The Best Creatine Gummies and Chews

Creatine has always been a popular supplement, but its popularity has largely been confined to strength training and bodybuilding circles. That makes sense since there’s ample evidence that strength training results improve with creatine consumption, as does exercise performance in general.1 But creatine’s role in helping to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is critical for so much of our cellular health and overall wellness, does more than just improve energy in the gym.2

In recent years, the popularity of creatine has exploded as researchers have found new and exciting potential applications for creatine, but these and its athletic benefits all have a shared downside: the need for high doses. That’s why creatine supplements are traditionally powders mixed into water or other drinks. Creatine is relatively flavorless, so the taste isn’t a big issue, but the convenience is.

That’s where creatine gummies come in. These tasty, candy-like morsels deliver up to 1.5g of creatine in each bite, allowing you to quickly, easily, and enjoyably meet your daily creatine needs, whatever your goals.

In this guide, we’ll break down our experiences trying the best-formulated creatine gummies on the market, complete with information about effectiveness, cost, taste, and more.

For a quick look at our results, check out the summary below, then read on for more context.

At Innerbody Research, we thoroughly evaluate every product and service we review, including the creatine chews and gummies in this guide. Our team has spent years covering exercise performance and cognition spaces, with a significant amount of our research time devoted to creatine. All told, we’ve logged more than 800 hours reviewing creatine studies and available products on the market.

For this guide, we leveraged that experience and evaluated creatine gummies for the best dose, manufacturing practices, and formulation. We then ordered products to try for ourselves, allowing us to report to you important details about everything from taste to customer support.

Additionally, like all health-related content on this website, this guide was thoroughly vetted by one or more members of our Medical Review Board for accuracy and will continue to be monitored for updates by our editorial team.

Over the past two decades, Innerbody Research has helped tens of millions of readers make more informed decisions about staying healthy and living healthier lifestyles.

To evaluate and compare the best creatine gummies on the market, we employed a set of five criteria we found were most important to consumers: effectiveness, safety, cost, taste, and convenience. Because creatine gummies are essentially single-ingredient supplements delivered in nearly identical forms, there’s a lot of nuance to discuss around how we awarded advantages to one player or another. But those nuances can add up to make a profound difference in your experience taking a given gummy.

Let’s explore each criterion to see which products rose to the top and why.

Taste

Advantage: Create Core

As you’ll see when we break down the subsequent criteria in this section, our picks are nearly identical in terms of efficacy and safety, making taste and cost the two variables most likely to influence your decision. And our testing team found taste to be the most divisive variable of the bunch, with some picks boasting truly enjoyable flavors and textures and others surprisingly disappointing us.

We taste-tested most of our top picks in Sour Peach, a flavor they had in common (with two exceptions in Double Wood and Momentous, which come exclusively in lemon and lime flavors, respectively). That allowed us to ascertain as clearly as possible any differences that could make or break a given brand, but it’s possible that another flavor from one of the companies in this guide could outperform our declared winner.

Ultimately, this was a neck-and-neck heat between Create Core and Legion Creatine Gummies. Both peach flavors were pronounced and pleasant, though they came on somewhat differently. Create coats its gummies with a coarser sweetener and flavoring that adds tang and brightness to the first bite. Legion’s coating is finer, and its effect is less pronounced, leading to a less exciting rush of flavor.

Here’s a look at how our team ranked each of the creatine gummies in this guide for taste and texture:

As you can see, Legion even pulled ahead of Create a bit in terms of texture, as the latter’s gummies were just a little softer and offered less pleasant resistance than the former’s. All that said, if taste is as important a consideration for you as we suspect, it might be worth it to try each brand before settling on one. Legion could be a smart move here, as it has the better return policy. But if your budget is tight and you only want to give one company’s chews a go, Create has the overall taste edge.

