Exercise.com: Your Gymcatch Alternative
Why Choose Exercise.com?
Here are five reasons why fitness professionals use Exercise.com vs. Gymcatch.
Fitness Business Management Software to Run Your Business
Unlike Gymcatch, Exercise.com software is designed to have all components needed to run a fitness business in one place – making it easy and efficient to organize and grow your fitness business with client and class scheduling, check-ins, and billing — all from your custom-branded apps.
Fitness Business Management Software to Run Your Business
Unlike Gymcatch, Exercise.com software is designed to have all components needed to run a fitness business in one place – making it easy and efficient to organize and grow your fitness business with client and class scheduling, check-ins, and billing — all from your custom-branded apps.
Workout Software to Power Your Training
Gymcatch does not offer workout software – a crucial feature when running a fitness business. The Exercise.com workout plan creator and exercise manager provide flexible solutions to save you time creating workouts with built-in integrations, tools, and more.
E-commerce Software to Increase Revenue
Fitness professionals cannot use Gymcatch to sell training packages, workout challenges, or single workout plans. Exercise.com, however, has full e-commerce capabilities allowing trainers to sell single workout plans, offer automated workout memberships, run workout challenges, and deliver individual training.
E-commerce Software to Increase Revenue
Fitness professionals cannot use Gymcatch to sell training packages, workout challenges, or single workout plans. Exercise.com, however, has full e-commerce capabilities allowing trainers to sell single workout plans, offer automated workout memberships, run workout challenges, and deliver individual training.
Assessment Software to Improve Client Engagement and Retention
Gymcatch lacks assessment software, but that’s not the case with Exercise.com. Take clients through your personalized assessment to deliver custom workouts for their individual needs – providing massive growth potential and saved time.
Stand Out With Your Own Custom-branded Apps
Gymcatch’s apps are not customizable. On the other hand, Exercise.com offers fully customized apps built to make your life easier by providing your clients with a unified scheduling and workout experience with your brand displayed front-and-center.
Stand Out With Your Own Custom-branded Apps
Gymcatch’s apps are not customizable. On the other hand, Exercise.com offers fully customized apps built to make your life easier by providing your clients with a unified scheduling and workout experience with your brand displayed front-and-center.
If you’re ready to get started with an easy-to-navigate, all-in-one fitness software, designed to fuel your business, request a demo with Exercise.com today.
And, if you want to see how Gymcatch’s additional features stack up to Exercise.com software features, check out our in-depth guide below.
What is Gymcatch?
Founded in 2015, Gymcatch is a software program designed for freestanding fitness businesses. Its primary focus is booking and customer management services for classes and appointments, making it ideal for group instructors at boutique studios and gyms.
Gymcatch offers a number of features that managers and customers alike have come to expect from management software, such as scheduling private sessions and classes, payment processing, waitlist management, personalized discount codes, website integrations, and a mobile app.
While Gymcatch might pique your interest with their positive reviews and promises of outstanding customer service, let’s take a closer look at how the features compare with the Exercise.com comprehensive and personalized platform.
All information about Gymcatch in this review was compiled via the Gymcatch website. Unless otherwise stated, all images and reviews below are of/about the Exercise.com All-In-One Fitness Business Management software platform.
Gymcatch covers all the basics of booking and scheduling services. It offers most types of scheduling features, secure payment processing, and website and mobile access points under its brand. However, Gymcatch quickly and openly admits that it is only a booking and management software.
Because Gymcatch only covers one aspect of business management, gaping holes must be filled with other apps, programs, or personnel on all other areas of business management, such as:
- Reporting
- Marketing integrations
- Website design and moderating
- Workout creation and delivery
- Ecommerce opportunities
- Performance assessments
Piecing together various programs or delegating responsibilities to other employees can be a headache, and in the end, may not even save you money.
Additionally, Gymcatch doesn’t adhere to the personalization and customization of your fitness brand: it is a one-size-fits-all standard package with a handful of add-ons for an additional charge each. Managers must defer to Gymcatch’s website and app in order to book clients and send reminders instead of keeping their customers engaged on their own website or app.
This may not initially seem like a big deal, but personalization through customized services wins customer loyalty and increases revenue. So while Gymcatch may deliver an excellent scheduling system, it doesn’t deliver the personalized features that convert visitors to customers or grow your business.
However, Exercise.com software solves these problems! Our comprehensive platform is completely customized to your needs, preferences, and style. It helps efficiently manage every aspect of your business so you save time and money! We work with you to personalize a website and app that keeps your customers engaged in your brand as they access their fitness plans and make payments.
Not to mention, our software also provides booking and scheduling services that trainers, staff, and customers can access any time, anywhere!
Let’s examine each of these categories more thoroughly.
