The Best Yoga Apps of 2024

CorePower is a nationwide yoga studio chain that became known for its high-energy heated “Hot Power Fusion” power yoga classes and calmer (but still hot) yoga sessions. The CorePower At Home Yoga on Demand app is one of the best yoga apps for those who love the brand’s workouts and those who have never tried it.

The yoga app has ample options, including traditional CorePower Yoga (a classic vinyasa flow), Yoga Sculpt (a fast-paced power yoga class that uses weights and cardio moves to get your heart pumping), and lessons exclusive to the yoga app that provide step-by-step breakdowns of specific poses to get you more comfortable with them.

CorePower doesn't quiz you to determine your workout style and fitness level, so it doesn't serve sessions tailored to your interests. Still, the classes are easy to sort through, with thorough descriptions that tell you what to expect. You can also filter by experience level, class type, class length, and teacher to find the right program for your needs.

I tried both a Core Restore (restorative yoga) class and a Yoga Sculpt Bodyweight (YSB) class. The Core Restore class was one of my favorite yoga classes from the entire testing process. The instructor explained how to perform each movement, why I was doing them, and what I should expect to feel. I felt amazing when I was done—rested, stretched, and refreshed. I also enjoyed the Yoga Sculpt Bodyweight class, but it wasn’t the same as taking the class in person with the high-energy, bumping music and enthusiasm from your instructor and fellow yogis.

The detailed narration was one of my favorite things about Glo, a yoga app that offers an abundance of yoga sessions, live classes, and specialized practices. This yoga app’s teachers provide easy-to-understand context for movements during classes, which makes it a great beginner-friendly yoga app and more experienced yogis alike. At my beginner-intermediate level, I thought each video was thorough, easy to follow, and made me feel more confident in my poses.

Glo’s initial survey was detailed and included unique options I hadn’t seen in other surveys, like yoga for prenatal and postnatal care, back care, and focus and productivity. In addition, Glo suggests categories like “start your morning” and “learn to meditate,” which can prompt users to try something new. I chose a “start your morning” flow and a restorative yoga class and enjoyed both sessions. After the “start your morning” flow, I felt energized, positive, and, yes, ready to start my day.

However, the yoga app seems to promote its live classes and series more than personalized picks, which made it feel more generic to me. I found myself having to search through Glo’s 3,500 yoga classes to find picks that aligned with what I indicated I wanted in my survey, which made me less enthusiastic about using it. Also less compelling: It’s the highest-priced yoga app we tested.

Find What Feels Good is the yoga app offered by Adriene Mishler, of "Yoga With Adriene" YouTube fame. If you’ve already cycled through the classes offered for free on Mishler’s channel, Find What Feels Good may be the yoga app for you. It’s named after Mishler’s catchphrase and offers new classes every week, playlists for embarking on a monthly yoga journey, vlogs you can only view on the yoga app, and discounts on merchandise.

Mishler leads most classes, and I loved her teaching style. She’s informative, always has suggestions for those who want to modify their practice to be easier or more complex, and has a soothing presence that comes through the screen. You can find some sessions taught by guest teachers, but because Mishler is the primary instructor, you don’t get as much new content as other yoga apps. What's more, Mishler continues creating new free content on her YouTube channel, making buying into this yoga app a head-scratcher for all but her most dedicated fans.

That monthly fee supports Mishler's mission—in fact, the yoga app description touts keeping the Yoga With Adriene channel “alive” as a benefit of paying for the yoga app. But more casual viewers will benefit more from exploring the YouTube channel before springing for the yoga app.

Down Dog is set up differently from many other yoga apps. It starts with a survey that lets you select what styles of yoga you're interested in, but instead of recommending a few different videos, it generates a selection of poses shown with a video slide and a prerecorded voiceover that guides you through your practice.

Each time you open the yoga app, you can alter the length of the practice and style of yoga—from Hatha to Vinyasa-flow sun salutations—and it creates a new session for you. Because of this, you can’t scroll through different types of workouts. Instead, it designs sessions for you based on your answers. Down Dog lets you track your progress and set goals—like classes taken and time spent practicing—which is a nice feature for achievement-oriented people.