Effectiveness

Advantage: Create Core

All the creatine gummies in our guide offer between 1g and 1.5g of creatine per gummy, with doses for muscle building, athletic performance, and cognition running a gamut from 3g to 20g/day. The most common dose range used in strength and athletic training is 3g-6g, so we chose a gummy that could easily titrate in that range while still packing a good punch as our pick for effectiveness.3

That gummy— Create Core — is one of the 1.5g/gummy picks, and its calorie and sugar content are both low enough to comfortably accommodate larger doses associated with other goals. Legion’s gummies were a close second here, but their 1.25g/gummy dose was a little more awkward in titration.

All that said, creatine is reliably effective enough that other criteria in this guide are likely to bear more influence on which gummies you choose to try and which you stick with for the long haul.

Safety

Advantage: Legion Creatine Gummies

As with effectiveness, a high degree of safety is something our top picks all share, though there are some minor differences worth considering. Almost all of our recommended brands have third-party testing conducted on their products, and nearly all offer publicly available lab results indicating purity, potency, and contamination analysis.

What sets Legion apart is actually relatively simple: it’s sugar-free. The rest of the gummies in this guide contain around 1g-3g of sugar per gummy, limiting their usefulness to people who have blood-sugar concerns and want to achieve higher doses. At 3g/gummy, a 20g dose — either for loading or daily consumption to promote cognitive benefits — could deliver up to 60g of sugar. (For reference, that’s more than a can of regular Coke.)

Legion also avoids artificial colors and flavors in its formula, relying instead on natural peach flavor and beetroot to achieve the color and taste. Create and Momentous also have relatively low amounts of sugar at 1.1g and 1g, respectively, which might be a small enough amount for many consumers, but the sugar-free approach is likely safer for more people.

Cost

Advantage: Double Wood Creatine Monohydrate Gummies

While factors like effectiveness and safety have a lot of nuance, cost is a little clearer.

Here’s a look at how the companies compare for cost:

As you can see, Double Wood’s Creatine Monohydrate Gummies are the least expensive option in our guide as a subscription. Beast Bites has Double Wood beat for cost per gram at the one-time-purchase level, simply because the package comes with more gummies in it, but they’re daily long-term supplements that make more sense as a subscription. Double Wood also retains a lower price at that level, providing a slightly lower barrier to entry. So Double Wood takes the win. And its subscription and bulk discounts combine to create a better long-term investment than Beat Bites.

Convenience

Advantage: Create Core

Gummies and chews are undeniably more convenient than powders. There’s no need to mix a drink or measure anything carefully, and you get the added benefit (in most cases) of enjoying a tasty little candy that happens to be good for you. So, how did we pit these products against one another if they’re all similarly convenient?

To start, we considered dosing, specifically how easy a given gummy is to titrate to the most commonly used doses in the literature and among average users. Then we looked at the available flavor options, as a wider variety allows users to try different tastes until they find the right one, and not have to jump to another company. We also considered shipping speed and customer service as markers of convenience.

Here’s who won each of our sub-criteria for convenience:

• Ease of titration to common doses: Create Core
• Available flavors: Legion
• Shipping logistics: Create Core
• Customer service: Legion

While the above seems like a dead heat, we gave the advantage to Create Core because its creatine content per gummy makes it so much easier to titrate to a specific dose.

With a lot of small variables adding up to big differences between gummies, it helps to look at all these factors together in a single place. Here’s a handy chart that lets you do just that:

Creatine gummies are supplements designed to deliver creatine monohydrate inside a sweet, tasty confection. Each gummy typically contains part of a therapeutic dose of creatine, necessitating at least a few gummies per dose to achieve creatine’s known effects.

Compared to creatine monohydrate powder, gummies are notably more convenient, as there’s no need to concern yourself with measuring the powder and mixing it into a drink.4 In our experience, the powder-mixing process can be messy, plus creatine is both poorly water-soluble and prone to degradation once mixed.5 That degradation can impact the product’s effectiveness, but it can also increase gastrointestinal upset at higher doses. In gummy form, there’s less of a concern for degradation from temperature or pH, ensuring more consistent dosing.

Are creatine gummies just as good as powders?

So, we’ve established the bright side of consuming creatine in gummy form, but are there drawbacks to this approach? There are, but it turns out that purchasing the right creatine gummies should account for all of them.

The biggest concern relates to dose. According to recent reporting by Wired, numerous creatine gummies — especially brands with an Amazon-only presence and no native first-party website — failed tests to establish their potency.24 And these weren’t slight failures. Several of the tested creatine gummies contained no creatine at all.

To ensure you get a creatine gummy that actually contains the creatine it claims to contain, you should be able to access reliable third-party test results, ideally from a recent, identifiable batch of the product. This is something that every company in this guide provides, though some provide their results more readily than others (i.e., with links on a product page versus having to request the results through customer service). In every case, the products in our guide meet or marginally exceed their listed creatine doses.

The other big issue with creatine gummies is what to do about higher doses. Creatine doses for muscle growth typically run between 3g and 6g, depending on your goals and body type.3 But lifters often utilize a loading phase — typically 1-2 weeks of high creatine intake between 10g and 20g per day.6 That’s also the daily dose range that’s been studied most often in research looking at creatine’s potential to offset cognitive decline and improve memory.

But creative gummies usually only offer 1g-1.5g per gummy, so you may need up to 20 gummies per day to reach a 20g dose. And most of them contain enough sugar and calories that they could seriously impact your diet.

For now, there are no zero-calorie creatine gummies, but there are delicious sugar-free options, including one from Legion that nearly won our criterion for taste. These make it much easier to take larger creatine doses in gummy form.

Still, it could get expensive taking all of those gummies, especially when you consider how inexpensive top-tier creatine monohydrate powder can be. That’s why, although gummies are more convenient and can be therapeutically as effective, powders are a better long-term investment and probably a little easier to stomach in large doses.

Whether you take creatine in a gummy form or as a powder, its potential benefits should be the same. There are four main lanes into which most creatine research and consumer use tend to fall:

• Strength and muscle building
• Athletic performance and recovery
• Cognitive health
• Longevity

Let’s take a look at the science supporting each of these to determine how likely it might be that creatine could help you achieve goals in these areas.

The best creatine dose for you will depend on your goals and your body weight. That’s because studies looking into different potential benefits have used slightly different doses, and several used doses that varied with participants’ body weight (e.g., 0.3g/kg).

Here’s a quick breakdown based on the research we’ve alluded to:

As you can see, a lower dose offers some of the most well-researched and reliable benefits creatine has to offer, though higher doses have important roles to play in any creatine regimen, as well, even if only for the first week or two.

Creatine gummies are a pretty good choice for anyone looking to get more creatine into their diet, whether for strength and muscle building, cognitive enhancement, athletic performance, or longevity. Among those uses, evidence is strongest for strength and muscle building, making that the most compelling case for taking creatine.

Gummies are an especially good choice for anyone who doesn’t want to deal with creatine in powder form, which involves a lot of daily measuring and drink-mixing. Gummies are simply much easier to consume, and many come in several flavors so that you can find what works best for you.

Who might want to look elsewhere?

While creatine’s known benefits are very well-researched, there are some potential effects that lack good scientific support, and there are also certain people for whom creatine might not be the best place to start.

It’s easy to confuse longevity claims with anti-aging claims, but there’s an important difference. If creatine improves muscle strength, cognition, and certain cardiovascular parameters (mainly through allowing for greater exercise performance), then it can potentially stave off some things that can blunt longevity. Those include sarcopenia, falls and injuries, and cognitive decline. But that’s not the same as anti-aging. Creatine won’t make you look any younger, and it will only make you feel younger as much as it affords you a little extra power in the gym. It’s not the fountain of youth, not by a long shot.

There’s also a misunderstanding out there that creatine can help with sleep. Some research, such as a 2006 paper published in Psychopharmacology, has looked at creatine in instances of sleep deprivation to see how it might affect other things, like mood or cognitive performance.15 It showed improvements, suggesting creatine could be smart to take when you’re sleep-deprived, but that doesn’t mean it can improve your sleep.

