New Features in Fitness Apps like Strava, Fitbit, Headspace, and more

New Features in Fitness Apps: Get Inspired to Disrupt

Pandemic did affect the workout routines of gym-goers, runners, hikers, bikers, and similar fitness fanatics. And, we know that from the head-turning stats in 2020 regarding wellness and fitness technology. But it blessed the fitness industry for a reason.

The fitness industry players are moving past the physical fitness centres to offer a studio-style workout experience with wearable app development in the comfort of users’ home. Needless to say, users are gravitating towards fitness apps and demanding more out of their productive fitness sessions. 

As a result, two prominent sources of innovation are turning the fitness industry  a notch more interesting:

• New fitness app development and launch
• New features in fitness apps

USPs are quickly turning into MVPs. Yes, the revolution and evolution in the fitness industry are that rapid.

If you are a fitness industry enthusiast, we have brought the new features in fitness apps launched recently for you to soak the information and get the best shape for your fitness business’ revenue stream.

New Features in Fitness Apps: Get Inspired to Disrupt

Peloton

Jumping into the bandwagon of at-home fitness apps, Peloton has a leading name in the fitness industry for indoor cycling and biking devotees. It offers, but does not limit to, a live-streaming and on-demand workout experience to fitness fanatics.

Among the other segments, Peloton provides classes for tread, bike, strength, bootcamp, HIIT, and pilates. Additionally, Peloton also serves as an eCommerce store for bikes, treadmills, apparel, and accessories.

Recently it has announced a new feature for its fitness app–Scheduling. Users can select among the various classes they want to subscribe to up to two weeks ahead of time.

How Does Scheduling Work?

Looking for the new features in fitness apps? Scheduling can be the one. 

Here’s how it works. Users can select the date and timing for any encore, on-demand, or live class for scheduling a class. Upon selecting the slot, users will see a confirmation pop up. After the confirmation, users can text their friends and refer them to take classes.

Besides this, users can also view their scheduled classes across various disciplines using a single app. When it’s time for users to take their scheduled class, they will find a notification pop up on their Peloton app, navigating right to the scheduled class.

The scheduling feature enables users to plan their weekly workout sessions beforehand.

Beachbody on Demand

Beachbody on Demand is an online streaming service, allowing users to stream hundreds of workouts. After subscribing to the Beachbody on Demand membership, users can receive access to multiple workout programs.

The premium membership of Beachbody on Demand offers monthly advice and support to users using the premium nutrition programs–2B Mindset and Portion Fix. The BOD platform facilitates sharing of the workout video feed in real-time with users through BODcast. It helps connect the users with coaches and other groups to stay on track.

What are the Latest Features of Beachbody on Demand?

Among the others, BOD provides a unique Challenge du Jour feature, wherein users can challenge themselves with workouts selected by Beachbody fitness experts. After the completion of the challenge, users can use the hashtag #CDJ. The feature offers a crash course on various BOD workouts.

Another interesting feature of BOD is the offline workout session. Users can download the videos for working out offline or use the app to play the videos in Airplane Mode. The feature allows users to download up to 7 workouts and access them offline.

MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal is a comprehensive fitness application, offering numerous features that help users look good and feel better in their skin. The fitness application can be connected with over 50 apps, including MapMyRun, Apple HealthKit, FitBit, Samsung Health, and Garmin.

The mobile application sets its operations apart from its competitors by using gamification. Additionally, users can scan the barcodes of food items or manually look up for them from the database. The largest food database with 14+ million foods includes global items and cuisines from various restaurants. Users can access the iOS and Android applications to count calories and live a healthier lifestyle.

MyFitnessPal introduced voice commands in its recent update.

How Does Voice Command Work?

Voice command allows users to log their meals or workout easily using the voice command. The feature facilitates users to hold their home button to say, “MyFitnessPal Log Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/Snacks/Exercise”.

