Best app for fitness even better than live fitness classes
I love this app, it has all sorts of workouts, I have gone to many live fitness paid classes, which do not offer the same standard as this app does, I can believe it’s so good and free of cost. I especially love the body transformation challenge series. It is high intensity along with someone to demonstrate the lighter version for the beginners.
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The BEST Fitness App EVER!
OMG I love POPSUGAR! Each instructor is super encouraging! My confidence level in working out has definitely increased, and I leave each workout feeling refreshed and motivated for the next one! I would recommend this app %100. The only downside is that after I complete a workout, I’m not able to sync it with other apps for my fitness tracking such as “Apple Health” and “Lifesum”. Other than that, it’s absolutely amazing!
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Love it!
This app is fantastic! My daughter and I are going on week 2 of being quarantined and doing school online. She has to keep a log of activity so I decided to download this and give it a try. I figured we would do a lot of the yoga routines, but we have been trying all of them including kickboxing, and we are having a blast! I love that not only are there a lot or different kinds of workouts, but they vary in lengths of time so we can always fit in a workout and pick what we feel is manageable. Definitely an amazing app 😊
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Love the workouts
Yes, it’s does have some glitches that need to be fix. For example when you save a workout on you phone but then go to iPad and log in the workout is not there. Not that big of a deal but it still takes time because I have to re-search the workout and save it again. Other than that I love all the different types of workouts available so many to choose from. Keep adding new videos I will definitely keep using the app.
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Love the app however...
I’ve loved using this app for a while now and didn’t have any issues with it until now. When the app updated, it suddenly stopped working for me. Whenever I tried to log in, it tells me that my email or password is wrong. Knowing for a fact that it’s the right password, I thought maybe I just needed to change it. When I used the forgot my password link, I never received an email to reset my password. I also checked the junk/spam folder. Unfortunately, I cannot access the workouts without being logged in. It’s just too bad because this app was amazing when it worked. And now with the 3.0 version upgrade, it’s useless!
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Response from developer
Sorry for your trouble. We had to switch to a new server and if you were an existing Active user you'll need to create a new account. You can sign up in the app or the new website https://active.popsugar.com/ If you are still having trouble reach out to us at teamactive@popsugar.com
I’m floored that this is free!
I make ALL of my girlfriends download this app.
So I love Pop Sugar Active and have for some time now, Amy Rosoff Davis is an amazing trainer to the stars and you can do several workouts of hers on here, Astrid Swan and Kit something and Jake something.. are all amazing. And the Zumba strong is FUN and challenging and 20 flipping minutes!? Also: Anna. She’s so real, and I absolutely love her!
Those are just the ones I’ve tried and fell in love with. There are rare ones that I don’t connect with as much but I think other people would.
The variety is sincerely outrageous. There is something (a lot of things) for everyone. If you “don’t have time” or “don’t have energy” to workout, ya might be approaching your workouts from a wrong head space. These are fun, and you GET TO DO THEM FOR FREE!
Have at it, friends!
So I love Pop Sugar Active and have for some time now, Amy Rosoff Davis is an amazing trainer to the stars and you can do several workouts of hers on here, Astrid Swan and Kit something and Jake something.. are all amazing. And the Zumba strong is FUN and challenging and 20 flipping minutes!? Also: Anna. She’s so real, and I absolutely love her!
Those are just the ones I’ve tried and fell in love with. There are rare ones that I don’t connect with as much but I think other people would.
The variety is sincerely outrageous. There is something (a lot of things) for everyone. If you “don’t have time” or “don’t have energy” to workout, ya might be approaching your workouts from a wrong head space. These are fun, and you GET TO DO THEM FOR FREE!
Have at it, friends!
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Love the options!
I love this app and tell everyone about it! I love the different types of workouts, the modifications, the encouragement, everything. The app itself is easy to filter on the type of workout you want to do that day. Helps keep me motivated when I’m not bored with my workout. It’s also given me more options as I’ve gotten stronger, and options for my bad knees.
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Life Changing
Not that I want you guys to start charging for this, but I’d understand if you did. I hit my 30’s and got some bad health advice from a frenemy. This app got me back into shape. I have legit abs now! Haha!
It’s keeps my body guessing and I LOVE Anna Renderer’s commentary through the all of the workouts! They’re both educational and funny and they keep me going through every workout to finish! Keep up the good work! Oh and I LOVE Marnie Alton, Allie Cohen, Astrid Swan, Lisa Corsello, Anna Victoria, Katie Dunlop and Autumn Calabrese! I’ve learned so much from them as well! And they all have amazing programs!
