Home Fitness Coach: FitCoach

The pitch at Welltech's FitCoach is a plan that keeps changing. You tell it a goal (dropping weight, adding muscle or just moving more), pick a body area, hand over age, height, weight and a rough fitness level, and it hands back a week of cardio, strength and recovery sessions for the living room.

What separates it from a static video library is the weekly revision. After each session you say whether it felt too easy or too hard, and the following week shifts accordingly. A step counter runs in the background, Apple Health and Fitbit feed in numbers, and a history view keeps the record.

Mornings begin with whatever the plan has queued: perhaps twenty minutes of bodyweight strength with a voice counting you through each move, perhaps a recovery day that's mostly stretching. Afterwards you rate the difficulty. Through the day the step tracker ticks over quietly, pulling from Apple Health if you already use it. Whichever day your week resets, the plan reshuffles based on what you logged. The feel is directed rather than exploratory; you do what it says, tell it how that went, and let it adjust.

Gym memberships lapse and YouTube routines don't know if you're keeping up. FitCoach gets searched for by people who want a plan that notices them, at home, with no kit. The weekly adjustment is the specific draw: it promises to stop the plateau that makes most home routines fizzle out after a month.

Fitness apps from large publishers tend toward bright accent colours over white, big progress rings and photographed or illustrated trainers, and the five-image gallery here will likely follow that pattern with a plan calendar and a workout player front and centre. The audio-guided format means the screen matters less mid-session than in a video-first app.

Version 10.4.2 is a high number for a fitness app and suggests a long run of releases behind it. WELLTECH APPS LIMITED is the publisher, and the 4.7 average across more than ten thousand ratings sits near the top of this category. There's no Play Store entry in our data. Nothing shows how recently the last build shipped.

Free to download and rated 4+, but the listing is clear that the free version is effectively a trial and ongoing use needs a subscription. Fitness guides and similar extras are sold separately on top. The price isn't stated in the data we have, so check before committing.

You'll need an account for the plan to persist, and Apple Health or Fitbit permissions if you want steps imported. Whether workouts can be downloaded for offline use isn't mentioned.