Sweat is an extremely well-known and reputable brand made popular by Kayla Itsines, who started with her journey performing high intensity workouts and sharing them online.

Her mission is to help as many women as possible to achieve their ideal level of fitness and to feel more confident and happy.

The Sweat app has more than 34,000 five star reviews from women all over the globe and has programs available from a variety of different influential trainers in the industry.

Pros

• ✓ Extensive array of different training programs – there’s something for everyone.
• ✓ Great degree of personalisation – programs will help you get tailored results.
• ✓ Huge online community – feel supported and get your questions answered.

FitOn was founded in 2018 by creator Lindsay Cook, who found her self in a predicament.

As her life began to overflow as her career developed, she found it more and more difficult to make time to get into her favourite fitness studio and stay active.

She found herself disappointed by the quality of the information available, so, created FitOn to give everyday people access to world-class trainers, rich content and engaging and easy to use tools to help you achieve their fitness goals.

Pros

• ✓ High quality content, giving you an extremely enjoyable experience.
• ✓ In-depth programming, with workouts building on one another.
• ✓ Great beginner program for those just starting out.

Centr was founded by Chris Hemsworth and his team of handpicked fitness experts in 2019.

Hemsworth gave new users the ability to use the app’s full functionality for free during the events of 2020, when people were forced to stay at home to work out.

As a result, Centr received over 100,000 downloads in their first month and over 1.4 million downloads in the first year. It is now one of the most popular fitness apps on the market.

Pros

• ✓  Extensive onboarding questions, giving you a tailored fitness experience.
• ✓  Sophisticated programming, giving you the best chance of optimal results.
• ✓  There is something for everyone, with an extensive array of program.
• ✓  Shopping list function makes it easy to meal prep each week

Freeletics is a fitness and mindset coaching app powered by artificial intelligence created in 2013 by Joshua Cornelius, Andrej Matijczak and Mehmet Yilmaz in Germany.

After years of development, Freeletics has become the number 1 fitness app in Europe with over 600,000 paid subscribers and currently sports over 48,000,000 million downloads across 160 countries.

Freeletics is great option for beginner and intermediate users looking to kickstart their health and fitness journey, utilising state of the art AI technology to expertly curate a list of workouts tailored to your needs through their endless exercise library, ensuring that you never get bored.

Pros

• ✓ Huge variety of exercises
• ✓ Perfect for those on the move
• ✓ Amazing AI Coaching

The idea for Aaptiv came to life in 2015 when founder Ethan Agarwal began to find it difficult to maintain fitness during his business travels.

Searching for a solution he began to look for an audio guided platform that could help him stay focus and motivated on his run. After struggling to find a solution, Agarwal decided to start Aaptiv. With over 200,000 active users, Aaptiv quickly became one of the top audio and video guided fitness platforms on the market.

Aaptiv is a good choice if you’re a fitness beginner looking for simple, predominantly audio-based, personalised workouts. However, Aaptiv is limited for those who want nutritional guidance, access to more advanced training or don’t like cumbersomely switching between video and audio.

Pros

• ✓ Great for people on the go who like audio-based training
• ✓ Personalised workouts
• ✓ Clear, concise and easy to follow

Fitbod was founded by Jesse Venticinque and Allen Chen in 2015 and has since amassed a strong following of around 100,000 monthly downloads.

Using the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Fitbod offers users an affordable and completely customisable weights tracking experience, delivering a new, personalised workout every single day.

Pros

• ✓ Extensive Programming
• ✓ Awesome Customisation
• ✓ Great For All Skill Levels
• ✓ Recovery Heat Map
• ✓ Great Value for Money

BetterMe was founded by Victorian Repa, a Ukrainian born, ambitious businesswomen who has since grown the weight-loss focused fitness app to over 80 millions downloads, 150,000 active users and a mammoth 1.3 million instagram followers!

BetterMe is a great option for beginner and intermediate users hoping to focus on losing weight through a combination of basic workouts, macronutrient tracking and accountability. 

Pros

• ✓ Awesome Education And Community
• ✓ Good for all skill levels
• ✓ Great personalisation
• ✓ Gives you small tangible tasks to follow