The Trainerize alternative where the app is yours and the price does not grow with your clients.
Trainerize charges by client count and sells its own-brand app as a higher tier. Our alternative is a coaching app published under your name from the start, with programmes, exercise videos, measurements, weekly check-ins, chat and session booking, at one flat monthly price.
- Your name and icon in both stores from day one
- No per-client pricing
- Your exercise library imported, quote within one working day
Paying more for every client you sign.
- A monthly bill that steps up each time you cross a client threshold.
- The branded app costs extra, on top of the per-client plan.
- Clients open an app that looks like every other coach's.
- Features you need bundled with a dozen you never open.
What your own coaching app includes
ABC Trainerize and your own app, side by side
Trainerize is a broad platform with tiers. Ours is your own app with the coaching core, at one price.
| ABC Trainerize | Your own app | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | By client count, in tiers | One flat monthly price, any client count |
| Your brand in the stores | On the higher tiers, as an add-on | From day one, included |
| Programmes and video demos | Yes | Yes, your library imported |
| Check-ins, chat, booking | Yes | Yes |
| Nutrition tracking and wearable integrations | Yes | Not included |
| Contract | Month to month | Cancel any month |
Trainerize plans as listed on trainerize.com in September 2026; our Trainerize pricing guide has the current numbers.
When Trainerize is the better choice
If your coaching depends on nutrition tracking, wearable integrations or a large team of coaches sharing one platform, stay on Trainerize; that breadth is what you are paying for. A brand-new trainer with five clients is also fine on an entry tier, and should come back to this page at thirty.
When the flat price and your own brand win
At a few dozen clients the per-client tiers plus the branded-app add-on cost more than an app that is simply yours, and the difference grows with every client. The second reason trainers switch is the icon on the client's phone: with an owned app it is your name, your colours and your programmes, with nobody else's brand in the way. If your coaching is programmes, video, check-ins, chat and sessions, that is the whole app, and you do not need to pay for the rest.
What is included, and what is not
Included: a client app and a trainer app in both stores under your name, programmes built from your imported library with video demos, measurements and progress photos, weekly check-ins, chat, session booking, a payments overview, push notifications, servers and updates. Not included: nutrition tracking and wearable syncing. We say so up front because a trainer who needs those should not switch.
The app has been in both stores for a personal trainer since 2018, so the engine is not new; only the brand is.
How the switch works
A twenty-minute call covers your services, your programme templates and your exercise library, and you get a clear monthly price within one working day. The demo is on your phone in seven days with your own exercises inside. Three to four weeks in, the app is live under your name and clients move over with one link.
What happens after you send the form
- Day 1We call you20 minutes: how you coach, what your clients need, your brand.
- Day 7Demo on your phoneYour app, your programmes, a real client flow.
- Week 3–4Live in both storesYour name in the App Store and Google Play. Clients download it.
Trainers ask
One flat monthly price, scoped to your coaching and quoted within one working day of the first call. There is no per-client fee and no development fee, and you can cancel any month.
Yes. Your exercise library, including your own videos, is imported as part of the setup, and your programme templates are rebuilt inside the app so clients see the same plans they know.
Yes. Every client has a chat thread inside your app and a weekly check-in form, and their measurements and progress photos are charted for both of you.
No. The app covers programmes, video demos, measurements, check-ins, chat, session booking and payments. If nutrition tracking is central to your coaching, Trainerize or a dedicated nutrition app is the better fit.
Clients book sessions into your calendar from the app, and the trainer app shows who has paid for which month and who owes. Online card payments through Stripe can be added; the processor's fee is separate.
A demo on your phone in 7 days. Publishing to the App Store and Google Play takes 3–4 weeks from the first call.
Get the coaching app that is yours.
Leave your details and we call you within one working day with a price.