The six, ranked
Evobody
Everything TrueCoach documents as a workaround exists here as a real thing, and nothing takes a percentage of your revenue.
Start
Shift
Align
Anchor
Whole
Five ranks, each with its own badge.
Evobody takes no cut of what your clients pay you.
Check-ins are a real thing. Each client's weeks are listed on their page, answered or skipped, and you are told when a check-in comes in or is skipped, with the client's reason. You reply by writing, or by recording a video over the client's own dashboard with your camera in the corner. That recorder is built in, so the Loom or ScreenPal subscription most coaches pay for stops too. TrueCoach has no recording inside the app at all: you upload a file capped at 200 megabytes or paste a YouTube link.
Sets, reps and weight are real numbers, so progress is a line you can both look at. On TrueCoach a client types their lifts into a text box, which is why several of their own clients describe logging in a separate tracking app and copying the numbers across.
Evo SI sits in every client's pocket. (SI stands for Super Intelligence, previously known as Artificial Intelligence.) They photograph the menu at the restaurant they are sitting in and ask what they can eat, photograph the fridge and find out what they can make, ask how training went this month and hear which lifts went up, or log a meal by describing it. Evo SI is told that client's own allergy and diet rules with every question. It works for you too, trained on your philosophy and methods, set up in the app. Across all 173 articles in TrueCoach's help centre there is not one about AI.
And there is somewhere for your clients to be. A community of your own clients, plus five ranks from Start to Whole earned week by week, milestones, and a weekly Pace Setters board. TrueCoach's nearest thing is a group chat capped at twenty people that can only be created on the web.
- Best for
- Any coach who bills through the platform and has done the maths on the 5%.
- Price
- Free for 5 clients, no time limit. $69 a month for unlimited, $99 on Studio, which opens later, with your own branding. Evo SI is optional, $3 a month for each client using it, and switched off for a client it is hidden from their app and costs nothing. On Studio, Evo SI is free with your own AI API key. No cut of client payments.
- The catch
- The newest platform here, so no decade of third party integrations behind it. Coaches ask, it gets built, it ships to everybody, and the price does not move.
- Read more
- Evobody vs TrueCoach and full pricing
PT Distinction
No transaction fee, no annual lock in, no minimum term. If the 5% is why you are leaving, this is the most direct swap in the list: $89.90 a month covers fifty clients, extras are $1.60 each, and nothing comes off the top of what your clients pay you. Coaches rate it 4.9 on Capterra across 446 reviews with no one star reviews at all. They also ship, which TrueCoach currently does not: missed session detection landed in 2026.
The weaker half is the app your clients hold, at 4.18 on the App Store against 4.9 for the coach software.
"if you leave the app to go to a different one and then return, it will often refresh back to the homepage, which causes you to lose your place while logging the workout."
- Best for
- A coach who wants the fee gone and nothing else to change.
- Price
- $89.90 a month for 50 clients, then $1.60 each. No free plan, a one month trial.
- The catch
- Group chat a coach can turn on for a group, but no community feed, no ranks, no AI in the client's app, and clients cannot swap an exercise when the rack is taken.
- Read more
- Evobody vs PT Distinction
Everfit
No cut of client payments, a real free plan holding five clients, and a client app that looks and feels a generation newer than TrueCoach's. Forums, leaderboards and challenges give clients something TrueCoach has never had.
The catch is the shape of the bill. Automation is an add-on from $29 a month, client payments from $9, meal plans and recipe books from $39, and the plan underneath is priced per client. Fifty clients on Everfit's Pro plan with all three start at $199 a month, and it climbs as you grow.
"What annoys me the most is the numerous add-ons that you have to pay for, which significantly increase the overall cost."
- Best for
- Coaches who want a modern client app and no percentage taken.
- Price
- From $199 a month at 50 clients with Autoflow, Payments and Meal Plans, per Everfit's pricing page, 8 October 2026. Free for 5 clients.
