However, taking a bite of a reality sandwich is as important as talking about the growing fitness app market. Many fitness app owners have claimed that sustaining the interest of fitness app users is an uphill battle. Though a gym app or fitness app overcomes barriers to exercise such as lack of motivation and procrastination, top fitness apps fail to witness the episodic activities of users. According to the survey result which was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, almost 63% of the users who participated in a survey said that they have heard about fitness apps but didn’t feel fascinated about it, while more than 17% of the users have used the fitness apps but they have uninstalled the apps after using it for one or two times. In fact, none of the fitness apps can manage to reserve its spot in the list of apps which own lowest uninstall rate. A team of Coruscate Solutions fought tooth and nails to discover the cause of it and based on the finding, we have developed a fitness app development solution and documented the ways to overcome post app launch challenges. We will discuss it in this blog. But first, let’s study the brighter side of darkness!

Why you should develop a fitness app for your gym?

According to a survey which was carried out by the consultancy named Sootoo, 37.2% of people prefer a gym for a workout, while 28.3% of the users want to stay at home to exercise. So, having brick mortar gym and not having fitness app means you are missing out an opportunity to convert that 28.3% of users (Which is, by the way, a big number) into your revenue stream. However, having a fitness app doesn’t mean that you can acquire users from only that 28.3% of the users. In fact, a fitness app or gym app can provide a seamless way to that 37.2% of the people to be member, to track their process and to explore different packages. In the nutshell, with a gym or fitness app, you can attract both major user groups of the fitness industry.

But keep your shirt on, first you need to figure out which are the top features you have to ask fitness app development company to integrate into your app.
 

Which are the top features you have to ask a fitness app development company to integrate into your gym or fitness app?

• Let users log in by providing the least possible details or enable social login feature.
• Present all services of your gym and price for each service in an easy to understand format.
• Let users select and pay for membership.
• Provide a dashboard where user can track activities, including how many hours he has spent at the gym and for how many days.
• Let users set the goal and recommend different steps to achieve it within time.
• Let users connect with the coach directly from the app.
• Add a feature which shows the nearest market from where user can buy ingredient to cook a light meal.
• And your app should support wearable devices.

By integrating these many features in your fitness app, the end result you get is the future-ready and with the future-ready app, the probability to be successful is sky-high. However, a few fundamental features are still missing from the app as fitness app development companies and fitness app owners are taking French leaves and not encouraging technologies which can actually help fitness app owners to sustain good app traffic. So, now let’s discuss the top reasons why the uninstall rate of the fitness app is high and how to increase the user subscriptions.
 

Which are the top post app launch challenges you need to know before going for fitness app development?

► Challenge #1

Keep your users motivated (Not to use your app but to workout!)

Though keeping users motivated to workout isn’t your call, you have to unriddle the ways to keep them motivated. Because the lack of motivation is one of the reasons why a user doesn’t open a fitness app for the second time. So, if you make them feel motivated to workout they will, of course, use your app.

Solution:

The fitness app development solution which has been developed by Coruscate is armed with few features which make users get out of the bed and workout. These features are loyalty program which provides reward points to do workout and news feed which shows all recent health and fitness related activities of gym-goers.

► Challenge #2

Help users to organize the time

People are so snowed under the work these days that they don’t have ‘time’ to allocate time for the workout.

Solution:

This is one of the Challenges where the team of Coruscate struggled a lot. But then, AI came to aid and we discovered the ways how AI can decode this challenge. An AI-enabled module which automatically tracks the user’s daily activity is sufficient enough to suggest in which way users should have to organize the day so that they can manage to workout without clogging any other daily activities.

► Challenge #3

Make them ready to follow the diet plan

Many users who want to get in a perfect shape don’t want to give up on their tasty food and start following your diet plan. Thus, after a few days of using your app, they turn into a couch
potato and uninstall your fitness app.

Solutions:

Rather than just motivating them to give up on their tasty food, present a variety of tasty yet light meal plans according to their background. Also, help them to find out nearest stores from where they can buy all important ingredients to make a light dish which your app has suggested.

► Challenge #4

Offer personalized training sessions

You (as a gym owner) know better than us that the physical makeup of every user is different. So, you have to treat every user as an individual entity.