What about creatine non-responders?

According to some research, as much as 17% of the population fall into a category of creatine non-responder.16 That is, they can take plenty of creatine and not see the same benefits as others, regardless of their baseline endogenous creatine levels. There’s no real risk for a non-responder to take loads of creatine, but it would be a waste of time and money.

The simplest way to determine if you’re a non-responder is to follow the protocol used in the study that identified non-responders in the first place. Essentially, you’ll want to establish your baseline one-rep maximum weight for a leg press (i.e., the most you can possibly lift with one big push). Then supplement with 0.3g/kg of body weight for five days (approximately 27g/day for a 200lb person), and repeat the test. If you can’t push more weight after five days of supplementation, you might be a non-responder. You can extend the attempt for another five days if you want to be sure.

For reference, the best responders saw increases in their one-rep maximum output of just under 10% (300kg increased to 325kg). So, if your day-one limit is 300kg and you can only push 305kg on day five, you might want to extend another five days to be sure.

Creatine itself is very safe, with maintenance doses for its most well-researched benefits running well under doses where things like GI disturbances and other issues crop up in high-dose research. Case in point, the International Society of Sports Nutrition put out a paper in 2017 illustrating that five years of supplementing at 30g/day was safe and well-tolerated.17

All that said, GI upset and muscle cramps are commonly reported anecdotally, especially during loading phases for muscle building that exceed 10g/day. Some research backs this up, but the differences between placebo and treatment groups are typically very minor.18 If you experience either side effect, you should be able to get by on a smaller dose, so long as you don’t dip below 0.03g/kg of body weight, at which point you might miss out on positive effects.

There are also certain groups for whom creatine could pose a danger, especially at doses above 3g/day. These include people with kidney and liver issues, diabetes, hypertension, or reduced glomerular filtration rate.19

Best for most people and best sugar-free gummy

Legion makes the second-best-tasting gummy in our guide, as well as the gummy with the best texture, according to our testers. It also titrates to a very common 5g dose with just four gummies, compared to several other options in this guide that require five gummies to reach the same dose.

But the thing that makes Legion’s gummies the best choice for most people is that they’re sugar-free. That means you can titrate all the way up to 20g/day for cognitive benefits or even toward 30g/day in a loading phase without worrying about consuming too much sugar. To illustrate, a 30g dose from Legion nets you 0g of sugar, whereas the same dose from Double Wood would hit you with 90g of sugar — nearly twice the recommended daily limit from the NIH.20

Available flavors for Legion’s Creatine Gummies are:

• Lemon Drop
• Raspberry Lemonade
• Sour Peach
• Sour Blue Raspberry
• Sour Watermelon
• Pink Lemonade
• Sour Green Apple

The downside is that you’d be loading up on sugar alcohols, including maltitol syrup and erythritol. These can cause some digestive upset in large quantities, especially if you have a FODMAP sensitivity.21 That said, diabetics and prediabetics far outnumber people who are sensitive to FODMAPS.22

Legion pricing

Legion offers its creatine gummies as one-time purchases or subscriptions, with subscriptions knocking 10% off the base price. Here’s how it works out:

Shipping adds $7 to your order unless you exceed a $99 free-shipping threshold. You can do this with a one-time purchase of two bottles of creatine gummies, but it’s still frustrating when other companies in this guide offer free shipping to subscribers. Legion’s money-back guarantee picks up some of the slack here, as it doesn’t even require you to ship a product back to the company. If you’re dissatisfied with the product within a year, you can contact the company and get a full refund (limited to one product per household). This is the most generous policy in our guide.

Best tasting, best for cognitive support, and best for a loading phase

Core is the only product that Create currently makes, which means the company is firmly focused on making creatine gummies. It may expand elsewhere in the future, but at this time creatine is its entire business. You’d hope that a company that only does this one thing would do it well, and you’d be rewarded for your hope, as Create’s gummies just narrowly missed out on being our top pick for most people.

To be clear, if you have no problems with glucose metabolism and don’t foresee regularly taking much more than the company’s recommended serving of three gummies, then this is likely the best gummy for you. Legion’s ability to reach a sugar-free audience with gummies that are nearly as tasty just means that its product is suitable for more of the populace, including people with diabetes and prediabetes. Beyond that, Create may make the superior gummy.

One undeniable reason that Create’s gummies taste a hair better than Legion’s is the sugar content, but Core actually contains one of the smallest amounts of sugar per gummy in our guide, at just 1.1g. By comparison, Double Wood contains 3g per gummy and was still rated as the worst-tasting gummy by our testing team. Clearly, there’s more to it than just sugar.

Create Core is available in the following six flavors:

• Sour Peach
• Sour Green Apple
• Sour Cherry
• Blue Raspberry
• Orange
• Watermelon

You’ll notice that we awarded Create with the best option for cognitive support or a loading phase, even over the sugar-free option from Legion. That’s because it has the strongest dose per gummy in our guide, at 1.5g of creatine. Therefore, you need far fewer gummies to reach 10g-20g than you would with a competitor (Core gets you to 20g of creatine in just under 14 gummies, whereas Legion gets you there in 16). That could help offset some of the sugar intake you get from Create, and it can also result in more savings over time.

Create Core pricing

Create offers both subscription and bulk discounts to shoppers, allowing you to save by stocking up on larger quantities set to autoship at some point in the future. Here’s how the tiers work out for individual flavors:

You can also get one of three starter pack bundles that include 3-5 flavors in them, allowing you to try several varieties before deciding to stick with one:

Shipping is free for subscribers and orders over $100, adding to the savings if you sign up for an autoshipment or opt for larger quantities. That’s about on par with the rest of the field, but Create’s money-back guarantee lags behind significantly — there is none. If you’re dissatisfied, there’s no recourse. That’s actually similar to the policies from Beast Bites and Momentous, but Double Wood gives you 30 days, and Legion gives you a full year.

Best budget pick

Double Wood has some of the best single-ingredient supplements on the market, typically at very agreeable prices and with transparent testing to confirm purity and ensure safety. It also has several disappointments throughout its catalog that are either overpriced or underdosed compared to certain alternatives.

In the case of its creatine gummies, Double Wook knocks pricing out of the park and delivers a reliable, easy-to-titrate 1g creatine dose per gummy. That dramatically simplifies the math if you want to take a creatine dose rounded to any amount in grams. A 5g dose is five gummies. A 10g dose is 10. That’s pretty convenient. However, compared to 1.5g or even 1.25g gummies, titrating up to 20g or higher starts to add up — both in gummy count and cost.

To make matters worse, Double Wood’s creatine gummies contain 3g of sugar each — nearly three times as much as Create, a gummy we thought tasted much better. In fact, despite Double Wood’s added sugar content, its gummies were rated by our testers as being the worst-tasting. The lemon flavor (your only option) is nice, but the taste of the actual gummy content, specifically the vegetable oil blend, is unpleasant.

All that said, if you’re curious to try a creatine gummy while spending as little as possible, and you don’t mind the flavor, this is a very nice place to start.

Double Wood pricing

Like Create, Double Wood offers both subscription and bulk savings on its creatine gummies. Here’s how the pricing works out:

Shipping is free on orders over $30, with any two-pack or more qualifying, but it’s not free for subscribers at a one-pack tier. That’s a benefit you get from some others, including Create, that could slightly impact your savings. Fortunately, shipping is only $5 within the continental U.S.

Double Wood’s 30-day money-back guarantee is the second-best in this guide, falling only to the 365-day promise from Legion.

Best vegan option

Despite there being a lot of creatine gummy options on the market, there aren’t many that are vegan- or even vegetarian-friendly. That’s because so many gummies out there rely on gelatin to give them their shape and texture, and that gelatin is often derived from beef or pork.

Beast Bites instead relies on pectin, a natural fiber found in plant cells, that can perform similar feats of gummy engineering. The key word here is similar, as pectin has its limitations, and those are on full display with Beast Bites gummies.

