Glo | Yoga and Meditation App Reviews

by ArtKid29

I have loved Glo for 8 years, and have used it almost daily during that time. It’s truly been a lifesaver since the pandemic. I tried using GloYogaandMeditationApp with my Apple Watch to streamline my workout/fitness documentation hoping it would build on my previously great experience. Sadly it’s so disappointing. The past few app versions have had very poor streaming with GloYogaandMeditationApp frequently crashing. Most frequently though, I use my iPhone to stream a class and when it’s done, swipe up anc lose the Glo app to make sure the time is logged correctly. BUT GloYogaandMeditationApp still runs on my watch, opening by itself and prompting me to select a class. Even when I push the dial and “close” GloYogaandMeditationApp on my watch it still logs it as “workout” time. My rings are messed up, my fitness times log workouts of sometimes 30+ hours. It’s useless now. After submitting multiple service tickets to Glo, I’ve updated both my Phone and Watch and it still happens. Please fix this! 🙏

by Frustrated Subscriber Number 2

I’ve subscribed to YogaGlo since 2012. It was really good then, and it’s only gotten better since. Although the number of teachers has grown a lot, I find myself going to the same 4 teachers. And even though I do end up repeating classes, there’s enough variety so that it never feels too repetitive or boring. The time flexibility makes it easy to maintain a regular practice.

I would give a 5 star rating but GloYogaandMeditationApp isn’t the greatest, and since this is an app store review, I’m deducting a bit for that. I use the note function to keep notes for myself about specific practices. A number of years ago, they did a refresh of GloYogaandMeditationApp and the note function was jettisoned. In the process, all of my carefully kept notes were deleted. A little while back, the note function was restored. I thought my notes would be safe, so I started to keep notes again. Recently, for some unknown reason, over half of my notes mysteriously disappeared. I’m disappointed to see this second loss of notes. I wish the people who handle the Glo app would do more to take good care of their users’ records.

by Catf3f3

I will start by saying that I’m not a regular yoga practitioner. I’ve attending classes off and on through the years, and I’d put myself solidly in the “almost intermediate” camp.

Lately my partner decided he wants to do yoga as well, so we’ve been using it to supplement our other exercise. We’ve been going through various 101 programs, since he’s never done it before.

I have one criticism for GloYogaandMeditationApp interface, and one suggestion for programming improvement.

Regarding GloYogaandMeditationApp interface, I wish it would remember that I’m following a program, and bring me right back to where I left off last time, when I open GloYogaandMeditationApp . Right now it takes me several clicks to get back to where I was, and it’s not very intuitive, so I have to figure it out every time, like where was this thing again?

Regarding programming, after you’re done with 101 programs, you’re kind of on your own. There are a ton of stand-alone classes to choose from, and some “specialization” programs. It’s great to have all that choice, but for me it’s too much choice. I just want to jump in and practice, without dealing with analysis paralysis. It would be great to have an option to keep going through some kind of logical progression after 101 with slowly increasing complexity and class duration.

by Fanny Y.

The content and the teachers on Glo are top of the tops. Amazing classes, well filmed, love the live streaming! It makes me feel like I'm in the yoga studio with the teachers. The content is diverse with different styles of yoga and pilates, from vinyasa to Ashtanga and conditioning.

GloYogaandMeditationApp is another story - needs so much more UX work for mobile and apple TV - NOT intuitive or user friendly. The content organization is messy and hard to find classes - not sure of the differences between classes added or saved to library. Please make it easier for the users to browse classes! The live streaming is great when it works, sometimes it doesn't run as smooth. Goal setting on GloYogaandMeditationApp seems like a great idea for user insights but it needs count properly, currently it doesn't count for the live stream classes. It'd also be great if it counts the metrics on how many classes I've done total, regardless of the platform - mobile, apple TV and watch, etc. Lots of room for improvement for the digital products!

by Movie-lover42

I signed up for my free trial after reading review and deciding this was the best option for the money. However, I fat fingered my email on registration and put in the wrong email address. I went to use GloYogaandMeditationApp for the first time and was locked out because I didn’t verify my address because the email was sent to the wrong address.

