SHREDDY Reviews

by Sarbear258

Honestly SHREDDY itself deserves 3 stars. It’s great if you are starting out in fitness but SHREDDY itself is glitchy, confusing, and the meals that are included have insanely small portions that seem borderline unhealthy. I’m giving this a 1 star though due to their terrible customer service and sketchy subscription.

The way they do their subscription is very slimy and unethical. I canceled my subscription on the Apple store months ago and received a notification that I was charged the annual subscription fee again. Since I didn’t cancel my membership on their website as well, my subscription was still considered “live.” They don’t send you a notification saying when your subscription is about to be renewed, only after they charge you. I sent them an email about this and they essentially told me that I should have read the Terms & Conditions more closely (which they intentionally make very difficult to navigate) and they wouldn’t refund me. BUT I get my subscription until October 2021, so I should be happy about that. It is incredibly disappointing that the company is so shady about their subscriptions. I’m going to have to file a claim with my bank to attempt to get my money back. There are many more issues with my experience with this subscription but buyers please please PLEASE beware of how shady this company is being with subscriptions before you purchase.

by Kelseyshantel

There was no option to cancel on their app bc I signed up a year ago via the website. In SHREDDY (which you use to access workouts) it said my subscription would end in Oct 2019. I was denied a refund bc auto renewal is in their terms and conditions even though I emailed as soon the charge went through and I had not used SHREDDY during that new period. Poor customer service and they blamed the no refunds on it being digital content but if you had purchased it for a year already I don’t know what difference one day into renewal makes? All the stuff I could have accessed in that day would have already been accessed in the previous year. Good app but read the fine print and make 100% sure your subscription is actually cancelled to avoid unwanted charges.

by Can U Not Idec!??

I would give 0 starts if I could. I first downloaded SHREDDY 1 year ago and bought the 1-year subscription because it was a good time for me financially and why not. However now, due to COVID-19 I have been financially devastated. I am working 2 jobs and going to school, risking getting/spreading COVID-19, just to try and survive financially. A few days ago, this app automatically renewed my subscription without sending me an email reminder or a notification from SHREDDY . I reached out to their customer support and they told me they don’t issue refunds and there’s nothing they can do. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. I now have a negative balance on my account and cannot pay my bills at the end of the month. This is supposed to be a company that cares about its customers but now I can clearly see this is just another cash grab.

by Cdf1012

Although the work outs and recipes are great, SHREDDY has too far to go as far as functioning the way it was intended to. SHREDDY continues to close itself out whenever you minimize to change music even though they said they fixed that. For some reason, my entire workout that I logged my weight and reps into, the logs disappeared. It says I completed the work out, but it doesn’t show me what weight I was using. This is a problem for me because I want to track my strength gain over time. Grace even said it would encourage us to use higher weight as the weeks go, but this has not been the case for me because it won’t log my weights. SHREDDY was not ready for release.

Update: I decided to try again since it has been a few months since I tried SHREDDY , and I was hoping they fixed most issues. Even just registering again there’s SO many problems. The screen will freeze, or will request your information again and not let you move on to the next screen. I really want SHREDDY to be good because I love the work outs and recipes, but it continue to not be user friendly.

by Mary_christine

I’m sad to say I’m a bit frustrated with SHREDDY. The workouts are wonderful, yet extremely repetitive to the point where I find myself really struggling as I get a bit bored as the weeks progress. This, along with the recipes being a bit repetitive. There are loads of options and it’s quite fun to have new recipes - however, we all know how it goes after eating the same meals on rotation for weeks. All this aside, SHREDDY itself has so many issues. During the first week or so, frequent updates were happening where many issues were being fixed so I was quite optimistic. Now, the updates are few and far in between while the issues remain. Had this been cheaper, I wouldn’t be so frustrated or feel inclined to write a review. Without the technical issues within SHREDDY and with a bit more variation in the warm ups and finishers, I would say SHREDDY is absolutely worth the money. However, unfortunately, I don’t think it’s worth it right now. I’m a huge supporter of Grace Beverly and everything she does. I’m really hoping for some changes with SHREDDY.

by Okc52

I love the workouts and recipes provided, and the weekly setup and ability to change workout days and meals. But there are a lot of things I think SHREDDY is missing. For starters, I would love to see a rest timer that can be used in between sets and not just in between exercises. A timer that you can add or subtract 5 or 10 seconds from if needed, and that has some sort of bell or signal when the timer is done. Also when selecting the reps done for an exercise, if you change the number of reps, it saves that number for your next set, but I would expect it to reset to the original number each time since that is the number you’re supposed to be doing. For the meals page, it would be nice to have access to the total macros and calories of your selected meals so that I don’t have to look at each recipe separately and add them up. It could be a button you see at the bottoms that simply says “View nutrition” that way, like Grace wanted, the numbers aren’t all in your face. And lastly, my app never crashes, but if I leave SHREDDY during a workout it takes a few seconds to load back up, even if I just open my notifications bar. Would love to see a more seamless transition there.

