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REVIEW
Nike Training Club is the rare brand-owned fitness app worth installing.
Nike killed the Premium tier in 2020 and never brought it back — the whole library of workouts, programs, and trainer-led classes is free with an account.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Most brand-owned fitness apps exist to sell you the brand. Nike Training Club is the rare one that exists to give you something. The Premium tier was scrapped in 2020, the price held at zero through five years of streaming-app inflation, and the library — bodyweight strength, mobility, yoga, trainer-led HIIT — is the same library you used to pay $14.99 a month for.
That makes NTC the cheapest serious training program on the iPhone, full stop. The catch is that “cheapest” doesn’t mean “no cost.” You’re signing into a Nike account, you’re getting Nike product recommendations, and you’re handing Nike a clean read on your workout cadence. Whether that trade is worth it depends entirely on how much you’d otherwise pay a competitor to keep your training data to themselves.
The closest mainstream rival that costs nothing is YouTube, and YouTube is not a structured training program.
FEATURES
The library is organised by goal — strength, endurance, mobility, yoga — and by duration, so a 15-minute lunch session and a 45-minute leg day live in the same browse view. Workouts are trainer-led video with audio cues, and most can be run audio-only once you know the moves. Equipment filters cover bodyweight, dumbbells, full gym, and yoga mat.
Multi-week programs are the part that separates NTC from a YouTube playlist. Pick one — "Beginner Strength," "Foundations of Yoga," a marathon block — and the app schedules the next eight to twelve weeks for you, swapping sessions if you miss a day. Apple Health writes in both directions, so heart rate from a Watch logs back against the workout and the workout shows up in your Fitness rings.
Nike Run Club is a separate app. NTC handles strength, mobility, and class-style cardio; runs live next door.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Free actually means free. There's no upsell to a Premium tier mid-workout, no paywalled programs, no locked trainers — Nike scrapped the $14.99-a-month NTC Premium in 2020 and folded the whole thing into the free tier, and they've held that line for five years now.
The production quality is the second thing. Trainers are real Nike Master Trainers shot in real studios with multiple camera angles and audio that doesn't blow out when they raise their voice. The closest mainstream rival that costs nothing is YouTube, and YouTube is not a structured training program.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
You are paying with data, not money. Account signup is mandatory, the privacy policy is Nike's, and the app is a funnel for nike.com — product recommendations, athlete content, and the occasional "shop the look" prompt sit one tap from the workout screen. None of this breaks the training experience, but it's not the indie-fitness vibe of a Peloton App or a Future.
Apple Watch support is functional but not best-in-class. You can start a workout from the wrist, but the Watch app is thinner than the iPhone app and heart-rate-zone training isn't surfaced the way Strava or Apple Fitness+ surface it. Yoga and mobility sessions on Watch are particularly bare.
CONCLUSION
Install it if you want a real strength or mobility program and don't want to pay $15 a month for one. Skip it if you're allergic to brand apps or you already pay for Apple Fitness+, Peloton, or Future — NTC isn't trying to replace those, it's trying to keep you in the Nike orbit. Watch for Nike doing more with on-device AI form-check; they've teased it twice now without shipping.