GloYogaandMeditationApp and the website give you no way to check your account to make sure your address is correct, so I contacted customer service.

However, customer service is amazing even late on a holiday weekend. I can’t complain about how they have jumped in quick to resolve the issue (and even though it happened twice, they were quick to respond both times). Even with the issues, I think this is a great app and look foreword to this being part of my new year plan.

by JDurb923

UPDATE: I did eventually get a response. Turns out that even though I subscribed with my AppleID, when logged in with my AppleID (which is an option in GloYogaandMeditationApp , along with logging in via Google or email), GloYogaandMeditationApp doesn’t recognize my subscription. I have to log in with email instead, using the same email thats’s connected to my AppleID, in order to view content. Clear flaw in GloYogaandMeditationApp that made everything far more confusing than it needed to be.

I subscribed for a free trial with my AppleID—was supposed to be a 7 day trial but I was charged immediately. On top of that, GloYogaandMeditationApp nor the website registers the $23 I paid 3 days ago. I can only watch 2 minutes of any video before I’m kicked back to the subscription page asking me to choose annual or monthly payment. Have reached out twice, once with their ‘Contact Us’ form and once with the support at glo dot com email address—have gotten a response to neither.

by Saaaassssafras

GloYogaandMeditationApp has helped me progress in my yoga practice in so many ways. You are able to create collections of yoga sequences or “playlists” as I call them. There are teachers of every variety from “woowoo” to hip and energetic. It’s also so much more than yoga, there are also Pilates, HITT, strengthening, prenatal, post natal, meditation, dance and cardio workouts. Yeah it’s over $20 a month but a single class at some yoga studios is that or more sometimes, and a gym membership is certainly more than that. I’ve considered the cost as an investment in myself and I’m reaping the rewards in countless aspects of my life. Spend the money on yourself, you deserve it.

The ONLY reason GloYogaandMeditationApp doesn’t get a 5 star review is that the actual app itself could use some work. It’s a tad clunky and gets a little annoying when you try to link it to Apple Watch. But with that said… I’ve still had GloYogaandMeditationApp for 16months with absolutely no plans to stop using it.

by K_l_c_p

YogaGlo is amazing, but forget GloYogaandMeditationApp itself — it’s really all about the instructors!! I have been using the website for 6+ years and I go back to the same classes again and again. I have been to many gyms around the country and also done other yoga online, and really and truly nothing compares. Jo Tastula is incredible and hands down my favorite. I have paid more than $15 a class or $60/mo for teachers who don’t even compare to Jo as far as spiritual and yoga teachings go; she is undoubtedly one of the best in the country. So I really don’t care about all the other bells and whistles about GloYogaandMeditationApp ; take just one of Jo’s classes and you will have already gotten your money’s worth. I also love the other teachers, some of whom travel the country appearing at yoga festivals every year (so we’re not talking fitness freaks who just got their certification to earn a couple extra bucks — these folks live, eat and breathe yoga), and the wonderful meditations by David Harshada Wagner are fantastic. So worth it!!

by Talti

I am a yoga teacher myself and usually I do my own practice. However, I sometimes just like to go to a good yoga classes so I don’t have to think so much and just follow the voice of a good teacher. Once COVID hit I couldn’t go out to my classes and was devastated. I did my own practice at home but was missing that just following with no thought.

Long story short; I tried many yoga Apps. “Glo” is hands down the best one of its kind!!! I have been using GloYogaandMeditationApp for nearly 18 months now and was raving about it to anyone who asks or will listen. Amazing high quality teachers, easy to navigate and just all round incredible app. I don’t think I will ever return to a studio! And at a very reasonable price!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

by BreeBou

Plain and simple, I love Glo! As a yoga teacher and someone that works a full time job my schedule can a little exhausting. It’s so nice to have an app that has awesome teachers (check out Taylor Harkness, Jo Tastula, Chelsey Korus and Sara Clara, just to name a few). One of my biggest struggles is finding the motivation to leave home after a long day, so having an app with solid cueing, fun classes, and LOTS of options you can use to as filters to find the class that’s right for you is a dream.