by Jessie3742891

I absolutely love the plan and all of the content on SHREDDY! However SHREDDY is very glitchy. Often times it will go straight into the next workout, skipping the scheduled breaks. Other times it will skip through the entire AMRAP circuit in rapid speed and I have to restart the workout or app. It also always finishes my workouts early, skipping the last stretch in the cool down circuit. I’m confident these glitches can be fixed, however it makes the workout stressful at times. It’s also unclear if some moves that require working different arms/legs are meant to have the reps split per arm/leg or if you are meant to do them all on each arm/leg. For example: 16 bicep curls - is this meant to be 16 per arm or 8 per arm? This again would be an easy fix. I’ve been using SHREDDY since it came out, and will continue to. However these issues are extremely frustrating.

by Loafie00

I really love the workouts on SHREDDY. I like the variety & different workout plans for different goals. I’ve been using this since the start of the pandemic in the US—April 2020—and it’s really helped me stay in shape while stuck at home.

However, there are some issues with SHREDDY . Any timed workouts or workouts with a timed section always seem to glitch. The timer will stop and SHREDDY will freeze. I can’t hit “complete workout” because it’s frozen and I can’t continue the workout because it’s frozen, but when I try to “leave workout” it asks me if I want to leave without completing my workout.

Considering I’m paying $30ish every 3 months, it’s a good deal but it’s a lot to pay for an app that has major bug issues. I really wish they’d stop focusing on aesthetic updates and put some effort into making SHREDDY work smoothly.

by Qwertyamyqwerty

Update: they’ve fixed a lot of the issues I’d been having; most importantly, supersets are now working! Thanks for that! I just have two final critiques/suggestions:
1- Exercise substitutions. Not all gyms have the same equipment, and not all knees can handle jump lunges.
2- the Christmas challenge included a full 20 minute stretch workout. Make this a permanent option! Some days all I can do is stretch and having it guided is so helpful.

I also want to say, I did send in a request about my issue and their customer service team probably needs a bit more training. Not only did they call me by the wrong name, they said “this should be working, but if it isn’t it would need to be escalated to the developers.” …. Okay??? Are you going to do that? Do I need to do that? I’ve just told you it’s not working so what do you mean “if”? Very frustrating

by Iminthecircus

I do like SHREDDY, which is why it has 3 stars. But I’ve had it for over a year and the same glitches it came with are still present. Every time I open SHREDDY after a workout, it defaults to the prior workout with the timer going even though I marked the entire workout completed. This doesn’t bother me as much as the fact that so many of the workouts have faults. Multiple inappropriate pyramids and dropsets. For example, pyramid style numbered reps for leg raises, a BODY weight ab set that does not use weights in any capacity nor can I even fathom how or why you would try it. Then multiple days where I would have duplicate exercises in the day. Just sloppy throughout every plan. it could really be cleaned up but I haven’t noticed any improvement in more than a year I’ve had it.

by Emilia1515

Ok listen the workouts are incredible on SHREDDY. I want to love it and I do but it is INCREDIBLY glitchy. I can’t remember a I time I used it and it didn’t have some problem.

Specific problems:
-My progress NEVER saves, I’ve done at least 3 guides or partial guides and my new guide says it’s the first I’ve ever done. Furthermore my weights for exercises never saves (it does within a single guide but not overall)
-this app will not connect to my Health app (even though permissions are given through the health app). When I click “allow health” on this app it takes me to a part of my settings which has no selection for health data. It used to connect to my Apple Watch but it doesn’t anymore
-Supersets, my current guide doesn’t use these but previous guides did, and they NEVER worked (switching between exercises), I had to remember what was next and just keep track in my head
-The timer function on my current guide (8 week Shred it Gym) almost never works. Especially on the EMOM 20 minute sections.

I want to recommend and love SHREDDY so bad bc I love the idea and the community and Grace etc but these problems make it very frustrating to use.

by Zozo97!

My mom and I just started using SHREDDY this week and so far we really like it! There are a few things that we think needs improvement, first there should be a little ding noise at the start of an exercise (there are dings at the end that are really helpful), second we think the warm ups and cool downs could be more. As of now the warm up is 2 exercises that I normally wouldn’t do as a warm up, like lunging jumps or otherwise high intensity jumping, I would suggest starting with squats, arm circles, jog in place, and things like that before starting your given warm up. For the cool down it’s 2 roll out exercises and that’s it. It’s fine if you know to stretch after but I find it easier for me to remember to do a full stretching cool down if stretching were also included in SHREDDY ’s designated cool down. Besides these things, I really enjoy the work outs and the meal ideas, also SHREDDY ’s design is really cute!

by Rach Meliss

For starters, I am really enjoying the workouts on SHREDDY. I look forward to them everyday and have been way more in shape than before. However, SHREDDY itself can be glitchy and frustrating. Sometimes in the middle of my workouts the timer beep will stop working, and just recently SHREDDY wiped out all of my data which happened right after they added Shreddy10 and 20. I’m on week 8 of the home workout guide and for some reason I had to enter all of my basic information and pick a guide again. It kept where I was in the guide oddly enough, but all those green ticks that I completed a workout were gone. As someone who likes to see they completed all of them, it was a bummer! I hope they can figure these problems out and others that people have reported.

