The honest short answer is that it depends on how many gyms you run. FitnessForce is built for operators with several locations, often several brands, sometimes several countries. If that describes you, most of what follows will feel like a downgrade and you should probably stay.
If you run one gym, or three, with 80 to 400 members in an Indian city, it's a different conversation. You're carrying a product shaped around problems you don't have, and you can't find out what it costs without booking a demo. There's a rupee-priced tier that fits that gym better.
I build one of the alternatives, so discount my opinion accordingly and go by the checkable bits. Prices below came off vendors' own pricing pages, and I say plainly where a vendor publishes nothing.
Why do gyms go looking for a FitnessForce alternative?
From the conversations I have, it's almost never that the software is bad. It's one of three mismatches.
- You can't see a price. FitnessForce publishes no pricing on its site — every number comes from a demo and a negotiation. That's normal enterprise selling, not a scandal, but for a 90-member gym in Kanpur it's a fortnight spent finding out whether you were ever in the budget
- You're paying for the chain-shaped half. Franchise economics, multi-brand rollups, multi-country tax handling. Genuinely hard problems, genuinely well solved, and completely irrelevant if you have one gym on one GSTIN
- The hardware tail. Biometric access is a headline FitnessForce feature. Devices need buying, wiring, servicing and replacing, and the running cost rarely appears in the brochure — we broke the real numbers down in what automatic attendance actually costs
If none of those three describe you, close this tab and keep what you have. Switching software costs you a fortnight of admin and a month of your staff being slightly annoyed. It should buy you something specific.
What are the actual alternatives for an Indian gym?
The market splits into two tiers, and picking the tier is most of the decision. India-built platforms sit roughly between ₹800 and ₹1,500 a month and treat UPI, cash and WhatsApp as the normal case. Global platforms start near $99 a month, about ₹9,500, and usually charge by active member count.
Here's where FitnessForce users realistically land. Every price was read off the vendor's own pricing page on 27 July 2026.
| Option | Published price | Charged by | Who it actually fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| ManageYourGym (ours) | ₹1,499/month, or ₹14,389/year | Per gym, tiered by member count | One to a handful of branches in India. UPI and cash, GST invoices, QR attendance, WhatsApp reminders |
| GymForce (India) | ₹9,998/year Growth, about ₹833/month. Pro ₹14,998/year | Per gym, unlimited active members | Indian gyms wanting the cheapest yearly commitment; lists biometric integration if you want to keep devices |
| FitGymSoftware (India) | ₹3,999 for 3 months, about ₹1,333/month | Per gym, by plan length | Gyms that prefer paying in short blocks rather than a year up front |
| Mindbody (US) | "Starting at $99 USD/month per location" | Per location, tiers quoted on request | Class-led boutique studios in metros where members book online and pay by card |
| Zen Planner (US) | $99/month up to 45 members, $229/month at 101–150 | Per active member band | Small studios happy to pay in dollars. Watch the bands — growth raises the bill on its own |
| FitnessForce (where you are) | Not published | Not published | Multi-location, multi-brand and franchise operators, increasingly across several countries |
Read off each vendor's own pricing page on 27 July 2026; dollars converted at about ₹96. AdviceFit, Traqade and Membroz also sell into this market — I haven't verified their current pricing, so treat any figure you see quoted elsewhere as needing a check. Prices move.
The Zen Planner row is worth studying even if you never buy it, because it shows how per-member pricing behaves. Ninety-nine dollars is fine at 45 members. The same software at 150 members is $229, roughly ₹22,000 a month. You didn't change plan or add a feature — you just grew. Ask any vendor whether the price is per gym or per member before you get attached to the low number.
If you want the full spread with the India-specific columns, we keep a longer comparison of gym management software in India updated with current prices rather than repeating it here.
What did the Daxko acquisition change?
This is worth knowing if you're on FitnessForce today, though it probably shouldn't decide anything on its own.
On 23 June 2026, Daxko announced it had acquired FitnessForce. Financial terms weren't disclosed. Daxko is a large US fitness and wellness software group; it had already bought Exercise.com in October 2025. FitnessForce founders Hadi Curtay and Quaid Jawadwala moved across into go-to-market and engineering roles at Daxko.
The wording in the announcement is the useful part. Daxko describes FitnessForce as "purpose-built for multi-location, franchise, and international fitness operators", with customers running across 12 countries and three continents, and names India, the Middle East, Australia and Southeast Asia as growth markets. Both companies say customers should expect more investment, not less.
