TrueCoach Alternatives: 7 Options for Personal Trainers in 2026
Seven TrueCoach alternatives compared on price, payment fees and client ceilings, for coaches weighing a switch. Prices checked on 22 September 2026.
TrueCoach alternatives compared
Every price below came from each company’s own pricing page; pricing changes, so double check before buying. TrueCoach Payments is restricted to the US, UK, Canada and Australia; the alternatives below do not publish similar restrictions.
- Best for
- A flat payments fee instead of a percentage
- Cheapest paid plan
- $10/mo (Grow, 2 clients)
- Free trial
- 30 days, no card
- Payments
- $10/mo add-on (flat, on Grow and Pro)
- Best for
- A flat payments add-on and a higher client ceiling
- Cheapest paid plan
- $19/mo (Pro, 5 clients)
- Free trial
- Free Starter plan (5 clients), 30 days on paid
- Payments
- From $9/mo add-on (flat)
- Best for
- Unlimited clients on one plan
- Cheapest paid plan
- EUR 25/mo (Starter, 3 clients)
- Free trial
- 30 days, no card
- Payments
- Not published; confirm directly
- Best for
- No platform commission on payments
- Cheapest paid plan
- $35/mo (Essentials, 25 clients)
- Free trial
- 14 days
- Payments
- Stripe or PayPal, no commission stated
- Best for
- A lower percentage and a published ceiling past 50
- Cheapest paid plan
- $29/mo (1 to 5 clients)
- Free trial
- 14 days, full access
- Payments
- Stripe plus 2 percent
- Best for
- One plan, every feature, a lower percentage
- Cheapest paid plan
- EUR 69/mo (up to 5 clients, then EUR 9 each)
- Free trial
- 14 days, card required
- Payments
- Own Stripe account plus 2.4 percent
- Best for
- Payments from Premium, scaling client caps
- Cheapest paid plan
- $49/mo (Plus, up to 50 clients)
- Free trial
- 14 days, card required, not charged until trial ends
- Payments
- Via Stripe, from Premium ($69/mo)
Why do trainers look for a TrueCoach alternative?
TrueCoach earns its following with a genuinely good drag-and-drop workout builder, a large exercise video library, and a branded app included from Standard at no extra fee.
The friction shows up around money and scale. TrueCoach Payments charges a flat percentage of every invoice, and only works in the US, UK, Canada or Australia. Its published tiers stop at Pro, with anything larger routed to support, and Starter has no branded app at all.
Trainerize: a flat payments fee instead of a percentage
- Cheapest plan
- Free (Basic, 1 client)
- Clients included
- 1
- Payments
- $10/mo flat (Grow & Pro)
- Branded app
- $169 one-time (shared listing)
Trainerize charges a flat monthly fee for Stripe payments, rather than TrueCoach’s percentage cut of every invoice. Client capacity is seat-based, climbing well past where TrueCoach’s pricing stops.
A branded app on Pro lives inside Trainerize’s own shared Apple listing rather than yours; an independent listing needs Studio and your own Apple Developer account. Basic remains free, and the trial needs no card.
- The $10 monthly Stripe add-on applies on both Grow and Pro, stacked on top of the plan price
- A branded app on Pro sits inside Trainerize’s own shared Apple listing, not yours
- An independent listing on both stores needs Studio, from $275 a month
- A flat $10 monthly add-on for payments, never a percentage of revenue
- Pro publishes pricing to 200 clients, and Studio to 500, both past TrueCoach’s 50-client ceiling
- A meal planner with MyFitnessPal sync is built into every paid plan
Everfit: a free tier and a flat payments add-on
- Cheapest plan
- Free (Starter)
- Clients included
- 5
- Payments
- From $9/mo add-on (flat)
- Branded app
- Enterprise only (500+ clients)
Everfit keeps a forever-free Starter plan for a small roster, and paid plans climb steeply as the roster grows, with no card needed to try any paid tier.
