Evobody vs Trainerize.

Evo SI, in every client's app

SI stands for Super Intelligence, previously known as Artificial Intelligence.

• Photograph the menu at the restaurant they are sitting in and ask what they can eat.
• Photograph the inside of the fridge and see what is in there they can have.
• Ask how training went this month and hear which lifts went up.
• Log a meal by describing it, then correct it by saying "that was a bun, not a roll."
• Type in their weight, blood pressure or blood sugar and it goes straight into their record.

It reads their plan, their targets, their phase and their numbers, and it is told that client's own allergy and diet rules with every question. It proposes, the client confirms, and it never overrules their coach.

It works for you too, trained on your philosophy and methods, set up in the app. And it is optional: switched off for a client, it is hidden from their app.

Trainerize's AI Workout Builder is a genuinely good tool that takes plain language, and it is a tool for you, not for your client. It builds one workout at a time, cannot assign it, cannot create a program, loses the draft permanently if you leave the chat, and reads only six fields about the client: age, sex, height, weight and their recent sessions. It knows nothing about their goals, their injuries or their check-ins. It is also not available on the free trial, so you cannot try it before you pay.

The AI most coaches actually want from Trainerize, the one that drafts check-in replies and reads macros off a meal photo, is an add-on. It is FitMetrics, which ABC Fitness bought in September 2026 and now sells inside Trainerize. It costs $6 a client a month on its Starter plan, or $10 a client with a fifty client minimum on Scale, read 8 October 2026.

Ranks, milestones and Pace Setters

Clients climb five ranks, Start through to Whole, each with its own badge, earned week by week against their own plan. They collect milestones for streaks from a week to a full year and for sessions from ten to five hundred. Every week the app puts the clients who showed up on the Pace Setters board, and you can add anyone else you think earned it.

Start Shift Align Anchor Whole

Trainerize has badges, habit streaks and high fives, and they are on every plan. What it does not have is any ranked progression. There are no levels and nothing accumulates. Their points exist only inside a challenge, and their own FAQ says a finished challenge "is automatically deleted after 7 days", so the points go with it. A client who has trained with you for two years has nothing to show for it but a badge count.

A community your clients can actually see

This one is worth reading their documentation carefully on. Trainerize Groups have four tabs, and their own help centre says: "Only trainers see the four tabs as shown above. Clients, however, only see the Summary and Files tabs." The Timeline, which is the activity feed, is trainer only. What your client gets is a group chat with some automatic posts in it. Groups and Challenges also need Pro 5 or above, and their free plan holds a single client.

On Evobody your clients get a private community feed on every plan, shared with your other clients and nobody else. No other coach can see your client list or reach your clients, and every post starts from an achievement because there is no compose button anywhere in the client app.

Progress photos your clients will actually take

The client picks their angles and presses Start for each one. A voice names the pose, the app counts them in from six and takes the photo by itself, tagged front, side or back, so nobody else needs to be in the room.

Trainerize photos are taken by hand from the camera roll or the camera, with no guide and no automatic capture. Their comparison tools afterwards are good. Getting clients to take the photos in the first place is the part nobody has solved, and it is the part that decides whether the comparison tool ever gets used.

Check-ins that tell you who skipped, and why

In Evobody 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 is one more thing you stop paying for.

Trainerize has real check-in forms. What it does not have is anything that tells you one was missed. Not an alert, not an auto tag, and not their weekly compliance score, which counts habits, nutrition and workouts only. Their forms also offer four question types, none of which is a photo, a file, a number or a date, so a client cannot attach a progress photo to a check-in at all.

There is no screen recording anywhere in Trainerize. Coach video messages cap at three minutes and fifty megabytes and can only be sent from the phone, not the web. Video calls need a $10 a month add-on billed by participant hour, so one hour with forty clients spends forty of your fifty hours.

Outdoor training, tracked live

A run or a ride is tracked live inside Evobody on a GPS map, with pace and distance as it happens, in the iPhone app (in beta).

Trainerize connects to five wearables directly. Whoop, Oura, Polar and Strava are not among them and arrive only second hand through Apple Health or Google Health Connect, and their own tables leave Oura off the Apple Health list entirely, so an iPhone client with an Oura ring has no documented route. Only Apple Watch can send a strength workout back; Garmin and Fitbit strength sessions arrive labelled as general cardio.

Support for your clients, day or night

When a client has a question about the app, they ask from inside it, any hour, and Evobody answers. You are not the help desk for software you did not build, and anything about their training or food still comes to you. Of the seven platforms we compare, Evobody is the only one that publishes 24/7 support for your clients. See all seven.

From each company's own help centre and pricing pages, checked 23 September 2026.

Changing a program, in their users' words

A coach put it this way on Trainerize's own public idea board, where the request is still open.

Their documentation confirms the mechanism he is describing. Calendar items are ordered by workout style rather than by the order you scheduled them, so a warm up genuinely can appear after the strength work. Progressing a workout breaks its link to the client's calendar and the docs say it "would have to be unscheduled and rescheduled." Pausing a client means taking them off your master program, after which your edits to that program no longer reach them.

To be fair to them, clients can move their own workouts, and drag and drop does exist. That request sat open on their board from 2013 until it was marked done in 2024.

Reliability, from their own status page

ABC Fitness publishes an incident feed. Since October 2025 it records eleven incidents affecting the Trainerize apps, nine of them major or critical, including five major incidents inside four days in June 2026. Trainerize announced a "reliability task force" in their own June 2026 update.

What fifty clients actually costs

Evobody is $69 a month on the Coach plan at fifty clients, or $99 on Studio, which opens later, with your own branding, with the community, ranks, habits, check-ins, the screen recorder, a 2.6 million food database and GPS all included. Free for your first five clients, where Trainerize's free plan holds one.

Evo SI is the one thing priced separately on both sides. On Evobody's Coach plan it is $3 a month for each client using it. It is optional: switched off for a client, it is hidden from their app and costs nothing. On the Studio plan, which opens later, at $99 a month, Evo SI is free with your own AI API key. FitMetrics' price, 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." The two do different jobs: FitMetrics drafts check-in replies for you, Evo SI answers your client at eight in the evening.

And the way their pricing steps is worth knowing before you grow into it. Your third client takes you from $10 to $25. Your sixth takes you from $25 to $50. Your thirty first takes you from $79 to $135, so one new client costs $56 a month. Evobody does not move.

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.

Moving to Evobody

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.

Evobody is the future of online fitness coaching software.

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Comparing other platforms

Full pricing detail, including Evo SI, is on pricing. Everything Evobody does is on features. Every Trainerize plan and add-on, at 5, 20 and 50 clients, is on Trainerize pricing 2026.