Trainerize

It's a platform for personal trainers and coaches to build, schedule and deliver workout programs to clients through a branded mobile app. Its core is a drag-and-drop workout builder with an exercise video library and support for supersets, circuits, AMRAP and auto-progression by %1RM. Around that it bundles habit coaching, messaging, community forums, progress photos, scheduling, Stripe payments and a nutrition module. The idea is to run your whole coaching business — programming, communication, tracking and payments — from one place with your own branding.

The single most important thing to know before signing up. The headline plan price doesn't include several features many coaches consider essential. Taking payments via Stripe is an add-on of ~$10/mo, your own branded app is a one-time ~$169, and advanced nutrition tooling runs ~$20–45/mo on top. So a coach who wants payments, branding and proper nutrition support will pay meaningfully more than the advertised plan. Budget for the add-ons you need from the start rather than assuming the base plan covers everything.

It's workout-first, so nutrition is a supporting feature rather than the main event. Trainerize includes a nutrition module and integrates with apps like MyFitnessPal, with advanced nutrition as a paid add-on — enough for many coaches who mainly program training. But coaches whose businesses lean heavily on detailed meal planning and macro tracking often want deeper tooling than a workout-first platform prioritizes. If nutrition is central to your offer, evaluate the nutrition add-on carefully or pair Trainerize with a dedicated meal-planning tool rather than assuming it'll fully replace one.

The free Basic tier is useful only as a trial, because it's limited to a single client. That's enough to explore the workout builder, the branded-app experience and how delivery feels, but not to run a real coaching business. Most coaches will need to move to Grow or Pro quickly as they take on clients, and some reviewers wish the free trial were longer. Treat the free tier as a hands-on demo rather than a workable long-term plan, and factor in the step up to a paid tier plus any add-ons as soon as you have more than one client.

Personal trainers, online fitness coaches and studios that want to deliver structured workout programs and coaching to clients through a professional, branded app. It shines for training-led businesses that value a strong workout builder, client communication, habit tracking and the ability to scale from a handful of clients to a few hundred. It's a weaker fit for brand-new coaches on the tightest budgets, who feel the cost of the necessary add-ons, and for nutrition-first practitioners needing deep meal-planning and macro tools. Match it to trainers whose core offer is programming and coaching rather than diet planning.