Planet Fitness vs Workout for Women
Choose Planet Fitness for a more reliable gym experience and app functionality.
Planet Fitness offers a more stable app experience and a larger community of satisfied users, while Workout for Women has faced significant backlash due to its paywall and ad interruptions. Both apps have their strengths, but Planet Fitness stands out for its overall reliability and user satisfaction.
Head to head
you want a reliable gym experience with a functional app and low-cost membership options.
you prefer at-home workouts and are willing to navigate ads and paywalls for a variety of exercises.
Evidence note: Planet Fitness has a significant number of positive reviews, but recent reviews show frustration with app functionality. Workout for Women has a mix of positive and negative reviews, particularly around its recent monetization changes, which have led to user dissatisfaction.
Frequently asked
Is Planet Fitness free to use?
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.
- [R9] Planet Fitness 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
- [R33] Planet Fitness Ease and functional: I am glad to have an easy way to log my fitness goals and be able to shop for merchandise and such, what an awesome way it is to keep the fitness world in touch!
- [R61] Workout for Women Excellent No-Equipment HIIT App: I love this app for quick HIIT sessions. It is tailored for all fitness levels, and you do not need any equipment. The free version has a lot of annoying ads, and many plans are locked, but you can still do several one-off exercises. However, they usually offer really good deals on the premium version. The premium plans are great and offer so much variety, which is
- [R70] Workout for Women Used to be better: I use the free version of this app and there have been lots of negative changes made. Now I’m no longer able to use the widget for this app or Siri integration, the daily 7 free workout now is behind a pay wall or a 90s ad. And you’re only allowed to use the daily 7 workout 1x every 24 hours which is a disappointment. The app is still good and I’ve used it for years, I’m just di
- [R3] Planet Fitness Horrible: It is extremely slow and won’t work or load 90% of the time
- [R4] Planet Fitness 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
- [R53] Workout for Women One problem: The 1st day I used this app I enjoyed the exercises but now everything apart from the free daily 7 costs money and you have to watch a 90s ad and it’s annoying
- [R66] Workout for Women DO Not Recommend ads !!!: This used to be a good app but now unless you pay more there are ads at the beginning which you can’t seem to close before you do your workout Really Disappointed
- [R10] Planet Fitness 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.
- [R24] Planet Fitness App will not load: Idk why but app will not load.
- [R90] Workout for Women Subscribe: I have just paid for yearly subscription and it won’t let me enter says no subscription paid so total scam AVOID
- [R88] Workout for Women Watching ads before accessing workouts: This is a good app I’ve been using this app for about 3-4 years, however it’s quite annoying that you have to watch ads even when the workout is under 10mins. It feels wasteful to have to watch a 90 second ad just for your workout to be 4mins like one of the stretches I do. Not all of us can afford to go premium and everyone should have the right to look aft
- [R18] Planet Fitness 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.
- [R72] Workout for Women Used to be free: Used to be free. Now you have to pay
- [R57] Workout for Women No option to use this app for free: No option to use this app for free, that saddens me
- [R64] Workout for Women don’t bother wasting your time: used to be good and accessible now a joke, the ai art, ads to access a basic workout and features that used to be free now behind a stupid paywall. if you genuinely care about making progress and your health put that money towards your diet and gym equipment at home or for the gym but there’s no point spending a dime on this app you literally can’t access anything w
- [R19] Planet Fitness Portsmouth NH: I’ve been coming here for years now and I’ve never had any issues or problems with anything here. Everything’s always on and working, that I can remember anyways. I’m pretty sure the same woman has been working here since I started coming here too. I’ve never had any issues issue with anything, an employee or a member either. It’s quiet, clean, and everyone is friendly. I love this
- [R26] Planet Fitness Can’t cancel: They are impossible to cancel. Website is always down, and then you have to go in person. Brutal
- [R68] Workout for Women scammers: Signed up to a 7 day “free trial” and was charged £19.99 straight away
Synthesized from 100 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store