- The catch
- Priced per client, and habits, forums and challenges all start at Pro tier.
- Read more
- Evobody vs Everfit
ABC Trainerize
No cut of client payments, the widest integrations in the category, and a client app rated 4.9 by nearly seventy thousand people. If you are leaving TrueCoach because nothing has shipped in six months, Trainerize is the opposite problem: plenty ships.
What it costs is $135 for Pro 50, $45 for Advanced Nutrition Coaching and $25 for the Business add-on, so $205 a month. The AI that drafts check-in replies is an add-on priced on its own: FitMetrics, from $6 a client a month. Their own status page records eleven incidents affecting the Trainerize apps since October 2025, nine major or critical.
- Best for
- Coaches who want the biggest ecosystem and the widest gym and wearable integrations.
- Price
- $205 a month at 50 clients with nutrition and the Business add-on. FitMetrics, its AI, is priced on its own, from $6 a client a month.
- The catch
- Steep tier jumps, nothing flags a missed check-in, and the client community feed is trainer only.
- Read more
- Evobody vs Trainerize
My PT Hub
No cut of client payments, nutrition and habit tracking on every plan rather than gated, and a Workouts AI that takes plain language. It also has actual check-ins, which TrueCoach does not.
Two things to know. Their own help centre on a missed week: "If a client misses a Check-In... they will not be able to complete it, they will need to wait for the next Check-In to open." And annual billing "paid monthly" is a twelve month commitment needing thirty days written notice before the end of the term. If you are leaving TrueCoach partly because a term changed under you, read that agreement before signing this one.
- Best for
- Coaches who want nutrition included.
- Price
- $59 a month on Premium, month to month, or $52 a month on the twelve month plan, and Check-Ins AI is $12 a month more, per My PT Hub's pricing page, 8 October 2026.
- The catch
- There are no ranks and no badges.
- Read more
- Evobody vs My PT Hub
CoachRx
Genuinely good software. Built out of OPEX Fitness, strong on assessments and wearables, and its check-in dashboard flags clients who have missed two sessions in a row. Coaches rate it 5.0 on Capterra.
It is last here for one reason, and it is the reason you are on this page. CoachRx adds 2% of its own on top of normal card processing on every payment a client makes you, which their help centre documents as a total of 4.9% plus 30 cents per transaction. Like TrueCoach, none of it appears on their pricing page. On card payments that comes to about the same as TrueCoach's flat 5%.
- Best for
- Assessment led coaching with heavy wearable use, where clients pay you outside the platform.
- Price
- $79 a month for 6 to 50 clients, plus 2% of everything collected, so about $279 at fifty clients.
- The catch
- Their own help centre: "Can clients communicate with each other? No, client communication is only with coaches." Client app ratings are 3.65 and 3.43.
- Read more
- Evobody vs CoachRx
Every TrueCoach alternative, priced at fifty clients
| Platform | Cut of client payments | Real check-in | Client community | Real monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evobody | None | Yes, and you are told when one is skipped | Yes, private to your clients | $69, plus $3 a month for each client with Evo SI switched on, if you want it |
| My PT Hub | None | Yes | A feed on Premium, where clients comment and react | $59, plus its Check-Ins AI at $12 a month |
| PT Distinction | None | Forms you build yourself | Group chat, if the coach turns it on | $89.90 |
| Everfit | None | Forms you build yourself | Closed forums, Pro tier up | From $199 |
| ABC Trainerize | None | Forms, nothing flags a miss | Groups, feed is trainer only | $205, plus their AI, FitMetrics, from $6 a client a month |
| CoachRx | 2% | Yes, flags two missed sessions | None | $279 |
| TrueCoach | 5% flat, card processing included | None, built from the workout builder | None | $165, plus its 5% card fee |
What a coach with fifty clients, each paying $200 a month, actually pays. Month to month, from each platform's own pricing page, 23 September 2026; Trainerize, FitMetrics, Everfit, My PT Hub and PT Distinction, 8 October 2026.