Payments and Packages is a flat add-on, not a percentage of what you invoice. A meal-plan module costs extra too, and a white-label app is Enterprise-only, priced by quote.
- Meal plans cost from $39 a month extra
- A true white-label app is Enterprise only, on a 500-client Studio plan
- Pro pricing still climbs steeply by client step
- Payments and Packages is a flat $9 a month add-on, not a percentage
- Free forever for up to 5 clients
- Published tiers scale to 300 to 500 clients, well past TrueCoach’s Pro ceiling
My PT Hub: unlimited clients on one plan
- Cheapest plan
- EUR 25/mo (Starter)
- Clients included
- 3
- Payments
- Not published; confirm directly
- Branded app
- EUR 95 one-time; EUR 145/mo listing
My PT Hub does not publish a payment processing percentage, unlike TrueCoach’s stated cut, so confirm directly with the vendor. Starter caps clients, workouts and nutrition plans tightly, while Premium removes every one of those caps.
A fully independent store listing costs extra on top of Premium, or comes bundled into Ultimate. Nutrition runs deep, with a macro calculator, barcode scanning and a large food database and exercise library built in.
- No published payment processing percentage; confirm directly before you switch
- A fully independent store listing costs EUR 145 a month on top of Premium
- Starter is capped at 3 clients, 50 workouts and 50 nutrition plans until you upgrade
- Premium at EUR 59 removes every client, workout and plan cap in one step, past TrueCoach’s 50-client ceiling
- A 650,000+ item food database with barcode scanning and an 8,000+ video library, built in
- A branded app starts as a EUR 95 one-time fee, not a recurring charge
Kahunas: no platform commission on payments
- Cheapest plan
- $35/mo (Essentials)
- Clients included
- 25
- Payments
- Stripe/PayPal, no commission
- Branded app
- Ultimate only ($99/mo)
Kahunas states no platform commission on Stripe or PayPal, the most direct answer here to TrueCoach’s flat cut. Client capacity climbs in three steps before Ultimate removes the cap entirely.
Ultimate is also where the branded app lives, with your own iOS and Android listings. Every tier includes custom check-in forms, habit tracking and unlimited plans, though there is no MyFitnessPal integration per its own help centre.
- The branded app only arrives at Ultimate, and still needs your own developer accounts
- No MyFitnessPal integration, per its own help centre
- Essentials and Growth still cap the roster at 25 and 50 clients
- No platform commission stated on Stripe or PayPal payments, at any tier
- Ultimate removes the client cap entirely rather than publishing a higher fixed ceiling
- A 1.6 million item food database and a 1,000+ exercise video library on every tier
CoachRx: 2 percent instead of 5 percent
- Cheapest plan
- $29/mo (1 to 5 clients)
- Clients included
- 1 to 5
- Payments
- Stripe + 2%
- Branded app
- None found on site
CoachRx, branded OPEX CoachRx, prices by client band, with the same feature set on every plan, climbing through several bands before Enterprise adds a per-client fee at the top.
Payments run through Stripe plus a percentage, well below TrueCoach’s flat cut, though still a percentage rather than a flat add-on. Programming covers training cycles, often built around 1RM percentages the way a one rep max calculator sets them, with a large video library, and custom theming is included on every plan.
- Payments still add 2 percent on top of standard Stripe fees
- No branded app with its own store listing found on its site
- Enterprise pricing above 150 clients still adds a per-client fee
- 2 percent on top of Stripe, well below TrueCoach’s flat 5 percent
- Published pricing runs to 151+ clients, past TrueCoach’s 50-client Pro ceiling
- Custom theming included on every plan
Scraler: payments from Premium, 50 clients on Plus and 100 on Premium
- Cheapest plan
- $49/mo (Plus)
- Clients included
- 50 active
- Payments
- Stripe, from Premium ($69/mo)
- Branded app
- Ultimate only, from $109/mo
Scraler folds payments into Premium via Stripe at no separate percentage, a flat plan step rather than TrueCoach’s cut of every invoice. Client ceilings scale in the same step, and archived clients never count against them.
