App Review: Sworkit
9/10
Basic App Info:
Name of the App: Sworkit
Cost: $59.99/year or $9.99/month
Availability: Android & Apple
Who is it best for?
Whether you’re an absolute beginner or a more advanced fitness enthusiast, Sworkit can help you get in and stay in shape. Sworkit helps individuals, workgroups, and youth groups overcome the toughest fitness and nutritional challenges.
App Intro
Whether you’re an absolute beginner or a more advanced fitness enthusiast, Sworkit can help you get in and stay in shape. Sworkit helps individuals, workgroups, and youth groups overcome the toughest fitness and nutritional challenges.
Sworkit’s website says, “Sworkit means to simply work it. Your body was built to move daily and we’ve designed an innovative experience that makes it easy, enjoyable, and yes, simple to do just that.”
Sworkit is a premium, digital health and fitness company founded in 2012. With over 900 exercises and more than 500 unique workouts, Sworkit provides customizable plans and resources from certified trainers. With a custom combination of strength, cardio, yoga, and stretching workouts, the Sworkit Team allows millions of people to not only get in the best shape of their lives but to stay in the best shape of their lives anytime, anywhere.
The App
Features
OVER 900 WORKOUTS AND EXERCISES
The vast amount of exercises and resources available to its users is one of the most vital features Sworkit offers.
When you download the app and set up your account, Sworkit has eight different categories with reasons you might be interested in becoming healthier. Each category can be customized with hundreds of workouts and quality resources from certified trainers.
Sworkit also offers high-quality filters when setting up your customized workout regimen. Aside from difficulty level and targeted body parts, these filters include:
- Strength
- Mobility
- Athletic performance
- Pilates
- Rehab
- Yoga
- Barre
- Impact level
- Kettlebell
- Resistance bands
- Bodyweight
- Free weights/dumbbells
- Foam roller
YOUTH INITIATIVE PROGRAM
With Sworkit’s Youth Initiative Program, any teacher with a K-12 classroom anywhere in the world can get free access to Sworkit’s paid subscription service on Android, iOS, or the web. The Youth Initiative gives teachers unlimited access to an extensive library of workouts.
WORKOUT COLLECTIONS WITH NEW RELEASES FREQUENTLY
If creating a custom routine seems too daunting, you can use Sworkit’s workout collections. Sworkit provides over 30 workout collections that are constantly being updated and fine-tuned to offer you the best experience possible.
Just like when users set up their custom workouts, Sworkit’s collections include workouts in strength, mobility, athletic performance, pilates, rehab, yoga, barre, and more. The collections also consider impact level as well as the different modalities in the fitness realm such as kettlebell work, resistance bands, body weight, free weights/dumbbells, and even foam rolling.
Likes/Dislikes
Likes
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Customizable workouts and rehabilitation regimens
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Accessible for all demographics (young, old, beginner, advanced, etc.)
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A robust youth initiative
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Advanced filter features to help customize workouts to the ever-changing needs of users
Disikes
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The free trial version is extremely limited
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A subscription is cheaper than a gym membership, but unlike a gym membership, you don’t have any equipment
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Workouts do not include barbell workouts
Additional Thoughts
Overall, the dislikes above are extremely nitpicky and don’t highly affect our opinion. In the grand scheme, Sworkit is a fantastic fitness app that has a clear vision of what it’s trying to do for the world.
App Ratings, Size, & Category
RATINGS
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4.7 / 5
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4.1 / 5
SIZE
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107.3 MB
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46 M
CATEGORY
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Health & Fitness
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Health & Fitness
SIMILAR APPS
- Keelo Strength HIIT Workouts
- BTFIT: Indoor gym Exercises
- Fitplan: Gym & Home Workouts
Backstory
Ryan Hanna, a self-taught developer, founded Sworkit in 2012 to help people adopt and maintain lifelong healthy habits. In developing this app, he had a goal to keep up with his military training and conditioning.
In 2014, Nexercise Inc. acquired Sworkit to rebuild the platform, and in 2015, they launched Sworkit Kids, a free fitness app for children ages 4–13.
Today, Sworkit Fitness products are App Store leaders. With over 100,000 5-star reviews, Sworkit has an average rating of 4.6 stars on both iTunes and Google Play. To top it all off, “Sworkit was ranked #1 in a scientific study by the University of Florida of 30 iOS fitness apps. In this study, Sworkit was the only app found to meet the majority of guidelines established by the American College of Sports Medicine.”
The Bottom Line
Sworkit is ahead of the curve with its vision to revolutionize the fitness industry. Its easily customizable workouts can be tailored to any body type, shape, and condition. With the overall goal of maintaining a healthy fitness lifestyle, Sworkit understands the importance of education and quality resources and workouts.
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