VerdictA big, polished app that’s worth it if you want range
You’ve finished the quiz, BetterMe has built your plan, and the next screen wants your card. Should you hand it over? If you want a very large library, real instructors on film and one app for workouts, meals and fasting, yes. BetterMe is big, well liked and well made, and we came away respecting it.
The range is hard to match.
BetterMe counts 4,000+ workouts and 20+ meal plans (BetterMe help), and the shelf runs from Chair yoga to Treadmill workouts.
The daily plan stays simple.
All that range sits behind one card a day, and the workout player has nothing in it but the workout.
It tracks more of your life.
Calories, water, steps, fasting and, on iPhone, Apple Health all live in one app.
Who should not buy this: anyone who needs to read the renewal price before doing a quiz, anyone who wants to lighten one session and not a whole plan, and anyone expecting a human coach in the base price.
How it scored
- Food tools
- 4/5
- Workouts
- 4/5
- Progress and motivation
- 4/5
- Personalisation
- 4/5
- Coaching
- 3/5
The chair yoga plan we bought, from outside the US, cost kr24,99 for a week, then kr535,70 every 4 weeks, in Swedish kronor. Your own price appears at checkout.
If you’d rather have your session, your food and an AI coach on one membership, with the renewal on a public page, try fitvee. The two go head to head in fitvee vs BetterMe.
On this page
VerdictWho BetterMe suitsThe first weekWorkoutsFoodCoaching and personalisationEase of useWhat it costsHow to cancel BetterMeWhat members sayAlternativesQuestionsHow we compareSourcesWho BetterMe suits
- People who get bored. With 65 programs on the web, you can do Pilates this month and walking the next without changing apps.
- People who like a real instructor. The player is a filmed person, not a set of stills.
- People with a specific need. Special Programs cover sensitive backs and knees, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, recovery, and prenatal and postnatal training.
- People who want food handled in the same app. You get a tracker, daily meals and a fasting timer without a second subscription.
- iPhone and Android users. The native apps do more than the web app, and the web version says so (Google Play).
The first week
Our quiz answers put us on a beginner chair yoga plan: 28 days, one workout a day, with titles and lengths set from the start. Its settings page pitches it at “beginners, seniors, or anyone who needs a quick break from seated work.”
| Day | Workout | Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hip Mobility Flow | 8 on the web card, 9 on the iPhone |
| 2 | Hip and Core Activation | 8 |
| 3 | Quick Upper Body Stretch | 8 |
| 4 | Full Hand Mobility Routine | 10 |
| 5 | Leg Mobility Sequence | 10 |
| 6 | Spine-Focused Relief | 10 |
| 7 | Wrist and Hand Wellness | 11 |
The titles tell you what you’re getting, and the build is gentle: by day 28, Full Body Renewal runs to 21 minutes. It’s a thoughtful ramp for someone starting from very little.
Day 1 opens and the rest wait. Tap Day 2 and the card names the workout, then shows a padlock and the words “Will unlock on this day”. For a beginner, one card a day is a kindness, because there’s nothing to plan. You can’t do tomorrow’s early, but the Workouts tab stays open all the time, so a spare evening still has somewhere to go. This plan has no rest days: 28 workouts in 28 days.
Workouts
Each workout page gives you the length, the calories, the level, a focus zone, the equipment and a health notice, then the exercise list. Hip Mobility Flow is 13 exercises of 30 seconds each, in a warm-up, a main block and a cool-down. On iPhone you can favourite it, download it or cast it to a TV. Under the list sits a card for BetterMe’s Chair Yoga Essential Kit.
Start loads the whole workout first, which took about 15 to 20 seconds on our web connection. Then a real instructor takes you through the moves from a chair, with elapsed time, a countdown, switches for voice, signals and music, and Prev, Next and Skip. A real person on film is the app’s best feature.
The library is the main event. The web version held 65 programs, every one open: Chair yoga (28 workouts), Wall Pilates (28), Walking (21), Tai chi (12), Senior fitness (17), Back pain relief (7), Osteoarthritis care and relief (7), plus Bed workouts and Pajama Pilates for the days you really can’t face the floor. The phone app groups them into 20 categories with level chips. Some programs are built around a kit BetterMe sells, such as the Essential Kit or Mini Reformer, so check what a program needs.
Chair yoga itself has research on its side. Across 33 trials of 2,384 people aged 65 and over, yoga, most often Iyengar or chair-based, improved walking speed and leg strength, with moderate certainty.
Workouts: 4/5.
The range and the filmed instructor cover the job and then some. It stops short of a 5 because you can’t lighten today’s session from its own page.
Food
BetterMe gives you three separate food tools, and together they cover more than most workout apps try to.
The Calorie Tracker is a ring (“0 of 1 347 kcal” on our account), bars for carbs, fat and protein, and four meal rows with a + each. It sits under More. You search the food database or, on iOS, snap a meal or a barcode with one camera, and you can adjust portions, add what the scanner misses and create your own foods (BetterMe help). The daily goal comes from the Mifflin-St Jeor equation (BetterMe help).
The first time you open it, four cards introduce photo logging: “Snap your meal and let AI do the rest.” Treat the result as a first draft. A review of 52 papers on photo-based food tools found calorie errors from 0.10% to 38.3%, with simple foods doing best, so the portion control matters.
Meals is the bigger offer. Ours was a Paleo plan at 1,300 kcal from the quiz, with breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack, each with its calories and cooking time. A recipe page adds macros, tags such as Gluten free, alternative ingredients and a Log Meal button that ties it back to the tracker. If you want to be told what to cook, this beats a blank diary.
Fasting runs a timer with plans such as 16:8 and 12:12, a guided setup and a shelf of short articles.
Having food beside the workouts is a sound idea. In 8 trials, mostly of women, exercise on top of diet added about 1.7 kg of weight loss by 12 months, with no gap at 3 to 6 months.
Food tools: 4/5.
A tracker, daily meals and fasting do the main job well, and the camera is iOS only.
Coaching and personalisation
The quiz builds the plan, and your profile holds your weight, target, fitness level, classes and step goal. Reminders are one switch, off until you turn it on.
Making it easier.
Plan settings offer Intensity, with Low described as easy, low-impact workouts of up to 25 minutes a day, then Medium and High. It’s a clear screen. The catch is scale: each level is a 28-day plan, and nothing on a workout’s page lightens that workout. Within a session you can Skip an exercise, and the library’s level chips let you pick something gentler instead.
Personalisation: 4/5.
The quiz, the levels and Special Programs fit the plan to you at the start. Day to day, it holds steady.
A human coach.
BetterMe has real people: its own list of benefits names a “real, human coach available 24/7 via chat”. A person on the other end is a real benefit, and it’s a paid extra. On iPhone the chat bubble on the Plan tab opened an offer of “Unlimited in-chat support of your own certified trainer” at 32,99 for 12 weeks, with no currency on the screen. The web app has no chat.
Programs like this can help: across 84 studies, people on online weight programs lost 2.70 kg more than control groups, with too little evidence on keeping it off.
Coaching: 3/5.
Real people are worth having, and a key part costing extra is a 3 under our rule.
Ease of use
BetterMe feels expensive in the good sense. Warm neutral colours, big photos, plenty of space. The iPhone app has four tabs: Plan, Workouts, Progress and More. Plan and the player are quiet and you’d rarely get lost in them.
More is the busy room. It holds the trackers, Meals, a reading course called Start With Your Mind, a members’ Facebook group, 21 challenges, the store, a Fitness Tracker and a Smart Scale. Some people will call that a toolbox and others a crowd, and which you are says a lot about whether you’ll enjoy this app.
The web app is thinner. It has no Progress tab, so the phone is the better home. Help is a search box on every web page, and asking about cancelling surfaces the right article first.
What brings you back.
The plan gives you a reason each morning, with a new card and a count of workouts done. On iPhone, Progress covers weight, recovery, steps, stress, heart rate, sleep, workout time and meal calories, most of it filled by Apple Health, so it’s worth connecting. Challenges add a short goal if you want one. If you drift, Plan settings have a Restart plan button: “If you’ve been off track, you can start fresh with your plan and progress.”
Progress and motivation: 4/5.
The iPhone charts are thorough once Health is connected, while the web app leaves them out.
What it costs: the trial, the renewal, the extras
BetterMe’s help says there are several pricing options, and that the details appear on the checkout page after the quiz produces your plan (BetterMe help). That’s the main thing we’d change. You give it your answers before you see a figure.
| Plan | First payment | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Chair yoga, as we bought it, in Swedish kronor | kr24,99 for 1 week (kr19,99 plus kr5,00 tax) | kr535,70 every 4 weeks (kr428,56 plus kr107,14 tax), from 9 November 2026 |
BetterMe doesn’t hide the step up: its help explains that discounted trials are followed by a standard-price subscription unless you cancel (BetterMe help), and the billing page showed the date and amount clearly. These are kronor, seen from outside the US, so don’t read them as dollars.
