Why fitness pros search “Trainerize vs” in the first place

Trainerize built the market for online training software, and its name is now shorthand for the whole category. If you are comparing alternatives, you already know what it does well: solid workout delivery, an app clients open daily, and enough client-management tooling to run a real coaching business. This isn’t a page about what Trainerize gets wrong. It’s about the one gap that shows up the moment your coaching includes nutrition — and for most fitness professionals today, it does.

The nutrition gap, and where the cost hides

Trainerize’s Grow and Pro plans let a coach track what a client eats: macros logged, meals logged, numbers on a dashboard. What they don’t include is the ability to actually build and assign a meal plan. That capability lives behind Advanced Nutrition Coaching, a separate add-on priced $20/mo on Grow and Pro 5, and $45/mo once a coach moves to a higher client-count Pro tier — stacked on top of whatever is already being paid for the base plan.

Run the math for a typical solo coach: Pro at $23/mo for 5 clients, plus Advanced Nutrition Coaching at $20/mo, and the bill is $43/mo before a single upsell — for one professional, running one practice, split across two subscriptions and two invoices.

ExoTrack was built as the control center for delivering training and nutrition together — deliver plans in minutes, not two separate builds in two separate tools. The Professional plan includes full nutrition plan building — meal and food library, macros, calories, water goals — from day one. No add-on, no second charge, no second dashboard to check. Build a workout, build a nutrition plan, assign both, and see adherence in real time in the same client view. Training and nutrition were never two products here. They’re one subscription.

Pricing that doesn’t scale against you

Trainerize prices by client count, and the ladder is steep: Free for 1 client, $9/mo for 2, from $23/mo for 5, and it keeps climbing tier by tier as the roster grows, up to $248/mo per location for a studio. Want the app under your own brand? That’s a separate $169 one-time fee.

ExoTrack Professional is a flat, unlimited-client-management price. Take on a sixth client, a fiftieth, a two-hundredth — the plan doesn’t change and the invoice doesn’t grow with the roster. Client assessments with a shared training-and-nutrition history, onboarding templates, and calendar-based scheduling are all included at that same price, not itemized as separate purchases.

One operational layer, one adherence view

Client management, onboarding templates, and schedule management cover the operational side that matters day to day: invite a client by email or code, capture their intake with a reusable onboarding flow, and get sessions, consults, and assessments onto a shared calendar with live statuses. Assessments carry one history across training and nutrition, so a coach and a dietician working the same client see the same picture instead of two disconnected records in two different tools.

None of it depends on stitching two products together. Update a plan on the web, and it syncs to the included mobile app automatically — the same app the client already has open.

Adherence is where the split shows up fastest. On Trainerize, a coach checks workout completion in one place and, only once the nutrition add-on is active, meal logging in another. ExoTrack keeps workouts, meals, and hydration in a single adherence view, so a missed session and a skipped meal show up together instead of on two different reports behind two different logins.

Which one fits your business

If nutrition coaching is genuinely outside scope — pure strength and conditioning, no macro work, ever — Trainerize’s core plan covers the training side well, and its head start in the market means more third-party integrations today. But if a coach works, or wants to work, across both training and nutrition — which is most of the market Trainerize itself is now building toward with its own add-on — paying for two products bolted together adds cost and complexity that isn’t necessary.

ExoTrack was built for that unified case from the start: one login, one subscription, one adherence view across workouts, meals, and hydration. Start free, try it with real clients, and decide whether two subscriptions were ever the better option.