Solutions:

The fitness app development solution which has been developed by Coruscate proffers the personalized training sessions by analyzing several factors like their age, weight user group, their goal, and their recent gym activities. This is how users won’t feel annoyed to use your fitness app or to be a member of your fitness house.

Thus, if you are planning to go for fitness app development or you have already owned a fitness app, make sure that app has the ability to solve the challenges we have discussed. Coruscate Solutions is the top fitness app development company, bringing next-level of innovation in the fitness industry. We have the ready-to-go module for the fitness app which means we can develop or upgrade the fitness app within 50 days with all groundbreaking features which solve the major challenges. We have a dedicated research team which works parallel with the developers and designers to develop future-ready fitness app. To know more about the cost of development and ask for a free consultation, contact us now.

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Sam began hitting the gym daily when he attended college. After a few years, boredom started to set in for the treadmill run every day. Hiring a personal trainer was not very much suitable for the pocket. Soon, the dullness started to set in. After a few days, a foot injury left Sam unfit for running. Slowly, his health started taking a toll. Once he realised it, he began looking for other fitness options only to find various alternative workouts.

In a few months, Sam found a chain of fitness centers that offered workout sessions without traditional gym machines. It had boxing, prowl, mixed martial arts, animal movements, Zumba classes, and various other activities that were accessible to the members. It had many other advantages like he could book the classes via an app. He could use the same app for feedback and rating system and also some videos of the sessions that he missed. The platform and the app had used technology to help make the process of the workout much more comfortable.

However, just interchanging exercise machines for the yoga mat alone is unlikely to fix the notoriously unfit industry of the US. The rents in cities are much higher and entrepreneurs are burdened with a high amount of spendings. In the comparison of expenditure, the membership renewal rates and often very low.

There are many startups looking for marrying technology with behavioral insights. This helps in introducing new workouts and new kinds of subscriptions which can together move the needle to improve the state of affairs take people towards a healthy society.

About Cult:

The fitness Cult is a distinctive kind of gym. There are classes running for an hour in mornings and evenings. There are intensive group workouts led by trainers. All this runs on the app. The people who visit a Cult center do not find any receptionist or sales executives giving everyone a grand tour or trying to sell an annual membership. People can just download the app and book their free trial lessons.

Membership can be easily bought and renewed on the app. The app also allows the users to buys passes in a pay-per-class program. The lessons can be booked on the app and the attendance can be logged using a fingerprint scanner to let the app track your progress.

Technology is helping regular gyms to improve what they are offers. The payments of the gym are also digitalized and the new workout offerings and tech upgrade have helped in achieving a 15% growth in the rate of renewals.

Cure.fit is a two-year-old venture of the businessmen Mukesh Bansal’s and Ankit Nagori’s. They are using technology to win the world of health and wellness. At Cure.fit they try to make it easier for the people to lead a healthy lifestyle across food, physical fitness, mental well-being, and primary healthcare, all through a single platform.

The platform intelligently blends four verticals that work together to guarantee the holistic well-being of their users. They offer physical fitness via Cult.fit, mental well-being via Mind. fit, and healthy eating via Eat.fit; in the works is Care.fit, which is meant to provide personalized healthcare solutions.

Cure.fit is different from that of the other players in the market as it drives its precautionary healthcare knowledge through appointment, coaching, and delivery, with a mixture of online and offline channels. This is made achievable through difficult technology and uncompromised customer service.

The smart technology behind the platform: How developing cult like gym fitness app can grow your business?

The application works as a gateway to its services. The company is leveraging technology to solve problems as well as to ensure appropriate and effective execution, as well as customer happiness.

For example, at Eat. fit there is a request prediction for orders, menu programming, and food delivery management. These are all machine-driven. The team performs complex technology developed in-house. It designates an optimal number of orders to its transport fleet to assure on-time delivery.

This demand prediction for orders has been machine-driven from the start itself. This forecast is with a huge number of data points being explained to correctly predict meal order patterns when the users search for it. These points can differentiate the choice of cuisine, time and type of meal for the four meals a day (breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner). The options include vegetarian and non-vegetarian options and various meal types such as high-protein or high-carb, etc.

Menu programming stays intact by potential human indiscretion. The algorithmic menu programming reviews numerous layers of data to create menus that offer quality through the week across nutritionally balanced meals.

