Description
Aaptiv is a fitness and wellness app founded in 2016 to make personalized workout instruction available to anyone, not only people who could afford a personal trainer. The app has been downloaded more than 13 million times and has over 50,000 five-star reviews, according to its own site. PEAR Health Labs acquired Aaptiv in 2021 and has since combined its fitness app with PEAR's adaptive coaching technology.
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At the core of the product is the PEAR Training Intelligence platform, a proprietary AI system that personalizes workouts using a member's activity history and biometric data, such as resting heart rate, heart-rate variability and sleep. Aaptiv's library includes more than 10,000 on-demand audio- and video-based classes, and the AI system adjusts routines and coaching based on how a member is progressing.
Aaptiv's own marketing today is aimed mainly at employers, health plans and brokers, who buy Aaptiv as an employee or member wellness benefit; the site's homepage leads with a pitch for "a complete, personalized employee wellness benefit" rather than a direct consumer offer. Individuals can still download the Aaptiv app on their own, and Aaptiv says its digital library is available to anyone who does. Its physical gym network, which includes Xponential Fitness studio brands such as Club Pilates, StretchLab, Pure Barre, YogaSix, Rumble and CycleBar, is available only through an employer or health-plan benefit, not to individual app subscribers; members enrolled in one of those brands get one designated home club, with changes allowed once a month.
Beyond workouts, Aaptiv offers programming for musculoskeletal (MSK) pain and recovery, pre- and postnatal fitness, GLP-1 companion support, and general mindfulness, stress, sleep and nutrition resources, and it serves employers, health plans, brokers, Medicare beneficiaries and individual users. Aaptiv also runs a separate referral path for HR teams that want to bring the gym-network benefit to their own organization, and it publishes an Aaptiv Magazine and an employer-focused blog covering fitness, nutrition and workplace wellness topics.
- CategoryAI Fitness & Workout Apps
- Pricing ModelFreemium
- DeploymentCloud
- PlatformsiOS, Android
Aaptiv's Core Features
AI-personalized coaching through the PEAR Training Intelligence platform
More than 10,000 on-demand audio and video fitness classes
Personalization based on biometric data such as resting heart rate, HRV and sleep
Employer, health-plan and broker wellness benefit programs
Gym network access through Xponential Fitness brands (Club Pilates, StretchLab, Pure Barre, YogaSix, Rumble, CycleBar) for benefit members
Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain and recovery programming
Pre- and postnatal fitness programming
GLP-1 companion programming
Mindfulness, stress-reduction, sleep and nutrition resources
How to use Aaptiv?
Check eligibility: If you have Aaptiv through work, confirm your employer or health plan offers it as a benefit.
Download the app: Get the Aaptiv app to access on-demand classes, or ask your HR team about the gym network benefit.
Set up your profile: Enter your goals and connect biometric data so PEAR Training Intelligence can personalize your plan.
Follow your coaching: Complete recommended classes and let the AI adjust routines based on your progress.
Use added care programs: Explore MSK, pre/postnatal or GLP-1 companion programming if your benefit includes them.
Aaptiv's Use Cases
- Employee wellness benefit
- AI-personalized coaching
- Health-plan wellness program
- Chronic condition support
