Freeletics Alternative: Another Program, Video Classes or a Game?

Looking for a Freeletics alternative? Start with what you're missing

Freeletics and Gymondo don't do the same thing, and people leave them for different reasons. Here are five; the first three come from Reddit threads:

• The price. Both live on subscriptions, and what you pay depends on where you live: in August 2026, a UK user on r/freeletics compared the yearly price, with a discount code, in more than thirty countries, and it changed from one country to the next. What we read on October 25, 2026 is in the table below.
• Too many jumps. In January 2024, someone on r/FitnessDE, a German-language forum, wanted Freeletics-style bodyweight training on an iPhone, just with less hopping around, for their joints.
• Tired of the app. In March 2025, a user on r/freeletics signed off after two years: no new journeys, no new exercises, and free apps or their own workouts would do as well. Next stop: CrossFit or another app.
• Planning or following. At Freeletics, an AI Coach builds your workouts; at Gymondo, you copy a coach on video. Some people end up wanting the other.
• Sticking with it. The plan is there; the drive isn't. A third plan won't fix that. Something you like opening might.

Keep yours in mind: the table "Which alternative fits you?" comes back to each one.

Freeletics and Gymondo, read on their own pages

Before you look elsewhere, see what you'd leave, in the makers' words. Gymondo, a German video studio, also runs in English; Google pairs the two in "gymondo vs freeletics".

Read on October 25, 2026: both apps' US and UK listings on the App Store and Google Play, their help centers, and their websites (read from Europe, so priced in euros; we only say how each shows its price). The App Store listing gave the free version 34 bodyweight HIIT workouts; on Google Play, the count depended on the country. UK prices are in pounds (the Coach from £25.99 to £74.99), and every country has its own: check yours before you buy.

Before you switch: renewal, refunds, canceling

Google completed "freeletics refund" with "refund policy" and "request refund", and "freeletics cancel" with "cancel subscription". Before you pay anyone else, run through these, from the two apps' own help pages:

1. Find where you paid. You manage a subscription only where you bought it: the website, the App Store or Google Play. Gymondo's app can't cancel one; it sends you to the website.
2. Cancel the renewal, not the account. At Freeletics, the payments stop and the Coach stays until the period you paid for ends; on its website, a confirmation email follows, and no email means it didn't work. At Gymondo, deleting the app or your account cancels nothing.
3. Mind the dates. Gymondo's 12-month plan has a 12-month minimum, then can be canceled month by month, its App Store listing says, and Gymondo doesn't refund a late cancellation.
4. Ask for your money back where you paid. The Freeletics Coach's money-back guarantee covers your first purchase, not renewals, for a period its help page gives. App Store or Google Play? Apple or Google handle the refund. Its website? Write to its support, and keep your account until the refund is done.
5. Pause instead? Bought Gymondo on its website? You can pause, its help center says.
6. Write down what you liked. Favorite exercises, the kind of workout, your time of day: so the next app doesn't start from zero.

Through your job? Ask before you pay: Wellhub, a wellbeing subscription some employers give their staff, can unlock Freeletics' premium features, Freeletics' help center says.

Six kinds of alternatives to Freeletics and Gymondo

Google suggested these names next to "freeletics vs", "freeletics or" and "gymondo vs"; we read their pages on October 25, 2026.

• Another training program. For you if you like Freeletics' plan, not its app or its style. Fitbod builds AI strength workouts around your equipment and learns from your edits; after a free trial, you subscribe. Fitify mixes bodyweight and equipment workouts: some are free, and Fitify Pro adds personalized plans and an AI trainer. Ladder gives you a coach-built strength plan, new each week, with a free trial first. Apps for bar-and-ring skills exist too (Google suggests "freeletics vs calisthenics"); we don't compare them.
• Classes to follow along. For you if you like copying a coach, Gymondo-style. Apple Fitness+ costs $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year in the US (£9.99 or £79.99 in the UK) and needs an iPhone. Centr picks your workout and your meals each day; you press play with its coaches, and can cast to a TV. Asana Rebel calls itself "yoga inspired fitness", with guided sessions, and, its listing says, charges a fixed price per country, shown in the app.
• Free videos and free versions. YouTube costs nothing and shows ads; YouTube Premium, its paid plan, removes them. Nike Training Club costs Nike Members nothing; its App Store footnote lists twelve countries for video classes, and of the English-speaking ones, only the US and the UK: elsewhere, check the app.
• Plan it yourself. You know the moves from Freeletics? Write your own plan, on paper or in a workout log. Hevy logs every set for free, with no ads; Hevy Pro adds a program built for you. Planning it yourself costs nothing, but asks for know-how: which moves, how much, when to add more. Our guide to workout apps for beginners looks at such logs.
• In person: a gym, a club, a class. Where the r/freeletics user from 2025 said they were heading: CrossFit. Others train next to you, and in a class someone watches; in return, there's the trip and fixed times.
• A game that reads your moves. Your phone stands up, the camera picks up jumps, squats or push-ups, and your moves steer the game: you chase a score instead of working through a plan. SWADE, the game we make, is one; it's coming soon. For more games, consoles included, see our guide to fitness games for adults.

