Lottie Murphy Pilates Review

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Is Lottie Murphy Pilates right for you?

What Lottie Murphy Pilates Is

Lottie Murphy Pilates is a subscription Pilates app: a large, well-produced library of pre-recorded mat and standing classes that you choose from and follow along at home. Rather than a single adaptive plan, it gives you a catalogue organised by style, mood, focus and prop, so you can pick a class by how long you have, how you feel or which area you want to work. The range spans classic mat Pilates, weighted and mini-band classes, standing work, foundations and tutorials, a dedicated Bone Health and osteoporosis-friendly collection, pelvic-floor tutorials, a meditation library and a monthly guide that adds a little structure for anyone who wants a lead to follow. It runs on iPhone, Android and the web, casts to a TV, and lets you download classes for offline use.

Two practical details are worth naming up front. The app is built on Uscreen, a white-label membership platform, so the underlying player and account system are shared with many other creators rather than custom-built, which is common and not a mark against it. Separately, Lottie Murphy also teaches inside the FIIT app, and some of her classes overlap there, so if you already pay for FIIT you may recognise some of the content.

To place the product accurately: this is a Pilates library aimed at a broad low-impact-movement audience, not a menopause platform. The bone-health and pelvic-floor strands make it more relevant to midlife women than most general Pilates apps, but nothing about the onboarding, the catalogue or the classes is built around perimenopause or menopause as a life stage, and that single fact shapes the rest of this profile.

Who Is Behind It

The app is fronted by Lottie Murphy, a Pilates instructor with a large online following built over more than a decade of teaching, including a YouTube channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. She trained through Body Control Pilates, a well-regarded UK teacher-training body, and the app is deliberately multi-teacher: several qualified instructors record classes, which gives the library a range of voices, styles and body types rather than a single face. The cueing is clear and calm, and the production values are high, which is a real part of the appeal.

The point that matters most here is about credentials. Lottie Murphy is a qualified and experienced Pilates instructor, and the wider team are qualified Pilates teachers, but that is a movement qualification, not a clinical one.

Who Is Lottie Murphy Pilates Best For, and Who Should Skip It?

This app is built around polished, choose-your-own low-impact Pilates, and that design choice runs through the catalogue, the teaching and the pricing.

If you want joint-friendly movement, this is a strong fit. Almost everything is low-impact mat or standing Pilates, kind on the knees, hips and back, with mobility, control and core work at the centre. For a midlife body that does not want jumping or heavy pounding, that is genuinely useful.

If you like to steer your own routine, the library format suits you. You browse by style, mood, focus or prop and build your own rhythm, with a monthly guide if you want a light lead to follow rather than programming it entirely yourself.

If bone health and pelvic floor are on your mind, the dedicated Bone Health and osteoporosis-friendly collection and the pelvic-floor tutorials give you a starting point that most general Pilates apps do not, even though neither is a clinical programme.

If you want training built for menopause, this is not the right app. There is no menopause education, no hormone or phase guidance, no clinician, and the load stays light, so it will not deliver the heavier progressive strength and bone-loading that the evidence backs most strongly for this stage. If that is your priority you will be better served elsewhere.

Is Lottie Murphy Pilates Good for Women Over 40?

On the movement itself, this app does a lot right for a midlife body. Low-impact Pilates is gentle on the joints and builds core strength, control and balance, and balance work in particular has good evidence in older adults, where Pilates-style training improves stability and can help reduce falls risk.¹ The pelvic-floor tutorials matter too, because pelvic-floor muscle training is one of the better-supported interventions for the stress and urge incontinence that often appear around menopause.⁴ The calming, release-and-restore and meditation content is a real strength for stress and recovery, and mind-body practices like this have modest but genuine support for quality of life through the menopause transition.⁵

Where it falls short is the menopause-specific layer and the loading. There is no menopause education to explain why strength and bone loading matter more now, no hormone or phase awareness, and no clinician. Crucially, the Bone Health collection is bone-supportive rather than bone-building: Pilates keeps the load light, and the strongest evidence for actually increasing bone mineral density comes from heavy resistance and high-impact training, which this app deliberately does not do.²³ Muscle-building potential is similarly limited, because Pilates-led intensity, even with light weights and bands, sits below dedicated progressive strength.

