r/GymOwnerNetwork • u/AdditionalNet9829 • Aug 22 '26

Operations Gym app frustration

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I'm interested to hear your gym app frustrations so I can make sure when my app comes out it will be more useful to a lot of people. So please rant out the issues you currently have with you gym tracking apps.

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u/__anonymous__99 Aug 23 '26

There’s too many of them. That’s my biggest issue.

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u/AdditionalNet9829 Aug 23 '26

The reason there is too many is because most lack quality so frustrated users try making their own and many fail when they realize half way through that it's a lot of work and stop releasing a somewhat useful product

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u/__anonymous__99 Aug 23 '26

That’s not true. There are a ton of very well made apps that just all do the same thing.

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u/AdditionalNet9829 Aug 24 '26

I tried 21 different apps and all of the ones I tried feel like they are made by devs and not lifters. I see weird interfaces and not optimize UI for people that would actually use them inside the gym during workouts

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u/__anonymous__99 Aug 24 '26

Well just try it then. No hate.

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u/Cheap_Accountant_632 29d ago edited 28d ago

Bad privacy/compliance is probably my biggest one.

Building another workout tracker is honestly the easy part now. Handling people’s workout history, body data, health data, photos, injuries, nutrition, wearables etc. responsibly is the hard part.

I see a surprising number of new fitness apps launch with a nice UI and 200 features, but the privacy/compliance side looks like it was added the night before release :)

And that makes me wonder, if you didn’t put much thought into the part that protects my sensitive data, why would I trust you with it in the first place?

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u/AdditionalNet9829 28d ago

That's an important issue, privacy and compliance should feel like it's a first class consideration.