If you’re anything like me, having to actually leave home to get a workout in is the absolute pits. Will it feel great to get a quick sweat sesh in after a long workday hunched over a laptop screen? Yes! Of course! But is it also a pain to motivate yourself to actually get to the gym? Yes. All. The. Time. That’s where fitness apps come in, my loves.
The options are literally endless! If you want to do a quick 15-minute pilates class before a Zoom meeting check out the app appropriately named “Pilates anytime.” Looking to strengthen those glutes without having to pay for an IRL trainer, welp like 90 percent of the apps below these can help you do exactly that (my faves include Apple Fitness+, SWEAT, and FitBody, just sayin’).
Peep the 27 best fitness apps (in my humble home-workout-enthusiast opinion) that will actually make fitness chill again. Well, I guess that depends on what you mean by chill. 😉
If you love to track your progress on your Apple Watch
Apple Fitness+
Always the first in line for a new Apple product? Meet your new best friend. It’s the first and only product that is completely built around your Apple Watch. Besides getting to choose from a huge catalog of classes (HIIT, yoga, strength, etc.), you can track your entire workout in real time. There are classes available for all levels of fitness–including ones made specifically for older adults and pregnant women. Oh, and you’ll get access to new classes every week, so boredom is certainly not an issue.
Free for 3 months or $10/month or $80/year on the App Store
If you want a little bit of everything
GrpFit
This app features a full library of guided workouts, customized workout plans (for three, four, or six weeks!), health tracking, and a community to share your fitness journey with others. On-demand classes are also offered and taught by instructors that specialize in workouts like Soca Dance Fitness, Dancehall fitness, Hip Hop Yoga, and more.
Free on the App Store or $20/month or $100/year for a premium subscription.
If you’re looking to train like a legit athlete
Tone House TV
Strength and conditioning workouts just got sooo much easier at home. The app features athlete-based training courses ranging from 15 to 60 minutes for working out your upper body, core, and lower body. There are also some A+ recovery sessions as well (safety first!). Each class is led by an expert trainer and doesn’t require a whole lot of equipment. My bank account is crying tears of joy.
$20/month or $150/year (with a 7-day free trial) on the App Store and Google Play
If you prefer pilates over yoga
Pilates Anytime
With over 3,400 classes for all levels, you can explore different challenges and even follow along with customized programs for the best possible workout. Yes, even if that means just fitting in a quick pulse or two before bed.
$18/month or $200/year (with a 15-day free trial) on the App Store and Google Play
If you’re looking for some self-care
The Underbelly
Feeling stressed and need to let out some built-up tension? Yoga workouts on The Underbelly app (led by yoga instructor Jessamyn Stanley) are centered on practicing mindfulness through yoga and finding peace (sign me TF up). If you need to ~zen out~ and get in touch with your inner yogi, this is the app for you.
Free to download and $9.99/month for a subscription on the App Store and Google Play
If you’re into boutique classes:
Barry’s X
You can now stream the infamous strength and cardio interval classes from the “Red Room” right into your very own bedroom! The app provides access to 150+ fully live classes from your favorite Barry’s instructors. Oh, and if you’re more into working out on your own time, there’s an extensive catalog of on-demand content as well.
Free to download with in-app classes and subscriptions for purchase on The App Store and Google Play
If you want to be a part of a community:
Fit Body App
Anna Victoria wants to make it as easy as possible for you to work out. She offers three different kinds of workouts through her app: Tone (strength and cardio), Shred (high-intensity body-weight only exercises), and Sculpt (gym-based strength training). The app also offers members-only Facebook pages and newsletters for FBG girls to connect with other FBG girls as an option to trudge through the workouts together.
$20/month or $120/year on the App Store and Google Play
If you’re new to this whole fitness thing:
FIT
Emily Skye, an Australian-based fitness model turned personal trainer created plans that allow you to work out from home or venture to a gym. Each plan is comprised of five new workouts a week. Bonus fact: After Emily’s first pregnancy, she used her own app to start building up her strength again—and documented it all on her Instagram here.
$20/month or $120/year on the App Store and Google Play
If you have absolutely no free time ever:
Seven
The rumors are true: These workouts only take seven—yes, seven!!!—minutes. But in the words of my lord and savior Britney Spears, you gotta work, b*tch… even if it’s only seven minutes. The app’s creators say each workout is meant to provide the maximum benefit in the shortest time possible (so yeah, it won’t be easy—but it will be over soon). Set your goal and fitness level to optimize results for the quickest, most effective workout you could ask for.