The wider picture: this is an excellent low-impact Pilates library, not a menopause solution. If you value joint-friendly movement, balance, pelvic-floor work and calm, and you are happy to steer yourself, it can serve you well. If you want your training built around perimenopause or menopause, with education, heavier bone-loading strength and clinical grounding, a purpose-built platform will serve you better.

The capability breakdown below scores the app against what the research says midlife and menopausal women benefit from. It is strong on low-impact, mind-body and accessibility, and thin on the group that captures whether a programme is actually built for menopause.

This is the perimenopause and menopause assessment, and it is separate from the overall score. Twelve things a programme either does for a midlife body or does not, each scored out of 10 with my reasoning next to it. Together they produce a single menopause fit score, and that becomes one of the nine categories in the overall scoring below.

How the Pilates Method Works Here

The method is classic Pilates delivered as a follow-along library: controlled, precise mat and standing work that trains the deep core, posture, mobility and breath, with weighted and mini-band classes adding a little resistance. Instead of an algorithm building a plan, you select classes by style, mood, focus or prop, and the monthly guide offers a light structure if you want one. For a midlife body that does not recover the way it did at 30, low-impact, controlled movement you can scale by choosing an easier or harder class is a sensible, sustainable way to stay active.

The pelvic-floor tutorials deserve the same realism. Pelvic-floor muscle training genuinely helps many women with incontinence, and having clear tutorials in a mainstream app is a real plus.⁴ But structured, supervised, individually assessed pelvic-floor work with a physiotherapist is a step beyond a follow-along video, especially if you have a prolapse or persistent symptoms. Use these classes as a starting point, not a diagnosis.

Content and Features

The app is content-rich for a Pilates library, and thin in exactly the areas this audience sometimes needs most. The table separates what is included from what is missing, because for a midlife woman the gaps, menopause education and integrated nutrition, matter as much as the class catalogue.

Nutrition

Nutrition is essentially absent from this app, and it is fair to call that a limitation for the audience. There are no meal plans, no calorie or macro targets and no food logging; the only nutrition touchpoint is the occasional recipe that may arrive by email. For a midlife woman, protein needs rise with age and matter for holding on to muscle, so if structured eating support is a priority, this app will not provide it and you will need a separate tool or a dietitian. That said, the app never pretends otherwise and does not push supplements, so there is no upsell pressure to weigh, just a gap to fill elsewhere.

Devices and Platform

This is a flexible, phone-first app with good living-room support. It runs on iPhone, Android and a web portal, and classes can be cast to a TV over Chromecast, AirPlay or a direct HDMI connection, which makes follow-along Pilates on a big screen easy. You can download classes for offline use, so training without a signal is possible, and the interface is clean and calm, which suits the content. There is no dedicated smartwatch app, and subtitle availability is worth confirming at signup if you rely on captions. For a woman who moves between a phone, a tablet and a TV, the setup is genuinely convenient, and the library is actively maintained with new classes added regularly.

What the Research Says

The movement this app delivers is well supported for midlife women, with one important boundary around bone. Pilates and similar low-impact training improve balance and stability in older adults, which matters for confidence and for reducing falls as we age.¹ Pelvic-floor muscle training is effective for stress and mixed urinary incontinence, so the tutorials here point women towards something that genuinely works.⁴ Mind-body practices such as yoga and Pilates show modest benefits for some menopause quality-of-life domains, so the calming and meditation strand is a reasonable support, not a cure.⁵

On bone, it is important not to overclaim. The strongest evidence for actually increasing bone mineral density in postmenopausal women comes from heavy resistance and high-impact training, as the LIFTMOR trial showed, and that is a heavier stimulus than mat Pilates provides.² National bone guidance echoes this, recommending a combination of muscle-strengthening and impact or weight-bearing exercise for bone health.³ So the Bone Health collection is a joint-friendly way to stay strong and stable and a sensible complement to heavier work, but on its own it is bone-supportive rather than bone-building.