Upon logging in the voice command, the mobile app will access the diary and enter the meal name into the records to calculate the calories. The response of the voice commanded is currently slow. However, it saves the manual efforts of users and helps keep their diaries updated. 

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Fitbit

Probably everybody living under the sun knows about Fitbit. The Fitbit app supports the fitness band and offers detailed tracking of fitness activities. The fitness app stores the data and provides a unified place for keeping an eye on trends, gaining insights about the activities of users, and editing goals.

Fitbit offers the tracking of heart rate, sleep pattern, oxygen level, and similar health parameters. Users can edit their daily fitness goals and personalize their fitness activities, nutrition, exercise, and sleep duration. Additionally, the mobile application also enables users to log food by scanning the barcodes.

Do you know about Charge 4?

Charge 4 is the latest addition to the Fitbit series. The fitness band provides notification about incoming calls, texts, and similar third-party apps. Besides this, Charge 4 offers complete control over the Spotlist playlist, if users have a Spotify subscription.

Another interesting feature sported by Fitbit Charge 4 is its ability to offer contactless payments through Fitbit Pay. Users can use Charge 4 and Fitbit Pay to initiate contactless payment.

Strava

Strava is a fitness tracking app designed for tracking the amount of workout. Going one step beyond the normal fitness apps, Strava offers social networking features to connect with like-minded athletes and fitness enthusiasts. It offers a freemium model, whereas some of the features are paid and accessible upon subscribing to the app.

Strava offers tracking of numerous activities such as running, swimming, riding, biking, etc. Additionally, the fitness tracking app features new challenges for users to subscribe to and keep up with fitness goals. Alongside, there are numerous clubs that users can create or join by sorting through the club name, location, and club type. Strava introduces new features frequently to keep the users engaged with the fitness application.

What is the New Feature in Strava?

Following a fitness regime is easy for users when they are connected with friends. Users demanded better control over their feeds, which is what exactly Strava delivered. Now, users can follow athletes and subscribe to the activities of other users on Strava. When a user follows another athlete, they can view activities, created routes, challenges, and other actions taken by other users. Users can directly subscribe to the activities of their friends and other athletes from the profile page using the following button.

In addition to this, users can mute an athlete or set them as favourite. This feature allows users to view all the activities of their friends on Strava.

Aaptiv

Aaptiv is a modern-day audio-based fitness application, providing workout instructions from certified personal trainers to help users through workouts. Users can choose the type of workout from the fitness application–Meditation, Barre, Pilates, Indoor Cycling, Elliptical, Yoga, Outdoor Running, Stair Climber, Strength Training, Stretching, and Treadmill.

The fitness application provides specialized workout regime for athletes looking to avail training for a marathon, lose weight, or stay active during pregnancy. The health and fitness app enables users to track workout-based parameters–miles run, frequency, and duration. Users can also compare their activity trends by day, week, month, and all-time.

Being a leading fitness application, Aaptiv takes a strategic approach when it comes to showing user-centricity.

What are the Top Features of Aaptiv?

Aaptiv recently launched some of the exciting features to bring back the categories, programs, and classes. Additionally, users can pick their own music genre to workout. Users have the option to select from among 15 different music stations for every type of workout, including electronic, pop, hip hop, and more. Users can rediscover their favourite Aaptiv classes with the music genre of their preferences.

Users can also adjust and control the volume of music during the workout session.

Headspace

We are talking about the meditation application, Headspace. The mindfulness application is feature-rich with tons of meditation practices and sessions. Users can access the session timers, a library of the meditation sessions, email reminders, program training, and progress tracking.

The high-quality meditation videos, infographics, and sessions help users to engage with the app and remain in the meditative state for a good duration. Among the other meditation applications. Headspace is the most downloaded app in the world from its category on the scales of engagement, satisfaction, functionality, aesthetics, and information.

What are the Crucial Feature Releases from Headspace?

