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Fitness tracking apps.

11 apps · 5,342 reviews held · 2,249 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

2.0star
How angry
42%
Negative reviews
30%
Room to enter
9 of 11
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: ads. 9 of 10 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 11 of 11 still carry sync & data complaints.

4 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 2,249 negative reviews.

Sync & dataextreme

4.8% vs 0.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 107 reviews · 11 of 11 apps · 2.0star mean

What they said · 3 of 107
  • Strava: Run, Bike, Walk1star· Sep 2, 2026

    Last 2 updates broke HealthKit integration — In the last two updates, the health kit integration went from having to select “me” from the bottom bar, and then choosing activities, in order for the activity to be synchronized to health kit, to now not synchronizing at all in the most recent version. Furthermore, the “more” settings area in the gear is only a promotion for getting Health+, which I a

  • Habit Tracker1star· Aug 22, 2026

    Bait and Switch — I bought the premium version year ago and when they updated I lost everything. I even backed up to the cloud but they would not restore my purchase so I lost years of data. Put these guys in jail.

  • Strava: Run, Bike, Walk1star· Aug 17, 2026

    Not Worth The Trouble — App constantly bombards you with ads to get premium when you haven’t even used it to track a single workout. Then when you do try to track a workout it doesn’t work and won’t sync with apples fitness app. Not worth the trouble spend your money elsewhere.

Named problems · 2
  • Sync fails between devices36 of 107
  • Everything gone at once8 of 107

UXextreme

18.3% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 411 reviews · 10 of 11 apps · 2.0star mean

What they said · 3 of 411
  • MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter1star· Aug 29, 2026

    Latest update is terrible — Title says it all.

  • MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter1star· Aug 29, 2026

    Terrible app update — The user interface on the new update is horrible- please bring back the old interface and displays for macros and daily totals.

  • Strava: Run, Bike, Walk1star· Aug 28, 2026

    Worst than Meta Verse — I can’t find any settings, for add activity or pictures, why I have to pay 150 $ only add activity and photos. Ridiculous!

Limits & capselevated

3.3% vs 1.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 75 reviews · 9 of 11 apps · 2.5star mean

What they said · 3 of 75
  • MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter1star· Aug 28, 2026

    Went downhill — Too many features behind a paywall, app is barely usable now.

  • Hevy - Workout Tracker Gym Log1star· Aug 15, 2026

    Limited rep set to 150reps. — No longer recommend this app. Used to be good until they decided to limit your workouts to make more money. Dumping this app as of today.

  • Hevy - Workout Tracker Gym Log1star· Aug 14, 2026

    Wasted my time — Spent an hour putting in workout routines for 4 days and when I went to create the 5th routine for day 5 I get the paywall message that a 5th day is only available with pro. Waste of time.

Named problems · 1
  • Core feature locked behind the paywall12 of 75

Accuracyelevated

2.0% vs 1.5% typical store-wide.

Counted in 46 reviews · 9 of 11 apps · 2.3star mean

What they said · 3 of 46
  • Running Walking Tracker Goals3star· Aug 14, 2026

    Running walking tracker goals — I loved it up until I ran on a track and it completely miscounted my mile time and pace. Good for strait runs, not tracks.

  • MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter3star· Aug 14, 2026

    App is not fully functional — I am re-implementing MyFitnessPal. My screen does not correlate with instructions to add/edit steps, barcodes, activities. Help needed! Chat is inaccurate and not helpful.

  • MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter1star· Aug 14, 2026

    Disappointed — I literally have 210 mg of sodium in my breakfast, and according to the nutrition information for the day, it’s 900 and something milligrams, and I haven’t had anything else today, I also looked up about MyFitnessPal being accurate, and there are reviews with the Better Business Bureau stating how inaccurate MyFitnessPal has become. It’s really sad.

Also counted

ThemeOf 2,249 negatives
  • Billing649 · 28.9% · 11 apps
  • Performance355 · 15.8% · 11 apps
  • Login & auth161 · 7.2% · 8 apps
  • Support129 · 5.7% · 11 apps
  • Ads114 · 5.1% · 8 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after fitness tracking apps, in their order.

Who they're for
kidswomen
Google
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App Store
ai health coachcalorie counter freefitness trackingfree fitness trackingcalorie counter & food trackerforge fitness trackingrun, bike, walk, hike trackercalorie counter

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “fitness tracking apps for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 37 · just a basic one 16 · it used to be simpler 747
  • Wants it to plug inApple Watch 10 · Apple Health 6 · Fitbit 223
  • Shut out by device or contextApple Watch 1219
  • Outgrown itbulk entry 6 · bulk delete 48

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 11 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 2 of 11 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Strava: Run, Bike, Walk$5.99–$149.99 · 9 tiers10.3% of 320
Activity Tracker・FitnessViewfree3.8% of 80
MyFitnessPal: Calorie Counter$9.99–$79.99 · 7 tiers2.9% of 858
JEFIT Workout Plan Gym Tracker$6.99–$69.99 · 7 tiers2.6% of 191
Habit Tracker$4.99–$12.99 · 6 tiers0% of 130
Strong Workout Tracker Gym Log$3.99–$99.99 · 7 tiers0% of 171
Running Walking Tracker Goals$7.99–$44.99 · 9 tiers0% of 47
Hevy - Workout Tracker Gym Log$2.99–$74.99 · 4 tiers0% of 15
Map My Fitness Workout Tracker$6.99–$39.99 · 6 tiers0% of 162
Fitlist Workout Log & Planner$1.99–$24.99 · 8 tiers0% of 136

What each one owns, where each is exposed

Owns. Largest food database; 2.35M ratings; habituated daily loggers

Exposed. 71% negative; 2026 UI redesign destroyed glanceability; quick-add moved to paywall; fraudulent-charge reports

Owns. Social layer; GPS route tracking; 367k ratings

Exposed. 62% negative; year-in-review paywalled; cancellation deliberately obstructed; $85 unrefundable charges reported

Owns. Large exercise library; 46k ratings

Exposed. 45% negative; pop-up ads every 5 seconds reported; plan-saving moved behind paywall

Owns. Clean gym log; 108k ratings; IAP up to $99.99

Exposed. 39% negative; Apple Watch sync broken post-update; reps not saving; users eyeing AI alternatives

Hevy - Workout Tracker Gym Log

Owns. 2% negative — lowest anger in set; 85k ratings; IAP up to $74.99

Exposed. Narrowly gym-log only; no nutrition; limited sync complaints still present

Muscle Booster Workout Tracker

Owns. Quiz-personalized plans; 136k ratings

Exposed. 45% negative; plan doesn't match quiz answers; unauthorized charge reports; refused refunds

The Deep Report on this market

Each rival’s exposed weakness, what not to build, and the call, argued from the same reviews counted above.

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Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

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Is there a market for a new fitness tracking app?

11 apps compete on this shelf, holding 5,342 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, sync & data, runs in 11 of 11 of them at 4.8% of negative reviews against 0.9% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in fitness tracking apps?

1. Sync & data: in 11 of 11 apps, 4.8% of negative reviews; 2. UX: in 10 of 11 apps, 18.3% of negative reviews; 3. Limits & caps: in 9 of 11 apps, 3.3% of negative reviews; 4. Accuracy: in 9 of 11 apps, 2% of negative reviews.

How many fitness tracking app reviews did App Imp count?

5,342 US App Store reviews across 11 apps, 2,249 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap.