This page explains how reviews on Her Daily Fit are researched, written, scored and kept up to date. If something isn’t covered here and you want to know, get in touch.
Who writes the reviews
Katy writes or directly oversees every review on the site. Most are based on her own personal testing. Occasionally another woman who has personally used a platform contributes a review, but Katy edits and approves everything before it goes live. The standards are the same either way.
We don’t publish reviews of platforms that haven’t been personally tested. We don’t work from press materials or platform-supplied content, and we don’t accept sponsored briefs in exchange for coverage.
How we test
The standard we aim for is several weeks of daily or near-daily use before a review goes live. Sometimes it’s less than that, in which case we say so at the top of the review and update it as testing continues. We’d rather be transparent about what we have and haven’t tested than pretend otherwise.
Every review covers the following where it’s applicable to the platform:
- Onboarding: how easy it is to sign up, find your way around and get started
- Class library: what’s available, how varied it is, whether the filtering actually works in practice
- Programme testing: at least one structured programme tested in full or close to it
- Women over 40 content: perimenopause and menopause-specific programmes tested in depth where they exist
- Low impact and rehabilitation content: tested where relevant or where the platform makes specific claims
- Instructor quality: assessed across multiple session types, not just one class
- Usability: how the app or web platform actually performs day to day
- Pricing: verified at time of publishing across UK and US markets where possible
Where something couldn’t be fully tested within the testing period, we say so in the review.
How we score
Each platform gets a score out of 10 based on a weighted criteria system. The same criteria and weightings are applied to every platform so scores are directly comparable across reviews.
- Women over 40 specificity (15%): whether the platform has genuinely built for this audience or just labelled existing content as menopause-friendly. See below for what this assessment covers in detail.
- Time efficiency (15%): session length range, whether short sessions are actually effective, and how easy it is to find the right length quickly
- Joint friendliness (15%): low-impact options, modifications offered, dedicated rehabilitation or injury support content
- Muscle potential (15%): whether the platform can deliver real progressive stimulus for women trying to build or maintain muscle
- Programme structure (10%): whether structured programmes exist, how well they’re designed, and whether the platform works without them for women who prefer to self-direct
- Recovery compatibility (10%): whether daily use is sustainable, whether recovery and mobility content exists and is genuinely useful
- Value for money (10%): what you get relative to what you pay, including trial terms and cancellation policy
- App UX and design (10%): how the platform performs day to day, filtering quality, device compatibility and usability in practice
The full scoring breakdown with category scores and notes appears at the bottom of every review. Scores reflect the reviewer’s assessment at time of testing and are updated when platforms make significant changes. A platform’s commercial relationship with Her Daily Fit has no bearing on its score.
How we assess women over 40 and perimenopause content
This is the category that matters most to us and where most platforms fall short. When we assess a platform’s women over 40 specificity we’re looking at five things:
- Whether the content is genuinely different or just a menopause label stuck on existing classes
- Whether the programming has clinical or expert input behind it, such as an advisory board, a doctor or a specialist trainer with relevant qualifications
- Whether instructors actually demonstrate an understanding of perimenopause physiology in how they cue and explain movements, not just in what they say the programme is for
- Whether the content addresses the hormonal impact on training and recovery, including muscle loss, fatigue, sleep disruption and how to adapt training around these
- Whether it covers the wider symptom picture alongside fitness, including joint pain, mood, stress and pelvic floor health
A platform that ticks all five gets full marks in this category. A platform that has added a menopause filter to its existing library without any of the above does not.
Affiliate links and commercial relationships
Some reviews include affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if you sign up through a link on this site. It costs you nothing extra.
This doesn’t influence scores or what we write. We’ve given low scores to platforms we’re affiliated with and we’ll keep doing that. We don’t accept payment for positive reviews. Where a subscription has been provided for review purposes, we say so in the review.
Which platforms we choose to review is based on relevance to our audience, not on whether a commercial relationship exists.
Keeping reviews up to date
Reviews are updated when platforms make significant changes to their content, pricing or features. The date last verified is shown at the top of every review. We don’t always manage to stay on top of every change immediately and we’re upfront about that when we haven’t.
If you spot a factual error in a review, please get in touch and we’ll correct it promptly.
Contributor standards
Anyone contributing a review has to have personally used the platform. They’re required to disclose any existing relationship with it, including free subscriptions or affiliate arrangements. Reviews that don’t meet these standards don’t get published.
All contributed reviews are edited by Katy before going live.
Medical disclaimer
Everything on Her Daily Fit is for informational purposes only. It’s not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Reviews reflect personal experience and opinion and aren’t a substitute for professional medical guidance.
Before starting a new fitness programme, particularly if you have an existing health condition, injury, are pregnant, are postmenopausal or take medication that may affect your ability to exercise, please talk to your doctor or a qualified healthcare professional first. Results vary from person to person. Her Daily Fit accepts no liability for decisions made based on content published on this site.
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Policy last reviewed: March 2026
