Athletes Frustrated by Fitness App Bloat

“the fit file thing is great, I already dumped a whole folder of old garmin rides that were just sitting there for years”

“I'm a long-distance runner as my primary mode of exercise. I've got that in the bag. HOWEVER- I am The Worst tm at cross training which I NEED to do to stay fit and healthy as I look down a very real goal of a 100 mile race next year. I'm looking for an app/program/YouTubechannel/something to get me the crosstraining to stay healthy. During COVID, I had a Peleton membership and used it a LOT for yoga, meditation, indoor and outdoor running. I didn't do any of the weightlifting co”

“* No AI was used to write this post * AI was used for the geo spatial functions as well as proper UX decisions * There's an optional, opt-in AI workout assistant”

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“I want to use the common app store. F-Droid. 99% of things are on there (I'm including IzzyOnDroid and other custom repos). Right now I have 73 apps from F-Droid and including this app 3 outside of it (not counting Google Play Store ones here). So no, I don't think it sounds silly at all?”

“imagine tinder for gym buddies should i create a landing page to see if there is any demand :D”

“A few years of staring at my Strava heatmap turned into a completionist thing: I ran every street in Hoboken, then the surrounding NJ towns, and now I'm about 60% through Manhattan. The tools that exist for this (CityStrides mainly) are web-based and sync through Strava, and I run with my phone at home. So I was printing out map screenshots before each run to know which streets I still needed. Eventually I built the thing I actually wanted: every street is a pin you claim by running past it,”

“That’s fair. What would an app need to do differently for you to see it as genuinely useful rather than just another fitness app?”

“I’m going to the gym regularly, but I wouldn’t say I am super invested in this, so what I do is talk to ai once in a few months to adjust a program, export it in pdf and that’s it. I think, though, there are people who pay more attention to this stuff, but answering your question, I wouldn’t, and I don’t think it has something to do with the consistency (I’m doing it pretty consistently lol)”

It’s a boxing training ap p 💪

“Just runn and bike man. All the other are just for show. I am on coros ecosystem my self and in the beginning I was trying to connect everything with my account. Now just runn for fun .”

[MyFitnessPal] ★★★ 3/5 (v26.28.0) — I got this app to plan out my meals and make sure I got enough macronutrients to gain some muscle. I was really excited for the meal…

[MyFitnessPal] ★★ 2/5 (v26.28.0) — Used to be a good app, then they started adding and over complicating everything. Simple is better.

“20M, Just obtained my NASM certification, and looking to branch into a hybrid of in person and online coaching. As an amateur bodybuilder, I have confidence in my ability to handle both bodybuilding clients and lifestyle clients. I don’t want to work in a gym as a w2 trainer. No disrespect to those that do it, but I’m looking to grow as an independent contractor doing both in person and online coaching while in college to hopefully have something that isn’t location dependent as I plan to move a”

“Hello! My name is Claudio and I have been working out for over 7 years now. I am currently 17 and over these 7 years, was able to transform my physique and my moms! I want to pursue fitness as a career by opening a supplement shop in the far future and aswell do social media marketing (in the fitness industry) there is nothing more I love and belive I have alot of knowledge and experience to offer. I wanted to ask how I could market and sell my knowledge and skills. I would like to start selling”

“I have wger and use it now, but it's UI leaves a lot to be desired, lots of taps required to get to do what I want. Wondering what other people use for fitness tracking! Some things I would like, but willing to compromise as I think it's a big list and there's probably not a perfect app for me: 1) lifting tracker where I can input reps/weight for each exercise, ideally different numbers by default to log warm-up and cooldown sets; wger presently lets me make routines that are like de”

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ito.liftora

“Hi, I'm a runner and a cyclist. I record activities with my Coros watch (closed ecosystem, I've just applied to their app dev platform but I'm not expecting much), and I used to retrieve all my data through Strava (for which I have my own oauth app/client+webhooks). However it's now impossible to interact with the Strava API unless you fucking pay for it. So I'm looking for an alternative. I'm looking for a platform that can connect to Coros or Strava, that will let me re”

“i tried linking my garmin and it just sat there loading for like 3 minutes before i gave up. maybe its my browser or something but felt kinda stuck the concept is cool tho, 3 workouts for first reward seems fair enough. im curious what stuff you can actually redeem since i use some of those brands already”