Fitness Business Management Software
Gymcatch offers the following booking and scheduling management features:
| Included Features - $20/month | Add-Ons - $4 each/month |
|---|---|
| Web, iOS and Android client apps | Auto refunds in line with cancellation policy |
| Unlimited class, event, and appointment scheduling | Customized waivers and personal information requirements |
| Payment processing with Stripe (excludes Stripe standard fees) | Website integration code |
| Customer management portal | Courses |
| Online support | Coming Soon: Memberships |
| Automated wait lists, reminders | |
| Customer and admin auto and push email notifications | |
| Facebook integration for client community and social booking | |
| Unlimited team members | |
| Marketing materials |
One key area to note is that Gymcatch does not currently offer membership package payment processing. This means that membership payments must be paid separately–and not through Gymcatch’s payment processor. This splitting of payments could be confusing and frustrating for employees, trainers, and customers.
However, the Exercise.com gym management software allows you to stay in one place for all managerial duties and payments. Seamlessly transition between inputting new member information and taking payments all on the same system, making it easy on your staff and giving a professional, hassle-free experience that impresses your new customers.
Client/Class Scheduling
Gymcatch includes standard calendar and booking features that are compatible with other scheduling platforms’ layout and features. However, there is one major obstacle: users must manually add people to classes and delete bookings on a computer. This creates a huge inconvenience for employees, where almost everything is available on a mobile device!
Due to the on-the-go nature of their jobs, trainers are most productive when they can access their schedules and communicate with their clients on a mobile device versus a computer. Gymcatch is a hindrance to productivity and communication in this area.
This is not the case with Exercise.com software! Every member of the team can view, edit, and add to the schedule in real-time–and on any device! This saves time, boosts productivity, and allows trainers and employees to stay engaged with customers for greater customer satisfaction.
Gym/Facility Management
Gymcatch doesn’t include any reporting features. But in order to successfully run a business, every manager knows they must keep a close eye on inventory, sales, and membership reports! This leaves you to either manually create, track, and analyze reports, invest in another reporting software, or delegate this crucial task to another staff member.
But with Exercise.com easy report access, you can increase the efficiency of your business by having all your business data securely and accurately documented and analyzed. This saves you time and money, with the potential to make even more profit!
Business Dashboard Reports
Both Gymcatch and Exercise.com have the capability to generate business reports and a dashboard for conveniently displaying your most frequented reports. Exercise.com’s business dashboard features standard and customizable reports which enable you to keep your finger on the pulse of your business. Our dashboard is easily customizable, giving you free-range to how you want to analyze your business or filter information.
Client Automation
Gymcatch and Exercise.com both deliver automated scheduling. However, Exercise.com offers additional automations that Gymcatch does not, like:
- Automatically send clients workout plans, videos, and more
- Automatically send resources and files for easy client access
- Automatically send clients their fitness assessments
- Automatically charge and receive payments securely and easily
- Automatically send reminders and alerts for appointments or classes via app, text, and email
The automation services of the Exercise.com platform will save you time and money rather than performing these tasks manually. If you have another program that automatically sends out notifications, consider the streamlined efficiency of all automatic notifications to be managed and sent from one program! Best yet, these notifications come directly from your custom brand so members stay engaged with your business.
Dedicated Zapier Support
The Exercise.com partnership with Zapier includes dedicated Zapier support and access to over 2,000 apps that you can integrate into your custom website and apps for added efficiency.
Dedicated Account Manager
As an Exercise.com client, you will have access to an account manager who will be your main point of contact for all of your software-related needs. From website design to ecommerce store setup and everything in between, your account manager will work with you to maximize your brand’s full potential.
Customized Software
Another major difference between Gymcatch and Exercise.com is the emphasis on personalization. While Gymcatch’s customers must use Gymcatch’s website and app in order to access the booking and scheduling services, Exercise.com celebrates your fitness center’s brand! Only with Exercise.com can you get a fully customized website and mobile device app that keeps your customers engaged with your brand!
Custom-Branded
Gymcatch doesn’t provide any brand customization; it’s a generic booking and customer management platform that doesn’t highlight your unique fitness center or help it stand out in a highly competitive market. Members of your fitness center will always go to Gymcatch’s website or app and must use the features provided by Gymcatch. The bottom line: your fitness center’s brand is second to Gymcatch.
This is not the case with Exercise.com. We work with you to completely personalize your business platform, highlighting your business to keep it front and center. Instead of downloading Gymcatch’s app, members will download an app with your gym’s name and logo and will have access to all of your resources and policies. Because your platform is customized for your business, you get to decide what gets featured!
iOS & Android Apps
As stated above, managers must defer to Gymcatch’s website and app in order to book clients and send reminders instead of keeping their customers engaged on their own website or app. There are no customization options for apps. Exercise.com, however, offers full customization of your branded app for personal trainers, which gives your clients a personal experience.
