What Fitbod costs, and how its trial, cancelling and refunds work

Fitbod sells its subscription on its own website and through the App Store and Google Play, and the price depends on where you buy it. The euro prices on this page come from Fitbod's listings on the Irish App Store and Google Play, and the US dollar prices from its questions page and its family plans page. How the app builds a workout, and how the trial, cancelling and refunds work, come from its help centre, with the refund terms from its terms of use. Each source is listed at the foot of the page with the date it was read.

What Fitbod costs

The Irish App Store listing shows ten in-app purchases, from €7.99 to €99.99. Two of them are monthly plans and two are yearly plans, and the other six are marked as legacy pricing, at €7.99, €10.49 and €61.99. The listing gives two prices for each plan without saying which one a new subscriber is offered, and Fitbod's help centre says prices can vary by region, by promotion and by platform. On Google Play, the Irish listing puts Fitbod's in-app purchases at €10.99 to €144.99.

On Fitbod's website, the monthly plan is $15.99 and the yearly plan is $95.99, which the help centre works out at $8.00 a month. Fitbod's questions page says that the App Store and Google Play show prices in your own currency, set by Apple and Google, while the website charges in US dollars, and your bank converts the charge. The same page says the trial and both plans are open to users worldwide, with prices that can vary slightly by region.

For households, Fitbod's family page offers a Duo plan for two people and a Family plan for up to five, at $159.99 and $359.99 a year in US dollars. The page says family plans are sold as yearly subscriptions only, that each person keeps their own account, workout history and progress, and that a family plan is a separate subscription, so an individual one carries on until you cancel it.

The help centre says the features are the same wherever you subscribe, and only the place you manage the subscription changes. It notes that promo codes work only on the website, and that moving from monthly to yearly through a store means cancelling and waiting for the month to run out, while on the website the upgrade happens straight away. It also mentions gift subscriptions and a lifetime membership, sold only during short promotions. Fitbod's terms of use, last updated in March 2022, say fees are payable in US dollars, and that Fitbod sends a reminder of the price 30 to 60 days before a yearly subscription renews.

How Fitbod builds a workout

Fitbod's help centre explains that the app builds each workout from the settings in your plan and the training you have already logged. Those settings are your goal, your experience level, your equipment, your training split and your workout preferences. To choose the exercises, it uses data on how well exercises work from millions of logged workouts, filtered by your equipment, shaped by your feedback and limited to the muscles that have recovered.

As you log, the app adds weight or reps when you finish an exercise comfortably and eases off after a set you struggle with, and it varies intensity and volume from one session to the next on purpose, with some days lighter and higher in reps and others heavier. It gives each muscle group a recovery percentage between 0 and 100, based on what you have logged, and favours the fresher muscles. The app also schedules max-effort days from time to time to check where your strength is. Fitbod starts new users on cautious sets, reps and weights estimated from millions of logged workouts, then adjusts as they log. It suggests lighter weights after a break from training, and every exercise you skip, replace, delete or add feeds into the next workout it builds.

Fitbod's questions page lists the goals it trains for as strength, muscle growth, circuit training, general fitness, powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting, and describes the app as built for resistance and strength training. You can set how long a workout lasts, such as 30, 45 or 60 minutes. Each exercise comes with a recorded video and step-by-step written cues. You can swap any exercise, and the app learns your preferences from what you change. The app works offline, with warm-ups and cool-downs built in, and it tracks personal records, estimated strength, volume trends and streaks.

Fitbod runs on iPhone and Android, with the website used only to sign up. It connects to Apple Health, Fitbit, Health Connect and Strava, with apps for Apple Watch and Wear OS, and it comes in English, Spanish and Portuguese. On the App Store it is a free download with in-app purchases, made for iPhone with an Apple Watch app, rated 9+ and needing iOS 18.0 or later. On Google Play it needs Android 8.0 or later and is rated PEGI 3.

Fitbod's App Store listing mentions fitness trainers who answer strength training questions by email. Its terms of use say Fitbod does not work as a personal trainer and does not give medical or fitness advice, and they describe its Ask a Trainer service as free general information, and ask you not to act on its suggestions until you have checked with a trainer in your area or made sure they are safe for you.

The free trial, cancelling and refunds

Fitbod offers a 7-day free trial when you first sign up, with nothing charged until it ends, and the trial moves on to the monthly or yearly plan you picked unless you cancel it. Its help centre adds that a trial on an iPhone has to be cancelled at least 24 hours before it ends. Once a trial ends without a subscription, you can still look back at past workouts, but logging a new one or generating a workout from your history needs a subscription. The App Store listing says a subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and that any unused part of a free trial is lost once you buy a subscription. The help centre also says that to subscribe on a different platform from the one your trial started on, you cancel the trial first.

Fitbod's help centre says you cancel, or ask for a refund, where you subscribed, and your receipt shows which that was, since a charge from Apple or Google means the store and a charge from Fitbod means its website. On an iPhone you cancel in your iPhone's Settings, under your Apple ID, then Subscriptions and Fitbod, and on Android you cancel in the Play Store, under your profile, then Payments and subscriptions and Subscriptions. Fitbod's questions page says you can cancel under Your Plan and then Cancel, in the app or on Fitbod's website. It says the plan stays active until the end of the billing period, and that cancelling does not delete your account or your data. The help centre warns that deleting your account does not cancel your subscription.

