Squeezy

Review by eFreeware

If you have been told to do pelvic floor exercises and keep forgetting them, Squeezy is the sort of app that is meant to sit quietly in the background and nudge you. It is built for women who want a structured way to do Kegel exercises, whether they are following a physiotherapy programme or simply acting on the general advice that all women should be doing these exercises. The app is a paid download at $4.99, with no ads and no in-app purchases, so the whole thing is available from the moment you install it.

What appeals to me here is the focus. Squeezy does not try to be a general fitness tracker or a wellness hub. It is a pelvic floor exercise tool, and the developer, Living With Ltd, describes it as designed by chartered physiotherapists who specialize in pelvic health and work in the NHS. That background is the reason the app exists in the form it does, and it is the main thing that separates it from a generic reminder app you could set up yourself.

The app has been around a long time, first released in November 2014, and it carries a 4.7 average from over 5,300 ratings, with more than 100,000 installs. Those numbers do not tell you whether it will work for you, but they do suggest a lot of women have stuck with it. The most recent update, in July 2026, fixed a bug that was causing the exercise graph to render incorrectly.

What a session with Squeezy looks like

The app centers on a set routine built around official health advice. That matters more than it might sound. Pelvic floor exercises are easy to do badly or too briefly, and having a plan that already reflects recommended practice takes the guesswork out of how many repetitions to do and how often. You are not designing a routine from scratch; you are following one that has been set out for you.

During an exercise, the app provides visual and audio prompts. The visual side is there to show you when to squeeze and when to release, and the audio side means you do not have to watch the screen the whole time. I would expect that combination to be the difference between doing the exercises properly and doing them vaguely while thinking about something else.

The app also keeps a record of how many exercises you have completed against your target. Seeing that progress is a simple motivational device, and it is the kind of thing that makes a repetitive daily task easier to keep up. The recent fix to the exercise graph is relevant here, since that graph is one of the ways the app shows you what you have done.

Reminders and the daily habit

The feature that gives the app its name is the reminder system. Squeezy sends exercise reminders, and those reminders have customisable settings, so you can shape them around your day rather than the other way around. For an exercise that is meant to be done regularly and is easy to forget, this is the part that does the real work.

I like that the reminders are not treated as an afterthought. A pelvic floor programme only helps if you actually do it, and the gap between knowing you should and remembering to is where most people fall down. An app that prompts you, then records what you completed, closes that gap in a straightforward way.

There is educational material about the pelvic floor included as well. That gives the app a second purpose beyond nagging you: it explains what you are doing and why. For someone who has been handed a leaflet by a clinician and wants to understand the exercises better, having the explanation in the same place as the routine is a sensible arrangement.

Professional mode and the bladder diary

Two features push Squeezy beyond a simple reminder tool. The first is what the developer calls Professional mode. A pelvic health professional can adjust the routine for you. That turns the app into something you can use alongside treatment rather than instead of it, and it is the feature that makes most sense of the app's clinical background.

The second is a bladder diary, which the app includes for keeping track of symptoms if required. Anyone who has been asked to record how often they go, or what triggers problems, will know how awkward that can be with pen and paper. Having it inside the same app as the exercise plan keeps the two halves of a pelvic health routine together.

Neither feature is forced on you. The wording around the bladder diary is deliberately conditional, which suggests it is there for the people who need it and can be left alone by those who do not. That restraint is one of the things I appreciate about how the app is put together.

What you are buying, and the limits of the approach

Squeezy costs $4.99 as a one-time purchase. For a health tool you might use daily for months, that is a clean arrangement, and it means the app's incentives are not pulling against yours.

The trade-off is that this is a single-purpose app. It is built around pelvic floor muscle exercises for women, and everything it does serves that routine. If you are looking for a broad fitness or symptom-tracking app, this is not trying to be one. The developer also describes it as a Class I medical device in the United Kingdom, UKCA marked and developed under the Medical Devices Regulations 2002, and says the NHS has reviewed and approved it for clinical safety, with compliance to NHS Information Governance requirements. That is a meaningful level of scrutiny for a phone app, and it is part of what the price reflects.

There is also a practical point about the exercises themselves. The app can prompt you, time you and record what you did, but it cannot tell you whether you are squeezing the right muscles. The developer notes that some women will be doing these exercises as part of a physiotherapy programme, and Professional mode exists precisely because a specialist may need to adjust the plan. The app is a support for that work, not a replacement for it.

The app's history is worth noting too. The developer notes 2016 wins at the ehi Awards and the Health Innovation Network, plus shortlistings elsewhere. Awards are not a guarantee of anything, but they suggest the app has been taken seriously by people working in this area.

The women this app is built for

Squeezy suits women who have been advised to do pelvic floor exercises and want a structured way to follow through. That includes women doing the exercises on their own after reading or being told about them, and women who are already under the care of a pelvic health specialist and want something to use between appointments.

It also suits anyone who has struggled with remembering a daily routine. The combination of a set plan, reminders you can adjust, prompts during the exercise and a record of what you have completed is designed around the specific problem of consistency. If your difficulty has been knowing what to do or remembering to do it, this is aimed at you.

The bladder diary widens that slightly. Women who have been asked to monitor their symptoms have a reason to use the app that goes beyond the exercise reminders. It is a small addition, but it makes the app more useful for anyone in the middle of assessment or treatment.

A considered purchase for a daily routine

Squeezy is a focused, well-established pelvic floor exercise app with a clinical pedigree behind it. The pre-set plan, the visual and audio prompts, the customisable reminders and the progress record cover the whole loop of doing the exercises and keeping track of them. Professional mode and the bladder diary add enough on top to make it useful alongside professional care, not just as a standalone nudge.

The $4.99 price is the main thing to weigh. If you are doing pelvic floor exercises anyway, that is easy to justify. If you are only curious about what the app offers, the price is the barrier.

For women who have been told to do these exercises and want help sticking to them, I think Squeezy is a sensible purchase. That is a better fit for this kind of routine than a general-purpose reminder app would be.

What's new

• Resolved a bug causing the exercise graph to render incorrectly