The picture is mixed for menopause symptoms, and it is important to be precise. Regular exercise can reduce insomnia severity for some women, although the evidence for improving overall sleep quality is weaker.⁶ For hot flushes and night sweats, the most authoritative review concludes there is insufficient evidence that exercise is an effective treatment.⁷ Any suggestion that a Pilates app relieves vasomotor symptoms would be unsupported, and this app sensibly makes no such claim. The wider health bodies agree on the direction of travel: strength or muscle-strengthening work at least twice a week plus regular activity are core recommendations for women as they age.⁸⁹ This app delivers the activity and the low-impact strength; what it does not deliver is the heavier loading or the menopause-specific layer.

What Users Report

Public sentiment is warm but the sample is small, so read it with that caveat. On the Apple App Store the app holds around 5.0 out of 5, but from only about 438 US ratings at our latest check, which is a modest sample that can move quickly and does not carry the weight of a platform with tens of thousands of reviews. It also appears on Google Play and draws on a large, engaged YouTube following, where Lottie Murphy’s free classes have built the audience over many years.

What users praise: the calm, clear teaching, the high production quality, the joint-friendly low-impact style, the variety of teachers and the ease of finding a class by mood or focus. The bone-health and pelvic-floor content is often singled out as a reason women over 40 chose the app.

What users criticise: the usual friction points for a subscription library, including the auto-renewal and the lack of partial refunds, and the fact that the price sits at the higher end for a single-discipline Pilates app. Some want more structure than a browse-it-yourself catalogue provides, and anyone hoping for menopause education or nutrition will find those absent. Because the review base is small and there is little specifically midlife or menopausal women’s voice in the public record, we treat suitability for this audience as promising but not yet settled.

Lottie Murphy Pilates specifications

Lottie Murphy Pilates Price 2026: What You Actually Pay

Pricing is simple and was verified on the official site and the App Store in August 2026. There is no free tier and no quarterly plan, just a monthly and an annual option after a 7-day free trial. An older price of GBP 19.99 still lingers on a stale third-party FAQ page; ignore it, the current figures are below.

Trial and refunds: the 7-day free trial gives you full access to browse the library, the Bone Health collection and the pelvic-floor tutorials before you pay. Store purchases follow Apple and Google refund rules; direct purchases auto-renew and are generally non-refundable for unused time. Cancel through your app store subscription settings or your account before the renewal date.

Time Commitment: Weekly Schedule and Session Length

Because you choose your class length and how often you practise, the app flexes easily around a busy life, and a fuller week can sit within the WHO activity guideline of 150 minutes plus two muscle-strengthening sessions.⁸ The real limitation is loading rather than minutes: Pilates covers the low-impact strength and mobility beautifully, but to meet the strength and bone-loading side of the guideline fully you will likely want to add some heavier resistance work alongside it.

Will You Actually Stick With It?

What Equipment Do You Need for Lottie Murphy Pilates?

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You can start with just a mat, and the weighted, mini-band and prop classes are optional extras, so the barrier to beginning is genuinely low.

Lottie Murphy Pilates vs Melissa Wood Health, Jessica Valant, Pvolve and Alo Moves

Lottie Murphy Pilates assessed on a research basis from the official app, website and store data. Competitor prices and ratings are approximate; verify each on the platform before subscribing. Jessica Valant Pilates is a newly added profile on our site, so its score may still be settling.

Lottie Murphy Pilates vs Melissa Wood Health

These are the two most similar choices, and they split on price and feel. Melissa Wood Health offers short, flowing low-impact Pilates and sculpt sessions led by its founder, usually at a lower monthly price, with a pared-back, minimal-equipment style. Lottie Murphy Pilates gives you a larger, multi-teacher library with more variety, a dedicated bone-health collection and pelvic-floor tutorials, but at a higher price point. Neither is menopause-built, so if you want the lowest cost and a single calming voice, Melissa Wood Health is the leaner pick; if you want more teachers, more range and the bone-health and pelvic-floor strands, Lottie Murphy Pilates is the fuller library. If bone health is genuinely your priority, pair either with some heavier resistance work.

