Independent · 145 platforms in 9 categories · no vendor pays for a place
Find the right software
for your business.
Most comparison sites rank whoever pays them, and quote a headline price almost nobody ends up paying. These are short lists for people running a business, from CRMs and accounting to funnels, courses and scheduling, with the real monthly cost at your size, the add-ons pricing pages bury, and the percentage some platforms quietly take of everything you bill.
Categories
9 live · 1 in progressPersonal training
What a coach delivers programmes, nutrition and check-ins with.
CRM
Where the leads, the pipeline and the follow-up live.
Funnels and landing pages
Landing pages, checkouts and the tracking behind them.
Online courses and communities
Hosting a course or a community, taking the money, and seeing who finished.
Website software
Builders and hosts for the site everything else points at.
Email marketing
Broadcasts, sequences and the automations that trigger them.
Accounting
Invoicing, chasing it, and handing the year to an accountant.
Scheduling
Booking, calendars and the reminders that stop no-shows.
Task management
Who is doing what, by when, without a weekly meeting about it.
AI notetakers
The assistants that sit in your meetings, write the notes and tell you what you agreed.
How the prices get checked
Checked against the source
Every price but one comes from the vendor's own pricing page, not a roundup. The exception is labelled. Last run 5 Nov 2026.
Re-checked weekly
A script re-reads every pricing page and flags any figure here that is no longer on theirs.
The gaps are published too
69 platforms build their pricing in the browser, so the weekly re-read can only confirm part of it. Those figures are read by hand and marked, never assumed to still be right because nothing contradicted them.
Reviewed hands-on
27 of 145 here, plus 5 moreSpecs only get you so far. These are the ones Dave Crawford has actually used with clients and filmed a review of. Where two are close on paper, that is what decides it. A few are software other than coaching platforms, reviewed on the channel but not compared here yet.
Make software for people running a business? If it is missing from one of these lists, ask to be shortlisted. Listings are free, cannot be bought, and the price shown will be the one on your own pricing page.