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Every year, people around the world ring in January 1 with the goal of getting in shape. However, this almost cliché resolution has a new twist in the 2020s. Internet users can now ask LLM models, like ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, which digital tools can best help them get fit.

For marketers, this is part of an important shift: LLMs are reshaping the customer journey. Understanding how they interpret authority and user intent to generate recommendations consumers trust is now a must-have capability for competitive brands. 

So, what are these AI-powered helpers telling consumers? We used GenAI Lens, Meltwater’s industry-first LLM tracker, to find out. 

Our analysis of the top LLM recommendations for fitness apps during two critical weeks — the end of 2025 and start of 2026 — focuses on how this new facet of brand discovery is influencing the customer journey. Read on to discover the brands, sources, keywords, and more that dominated this year’s New Year’s resolution season.

Note: The data below comes from our GenAI Lens analysis of responses from nine LLM models — Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Deepseek, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, Perplexity, and xAI Grok— from December 24, 2025, to January 7, 2026. Click here to learn more about how GenAI Lens helps major global brands decode, monitor, and impact their LLM visibility.

Our GenAI Lens analysis found that Strava was the most visible brand in LLM recommendations for effective fitness apps. 

From December 24, 2025, to January 7, 2026, LLMs mentioned Strava 138 times in response to the prompt “What are the most effective fitness apps to get in shape?” Additionally, Strava achieved a GenAI Lens Prevalence Score of 70%, meaning it appeared in 70% of the resulting responses. Those metrics along with an analysis of prominence within answers resulted in a 77% Visibility Score for the popular running app.

MyFitnessPal was Strava’s closest competitor, with a higher volume of mentions but lower prevalence, resulting in a Visibility Score of 71%. Meanwhile, Fitbod and Nike Training Club, or NTC, followed with Prevalence Scores of 61% and 55%, respectively.

Takeaway: LLM visibility doesn’t only rest on how many times your brand is mentioned. Prevalence, or how widespread your mentions are, can make or break your standing against competitors.

How Does User Intent Impact LLM Recommendations?

The language LLMs used in their responses to the prompt “What are the most effective fitness apps to get in shape?” highlights how their interpretation of effectiveness prioritized strength-building, approach, and progress tracking. For example, the keyword "strength" (75% visibility) appeared more often than other qualities related to effectiveness, like “stamina” or “endurance”, which were absent. 

"Equipment", a key factor in deciding on which workouts to try, also achieved relatively high visibility at 45%. Finally, keywords more generally related to advancement, like "progress" (38% visibility), also appeared.

Together, the top keywords highlight how the LLM models relate fitness app effectiveness to strength. But what if the user has other qualities, like efficiency, in mind when on the hunt for the best fitness app? 

To learn more about how LLM recommendations vary as user intent changes, we also analyzed responses to the prompt “What are the best fitness apps for quick routines?”

Our GenAI Lens analysis found that FitOn was the top brand in LLM recommendations for fitness apps for quick workouts, with a Visibility Score of 76%. NTC was the second-ranked fitness app recommended for quick routines with an average Visibility Score of 53%. Meanwhile, the top fitness app for effectiveness, Strava — which many users love for showing off long runs — understandably sank to 35th place with only 10% visibility. 

Contrasting with LLM recommendations for effective fitness apps, "equipment" (185 mentions) was the top keyword in responses to our prompt for quick routines. Meanwhile, "strength" (128 mentions) dropped to third place after "quick routines" (169 mentions).

Takeaway: User intent shapes how LLMs recommend and talk about brands. For marketers, this means understanding LLMs portray your brand generally and in relation to specific consumer needs. Tools like GenAI Lens let you monitor prompt variations and responses at scale, giving you a dynamic, panoramic view of your brand’s LLM presence.

How Do LLM Responses Differ from One Another?

Our GenAI Lens analysis found that fitness app visibility varies drastically between LLM models.
In AI-generated recommendations for effective fitness apps, Strava was the most consistently visible brand, with a 77% Visibility Score overall. However, that score dipped as low as 17% on Google Gemini and as high as 99% on Google AI Overviews. 