Websites
Because Gymcatch is a booking and management software, it does nothing to support your brand’s website. In fact, using Gymcatch may detract from your website, since members must use Gymcatch’s website in order to access their scheduling and payments. Instead, you must pay another source (or use your valuable time!) to develop and manage your gym’s website.
With Exercise.com software, we help you build a secure, SEO-optimized fitness business website that converts visitors to leads and keeps members engaged with your brand instead of bouncing to another website. Enjoy creating and personalizing your website with unlimited theme changes, custom graphic work, colors, features, custom dev, and more. We’re also a Google Certified Partner!
Security Features
Gymcatch doesn’t explicitly advertise any security features, but one can hope that scheduling and client information is kept private. Payments are processed through Stripe, which is generally a reliable and secure third-party payment processor.
However, Exercise.com emphasizes providing the highest standard of security for payment processing and storing clients’ health information. Our websites and apps are SSL Secure, client information is protected with the internationally-secure Privacy Shield Framework, and we utilize Google Cloud for storing and transferring data.
Marketing Integrations
Gymcatch doesn’t offer any marketing integration features. This means you must find another program, professional, or time in your own schedule to analyze the efficacy of marketing integrations to make smart adjustments.
There’s a better way than piecing together various management tactics! Exercise.com software handles all of your marketing integrations so that you can make wise decisions to grow your business! We effectively integrate:
- MailChimp
- ConstantContact
- ConvertKit
- Zapier
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Pixel
- And more!
Exercise.com prioritizes your brand’s personalization. Set up as many integrations as you need and don’t worry about paying for features you don’t use! Painlessly adjust your marketing integrations as needed; plus, Exercise.com online support is always ready to assist you!
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Exercise.com is the best Gymcatch alternative.
Workout Software
Another major difference between the Gymcatch and Exercise.com platforms is that Gymcatch doesn’t offer any workout or nutritional plan capabilities. This means trainers and clients must use more than one app (or go old-school with paper hand-outs) to create workout and nutrition plans, track progress, and offer support.
Why not streamline your business and avoid any confusion or frustration of switching between apps by using the All-In-One Platform from Exercise.com? Keep reading to see the versatility and interactive nature of Exercise.com software — because our user-friendly software makes every aspect of your business easier, your trainers and clients won’t want to use anything else!
Workout Creator/Logger
Every fitness center is comprised of members with varying degrees of time, money, and physical commitment. Exercise.com workout software allows trainers to fully engage each client so they can reach their maximum potential. With the versatility of our software, traveling athletes, in-person clients, hybrid clients (in-person/online), and busy professionals all receive the highest standard of personalized care.
Easily send workout and nutrition plans and updates, videos, resources, and more! Stay in contact with clients (this is especially helpful for traveling clients or busy professionals) to answer their questions, maintain accountability, and boost motivation.
1-1 Training
One-on-one training allows trainers to develop a supportive and encouraging environment for their clients in order to meet their health and fitness goals. Exercise.com software makes it easy for trainers to create and share any type of workout with their clients.
Group Training
Offer group training packages at your facility or organize online group training sessions for added profit! For example, if you are leading a group kickboxing workout, you could have the workout pulled up on a few mobile devices around the room for the clients to work out with a partner. Alternatively, you can broadcast the workout and demonstration videos for everyone to see on your facility’s television monitors.
Online Training
Online training is a great way to grow your business. You can train your current clients if they are out of town on business or traveling on a vacation. You can also add new clients to your client base no matter their location.
Exercise Library
Exercise.com software will set you apart from competitors through our customized workout designs and extensive exercise video and instructional libraries. Trainers use the workout plan creator to customize their clients’ next set of workouts with various features, including videos, pictures, intervals, alternates, blocks, descriptions, instructions, and notes.
These are not only easy for trainers to create, but they’re also easy for clients to follow. Progress is easily tracked, allowing trainers to fully support and engage their clients on their fitness journeys.
Again, this customized workout design and library is not supported by Gymcatch. It’s a feature you only get with Exercise.com.
Custom Exercises
You can add your own custom exercises with videos to the Exercise.com exercise library for that added personal touch at no additional charge.
TV Workouts
The Exercise.com workout software platform’s capabilities allow you to cast videos onto gym television screens during group classes or one-on-one training sessions.
Gym Ecommerce Software
While Gymcatch may adequately manage your scheduling and booking, it won’t grow your business like the Exercise.com platform. A huge reason for this is because Gymcatch doesn’t offer any ecommerce or point of sale options. These missed opportunities are the difference between surviving and thriving businesses.