Lottie Murphy Pilates Weighted Scoring: How the 6.7 / 10 Was Calculated

Scores are evidence-informed, on our 9 weighted criteria, with a confidence tag per row because this is a research-based profile rather than a hands-on test. See how we score for the full method and weightings.

This is the overall score, and it asks a broader question: how good is this programme, full stop. Nine categories, each weighted by how much it matters to a woman in perimenopause or beyond, which is why Muscle Potential counts for more than Value for Money. The Women Over 40 Specificity row is the perimenopause and menopause fit score from the twelve capabilities above, carried through.

Scoring notes: joint friendliness rates highest because the app is almost entirely low-impact, and programme structure, UX and time efficiency rate well thanks to the well-organised, flexible library and clean interface. Muscle potential is capped in the middle because Pilates-led loading, even with light weights and bands, sits below dedicated progressive strength. Value is solid but held back by a higher-than-average monthly price and no free tier. The women-over-40 score reflects genuine bone-health and pelvic-floor strands offset by the absence of menopause education, hormone awareness and heavier bone-loading. Nutrition scores low because there is effectively none. UX and muscle potential are marked medium-confidence, the rows most likely to move once the app is used hands-on over time.

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Final Verdict

6.7 / 10

Lottie Murphy Pilates is a beautifully produced low-impact Pilates library that is a genuine pleasure to use, and more thoughtful about midlife bodies than most. The joint-friendly movement, the dedicated bone-health collection, the pelvic-floor tutorials and the calm mind-body strand are all appropriate for women over 40, and the balance, pelvic-floor and mind-body benefits are supported by the evidence.¹⁴⁵ It is accessible, flexible across devices and actively maintained, and the 7-day trial makes it low-risk to try.

The gaps are the ones that matter to this audience. There is no menopause education, no hormone or phase guidance and no clinician, the load stays lighter than the heavy resistance and impact work that builds bone,² muscle-building potential is limited, and there is effectively no nutrition. None of that makes it a poor app; it makes it a Pilates library rather than a menopause programme, and a slightly pricey one at that.

Best for: self-directed women ~35+ who want polished, joint-friendly Pilates, a bone-health and pelvic-floor strand, and a calm mind-body library they can steer themselves.

Not ideal for: women who want menopause-specific programming, heavier progressive strength for bone and muscle, integrated nutrition, a clinician-led plan, or the lowest possible price.

Sources & Further Reading

1. Sampaio T, et al. (2023). The Effectiveness of Pilates Training Interventions on Older Adults’ Balance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Healthcare. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10706653
2. Watson SL, et al. (2018). High-Intensity Resistance and Impact Training Improves Bone Mineral Density and Physical Function in Postmenopausal Women With Osteopenia and Osteoporosis (LIFTMOR). Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. doi.org/10.1002/jbmr.3284
3. Royal Osteoporosis Society. Exercise for bones. theros.org.uk/information-and-support/bone-health/exercise-for-bones
4. Dumoulin C, Cacciari LP, Hay-Smith EJC (2018). Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Versus No Treatment, or Inactive Control Treatments, for Urinary Incontinence in Women. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005654.pub4
5. Cramer H, Peng W, Lauche R (2018). Yoga for Menopausal Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Maturitas. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29452777
6. Qian J, et al. (2023). The Effect of Exercise Intervention on Improving Sleep in Menopausal Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Frontiers in Medicine. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37181372
7. Daley A, Stokes-Lampard H, Thomas A, MacArthur C (2014). Exercise for Vasomotor Menopausal Symptoms. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25431132
8. World Health Organization (2020). Physical activity: fact sheet. who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/physical-activity
9. Menopause and exercise: staying active through the transition. The Menopause Society (North American Menopause Society). menopause.org/for-women

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