Must have Features of a Fitness App

Fitness in today’s world has become a necessity as well as a trend. Everyone is aiming for a better and healthy lifestyle. But not everyone may have the time or means to hit the gym and hire a personal trainer.

This increased health awareness has opened the gates to a huge market of Health and Fitness app. Recent research by finace.yahoo.com shows that the use of health and fitness apps has increased by 330% during the last three years.

It has become essential for every gym and fitness center to have their fitness app to retain their customers. It also lets them reach out to their other potential customers.

TYPES OF FITNESS APPS

Features of a Fitness app depends on the type of Fitness app you wish to develop. There might be some features that may be necessary for one type of Fitness app, but irrelevant for another. It naturally becomes essential to know the types of Fitness app before moving forward with the features of a Fitness app.

So let’s have a look!

Personal Trainer Apps

Workout apps like ‘MapMyFitness’ act as a virtual gym instructor and are notably helpful for people with busy schedules. One can avail of all information about the various training exercises through live sessions, video tutorials, 3D models, audio tips and illustrations.

Nutrition and Diet Apps

Apps like ‘HealthifyMe’ act as a personal dietician on anybody’s phone. They help people follow a strict diet plan and consume nutritious food.

Activity Tracking Apps

Fitness tracking apps like ‘GoogleFit’ help in tracking the physical activities of an individual. The motion sensors or activity tracker attached to the smartphone provide accurate data about how much distance the user has covered by activities like walking, jogging or cycling along with calorie burn.

Yoga and Meditation apps

Apps like ‘Yoga Studio’ provides live tutorials, videos, and illustrations about how to correctly do different yoga postures. Also, meditation apps like ‘Headspace’ bring peace of mind and relax the entire body.

FEATURES OF A FITNESS APP

The performance and popularity of any app depend on the features and user experience. So does of a Health and Fitness app. A fitness app must prioritize its users and dig deep into questions like- What do the users expect of the app? What unique can your Fitness app offer them? Is the app easy to use and understand for people that are not so tech-savvy?

These key features of a fitness app will set you apart from other competitors:

ADMIN PANEL

Admin login

You can log in to the admin panel of the Fitness app with an ID that will be known only to you. For your security and privacy of the admin panel, there will be multiple security checks.

User Profile

The admin panel enables you to edit the user profiles page by adding or removing any information that is asked to the users of the Fitness app.

Subscription plans

You can monitor your user’s subscription plans and also keep updating them with new plan offers to keep them engaged in the app.

User statistics

The admin panel will enable you to view and update your user’s workout and diet plan from time to time, based on their Fitness goal. This intensifies the overall user-experience.

Management of Videos

You can always upload a new set of exercises video for your users. This feature also lets you remove or edit an already upload video if you don’t find it up to the mark or relevant.

Payment

You will be able to review the payment methods used by your customers to make purchases through the app. You can also add a new popular payment method to keep the Fitness app up to date.

Marketing

All the email templates, advertisements, and promotional campaigns running will be managed by you through the admin panel.

USER PANEL

Sign-in and detailed user profiles

Users can sign in with their phone numbers, email IDs or social media accounts. The next step includes building up their detailed profiles including age, sex, weight, height, health details, and medical history if any.

Social media integration

People nowadays share almost every life event or achievement on their social media platforms. This feature allows the app users to share their fitness goals and achievements on various social media platforms directly for a personalized experience. They can stay in tune with their friend’s workout plans as well. Social media integration will also help your app to reach out to your potential customers.

Integration with wearable devices

Wearable devices have started gaining ground swiftly with devices like Smartwatch and Fitbit band. This feature allows users to connect the Fitness app with their wearable devices. This helps them to monitor and track their fitness activities on the wearables with ease. In a way, the wearable device connectivity enhances your user’s experience and makes your app unique.

Individual Targets

The users will be able to set their targets for a day, a week or a month with the help of fitness trackers. They can monitor their personalized goals such as walking 8 miles in a month or burning 1000 calories. This creates a much-personalized experience for the users.

Challenges

Keep your app users excited about regular challenges. They must complete the challenge within a designated period to claim rewards such as discount coupons. This makes your app more fun and engaging.

Meal and Workout Planner

Once the user enters details, the app creates a set of exercises and diet-plans according to their overall goal. The in-app workout planner updates the users with workout regimes every day. The users can view the planned exercises with their time duration. This helps the app users to have daily targets and achieve their overall goals.

Geolocation

Geolocation enables your Fitness app to monitor direction and routes when the users go for walking, cycling, or jogging. They can know their precise location and share it with their friends as well.

Live Sessions

A lot of users might be amateurs and would require guidance for correct postures and techniques. Live video tutorials by professionals can help them to grasp the do and don’t of workout. The trainers can also inform the users about the impact of the exercises simultaneously.

Push notifications

Push notifications are a great way to motivate users to achieve their fitness goals. You can encourage app users for regular workouts with inspirational quotes through notifications. Also, the users can set up reminders for the workout, and push notification can effectively remind them on time.

In-App Purchase

This section offers the option of purchasing fitness equipment and health drinks through in-app purchase features. It makes your Fitness app complete and the user need not visit some other app or website for buying them.

Premium Models

You can offer your users a premium version of your Fitness app to access exclusive features with a small fee. The premium users could view the add-free version of the app, get regular discount coupons or even free shipping of their products.

Payment Options

It’s better to have several payment methods for the users, as everyone has their individual preferences. Provide them with payment facilities like credit/debit cards, net banking, cash on delivery and digital wallets. You must also ensure the payment options are 100% safe and secure.

Fitness apps are gaining popularity day by day and are a great way to reach out to the fitness freaks. With unique features and user-experience, your Health and Fitness app could be the next game-changing app.
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