About us
About Gymist
The UK’s fitness discovery and social platform — built to help you find your people, not just a postcode.
Most sites that list gyms stop there. Gymist starts with the harder problem: finding someone to train with. We built it in a specific order — buddies first, then groups, then gyms — because that’s what actually gets people back for a second session.
Buddies are training partners near you, people who show up when they say they will. Groups are teams, classes and communities you can join beyond your usual sessions. Gyms are the roughly 50,000 venues across the UK we use as the map — a front door into all of it, not the whole point.
We’re built for everyone from the person who hasn’t set foot in a gym since school to the person structuring their next competition block. Whichever you are, the aim is the same: help you find people, not just a place.
Gymist is free. There’s no membership fee, no premium tier, and no plan to add one. Claiming a gym listing is free too.
We’re a small UK team, currently rebuilding the site from the ground up. If something looks unfinished, it probably is — we’re getting the foundations right before we polish the edges.