15 Brands Like Buffbunny for Bold, Colorful Activewear
Type "workout leggings" into any search bar and you get a wall of black. That's the gap Buffbunny has been filling since Heidi Somers started it in San Antonio in 2016, cutting sculpting knitted sets in colors that show up in a photo, sized 2XS to 3XL, with the Miracle legging at $64. The catch is that a collection sells through and the colorway doesn't come back.
Most Buffbunny wardrobes end up split across three or four labels as a result. Here are 15 brands like Buffbunny worth splitting yours across, with every price read off the brand's own store this week. Four of them price in Australian dollars, pounds or by region, and that's flagged in each section rather than converted.
Quick comparison: the closest matches on cut, price and color are NVGTN, Oner Active and Gymshark, with AYBL and Senita Athletics undercutting all three. For prints rather than solids, go to Resoluna, P.E Nation and Lorna Jane. Trading up gets you Alo Yoga, KORAL, Varley and Girlfriend Collective. For walking, hiking and rest days, look at Outdoor Voices, Beyond Yoga and TALA.
| Brand | Price guide | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Gymshark | $38 to $70 on women's leggings | Restocked core colors you can replace |
| NVGTN | $48 on the Contour 2.0 legging | The closest sculpting knit fit |
| Oner Active | $60 list on EffortlessLift leggings | Matching sets in muted color stories |
| Alo Yoga | Premium | Gym clothes you'd wear to dinner |
| Outdoor Voices | $68 to $118 on leggings | Walks, courts and rest days |
| Beyond Yoga | $94 to $118 on leggings | Softness over compression |
| KORAL | A$119 to A$169 on leggings | Shine finishes and fashion cuts |
| P.E Nation | A$89 to A$129 on full-length leggings | Loud color-blocking and graphics |
| Varley | $98 to $128 on leggings | Choosing your own inseam |
| Resoluna | $92 on the Sol legging | Bold prints on recycled fabric |
| Lorna Jane | Mid-range, repriced by country | Pocket-heavy tights for training |
| TALA | £52 to £79 on leggings | Recycled fabric at a fair price |
| AYBL | £28 to £44 on women's leggings | Filling gaps without spending much |
| Senita Athletics | $45 to $49 on leggings | Picking your own inseam cheaply |
| Girlfriend Collective | $88 to $128 on leggings | Sizing that runs to 6XL |
Gymshark
Gymshark runs women's leggings from $38 to $70 across 105 styles, which covers Buffbunny's price band twice over. The Everyday range starts at $38, the Soft Sculpt Leggings run $60, and the Energise line tops out at $70.
Scale is the difference. Buffbunny drops a themed collection and moves on, so a color you love has a shelf life measured in weeks. Gymshark keeps its core colors in stock year round, and you can buy the same pair twice.
The fits track close through the hip and thigh, the branding stays small, and the knitted ranges do the same contouring job Buffbunny built its name on. Best for: replacing a worn pair with the identical pair. Our brands like Gymshark guide goes deeper on the range.
NVGTN
NVGTN is the closest thing on this list to a Buffbunny substitute, cutting sculpting knitted leggings at $48 for the Contour 2.0 legging. Ashleigh and Brett Schneggenburger started the brand in 2018 and it ships to more than 180 countries.
The overlap is in the fabric and the fit. Both brands build around a smooth compression knit that shapes through the glute and holds a squat, and both sell it in colorways with names rather than in a rack of black.
Note the pricing. The store reprices by country, so the $48 you see from a US connection came back as £49 when we loaded a cart from the UK. Check the figure on the day, in your own currency. Best for: the sculpting fit Buffbunny does, at a lower price and with more color drops a year.
Oner Active
Oner Active lists its EffortlessLift leggings at $60, discounted to $48 as we write this. Krissy Cela founded the brand in London in 2020 after training clients and looking for activewear that came in colors and still performed.
That founding story is close to Buffbunny's, and so is the way the range is built. Both sell in complete sets rather than single pieces, so a bra, a legging and a top arrive in the same fabric and the same shade.