Just to compare, I have Alo Moves which is also great, but the variety of actual yoga classes on Glo is better, in my opinion. They have a lot of class styles, multi-day and multi-week programs, meditations, and I think they have a better selection of teachers. I use both apps frequently, so just depends on what you’re looking for.

by Millisue

I live in a small town with no gym. I also have young kids. GloYogaandMeditationApp has allowed me to stay fit, escape for a little while and feel great. There are so many options of classes and styles to choose from. I have a couple teachers who I absolutely love and I also like trying new ones out. If I only have 20 minutes I can still find a great class. Searching for exactly what you want only takes a second. You can filter the duration, teacher, type of yoga, emphases, etc and in 15 seconds you will have multiple options at your fingertips. I’ve been using YogaGlo for about 3 years and I feel like I have really improved in my yoga skills. I have gained a lot of strength and even flexibility. I also have been able to land a bunch of poses I could never do before. I really love it!

by Gab021

People at Glo, please never stop doing what you’re doing. You are changing lives and giving people hope and the ability to tap into their power during an extremely difficult time. Sometimes I go a couple months without practicing due to work or stress. Yet every time I am ready to get back on the mat Glo has a class that will meet me right where I’m at. The instructors are personable and just lovely human beings, you can feel it. GloYogaandMeditationApp itself works with Apple TV so you can stream on your tv as well. I also love that you offer more than just yoga classes. Pilates, barre, dance, and meditation coupled with every concentration of yoga makes GloYogaandMeditationApp a power house. I feel incredibly fortunate to have GloYogaandMeditationApp during this time. Worth every penny.

by Bloominglilyofthewest

Worth every penny. If you use guided meditation apps, you can easily replace headspace, calm etc. with GloYogaandMeditationApp PLUS you get more yoga and Pilates workouts/practices then you can ever hope to complete! GloYogaandMeditationApp has a full introductory course to the Ashtanga primary series, yin, restorative, kundalini, plus every possible style of vinyasa flow you can imagine. I use GloYogaandMeditationApp to supplement my in-studio practice and to continue study with teachers I used to take class from in San Francisco before I moved. If you are a total beginner I would recommend sticking to level one classes and not trying level two until you can practice with a teacher in real life. If you are an intermediate or advance yogi, you will love the challenge and variety of advanced flows. Something for everyone here!

by Marmota M

I have been looking for video yoga for a long time and have never been satisfied with what is out there. A friend recommended YogaGlo and I’m home! The instructors are knowledgeable and there are a wide variety of classes (and there are thousands of them). I love that I can download some classes for when I travel and I can’t count on WiFi.

Most importantly, for me, this is truly yoga where many of the apps I found were workout programs that had a glancing familiarity with yoga. That said, I appreciate that there are plenty of challenging classes designed to make me stronger and more balanced.

Finally, Yogaglo’s customer service is terrific. I got a response to my email about a billing issue (that I created through a goof-up when I signed up) and got a response in minutes helping me resolve the problem.

by Kitk4t2k19

Being a very novel yogi, I have always struggled making a routine of my practice, especially considering I’m not quite ready to go to actual classes during a pandemic.

Glo has live classes, tutorials, meditation and flexibility, to name just a few of the many facilities! I am so happy to have this membership, it’s boosted my confidence in yoga and allowed me to explore dance aerobics - something I literally never expected to like.