It particularly takes into account: macro and micronutrients in food elements, portion sizes, the pairing of food items, the demand of dishes, and much more. The algorithm also assures that there is no repetition of the dishes very regularly.

At the Cult.fit and Mind.fit the day-to-day services are fully machine-driven. Everything right from scheduling classes or allotting trainers for 400 classes every day in 10 separate exercise formats across 40 different centers in three cities. They plan another step forward to even plan what sub-routines and actions are managed at which stage of every one hour class. The customer feedback on a daily basis is handled through the app and investigated to make sure that unpopular routines are left out at the earliest. Trainers have their own app in order to track their choices, class records, workouts, their training and ratings based on customer feedback.

The choice of the place for a new Cult.fit center too is machine-driven. It examines a different number of data points, which include the type of locality, width of the approach road to the center, other facilities available in the neighborhood and every other thing that is developed in-house. 

More about technology

 
Cure.fit has always concentrated on developing and growing the offerings made by the app as much as attainable. The study of its focus is on balancing pace and quality is Cure.fit’s understanding that most services and technical frameworks should ideally have the same resolution.

There is another high-grade practice that Cure.fit follows. It uses actual solutions anywhere they are achievable. They do not reinvent the wheel for the hot code deployment, push notifications and managing web and mobile media assets.

Cure.fit declared that it would help organizations like the advanced health and nutrition research and customer insights to improve product effectiveness, branding and positioning, and go-to-market strategy. It will also grant access to its own sales channels like the cult centers, Eat.fit cafes and the Cure.fit app.

The food categories that Cure.fit is contemplating to invest in include ready-to-eat snacks, nutrition bars, juices, supplements, dairy products, and ready-to-cook commodities.

Groups who wish to venture in the above area can apply to the incubator program in order to get shortlisted to rise to Cure.fit’s investment committee. 

Building a platform like Cure.fit

 
Like Cure. fit, Coruscate has also designed a great platform which can help the gym partners to have the merchandise as well as help their customers with the physical and mental fitness right through the app.

If you are a gym owner or you are interested to dive down deep into the health and wellness regime, you can blend in the technology with us for your business venture to earn more profits.

You can connect with us for an app idea or you can even know better about the case study and ask a free app demo.

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The smartphones are said to be ruining our lives by giving us sleepless nights, bent backs and kinked necks. They are even blamed for causing anxiety, depression and other medical issues. However, the truth is something completely different. It is not the mobile phone that is causing these ailments but how we use it. In fact, the phones can make you fitter. How? There are the best workout apps like Myfitnesspal app that are the answer to your questions.

2018 was a year of revolution even for the fitness apps. Here is the graph of the most popular health and fitness apps in the US in May 2018, by monthly active users in millions.

Many of the health and fitness apps are poised to help you make you fitter, leaner, stronger and develop great stamina. The best workout apps help you to fight against the creeping physical and mental illness in the age of information technology. These apps have the advantage of the latest information-rich environment to focus on personalized coach or trainer built workouts and that too at their user’s fingertips. They work in such a manner that you can achieve faster results in very less time. These apps even help in maintaining consistency by holding the user accountable for the missed session and keeping track of the nutrition plan. There are some free workout apps that provide a variety and a change of pace, unlike the old fitness routine.

As there are a lot of workout and fitness apps coming up in the market every day, you might like to know about a few of the best workout apps and their features which you can consider while creating your own fitness app. Let’s discuss a few fitness apps here.

My fitness pal app was founded by Mike Lee in the year 2005 as he and his fiancee wanted to lose a little weight before their wedding. Later, the startup raised $18 million in the series A round of funding in 2013. When the investor John Doerr joined in, the app already had more than 40 million downloads which later rose to 80 million registered users tracking their calorie intake from a list of 5 million food items.

Here is a graph from statista.com that shows My fitness pal app on the top of the list of leading health and fitness apps in March 2019.

The calm app ranked 3rd on the list of leading health and fitness apps. It is an award-winning Apple meditation app and is valued at $250 million. It is a San Francisco-based startup and is the closest competitor of Headspace, another app for meditation and calming.