Fitbod (which ranked third in overall visibility) scored higher than any other app on ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, two top targets for many consumer brands. And notably, most of the brands that appeared in responses from the top LLMs were nowhere to be found on Meta Llama. 

Takeaway: While high visibility across all of the top LLMs is ideal, refining strategies to target specific models can help brands more effectively reach their target audiences. GenAI Lens breaks down visibility by channel, allowing marketers to zero in on new opportunities and identify low-hanging fruit. 

Garage Gym Reviews was the top source cited in LLM recommendations of effective fitness apps, according to GenAI Lens. Its dedicated, site-wide focus on comparative fitness reviews helped make it a highly influential LLM source on the topic of fitness apps. Top URLs referenced were best-workout-apps (88 mentions), best-free-workout-apps (27 mentions), and best-personal-training-apps (17 mentions), highlighting AI’s reliance on authoritative, ranking-style content when surfacing recommendations.

Interestingly, the second-ranked source, Die Ringe, was the only fitness app brand website to make the list. The website for the German calisthenics app was mentioned 55 times in LLM recommendations, seemingly stemming from the prominence of self-referencing, user-generated reviews on its homepage. However, that visibility did not translate into LLMs recommending the app itself. 

Finally, YouTube and Reddit came in third and fourth, respectively, powered by the kind of unfiltered, peer reviews that LLMs lean on. For example, the most referenced Reddit thread was “What’s the best automated workout app?”, posted in the r/bodyweightfitness subreddit in June 2023. Its 663 engagement actions in a highly active community likely pushed LLM models to favor it as an authoritative source, even despite its age.

Takeaway: Niche websites and digital communities with high authority and engagement can have outsized impacts on LLM recommendations. Meanwhile, brands that host authentic user reviews prominently on their own websites can also become trusted sources for generative AI models. 

What Fitness Brands Need to Know About LLM Recommendations

Our GenAI Lens analysis of AI recommendations for fitness apps revealed both the dominant brands, as well as the forces behind their visibility. In a nutshell:

Brand visibility in LLM recommendations depends on both volume and prevalence of brand mentions.

Look at user intent, as expressed through subtle shifts in language, for a fuller picture of how your brand is portrayed to audiences as they go on their “prompt journeys”.

Brands with high visibility on one LLM can be completely absent on another. Understanding LLM response variations is key to building strategies that focus on reaching your target audiences where they are. 

LLMs rely on sources with both expert and peer-led expertise, even if they are old. Generally, comparative reviews, like ranking lists, and UGC, like starred reviews, are paramount. 

LLM recommendations are key aspects of the shopping experience for high-intent buyers. Brands across consumer sectors must monitor and analyze them rigorously to remain competitive, but doing so is impossible without the right tools. GenAI Lens is here to help. Fill out the form below to request a sneak peek at how this industry-leading technology can take your brand’s LLM strategy to new heights.

Which fitness apps were most recommended by LLMs for effectiveness in early 2026?

According to GenAI Lens data, Strava ranked first with a 77% Visibility Score. MyFitnessPal followed with a 71% Visibility Score, despite higher mention volume but lower prevalence. Fitbod and Nike Training Club ranked next with 61% and 55% prevalence, respectively.

What workout qualities do LLMs associate with “effective” fitness apps?

A GenAI Lens analysis of LLM responses to the prompt “What are the most effective fitness apps to get in shape?” found that they mentioned “strength” most, followed by “workouts”, “apps”, “equipment”, and “progress”. 

How do LLM recommendations change when users ask for quick workouts instead?

Meltwater’s GenAI Lens analysis of responses to “best fitness apps for quick routines” found that FitOn ranked first with a 76% Visibility Score, while Nike Training Club ranked second at 53% visibility. Strava dropped to 35th place with just 10% visibility, despite being recommended most in prompts for effective fitness apps, illustrating how shifts in user intent drastically reshape AI recommendations.

Do AI-generated recommendations vary across LLM models?

