TotalCoaching is the closest platform that costs less and gives up nothing we verified. $72.72 a month at 50 clients, $17.28 less than Hevy Coach, and it adds client food logging, more than one coach seat and nutrition plans. The trade: Hevy Coach is built for strength and barbell programming only and TotalCoaching is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
Why coaches look for an alternative
No nutrition, no payments, no branding. Deliberately narrow, and it stops being cheap fast: $160/mo at 100 clients is more than PT Distinction Master with everything included.
It runs $90 a month at 50 clients with the add-ons it forces on you included. 9 of the 22 alternatives on this site cost less than that.
I reviewed Hevy Coach and had no criticisms of it, so the reason to look at something else is price or fit, not a fault.
The closest thing to Hevy Coach
Ranked by how much of what we record for Hevy Coach each platform also does. TotalCoaching is the nearest, and it is $17.28 a month cheaper at 50 clients. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
Small studios with more than one trainer. Trainer seats are included in every tier, which most rivals charge per coach for, and the entry price is the lowest here.
$17.28 a month cheaper than Hevy Coach · $72.72 at 25 clients
- Adds client food logging, more than one coach seat and nutrition plans
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Cheaper, with nothing we record missing
Everything this site records for Hevy Coach is also recorded for these, and they cost less at 50 clients. That is not the same as saying they are better: the last column is what Hevy Coach is built for that they are not, and for a coach who needs that, the saving is not a saving.
| Platform | At 50 clients | You save | What Hevy Coach does that it does not |
|---|
| HubFit | $39 | $51 | strength and barbell programming only |
| My PT Hub | $59 | $31 | strength and barbell programming only |
| TotalCoaching | $72.72 | $17.28 | strength and barbell programming only |
| Upliftt | $79 | $11 | strength and barbell programming only |
| PT Distinction | $89 | $1 | strength and barbell programming only |
The rest, in order of how close they are
Prices are the real monthly cost at 50 clients with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
Coaches who want the meal planner and a branded app and are not price shopping. The drag and drop nutrition builder is the reason people pick it.
$999 a month dearer than Hevy Coach · $489 at 25 clients
- Adds nutrition plans, your own app in the stores (not clearly included in the plan price) and taking payments
- Also lists client check-ins, selling courses and progress photos
Try Zenfit →CrossFit, endurance and team-based online coaching, plus selling programmes to a wider list.
$24.99 a month dearer than Hevy Coach · $64.99 at 25 clients
- Adds group programmes, more than one coach seat, your own app in the stores (a paid add-on), sellable packages and taking payments
- Also lists automations, client check-ins and progress photos
Try Fitr →Solo online 1:1 coaches who want the fastest programme builder and payments included rather than bolted on.
$46.99 a month dearer than Hevy Coach · $136.99 at 25 clients
- Adds more than one coach seat, nutrition plans and taking payments
- Also lists automations, group chat, habit tracking, video form checks and wearable syncing
Try TrueCoach →Solo online coaches who want everything switched on from day one and their payments running through their own Stripe, with no revenue share and no waiting on the platform to release their money.
$439 a month dearer than Hevy Coach · $279 at 25 clients
- Adds client food logging, more than one coach seat, nutrition plans, sellable packages and taking payments
- Also lists automations, client check-ins, intake forms and progress photos
Try Coachway →Coaches who want nutrition, habits and payments in one place without paying extra for them. The $69 tier carries the branded colours, meal planner and payments that several rivals hold back.
$51 a month cheaper than Hevy Coach · $39 at 25 clients
- Adds client food logging, more than one coach seat, nutrition plans, your own app in the stores (a $189 a month add-on), sellable packages and taking payments
- Also lists automations, client check-ins, intake forms, group chat, habit tracking and wearable syncing
Try HubFit →Coaches working the OPEX methodology, with lifestyle and habit prescription built into the model.
$11 a month cheaper than Hevy Coach · $79 at 25 clients
- Adds group programmes
- Also lists automations, habit tracking, video form checks and wearable syncing
- Does not list body metrics
Try CoachRx →Coaches who want unlimited clients without a per-client bill. At $79 it is the second-cheapest route to unlimited on this list, and the only one of those that includes group challenges, leaderboards and a community feed in the same plan.
$11 a month cheaper than Hevy Coach · $49 at 25 clients
- Adds client food logging, group programmes, more than one coach seat, nutrition plans, sellable packages and taking payments
- Also lists automations, client check-ins, selling courses, group chat, leaderboards and a programme marketplace
Try Upliftt →The value pick at 25 to 100 clients. Branded apps from Pro at $59, nutrition, AI meal planner, packages and payments all included with no add-ons.
$1 a month cheaper than Hevy Coach · $59 at 25 clients
- Adds client food logging, group programmes, more than one coach seat, nutrition plans, your own app in the stores, sellable packages and taking payments
- Also lists automations, group chat, habit tracking, leaderboards, progress photos, video form checks and wearable syncing
Try PT Distinction →
What Hevy Coach is still the best answer for
Strength coaches who only want to write and track programmes. Clients get Hevy Pro free on an app many already use.
On this site it is the pick for strength and barbell programming only. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
How to read the feature lines
Eight features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: appointment
booking, client food logging, group programmes, coach seats, nutrition plans, your own app,
sellable packages and taking payments. Those are the ones written above as does and
does not. The other thirteen are read out of each vendor's own feature prose, so an
absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines
say lists and does not list instead.
How all of this gets checked.
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