Daily Burn vs BODi: Which Fitness App Delivers Results?

In 2015 the Beachbody company—famous since the 1990s for their killer workout DVDs and multi-level marketing structure—launched Beachbody on Demand or BOD.

Then in 2023, they rebranded the company as BODi (14-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee), short for Beachbody on Demand Interactive. This rebrand streamlined their service offerings to a single app that offers thousands of pre-recorded and live group fitness classes and extremely detailed nutrition plans.

It’s important to note that the BODi app is a legitimate fitness app with lots to offer for anyone who likes streaming workouts at home.

However, the Beachbody brand has a long and questionable history of aggressively pushing diet culture and shame-based coaching, as well as running a multi-level marketing business with their ‘coaches’ and Shakeology supplement line.

You do not have to become a beach body coach, join a group, or buy their supplements or other products to use and enjoy the app. But they do have pushy upselling built into every aspect of the user experience, so be aware of that.

BODi offers loads of class options that are easy to filter by fitness level, workout length, training type, or trainer and include the following individual workout types:

• Strength training
• HIIT
• Cycling
• Barre
• Pilates
• Yoga
• Fat Loss
• Muscle Gain
• Cardio
• At-home workouts
• Insanity
• p90X

In addition, you can choose from over 100 complete workout programs:

• Insanity, high-intensity training led by a celebrity instructor
• p90X, equipment optional intense HIIT exercise
• Let’s Get Up, a feel-good dance program
• 9 Week Control Freak, focused on fitness, nutrition, and rest
• 10 Rounds, a boxing program focused on fat loss
• Morning Meltdown 100, a 100-workout commitment that builds fat and burns fat
• Barre Blend, a ballet, barre, Pilates, and cardio combo program
• Muscle Burns Fat, build muscle and burn fat with this program

Unlike Daily Burn, BODi tends to offer more high-intensity, advanced classes. Of course, they do have some classes appropriate for beginners, and their instructors provide exercise modifications throughout the classes.

The payment structure has been simplified significantly over the years, so you can try BODi for free for 14 days, and then you choose to be billed every 3 months at $89, 6 months at $119, or 12 months at $179. This price structure keeps them squarely in the middle of the fitness app subscription cost bracket.

You can download BODi on IOS or Android devices and also use Roku, Amazon Fire TV, or Google Chromecast products to stream their classes. You may also be offered to bundle your subscription purchase with products from their Shakeology supplement line.

Once you’ve selected your subscription type, you will be offered the opportunity to work with a free coach. Because there is no information about these coaches on their website, it is unclear whether these are credentialed fitness professionals or Beachbody ‘coaches’–a title bestowed by the company on their product distributors.

After that, signing up is easy, and you’ll be taken to your dashboard. Unfortunately, the dashboard is littered with ads for their diet programs, supplements, and other products, making it feel cluttered.

Other Beachbody Features

More features of the app include exquisitely detailed nutrition plans, and their one-size-fits-all, reductionist approach to nutrition has garnered the ire of the registered dietetics community.

Next, the app has a Mindset tab where you can access videos to help you cultivate positivity on your fitness journey. Lastly, you get access to a community forum where you can connect with other members.

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Beachbody Pros & Cons

For all its faults, the BODi app offers countless group class options from home with high-production quality.

However, the constant up-selling and non-evidence-based content pushed by uneducated laymen make this app difficult to recommend.