The house palette runs quieter than Buffbunny's, in sand, coal and rustic brown rather than neon. Fabrics are grouped into named families, so check you're buying EffortlessLift rather than SoftMotion before you pick a size. Best for: matching sets in colors you'd wear on the school run.
Alo Yoga
Alo Yoga is the premium end of this list. Its store blocks scripted price reads and renders nothing usable to an automated check, so the honest label is premium and the figure needs confirming on the day you buy.
Where Buffbunny designs for a training session first, Alo designs for the walk home. The cuts are longer, the palette runs black and bone, and the catalogue reaches into knits, outerwear and bags.
Airlift and Alosoft are the two fabric families worth knowing, and each has its own leggings on the site. Picking the wrong one gets you a pair that grips harder than you wanted, or not enough. Best for: the outfit you keep on after class. Our brands like Alo guide covers the cheaper lookalikes.
Outdoor Voices
Outdoor Voices prices leggings from $68 for the Grass Capri to $118 for the TechSweat Core 7/8 Legging, with 19 styles in the collection. The Flared Legging ($88) sits in the middle.
Intensity is the split. Outdoor Voices designs around walking, tennis and moving through a normal Saturday, so the compression is lighter than Buffbunny's and the colors run to olive, chalk and washed mint.
The Exercise Dress is still the piece the brand is known for, a built-in-shorts dress that handles a hike and lunch afterwards. Best for: the days between training days.
Beyond Yoga
Beyond Yoga prices leggings from $94 to $118 across 82 styles and spends the money on hand feel. The Spacedye Pedal Pusher High Waisted Legging ($94) and the Spacedye It's A Tie Legging ($118) both use the brushed heathered knit the brand built its name on.
Buffbunny's compression knit grips. Beyond Yoga's Spacedye does the opposite, sitting soft enough that plenty of buyers wear it on a plane and never take it to a gym.
If you want a pair that holds through heavy squats, this isn't the one to buy first. Best for: long sessions, travel days, and anyone who finds firm compression uncomfortable.
KORAL
KORAL prices leggings from A$119 to A$169 in Australian dollars on the storefront that reliably serves us. The Lustrous Infinity Cropped Legging (A$119) shows the house signature, a high-shine finish that catches light the way training fabric usually doesn't.
Blackout is the line to know if shine isn't your thing, with its own collection alongside Lustrous and Ribbed. Between them they cover the two things people want from a premium legging, opacity and a look.
This is the most fashion-led brand here, closer to a ready-to-wear label that happens to make gym clothes than to a training brand. Best for: shoppers who treat a workout outfit as an outfit.
P.E Nation
P.E Nation is the Australian label that shouts loudest, pricing full-length leggings from A$89 for the Striker to A$129 for the Metro, with the Clarity at A$105. Prices are in Australian dollars and the site switches to USD, GBP and EUR by region.
Check the address before you shop. The old penation.com no longer resolves, and the live store sits at pe-nation.com, so an old bookmark fails silently.
Where Buffbunny works in solid sculpting knits, P.E Nation panels color across a leg and prints across a jacket, with around 200 pieces in the current range. The flagship black leggings sell through often, so a restock alert is worth setting. Best for: gym clothes that read as going-out clothes.
Varley
Varley prices leggings from $98 to $128 and offers most of them in more than one length. The FreeSoft High-Rise Legging ($98) comes in 25, 27 and 28 inch inseams, the Always High-Rise Legging ($118) is the firmer option, and the Assure High-Rise Legging ($128) tops the range.
Inseam choice is the practical reason to shop here. Buying the right length rather than hemming afterwards saves a trip and a tailor's fee, which matters if you're under 5ft 4in or over 5ft 9in.
The look is quieter than Buffbunny's, working in putty, sand and washed black, and the sweats carry the same restraint. Best for: anyone building a wardrobe around neutrals that don't announce a workout.
Resoluna
Resoluna is the brand that used to trade as Niyama Sol. The old niyamasol.com now redirects here, so a search for the previous name still lands in the right place. The Sol Legging ($92) is the core style and the leggings collection runs to 44 options.
Prints are the whole proposition. Python, floral and butterfly patterns run the length of the leg on recycled polyester, so a pair reads as a design choice rather than a base layer.