Free on the App Store and Google Play or $10/month or $60/year for 7 Club Membership
If you like to have a lot of options:
All Out Studio
Sometimes you want to start a real fitness program with guidelines and rules—and sometimes you just want to take a cardio dance class in your pajamas and call it a day. Welp, All Out Studio is pretty awesome for both situations. The app has more than 100 on-demand workout videos you can stream anytime taught by certified trainers. You can choose from strength sessions, yoga and stretching workouts, dance cardio classes, each ranging from 10 to 60 minutes. If you want an actual regimen, the app also has plans you can follow along with created by Insta-famous trainers. Who says being indecisive is a bad thing?
$15/month or $90/year on the App Store and Google Play
If you want to level up your belfie game:
Tammy Fit
Model and fitness influencer Tammy Hembrow created her strength-based fitness app to help people get a “piece of the Tammy Hembrow lifestyle.” And, just guessing here, I think they mean her butt. Sign up for the app, enter info about your fitness goals and your current activity level, and the app suggests a plan. Each plan features three to five workouts a week, focusing on resistance and weight training. There’s something for everyone here, but judging by the before and after pics on the app’s Instagram page, booty gains are definitely included.
$15.49/month or $74/year on the App Store and Google Play
If you love your Fitbit:
Fitbit: Health & Fitness
If you want your fitness app to know your entire life, this is your jam. The Fitbit app uses data collected from your wearable, like the Fitbit Versa, to recommend exercises specifically for you and your fitness level. From there, you’ll follow equipment-free workouts via video demonstration on the app or follow along as the app audio coaches you through a run or walk. If you upgrade to premium, you’ll get additional features like personalized guidance based on your fitness goals, and deeper insight into your health.
Free on the App Store and Google Play or $10/month or $80/year for Fitbit Premium
If you’re all about aesthetics:
Obé Fitness
We’re not giving out superlatives here, but if we were, this would be named “most fashionable,” thanks to the rainbow-colored room each workout is shot in. But she’s not all about looks. The app features live classes (15 per day, to be exact!) and streaming workouts, like strength and resistance training, yoga, and cardio. Although Obé suggests you do three strength training and two cardio classes per week, you can totally choose your own adventure here.
$27/month or $200/year on the App Store and Google Play
If challenges get you psyched to work out:
30-Day Fitness Challenge
Download the app, create your profile, and enter how many pushups you can do, how long you can run, and how often you exercise. The app will then put together weekly equipment-free workout routines. That’s cool and all, but the 30-day challenge feature will get you even more pumped about going after your fitness goals. Select a challenge like Cardio Blast and tune in daily for your workout vid, which ranges from 14 to 26 minutes each.
$5/week on the App Store and Google Play
If you want to include this fitness thing in your daily routine:
8fit
Are you out here just trying to move your body more than you normally do? Well, 8fit chooses a workout plan for you based on your goals and starting point—like how many pushups you can do in a row. From there, you can expect a bodyweight workout three to five days a week. Plus, the app can also track your steps. And if that 10- to 20-minute sweat sesh isn’t enough for you, throw in one of their classes like yoga and core strength.
$60/year or $30/3 months on the App Store and Google Play
If you don’t own a single fitness prop:
Freeletics Bodyweight
The free version of this app includes 900 equipment-free workouts based on time rather than a set number of reps. Chose between high-intensity interval training and strength-building workouts, which last between five and 30 minutes. For a fitness assessment and custom plan to help you reach specific fitness goals, like building muscle or increasing your endurance, you can opt into a 12-week coaching plan beginning at $35.
Free on the App Store and Google Play
If you’re brand stinkin’ new to working out:
Aaptiv
Aaptiv has more than 2,500 on-demand workouts lasting as few as seven minutes for different fitness levels, including beginner. Each sweat session is led by a trainer who talks you through a treadmill or outdoor run, elliptical session, race training, cycling, strength training, stretching, or yoga. Even better: Each is set to a playlist made of popular songs you might actually know, as opposed to lame stock music.
$15/month, $100/year (with 7-day free trial) on the App Store and Google Play
If you’re prepared to start running again:
C25K 5K Trainer
Set your sights on a mini goal of running a 5K in two months with the app that literally talks you through three 30- to 40-minute runs (including a five-minute warm-up and cooldown) per week. Don’t worry: Each session alternates between walking and running so you can build up your endurance and includes an optional playlist that will keep you in the zone.
$5/month or $50/year on the App Store and Google Play
If you srsly can’t handle long workouts:
Workout for Women
If you like your workouts quick and dirty, this totally free (!!!) app exclusively offers seven-minute workouts—no equipment needed. Featuring a mix of strength-building and cardio moves like butt kicks, squat jumps, donkey kicks, and planks. Each workout includes video and audio instructions to keep you motivated and your form on point.
