Trainerize Alternatives (2026) for a PT Studio With a Team

If you run a PT studio with a team, the Trainerize alternative to look at first is the one that prices the team instead of capping it. ManageYourGym is $79 a month for 150 members and 10 trainers, with workout programmes, diet plans, PT packages, trainer pay and client and trainer apps under your own name all on that one plan. Trainerize's Pro plans stop at five trainer seats, so a six-trainer studio is on Studio Plus at $275 a month. If you coach mostly online and just want a cheaper coaching app, the field is TrueCoach, Everfit and PT Distinction, covered further down.

Every price here was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 24–25 September 2026. One thing to know before you compare: Trainerize's pricing page opens on annual billing, so the headline numbers ($23, $248) are the annual rate. We use the monthly ones throughout, like everyone else's.

What Trainerize costs in 2026

Trainerize counts clients, and each plan also caps how many trainers can log in. That second number is the one studios miss.

• On Pro, the add-ons are paid separately: Business $25 a month (scheduling, payments, referrals and on-demand coaching), Stripe integrated payments $10, video coaching $10, and advanced nutrition $20 or $45 depending on the tier.
• The custom branded app is $169 one-time on Pro. On Android it gets its own listing. On iPhone, Trainerize's help centre says Pro apps share its Apple developer account, so clients download the ABC Trainerize app and see your branding after they sign in.
• Studio Plus includes every add-on and a branded app on both stores under your own developer account. You pay Apple its $99 a year.

What Trainerize does well

It's a genuinely good coaching app, and it has been around a long time. ABC Financial, now ABC Fitness, bought it in 2020, and it's still built around one job: getting a programme onto a client's phone and keeping them doing it.

• A deep programme builder, with an AI workout builder, habits, nutrition coaching and check-ins.
• Clients who only book and pay can sit on "basic" seats, which don't count against your plan's client limit. If most of your in-person clients never open a programme, your Trainerize tier can be lower than your client list suggests.
• Session packs, appointments, classes and payment processing, with scheduling and payments in the Business add-on on Pro.
• Month-to-month billing, a 30-day trial, and 10% off for paying annually.

Why PT studios with a team look for a Trainerize alternative

Solo coaches rarely leave Trainerize for price. Studios do, and it's usually one of these.

• The trainer seats. One trainer on Pro 5 and 15, three up to Pro 75, five on Pro 100 and 200. Hire your sixth trainer and you move to Studio Plus, whatever your client count is.
• The add-ons. Scheduling and payments sit in the $25 Business add-on on Pro. A studio that books sessions and takes payments is paying the plan plus the add-on every month.
• Trainer pay. Trainerize's feature list covers session packs and payments, but not working out what each trainer is owed. Studios end up doing payday in a spreadsheet next to it.
• One calendar for the team. In Trainerize, each trainer sets their own availability for client self-booking. A studio with a front desk wants every trainer's day in one place, and wants to change it from there.

Trainerize alternatives at a glance

What a studio with a team actually pays

Here is the monthly bill at five studio sizes, each with scheduling, payments and a client app carrying the studio's name.

The gap isn't one line of the bill. It's that Trainerize's price moves with two meters — clients and trainers — plus the add-ons, while ours doesn't move until 150 members. A studio that hires a trainer or signs twenty clients on our Starter plan gets the same invoice next month.

If you have a team and the seat caps are the problem

ManageYourGym was built for the studio half of the business, and it brings the coaching with it. Programmes come from a library of more than 300 exercises. A trainer builds the plan as weeks and training days, assigns it to a client on the days they train, and sees every set they log. Personal bests are picked up automatically, and a trainer can leave a note on a finished workout that the client can reply to. Diet plans sit on the same client record, with the day's meals built from a food search and ticked off in the app. Here's how the programming works.

Then the part a coaching app bolts on. PT packages carry a live session balance that trainer and client both see. Trainer pay runs on a salary, per-session rates or a share of package sales — on sessions delivered or money collected — and each trainer sees their payslip in the trainer app. Clients book into the trainer's real availability from the app and the trainer confirms, so there's one calendar across the team. Memberships, QR check-in and group classes are on the same member record, for the day the studio grows past one-to-one. Here's how it's set up for a PT business.

Client and trainer apps under your studio's name are included on every plan, listed on both stores, and set up with you during onboarding. If you want the whole argument on what an own-name app should cost, it's in our branded-app post.

If most of your clients train with you in person

This is where the coaching-app model fits worst. An in-person PT client needs a booked slot, a balance that goes down by one, and a trainer who gets paid for the hour. The programme matters, but it isn't the thing clients argue about.

ManageYourGym runs that loop end to end: the trainer taps the session done in the trainer app, the balance drops, and the pay for it lands on the next payslip. If you haven't settled how your trainers are paid, how PT studios pay their trainers works through each model on one trainer.

PTminder is the other platform built for in-person PT studios. It prices by active clients from $59 to $209 a month with up to 20 trainers, and its branded app is $40 a month on top. We've written up the PTminder alternatives separately.

If you coach mostly online

Some owners leave Trainerize for another coaching app. The thing to watch is how each one prices a team.

• PT Distinction: programmes, nutrition and a branded app from its $59.90 Pro plan, with unlimited trainers at no charge. Master is $89.90 for 50 clients, then $1.60 a month per extra client.
• TrueCoach: clean programme delivery, priced per coach — $26.34 for 5 clients, $57.99 for 20, $136.99 for 50, with a branded app from Standard. Three coaches on Standard is about $174 a month.
• Everfit: free up to 5 clients, Pro from $19, Studio from $105 at 50 clients. Payments and packages are a $9 add-on, meal plans $39, and the white-label app is on Enterprise.

If you coach some clients online and see others in person, you don't need two systems. ManageYourGym puts the programme, the diet plan and the assessment in the same client app as the booking, the balance and the payment. Our ranking of PT studio software goes through the rest of the field on the studio lens.

Moving off Trainerize: a checklist

Plan it as a week of admin. The programmes take longest, so start there.

• List the programmes your trainers actually assign. Most studios run on five to ten. Rebuild those as templates first; the one-offs can wait.
• Write down every open session pack with the sessions left on it. The balance is the number clients will argue about.
• Record each trainer's pay rates and the basis they're paid on, since there's no payroll to carry over.
• Pull your client list from Trainerize and from your payment processor, which usually has the cleanest contact details.
• Plan for cards. Saved cards and recurring payments usually can't move between payment accounts, so clients will add a card again. Tell them why before they're asked.
• Switch at the start of a pay period. Import clients from a CSV or Excel file, enter each open pack with its balance, assign the rebuilt programmes, and send clients the new app the same day.
• Cancel Trainerize at the end of your billing cycle. Its FAQ says plans are month-to-month unless you chose annual, with no refund for the unused part of a period.

Tell clients the new app's name a few days before you move. If your packs have an expiry or a cancellation rule, put it in the agreement before the balances move — the switch is when clients read the small print.

Which Trainerize alternative should you pick?

The fastest test is your own numbers. Bring your client list, your trainers' pay rates and two of your most-used programmes to a twenty-minute demo, and you'll know by the end whether the sums work.

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