Leave a Review Freeletics
Great app!
Love this app—I’m on my third “training journey” since January, and it keeps me motivated and makes it easy to work out without having to think about it. The training journeys do a good job of mixing up the exercises and keeping it challenging, while also alternating workout intensity pretty well, which I appreciate. I would love to be able to mark favorite exercises and also mark exercises I never want (there are some that aggravate an old wrist injury, and when I get them as part of a training program workout, there’s no option to simply swap out or modify a specific exercise—I have to request a completely new workout). Easy to work around, but it would be a nice feature. Also would love to be able to give feedback on specific exercises when needed—sometimes I can do 3 out of 4 exercises perfectly, but I have to mark the entire workout as “It was too much” in order to give accurate feedback on that one exercise. And one other suggestion: a little more celebration and more comprehensive stats when you complete a training journey! I’ve been sticking to my workouts and improving for 12 weeks—give me more than a single screen with a few random stats! Pretty sure I’ve done approximately 8 million burpees and would love some proof of that. 🙃Show lessHerschelSnoop
Developer Response
Hi, we are proud of every single athlete who gives their best and passes on their experience to the community 😀This app snoops your clipboard on launch
I have been using Freeletics mainly because it seems to offer more for free than many of the other fitness apps on the App Store. However, I have just discovered a little “feature” implemented by the devs that made me uninstall immediately. If you own a Mac, you know you can copy and paste over the cloud. When you paste text from your Mac on your phone, it brings up a dialog box that says a paste is in progress. Well, I had copied an admin secret on my Mac, and I opened Freeletics to a big dialog box on launch, saying the app had pasted the contents of my clipboard. In shock, I closed out the app, copied some text on my Mac, and relaunched Freeletics to see that — sure enough — the app automatically pasted clipboard contents on launch. Knowing the app would snoop on users data so secretively and malicious made it so I couldn’t trust this app at all on my devices, or the devices of my family.Show lessNate1299
Waaaay harder in easy mode than it should be.
This app will run you through a warmup that’s already a decent workout for a beginner and then tell you to do 50 burpees and sit-ups and jumps. In really really easy mode. I can run 10 miles no problem, but this being the easy workout with no option to incrementally make moves harder starting from something reasonable is ridiculous. I can only imagine how many people quit and delete the app after the first workout. What a terrible coach mode. Also no advice on how to proceed if you feel it’s waaaaay beyond your ability.
-edit, your request for me to contact your support email instead of posting my opinion here is bogus. Do the legwork yourself and send my detailed review to your support email on your own. You don’t need more info from me. Try harder. Feel free to have your support people contact me when they’ve fixed the issues I pointed out.Show lessBonetone
They steal your money
Be careful with this app. I cancelled my account last year after determining the app wasn’t for me. The app didn’t actually take the cancellation & I was charged for a renewal that I didn’t want. They refuse to refund because you have to cancel before renewal yet they never actually send you a renewal notice. It’s a huge scam to steal your money. The app itself is fine but buyer beware they don’t care anything about their customers & if you don’t like their product make sure to double/triple cancel so they don’t steal your money like they stole mine!!!
Edit: 7/7/20 - I stand by my review. They have dubious business practices where they do not inform you before processing your renewal. Beware if you try this app & I would recommend setting a calendar alert so you can cancel without penalty because they don’t care about their customers.Show lessJen!8
Over a year and many burpees later...
I’ve been using Freeletics steadily for a year. The scale says I’ve lost 23 pounds, but it’s more about inches than weight—I now need a completely new set of clothes, and have a new perspective on health.
Also, several reviews say you won’t “gain” muscle. Let’s be frank, you’ll get muscles you didn’t know you had, but you won’t get bulky, which is not the goal of this type of program. You will gain muscle as long as you are eating correctly and following an appropriate program.