The branded app sits on Ultimate. Apple routes through the trainer’s own developer account, while Google costs nothing since Scraler publishes Android itself. Plus already covers a programme builder, meal plans, recipes (a TDEE calculator is a common starting point for those plans), check-ins, habit tracking, chat and scheduling.
- Payments sit behind Premium rather than the entry plan
- The white-label app waits for Ultimate, later than TrueCoach’s Standard-tier inclusion
- Newer and smaller than TrueCoach, and the trial needs a card upfront
- Payments via Stripe cost a plan step up, never a percentage of the invoice
- Published client caps run from 50 on Plus to 500 on Ultimate, all above TrueCoach’s 50-client ceiling
- Android publishing through Scraler’s own Google Play Console costs the trainer no store fee
Coachway: one plan, a lower percentage than TrueCoach
- Cheapest plan
- EUR 69/mo (up to 5 clients)
- Clients included
- 5 (then EUR 9/extra)
- Payments
- Own Stripe + 2.4%
- Branded app
- No own listing stated
Coachway prices in EUR with no tiers and no per-client fee until the roster passes a small threshold, with every feature on that one plan. See Coachway alternatives for what it costs at 50 clients.
Payments run through your own Stripe account, with a small percentage fee when you use Coachway to take them, well below TrueCoach’s flat cut. The client app carries your logo, colours and email templates.
- EUR 9 per client after the first five adds up quickly on a full roster
- The trial needs a card
- No own store listing stated on the site
- 2.4 percent on payments, well below TrueCoach’s flat 5 percent
- One plan with every feature, nothing gated behind a tier
- Client app carries your logo, colours and email templates
How to move off TrueCoach
Before you cancel, pull an export of your client list and workout templates. TrueCoach has no bulk migration tool, so expect to rebuild each programme by hand on your new platform.
An export from TrueCoach, Trainerize or Everfit is all Scraler’s free switch page needs to rebuild your clients, workouts and meal plans on the other side. Keep both subscriptions active while clients move over. See Trainerize alternatives, TrueCoach vs Trainerize or Everfit alternatives for more.
Workouts, nutrition, check-ins and messaging on one client profile from the $49 entry plan, with payments via Stripe from Premium. Try it free for 14 days: a card sits on file from day one, but no charge goes through until the trial closes.
Start free trialFrequently asked questions
- What is the cheapest alternative to TrueCoach?
- Trainerize Grow starts at $10/month for 2 clients, the lowest entry price among these alternatives, well below TrueCoach Starter at $29.98/month for 5 clients. Everfit also keeps a permanently free Starter plan for up to 5 clients.
- Which TrueCoach alternative avoids a percentage payment fee?
- Kahunas states no platform commission on Stripe or PayPal payments. Trainerize and Everfit charge a flat monthly add-on ($10 and from $9) rather than a percentage. CoachRx and Coachway still charge a percentage, at 2 percent and 2.4 percent, both well below TrueCoach’s flat 5 percent.
- Is there an alternative without TrueCoach’s 50-client ceiling?
- My PT Hub Premium and Kahunas Ultimate both cover unlimited clients on a published price. CoachRx publishes pricing up to 151+ clients, and Scraler’s Ultimate tiers scale from 100 up to 500 clients, all without needing a call to support.
- Does switching keep my current TrueCoach programmes?
- That depends on the vendor; TrueCoach does not publish a bulk export tool, so most platforms expect a manual rebuild. Scraler’s free switch page does that rebuild instead, turning an export from TrueCoach or several other platforms into clients, workouts and meal plans on your new account.
- Which TrueCoach alternative works outside the US, UK, Canada and Australia?
- TrueCoach Payments is only available to coaches based in those four countries. The alternatives below do not publish country restrictions for the alternatives above, so confirm directly with the vendor before you commit if you coach elsewhere.
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