people cant afford it $100 per year/ $5 a week otherwise app is amazing
- [R48] Fitness Coach good fitness app but hard to cancel membership: 1. its very expensive, 5$ a week!! crazy 2. extremely hard to cancel 3. a gym is so much better and just research what workouts to do
- [R64] Fitbod Do not use this app unless you wanna get charged with a $100 dollar subscription: I wanted to try the app out so I used the free subscription then after a week it automatically charged 100 bucks for a year. All I want is a refund. Terrible app 0/10 I wouldn’t recommend unless you’d want to get automatically charged.😠
- [R67] Fitbod Nooooooooo: Horrible it told me on an add it was completely free but no over 95.00$ a year!
- [R74] Fitbod The workout app that actually gets you results!: I’ve always just kinda did whatever workout plans I could find, but this app kept me on track and I saw more results in the first three months than I did for two years!! So worth the $15 a month!
- [R88] Fitbod Requires Purchase: Free trial is great, but I’m not starting something if I have to pay abhorrent amounts to maintain
- [R80] Fitbod Buy this app :update: Update: I’ve had this now six years now single best thing I’ve ever purchased to help me with working out they keep updating and fine-tuning not sorry I spent any money on this app at all. It works at the gym. It works at a home gym. it works out in the field. It works everywhere. If you want to workout at home this is the app for you. If you want to work out at a gym this a
- [R86] Fitbod Can’t beat it: Log in your favorite exercises, tell the program the equipment you have available, make your own program up, buy a program online and put it into this app, you have no excuses on this app and you can track your workouts and your progress. Not much more else to say if you don’t get the results it’s on you not on the app.
- [R105] Fitbod Too much variety for limited equipment scenarios.: Great app for progressive overload but it varies the exercises too much day over day. When you have limited equipment or a home gym this requires wasting too much time setting up for new exercises or swapping to exercises you can do. It would be perfect if there was way to select which exercises can be done or build workouts and have it program on
- [R110] Fitbod Excellent: Select and modify my own workout locations and receiving appropriate workouts from Fitbod - excellent, though I’m not confident abdominal crutches should ever be recommended any more due to risk to lumbar!
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store