Calm meditation claims to help users in better sleeping, boosts confidence and reduces stress and anxiety with their soothing music, bedtime stories, and meditations. While the calm app is free for the starting 7 days, the users need to pay $ 59.99.

The Strava app is used to keep a track of your fitness activities related to running, cycling and swimming. Doesn’t matter if you are training for a marathon or simply love riding your bike. You can just turn your smartphone into a tracker using the Strava app. The app helps you reach your fitness goals and meet athletes and active people just like you.

You can track the distance, pace, speed, elevation gained & calories burned using the Strava app. The app can help you to mix up your training with the largest trail network. Using the app motivates you to push yourself in order to do your best. You are offered monthly challenges and allowed competing in order to improve your performance. You can compare your running, riding and swimming performances every now and then.

The app is not only limited to running or cycling, but there is also a whole range of sports trackable with Strava which include:

1. Swimming
2. Hiking
3. Crossfitting
4. Gym training
5. Kayak
6. Rock Climbing
7. Surfing
8. Yoga

The Strava app uses HealthKit to export your activities into its Health app and to keep a tab on the heart rate and biometric data.

3 strategies to develop best workout app which can rank among the best workout apps:

The fitness startups are focusing more and more on customized and convenient training. One such fitness startup named Tonal has announced raising $45 million in a funding round.

Curious to find out how the fitness startups make it this big in the market and what are the strategies that you should follow in order to be a tough competitor?

The most important strategy is to consider solving the problems faced by people in their day to day lives. People generally lack in diverse fitness programs. So, when you analyze the problems faced by people while working out, you get the exact way to provide a solution for them. Let’s consider the example of Tonal, its AI-powered training plans provide a different way to interact with fitness enthusiasts.

1. Body workouts
2. Personal Fitness Coaches
3. Customized Fitness Plans for each user
4. Daily/Weekly Training Plans as per the user requirementsFollowing this plan will help you to create your own footprints in the fitness industry.

The next thing that you need to consider is to study the on-going trends, which will help you to know the interest of people and their needs. You will be able to provide them with the exact solutions once you get to know what exactly are your target audience interested in. If you think there are some programs that might attract your users more, it is a good idea to go with the tried and tested methods.

The relevant training programs can be one of the effectual strategies to consider while building a fitness app for fitness enthusiasts. Having videos as the training medium can prove a much easier way to provide solutions and reach a greater number of audience. People like watching instead of just instructions. Providing videos from which they can choose without any stress is a good option to generate their interest and keep them glued to the app.

So, do you have thoughts about developing a fitness app and then make people recognize it as one of the best workout apps? Do you have certain features for your fitness app in mind? Coruscate can help you validate the idea of your personalized fitness app. We have built over 50+ fitness apps and have many clients achieve their goals in the fitness industry.

Connect with us through the contact us form to discuss further regarding the features and the cost of developing your fitness app to make huge bucks in this industry.

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The main reason behind this increase can be attributed to the awareness in recent times. It can also be attributed to the sedentary lifestyle we lead and the kind of diseases we are affected by. In an attempt to change their lifestyle and introduce healthy ways, people are turning to incorporate fitness into their daily life.

From forming healthy eating habits to regular exercises, the target market is flourishing with ways to stay fit and reduce the baseline. The fitness tracker apps not only help them with the right portions but also help them track the intake of calories and the calories burnt.

With the data that is available to the fitness market, the apps are being restructured and reinvented in order to close the existing gaps and build a better way of keeping track.

The fitness market will grow by 210% by 2020. This means, there is bound to be an exponential rise from $10Bn to $31Bn in the amount of revenue generated.

Currently, according to the data released by Statista, the top fitness tracking app in the market is Fitbit. The total number of users for this app equal 26Mn.

Let us take you through a few ideas for fitness apps, the must-have features as well as key things to consider before diving into the fitness market.

Top Fitness Tracker App Ideas for you

The diet tracker: These apps are being essentially downloaded by a multitude of users. These apps have the most market in current times. From recording the amount of food they eat to have a nutritionist tell them what kind of food they should have, the apps offer a lot of diet control to the users.

These fitness apps also remind the users to have water and take their medicines. The apps tell the users how much calories they have lost based on the combination of food and exercise for the day. The app takes into account your medical history as well as all the current issues you are facing, before giving you the perfect diet options.