The alternatives side by side: what they cost, ask and check

On the pages we read, no app here describes a camera that counts your reps: you give feedback (Freeletics), edit its suggestions (Fitbod), log your sets (Hevy) or, with an Apple Watch, see your heart rate (Apple Fitness+, Nike Training Club). Who checks splits them as clearly as price.

Read on October 25, 2026: the US App Store listings of the apps named (UK ones for prices), apple.com, youtube.com, wellhub.com, three Reddit threads and Google's suggestions. Freeletics, Gymondo, Fitbod, Fitify, Ladder, Centr, Asana Rebel, Hevy, Apple Fitness+, Apple, iPhone, Apple Watch, App Store, Nike Training Club, Nike, YouTube, Wellhub, CrossFit, Google, Google Play, Android and Reddit are trademarks of their respective owners. SWADE is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by any of them.

Free alternatives to Freeletics: what really stays free

Google adds "free" to "freeletics alternative" and "for free" to "apps like freeletics", then suggests "is freeletics free" right after. More stays free than you'd think, rarely all of it:

• Freeletics' free version. Bodyweight HIIT workouts without the Coach. Leaving only over the price? It's the smallest change.
• Other free versions. Fitify's free workouts, Hevy's logging, Nike Training Club for Nike Members.
• Videos. YouTube costs nothing and shows ads. A video never sees who's following along.
• A trial has an after. Free to try isn't free to keep. Fitbod, Ladder and Centr start with a trial, then a subscription. On Gymondo's website, you pick a length before the trial; on the App Store, Gymondo, Fitbod and Centr say unused trial days are lost once you pay; and Apple says Fitness+ renews at your region's monthly price after its trial, until you cancel.

More apps that stay free, and how to read a store listing before you install, in our guide to free workout apps.

Which alternative fits you?

See what a game does differently

SWADE: a game instead of a program, a class or a coach

SWADE is ours, so first, what it isn't: not a training program, not a coach, human or AI, not a video class, not a meal plan, no weights. It's a fitness game app for iPhone and Android, coming soon: it isn't in the stores yet. Your phone stands up, its camera reads your moves, and your moves are the controller.

In the Runner, you steer a pirate down three lanes: a jump carries him over barriers, a squat takes him under gates, a step to the side switches lanes. In Push Flight, you're in a plank, the phone upright on the floor facing you, and Sway, SWADE's weasel, flies through gates: go low in a push-up and Sway dips, push back up and Sway climbs. Knee push-ups count the same.

Without jumps. During setup, Sway asks "Anything I should go easy on?". Answer "My knees" or "My back", and your sessions come without jumps: in the Runner, barriers become walls, the run starts on a squat, and squats stay, just as deep. Push Flight has no jumps at all. You can change this later in Profile › Settings › Health. If something hurts, ask a doctor first.

No training plan, but the day's session. You pick a level, Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced, and 3, 5 or 7 days a week; rest days count for your streak on their own. The Path gives you the day's session, Timed runs of the Runner, and the game adapts between two runs, never during one. In the Play tab: any mode, any time. No exercise list, no sets, no nutrition.

What it checks, and what it doesn't. The camera counts your jumps, squats and push-ups, and the This month card on your Profile shows them. SWADE doesn't correct your form; in Push Flight, only how far your shoulders drop counts, and a push-up on straight arms never does.

What's free. The day's session, with XP and your streak, even with no energy left. Every game in Play, Push Flight included, spends energy, which refills over time; Push Flight's first game, a guided warm-up, is free. Premium (unlimited energy and day savers) is optional. After three games, SWADE asks for an account, not money.

Your camera stays on your phone

With a video class, you watch; with SWADE, the camera watches. The camera and the pose tracking run on your phone: no image, no video, not one frame leaves it. What travels is the outcome of a game: a score, your jumps, squats and push-ups. Two exceptions, only while "Help improve SWADE" is on, as it is at first: usage stats under a random ID, never your account, including a few numbers on how the camera followed you in Push Flight; and now and then a short sample of your moves drawn as a stick figure of 33 points, never an image, sent over Wi-Fi only, with no account or phone ID attached. You can switch it off in Settings. Our servers are in the EU. Details in the privacy policy.

What this guide doesn't cover

• Nutrition. Freeletics Nutrition, Gymondo's recipes and food scanner, Centr's meals: we don't compare meal plans here.
• Muscles, calories and weight. We don't talk about them here, nor about before-and-after photos.
• Pain, an injury, a pregnancy. A doctor first.
• A winner. We read the makers' pages; we didn't train with every app.
• Your country's prices. Ours come from US pages, a few from UK ones; your store shows yours.
• TVs and computers. Gymondo has TV apps and Centr casts to a TV; today, SWADE plays on the phone screen.

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