8Fit is a meal and fitness tracker and healthy living guide.
Platform and Price
Free. Apple and Android.
RDN Score
3 out of 5
Pros
Attractive design with fun avatars and a natural flow.
Well-designed opening questionnaire records the user’s goals to “lose fat, get fitter or gain muscle mass” and gathers basic data like height, weight, age and gender.
Provides flexible transformation plans that are easy, medium or hard and may occur over a 4 month period with varying levels of intensity.
All basic fitness plans include a variety of activities from interval training and Tabata to running.
Access the exercise library with animated videos that include step-by-step exercise demonstrations featuring real people.
Includes a weight-tracking graph with pounds lost, target weight, and current weight always in view.
Choose a free plan with basic workouts and tracking or the paid pro plan with custom meal plans, custom workouts and access to 1:1 training or group coaching.
Convenient home button let’s you log activity meals and weight via one tap.
Earn a golden star after completing 3 activities per day.
Activate step tracking using the phone’s sensors to make it easy to track steps.
Integrate with Apple Health Kit to seamlessly sync data.
Easily share activities with friends for encouragement and accountability.
Cons
Recipes are only available in the PRO version.
Diet advice can be a bit extreme at times calling sugar “the devil” and suggesting that users limit fruits, like bananas and mangoes, and legumes.
Bottom Line
8Fit is good for finding quality workout demos and a fitness plan in one place. However, the nutrition information and meal plans can be improved with input from a registered dietitian nutritionist.
Marisa Moore, MBA, RDN, LD, is based in Atlanta and specializes in culinary nutrition, communications and consulting. She blogs at marisamoore.com. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter.
