Provider Ranking of Fitness Apps Breaks a Sweat With Sweeping Changes

You’re unfit. That’s right. We went there. But it’s for your own good.

We mean physically unfit, of course — a charge we level equally against ourselves. Maybe you’re dropping the “COVID-19 pounds” and maybe not, but something’s going on.

PYMNTS’ latest Provider Ranking of Fitness Apps proves it. As long as we’ve been doing this ranking, never have we seen such motion as we find in this update. Swimsuit season is ending, folks. Trees will start turning colors soon. Fitness season (if there is such a thing) is over.

So then, how to explain who’s downloading all these fitness apps?

You need to see it to understand. Take a light jog with us as we round the rankings.

The Top Five

It’s no shocker when a No. 1 stays put a while, as is the case with the My Fitness Pal. Far rarer is when an app shoots from the bottom of the charts to the summit in record time, as is the case with Sweatcoin, rising a staggering four chart positions to tie for No. 1.

There’s a clue to this app’s meteoric rise, right in its own marketing copy: “Sweatcoin pays users 0.95 sweatcoins for every 1,000 steps they take outdoors. That digital currency can be traded for fitness gear, gift cards and workout classes in the app’s marketplace.” Worth a download.

Doing reps (but not in a posed gym rat sort of way) it’s still Planet Fitness Workouts at No. 2.

Also unmoved — yet presumably moving — it’s Strava: Run, Ride, Swim, sitting pretty at No. 3.

As they say in linguistically challenged gyms, “No gain, no pain.” So it goes with the Workouts by Muscle Booster app, sticking at No. 4 for another cycle.

Now for more interesting developments. We’ve got two apps tied (we’re getting used to that), and both have just graduated in tandem. FitCoach rises one spot, shadowed by FitOn Workouts elevating two spots, both tying at No. 5. Welcome to the Top Five. Today is leg day. Sorry.

The Top 10

Down below the line, we begin with a devil’s trio. Lining up a 6, 6 and 6, we’ve got a rare three-way tie, starting with Map My Run by Under Armour rising three spots since last month. Next to them, we have the Nike Training Club app pushing up two spots, and the Runkeeper — GPS Running Tracker is up an impressive four spots, all tied up at No. 6.

We’ll keep an eye on that grouping.

New at No. 7 it’s Workout for Women: Fitness App, which did not chart last month. Well done, you — and they’re not alone, as you’ll see momentarily.

Everyone from here on out is a new arrival to PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Fitness Apps, with the Sworkit app up next and new at No. 8.

Daily Workouts Fitness Trainer comes out of the ether to land at No. 9. Never charted before.

Also new to the rankings, it’s the Fitness & Bodybuilding Pro for you powerlifters. It’s new at No. 10, completing this exhausting workout of a Provider Ranking.

Kind of makes you want to drop the burrito and pick up the smartphone.