It’s keeps my body guessing and I LOVE Anna Renderer’s commentary through the all of the workouts! They’re both educational and funny and they keep me going through every workout to finish! Keep up the good work! Oh and I LOVE Marnie Alton, Allie Cohen, Astrid Swan, Lisa Corsello, Anna Victoria, Katie Dunlop and Autumn Calabrese! I’ve learned so much from them as well! And they all have amazing programs!
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Thank you
I love this app and have told pretty much everyone I know about it. That said, why is the “latest” all of a sudden a celebrity news feed? And all my workout collections have disappeared. What is going on?! Back to the old would be awesome because this app is the best thing that ever happened to this body!
My collections have returned. Thank you. (Still don’t love the celebrity news.. oh well) Love popsugar though- thank you for making this such an awesome, free app!
My collections have returned. Thank you. (Still don’t love the celebrity news.. oh well) Love popsugar though- thank you for making this such an awesome, free app!
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So much fun!
I wish there were more videos, but using this app has been the most fun working out I’ve ever had. The ladies make me laugh and I feel like I’m actually working out parts of my body I want to improve. The streaming quality is good and I love being able to go back to my favorites whenever I want. Thanks for making this journey just a little easier!
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Back to being my favorite app
***Changing rating to 5 stars and updating my previous review below***
Update:Developers did a good job restoring lost features and allowing the downloads that were so essential for the hassle free use of this app. I would love to request additional filters to be added, if possible, like option for weights/no weights and also include more yoga workouts. Thanks,
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Old review: I have used this app for years and it was by far my personal favorite. Its great when traveling because you can download all your workouts and organize them in routines. The last update is so disappointing! All my routines that I thoughtfully put together are gone. Filters for different types of workouts are gone and I can’t seem to be able to download the workouts back. I am really bummed I won’t be able to use it like i used to. Bring it back!
Update:Developers did a good job restoring lost features and allowing the downloads that were so essential for the hassle free use of this app. I would love to request additional filters to be added, if possible, like option for weights/no weights and also include more yoga workouts. Thanks,
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Old review: I have used this app for years and it was by far my personal favorite. Its great when traveling because you can download all your workouts and organize them in routines. The last update is so disappointing! All my routines that I thoughtfully put together are gone. Filters for different types of workouts are gone and I can’t seem to be able to download the workouts back. I am really bummed I won’t be able to use it like i used to. Bring it back!
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Response from developer
Hi Gribausa — Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We just released a new version that contains additional filters for each category: Strength, Cardio, Yoga. And, we're currently working on adding groups back to Favorites, so you'll be able to save and sort your workouts again soon. Feel free to get in touch via email. We'd love to hear more of your perspective: psactive@popsugar.com.
Good for the most part
I think this is a good app for fun work outs, to get motivation started, and give variety but I’m finding that the workouts are similar to each other. Every day works the same muscle groups because it’s always full-body to most extent. It’d be great if there were more variety in straightforward weightlifting instead of always integrating both cardio and strength. For example, one dumbbell work out, or kettlebell, etc.
I get that the point of it is to maximize calorie burn/loss at a shorter exertion time, but more variety never hurts anyone.
I get that the point of it is to maximize calorie burn/loss at a shorter exertion time, but more variety never hurts anyone.
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Best workout app available
I absolutely love Pop Sugar Active! I have had a pass to a local gym for over 8 years, and I don’t need to pay for that anymore because of this app. I have many friends who are coaches with Beach Body, and I feel that this app is just as good as any workout videos that are available with that company. The fitness instructors in the videos are amazing, the workouts are challenging, but not too hard, and they always give a modified option if you are just starting out. I also love that the length of the workout shown is actually how long the workout is, meaning if it says it’s a 45 minute workout it’s not 30 minutes of working out with 15 minutes of stretching like some other at home workouts I’ve used. All the ones I’ve done with this app so far have had a warmup and then the full 45 minutes of actual exercise, and then they do stretches at the end of the 45 minutes. I’ve been to a lot of live fitness classes, and done a lot of at home workouts, and I think Pop Sugar is up there with my favorites. I can’t believe it’s a free app, it’s so awesome.
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Great workouts, confusing interface
I love the workouts! They are well organized and easy to know what the focus is. My two only complaints are that the calendar for scheduled workouts show for the day after it is scheduled. When I go to reschedule the workout for the right day, it is scheduled for the right day, but still shows for the prior day. Most workouts are videos, which is great. I do wish they had a synopsis of exercises so I can prepare beforehand. Regardless of the app issues, the workouts are great quality and variety.
