Best Fitness Apps of 2026

Nike Training Club is the rare free fitness app that holds up. Nike scrapped its Premium tier at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and has kept everything free since. There is no paid tier, no upsell, no introductory promo expiring to a paid plan.

The library covers 185 workouts across strength, HIIT, yoga, mobility, recovery, and mindfulness, with multi-week training programs running 4 to 12 weeks and Master Trainer led classes. Equipment levels span bodyweight only, dumbbells, and full home gym. Apple Watch and Apple Health integration are built in, and the app works on iPhone, Android, and iPad.

What it does not have is live classes or instructor messaging, and the new-content cadence is slower than paid apps. But for testing whether home workouts will stick, it is the obvious starting point. If you finish a four-week program and want more depth, that is when you start paying for one of the others.

Strava is the runner and cyclist default with about 75 million active monthly athletes. The free tier covers activity tracking, the social feed, and basic segment leaderboards, and that is enough for many people forever.

Subscriber Monthly at $11.99 (raised from $5 in 2023, which caused a real backlash) unlocks Routes, Live Segments, Beacon, and personal heatmaps. The Annual at $79.99 saves 44 percent and lands at $6.66 a month. After Strava acquired Runna for $229 million in April 2025, a Strava plus Runna bundle is available at $149.99 a year and adds AI run coaching for 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon distances. It connects to Garmin, Apple Watch, Wahoo, Polar, COROS, and Suunto via API.

The catch is that Strava is endurance-only: running, cycling, triathlon, swimming, hiking. There is no gym content, no yoga, no strength videos. If your training does not move on a map, this is not the app.

Apple Fitness+ has stayed at the same price since it launched in 2020, which makes it one of the few stable prices in this category. The Annual works out to $6.66 a month equivalent, saves 33 percent, and is what most savers go for. You need an Apple Watch for the full experience because heart rate and HRV show on screen during the workout.

The library is broad: strength, yoga, HIIT, Pilates, meditations, with Spatial Audio and SharePlay for working out with people remotely.

The bigger pricing story is Apple One Premier, which bundles Music, iCloud 2TB, TV+, News, Arcade, and Fitness+ for $37.95 a month. If you already pay for four or five of those, the marginal cost of adding Fitness+ via Premier works out to around $5 a month. If you don't, standalone Fitness+ is the sane choice. Android and Galaxy Watch users are simply locked out.

Fitbod is the strength-training specialist for people who lift seriously. The free tier gives you three sample workouts and the basic exercise library; everything useful is behind Premium.

Premium Monthly is $15.99 and Annual is $95.99 a year, which lands at $7.99 a month equivalent and saves 50 percent. Both prices went up about 20 percent in 2025 from $12.99 monthly and $79.99 annual. What you pay for is an AI lifting plan that adapts to muscle recovery, available equipment, and training goals (powerlifting, bodybuilding, general strength). It tracks workout history and 1RM progression, integrates with Apple Watch and Apple Health, and works with anything from a single dumbbell set to a full barbell home gym.

The main usability weakness is the exercise demonstrations: most are illustrated with text and animated diagrams, not full video. Some readers prefer that for speed, but if you want video form-cues you will go elsewhere.

MyFitnessPal is the calorie and macro tracker most people end up on, mostly because the food database is the deepest at around 20 million items (the next-largest, Lose It, has about 7 million).

The free tier handles calorie counting, exercise logging, and step tracking, with ads. Premium Monthly at $19.99 strips the ads and adds macro tracking, custom calorie goals, and an intermittent fasting timer. Premium Annual at $79.99 a year is $6.66 a month equivalent and saves 67 percent over monthly, which is the biggest annual discount in this lineup. A Premium+ tier joined in 2024 to 2025 at $24.99 monthly (or $99.99 annual) and adds meal planning, automatic grocery lists, and Instacart integration.

The app integrates with Apple Health, Garmin, Fitbit, Oura, and Whoop. The free tier ads got noticeably more aggressive after Under Armour spun the app out to private equity in 2020, which is the main complaint readers raise.

Peloton restructured the App in October 2025 into three tiers, and most readers will want App ONE. It covers strength, HIIT, yoga, outdoor running, and meditation. No equipment required.

App+ is the upgrade you want if you have cardio equipment, because the cardio-equipment classes (cycling, treadmill, rower, walking) work with any brand, not just Peloton. All-Access is mandatory if you bought a Peloton Bike, Tread, or Row.

The library runs to roughly 30,000 live and on-demand classes, the largest in this lineup, and the production quality is the best here. One quirk to know: our typical-tier math grabs App+ at $28.99 even though most app subscribers pay $12.99 for App ONE. The score on the page is dragged down because of that, but you can recompute it once you know which tier you are actually buying.

Whoop bundles a wearable into the subscription, which is the unusual move in this category. There is no upfront device fee. The 5.0 and MG hardware launched in May 2025 and replaced the old $30 monthly and $24 24-month model.

The three tiers ship different bands and unlock different metrics. One ships the WHOOP 5.0 with a basic charger and CoreKnit band. Peak adds a wireless PowerPack, SuperKnit band, and the Stress, Healthspan, and Pregnancy modules. Life ships the medical-grade WHOOP MG with on-demand ECG, Blood Pressure Insights, AFib detection, and CGM compatibility.

The wearable doesn't have a screen and won't push notifications by design; you read the data in the app. Compare to the standalone wearables you'd otherwise buy: Apple Watch SE 2 at $249, Garmin Forerunner 165 at $249, Oura Ring Gen 4 at $349. Hardware-included isn't always cheaper over five years, but it eliminates the upfront sting.