Question 1

What is the best personal training software?

Accepted Answer

There isn't one. The right answer changes completely depending on how many clients you have, whether you coach online or in person, whether you need nutrition, and whether you want your own app. A coach with 8 clients and no nutrition needs a different platform to one running 120 clients with meal plans and their own App Store listing. That is what the quiz on this page works out.

Question 2

How much does personal training software cost?

Accepted Answer

Entry plans start around $5 to $25 a month for a handful of clients. At 50 clients you are typically looking at $75 to $150 a month. The number that catches people out is add-ons: some platforms charge separately for nutrition, payments and scheduling, so the real cost can be two or three times the advertised price. Every price here is the all-in figure at your client count.

Question 3

Which platforms let me have my own branded app?

Accepted Answer

Kahunas, FitBudd, My PT Hub, PT Distinction, AppRabbit, Everfit and WeStrive all offer it, on very different terms. Some include it in a mid tier, some charge a one-off fee, and some only offer it on an enterprise plan. The cheapest route to a genuine App Store listing under your own name is Kahunas Ultimate at $99 a month with unlimited clients.

Question 4

Do these platforms offer a free trial?

Accepted Answer

ABC Trainerize, PT Distinction, My PT Hub, Hevy Coach and FitBudd give you 30 days, in most cases with no card required. TrueCoach, Kahunas, Coach Catalyst, CoachRx, WeStrive, Fitr, Stridist, Coachway, Upliftt, MyCoach AI, Passion.io, TrainHeroic, HubFit and Zenfit give you 14. ABC Trainerize, Everfit, WeStrive and Nudge Coach also run a permanently free tier, so a short trial is less of a constraint there. The rest are demo-led with neither, which is worth knowing before you get attached to one.

Question 5

Are these affiliate links?

Accepted Answer

Some of them, and it is marked clearly on every recommendation. It does not change what the quiz returns. Where two platforms score within a few points of each other the cheaper one wins, and several of the platforms recommended here pay nothing at all.

Question 6

Who is behind this?

Accepted Answer

Dave Crawford. He builds operations and automation systems for coaching businesses, which means he has spent a lot of time inside these platforms with real clients rather than reading their marketing pages. The prices here are checked against each company's own pricing page and rechecked on a schedule.

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