Evo SI is the one thing not inside the plan price, and it is optional. On Coach it is $3 a month for each client who has it switched on, and switched off for a client, it is hidden from their app and costs nothing. On Studio, which opens later, Evo SI is free with your own AI API key. Worth knowing what the going rate is: Trainerize's FitMetrics, in its own words on 8 October 2026: "The Starter plan is $6/client with a 1-client minimum and the Scale plan is $10/client with a 50-client minimum." TrueCoach has no AI in the product at all, so there is no version of this on their bill at any price.
The column that matters most if you are leaving over the fee is the second one. Five of the six take nothing. CoachRx is the one to look at carefully, because it takes 2% and does not put that on its pricing page either.
No add-ons, now or ever. Other coaching apps charge extra for add-ons. We never will: every coaching feature is on every plan, everything we build next comes in too, and you never pay for our progress.
Who answers your clients' questions about the app
Your clients will have questions about the app. On Evobody they ask from inside it, any hour, and we answer, so you are not the help desk for software you did not build, and anything about their training or food still comes to you. TrueCoach and CoachRx help clients directly too. Of the seven platforms here, Evobody is the only one that publishes 24/7 support for your clients. How client support works.
| Platform | 24/7 support for your clients |
|---|---|
| Evobody | Yes, from inside the app, on every plan |
| CoachRx | No. They do help clients directly, in "normal business hours", and aim to reply within 24 to 48 hours. |
| PT Distinction | No hours published. Their plans promise "Same day support". |
| TrueCoach | No hours published. They do help clients directly, by email. |
| Everfit | No hours published for clients. Their help centre gives none. Their "24/7 Support Team" is on the Enterprise plan only. |
| My PT Hub | No hours published. Their pricing page gives none. |
| ABC Trainerize | No. Their help section for clients, "Clients of Trainers", sends them back to you. |
From each company's own help centre and pricing pages, checked 23 September 2026.
Why coaches leave TrueCoach
Coaches like TrueCoach. It rates 4.8 on Capterra across 838 reviews with not one single star among them, and it does the basics cleanly. The reasons people go looking are specific, and the first one is recent.
The fee changed. TrueCoach's card processing fee is now a flat 5% on every payment your clients make you through it, plus $15 every time one is charged back. That is from their own help centre, in an article rewritten in December 2025:
"each invoice will incur Stripe's processing fee per successful credit card transaction. This is a flat 5% fee per transaction."
Until late 2025 that same article said 2.9% plus 30 cents in the US, and 1.4% plus 30p in the UK. For a British coach, the fee on a card payment went from 1.4% plus 30p to a flat 5%. Meanwhile their pricing page, today, answers "Are there any extra fees?" with "Nope, what you see is what you get."
"I make around $5000+ per month on True Coach. I ended up raising my rates 10% starting next month to deal with this increase or transfer clients for a 6% increase to another billing method. Haven't raised my rates in 5 years so felt ok about it... Certainly feels too expensive."
- The tiers jump. Five clients, twenty, then fifty, with nothing in between. A coach with twenty one clients pays the fifty client price, two and a half times more for one extra person. Past fifty there is no published price, just an email address.
- There is no check-in feature. Their own help centre's advice is to build one out of the workout builder, so a check-in is a workout with questions in it and free text answers you find again by searching.
- Nothing has shipped. Of the 173 articles in their help centre, nine have been touched in the past year and none in the past six months. Their public status page has been switched off and now returns "This page is currently inactive and can only be viewed by team members."
"The reliability has become unbelievably poor... The suggested solution was to 'tell clients to screenshot their workouts beforehand'. Imagine a professional company asking that."
Trustpilot holds only nineteen TrueCoach reviews, so that is a small sample and worth saying so. It is also where the recent, unsolicited ones are.
How we compared these
Most lists of TrueCoach alternatives are affiliate pages, and you can tell because none of the claims on them have a link behind them. Here is the method for this one.
