Peloton Strength+ is finally on Android, roughly two years after it launched as an iPhone exclusive. Before you go looking for it, two details that Peloton’s own product page states plainly and most of the coverage does not: the Peloton Strength+ Android app costs $9.99 a month after a 14-day trial, and it is available in the United States and Canada only.
What Peloton Strength+ on Android costs
Peloton’s page for the app lists the price as $9.99 a month once the 14-day free trial ends, with a footnote that reads: “Credit card required. After your trial, membership is $9.99/mo. Cancel anytime before trial ends.” If you already pay Peloton for an All-Access or App+ membership, Strength+ is included at no extra cost — download it and sign in with the email on your Peloton account. App One subscribers are not covered and would need to upgrade.
It was not always a paid product. Peloton explains the change directly on the same page, saying it offered the app free during its beta phase to gather feedback, and moved it behind a subscription now that it has “developed Strength+ into a fully-featured experience.” That is a reasonable position for a company to take, but it is worth naming the pattern for what it is: free while the userbase was doing unpaid QA, $9.99 a month once the product was finished. Anyone who used the beta on iOS and assumed the Android release meant a free app on their phone is going to be surprised at the paywall.
Where you can actually get it
This is the part with the hardest edge. Asked “Is this available globally?”, Peloton’s FAQ answers: “Peloton Strength+ is currently available in the US and Canada on iOS and Android devices only.” A follow-up question about international availability gets the same sentence back, with the addition that Peloton will let members know if that changes. There is no timeline. Readers in India, the UK, the EU, Australia or anywhere else outside those two countries cannot use this app today, regardless of whether they already pay Peloton for something else.
What the app does
Strength+ is built for gym floor sessions rather than Peloton hardware. The core of it is a workout generator that assembles a session around your target muscle group, available time, equipment and experience level, plus multi-week coach-led programmes — Peloton’s examples run four weeks at three to five sessions a week, aimed at strength and power, size, or endurance. During a workout you get audio cues and technique tips, movement breakdowns at the start of each block, coach-led demo clips for individual exercises, and a swap function for when the machine you wanted is occupied. Detailed stats land after each session, and Strength+ workouts count toward your Peloton streaks.
One capability does not cross over. Peloton lists in-workout metrics as an iOS feature specifically — its own wording is that on iOS you connect an Apple Watch to measure progress during a workout, and its watch FAQ covers navigating the workout, monitoring rest, adjusting weights and reps and viewing demos from the wrist. Nothing on the page describes an equivalent for Wear OS or any other Android wearable. So the Android build arrives at the same monthly price as the iOS one while, on the evidence of Peloton’s own documentation, offering less. If wrist-side control was the reason you wanted this app, it is not here yet.
Source: 9to5Google
