Learn to Develop a Fitness App Like Fitcoach
                     
What Is a Fitness App?
Building a fitness app is more than just developing a gym workout 
app. This mobile app is designed to improve your health on the go.
The scope of these applications ranges all the way from simple 
activity tracking to the actual provision of providing fitness-related 
advice or exercises via a mobile interface.
Or, applications can be a way for clients to take control of themselves 
or let others evaluate their performance and suggest tools for 
improvement.
And from a company’s point of view — mobile interfaces can be a 
communication tool and often the primary way from which customers 
consume and purchase fitness products. The options are almost 
endless. 
What Is FitCoach?
FitCoach is a fitness app for people starting a new active lifestyle, 
developing healthy habits, losing weight, getting in shape, and 
feeling better. Their famous 30-day fitness plan makes it easy to 
change your lifestyle, adjust your diet, and get actionable body care 
tips.
Moreover, they also provide training sessions for people who have 
just started working out.
The FitCoach app is specially designed for people who care about 
their health, want to lose weight, and stay in shape, but don’t have 
time to go to the gym. It is also for those who want to change their 
lives and pay more attention to their health.
How Do You Build Your Own 
Fitness App?
With all of this in mind, you’ll prepare a successful strategy for 
creating a mobile fitness application. The development process 
should consist of the following steps:
• Competitor Analysis
There are many mobile fitness apps on the market, so you need to 
find something that makes your solution unique. So carry out a 
detailed competitor analysis including product features, design 
features, platforms, user reviews, and more.
You can read customer reviews, positive or negative, on the App Store 
and Google Play. This will help you identify your competitors’ 
strengths and weaknesses and understand how you can stand out 
from their backgrounds.
• Target Audience Analysis
By analyzing your competitors, you can find out what questions and 
preferences your customers have. You can find your audience in 
social networks, groups, forums, etc.
Read their posts and comments and communicate with them to 
clarify their needs. Identify a user’s identity by specifying goals such 
as age, country, body shape, tracking physical activity, habit 
formation, or a healthy lifestyle. 
• Prepare for Reference Conditions
Think about how much value your mobile fitness app will add to your 
users, how your app should look and work, how users will interact 
with it, and what it can do. If your requirements are difficult to 
formulate specifically, your IT service provider will always be happy to 
help. 
•    Design
Success in the marketplace requires a lot of loyal customers. Most 
people don’t use digital products with unattractive designs and slow 
content. So, create beautiful mobile fitness apps that deliver amazing 
user experiences.
•    MVP Development
An MVP, or minimally viable product, is a solution with a minimal set 
of features to accomplish the required task. We recommend using this 
approach as it offers many benefits.
 First, it can reduce the cost of developing fitness applications. 
Second, it shortens time to market. Third,  attract first users and 
collect feedback. Analyze customer feedback to get a clear idea of  
what needs to be improved or changed. 
•    Testing and Debugging
During this phase, quality assurance (QA) engineers test the mobile 
fitness app for bugs and ensure compliance with requirements. Then 
the software developer solves all the problems. 
•    Release
When everything is ready, we launch it to the market. That is, we 
publish to the App Store and/or Google Play. This is where you have to 
deal with things like App Store Optimization (ASO), product icons, 
screens, and descriptions.
Features To Include In your 
Fitness App
•  Easy Mobile Onboarding
Users can register or log in to the app by entering their personal 
information such as name, date of birth, location, age, gender, current 
weight and height, and email address. Some applications also allow 
social media registrations where users can log in via social media 
handles.
•  User Profile Creation
Users can create a profile, add options and preferences, so the app 
provides the content and offers they want. The user panel also shows 
progress and training programs that have been attended in the past 
and are currently in progress.
•    Punching In Workout Details
This feature allows you to track each user’s physical activity. To this 
end, users can connect the application to their smartphone’s sensors to 
implement tracking using Apple HealthKit and GoogleFit via APIs, or 
they can choose to manually enter data. 
•    Quality Workout Guides & Videos
Fitness & Workout Videos gives users access to training programs with 
high-quality videos where they learn how to perform exercises properly 
demonstrated by professional fitness trainers. 
•    Maps & Routes
For running, cycling, and other fitness activity tracking applications, it’s 
important to use routing overlays to display maps. Users don’t 
necessarily have to use this feature on the go, but they will review it 
once the training is complete.
•    Real-Time Notifications
Easy. You need to notify your users about your training, offer discounts 
during the season when you’re feeling better, and update when others 
comment on your post. 
One thing to keep in mind about notifications is that it’s easy to exploit 
this feature and turn it off for your customers. 
•    Multi-App Integrations
Let’s face it — many of us love training on our favorite audio content 
pieces, but it’s confusing if you need to switch between workouts and 
players. That’s why it’s so important to integrate your workout app with 
Apple Music, Spotify, or other music streaming services.
•    Meal Planners & Calorie Counting
Of course, when creating a fitness planner app, you can’t ignore meal 
planning and calorie counting. The best apps in this category provide 
exaggerated information about ingredients and recommend recipes 
based on user goals, preferences, and constitutions.
•    Quality Workout Guides & Videos
If you create a fitness app, you need to add a class streaming option. 
I’m confident that Peloton is the perfect role model for this and one 
can draw a lot of ideas from the company. However, it’s important to 
integrate all these features into one seamless fitness program 
experience. 
•    Workout Timers
Users can choose the duration of these movements starting from 5 
minutes while doing strength training, yoga, cardio, and other 
workouts. While exercising, the user can pause on the exercise 
screen, skip the exercise, and turn the sound on and off. 
•    Workout Goals & Objectives
Allows users to set goals and objectives. Because what can be a 
better motivation for prioritizing fitness. This feature is a goal tracker 
that helps users achieve their fitness goals perfectly. 
•    Barcode Scanner
If you have a diet app, you can integrate the app with a barcode 
scanner. Bar scanners help you shop by letting you know the nutritional 
value of your groceries.
•    Online Consultation
The app may provide online advice to receive personalized 
recommendations. To that end, you can integrate chat functionality to 
make things much easier and smoother. 
•    Gaming Elements
With gamification, you can further improve your app’s experience. This 
will enhance user engagement with the app. App developers can apply 
gamification in various sections such as Leaderboards, Goal Achievers, 
etc.
Wrapping Up 
The health care and fitness industry is on the rise. With more 
people preferring to work out at home the demand for such apps 
is increasing. With complete knowledge of launching a 
healthcare and fitness app, you can successfully leverage the 
vast potential of this market.