The activity tracker: If you are entering into this segment, this is definitely a growing market and one that will survive all kinds of competition. These apps keep an eye on the activity that you do on a daily basis. You can set goals with this app, and see to it that you fulfill the goals.

You can even share the goal and activity with a friend and measure your growth. There is a lot of fun that you can create around these apps, and make sure that the audience enjoys the app as much as they should.

The trainer apps: For those who cannot go to the gym, and hire a personal trainer, this app is definitely useful. This app will talk to you just like the offline trainer would, and understand everything there is about you. They will cautiously chalk out a daily workout and diet sheet for you, which you need to follow.

Just like the personal trainer offline, they will make sure you follow all that has been defined for you and measure your progress. Based on your progress, they will screen the next step for you. For this app, you need to collaborate with several other personal trainers.

Workout apps: These apps are basically complete with videos and methods of performing an exercise. They are simple workout apps which tell you which exercise is best for which part of the body.

You can learn from the videos and perform these exercises. The workout apps also tell you how many sets of each exercise you need to perform so that you can achieve the set goal.

Let’s now get on with the must-have features for the fitness tracker app that you have ideated.

Must-have Features for your Fitness Tracker App

1. Workout programs: Your fitness app should have workout plans for different levels. The plans should be designed for the user, and according to the inputs made by them. From basic workout to intense workout, the app should list all the top exercises that can be performed by the end users.

2. Tracking the steps: The app should track the total number of steps the user has walked in a single day. They should graphically show how far the user has come with respect to the goal. The user should be able to track their physical activities, which include running, walking and cycling.

3. Calorie counter: Introduce the calorie counter feature into your app, as that will help the user know how much calories they consume, and the total calorie they have burnt. Make sure the calorie feature also mentions the total amount of calories the user has to burn on a single day in order to achieve their calorie goal.

4. Setting goals: The app should allow the user to set the realistic as well as attainable goals. This will help the end user track the goals and identify what level of activity and diet will help them achieve it. The goals should be divided between exercises and the diet that needs to be consumed to attain the fitness level desired. The app should be able to provide personalized recommendations to the user regarding the fitness and the diet and exercises.

5. Sleep tracking: The app should track the user’s sleep and take into account the number of hours they sleep and provide them with inputs regarding better sleep habits for them. Based on the data and insights, the app will offer personalized recommendations regarding sleep and snoring habits to the user, for better mornings.

6. Reminders: The app should remind the user about the important things, such as drinking water at regular intervals etc. The idea is to improve the overall health of the user and make sure they are hydrated.

Things to Consider While Developing Fitness Tracker App

Planning to develop a fitness tracker app for the idea that has just developed in your mind? Here are a few things you might want to consider before starting with app development.

Know what type of fitness app solution you are planning to provide. For this, you need to study the fitness tracker app market and identify the gaps that exist at the moment. You will need to study all the apps that exist, and what truly works with the end user, before formulating your idea. That single idea that you are planning on developing needs to be properly strategized before you can begin development.

Identify the features that you need to add to the fitness app you are planning. Remember, it is important that the features you add to the app align with the end goals defined for the application. All the features must be clearly defined and you should know the ultimate use of these features.

For instance, if your fitness tracker app is meant to calculate the steps and provide you with data accordingly, it is important the fitness tracker is registered with the app and is connected at all hours. This is one of the many features that you need to plan and align for the application.

Cost of development is another important aspect that you need to consider before delving into the planning stage. Make sure you have readied a documentation for the app development, and have taken into account all the points that will add to the cost of development.

Finally, you need to plan for the app’s compatibility with the various fitness tracking devices available in the market. You should ideally know of all the tracking applications that are available and make space for the growing number of devices.

Summing up

The fitness tracker app market is an ever growing and highly accommodative market. If you are into the fitness business, it is time to think of an app that will suit the needs of the target audience and will help you be more visible in the market.

Coruscate will become your technology partner to ease out all the technology concerns you might have of entering the fitness app market. We know the ins and outs of the industry and have developed quite a few applications in the past. We will devise just the right model for your market and business needs. Connect with us and we can take the discussion further and start planning for the app development.

Note: We do not make clones of any exact application, clone means to us is how better we can execute your app idea with existing app features and experience.

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