Yes. A Meltwater GenAI Lens analysis of fitness app recommendations found that Strava’s overall 77% Visibility Score ranged from 99% on Google AI Overviews to just 17% on Google Gemini. Fitbod achieved its highest visibility on ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, while several top-ranking brands were completely absent from Meta Llama responses.

Which sources most influence LLM fitness app recommendations?

Meltwater GenAI Lens analysis of fitness app recommendations found that Garage Gym Reviews ranked as the most cited source, with 88 mentions of its best-workout-apps page, 27 mentions of best-free-workout-apps, and 17 mentions of best-personal-training-apps. Other top sources included PC Mag, Wired, Tom’s Guide, YouTube, and Reddit.

Does old content impact LLM recommendations?

Yes. In Meltwater’s GenAI Lens analysis of fitness app recommendations, the most referenced Reddit thread — “What’s the best automated workout app?” from June 2023 — accumulated 663 engagement actions in the r/bodyweightfitness subreddit. Despite being over two years old, its engagement and community authority elevated it as a trusted LLM source.

Can brand websites influence LLM responses?

Yes. In Meltwater’s GenAI Lens analysis of fitness app recommendations, Die Ringe, a German calisthenics app, ranked second among cited sources with 55 mentions, driven by prominent self-hosted user reviews. However, despite high source visibility, the app itself was not consistently recommended, underscoring the difference between source authority and brand recommendation.

How does GenAI Lens help brands improve LLM visibility?

Meltwater’s  GenAI Lens tracks mention volume, prevalence, visibility score, keyword associations, source citations, and LLM-specific performance across models. This enables brands to identify gaps — such as low visibility on ChatGPT or Google AI Overviews — and optimize content, reviews, and PR strategies accordingly.

Fitness Apps Brand AI Visibility Index

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How Meltwater Helps Turn Social Listening Insights into Action

B2B social listening is the practice of tracking, analyzing, and interpreting conversations across social media, online communities, forums, and digital publications to understand what buyers, customers, and influencers actually say about your brand, competitors, and category.

In practice, social listening helps teams spot patterns that don’t appear in standard dashboards.

For example, you might release a product and notice recurring signals across LinkedIn, Reddit, or industry Slack groups, such as: 

“The product is powerful, but onboarding takes too long.”

“Adoption stalled after the first few months.”

“Implementation was heavier than expected.”

Together, these signals indicate that while buyers value your product, they struggle with the rollout.

That insight changes your approach, shifting your messaging from leading with features to focusing on adoption and ease of implementation. You create content that tackles onboarding concerns. Your sales teams are more transparent about the rollout process earlier on, and your campaigns answer common questions before prospects even have to ask them.

This example illustrates why B2B social listening matters. It turns scattered conversation into actionable insight, enabling you to align messaging and strategy based on real buyer experience—not assumptions.

People often use these two terms interchangeably, but they solve different problems.

Social monitoring tracks what people say about your brand right now. This process captures visible, immediate activity such as:

Monitoring is reactive. It helps teams respond to mentions, manage communities, and report on activity levels, but it rarely influences broader strategy or decision-making.

Social listening seeks a deeper answer: What do these insights tell us about buyer needs, perceptions, and opportunities? 

Effective listening moves beyond basic mention tracking to interpreting meaning and recognizing patterns across conversations. It involves:

Analyzing recurring themes and topics over time

Tracking sentiment shifts beyond binary positive or negative scores

Identifying emerging issues and industry trends before they spike

Using conversation insights to shape content, messaging, PR, and go-to-market decisions

For example, social monitoring confirms a product received 500 mentions in a month. Social listening explains why mention volume increased, highlights recurring pain points, and reveals how competitors position themselves. 

Social listening shapes content strategy—providing value across every department, from marketing to frontline sales. Its primary benefits include:

Sharper messaging that reflects buyer language: Social listening helps B2B teams swap feature-heavy language with the terminology buyers use to describe their problems. For example, the AI platform NLP Cloud monitored phrases such as “alternative to OpenAI,” “model hallucination,” and “API response time” across Reddit, X (formerly Twitter), and developer forums. Aligning its positioning with these keywords over internal product terminology immediately makes its messaging more relevant to in-market buyers. 

