Top 10 Best Free Fitness Apps in 2022

Good fitness apps will motivate you either by prompting you to get in more activity (like a great step counter) or by offering fun, inventive at-the-gym or at-home workouts that are doable for beginners but never get boring.

Whether you’re new to fitness and are looking for something to help get you started, or are someone who just needs a little more accountability, these Top 10 Fitness apps will help you meet all of your health and fitness goals this year.

1.FitOn

• App Store rating 4.9
• Google Play rating 4.8

Free, with in-app purchases

When you want a library of on-demand workouts, this is the app you need. All workouts are completely free to access, and you’ll find workouts from celebrity trainers — and you can sweat with celebs themselves, like actress Gabrielle Union. Customized workout plans can help you reach your goal — and watching a live leaderboard might just help light a fire under you to really push.

2.Strava: Run, Ride, Swim

• App Store rating: 4.8
• Google Play rating: 4.5

Free, with in-app purchases

• Not only can you track your activity (running, biking, swimming) in terms of duration, pace, and distance, and analyze your progress, but this app also connects you to a community of fit-minded folks.
• Gain motivation by virtually participating with or competing against friends, check out what other people are doing, and discover routes you never knew existed.

3.MyFitnessPal Workout App

• App Store rating: 4.8
• Google Play rating: 4.5

Free, with in-app purchases

There are a lot of seven-minute-workout apps out there, but this one is extremely easy to use. (If you’re not familiar with the seven-minute workout challenge, it involves 12 high-intensity body-weight exercises performed for 30 seconds each with about six seconds of rest in between.) You can purchase additional seven-minute workouts through the app, too. “The theory is that you don’t need a lot of time to get in a great workout. And it can be performed in your living room,” says Srinath.

Need more proof that it works? The American College of Sports Medicine published a study in an issue of its Health & Fitness Journal concluding that this type of circuit training can be a “fast and efficient way to lose excess body weight and body fat.” What’s more, a review and meta-analysis published online in January 2019 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine revealed that while interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training, or MOD (think a long jog or bike ride where you’re moderately pushing yourself), both resulted in weight loss, interval training ended up reducing participants’ body fat by 28.5 percent more than MOD.

5.Nike Training Club 

• App Store rating: 4.9
• Google Play rating 4.5

Free

This is best for the person who really does want to improve endurance and flexibility, build muscle, and better their performance. But don’t let that stop you if you’re new to exercise. The featured workouts, which you can easily sort by target muscle groups, workout type (strength, endurance, yoga), or duration, are suitable for various ability levels.