# Fitness Buddy+ Workout Trainer — user reviews > 445 indexed App Store user reviews of Fitness Buddy+ Workout Trainer by Kodeon, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 11,725 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fitness-buddy-plus-workout-trainer/id443646748/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fitness-buddy-plus-workout-trainer/id443646748.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 10,627 · 4★ 663 · 3★ 111 · 2★ 64 · 1★ 260 ## What do users think of Fitness Buddy+ Workout Trainer? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Great variety of exercises - 🚀 Comprehensive workout plans - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Helpful for beginners - 👍 Useful for tracking progress **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔒 Paywall for many features - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🤯 Confusing interface changes - 🙄 Intrusive ads and notifications **Commonly reported bugs** - Workouts not saving properly - Exercises not loading correctly - Syncing issues across devices - Unreliable calorie/macro tracking - Frequent app crashes **Most requested features** - Apple Watch integration - More customization options - Improved exercise logging - Better data visualization - Offline exercise access ## Newest reviews (16 of 445) ### 3/5 — Reliable, simple fitness app *2026-07-12, version 5.428* Has been crashing lately. I love that it still has 10 years of my history. However, it doesn’t communicate with my Garmin devices. I’ve tried a few newer fitness apps with more connectivity, but they all seem to have a lot of complexity. Anybody know a way to extract all my old data to a fitness app that works with Garmin? ### 4/5 — Love the app but never updates *2026-06-12, version 5.428* I love this app, I use it all the time; please update it. It’s been 2 years in between updates and it never receives updates, new features, or innovations for it. Meanwhile its sister app that I’m not a fan of using receives numerous updates. Also, the fact that this app that only receives updates every two years doesn’t have Iwatch utilization after so many years is a shame and egregious. Again, I love the app but it needs more updates, new features and innovations, new workouts like a stairmaster etc and Iwatch integration in order to get a full 5 stars. Please update soon. ### 2/5 — Workout Program *2026-02-18, version 5.428* When I go to select the option for all workout programs nothing comes up. I also tried to write a suggestion that is offered on the app and it wouldn’t allow me to write anything. ### 3/5 — What Happen *2026-01-22, version 5.428* Been using this app for years, but what happened? This was the first Fitness app I purchased way back in 2013 and it has not failed me,but for at least 3 to 4 months the discovery page has been blank and I contact the support and still no response. I came here to see if anyone had the same problem and they did. I’m leaving this review, hoping that the support team will do something about the discovery page. In order to workout, I have been going to my workout history and selecting the old exercises so that way I can be able to work out which kind of sucks to have to do it that way. Just please fix the Discover page. ### 1/5 — Feels like a scam *2024-12-03, version 5.428* Why did I just pay $4.99 for an app that I could find for free elsewhere and where many of the features in the description are an additional cost? Waste of money. ### 1/5 — Not worth downloading *2024-11-09, version 5.428* I have never seen an app that charges you to download and after they charge you 81 dollars for a year. It’s a rip off maybe you should let people download the app for free for a trail. I deleted the app. Not worth it. Also you log in your meals on this app don’t waste your money. ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2024-11-03, version 5.428* Pay money to literally open the app and wants more money. Trash. Then you pay again and what is to say you still get nothing. Asinine. ### 4/5 — Sharing *2024-09-28, version 5.428* Any plans to fix the forever broken share feature in workouts ? ### 1/5 — New developers non responsive *2024-09-13, version 5.428* I’ve used this app for about 3-4 years now. Originally I would say it was 3 stars. There are a few bugs that still exist, like if you delete an exercise mid workout, the app will crash. However, my subscription renewed last month, but I lost my premium features. After contacting (Azumio) they told me they no longer are the developers. I then contacted Kodeon, and unfortunately they have yet to reply and it’s been a week. I reached out to Apple Support for a refund. Luckily they approved. ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing *2024-08-15, version 5.428* I cannot keep this app open for more then 30 seconds once I start a workout. I will contact my credit card company and demand a refund,as they have not provided me with the service I signed up for! Terrible. ### 1/5 — Complete scam *2024-08-06, version 5.428* The most horrible app I have purchased. Having in-app ads and another subscription model in a paid app is disgusting. ### 2/5 — Buggy app *2024-05-07, version 5.412* What happened to this app? Used to work perfectly but now It has become so buggy! I have a premium membership yet my workouts are still locked. Sometimes it’s not locked then it’s back to being locked. I thought i made a mistake then got the premium and then have to active premium memberships and even then it didn’t work. The app also is working super slow. I try to report a bug and it literally doesn’t own for a few minutes then. ### 1/5 — Was always buggy but now terrible *2024-05-07, version 5.412* I’ve used for years and dealt with the bugs because it had all my history. However, without warning a bunch of exercises I’ve done before are now behind a paywall and the app is crashing mid workout. Time to find something else. ### 4/5 — Great app!!!!! *2024-05-06, version 5.412* Love that you can use their pre made workouts, or build your own. As well as have a way to keep track of your progress working out, body weight, fat %, and heart rate. The only downside I would say I have had with it through the years, is the custom workout part. It never seems to save change you make to your workout routine. You literally have to delete the entire workout, and create a new one to get it to save. Other than that…. It is a great app, and hopefully that can get fixed. ### 1/5 — Lots of bugs *2024-05-01, version 5.412* First the workouts are great. However, at least once week I am not able to open the training plans, then need to email for the corrections, then can open them a couple days later only to not be able to the following week ### 1/5 — Super buggy after latest update *2024-04-25, version 5.412* Been using for well over a decade. Always been a bit buggy with occasional crashes and lost workouts midway through. After latest update won’t load custom workouts or exercises. Crashes constantly or premium sign up screen pops up constantly and need to dismiss 3-5 times in a row. Have tried premium version in past but offered nothing for me. I use as a lifting journal and so don’t need diet or precut workouts. Hoping they’ll iron out these latest bugs as I’d hate to lose all the years of training records. Tho have lost 5-6 years of data to past updates. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — You pay for the app just to have to pay again *2026-07-24, version 5.428* Double payment in this app ### 1/5 — Greedy POS *2026-02-21, version 5.428* I got this app shortly after its launch. I used it to develop a routine. It never required payment or a login. After years of having it and only periodically using it to find new workouts i have discovered how greedy the developers have become. This app is absolutely garbage now as i won’t pay for something ive had so long without having to nor give my information to for an acct. ### 1/5 — App is Regressing behind paywall *2025-12-16, version 5.428* I have had this app since my iPod touch days and have seen its ups and its downs. It used to be great. However, they have been, little by little, reducing features behind a very high paywall. They used to have suggested workouts for body groups but now the app is practically useless you pay as all you can do is search for a specific workout and create a workout on your own. There’s better apps out there for free now. Real shame. ### 1/5 — Does not work *2025-10-22, version 5.428* Downloaded the app and subscribed to premium but the app only shows the individual exercises! If I go to Discover, the page is blank! And when I go to Workout Programs the page is blank! Numerous attempts to contact result in bounced back emails. It’s a rubbish app and the developers clearly have no interest to fix serious issues. ### 1/5 — Scam *2025-10-15, version 5.428* Don’t buy this app it’s not a one time payment! It’s a scam they make you pay the $5 and then you have to sign up on a membership of $50 per month. DONT BUY THIS APP. ### 1/5 — Waste of money *2025-09-03, version 5.428* Ever since they updated their app everything is glitchy, workouts don’t show up, and the workout programs are blank. When I sent a message to tech support I heard nothing back. ### 1/5 — Spams you for premium *2025-06-08, version 5.428* Downloaded this app to try it out. There were SO MANY upsells for the premium plan, I finally got mad and just deleted it. It didn’t even give me a chance to try out the app before aggressively pushing the premium plan. Really rude. ### 1/5 — Complicated and too much equipment *2025-03-24, version 5.428* I opened the app and I saw a bunch of pictures and types of workouts I was waiting for a tutorial for like 10 seconds then tap on something it says I have to have six 2 pound dumbbells and a pull-up bar I’m like why I tap on no weights workout and it’s like u must have a super expensive pull-up bar even though we know ur at home u must have this. It’s so annoying ### 1/5 — App has deteriorated over the years *2025-02-05, version 5.428* Used to be decent but is now subpar and constantly trying to get you to subscribe ### 1/5 — Rip Off *2025-02-02, version 5.428* To have a fee to download the app in the first place and to then require further subscription to fully utilise the app is poor practice and frankly pretty scam like. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cool *2026-04-26, version 5.428* Nice ### 5/5 — Great app but please fix the discovery bug *2026-01-04, version 5.428* Great app but please fix the discovery bug. The discovery page and premade set of work have not populated any thing 3 months. I have emailed tech support via the app. With no change… ### 5/5 — Fitness buddy Rock!!!! *2024-09-15, version 5.428* Brilliant app...every exercise in alphabetical order and images / little vids on how to do the exercises is brilliant Recommend highly ### 5/5 — Using it since 2012 *2024-09-13, version 5.428* It’s had its ups and downs but man, I keep on defaulting back to this app! The ease of use it’s unbeatable. The social / community aspect is what lets it down but still the best in 2024. UI could do with an update but still top tier!!! ### 5/5 — Ease *2024-04-17, version 5.412* I like good app because it is easy to use ### 5/5 — Amazing *2024-02-28, version 5.406* The only review I can give is that of one of my personal experience. I’ve been blessed to utilize this application since 2013, when as a 19-year-old man enlisted in the United States Marine. Thanks to this app I have been able to not only have guidelines but the freedom to build a workout plan for me in my time that I continue to use here in 2024. I have recommended this application to a new goers in the gym and constantly referred back to it whenever even my me myself need a little guidance. The presence of social media routines, fails in comparison to the complexity and the diverse selection of make a workout for you that this app provides. To give a full perspective when I start using this app I was 175 pounds at my max weight lifting I reach 240 as someone approaching 30 I’ve been able to drop from 260 pounds back down to 240 off of the routines and the tracking along with the consistency of this app, if I could give him more than five stars, I would. ### 5/5 — Best workout app *2023-09-07, version 5.404* It’s a great app to help add depth to your workout! ### 5/5 — Simply the Best! *2023-08-06, version 5.404* I’ve been using Fitness Buddy for years and no other app comes close to meeting my needs. Looking forward to the AI version 😉 ### 5/5 — Very good app. *2023-08-05, version 5.404* Very good for tracking over a long period and helping keep you honest about what you are and are not doing. ### 5/5 — Great for travel *2022-09-28, version 5.334* Happy to have the workouts whereever I go --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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