Want to know about exciting new features in fitness apps? Headspace has been constantly revamping its app and website to stay at the dominant position in the market. It recently launched Everybody Headspace, which is a channel to connect with co-meditating people. The Everybody Headspace feature is currently available for the Headspace Plus members.

Users have to log into the Headspace app to find the Everybody Headspace feature at the top of their home screen. Five minutes prior to the meditation, users can find the ‘Join In’ button and participate in the group meditation session. Besides this, the guided meditation of Headspace is now available in both–male and female–voices.

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Apple Fitness+

Apple Fitness+ is one of the premium and most popular workout apps, accommodating users with intelligent insights about their workouts. The fitness app brings the studio-style workout to the Apple TV, iPad, and iPhone. Users can get access to the insights based on various parameters for an immersive workout experience.

Users can integrate the app with their Apple Watch to keep a track of heart rate, timer, burn bar, and even control music. The fitness application also consists of an activity sharing feature for users to allow a peek of their workout session with their friends and families.

Did you know about this Latest Feature of Apple Fitness+?

The new features in fitness apps are not only limited to Android devices. With the launch of the latest iOS version, Apple Fitness+ is going to delight users with access to streaming workout videos directly to AirPlay2 smart TVs. Before accessing the feature, users will have to update their iOS software as: iOS 14.3 on iPhone, iPadOS, and tvOS. Once done, they can sign up for Apple Fitness+ and access the workout streaming feature on their TVs.

The Apple Watch also supports this feature. For accessing the feature through an Apple Watch, users will have to update their Apple Watches to watchOS 7.2.

Alo Moves

Founded in 2012, Alo Moves is a fitness portal for Alo Yoga. It offers a membership plan to users, who can subscribe to the plan and receive unlimited access to thousands of video classes, right from the beginner level to the advanced level. The workout videos help users to challenge their physical strength.

With a huge library of yoga classes, users can choose a routine, as per their need–barre, strength, Hiit, Pilates, and more. Besides yoga, Alo Moves features skill development for aspiring fitness trainers and mindfulness practices for personal growth. Users can also sort the difficulty level of their workout session and carry on with their workouts.

What makes Alo Moves Unique?

We have seen enough of new features in fitness apps. A new feature from Alo Moves is just right for fitness enthusiasts, who can’t move a limb without some rhythm. Alo Moves has released a feature that enables users to mix a pre-selected soundtrack for each of their workout sessions and add a luxurious feel to the otherwise conceived as mundane routine.

Each of the yoga class features a list of stations that matches the style of the workout, right from the high-intensity fitness training to a chilled-out yoga session. Users can simply play the track and get moving.

Obé

Obé is an on-demand workout portal with live fitness classes to put the fun element into the fitness. Obé unlocks numerous doors to fitness with fitness categories ranging from Sculpt, Dance, Power, Vinyasa Yoga, HiiT, Barre, Yoga Sculpt, Pilates, Cardio Boxing, Dance HiiT, Meditation, and Bouncing activities.

In addition to the on-demand fitness classes, Obé also features training programs for a number of days with a number of workout videos. These videos are for a specific number of days, thereby challenging users to stay consistent with their fitness training. The workout videos mention whether the fitness activity requires any equipment or not for users to prepare for the session beforehand.

Do you Know about Obé Workout Parties?

Probably you have heard about the Netflix party. The OTT platform allows users to watch the same content, defying the norms of distance. Similar to the trend of incorporating new features in fitness apps, Obé releases a brand new feature that allows users to invite up to seven friends in a virtual workout session. The feature is helpful for users, who rely on FaceTime or Zoom or a similar video conferencing app to follow a fitness session. Users can connect and have control over the video session.

Bonus Section: The Right Way to Develop New Features in Fitness Apps

The sales funnel is quite simple. You promise to give your users what they want and then just give it to them. However, you can’t feed the satisfied. You need to identify the right time to target the appetite.

