Mindbody Alternatives for PT and Boutique Studios (2026)

For a PT or boutique studio with a team of trainers, the Mindbody alternative that fits best is the one that publishes its price, puts an app under your own name on clients' phones, and works out trainer pay from the sessions delivered. ManageYourGym does all three at $79, $169 or $349 a month. The rest of the field — Arketa, ABC Glofox, Momence, PushPress, TeamUp, Vagaro and WellnessLiving — is below in alphabetical order, each with its published price, or a plain note that there isn't one.

Every price was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 24 September 2026. Most of the lists that rank for this search are written by one of the vendors on them, for yoga and cycling studios. This one is written for a studio that sells PT packages and pays a team. Yes, we're on it — which is why every number links back to the vendor, not to us.

What Mindbody costs in 2026

• Starter: "Starting at $99 USD/month per location", with unlimited staff.
• Accelerate and Ultimate: no price on the page, just "Let's talk".
• No setup fee on any plan. Payment processing rates vary by plan.
• The Mindbody app: listing is free, and when the app brings you a client who is new to your business, the fee is 20% of their first purchase, capped at $30. Bookings after the first are commission-free.
• Branded app: sold as an add-on, with no price on the page.
• Contract: the FAQ says it "depends on your plan and billing terms", and that cancelling "may require advance notice based on your agreement".

So a studio that needs anything past Starter is budgeting for a sales call, not a number. That's the first thing most owners mention when they tell us why they're looking.

Why PT and boutique studios leave Mindbody

• They can't see the price of the plan they need. Starter is public; the tiers with the reporting and marketing most studios grow into are not.
• The marketplace works in both directions. It brings new clients, and it charges for the first purchase. Some owners also complain that clients browsing the app see the other studios nearby.
• It's built around a class timetable. PT packages and staff pay are in there, but a PT-led studio pays for a lot of class and marketing machinery it doesn't use.
• The own-name app is another line on the bill, at a price you only learn from sales.

Mindbody alternatives at a glance

What each one costs a real PT studio

Take one studio: one location, six trainers, 120 active clients, and a client app under its own name. Here is the monthly bill from each published price.

Where each alternative fits

• Arketa: a modern booking and payments tool for yoga and pilates studios, with a solo plan for independent instructors.
• ABC Glofox: a class-studio platform from the ABC Fitness group, with payroll included and a branded app on its top self-serve tier.
• Momence: booking, payments and marketing for boutique and wellness businesses, priced entirely by quote.
• PushPress: gym management built for CrossFit boxes and functional gyms, with a free tier and add-ons for workouts, marketing and the app.
• TeamUp: class and appointment booking priced by active customers, with unlimited locations.
• Vagaro: salon and spa scheduling that also serves fitness, priced per staff calendar.
• WellnessLiving: an all-in-one for studios, spas and wellness businesses, with staff commission built in.

ManageYourGym — for the studio that pays a team

We built ManageYourGym around the part of a studio that the class-first platforms treat as an extra: the PT package, its session balance, the trainer's tap after the session, and the pay that falls out of it. Trainer pay runs on salary, per-session or per-class rates, and a share of package sales — on sessions delivered or money collected. Trainers get their own app with their day, their clients and their payslips. Clients book into the trainer's real availability from the app and the trainer confirms, so there's one calendar across the team. Here's how it's set up for a PT business.

Classes are there too, with capacity limits, waitlists and class packs, alongside memberships, QR check-in and live occupancy. Client and trainer apps under your studio's name are included on every plan and set up with you during onboarding — you pay Apple and Google their developer fees and nothing to us for the app. Every tier is on the pricing page: Starter $79 for 150 members, 10 trainers and one location; Professional $169 for 500 members, 30 trainers and three locations; Enterprise $349 for unlimited. And payments settle into your own Stripe account, so no marketplace takes a cut of a first purchase.

If you're pricing your packages at the same time as your software, start with how to price PT packages and how studios pay their trainers. If you're on PTminder rather than Mindbody, we've written up the PTminder alternatives too.

Leaving Mindbody: a checklist

• Read your agreement first. Find the term, the renewal date and the notice period, and diarise the notice date.
• Export your client list, active memberships and every open package with its remaining sessions before you give notice.
• Record each trainer's pay rates and the basis they're paid on.
• Plan for cards. Saved cards and recurring payments usually can't move between payment processors, so clients will add a card again on the new system — tell them why before they're asked.
• Expect to lose your marketplace listing and its reviews. Ask your regulars for a Google review in the weeks before you switch.
• Switch at the end of a pay period, import your clients from a CSV or Excel file, enter open packages with the sessions left, and send clients the new app the same day.

Which Mindbody alternative should a PT studio pick?

The fastest way to check is twenty minutes with your own client list and your own trainers' pay rates. You'll know by the end whether the numbers work.

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