“countfitness.app — link Garmin or Strava once, workouts sync and auto-verify, every session earns points, and points redeem for real products from Thorne, Momentous, NOBULL, and Kane. Free, no subscription. Web app, works anywhere. Two months live, small user base, first redemptions already shipped. I work in finance full-time and built this nights and weekends with AI coding tools — now I need real users to break it. Especially want feedback on: onboarding friction, whether the tracker sync fee”

“Startup Name / URL: Fit Horizon - https://fithorizonapp.com/download Location: Netherlands / global app What it does: Fit Horizon is a free workout tracker for iOS and Android. It focuses on detailed workout logging: exercise variations, target muscles, routines, history, PRs, notes, timers, supersets, and dropsets. Who it is for: Lifters, calisthenics athletes, and people who already track workouts but feel their current app is too limited, too expensive, or too blurry for progression details.”

Thanks that makes sense

“I don't think it's necessarily too niche, but I do think you're aiming at the wrong target. The general public likely won't have a use for this, but body building/fitness comp athletes definitely DO get this granular when programming.”

“Kiln is an AI-powered fitness coach that gets to know you and helps you adjust your workout plans to stay consistent even when life isn't. My biggest barrier to consistently exercising was planning. Having to plan my workouts was friction, and if I had an abnormal week (travel, busy, etc.) adjusting my plan to fit an already disrupted week was even more friction (and often resulted in me falling off exercise for a while). I built Kiln for myself to make it easier to train more consistently,”

“Valen is better than Strong and Hevy. Prove me wrong. None of them know that your traps are at 68% fatigue. Here's the problem. You do Bench Press, Overhead Press, and Dips in the same week. Three different exercises. Three different "days." But they all hammer the same anterior deltoids and triceps. Traditional apps silo these movements — each one is logged, forgotten, and treated as isolated. Your muscles don't work that way. So I built a different model. Valen is built on th”

“A bit of backstory: For the last couple of years I was running my fitness tracking across three different apps — one for logging workouts, one for calories and macros, and one for bodyweight and progress photos. Each one was a separate subscription, and none of them talked to each other. I was paying a genuinely silly amount every month, copy-pasting my weight between apps, and still not getting a picture of everything in one place. So about 9 months ago I started building my own. I'm a solo”

“In another comment you mentioned you've been using it for weight loss. Have you asked if for certain fitness standards for different units/selections/courses etc. to help build a fitness routine? Maybe you asked "What are the Ranger Physical Assessment standards?" and then followed it up with "What was it in XXXX when I went through?" But just don't remember that part? I ask because that's how I've built routines, especially when I was in law enforcement. &quo”

Do you have it for ansroid?

“Man this is a sick idea!! Why dont you expand it to other body parts (Sit ups etc.) and create a elo ranking. i would love to be in the top 10% in each body part, this would actually motivate me a lot”

“finally a lifting app that doesn't want to be my best friend or sell me a subscription, just downloaded”

“not selling anything. just trying to figure out if this is a me problem or if everyone’s quietly losing the same battle. Yes you are, you just changed it to not mention that right here and now. To me that makes you feel dishonest when you're pretending like you're not in the middle of pitching this and getting people to sign up to your waitlist already. (So I deleted my reply.)”

“curious, do you actually hold those blocks or do calls still find a way to leak in? the “no calls before 8” rule sounds clean but i feel like every founder i know has that rule and breaks it by week 2.”

“the 3am thing is the real killer. sleep debt takes out the gym way before the schedule does. respect for the 5:30 grind pre-kids, that’s the move.”

“Before I had kids I'd just get up at 5:30 or 6 and go to the gym, 6 days a week. The trick is to not stay up til like 3am daily. Now that I have kids I work out zero, gained a bunch of weight, and have less time than ever 😂”

“i deleted my last fitness tracker the moment a missed day felt like a moral failing; there is quite enough administrative guilt in my ordinary life without my phone compounding it. your gentle weekly reset feels like a much kinder space to fail.”

That was before kids., wife, or well things other than startup.