The same goes for users. If a user is already satisfied and loyal to another fitness brand, you need to identify the gaps that can make a user land into your fitness app. And, that is possible when you can segregate the features into different categories, based on their value for users.

It is crucial for you to understand the lifecycle of a fitness app–when to release what feature, how to differentiate a feature from another brand, how should the feature work,…

All these what, when, how, are important questions that you need to get the answer first. If you get the answers, start right away. If you don’t, you can consult our experts and get a winning functionality timeline for your health and fitness app by getting inspiration from the new features in fitness apps.

Peloton

Peloton

Jumping into the bandwagon of at-home fitness apps, Peloton has a leading name in the fitness industry for indoor cycling and biking devotees. It offers, but does not limit to, a live-streaming and on-demand workout experience to fitness fanatics.

Among the other segments, Peloton provides classes for tread, bike, strength, bootcamp, HIIT, and pilates. Additionally, Peloton also serves as an eCommerce store for bikes, treadmills, apparel, and accessories.

Recently it has announced a new feature for its fitness app–Scheduling. Users can select among the various classes they want to subscribe to up to two weeks ahead of time.

How Does Scheduling Work?

Looking for the new features in fitness apps? Scheduling can be the one. 

Here’s how it works. Users can select the date and timing for any encore, on-demand, or live class for scheduling a class. Upon selecting the slot, users will see a confirmation pop up. After the confirmation, users can text their friends and refer them to take classes.

Besides this, users can also view their scheduled classes across various disciplines using a single app. When it’s time for users to take their scheduled class, they will find a notification pop up on their Peloton app, navigating right to the scheduled class.

The scheduling feature enables users to plan their weekly workout sessions beforehand.

Beachbody on Demand

Beachbody on Demand is an online streaming service, allowing users to stream hundreds of workouts. After subscribing to the Beachbody on Demand membership, users can receive access to multiple workout programs.

The premium membership of Beachbody on Demand offers monthly advice and support to users using the premium nutrition programs–2B Mindset and Portion Fix. The BOD platform facilitates sharing of the workout video feed in real-time with users through BODcast. It helps connect the users with coaches and other groups to stay on track.

What are the Latest Features of Beachbody on Demand?

Among the others, BOD provides a unique Challenge du Jour feature, wherein users can challenge themselves with workouts selected by Beachbody fitness experts. After the completion of the challenge, users can use the hashtag #CDJ. The feature offers a crash course on various BOD workouts.

Another interesting feature of BOD is the offline workout session. Users can download the videos for working out offline or use the app to play the videos in Airplane Mode. The feature allows users to download up to 7 workouts and access them offline.

MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal is a comprehensive fitness application, offering numerous features that help users look good and feel better in their skin. The fitness application can be connected with over 50 apps, including MapMyRun, Apple HealthKit, FitBit, Samsung Health, and Garmin.

The mobile application sets its operations apart from its competitors by using gamification. Additionally, users can scan the barcodes of food items or manually look up for them from the database. The largest food database with 14+ million foods includes global items and cuisines from various restaurants. Users can access the iOS and Android applications to count calories and live a healthier lifestyle.

MyFitnessPal introduced voice commands in its recent update.

How Does Voice Command Work?

Voice command allows users to log their meals or workout easily using the voice command. The feature facilitates users to hold their home button to say, “MyFitnessPal Log Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/Snacks/Exercise”.

Upon logging in the voice command, the mobile app will access the diary and enter the meal name into the records to calculate the calories. The response of the voice commanded is currently slow. However, it saves the manual efforts of users and helps keep their diaries updated. 

Fitbit

Probably everybody living under the sun knows about Fitbit. The Fitbit app supports the fitness band and offers detailed tracking of fitness activities. The fitness app stores the data and provides a unified place for keeping an eye on trends, gaining insights about the activities of users, and editing goals.