In the US.
The App Store lists ten items: 1 Month Subscription at $9.99 and $19.99, Monthly Subscription at $6.99 and $9.99, Annual Subscription at $19.99 and $29.99, 1-Month Workouts Plan at $14.99, Weight Loss (Weekly) at $9.99, Fat Loss Program with a 3-day trial at $9.99, and BetterMe at $41.99. It doesn’t say which one you’d be offered (App Store).
| Included | Extra |
|---|---|
| Workouts, meal plans and recipes, a fasting tool, and trackers for calories, water and steps | Trainer chat, 21 challenges at kr279,00 each, kits and a Fitness Tracker at $59 |
Refunds.
BetterMe’s terms (betterme.world/terms) say purchases are non-refundable or non-exchangeable except where the law or the company allows. Its Money-back policy, read in the Swedish version in the web app and dated 20 February 2025, offers a refund if you ask within 30 days and followed the program for a run of days: 3 in a row in the first 7 on a weekly plan, 5 in a row in the first 28 on a 4-week plan, with screenshots from the app as proof. Check the version for your country.
How to cancel BetterMe
Cancel in the place you bought (BetterMe help):
- App Store, Google Play or Huawei AppGallery: in the store account, turn auto-renewal off 24 hours or more before the trial or period runs out.
- BetterMe’s website: cancel from your profile, ahead of the next renewal.
- Deleting the app leaves the subscription running.
For a web purchase, the path is easy to find. In the iPhone app, Profile and Manage Subscription open a web page in Safari. On the web it’s More, then Manage Subscription. The Subscriptions tab shows your renewal date and price beside a Cancel button. From there it asks your main reason, whether you’d use BetterMe again, and “Are you sure”, with what you’d lose listed above Keep my plan and Cancel plan.
Do it at least a day ahead, and read the date first.
What members say
They like it. The US App Store shows 4.7 out of 5 from 714,447 ratings, Google Play shows 4.46 from 662,134, and Trustpilot shows 4.4 from 116,455 reviews. Numbers on that scale are a good sign for the core product.
One US member wrote that a trial became monthly charges without consent, and the company replied that it shares renewal details before the first payment (Sikayetvar, 13 January 2024). That’s one complaint, not a finding. The practical lesson is the same for any app that starts low: note the renewal date the day you pay.
“The plan was fine, but I kept forgetting to log my food, because it was not on the same screen as my session.”
Alternatives
fitvee
- Suits
- You’d trade the big shelf for one small plan, with your food and a coach in the same membership.
- Main strength
- Your session and calories left can share the Today screen, the Easier tab works on a single move, and its AI coach can change today at no extra cost.
- Drawback
- You give up range and people: three plans and a Library, a web app in place of native ones, and AI in place of a human trainer.
It’s $15.19 for the first 28 days, then $38.95 every 4 weeks, on a page you can read before any quiz.
“Compared with BetterMe, I noticed today’s session and the food row sit on one screen, so I could log lunch without leaving Today. I also had to look for the easier version of a move, and found it on the second try.”
Side by side: fitvee vs BetterMe.
The others
Lasta for walking, tai chi and wall Pilates in one list. Reverse Health for a plan built for women over 40, with plate-photo logging. Centr for coached programs and meal plans. Nike Training Club and FitOn for free workouts. The full list: BetterMe alternatives.
Questions
Is BetterMe worth it?
Yes, if you’ll use the range, the meal plans and the trackers. If you only need one plan and a food diary, you’d be paying for a lot of shelf.
Is BetterMe legit?
Yes. We paid, the plan opened, and billing showed what would happen next.
How much does BetterMe cost a month?
It depends on what its checkout offers you. Our plan was kr535,70 every 4 weeks after the first week, and the full list is in What it costs.
Does BetterMe have a free trial?
The trial we saw was paid: kr24,99 for one week, then the standard price unless you cancel.
Is BetterMe free?
No. It has a quiz you can take without paying, but the plan needs a subscription.
How do I cancel BetterMe?
Go back to wherever you bought it, and do it a day early. How to cancel BetterMe has each route.
Does BetterMe have food logging?
Yes, plus daily meals and fasting. Meal photos and barcode scans need iOS.
Does BetterMe have chair yoga?
Yes, on phones and the web (BetterMe help).
