Features
What the app actually does.
A short and complete list, including the parts that are missing. Anything not on this page is not in the app.
The daily check-in
Four questions, about fifteen seconds, no typing:
- Energy — depleted, steady, or good.
- Head — calm, wound up, or fried. Asked separately because the two disagree constantly.
- Body — tap where something is asking to be left alone, on a front and back map. Skippable.
- Effort — how much you want to take on today, which sets the length.
Everything downstream is built from those four answers. You can check in at any hour; nothing is time-locked to the morning.
One plan, not a library
You get a single session for the day — one yoga workout, already built — rather than a catalogue to choose from. Sessions run five to twenty-five minutes, are video-led, and rotate through four shapes: sculpt, gentle, recover and rest.
Rest is a plan day in its own right and appears on the week like any other. On low-energy days the plan softens automatically rather than waiting for you to ask.
You can also open individual exercises, read the instructions, and keep the ones you want to come back to.
Evening wind-down
A separate four-minute sequence for the end of the day: legs up the wall, 4-7-8 breathing counted for you, and thirty seconds noting one thing for tomorrow. It is not required and it is not part of your streak.
Progress, on four weeks
It is not a workout tracker in the logging sense: there is nothing to enter, because finishing a session is the entry. The stats screen covers a rolling four weeks and shows four things: sessions completed, days kept, minutes moved, and how your body felt after each session over time. The last one is the interesting one — it trends upward when sessions are leaving you better than they found you, and flat or down when the plan is asking too much.
Streaks exist and are counted in days steady, but they are built not to punish. Unfilled space is not debt, a missed day does not reset the count to zero, and rest days count as days kept.
Two reminders, both yours
- A morning nudge — one a day, at a time you set. Never a streak threat.
- A wind-down reminder — at a time you set, and only on days you actually moved.
Both are off until you turn them on, and neither fires at night unless you set it to.
Account and second devices
You can practise as a guest without creating anything. Adding an account — email and password, Google, or Apple on iOS — means your plan, history and streak follow you to a new phone, and survive a reinstall.
Signing up as a guest keeps everything you have already done; nothing is lost at the point you create the account. Deleting your account deletes the plan, the streak and the saved sessions with it, and that is not reversible.
What happens without a connection
Honestly: sessions stream, so playing one needs a connection, and the home screen will tell you when it cannot reach the plan.
What does work offline is your record. Check-ins and completed sessions are written to the device first and synced up when you are back on, so a flight or a dead spot costs you the video, never the history.
Pricing and cancelling
Free to download. You answer the questions and see your first week before any payment. Full access to the daily plan is a subscription, and the price shown is the real one in your local currency, taken from the store rather than written into the page.
Cancelling is two taps from your account page — no emails, no retention screens. Purchases restore on a new device from the same store account.
What is not in the app
Listed because the absence is easier to plan around than to discover:
- No downloadable sessions for offline playback.
- No guided meditation library, sleep stories or yoga nidra.
- No live classes, teachers to follow, or community feed.
- No chair yoga programme, no chair yoga for seniors, and no face yoga.
- No 30 day challenge, and no timed challenges of any kind.
- No equipment-based training — no weights, bands, blocks or reformer work.
- No Apple Health or Google Fit sync.
- No web app; the plan lives on iOS and Android only.
Questions people ask
Does Better Yoga work offline?
Not for playing sessions — those stream. Your check-ins, completed sessions and streak are stored on the device first and sync when you are back online, so being offline never costs you your record.
Does it track my progress?
Yes, over a rolling four weeks: sessions, days kept, minutes moved, and a trend of how you felt after each session. Streaks count days steady and do not reset to zero when you miss one.
How many notifications does it send?
At most two if you enable both: a morning nudge capped at one a day, and a wind-down reminder that only fires on days you practised. Both are off by default and both have times you choose.
Can I use it without creating an account?
Yes. Guest practice needs no account. Adding one later keeps everything you have already done and makes it survive a new phone or a reinstall.
What languages is the app in?
English, German, French and Japanese. The website additionally covers Spanish and Portuguese.
Can I cancel easily?
Two taps from your account page, with no emails and no retention screens. Billing is handled by the App Store or Google Play, so the cancellation also appears in your store subscriptions.
See it working before you decide.
Answer a few questions, see your first week, and nothing is charged before you choose it.