March 7th, 2019 | Updated on October 8th, 2022
Wondering how you can build a successful fitness app? Don’t know what steps to take and how to turn your fitness app idea into reality? Read our guide and learn the top five tips for creating a popular fitness app which users will love.
Why is it a great idea to hire a dedicated mobile development team and an iOS developer to build your fitness app, you may ask? The reason is simple – there are two big trends which make it a sound business idea.
First, fitness and a healthy lifestyle have become major trends now. So more and more people are getting into fitness. Secondly, more and more people are becoming active smartphone users.
Now, take these two trends and combine them into one – what do we get? That’s right – the rising popularity of fitness apps. There are new fitness apps of all kinds appearing every day on the app market and more and more people are using them.
Taking this into account, there is no doubt left that building your own fitness mobile application may prove a very successful and profitable endeavor (if done correctly, of course).
Today we will give you the five most important tips you must know in order to build a popular fitness app. Here they are:
- Decide what kind of app you want to build
- Make registration and log-in easy
- Make it beautiful and easy-to-use
- Use push notifications
- Make it social
Of course, app development is not that simple and there are many other aspects and things you have to take care of when making your app. However, these are the key tips which will help to make your app popular among users. Let’s analyze each of them in detail.
1. Select The Right Type Of Fitness App
In case you don’t know there are many different kinds of fitness apps. What type is right for you depends on the end goal of your app.
If you are a personal trainer or fitness celebrity, for example, the best option for you would be to create a diet & exercise app.
On the other hand, if you are a beginner appreneur and not sure what kind of app you want to develop then you have to analyze all possible types and select the most profitable and feasible one for you to build.
2. Make It Easy To Sign Up And Log In
You want to get users for your app, right? Well, if the sign-up and log-in processes are complicated, don’t expect your app to gain many users. For this reason, you want to make it as easy as possible for users to register and log in your app.
Therefore, make the interface simple, and don’t ask for too much information to register or login. Also, by all means, integrate third-party login options such as Facebook, Instagram, Google+ and others.
3. Make It Beautiful And Easy-To-Use
Beautiful design and usability are everything. You must do your best to ensure your app has a beautiful and functional design and perfect usability. If it has an ugly design or it’s difficult to use, there is no way your app is going to be a success.
4. Use Push Notifications
Push notifications are a great way to increase and retain users’ engagement and interaction with your app. When your users constantly get these notifications they stay engaged and continue using your app.
It is important to note, however, that you don’t want to annoy users with push notifications so you have to be careful when setting their frequency, and so forth.
Also, you want to make it easy for your users to decide and set up themselves how often and what kinds of notifications they want to get.
5. Make It Social
Finally, it’s a great idea to integrate certain social functionality into your app such as social sharing options, or making it possible to interact with one’s friends in the app.
This will allow making your app more popular as social functionality will create a net effect when users invite other users to use the app.
Final Words
Mobile apps and fitness are the two big trends which combine into one massive trend – fitness apps. Their increasing popularity suggests that this niche presents many business opportunities.
Today we have given you the top five tips for taking advantage of those opportunities and building a popular fitness mobile application. Now all you have to do is to apply what you’ve learned in practice and build your first successful fitness app. Good luck!