Fitbit offers the tracking of heart rate, sleep pattern, oxygen level, and similar health parameters. Users can edit their daily fitness goals and personalize their fitness activities, nutrition, exercise, and sleep duration. Additionally, the mobile application also enables users to log food by scanning the barcodes.

Do you know about Charge 4?

Charge 4 is the latest addition to the Fitbit series. The fitness band provides notification about incoming calls, texts, and similar third-party apps. Besides this, Charge 4 offers complete control over the Spotlist playlist, if users have a Spotify subscription.

Another interesting feature sported by Fitbit Charge 4 is its ability to offer contactless payments through Fitbit Pay. Users can use Charge 4 and Fitbit Pay to initiate contactless payment.

Strava

Strava is a fitness tracking app designed for tracking the amount of workout. Going one step beyond the normal fitness apps, Strava offers social networking features to connect with like-minded athletes and fitness enthusiasts. It offers a freemium model, whereas some of the features are paid and accessible upon subscribing to the app.

Strava offers tracking of numerous activities such as running, swimming, riding, biking, etc. Additionally, the fitness tracking app features new challenges for users to subscribe to and keep up with fitness goals. Alongside, there are numerous clubs that users can create or join by sorting through the club name, location, and club type. Strava introduces new features frequently to keep the users engaged with the fitness application.

What is the New Feature in Strava?

Following a fitness regime is easy for users when they are connected with friends. Users demanded better control over their feeds, which is what exactly Strava delivered. Now, users can follow athletes and subscribe to the activities of other users on Strava. When a user follows another athlete, they can view activities, created routes, challenges, and other actions taken by other users. Users can directly subscribe to the activities of their friends and other athletes from the profile page using the following button.

In addition to this, users can mute an athlete or set them as favourite. This feature allows users to view all the activities of their friends on Strava.

Aaptiv

Aaptiv is a modern-day audio-based fitness application, providing workout instructions from certified personal trainers to help users through workouts. Users can choose the type of workout from the fitness application–Meditation, Barre, Pilates, Indoor Cycling, Elliptical, Yoga, Outdoor Running, Stair Climber, Strength Training, Stretching, and Treadmill.

The fitness application provides specialized workout regime for athletes looking to avail training for a marathon, lose weight, or stay active during pregnancy. The health and fitness app enables users to track workout-based parameters–miles run, frequency, and duration. Users can also compare their activity trends by day, week, month, and all-time.

Being a leading fitness application, Aaptiv takes a strategic approach when it comes to showing user-centricity.

What are the Top Features of Aaptiv?

Aaptiv recently launched some of the exciting features to bring back the categories, programs, and classes. Additionally, users can pick their own music genre to workout. Users have the option to select from among 15 different music stations for every type of workout, including electronic, pop, hip hop, and more. Users can rediscover their favourite Aaptiv classes with the music genre of their preferences.

Users can also adjust and control the volume of music during the workout session.

Headspace

We are talking about the meditation application, Headspace. The mindfulness application is feature-rich with tons of meditation practices and sessions. Users can access the session timers, a library of the meditation sessions, email reminders, program training, and progress tracking.

The high-quality meditation videos, infographics, and sessions help users to engage with the app and remain in the meditative state for a good duration. Among the other meditation applications. Headspace is the most downloaded app in the world from its category on the scales of engagement, satisfaction, functionality, aesthetics, and information.

What are the Crucial Feature Releases from Headspace?

Want to know about exciting new features in fitness apps? Headspace has been constantly revamping its app and website to stay at the dominant position in the market. It recently launched Everybody Headspace, which is a channel to connect with co-meditating people. The Everybody Headspace feature is currently available for the Headspace Plus members.

Users have to log into the Headspace app to find the Everybody Headspace feature at the top of their home screen. Five minutes prior to the meditation, users can find the ‘Join In’ button and participate in the group meditation session. Besides this, the guided meditation of Headspace is now available in both–male and female–voices.