Does BetterMe have a real coach?
Yes, a human by chat, as a paid add-on.
What’s a good BetterMe alternative?
fitvee, for a plan and food diary on one screen. The rest are in BetterMe alternatives.
How we compare
We bought the one-week chair yoga plan through BetterMe’s web sign-up on 2 November 2026, then went through the iPhone app on a 3 minute 51 second screen recording and the web app in a browser. We played the opening of day 1. This review judges the plan as laid out, not seven days of doing it, and no meal was logged. We stopped at the last step before cancelling. BetterMe’s App Store listing and help centre were read on 6 November 2026. Full method: How we compare.
What the scores mean. The Guide rates six jobs out of 5. A 5 takes the whole job and a standout feature. The main job done is a 4. A real catch, typically a key part at extra cost, makes it a 3. Part of the job is a 2, and little or none of it a 1. Scores come from the app’s own pages and our shots, and where those fall short the job stays unscored. Nothing here adds up to an overall mark, because your priorities aren’t the next reader’s.
Who wrote and checked this page:
Dana Whitfield
Editor
Runs the Eat Move Guide desk and checks every page against the apps’ own pricing and help pages. Has kept a food diary on and off for years and tried most of the big tracker apps.
Nora Lindqvist
App reviewer
Reads each app’s help and pricing pages and goes through its screens. Keeps a list of every price she finds.
Sources
- What we usedour purchase of BetterMe’s web chair yoga plan, a 3 minute 51 second iPhone recording, a walk through the web member area and the Money-back policy linked from it, 2 November 2026.
- BetterMeApp Store and Google Play listings; help on features, calorie tracker, daily calorie goal, Chair Yoga, cost, cancelling and the renewal price; terms (betterme.world/terms).
- Member complaintSikayetvar, 13 January 2024; Trustpilot, read 6 November 2026.
- fitveepricing, easier moves; a test member on a preview of fitvee, 6 November 2026.
- Other appsLasta and Centr App Store listings, Reverse Health help, FitOn help, Nike’s product page.
- ResearchLoewenthal et al., 2023; Shonkoff et al., 2023; Johns et al., 2014; Hutchesson et al., 2015.
26 sources, numbered as they appear on this page
fitvee
- 5fitvee pricing pagefitvee.com, read 6 November 2026
- 19fitvee help: easier movesfitvee.com, read 6 November 2026
- 20A test member on a preview of fitveeread 6 November 2026
- 21fitvee pricing pagefitvee.com, read 6 November 2026
BetterMe
- 1Our walk through BetterMe's web member arearead 2 November 2026
- 2BetterMe help: which features are includedbettermesupport.zendesk.com, read 6 November 2026
- 3Our iPhone recording of BetterMeread 2 November 2026
- 4Our billing tab on the BetterMe plan we boughtread 2 November 2026
- 9BetterMe help: how much does betterme well being coach costbettermesupport.zendesk.com, read 6 November 2026
- 10Our walk through BetterMe's web member arearead 2 November 2026
- 11BetterMe App Store listingapps.apple.com, read 6 November 2026
- 13BetterMe pagebetterme.world, read 6 November 2026
- 14Our record of BetterMeread 2 November 2026
- 15Our walk through BetterMe's web member arearead 2 November 2026
- 16BetterMe App Store listingapps.apple.com, read 6 November 2026
- 17BetterMe Google Play listingplay.google.com, read 6 November 2026
- 18BetterMe pagesikayetvar.com, read 6 November 2026
Annals of Internal Medicine
- 6Annals of Internal Medicine research reviewpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, read 6 November 2026
Shonkoff et al., Annals of Medicine
- 7Shonkoff et al., Annals of Medicine research reviewdoi.org, read 6 November 2026
Johns et al.
- 8Johns et al. research reviewdoi.org, read 6 November 2026
Hutchesson et al., Obesity Reviews
- 12Hutchesson et al., Obesity Reviews research reviewdoi.org, read 6 November 2026
Lasta
- 22Lasta App Store listingapps.apple.com, read 6 November 2026
Reverse Health
- 23Reverse Health help: getting started the first 24 hours beyondhelp.reverse.health, read 6 November 2026
Centr
- 24Centr App Store listingapps.apple.com, read 6 November 2026
Nike Training Club
- 25Nike Training Club product pagenike.com, read 6 November 2026
FitOn
- 26FitOn help: what is included in my fiton pro subscriptionhelp.fitonapp.com, read 6 November 2026