An honest comparison
Trainzo vs Trainerize.
Comparison pages written by one of the two products deserve suspicion, so the ground rules here are strict: where Trainerize is better, this page says so first and plainly; their numbers carry the date we checked them; and if this page helps you conclude Trainerize is the right choice for your practice, it has done its job.
Trainzo is in early access: the coach dashboard is live, the client app is rolling out, and we are letting coaches in a few at a time. If that stage is too early for your business, that is a fair reason to choose the incumbent — and the comparison below is still worth five minutes.
The short version
Trainerize is the category incumbent: enormous feature surface, nutrition and payments and a branded-app option — with a pricing model where the features you actually want are tiered and sold as add-ons on top of the headline price.
Trainzo is deliberately smaller: the core coaching loop, priced by roster size alone, every feature on every plan, nothing sold separately.
If you need meal tracking or in-app client billing today, Trainerize wins today. If you want the core loop without the add-on arithmetic — and a platform where being a coach and someone’s client does not take two email addresses — that is what Trainzo is for.
Side by side
| Trainerize | Trainzo | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1 full coaching client on the free Basic plan — permanent, no card | First three clients free — no card, no expiry |
| Paid entry point | Grow from ~US$9/mo (2 clients); Pro from ~US$23/mo (5 clients) — on annual billing; ~US$10 and ~US$25 billed monthly | Priced by roster size; final prices are being set during early access |
| How pricing scales | By client count AND by tier — features differ between plans | By roster size only — every feature on every plan |
| Add-ons | Advanced nutrition ~US$20–45/mo · integrated payments ~US$10/mo · branded app ~US$169 one-time (Pro plans only, plus Apple’s US$99/yr developer fee) | None. There is nothing to buy on top |
| Nutrition & meal tracking | Yes — a real strength, including the paid advanced tier | No. Programs carry nutrition-phase guidance; tracking is deliberately out of scope for now |
| Clients paying you in-app | Yes, via the payments add-on | Not yet — on the roadmap, after the core loop |
| Custom-branded app | Yes, as a one-time paid add-on | Not offered today |
| Coach and client on one login | No — training under someone else means registering a second email | Yes — one account can coach a roster and train under another coach |
| A client with several coaches | No — one account, one coaching relationship | Yes — strength coach, physio and nutritionist at once, each sealed from the others |
| Exercise & program library | Large, mature library | 2,004 movements, 44 workouts, 25 evidence-based programs — included on every plan, the free one too |
| Maturity | 15+ years, part of ABC Fitness, huge install base | Early access, 2026. Young, small, and moving fast |
Trainerize details last checked 6 September 2026, from public pricing pages. Plans and prices change — confirm on their site before deciding.
Where Trainerize wins
- Nutrition coaching. Meal tracking, macro targets and the MyFitnessPal ecosystem — Trainzo has none of this, on purpose, for now.
- Getting paid by your clients inside the app. Trainerize does it today (as an add-on); Trainzo does not yet.
- A branded app with your name on the store listing — a real offer Trainerize ships and Trainzo does not.
- Track record. Fifteen years of edge cases found and fixed, and an ecosystem of integrations Trainzo has not built.
- If you need any of these this month, choose Trainerize. Genuinely.
Where Trainzo wins
- The price is the price. No feature tiers, no add-on arithmetic — the number on the plan is what you pay, and every plan has everything.
- One identity. A coach who trains under another coach — or coaches themselves — needs no second email and no second account. Each coaching relationship is sealed from the others.
- Free means free. Two clients, no card, no expiry — a working practice for a coach starting out, not a demo.
- The library ships on every plan: 2,004 movements with instructions and cues, and 25 programs built from the strength-and-conditioning literature, ready to copy and edit.
- Focus. Trainzo does the coaching loop — build, deliver, log, see — and does not carry a decade of features you will never open.
The identity difference, since no price list mentions it
Every platform in this comparison stores people. Trainzo is the only one that treats identity and role as different things: an account is a person, and a person can be a coach with a roster, a client of one coach, a client of three coaches, or all of it at once — one email, one login, each relationship sealed from the others.
It sounds abstract until it is your Tuesday: you coach twenty clients and you also train under a powerlifting coach. Elsewhere that is two accounts and a second email address. On Trainzo it is the same login wearing two hats — and your coach never sees your roster, and your clients never see your coach.
Want to see it for real?
Trainzo is opening to a small first group of coaches. Tell us how you coach and we will come to you when there is a place.
Ask for early accessTrainerize is a trademark of ABC Fitness Solutions. Trainzo is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ABC Fitness Solutions; the name is used only to identify the product being compared. Corrections are welcome at hello@trainzo.com — if something above is wrong or stale, we will fix it.