I’m middle-aged and have been working out here and there for ages before apps came along. I’ve tried so many workout apps, and honestly, they’ve all been a bit of a letdown. But Gymverse? It’s a whole different story! Let’s start with the interface; I’m a huge fan! It’s not only visually appealing but also super easy to use. They offer a ton of workout programs that fit all sorts of goals. One of my favorite things is how customizable it is. I know how frustrating it can be when you’re at the gym and you come across an exercise that needs a specific machine or equipment, but it’s not available or you have some kind of limitation. You can switch the exercise for that day or make it part of your program. For example, I have a bad back and can’t do squats, but Gymverse, like other apps, has options to change it to another exercise that works out that particular muscle group. But what sets Gymverse apart is that their selection of alternative exercises is much bigger than most. Another cool feature I haven’t seen anywhere else is called smart weight and reps. It takes your weights and reps and, once you hit, say, your third rep with a given weight, it automatically increases the weight for you the next time you do that exercise. Oh, and get this: all of this is adjustable. The customizable timer is pretty neat, and the last thing is that while your phone is locked, they have a widget on the screen where you can see the exercise you’re doing, what set you’re on, and how much time you have left on the timer.

Have been using this app to help plan/track my strength training for 2 years. Have loved it and it’s definitely been a great asset to help move closer to my goals. However, I have a huge issue with the newest update. The app allows you to select from curated workout plans based upon your available equipment, type of splits, desired goal, and targeted weekly frequency of exercise. Then it would create a 10 week cycle based on this criteria. Each time you opened the app, it would take you to the next scheduled workout in your plan. However, the newest update makes you select which specific days of the week that you plan to workout, and the scheduled workouts are ONLY available on that day. If you have to take a day or more off due to life or injury, it now skips over those workouts entirely and takes you to whatever workout it projected you would be on based on your start date and there’s no way to go back to earlier plans. I live a busy life and have been dealing with some injuries, so this is a big annoyance for me. I seriously wish they would just scrap the scheduled days feature and go back to the previous “next workout” style. If they did, it would be 5 stars, but as is I give it 2.5/5 for the rigidity.

I absolutely love this app. I’ve tried at least five other apps. Best things about this app: you can track your strength and lifting training as well as your cardio. It has excellent quality how to videos on every single exercise. Has a very robust selection of equipment to choose from and variety of exercises static exercise exercises to resistance and machines and free weights. The in app timer while working out is seamless and an awesome feature. Now for some of the major issues it lacks and needs fixed: the ability to rename workout days and shift the schedule without resetting the workout. If you create a custom workout, but want to change your rest day for example you have to manually re-create the workout. You should be able to just go into that workout day and change what day of the week it falls on. You should also be able to rename it. So it’s not just upper body or lower body, but can be whatever you want it to be called. Next, you should be able to set a default rest timer from the settings rather than having to manually set every single timer during every single workout. Next, there should be a way to shrink the view so you have the ability to view a compact list of your workout as well as larger bubble style workout icons. Finally, when during an active workout, you should be able to more seamlessly move between exercises with fewer taps or clicks so that way when you’re in a gym and there’s other people using the machines or the equipment you want to use you can quickly go onto the next.

This app was great with holding me accountable and allowing me to progress. I enjoyed it so much I purchased the Lifetime membership.However, with the new update my app crashed and would not open at all. Each time I clicked on it, it went back to my Apple screen. With that being said, I had to delete the app since I was unable to access it. Which I figured was not a problem since I had my password for my account. But I was not aware, the developer did NOT create a sign in log for their members. So I was starting over like a new customer and EVERYTHING was lost. I sent an email suggesting making a login for members just in case something like that happens again. In addition, to add in the customers account their membership status. In response, they apologized for what happened; and then proceeded to say “ At the moment this option is not part of the app, but we've added it to our customer requests and we will try to add it in the future - but please don't hold us to any promises, it depends on the number of requests that we get for it (we always go by most popular requests first)”.With all that being said, proceed with caution with this app because if it crashes you will lose everything until the developer implement these necessary changes. This is especially important for Lifetime Membership because their nothing in my account that states “Lifetime Membership”, then basically they can just take our money without repercussions.