Content ideas validated by real demand: Social listening reveals what buyers discuss, including their questions and product-related challenges. Teams use these insights to eliminate guesswork and create content that addresses buyer questions and concerns.

Competitor analysis without assumptions: Social listening reveals how competitors are discussed online, including what users value, what frustrates them, and which narratives resonate. Teams then adjust positioning to avoid messaging that fails to connect with the market. Zoom is a prime example of this strategy. Before founding the company, Eric Yuan identified recurring market dissatisfaction with unreliable video, clunky experiences, and friction. Zoom focused its positioning on these pain points, emphasizing reliability, simplicity, and frictionless communication as its core identity.

Earlier buying signals that align marketing, PR, and sales: B2B buyers rarely state that they’re shopping for a solution. They reveal intent indirectly by requesting recommendations or criticizing current providers. Social listening also identifies “trigger events”—such as new hires, recent funding, or shifting compliance pressures—that signal a company is ready to rethink its operational setup. By uncovering these signals early, teams can engage prospects before a lead ever fills out a form.

An effective B2B social listening strategy starts by identifying the information your team needs to make better marketing and sales decisions. 

Before setting up dashboards, queries, or reports, you must define three core pillars:

The audience: Define who you are listening to.

The context: Determine which conversations are relevant to buying and brand perception.

The channels: Identify the digital spaces where your audience congregates.

The goal of B2B social listening isn’t to capture every mention. The goal is to identify patterns in how buyers describe problems, evaluate solutions, and discuss vendors so your teams can act on them early.

This framework focuses on these fundamentals to ensure your social listening data translates into clear, actionable strategic insights:

Step 1: Define your audience (Who you’re listening to, not just what you’re tracking) 

In B2B, who says something is often a stronger indicator of buying intent than what’s said. Gartner research confirms that the average B2B buying decision involves 5–11 stakeholders, each one independently gathering information. Because relevance is role-dependent, your strategy must differentiate between the voices that matter.

For example, the keyword “CRM migration” could appear in:

A student’s LinkedIn post summarizing a course

A consultant’s thought leadership thread

A RevOps leader’s post requesting advice from peers

All three mentions include the same keyword, but only the RevOps leader is likely to consider a purchase. When you don’t define your audience, your listening system treats all three mentions equally, cluttering your data with noise.

Here’s how to define your ideal listening audience:

Start with your closed deals, not generic personas. Analyze the deals you’ve won to identify the job titles that actually participated in the evaluation, including those who joined demos, asked detailed questions, raised objections, or engaged late in the process. If your closed deals consistently involve a Head of Marketing or a RevOps lead, prioritize those roles, as their conversations are the most likely to reflect genuine buying intent.

Filter for company context. Apply constraints on company size, industry, and maturity level to ensure you aren’t mixing conversations from segments that don’t align with your target market. This keeps insights grounded in the realistic buying conditions of your audience.

Separate buyers from non-buyers. Not everyone discussing your category is a potential customer. In most B2B listening datasets, the majority of mentions come from vendors, agencies, or consultants. These conversations inflate volume but rarely indicate buying intent. Create separate audience buckets for prospective buyers, existing customers, analysts and influencers, and vendors and agencies. 

Document your rules. Before launching any keyword queries, create a short internal note that outlines which job roles, company types, and voices you care about—and which to ignore. 

Social listening tools like Meltwater’s Social Listening Suite streamline this process by filtering large volumes of conversations by geography, language, and source type. You can also segment authors to identify which voices are driving the discussion. 

These filters eliminate irrelevant conversations, such as posts from outside your target regions, source types, or languages. By removing global chatter, you can focus on the specific markets you operate in. 

Meltwater social listening dashboard showing conversations grouped by author segments and topic categories.

This noise reduction allows you to interpret conversations from the stakeholders most likely to be involved in real buying decisions.

