Soflete

I’ve been using SOFLETE for little over a year now and have seen the progression that the app has made. With the progress though there still seems to be minor things that I would expect the developers to fix. For example in the Bodybuilding team there is a workout that calls to do a inclined supinated grip dumbbell press, however in the example video it shows a guy doing a pronated grip. Another example is occasionally the workouts will call to do X amount sets/reps, but in the area you plug your weights in it will have Y amounts. One more example I just recently ran into was in the Mr. Squat bodybuilding workouts 1-2 and 1-3, the workouts where you’re finding out your 1 rep max has you plug the percentage in instead of the weight. This makes no sense due to you finding out your 1 rep max. This can be all mitigated if someone took the time to go through the entire workout team and make sure these problems were taken care, but to me as a consumer this tells me that someone is slacking or you’re fine with doing sub par work. Sorry for the lengthy review, but I believe this app truly does have great potential still, hence why I still use it. If SOFLETE needs someone to go through the workouts to find these discrepancies please let me know and we can work something out.

Love the workouts, has gotten me back on track 1000%.. the most frustrating thing is trying to use the app on my phone to mark my progress or watch videos... half the time I can’t get videos to play sounds, the tables get cut off when trying to enter data, app freezes and has to be restarted.. the list goes on and on. I feel like I’m getting the content for paying the advanced fee, just wish the app was better, would make my workouts go slightly quicker

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Soflete’s programming is great. This review is just for the app. I think the guys at Soflete forgot what it’s like to be deployed with slow WiFi. The amount of information that has to load for each section of a workout takes forever if you’re not in the comfort of your own home. I spend half my workouts waiting for content to load. Some of their newer programs do have overviews available, but it doesn’t seem like much effort went into them. One workout had a 2k row followed by another 2k row with a rest in the middle. In the overview the first 2k row was in the strength section of the workout, the second was in stamina. Nothing about the rest was mentioned, so I assumed it was a typo and only did one row. Not a huge deal, but there are a lot of little problems in the overviews like that. Many of them also don’t include the recovery/mobility at the end of the workouts. Having timers and videos and charts embedded for every exercise is great in theory, but does not work out well in reality, especially for their targeted customer who spends time down range with garbage internet. If the overviews were better written and available for every workout of every program, this would be a 5 star app.

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Agree with the other posted review. I was really excited to start this program, but the app has a lot of issues and that really took the wind out of my sails. Every bug I’ve come across should be caught by basic QA. For example, to exit a workout page, you need to scroll down the page until a bar with an exit icon appears at the top of the screen. That’s fine on regular workout days. However, on rest days there’s no content on the workout pages, so you can’t scroll down far enough to trigger the bar, and hence can’t exit the workout page. Instead, you need to close the app entirely. I also have several rest day workouts that I triggered accidentally while exploring the app. When I try to enter the workout page to change the status from in progress to completed, the app just hangs and does nothing. I also can’t seem to find a way to edit or delete work outs, which seems like an obvious thing to include. The program itself seems awesome and I’m willing to give it a try via the website, but the quality of the does not align with the $420/year price tag. Hopefully the app catches up to the quality of the content.

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Workout Programming in the app is “run of the mill.” You can find better free programming with a simple google search. The app itself is very clunky. They did a good job of getting their store in the app though. Comes off as “buy more stuff” rather than adding value. Using the app as a workout delivery and tracker - again clunky. Delivery of workouts is unclear. Flow of workouts is also unclear. Customer service was responsive but terrible. I signed up for the free trial and missed the cut off by 4 business days. I shared my feedback with their customer service team asking for a refund and a phone call. I was told they won’t get on the phone with me and no refund per “our policy stands as is.” I was also told “it clearly states no refunds on all checkout pages” I went back in and checked their statement. It was inaccurate. I shared that feedback and received no response. I was excited to see what these guys had to offer. Leaving very disappointed with a poor experience.