That makes it the closest match on this list to Buffbunny's loudest collections, at a higher price and in a smaller catalogue. Colorways sell through rather than restocking forever. Best for: anyone bored of black leggings who wants the pattern to do the work.
Lorna Jane
Lorna Jane is the Australian brand that sorts its tights by what you're doing rather than by fabric, splitting them into gym and training, pilates, running and cardio, yoga and studio, and tennis and court. The Core Stability Full Length Leggings list at SGD $115 on the Singapore storefront.
Read that currency carefully. The global store reprices by the country it thinks you're in, and it served us Singapore dollars from a UK connection while the Australian site quotes AUD. Treat the brand as mid-range and check your own figure at checkout.
The design attention goes into pockets and seam placement. The No Chafe collection drops the inside leg seam altogether, and phone pockets run through the training tights. Colors are brighter than most of this list, which is the Buffbunny overlap. Best for: training tights with pockets that hold a phone.
TALA
TALA prices leggings from £52 to £79 in pounds across 80 styles. The DayFlex Capri Legging (£52) sits at the bottom and the AirForm Flared Legging (£79) at the top. Fabrics are sorted by what you'd do in them, so DayFlex is labelled for pilates and SkinLuxe for high-intensity cardio.
Price is the argument. TALA lands near Gymshark while making a recycled-material claim that usually costs Alo Yoga money, and the fits track the same close silhouette Buffbunny cuts.
Colors run muted and the sets are built to mix across seasons rather than to match one drop. Best for: shoppers who want the sustainability angle without paying premium prices for it.
AYBL
AYBL is the cheapest way onto this list, with women's leggings listing from £28 for the Staple Leggings to £44 for the Adapt range, across 183 styles. The Enhance leggings (£38) sit between them.
Reiss and Kristian Edgerton started the brand in 2018 from a spare room in the West Midlands, and it prices in pounds from a UK warehouse with separate storefronts for the US, Australia and Canada.
The knitted ranges do the same sculpting job as Buffbunny's for roughly half the money, and discounting is close to permanent, so the list price behaves more like a ceiling. Best for: filling out a drawer of training kit without spending much on any one piece.
Senita Athletics
Senita Athletics prices leggings at $45 to $49 across 98 styles, and sells most of them in several inseams. The Lux AMP Leggings and Skin Shakti Leggings both list at $45, and the Thermal Warm Leggings ($49) run 27 inches.
Two sisters, Maddie and Jenna, started Senita in Arizona in 2015 with a stated aim of making activewear that lasts and stays affordable, which is the same women-founded story Buffbunny customers tend to like.
Multi-length sizing at this price is the unusual part, since choosing an inseam is normally something you pay Varley money for. Best for: buying three pairs in your exact length for the price of one premium pair.
Girlfriend Collective
Girlfriend Collective prices leggings from $88 for the Compressive High-Rise Capri to $128 for the Laguna Luxe Legging, and sizes them from XXS through 6XL on the same styles. That's the widest size band on this list, and it's stocked rather than made to order.
The Compressive fabric is 79% recycled water bottles and 21% spandex, which is the brand's founding claim and the reason its price sits above AYBL and Senita for a similar silhouette.
Colors arrive in seasonal palettes of solids, so this is the opposite of a Buffbunny print drop. Best for: anyone whose size runs out at 2XL everywhere else. Our brands like Girlfriend Collective guide lists more of the recycled-fabric field.
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Where to Start If You're Replacing a Sold-Out Set
Start with the fit you're trying to keep. If it's the sculpting compression legging, NVGTN and Oner Active cut the closest, and AYBL does it cheapest. If it's the print, Resoluna and P.E Nation are the two brands here still designing pattern-first.
Then set your number. Under $60 a pair puts Gymshark, NVGTN, AYBL and Senita in front of you. Above $95 buys the fabric development at Alo Yoga, Varley and Beyond Yoga, and you notice that in year two rather than week one.
Two brands from that first group will cover most people's drawers. For the heavier training end of the same market, our gym brands like Alphalete guide takes a different route through it, and the rest sits in the Apart Style archive.
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Written by
Spencer Lanoue