Fitbod's help centre describes a one-month pause, offered only to eligible monthly subscribers on its website and not given on request, during which you cannot start or log a workout. It says annual plans and trials cannot be paused, and that a monthly subscription on Google Play can be paused for one to three months.

On refunds, the help centre says cancelling stops future charges but does not refund the period you are in, and you keep full access until the next billing date. For a website purchase, you ask by emailing Fitbod's support team with your name, your account email and a screenshot of your receipt. For an App Store purchase, you ask through Apple's report-a-problem page, and Apple reviews every request. For a Google Play purchase, you ask through Google's refund page, or by emailing Fitbod's support team. Fitbod's terms of use also offer a full refund if you cancel within ten calendar days of your first purchase, after which the purchase is final.

How TriageFit coaches you

Coaching at TriageFit begins with an intake that takes about half an hour, and you can save your answers partway and finish another day. It asks about your goal, the training you have done before, the equipment you can reach, any injury you need to work around and the days you have free to train.

From those answers you get a programme built from phases our coaches designed, each lasting four to six weeks, with one phase following another for as long as you stay. Its sessions pick from 382 exercises to match your equipment and your level, and an exercise that would aggravate an injury you mentioned is kept out. Each exercise carries coaching cues, and the main lifts come with video.

Your food is coached in the same account. The intake sets a calorie target matched to your metabolism and spreads your protein across the day, and your macros are adjusted through your weekly check-ins. To log a meal, you search our food database, tap something you ate recently to log it again, or add a serving of a recipe you have saved, and a food the database lacks can go in by name with its macros.

The check-in happens once a week, on a day you choose. The calories and macros you logged that week are filled in already, beside the sessions your programme set, and you rate your energy, recovery, motivation, sleep and stress before adding a note if you want to. You get a reply in seconds, and a real coach reads what you sent. If you logged too little that week, your targets stay where they were, and after a long stall a diet break at maintenance can be offered, starting only when you confirm it.

Between check-ins, the AI coach is available at any hour. If your week changes, it can shorten a session, swap an exercise or move a session to another day, and it makes the change only after you agree. It can also propose new protein and fat targets, a step in your calories or a change of goal, and each of those waits for your yes as well. When you want a lift looked at, you film a set and a coach reviews your form, and the group has coaches in it, with questions answered in the open and challenges you can join.

Your body page lines up your weight with your waist, hip and chest measurements and your progress photos, and it puts the trend across weeks ahead of any one weigh-in. If you wear an Apple Watch, a Garmin, a Whoop, an Oura ring or a Fitbit, you can export its data and upload the file, and your recovery readings then adjust how hard your sessions push. TriageFit runs in your browser, on a phone or a computer.

From an app-built workout to a coached programme

A paramedic in Drogheda has trained at a gym with Fitbod for two years and likes how it picks the weights, but now wants their food coached as well and a person keeping an eye on the week. They join TriageFit, and the intake records the barbells, dumbbells and cable machine at their gym, a right shoulder that complains when they press overhead, and the four days a week their shifts leave free.

Their programme builds those four days around the gym's equipment, and any exercise that would aggravate the shoulder is left out. In the first week they search the food database for the overnight oats they eat before a day shift and the stir-fry they make after one, and from then on a tap in their recent meals logs either again. A batch of chilli made on a day off goes in as a recipe, so a bowl logs as one serving. A run of night shifts in the second week leaves Thursday's session in the wrong place, so they ask the AI coach to move it to Saturday, and it moves once they confirm. In the third week they film a set of Romanian deadlifts, and a coach reviews it.

Sunday is their check-in day. The four sessions from their programme are listed with the week's calories and macros already beside them, and after the night shifts they score their recovery low and explain it in the note. An answer arrives within seconds, and a coach reads what they wrote. Their Garmin data comes in as an export they upload, and the recovery readings in it adjust how hard their next sessions push them. The body page shows their waist beside their weight, with the trend over the weeks ahead of any one day.

What TriageFit costs

TriageFit costs €50 every 4 weeks in Ireland, VAT included, or €500 if you pay for a year. That is more than twice the dearer of Fitbod's two monthly prices on the Irish App Store, and it covers a coach-designed programme, coached food and a real coach reading your check-ins. In the UK the price is £45 every 4 weeks, and in the US it is $55. The block plan carries no contract, so you can stop when you like, and if an injury, a busy month or a holiday gets in the way, you can pause for one to three months.

Which one suits you

Fitbod suits someone who wants an app to choose each workout's exercises, weights and reps from their own logged training, for a smaller monthly price. TriageFit suits someone who wants a programme from coaches, built around their equipment, their injuries and the days they have free, with their food coached in the same place and a real coach reading every weekly check-in, for €50 every 4 weeks.

How to start

Choose a plan on the pricing page, create your account and pay, and the intake opens. For how the intake turns into sessions fitted to your equipment and your injuries, read about the AI workout planner, and online strength coaching covers the coach-designed phases and the form checks on your main lifts. What MacroFactor costs covers its workout app as well as its nutrition app, and what a personal trainer costs sets TriageFit beside a trainer you pay by the session.