by Jazzymine92

Love SHREDDY it’s so close to being perfect! By far it’s my most favorite workout app to date! I love the new updates with the countdown timer and workout previews - I would just say that it would be nice if they added a single beep to tell you when the next workout is beginning and maybe a few more seconds in between transitioning to give you some time to set up for the next exercise especially for at home workouts. It would also be nice if you could switch out movements for progressions or regressions for those of us who are just starting out or are more advanced but of course I understand how difficult it must be to try to accommodate everyone. That said, SHREDDY is amazing and I could definitely see them doing more amazing things in the future.

by Natashadominiquee

If you know Grace Beverley, then you know anything she’s behind is going to be spectacular. I love this app already and I’m only 3 days into the workouts! Do yourself a favor and download it. You won’t regret. My *only* criticism is that when you exit SHREDDY during the middle of a session, it doesn’t save and you have to reenter in everything you already completed. Also- if you watch the demo vids while also playing music, it will stop your music. I wish there was a way to watch the demo exercises but also keep our playlist going :) I’m confident these issues will be fixed in future updates though. AMAZING JOB GREZ AND TEAM!

by Christopher Daniel Johnson

I have been using this app since it came out over a year ago, and let me tell you: IT IS THE BEST OF THE BEST. I have tried so many paid fitness apps/guides and I’ve finally found the one for me. The amount of content you get for the price is so worth it to me (even as a broke university student). SHREDDY is for absolutely ANYONE regardless of the types of workouts you prefer or your fitness level. You can tailor SHREDDY to your specific goals/needs/schedule so it really sets you up for success. Whether you’re an experienced gym-going weightlifter or completely new to fitness wanting something to ease you into it, there is truly something for everybody!

by MiaHoejsgaard

I’ve been working out consistently over the last two years, but with Covid and not being able to go to the gym I’ve been feeling quite stuck in my routine over the summer - I was looking for something easy and manageable when I saw Graces stories about the this app challenge and thought that it would be a great way to keep myself motivated and with the option of home workouts it just felt like the perfect solution. I’m currently on week three of the 3-days a week home program and I’m feeling great! The workouts are awesome and along with other forms of exercise it feels like I’m gaining strength especially in my arms and abs! Can’t wait to see where I’ll be at the end of the 12 week program!

by Djtsuck5

All my life I have struggled with my body and feeling like I couldn’t make any long-lasting changes that would get me the body I’d always dreamed of. I had done a few workout programs in the past, but nothing I have ever stuck with past the first few weeks. I had been following this app/GFG on Instagram for a while, and when lockdown began I decided that I was going to dedicate my newfound time to feeling better about myself. Everything about SHREDDY has changed me as a person. I started off with a dream body in mind, but now I feel comfortable eating foods that always scared me, have an incredible supportive community at my fingertips, and the exercise tools to keep at my goals💛 SHREDDY is so much more than an bunch of exercise programs and here I am, six months of consistent this app programs later, feeling that I’ve finally found The perfect app for me, and I bet you’ll feel the same way!!!

by Trixcore

I find it really helpful to have my workouts written out before heading into the gym AND there are videos to follow along with. This is kind of standard for these apps but where this app prevails is in having a tracker for your weights used, a community chat (where I’ve made actual friends), and additional workout videos you can follow along with. What really sold this for me was that the meal plans are vegan and plentiful. Any other app I’ve tried pretends to have ‘vegan’ and ‘vegetarian options’ but in reality it’s 2 basic meals on repeat. this app has very thoughtful meals that are easy to prepare and are darn tasty.

There have, of course, been minor glitches with SHREDDY . BUT what I think is amazing is how darn fast the developers/app team has responded to fixing them. What I appreciate is that they really listen to their users and have been pumping out updates and fixes. I can’t wait to see what’s next for SHREDDY. Shout out to the hard working this app team

by Smallturtle7

SHREDDY has an amazing community, recipes, and so many workouts to help you with your body goals !!! Highly recommend !!! The meals are delicious, they are vegan but if you don’t want them to be you don’t have to make them that way. The workouts are killer but they do work, I’ve seen lots of progress over the last couple months using SHREDDY! ALSO the community is amazing. I’ve met so many people who help motivate me and have become really great friends with some people through the this app community :) Grace and her team have put so much effort into SHREDDY and have taken a lot of suggestions from her followers and this app users as to what should be added onto new continuous updates - with many more to come in January. It’s only the beginning for this app!

by Cassandra__

Easily one of the greatest apps to ever walk into my life. I don't feel as though I'm forced to follow any specific format since it's very customizable; moving workouts to different days and swapping out exercises within the workouts for whatever reason. There is truly no better money spent than on SHREDDY, if you're questioning - DO IT, thank me later. Personally, I don't really use the meals function of SHREDDY because the last time I had it, only vegan options were offered BUT after trialing some different workout apps this app released other meals that were vegetarian and meat friendly which I SO appreciated! I may actually trial some of the recipes since they better fit my lifestyle now. Last side note, if you haven't purchased the bands, DO IT; I've had mine for years and they're just now looking like it may be time for a replacement, great investment and affordable compared to the larger market.