“I don't mind the AI art but the AI writing is really bad. Your promo coach shouldn't say 'Main Blocker:' mid paragraph”

“The "notices when you've stopped showing up" part is the actual product here, way more than the tracking - but it's also the riskiest bit, because a guilt nudge that lands wrong doesn't get ignored, it gets the app deleted. One thing I'd test hard: let people pick how aggressive the coach is during onboarding (gentle / direct / drill sergeant), because self-selected accountability reads as motivation while default accountability reads as nagging. And watch your re-engag”

“Hey everyone, maybe you are also into fitness like me. I've been going to the gym and trying to eat right for years but I have been frustratingly stuck in a limbo until recently. My friends have suggested that I start tracking, but the amount of work just seemed too much to overcome. Plus, all the existing apps on the store seem bloated and expensive. It's also 2026, we don't need a database or barcodes anymore, LLMs are really good at image recognition and reading text in multiple l”

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“I had a couple suggestions and would like to enroll as a tester, but I'm not familiar with reddit so if you could give me your socials such as discord or anything, it would be great help, overall it's a great app”

“Hey, I am looking for two videos. Could you suggest or link some if you know any of them? 😊 1) A video that shows what consistency looks like. Just real everyday effort on something that improved someone gradually. 2) A video that shows what being early looks like. Maybe being able to be at peace and calm. People appreciating your discipline and you get time to talk or do something. There multiple motivational videos that give a quote or an AI script. I want to see the real videos. I would real”

“Very cool project, it’s in my to do list to be self hosted soon and the addition of a workout tracker for the app is exactly what I was missing!! I’m currently using Strong ( https://apps.apple.com/it/app/strong-workout-tracker-gym-log/id464254577 ) and would suggest to have a look for inspiration. Overall it works really well! - dynamics of setting exercises weights reps etc is super intuitive - nice graphs/ info of progression (albeit locked behind paywall)”

“Lack of device is the stopper. I don't if I can these just by simulator. It will be lot of back & forth if I start with without actual RingConn rings. But it looks like OpenCircut write backs to Apple health. So you can continue to use Opencircut and then use SparkyFitness mobile app to sync it back to Sparkyfitness server. If someone offers me RingConn ring, I would definitely make it direction integration to it easily.”

DMed. Thanks!

[MyFitnessPal] ★★ 2/5 (v26.27.0) — I’ve been using this app as a competitive bodybuilder for a while, but the new update is terrible. The information used to be much easier to find…

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“Interesting, I didn’t know garmin was able to do that. Might have to give it a try as I hate carrying my phone to the gym. Thanks for sharing”

“My garmin detects all upper body workouts very easily from my arm and hand movements. Probably with a small margin of confusing one workout for another which all i have to do is flip it. Leg workouts like squats cant be auto detected for obvious reasons. But we can design our gym routine and the watch will detect them during the session.”

“Not my app. I'm not OP. I just think that in my case, personally I'd find it very useful if it was available on iOS. What you're describing would be ideal for me, but I'm having a lot of hard time understanding how your watch would be able to accurately predict what exercise you're doing, as per my example above: How would the app magically guess I'm doing a bench press or a dumbbell incline press? How would it know if I'm squatting or Bulgarian split? Is Garmin able”

“I am on Garmin. For your app to make sense.. it should integrate with the watch sdk. Plus companies with apps like garmin and whoop and strava are way ahead in adoption ... not sure what are you trying to achive against the big giants.”

“This is super concrete, thank you. Mid-workout is exactly where friction hurts most because you're between sets and don't want to lose focus, so "search for the exercise" and "adjust on the fly" are the two moments that make or break it. On both of those: Swapping an exercise (different machine taken, subbing movement) should be one tap from inside the active session with your history for the substitute already loaded, not a trip back out to a library search. That&#39”

“Honest question, how do you handle the fact that most people already have separate apps they're committed to for half of these things? Like I'm not switching off my current fitness tracker and budget app just because yours puts them in the same dashboard. The "all in one" pitch sounds great in theory but the bar for each individual module has to be at least as good as the dedicated app or nobody sticks around. What's the one thing Genesis does better than anything else?”

Hey guys, wdy think on this ??

“I recently started at a new gym and am hoping to level up and grow as I do in a new environment. I would like feedback so I can grow throughout the process and be able to adjust quickly. I am hoping for some sort of connection to simply bounce off questions to based on my experience throughout the day or sessions. I would just like small guidance based on questions and experiences that come up and then apply and integrate them. - quite simple It would be fine if it was online through messenger a”

“Yep also already in there but this is a great idea currently 1 win is 1 ladder point. but a system based on your quality of reps could be the next step… appreciate the advice !”

“The Problem: Personal trainers managing 10+ online clients spend hours every week manually adjusting spreadsheets to progress or deload their clients' lifts. The Solution: CoachOS reads the client's logged data (reps, weight, RPE) and automatically drafts the next week's targets based on rules the coach sets. It flags every change so the coach can review, tweak, and send in minutes. Looking for: Fitness coaches, personal trainers, or anyone who runs their own strict programming to te”