Gym Software Prices in the UAE, in AED (2026)

A UAE gym with about 150 members pays between AED 180 and AED 1,300 a month for management software in 2026, before VAT and card fees. If you want a member app under your gym's name, most of that range disappears: only one platform with a published price gets you there for under AED 500 a month. ManageYourGym is AED 290 a month for 150 members ($79), with the app included, no setup fee and no contract.

Almost nobody in this market prices in dirhams. Most vendors publish in dollars, so we converted every published price at the dirham's fixed peg of AED 3.6725 to the dollar, read each one from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 October 2026, and priced the same 150-member gym on each. We're one of the vendors on the list, so we've shown the arithmetic. Check it.

Why are gym software prices in dollars, not dirhams?

Because most of the platforms UAE gyms shortlist are built somewhere else and sell in one currency worldwide. Of the eleven vendors below, one bills gyms in AED (Gymciety, built in Dubai), one prices in euros (PerfectGym), GymViz publishes none, and the rest show dollars.

It costs you less than it sounds. The dirham has been pegged to the US dollar at 3.6725 since 1997, so a $79 plan is AED 290 this month and it'll be AED 290 next year. What does change is your card bank's foreign transaction fee if you pay a dollar invoice on a dirham card. Ask the vendor whether it can charge you in AED, or pay from a USD account if you have one.

What every platform charges, in AED

Yearly billing lowers most of these. Ours is AED 2,751 a year on Starter, which works out to AED 229 a month. Gymciety's yearly gym plans save about 17%, Arbox's about 20%, and GymMaster and WellnessLiving take 10% off. Glofox, Momence, bsport, FitnessForce and Virtuagym publish no prices at all, which is why they're not in the table. Our UAE software roundup covers Glofox and FitnessForce, and the Momence, bsport and Virtuagym posts cover the rest.

Can you get gym software for under AED 500 a month?

Yes, easily, if all you want is the software. For a 150-member gym, these plans are under AED 500 a month:

• ManageYourGym Starter, AED 290: 150 members, 10 trainers, one branch, member app under your name included.
• WellnessLiving Starter, AED 253: one staff login, so it suits a solo owner, not a gym with a front desk and trainers. No white-label app.
• Arbox Basic, AED 180, or Standard, AED 474: Basic stops at 20 sessions a week, which a gym timetable passes quickly. Neither includes Arbox's branded app.
• GymRoute Excel, Mindbody Starter and Zen Planner Studio, each about AED 364: GymRoute and Zen Planner sell the own-name app as an add-on (Zen Planner's takes it to AED 507), and Mindbody's Starter plan has no branded app.
• GymMaster Advanced, AED 474: covers 400 members, but its branded app is AED 551 a month more, plus AED 1,653 to set up.

Put the app back in and the list is one name long. A member app under your gym's name is the thing members actually see every day, so for most gyms it isn't optional. It's also where most of the extra cost on other platforms comes from.

What a 150-member gym pays in year one

Same gym on every platform: 150 members, one site, a member app under its own name, monthly billing. Subscription × 12, plus the app add-on and any setup fee. VAT and card fees are left out here because they're covered below.

Two honest notes on that table. Gymciety's AED 699 includes a website for your gym, which we don't build; we give you a public gym page instead. And if you don't want an app in your own name, GymRoute's flat AED 364 with unlimited members undercuts us once you pass 150 members on one site. Our GymRoute comparison and Gymciety comparison go through both row by row.

And at 400 members?

Growth is where the meters show up. Here's the monthly bill for a 400-member gym on one site, with the own-name app, wherever the vendor publishes enough to work it out.

Do UAE gym software prices include VAT?

Usually not, and it works differently depending on where the vendor is. A vendor registered in the UAE adds 5% VAT to its invoice: Gymciety's AED 699 becomes AED 733.95. A vendor based overseas normally doesn't charge UAE VAT, and a VAT-registered gym accounts for it itself under the reverse charge. If you're registered, you can normally recover that VAT either way, so it's a cash-flow line more than a cost. If you're not registered, it's a real 5%. Ask your accountant how to book it.

The VAT that matters more is on your own side. If you're registered (mandatory above AED 375,000 of taxable turnover a year), every membership needs a tax invoice with your TRN and the 5% shown in AED. ManageYourGym issues one for every payment, and a tax credit note when an invoice is cancelled. Our Dubai gym software page has the rest of the UAE specifics.

The fee that beats the software bill: card processing

Once members pay by card, processing usually costs more than the software. Stripe's published UAE rate is 2.9% + AED 1 per payment on a UAE card, with 1% more on international cards. Nomod's published rates start at 1.67%, for in-person card payments on its terminal, plus 5% VAT on its fees; ask it for the rate on online payments.

Take a gym collecting AED 45,000 a month across 150 card payments. At Stripe's domestic rate that's about AED 1,455 a month in fees, five times our Starter plan. That's why the question to ask every vendor is whose merchant account the money lands in. Some platforms process payments themselves at their own rate. On ManageYourGym, members pay through your own Stripe or Nomod account, so you get the processor's published rate (or the rate you negotiate) and the money settles straight to you.

What to ask before you sign

• Can you invoice me in AED, and will the invoice carry UAE VAT or come under the reverse charge?
• What's the meter: members, active members, sessions, staff or locations? How are frozen members counted?
• Is the member app published under my gym's name, what does it cost a month, and is there a setup fee?
• Whose merchant account do card payments land in, and at what rate for UAE and international cards?
• Will every membership payment produce a tax invoice with my TRN on it?
• What does a second branch cost, and is there a minimum term or notice period?

Frequently asked questions

If you're comparing quotes, send us yours. We'll put it next to ours in AED, for your member count and branches, with the app, VAT and card fees counted in. See the plans, read the full pricing guide in dollars, or book a demo below.