Step 2: Identify intent signals that indicate buying progress 

Once you know who you care about, your next task is to identify which conversations indicate movement toward a purchase. 

In B2B, buying intent is signaled indirectly through patterns in language and context, rather than direct statements of intent.

In practice, intent signals tend to fall into these specific, observable categories:

Problem articulation that goes beyond general complaints: Early-stage chatter is vague. Buying-related signals are more specific. The more concrete the constraint (e.g., “We can’t trust our attribution anymore” or “Our current setup breaks when we scale past X”), the more likely the evaluation has begun.

Comparison and trade-off language: When stakeholders start naming alternatives, weighing pros and cons, or considering the merits of “X vs. Y,” they’re actively evaluating options. For example, a RevOps leader asking for advice about the trade-offs of moving from Salesforce to HubSpot signals active consideration, not mere curiosity.

Questions framed around risk, effort, or change: Language about migration pain, internal buy-in, timelines, or cost rarely appears unless a switch is on the table. These signals usually come from job roles responsible for implementation or internal justification.

Negative sentiment tied to a current solution: Complaints alone don’t indicate intent, but repeated frustration, combined—especially when combined with comparison language—often signals a willingness to change vendors.

When you encounter these signals, treat them as a prompt to audit your sales transparency and implementation readiness—fixing these points of friction before they derail future deals.

One critical caveat: do not track these intent signals across all audiences. To maintain strategic clarity, track only the audience segments you previously defined. 

Step 3: Add GEO-specific modifiers to reflect market differences

B2B buying behavior isn’t uniform across regions. 

When someone in Europe discusses CRM or customer data platforms, the conversation often revolves around compliance, data storage, and privacy requirements. These concerns are driven mainly by regulatory pressure and internal risk management.

In the U.S., buyers in the same category focus more on integrations, automation, and scalability. In other markets, conversations may center on cost control, localization, or regional support. 

This is why GEO-specific listening matters. In practical terms, it means:

Segmenting your view: Analyze conversations by country or region instead of relying on a single global view.

Identifying regional patterns: Pay attention to which concerns repeatedly appear in one market but are absent in another.

Tracking local competitors: Monitor local players alongside global vendors, as buyers often compare options by geography.

Social listening tools like Meltwater support this by allowing teams to filter conversations by geography and language across social channels and media sources. 

Meltwater social listening dashboard showing filters for language and country to analyze market-specific conversations.

Regional modifiers transform global noise into actionable market intelligence. With these insights, you’ll understand why buyers in specific regions hesitate or accelerate, revealing the unique drivers that move a purchase forward.

Step 4: Choose channels and data sources that reflect your market reality 

In B2B, different job roles speak in different places. Practitioners often discuss tools and technical problems in comments, threads, or niche communities. 

Decision-makers may post less frequently but surface concerns in longer-form posts or industry discussions. On the other hand, analysts and influencers shape perceptions through articles, reports, podcasts, and media commentary.

For example, a RevOps leader comparing CRM platforms is unlikely to post a detailed evaluation on Instagram. That conversation is far more likely to appear on LinkedIn, X, or a professional forum. 

This multi-channel reality underscores why channel choice is critical. If your buyers primarily engage on LinkedIn and in industry media, relying heavily on high-volume consumer platforms will distort your insights.

To narrow your listening to the channels your buyers actually use, don’t guess. Use evidence from your own business:

Audit your sales history. Review sales call notes, email threads, and recorded demos. If buyers regularly say things like “I saw this discussed on LinkedIn,” “I read an article about this,” or “someone mentioned this on X,” prioritize those channels.

Look where objections and comparisons surface publicly. Scan LinkedIn comments, X threads, or industry forums for the questions your sales team hears repeatedly. Channels where these questions consistently appear have a real buying context.

Identify sources of trust, not just awareness. Note which publications, analysts, or industry voices prospects mention during evaluations. If buyers cite trade publications, reports, or expert commentary to justify internal decisions, include those sources in your listening strategy.

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