Shift - Workout with podcasts appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shift is 80 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Shift User Reviews

Name: Shift - Workout with podcasts
Rating: 4.49123 (57 reviews)

Shift - Workout with podcasts

Jazzlab Tech AS

💪 Health & Fitness

🎬 Entertainment

Customer Experience

Positive experience76.7% of reviews

Neutral10.0% of reviews

Negative experience13.3% of reviews

~ Based on 30 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Shift Safe?

Shift - Workout with podcasts appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Shift is 85/100.

This assessment is based on 57 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

84.2% of ratings point to a safe experience

8.8% of ratings suggest some concerns

7.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 57 App Store ratings for Shift.

Is Shift Legit?

Shift - Workout with podcasts appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shift is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Unable to use

Downloaded and redownloaded and restarted my phone, when I press ‘see all’ plans nothing works and when I press purchase, nothing happens. I intended to use this service but I assume the app is no longer in use

Squidy901

2 years ago

Thank you

Spotify update works great thank you, it makes rest time a breeze. I had wanted something like this for a few years and was thrilled to see someone take the leap. Hope the app takes off. Thanks for the work you put in

Jarrod1212

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi! We just released a version with a new Spotify integration. Hope you get to try it out, and please share with us any feedback you may have. Best!

Great developer and app

I’ve been studying for exams, and I subscribe to a review podcast. I wanted to listen to it during my daily workouts, but there are those times when I need to focus on the workout and can’t pay attention to the podcast. Then I found this app. It’s exactly what I needed. The switching using the pause button on my headphones is great.

I had a question about the app and submitted a feedback request at the beginning of my workout. The developer had replied with the answer, complete with a video tutorial on how to fix my issue by the end of my workout 😎 Major props to the developer. Thanks for the app!

tyguy314

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the review! And good luck with your exams 👊

Wow way to go!

I downloaded it through someone who recommended it on reddit ages ago. Loved the idea but never used it. Just checked back again and wow it’s come really far. Dope app. Love the dedication to the project.

TobyDi

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hey, Michael here, one of the makers. So glad to hear you came back to check it out! We're just a small group of people who loves working out to podcasts, so we'll always be improving the product, for ourselves and you all. Please reach out if you have more feedback or want us to improve in any way. Cheers!

I love this app

Awesome for when you need the motivation music brings but your still interested in learning from podcasts.

Jr_jradler

5 years ago

Yep, this app rules!

Okay so I just used the app, like right now, sweat dripping and all. Let me just say, I can’t believe nobody thought of this amazing app before! I absolutely love it.

Never did I think to podcast while I ran because I’m not really interested in listening to an entire podcast while I’m running, but a podcast while I’m resting ... YES!

Now I may even start to run with a podcast because this app affords me the opportunity to automatically switch between the two!

Lady Kauza

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the kind review! Really motives us to improve

Break from the music

This app provided great music to work out to and offers a nice break with podcasts to keep it interesting!

SEAHWK206

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you! 🙏

Changed the game

Dumb changed the game

dunkinandapplesuck

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review! If you're not a fan of the game-mode feature, you can turn it off from the settings menu. Hope that helps!

How Apps Should Be

This app does what it says: lets you ‘shift’ from music to podcasts with the touch of a button. Straightforward, as it should be.

What stands out is the amazing developer! He not only reached out with a welcome email, but asked for feedback and provided regular, immediate correspondence.

Best of all, the suggestions I made were incorporated into the app within a few weeks!! I can see he really wants the app to be as functional and tailored to user needs as possible.

If you like both music and podcasts during your workout, get this app. If anything feels clumsy, tell the developer and he’ll fix it, just like that. Win-win!

soccerg12

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for this review! It really motivates us to keep improving Shift ❤️

Top app

Been using Shift for about 6 months and during that time it's got better and better. Easy to use and a great concept.

Massynappa

6 years ago

Love the concept

The only issues I have is, the volume of the audio never stayed consistent and the podcast paused when I left the app

runanteldat

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your review! You may already know this, but when you change the volume during a workout, it will only change volume for either podcasts or music, and not the other (depending on if you're listening to podcasts or music). The reason we have two volume controls is that many people prefer to be able to set a different podcast volume, because the podcast itself can sometimes have a lower volume. Regarding the pause issue you had, we're sorry you experienced this, and it is something we are currently looking into! If it happens again you could try to shift back-and-fourth with your headphones, that should simply start the podcast again, and you won't have to bring up your phone. Thanks again, and really hope this helps a little!

Super awesome, actually helpful app

Was gaming and came across this add for Shift. It’s pretty cool. Basically it is a timer but while the timer is running music plays for the workout of choice (strength, running, cardio, maintaining). You set the range, let’s say 3 minutes of intense exercise for every minute of ‘rest’. During the rest periods a podcast will play. It is cool because you set the timer and forget scrolling or fussing with technology and can complete your interval training. It is really that simple.

Happy Lil Camper

6 years ago

Response from developer

Wow, thank you so much for your review! Really motivates us to keep improving Shift. Keep up the good work!

Genius

Whoever thought about making this app is a genius; thank you so much for making my workouts fun.

God bless you!

solmiful

6 years ago

Response from developer

And thank you for giving us this amazing review!

Great app!

I always listen to podcast during my work out and have to switch back-and-forth with music when I do cardio for instance. Now I can listen to both and it switches back-and-forth automatically. You can set them on a time you want it’s a switch and it works great.

Hkgffghhh

6 years ago

Response from developer

Love it! Thanks for the review!

Trouble with adding podcasts

App keeps crashing on the discovery section for podcasts making it impossible to add any, which kind of makes the app useless. I don’t currently use any of the integrated podcast platforms, though there is technically a way to still get podcasts from other services (just not easily from an i-device) I get it, Apple locks their devices down and I shouldn’t gripe about not having free rein over being able to easily port information over.
Another annoying issue is I connected Spotify and it can’t seem to see/find all my playlists. There’s a playlist I like that’s a fair bit down in my lists because I’ve saved a few (and I’ll admit it’s one of the oldest lists I have on there, but I still listen to it) this doesn’t find it.

small hobbit

6 years ago

Fantastic For Weightlifting!

I use to have to manually switch between podcasts and music, and ended up just getting fed up and choosing one.

This is perfect!

jtfdoodle5

6 years ago

Super useful for podcasts and hard sets

It would also be nice to have speeds up to 3.5x.

Reviewer9408777

6 years ago

Response from developer

Duly noted! We'll look into supporting this :)

Great Idea

Lots of potential and the devs are good at communicating

Submitted by You

7 years ago

Response from developer

Way too late to the party, but thanks!

UX is on point

As a full time web/mobile developer myself I gotta say the UX (user experience, or how the app is laid out and works) and UI are super clean and on point. Very intuitive. Only thing I wish it could do is hook into pocket casts and mark an episode as played, and/or maintain my listening history. But that’s a super nit picky thing to ask for, so I understand.

Harryman04

7 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback! Syncing playback state across apps would indeed be... amazing. Unfortunately there's no way to do that without partnering up with other apps. Hope it doesn't cause too much pain!