So what should you take from it? Only this: the product's stated centre of gravity is multi-location and franchise operators, and an acquisition tends to sharpen a roadmap around the buyer's thesis rather than blur it. That's my read, not a fact, and I could be wrong — Daxko has publicly committed to the region. What I'd avoid is the two lazy conclusions. FitnessForce isn't shutting down, and nobody has announced a price rise. If you're a single-gym owner, the acquisition isn't a reason to panic. It's a reasonable moment to ask whether you were ever the target customer.
When should you stay on FitnessForce?
I'd rather you didn't switch and regret it, so here are the cases where the alternatives above are genuinely the worse buy.
- You run gyms in more than one country, or bill in more than one currency. Very little in the rupee-priced tier handles that, ours included
- You're a franchise with royalty splits, per-franchisee reporting and central control over pricing. That's a real feature set and it's expensive to rebuild badly
- You've already spent lakhs on biometric door hardware that works. We don't integrate biometric readers or door controllers, and most of the India tier that does treats it as one integration among many
- You have a member database in six figures and an integration to a payroll or ERP system. Migration risk starts to outweigh the monthly saving
How do you move without losing your data?
This is the part owners worry about and it's more boring than you'd think. The thing that actually goes wrong is not lost records — it's expiry dates landing a few days off, so renewal reminders fire late for a month.
- Ask for a full export in writing before you cancel anything. You want members, plans, plan start and expiry dates, payment history and pending dues, as CSV or Excel. Do this while your account is still live and paid
- Check the expiry dates first, on twenty members you know by name. Dates are where migrations break, usually a timezone or a date-format flip between DD/MM and MM/DD
- Reconcile pending dues against your own reckoning before you trust them. Whatever your old system thought people owed on move-out day is what your new one will chase
- Run both systems for one full billing month. Yes it's duplicate work, and it's the only way to catch a plan that quietly didn't come across
- Send one WhatsApp to members a week before the switch: the date, that nothing about their plan or fee changes, and what looks different at the door. Surprises are what generate complaints, not the software
- Keep the old export file forever. Storage is free and a GST notice is not
The typing half of this is the same job as any move onto new software, and we set out the cut-off date and the fields that matter in the small-gym software guide.
Common questions
Is FitnessForce shutting down after the Daxko acquisition?
No. Daxko announced the acquisition on 23 June 2026 and both companies described it as continued investment in FitnessForce's markets, including India. The founders joined Daxko rather than leaving. Nothing published suggests the product is being wound down, and you should treat any claim otherwise as speculation.
How much does FitnessForce cost in India?
FitnessForce publishes no pricing on its website — you book a demo and get a custom quote based on branches, member volume and hardware. Third-party directories have listed starting figures around ₹1,500 a month, but since the vendor confirms nothing publicly, treat those as unverified. Ask for the quote in writing with the branch and member limits spelled out.
What is the cheapest FitnessForce alternative in India?
On published prices as of 27 July 2026, GymForce's Growth plan at ₹9,998 a year works out cheapest per month at about ₹833, billed yearly. Ours is ₹1,499 a month for up to 150 members with no yearly commitment. Cheapest and best fit aren't the same question though — check how each one handles cash payments and GST invoices before you pick on price alone.
Can I export my data out of FitnessForce?
Ask them directly and get the answer in writing while your account is still active. You want members, plans, start and expiry dates, payment history and outstanding dues in CSV or Excel. Never cancel a subscription before the export is in your hands and you've opened it — a paid month is cheap insurance against losing your member list.
Do I need biometric access if I switch away?
Probably not, and this is the row that makes people hesitate longest. A QR code on a member's phone, read by a tablet at your door, produces the same attendance record with no device to buy, wire or service. Fingerprint readers do solve one thing better — a code can be shared, a fingerprint can't. We went through the full cost and failure comparison in our attendance tracking guide.
What I'd actually do
If you run a single gym and you've never seen a FitnessForce invoice you thought was fair, get two demos from the rupee tier and ask both for a published price you can read without a sales call. That one question sorts the market faster than any feature list.
If you run six branches across two states with biometric doors already installed, the honest answer is that switching to save ₹3,000 a month is a bad trade. Stay, and spend the effort on collections instead.