The features and app layout is comprehensive, simple and gives summaries for all activities (level/intensity/length/what props are needed) which helps for a quick browse. You can search your desired class from any of these categories, by teacher and also have others available offline (amazing for Someone whose constantly out of data!)

by Handy Mom

As a full-time working solo mother and elder caregiver, Glo has allowed me to continue a yoga practice that I thought I would have to abandon - had abandoned - when I was widowed young with children. Thanks to Glo, I’m now integrating 1-2 short practices a day into my life (10-30 minutes each). The quality of teachers - Stephanie Snyder, Jason Crandell, and others, is very high. I particularly enjoy the “live” classes, although it’s extremely helpful to have recorded ones. Sometimes it’s only at 10pm that I find a few minutes for myself. And sometimes I just want to review a particular pose that I’m working on.

Glo is affordable, flexible, offers top-notch instruction, and the video quality is also excellent - high than other yoga apps I have tried.

Thank you.

PS Maybe think about adding a “reference section” to the “Glo library”: very short (2-3 minute) videos that walk you through the mechanics of a pose. Particularly the inversions and balances, it’s nice to have someone say explicitly where your weight should be and what is bound or locked, and to see this demonstrated from a couple of visual angles. It’s just simpler knowing the instructor is not about to flow into something else and you’re also not trying to ration your energy for 30 more minutes of flow.

by MKK0814

Teachers are fantastic, and there is tremendous variety in the classes with something suitable for just about every goal at every level. Glo has been helpful to me for several years but seriously saved my life over the last year and a half. Between the election year and the pandemic, I don’t know what I would have done without it!!

Two suggestions for improvement in the future: I would really appreciate a way to organize the classes I’ve saved beyond what the filters allow. I guess I mean I’d like to be able to create personal collections (eg, my favorite classes for travel.) Also, I’d like to be able to see the comments of other students in their entirety. Right now “gratitude” is truncated. Feedback from other students is very useful in selecting a class, and I’d like to be able to read it.

by Aldon1988

I adore the classes on yoga Glo and the ease of finding good teachers. I do however, really miss the old UX. I am a sucker for minimalist design and as an app designer myself I understand a lot of the decisions that were made but I feel like there are a lot of missing connections in the new app. The suggested ‘playlists’ are often really buggy and take up so much screen real estate. The large card views for classes make for a lot of scrolling when browsing or searching through favorites. There is no indication when a ‘namaste’ is successful and the ‘notes’ added above is quite confusing. I hope that there is a release in the future which takes the user into more consideration. It seems that form may be taking a precedent over function in many parts of GloYogaandMeditationApp . Giving it a 4-star because the programming and teachers are so wonderful and because it is really quite affordable for the quality of the filming and teachers!

by Matsubayashi-Ryu

As a yoga teacher, I used to be a die hard fan of Alo Moves and all the flashy fun it has to offer. There’s some neat-o tricks on there! It wasn’t until I heard of Jason Crandell on the Yogaland Podcast through his wife, Andrea Ferretti, that I immediately knew I HAVE to learn more from this guy.

After taking his online sequencing course, I immediately canceled my membership with Alo and signed up for Glo. If you haven’t already, I can’t recommend learning everything you can from Jason Crandell. My teaching as well as my personal practice has grown so much and I can’t even begin to explain how thankful I am.

I think it’s worth mentioning that Glo lets you “gift” a certain number of classes to anyone you want, something I’ve been taking advantage of! I love sending them to students I’ve become friends with so they can continue to learn. Whether you’re a teacher or practitioner, Jason Crandell and the other amazing teachers on GloYogaandMeditationApp will take you to a whole new level!

by Wellsprings

GloYogaandMeditationApp is working on my iPad but it is not working on my phone. First, it kept telling me that I have to renew my subscription even though I had renewed my subscription, and I could not get off of the page with that instruction. Then suddenly it started working, but when I started doing my 10 minute class it ended after two minutes. Also even though I have signed down from Facebook it’s only started saying I could not sign on for Facebook and there was no account linked to my Facebook account. There are a lot of glitches in GloYogaandMeditationApp (for the phone), and I have reported them but I would like to see them fixed faster.

This has nothing to do with the quality of the yoga classes and instructors, which is great.

Also, I’m scratching my head about why you thought it was a good idea to take the word yoga out of the yoga app and make a new logo that has nothing to do with your mission. But meanwhile I would just like my app to be fixed

by Bobbillhead

I’ve been using yoga Glo for about a year and I have absolutely loved it! the teachers, variety of class styles and durations are exactly what I was hoping for in an app. However, the new update is not user as user friendly as the last version. While I like the style of the new “glo” now, it’s takes me much longer to find a class that I want to do each day. Each video takes up the whole screen now making it hard to compare your options. Also the styles used to be arranged by color making it easier to find the style I was in the mood for that day. Everything seems to just take one extra step that I didn’t have to go through in the old version. I hope that there are more updates to come because I love GloYogaandMeditationApp so much, but since this update I’ve considered looking for another app.

by Bishbah

I recently went on a retreat in an area without cell service and with limited Internet. It wasn’t possible to stream classes, so I tried downloading them. HUGE headache. Anytime the connection would falter, the download would stall/stop and could not be resumed, only restarted from the very beginning. If my phone locked itself while I was waiting for the download to complete, it would stop again. It was a complete PITA, but I managed to grab two classes eventually. Next problem: After I finished the classes, GloYogaandMeditationApp showed them as having been taken, but would not mark them as complete within my program, even after I connected again to the internet. I had to fake-retake the classes while streaming, just to get them counted. Very irritating.

I’m glad this feature exists, but I wish it were more functional.

by BPol30

This has been a game changer for me! No more expensive yoga classes that you have to leave your house for and may not even like the flow once you get there. The price for GloYogaandMeditationApp is like 1 maybe 2 yoga classes and you get unlimited for an entire month! Every video I have watched has been amazing, it’s opened and released tension like expected and I’ve also learned new techniques/positional realignments that I carry throughout my daily life. This part is what really sets Glo apart I think, is the very detailed instruction that gets you into the exactly right position every time. The video is at a normal speed that is easy to keep up with and you really enjoy each pose.
I honestly couldn’t recommend this enough!

by Lmlangf

GloYogaandMeditationApp has been literally life changing for me. The variety of videos suits every situation (if I’m feeling more or less energetic, a particular part of my body needs work, in the morning/evening, etc) and the ability to filter for the amount of time I have - anywhere from 5 to 90 minutes or more - is perfect. Plus, the quality of the instructors is so consistently high that I know that whatever I choose, I’m going to get a great workout/meditation/stretch.

I was reluctant at first to shell out the monthly fee, since there are so many free/ad driven apps out there, but it was SO worth it - this is way better than anything free I’ve tried and still way cheaper than a gym subscription!

Thanks, Glo!

by A.bryly

Glo is an invaluable tool! The instructors are incredible. At times it’s better than going to a drop in class because you can tailor it to be so personalized. You get exactly what you need, when you need it. It’s also an adventure. You are able to try new things (or old things) in ways you’ve never even thought to approach them before. For less than a week’s worth of fancy coffees or green juices you have the yoga world at your fingertips. I HIGHLY recommend yoga glo whether you have a studio practice or not, it is the perfect supplement to a home practice and a tremendous resource of inspiration for instructors. Do yourself a favor and subscribe, you’ll wish you did it sooner! Special thanks to Jason Crandell and Kristin McGee!

by SlothGirl27

Glo is my go-to yoga resource because it utilizes highly trained instructors that do more than lead classes - they teach, explain, demonstrate and explore. As a student I find answers to questions I’ve had for years and develop an understanding of my practice that reaches way beyond the mat. The website is organized in such a way that you can search for exactly what you want to practice at any given time. You can search by instructor, body part, purpose, style, prop, time ... And if you want to learn some of the more philosophical aspects of yoga there are even lectures for your listening pleasure. I practice more with Glo than I did with my yoga studio membership and it’s a quarter of the price per month.