The narration is surprisingly detailed, which helped me out as a beginner. While you can select the voice, the format is robotic and lacks the friendly, conversational, and motivational vibe most yoga app classes and real-life instructors offer. In the end, the sessions I took (a “full practice” and a restorative yoga session) weren't particularly memorable, and I wasn’t excited about using the yoga app.

Gaia isn’t just a yoga app. Billing itself as the “largest online resource of consciousness-expanding videos” on Gaia, you can explore 8,000-plus streaming options surrounding “metaphysics and alternative healing” in addition to the expected flows. At first, I was impressed with all the options, but I ultimately found that all the other information took away from the yoga, which is what I wanted to focus on.

Gaia offers basic yoga and restorative sessions taught in a relaxed, slow-paced style. It also has useful extra features and recommendations, like a “yoga for runners” series I checked out. In addition to the health- and yoga-related topics, it has categories for things like “the paranormal and unexplained,” “ancient origins,” and “secrets and coverups.” I enjoyed my yoga sessions but could do without the rest.

Daily Yoga doesn’t use an initial survey to gauge your experience and recommend classes. Because of this, I got a less personalized class selection and had to spend more time searching for classes that sounded interesting to me.

I liked the class I took, a classic Vinyasa-style class, but I didn’t love it. I found it too fast-paced for my liking, and the audio didn’t provide enough context for certain movements. Daily Yoga uses a voiceover to instruct viewers, which is less engaging than an instructor speaking in a video while demonstrating the moves.

Though I didn’t love the sessions as much as those offered by other yoga apps, Daily Yoga has some cool bells and whistles. The yoga app awards badges for “checking in” and completing courses, which is a great way to incentivize users to practice regularly. It also shows an overview of the poses users will do in the session, which is great for anyone looking to steer clear of certain movements due to injury or discomfort.

Lotus Yoga offers a wide variety of classes and programs, primarily taught in Vinyasa style. Its downfall was that the narration lacked detail and explanation and was hard to follow compared to many other yoga apps, especially for a beginner-level yogi. In the classes I took, Lotus Yoga didn’t offer many suggestions to make workouts easier for those who have injuries or more challenging for those who are more advanced.

I liked that Lotus Yoga has many programs to choose from, like the “always be in a good mood” program. It made it easy for users to focus on one goal and have classes ready to work toward that goal—but, in the end, the instruction itself fell flat for me.

Yoga Studio offers simple, straightforward classes that give you the movements to do but without much detail. I didn't enjoy this format, though it may be better suited for someone more advanced than me. That said, the yoga app shows you a list of poses before starting class so you can see what you’ll be doing and if there are any moves you may want to skip or modify, which I found helpful.

Overall, I found the yoga app setup to be confusing. Whenever I selected a class, I had to download it before playing it, which was time-consuming and frustrating. Because the voiceover-style narration lacked detail, I found it hard to follow, leaving me feeling disappointed with my workout.

Pocket Yoga may be a good yoga app for beginners who are looking to learn poses, but its limited class selection and atypical class structure work against it. The yoga app lets you select from five styles of classes that have names like “ocean” (a combination of HIIT and yoga), “desert” (meant to “unwind and unravel”), and mountain (power yoga). You also select the class lengths among 30 minutes, 45 minutes, or 60 minutes (but no 5- or 10-minute classes for those who just want a quick flow). This limited selection of classes made me think I would get bored quickly.

The class format is also not ideal. Instead of a live video, Pocket Yoga uses a combination of an animated slide and a voiceover to guide you through your practice. The narration was easy enough to follow, but I often lost track of the visuals, as some moves simply didn’t translate well in slide form.

Pocket Yoga has an extensive index of yoga poses that are separate from the classes. I found this useful, as it breaks down how to do almost every yoga pose imaginable. I also enjoyed how Pocket Yoga has forward and backward buttons that let you easily toggle between poses. If one pose doesn’t work for you, you can easily skip it and move on with your practice.

Still, Pocket Yoga failed to wow me or make me want to use it consistently. That said, it’s the cheapest yoga app out of all the ones we tested, with only a one-time download fee, so if you’re looking for a little yoga in your life, it may do the trick.