- Every price comes from the company's own pricing page, month to month, read on 23 September 2026, and Trainerize's, FitMetrics', Everfit's and My PT Hub's again on 8 October 2026. Annual figures are never mixed with monthly ones.
- Every capability claim comes from the company's own help centre or documentation, not from a feature grid. Where their wording is the clearest statement of the thing, it is quoted and linked so you can read it yourself.
- Every review quote links to the review site it is on, with the reviewer's name and the date. Where a sample is small, like Trustpilot's nineteen TrueCoach reviews, this page says so.
- The fifty client figure assumes each client pays you $200 a month, which is what makes a percentage fee comparable to a subscription. If your clients pay you outside the platform, TrueCoach's real cost is the $165 plan and nothing more.
- Where a competitor is better, it says so. TrueCoach's review scores are among the best in the category and its interface is the cleanest. CoachRx flags two missed sessions in a row. PT Distinction's pricing is the fairest of the rest.
Evobody is our own product and this page argues for it. Everything above is checkable, which is the only reason to trust any of it.
Moving off TrueCoach
You get dedicated support for the move. Your client list comes across in one go, and Evobody's team helps you bring over your programs, plans and documents rather than rebuild them from nothing. The full detail is in the switching guide.
Questions coaches ask before switching
Will I have to move my clients' billing?
Yes, if you bill them through TrueCoach today. Charging a client's card through Evobody is not built yet. So clients pay you directly, by bank transfer, cash or your own invoicing, and you track each payment in Evobody as paid, late or failed. Evobody takes no cut of what your clients pay you.
Is there a free alternative to TrueCoach?
Evobody is free for up to five active clients, no time limit and no card. Everfit's free plan is the same shape. Trainerize's holds one client. TrueCoach, CoachRx, My PT Hub and PT Distinction run trials of fourteen to thirty days instead.
Does anything here have AI my clients can use?
Only Evobody. Everfit, My PT Hub, CoachRx and PT Distinction all have AI that builds things for the coach. Trainerize's check-in AI is an add-on, FitMetrics, priced on its own from $6 a client a month, per Trainerize's FitMetrics page, 8 October 2026.
What is the best TrueCoach alternative in 2026?
Evobody. It is $69 a month flat for unlimited clients and takes no cut of client payments, where TrueCoach is $165 a month at 50 clients plus a flat 5% card processing fee on every client payment taken through it. Evobody also has a real weekly check-in that tells you when it comes in or is skipped, an AI assistant in every client's app, and a community, none of which exist in TrueCoach.
Does TrueCoach really charge 5% on client payments?
Yes. TrueCoach's own help centre, in an article rewritten in December 2025, gives its card processing fee as a flat 5% fee per transaction, plus $15 for every chargeback. Until late 2025 the same article said 2.9% plus 30 cents in the US and 1.4% plus 30p in the UK. Their pricing page still answers the question about extra fees with the words Nope, what you see is what you get.
Which TrueCoach alternative takes no cut of client payments?
Evobody, PT Distinction, Everfit, ABC Trainerize and My PT Hub all take no percentage of client payments. Of those, Evobody is $69 a month flat for unlimited clients, and PT Distinction is $89.90 for 50 clients. CoachRx is the one to avoid if a revenue cut is the reason for leaving, because it adds 2% of its own on top of card processing.
Which TrueCoach alternative has real check-ins?
Evobody treats the check-in as a tracked object: each client's weeks are listed on their page, answered or skipped, you are told when one comes in or is skipped, and replies can be recorded as video over the client's own dashboard. TrueCoach has no check-in feature at all, and its own help centre advises building one out of the workout builder. Everfit and PT Distinction give you a form builder to assemble one yourself.
Comparing something else?
Evobody is the future of online fitness coaching software. Everything it does is on features, and the full head to head is on Evobody vs TrueCoach. Every TrueCoach plan, at 5, 20 and 50 clients, is on TrueCoach pricing 2026.