My suggestion is similar to what others have stated: save progress in case of app crashes. Also, would it be possible to include the option for resistance bands with wall mounts and handles instead of free weights?Show lessjtrenton
Careful with your Freeletics subscription
I found a deal online for a freeletics fitness program and decided to sign up. The exercises and kind of ok (they’re the same exercises all fitness programs offer - even the free ones). I checked the app to see if I had signed up for a subscription, so that I could cancel right away. There wasn’t a “cancel subscription” option, so I figured the fitness program I had signed up for was a 1 time deal - I thought I was all set then. But, just to be safe, I checked my subscriptions on my Iphone (under “manage subscription”) and freeletics was not there. Even small companies will show up under your subscription options - not freeletics. To my surprise I was charged $40 a few months later, even though they make it impossible to cancel and get a refund on recurring payments. You would think that a company trying to hide the “cancel subscription” button would make it easy to get a refund. NOPE! Never even got an email back from them. Let me make your life easier: don’t sign up. The exercises are the same you’ll see on youtube/instagram fitness accounts. I bet most of the revenue from this shady company comes from unwanted/unaware payments that are not refundable.Show lessManinho0087
Developer Response
Hi Free Athlete! If you don’t want to pay to use Freeletics, we offer a basic, free version of the app (frltcs.com/getstarted). But we have spent years creating the best, most personalized AI workout experience out there. Bu thanks for your feedback and sorry about the difficulties encountered. Please contact us at support@freeletics.com so we can assist you further with this particular issue. #ClapClapApp is great, but no landscape mode for iPad?
The app is really great and the exercises are simple and challenging. It would be easily a 5 but I have one major issue with it: I’d really like to use my iPad for the app but it’s really hard without landscape mode as my stand is the keyboard. Can you please add this to the app? I’ve been using my phone with it because the app is sideway on my iPad.Show lessSfpereira
Developer Response
Thanks for your review and we're glad to hear you're enjoying your Freeletics experience! We appreciate your suggestion to include landscape mode for the iPad. If you have any further feature requests, we'd love to hear from you directly at support@freeletics.com. Keep giving your all! #ClapClapJust another click bait
So before we do this review, I want to say that I haven't gone as far as actually using the app for doing exercises. They may do exceptional plans but I would not know.
However, I have an issue with anybody using the term ‘free’ in their company name when nothing is actually free. It’s click bait and false advertising.
I signed up and although I was not expecting anything to be completely free, I was expecting maybe a taster or something like that first. But nope, nothing. They take all your personal details and then after they have all those details do they then tell you that this is not ’free’letics at all. They take all that personal information ready to spam you and only then do they tell you that you have to subscribe to payments to access anything.
I have no doubt this company is good and what they offer is good, the 4.5* rating on the App Store is enough to tell you that. But the way the go about it is completely wrong. It tricks you into thinking it is something it is not. Even the AppStore doesn’t give you the warning that it involves ‘in app purchasing’ because of the way they have gone about it all. It’s clever but it is sneaky and I don’t like the way that the company is taking advantage of people in this way to bait people into using their services.
What a shame.Show lessSteven_rct
Good but one flaw
I lost weight on this app, I’ve gotten stronger and I love it! But my biggest flaw is sometimes I forget my cool down which finished the workout. I get busy so the next day I see my workout is transferred to the next day and it’s only my cooldown. So it didn’t mark down the day I did the whole workout and if you dont finish it that day it ruins the cycle and head onto the next day which means you miss a workout. I hate this and I think if you already started a workout but by 12am you didn’t finish it should log in what you did that day because I like a cycle and logging in but now if I forget it says I didn’t do anythin and sets me back a day now.Show lessI don't care whatever996
Nope
Called “Freeletics” but nothing in the app can be used for free. No trial. Nothing to sample - just “give us a bunch of money and cross your fingers”. Registration and a bunch of personal info required to start the app. Shortest subscription is 3 months. Classic bait and switch.travisd666
Developer Response
"We offer free workouts, exercises and audio courses without a subscription for an unlimited time. Check out the ‘Explore’ tab in the app or frltcs.com/getstarted. We suggest trying the Coach risk-free for 14 days. It’s the most advanced and affordable digital personal trainer out there and thousands of people love it. You might too 😉 #ClapClap"