We were concerned from the moment we opened the package and realized that the gummies had essentially fused into a single, semi-perforated blob. Here’s an image we snapped upon the package’s arrival:

Keep in mind, this shipment arrived during one of the coldest weeks of November in the Northeast. In warmer weather, the individual gummy definition you see above could disappear entirely. Of course, this could have been a shipping issue. Maybe the box sat too close to its UPS driver’s portable space heater. Still, it’s concerning.

We immediately transferred the gummies to a refrigerator, but the consistency never improved. The blob was like a dense pull-apart dessert (more inter-baked cinnamon rolls than cupcakes), necessitating a sticky retrieval with each dose.

At least the flavor was okay. Not great, but better than a few other brands we tried, including Double Wood. And once we got third-party test results through customer service, we were reasonably assured that the product was well-formulated.

One aspect of the Beast Bites formula that stands out is its use of Creapure, a branded form of micronized creatine monohydrate that the parent company claims is the most widely studied form of creatine on the market. There’s some evidence that this is true, but most individual creatine studies often fail to provide specifics regarding their creatine sourcing, making the claim harder to verify.23

Creapure’s most notable potential benefit is its purity, which stands above 99%.23 But as long as you can see a similar purity number in third-party test results, you can rest assured you’ve got a good product on your hands, regardless of any brand name.

Beast Bites pricing

Considering its vegan status and NSF Sport certification, it’d be easy to assume Beast Bites would be pricey. But these gummies are among the most affordable on the market. In fact, if you opt for a four-month supply, they offer the best cost per gram of creatine in a one-time purchase of any other product in our guide. Even a one-time purchase of a single bag offers a relatively low barrier to entry for new creatine gummy users curious about a vegan version.

Here’s how the pricing shakes out:

Beast Bites also has the most favorable shipping policy in our guide, with free shipping for subscribers and orders over $70. One-time orders under $70 only incur a $5 shipping fee in the U.S. Unfortunately, like a few other players in this guide, Beast Bites doesn’t offer any kind of money-back guarantee.

Best chewable tablet

Not all chewable creatine products are gummies. Numerous companies have formulated chewable tablets to deliver therapeutic creatine doses, as well. Among these, Momentous is the clear winner. Compared to the most similar offering on the market — Animal’s Creatine Chews — Momentous offers a simpler ingredient bill, superior flavor, and greater transparency around third-party testing.

In our experience, these kinds of chews are a bit more divisive than gummies, mostly due to their texture. They can come off as a bit chalky, which can be a good thing if you’re a fan of Necco Wafers, Smarties, or Pez. If you’re not — or you’ve developed an aversion to chalky chews after one too many original Tums — you might have a hard time getting past the mouthfeel.

All that said, Momentous Creatine Chews do taste good. The lime flavor is well-balanced and sweetened just enough to be enjoyable. It’s easy to enjoy a handful of these 1g tablets to get you up to a 5g or 6g dose. But they don’t have any less sugar than the average gummy, despite their different format. A loading dose could still hit you with 30g of added sugar.

It’s also worth noting that these chews are vegan-friendly. They aren't technically the best gummies for vegans, because they aren’t gummies. Still, if you’re wary of Beast Bites’ soft pectin-set texture, these could be a better choice.

Momentous Creatine Chews pricing

Unlike many other companies in this guide that combine bulk and subscription pricing into complicated tiers, Momentous keeps it simple. You can buy once or sign up for a monthly subscription at these prices:

Momentous charges $8 for shipping in the U.S. unless you spend over $100 — no free shipping for subscribers. This is one of the weaker shipping policies in our guide. The company also offers no form of money-back guarantee on its products. A small portion of the product page claims such a guarantee exists, but this is apparently an error the company needs to fix.

Depending on your goals, you have your pick of several viable alternatives to creatine gummies. Some of these are simply other forms of creatine; others are different supplements altogether that can help you get closer to more potential benefits by combining them with creatine.

Let’s take a look: