Best Fitness Apps Of 2022

Why We Picked It: If you’re all about quick, sweaty and super-efficient workouts, you might love the Freeletics fitness app. It focuses on bodyweight exercises—such as burpees, squats and sit-up variations—which are easy to do anywhere, anytime. It also provides personalized high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts with useful audio coaching to help you get fit fast.

The free version of the app offers 20 bodyweight HIIT workouts, 25 individual exercises, 20 audio-based workouts and access to the support community. Freeletics Coach, which starts at $1.55 a week, includes an AI-powered personal trainer that puts workouts together based on your experience, goals, fitness level and preferences.

Details: The paid version of the app unlocks many more possibilities when it comes to your fitness programming and personal progress. The AI-powered coach combines the effectiveness of HIIT fitness, mindfulness, fitness knowledge and motivation to help you achieve the results you want. It’s also friendly for beginners and advanced athletes alike.

Why We Picked It:Map My Run is one of the original fitness apps for runners. It continues to rank highly, thanks to its expansive features and dedicated community base.

The app’s bank of more than 70 million running routes ensures you always have a new course to try, and it accurately records your distance, pace, elevation, calories burned and more as you move. You can enjoy real-time audio coaching on your GPS-tracked runs, too.

MVP memberships provide advanced data, such as cadence and heart rate tracking, for $5.99 a month or $29.99 a year.

Details: The visual maps provided by Map My Run are some of the best available. You can create a route map ahead of time using the simple online interface, and you can review every detail about your run within the map itself after you’ve logged your workout. The MVP membership also includes live GPS tracking, which allows you to share your location with friends and family in real-time for additional safety.

Why We Picked It: If your favorite thing about fitness is the sense of community and social connection it provides, Strava could be for you. The app is designed for exercisers who enjoy a little friendly competition as they run, bike and swim their way to peak fitness. With Strava, you can join workout challenges with other app users, share photos from your sweat sessions and even follow your friends’ fitness activities. Meanwhile, it covers the important basics like tracking your workout distance, speed and endurance.

Strava Summit, the subscription version of the app, houses many of the features users love most. For $7.99 a month or $60 a year, you can set your specific fitness or race training goals within the app, and it will equip you with customizable training plans and live feedback to make your workouts even more efficient.

Details: You can also compete on segments with friends, compare your past efforts, and review advanced performance metrics to better analyze your training patterns and performance.

Why We Picked It: Successful strength training requires smart program planning, and that’s where JEFIT shines. The free version of the app has a database of more than 1,300 exercises to help you plan the specifics of your weightlifting sessions and track total reps and weights used in the training log tracker. The log helps you keep tabs on your body composition changes as well as you track your weight, body fat percentage and more independently. You can even connect with fellow lifters. The app also comes equipped with set training programs appropriate for all training levels for those who want to follow an expert rather than be one.

For $6.99 a month or $39.99 a year, the elite membership removes ads and gives you access to advanced training reports, featured workout sets and more.

Details: JEFIT is both a mobile app and a web-based app, and many users find it easier to plan workouts on their computers and then execute them with the help of their smartphones. While working out, the app also times your rest breaks between sets to help keep your strength training work on track. Users describe the interface as simple, intuitive and easy to use, and many are active in the support community space.

Why We Picked It: When you’re building a fitness habit, it’s hard to beat the benefits of live workout classes. With its 200+ live classes a week, Openfit provides clear and safe instruction from certified trainers, a sense of accountability to keep you on track, and genuine motivation that makes fitness fun. It’s also loaded with hundreds of on-demand classes to keep you going no matter your schedule.

Unlimited access to all classes and app features is $38.99 for three months, $59.99 for six months or $95.99 a year.

Details: Openfit is a newcomer to the fitness app scene (it launched in early 2019), but it’s growing rapidly, adding more trainers, classes and programs each week. Beyond the workouts, which range from 15 to 40 minutes, Openfit also provides personalized nutrition programs, meal plans and tracking, monthly exercise challenges and an active virtual fitness community.

Why We Picked It: Seven’s workouts are based on research first published by the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health and Fitness Journal suggesting you can get an effective aerobic workout in just seven minutes a day. How? By consecutively performing a handful of compound movements that activate larger muscle groups. The app is far from flashy, but it provides clear video demonstrations and audio cues for every workout, which is all you need to make those minutes count.

The 7 Club, the app’s subscription option, gives you personal workout plans that cater to your specific fitness level, access to 200+ workouts and support and guidance from a personal trainer for $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year.

Details : Users receive achievement badges for various workout milestones, which many people enjoy sharing with their friends.

Why We Picked It: For those who crave the boutique fitness studio experience from the comfort of their own space, it’s tough to beat Peloton’s at-home fitness app. Don’t worry—you don’t have to own a bike or treadmill from the popular fitness brand to access and enjoy all the accompanying app has to offer.

For $12.99 a month, you can access all of Peloton’s live studio and on-demand classes, from boot camp and strength training to cycling and treadmill running. It even features audio-only programs for folks who want to take their workouts outdoors.

Details: Users rave about the wide variety of class options, as well as how connected they feel to other exercisers when they join the live classes. You can encourage others with digital high fives, follow friends to view their progress, join monthly challenges to stay motivated and more. Peloton also provides guided programs for people with specific goals in mind, such as training for their first marathon.

Why We Picked It: When dropping pounds is your primary goal, it’s important to pursue it with the one-two punch of effective exercise and smart nutrition. 8fit clearly delivers in both areas. It offers custom workout and food plans, encouraging lifestyle change over unsustainable diets.

The workout programming uses mostly bodyweight-based training so you can exercise no matter where you are, and each workout only takes 5 to 20 minutes, catering to the busiest among us. Meanwhile, the app provides tailored meal plans to encourage proper nutrition and support your weight loss efforts successfully in the kitchen.

The Pro version of the app unlocks all workouts, meal plan customizations and food shopping lists for $25 a month, $60 for six months or $80 a year.

Details: 8fit can also assist people looking to get fit or gain muscle, as it adjusts your fitness protocols and dietary needs to those specific goals.

Why We Picked It: This app gives you the perks of personal training without the hefty price tag. In 2020, Nike made the app’s premium content permanently free. You can access multi-week training programs catered to your specific fitness goals as well as more than 100 standalone workout videos.

When you download the app, a quiz asks what kind of workouts interest you most and how many times a week you want to exercise. Based on your answers, it recommends a few four- to eight-week structured programs consisting of 10- to 60-minute workouts. Nike Training Club’s workout offering runs the gamut, from yoga to bodyweight boot camps to core training.

Details: Nike Training Club provides workouts for exercisers of all fitness levels, giving every user a safe starting point. And the more you use the app, the more it learns from you, basing its recommendations and encouragement on your workout history to keep you engaged and motivated. It also offers nutrition, recovery, sleep and mindset advice.

Why We Picked It: This popular yoga apparel brand doesn’t disappoint with its yoga app, which is loaded with more than 1,500 different video classes from world-class yoga instructors. Once you share a few details about your fitness goals, the app delivers personalized class recommendations. You can also filter classes by style, difficulty, time, and instructor to best suit your mood and schedule.

Alo Moves offers a 14-day free trial before charging you $20 a month for unlimited access to all classes.

Details: Many popular yoga apps invest much more time and energy into their iOS experience than their Android one, but Alo Moves is one of the few top yoga apps that’s beloved by Android users as well. It also offers fitness and mindfulness videos in addition to yoga classes, giving its users a robust experience with a single, reasonably priced subscription.