Free on the App Store and Google Play
If you’re trying to like running:
Nike Run Club
Whether your goal is to survive each mile or hit a new personal record, you need motivation and instructions to get you going. The Nike Run Club app, has tons of guided runs: short ones, long ones, speed ones, slow ones, ~mindful~ ones. There’s just a ton of ’em. Trust, getting back into the groove is a lot easier with a coach talking you through each mile.
Free on the App Store and Google Play
If you love yoga but would rather not pay per class:
Daily Yoga
For the price of one hella bougie yoga class, you get 12 months of access to more than 100 guided beginner to master-level yoga and meditation videos with audio instructions. The app also features yoga workout plans for various goals, like increasing mindfulness or building strength. And if you want to master one specific pose, like a headstand, you can choose from more than 500 moves and follow the video instructions. You’ll be upside-down in no time, bb!
$10/month or $40/year on the App Store and Google Play
If you live for variety:
Studio Tone It Up
From Instagram-famous Tone It Up trainers Karena Dawn and Katrina Scott, this app offers a fresh GIF-based workout every day—for free. If you’re feeling extra, you can purchase a Studio membership, which offers access to 40 on-demand workout videos, including yoga, kickboxing, cardio, toning, kettlebell, and strength training. The upgrade also features new live-streaming classes every week, which you can join via your phone.
$13/month or $84/year on the App Store and Google Play
If you want to break a sweat without having to actually run:
Nike Training Club
Cardio is hard, but you definitely don’t have to jump on a treadmill to get it done. Nike Training Club has more than 160 mostly fast-paced 15- to 45-minute workouts (including circuit training, bodyweight training, and weight training) that get your heart rate up fast. Filter workouts based on body part, required equipment, or goal, like building endurance or strength. You can then follow an instructional video, or once you’ve mastered your form (or your phone’s battery is low), refer to a list of moves. The app also has yoga and stretching routines for when you need a breather.
Free on the App Store and Google Play
If you love Spin but hate the pricey classes:
Peloton Cycling and Workouts
This app brings live Spin classes and on-demand cycling workouts to your phone for a fraction of the cost of most cycling studios. The monthly membership gets you 14 live-streaming rides per day (lol, good luck). When you need a break from the bike, tune into one of 8,000 on-demand exercise videos, which also include classes like yoga, strength training, and stretching.
$13/month on the App Store and Google Play
If you need some guidance in the weight room:
SWEAT
Intrigued but inexperienced? Learn the basics of lifting with SWEAT’s four-week PWR program for beginners, which entails three weight-training sessions plus three cardio workouts per week. Led by Instagram fitness star Kelsey Wells, it preps you for the app’s 12-week strength-building program, which involves heavy-weight, low-rep exercises performed with free weights or weight machines.
Each workout lasts 45 minutes to an hour and includes an eight-minute warm-up; three to four sets of three different strength-training moves; two sets of circuit training; and a five-minute cool-down. Around week five, expect an extra two minutes of burnout exercises designed to push you to the limit at the end of your workout.
Bonus: The app also provides access to Kayla Itsines’s low-key famous program, a fitness plan based on bodyweight exercises to keep your strength up on days you can’t get to the gym, and 20+ other programs from barre to HIIT.
$20/month on the App Store and Google Play
If you want to lift your butt:
30-Day Squat Challenge
You don’t have to do squats for booty gains, but they definitely don’t hurt. Depending on your fitness level, daily workouts include as few as 10 basic squats (in the beginner level one program) or as many as 50 wide squats and 50 sumo squats (in the advanced level two program). From there, the app gradually turns up the intensity by increasing reps and incorporating more difficult squat variations over the course of 30 days. Each week includes one rest day to help your muscles recover.
Free on the App Store
If you want to sculpt your core:
Sworkit Abs and Core
This mini, free version of the subscription-based Sworkit app features three core workouts: one for your abs, one for your back, and one that targets both. Once you pick your routine, select how much time you have (between five and 55 minutes), and the app puts together a series of challenging but easy-to-follow exercises. Each move is demonstrated via video and an audio voiceover, which calls out the next move when it’s time to switch. Over time, as you get stronger, you can lengthen workouts to challenge yourself even more.
Free to download with in-app purchases on the App Store and Google Play
If your body is sore AF:
Stretching and Flexibility Plans
When everything hurts, this app will guide you through 50 stretching routines sorted by fitness level and workout time via instructional video to improve your flexibility and (hopefully) ease your pain a little. Or if you want to go rogue, you can create your own stretching routine.
$10/six months or $18/year on the App Store
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