Leave a Review Stretching & Flexibility
Love the app!
Great exercises, love the timer, love the variety of options, love the create your own option. Reasonable price for what we get. My only suggestion would be to make the subscription available on a monthly basis to get more people hooked!Ushagu
Disappointing
This app had such a high rating, but in my opinion it doesn’t live up to the hype. I could have saved $40 (sale price)and used the timer on my iPhone. Granted, I’ve only been using the app for a week, it is what it is. Thankful I have knowledge on how to stretch properly. There are no descriptions whatsoever on any of the stretches - just a drawing of what the stretch looks like. I had to google one stretch I wasn’t familiar with. A static drawing with a hand on the chest tells me nothing. I would consider myself pretty knowledgeable about stretching positions, but no clue.
One feature and reason I got the app in the first place was to keep me motivated to stretch daily. Since the pandemic, it’s been hard to get back into a rhythm working out. I’ve had many orthopedic surgeries and dealing with chronic pain. I was doing yoga at least four times a week before Covid and purchased a used Peloton to work out on while stuck at home. The last two years have been bogged down by grief. Instead of doing what I always do and jump back into working out full force, I thought daily stretching would be a great way to ease back. Hopefully, since I paid for this app for a year, it will keep me moving daily. The app definitely needs some upgrades and changes. Unless it greatly improves, I will not be renewing my subscription.Show lessrocknrollmamacita
TOTAL SCAM NO FREE TRIAL
I am so upset with this purchase. Basically paid 40 dollars (half price “deal”) for a one year subscription with no trial period or video so I guys I am the idiot. Went to use it tonight and I paid for poor quality cartoon photos of figures in the shape of stretches with names underneath and a count down timer. I am on disability payments and cannot afford to be taken in by apps like this that I thought would help me regain health and range of motion. Very Sad.Show lessmelodydoc
It’s fine, lots of room for improvement
It’s fine - I saw a Memorial Day special to get a better price so I pulled the trigger, but now that I’ve been using it I would say that there’s just a lot that could be improved.
Pros: I appreciate the curated routines, the UI is nice, there’s good variety in terms of targeted areas and the amount of time you want to spend.
Cons: I just find actually using it for stretching quite clunky - there’s a picture and a written description, but I’m someone that I’ve learned really benefits from having a visual demonstration of how to get into a pose, how to execute a movement (even if it’s the difference between two pictures). Because I’m reading descriptions, I have to stop and pause and adjust… and I know that can be part of the learning curve with exercise apps, I just think this one is really lacking with not including demonstrations of the stretches.Show lessShelbsy1
Nope
Tries to pressure you into accepting a “one-time only” subscription offer before you’ve even had the chance to try the app. Hard pass, don’t even care what comes after.inconsequentia
Bend review
I absolutely love bend!! I haven’t been using it for that long but I am feeling my self making fast progress!! But since some of these stretches are hard for me, and it’s hard to hold them for so long, maybe bend good put in some encouraging words that make me want to keep going and not fall to the floor with exhaustion. But I absolutely adore bend!!Show lessGraciearoo
Love this app! *And one suggestion.
I live in chronic pain and this app give me the option to choose short routines when my pain levels are high, making it much more likely I will do something instead of nothing (which makes things worse).
I have one suggestion! Please have a buttocks routine. I’ve lost so much muscle mass in my lower, mid, and upper buttocks due to my chronic back and hip pain that it would be amazing to have a set of stretches and exercises where I could target this critical area. Those muscles support the back, and core and targeting them is important. Please consider adding the buttocks area to the options. Thanks! 🙏Show lessSam is Sue
Where’s the countdown timer gone?
I’ve been using (the paid-for version) of Bend for about a month and until a couple of days ago there was an audible countdown timer which is very handy when you’re doing a downward dog can’t see the screen! A couple of days ago without there being an app update, the audible countdown stopped and I just get a buzz at the end of each exercise. The same thing happened on my husband’s phone after he’d been using the app for approximately the same length of time. Is this intentional? We have different iPhone versions but are on the same (newest) iOS.Show lessKittiwake59
Easy and enjoyable!
I love being able to customise my routines, and also the preview of the next exercise. Makes for a very smooth experience! I have my own soundtrack I play and I love that Bend just puts the beeps over the top. I’m definitely feeling the benefits and have been recommending it to my friends, who also now love it!Show lessStrokeScience
I was taken in by marketing
I don’t know why but I rushed into buying this after high quality marketing and a good special offer price. I should’ve looked more closely. It’s such an incredibly basic app, no real intro into how to use it or how to stretch properly, no teaching you about stretches before you do them (you have to rush to the description before a short timer runs out), and what you get is just text and a single image (smaller than the non-tutorial image)
Could’ve just got a routine online, a stopwatch and a daily reminder in my calendar and done the same thing, except probably with videos.
They’ve somehow tricked me into paying a yearly subscription to what amounts to basically a handful of webpages and a timer.Show lessshorty2240
