HIIT (US‪)‬ 4+

Simple HIIT app marred by unfortunate user experience choices

It does what it says on the packet: it allows you to create workouts with a combination of HIIT based and rep based workouts. No other app I’ve seen on the App Store offers this.

You create your workouts by adding “modules”. You name them (eg. bicycle crunch) and then you can either assign a time or a number of reps to them. So what it looks like it a list of workouts essentially.

This is great, it’s simple and it looks like creating a list in your todo app.

Unfortunately, a lot of this is overshadowed by odd design choices with the app.

So once you’ve saved your workout, it gets placed in the workout tab. If you want to edit it, what you have to do is open up the workout and then save it as a new workout. Then you delete your previous workout. There’s no way to save the work as it is, the same way you would save a word document.

So you’ve created your workout, and want to create more workouts for different intensities and time lengths. Cool, the issue here, is that you can save as many workouts as you want (if you have the subscription), however for me, after saving more than seven workouts, I couldn’t actually scroll down to access my other workouts! This may vary based on your screen size; I have an iPhone 12 mini.

Not only that, but you can’t rearrange your lists in the workout tab. The order in which you’ve saved these workouts seem to be set in stone! I tried dragging them around but no luck.

Which comes to my final issue: editing the exercises within a workout is a nightmare. Every time you add an exercise, it jumps straight to the top of the list for some strange reason. Especially if you’ve got a longer list of workouts, scrolling all the way back down each time is truly an annoyance. There’s no way to mass edit either, this is essentially a list, why can’t I select more than one exercise to edit in one go?

I think this app needs a lot of work in fixing these issues, especially if it’s an app with a paid subscription. The free version of this gives you a limit of eight exercises in a workout.