Apple Fitness+

Apple Fitness+ is one of the premium and most popular workout apps, accommodating users with intelligent insights about their workouts. The fitness app brings the studio-style workout to the Apple TV, iPad, and iPhone. Users can get access to the insights based on various parameters for an immersive workout experience.

Users can integrate the app with their Apple Watch to keep a track of heart rate, timer, burn bar, and even control music. The fitness application also consists of an activity sharing feature for users to allow a peek of their workout session with their friends and families.

Did you know about this Latest Feature of Apple Fitness+?

The new features in fitness apps are not only limited to Android devices. With the launch of the latest iOS version, Apple Fitness+ is going to delight users with access to streaming workout videos directly to AirPlay2 smart TVs. Before accessing the feature, users will have to update their iOS software as: iOS 14.3 on iPhone, iPadOS, and tvOS. Once done, they can sign up for Apple Fitness+ and access the workout streaming feature on their TVs.

The Apple Watch also supports this feature. For accessing the feature through an Apple Watch, users will have to update their Apple Watches to watchOS 7.2.

Alo Moves

Founded in 2012, Alo Moves is a fitness portal for Alo Yoga. It offers a membership plan to users, who can subscribe to the plan and receive unlimited access to thousands of video classes, right from the beginner level to the advanced level. The workout videos help users to challenge their physical strength.

With a huge library of yoga classes, users can choose a routine, as per their need–barre, strength, Hiit, Pilates, and more. Besides yoga, Alo Moves features skill development for aspiring fitness trainers and mindfulness practices for personal growth. Users can also sort the difficulty level of their workout session and carry on with their workouts.

What makes Alo Moves Unique?

We have seen enough of new features in fitness apps. A new feature from Alo Moves is just right for fitness enthusiasts, who can’t move a limb without some rhythm. Alo Moves has released a feature that enables users to mix a pre-selected soundtrack for each of their workout sessions and add a luxurious feel to the otherwise conceived as mundane routine.

Each of the yoga class features a list of stations that matches the style of the workout, right from the high-intensity fitness training to a chilled-out yoga session. Users can simply play the track and get moving.

Obé

Obé is an on-demand workout portal with live fitness classes to put the fun element into the fitness. Obé unlocks numerous doors to fitness with fitness categories ranging from Sculpt, Dance, Power, Vinyasa Yoga, HiiT, Barre, Yoga Sculpt, Pilates, Cardio Boxing, Dance HiiT, Meditation, and Bouncing activities.

In addition to the on-demand fitness classes, Obé also features training programs for a number of days with a number of workout videos. These videos are for a specific number of days, thereby challenging users to stay consistent with their fitness training. The workout videos mention whether the fitness activity requires any equipment or not for users to prepare for the session beforehand.

Do you Know about Obé Workout Parties?

Probably you have heard about the Netflix party. The OTT platform allows users to watch the same content, defying the norms of distance. Similar to the trend of incorporating new features in fitness apps, Obé releases a brand new feature that allows users to invite up to seven friends in a virtual workout session. The feature is helpful for users, who rely on FaceTime or Zoom or a similar video conferencing app to follow a fitness session. Users can connect and have control over the video session.

Bonus Section: The Right Way to Develop New Features in Fitness Apps

The sales funnel is quite simple. You promise to give your users what they want and then just give it to them. However, you can’t feed the satisfied. You need to identify the right time to target the appetite.

The same goes for users. If a user is already satisfied and loyal to another fitness brand, you need to identify the gaps that can make a user land into your fitness app. And, that is possible when you can segregate the features into different categories, based on their value for users.

It is crucial for you to understand the lifecycle of a fitness app–when to release what feature, how to differentiate a feature from another brand, how should the feature work,…

All these what, when, how, are important questions that you need to get the answer first. If you get the answers, start right away. If you don’t, you can consult our experts and get a winning functionality timeline for your health and fitness app by getting inspiration from the new features in fitness apps.