FitGrid: Fitness Class App

I was sent an email when I signed up for a class that made me believe I need to download and install this App, and I had to register and connect my MindBody account. The Yoga studio didn’t need this App, and this email is more or less phishing in my opinion. It now has access to my MindBody account and when I go to any class anywhere it scrapes the data and collects who else was in the class with me, without their consent. It encourages me to send them invitations to join this creepy data aggregator, which doesn’t do anything useful other than showing you information about people who were with you in the class. The creeps will enjoy that, but if someone wants to make friendships from fitness classes please just just walk up to the people and talk to them.

The casual, over-familiar, social attitude of this app bleeds directly into the core user experience, and is worse for it. Notifications are barely modifiable for any function other than friends reserving classes (??), cannot disable goals tracking, the only account setting is…deleting the account, and the feedback option is a thumbs up/down button that doesn’t redirect to App Store (or any quantifiable feedback channel). Additionally, the search function is busted. I can search for a specific gym and find it in the search suggestion list, but selecting that gym does not take me to the gym’s page, and the gym will then not populate in the search results. So, core functionality: also not great. Willing to avoid gyms that prefer this app for scheduling 👎

At some point a *lot* of single people are going to benefit from this app. It seems like a pretty solid interface for scheduling normal classes, just a few bugs to work out here and there which shouldn’t be a big deal. As long as people keep using this and gradually start adding their info, it will turn into a solid *option* for singles and if they can do that while making it easy for me to sign up for classes and get a deal here or there then sure why not.