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50/50 updates are inconsistent
So - this is my 3rd review. Not great. When this app works well, it’s amazing! But when it’s glitchy, it’s very annoying. Old issue has returned that you can’t browse without always returning to top of list. Can’t delete old scheduled workouts, so it’s impossible to keep any accurate record of what workouts were actually completed. Bummed that the updates are so up and down.
Old review 2: Now that small fixes have been made, this app is truly great. I use it almost daily. Love having the popsugar workouts so accessible.
Old review 1: When browsing, it’s very inconvenient that you lose your spot on the page any time you click a video. It’s always returning to the top of the list. It would be great to include more tags, you currently can’t search for the trainer name. You need to search for something in the exact video title.
Old review 2: Now that small fixes have been made, this app is truly great. I use it almost daily. Love having the popsugar workouts so accessible.
Old review 1: When browsing, it’s very inconvenient that you lose your spot on the page any time you click a video. It’s always returning to the top of the list. It would be great to include more tags, you currently can’t search for the trainer name. You need to search for something in the exact video title.
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In love!
I love the videos, and how they aren’t so long so you can focus on many areas at one time. I also love the repetitiveness because one day i won’t have to look at the tv or my phone, just do it from muscle memory. The only thing I haven’t figured out is when I cast it to my tv you have to reconnect it to choose another video or it will just play the same video. Other than that I finally found what I was looking for in a workout app!
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Trouble with google chrome
Up to a week ago I was able to stream all the videos to my tv using google chrome cast. For some reason now I can’t. I am so disappointed! I love having the videos on my tv while I do workouts. What happened? You updated your app and now google chrome cast doesn’t work. Please fix the issue.
Not too impressed...
This app used to be so good! It was well organized and easy to find a workout that targeted a specific area like the abs or arms. Now the workouts are poorly organized, so it’s hard to find what I want to do. I have trouble finding my favorite workouts due to the lack of organization in the app. Also the download and save to favorite functions don’t work well. Overall very unimpressed with this new version of the app. Please bring the old version back! Or something very similar.
UPDATE: I have appreciated the recent updates where one can filter workouts based on time, difficulty, etc. This makes the app easier to navigate. The ability to make collections is nice- except that it won’t work. I can add a workout to a collection, but workout does not save. Please resolve this issue, thank you!
UPDATE: I have appreciated the recent updates where one can filter workouts based on time, difficulty, etc. This makes the app easier to navigate. The ability to make collections is nice- except that it won’t work. I can add a workout to a collection, but workout does not save. Please resolve this issue, thank you!
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Response from developer
Hi there — Thanks so much for your feedback. We've just released an update this morning to allow you to group your favorite workouts, plus you can filter workouts by additional parameters such as body part. We'd love to hear what you think!
Loved it until it stopped working!
Please fix whatever is making this app crash al of the time. I used it several times a week until this issue starting happening recently. Restarting my IPad did not work, so I re uploaded the app. That did not work,either and I lost all my workouts I has downloaded.
UPDATE: I have used the latest version of this app. The videos continued to crash at first, but that issue seems to be resolved now. However, all of my go to workouts that I saved under my profile and downloaded were just wiped out - gone! That was so disappointing. I realize that some filters were added to enable finding certain types of workouts or workouts of a certain length. But I had a variety of workouts I had set up that I would do on a rotating basis, with some of the new featured ones thrown in and substituted. This totally set me back time wise. I don’t know why the updates couldn’t have been made, while still allowing us to keep our profile workouts. Bad decision. That is why my rating did not significantly improve.
UPDATE: I have used the latest version of this app. The videos continued to crash at first, but that issue seems to be resolved now. However, all of my go to workouts that I saved under my profile and downloaded were just wiped out - gone! That was so disappointing. I realize that some filters were added to enable finding certain types of workouts or workouts of a certain length. But I had a variety of workouts I had set up that I would do on a rotating basis, with some of the new featured ones thrown in and substituted. This totally set me back time wise. I don’t know why the updates couldn’t have been made, while still allowing us to keep our profile workouts. Bad decision. That is why my rating did not significantly improve.
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Response from developer
Hi MissyMX — We've released a new and improved version of Active which should fix these crashing issues. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Please remedy this.
I would have to agree with the last few reviews. I’ve used pop sugar forever (love Anna), I love the variety. After the latest update, I can’t organize anything. Everything is jumbled up and it’s been crashing in the middle of workouts. It’s very frustrating because I don’t want to use another app. I’ll wait patiently for this one to get the kinks out...even though it was perfect before. Lol
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Response from developer
Hi there — We just released an update to the Store this morning so you'll be able to group workouts in your Favorites. Would love if you'd give it a try and share your feedback! Thanks for supporting Active.