Exercise.com gym ecommerce software has dozens of features that will grow your revenue and your customer base.
Payment Processing
Both Gymcatch and Exercise.com use Stripe to accept payments both on web and mobile devices. Stripe is a popular and reliable third-party payment processor. The only difference is that with Exercise.com, you keep customers engaged with your brand by paying through your personalized website and app; whereas, with Gymcatch, customer engagement is reduced as they must pay through Gymcatch’s website and app.
Sell Products
Exercise.com’s ecommerce software allows you to sell gym merchandise which is a great way for additional revenue.
Sell Workout Plans
Everyone experiences a life season when they’re too busy to make it to the gym, so they try a trendy home-based workout program. This is normal, but membership attrition often results after members lose the rhythm of attending the gym.
Prevent attrition and keep your members engaged in your brand by building and selling your own customized workout programs and plans. Offer programs like cardio, core recovery, flexibility, high-intensity training, kickboxing, or countless other courses. The more options you provide, the more opportunities you have to increase customer engagement and lower your rate of attrition. Not to mention, it boosts your business revenue.
Offer Online Workout Memberships
As previously mentioned, Exercise.com software allows you to design custom programming that fits the preferences, style, and needs of each individual client. These workout or nutritional plans can be delivered automatically to clients on a daily, weekly, monthly, or annual basis, which takes another managerial load off of your back.
Sell Workout Challenges
Profitable fitness centers are those with high levels of member retention. How do fitness centers retain members? By creating a positive gym culture.
One of the best (and most popular) ways to build a positive gym culture, community, and loyalty is to run frequent workout challenges. These are a fun way to both encourage a competitive spirit and cheer other members on. The more buy-in and commitment members have to your fitness center’s brand, the more your business will grow.
Workout challenges are easily customized and automated in Exercise.com software, so all you have to do is award the winner!
Fitness Assessment Software
Assessments are critical to membership retention and are a huge part of a personal trainer’s job to ensure safety, create effective workout strategies, and track progress.
At the beginning of a fitness journey, performance assessments help clients see their strengths and weaknesses in black and white. They can see what changes need to take place in order to accomplish their goals. As time goes on, periodic performance assessments allow clients to see when their goals are achieved and to take stock of areas that need improvement. They help clients get back on track, adjust their exercise strategy, or renew their motivation. Simply put: assessments help your business thrive.
While Gymcatch does store members’ personal data in their system for the purpose of processing payments and scheduling appointments, it doesn’t have features to save or track assessments. The Exercise.com fitness assessment software provides a simple layout for trainers and clients to both easily record and access performance assessments from anywhere, on any device.
Assessments
Choose to use standard fitness and performance assessments or customize your own! Either way, Exercise.com software makes gathering client data easy so trainers spend less time inputting data and more time with their clients.
Once completed, trainers can use these performance assessments to adjust their clients’ workout and nutritional plans for increased effectiveness. Better yet, trainers can further engage and motivate their clients by automatically sending performance assessment results to their inboxes!
Performance & Measurement Reports
As if it could get any better, Exercise.com software allows trainers to automatically send PDFs, resources, nutrition plans, and more to their clients! Everything is kept in one place so customers can easily access all their information. This improves client program adherence by reducing the frustration of switching between apps to find different information or forms. In turn, customers will be highly satisfied as they see more results through better program adherence.
Nutrition
Exercise.com uses MyFitnessPal for nutrition tracking, food database, meal planning, and reports. MyFitnessPal is one of the most popular diet tracking options out there and it is integrated right in there with the software.
Gymcatch Software Pricing
The Gymcatch pricing structure offers a 3-month free trial of its complete software package. After the 3-month trial, the software is $20 a month with a $4 charge for each additional add-on. At maximum, the whole package costs $36 a month.
This might seem like a steal, but keep in mind that Gymcatch only manages scheduling and booking. There’s a lot more to effectively managing a business than scheduling and booking! This means additional time and money must be invested in website design and management, workout creation and delivery, performance assessments, ecommerce and point of sale, advertising and marketing, and all the nitty-gritty details.
However, Exercise.com software is comprehensive, so you don’t need a conglomeration of different programs to manage your business. With dozens of automated features and the convenience of having all your data in one place, you have more time to do what you love!
Gymcatch Alternatives
Although Gymcatch is intended to be used by fitness businesses, you may notice that Gymcatch’s competitors are mostly generic scheduling and payment processing services. This is because Gymcatch doesn’t offer unique fitness-related features like Exercise.com. In theory, Gymcatch could be used by any business that needs a booking and scheduling program.
However, Exercise.com is the superior booking and scheduling program because it is tailored for your fitness business. And not just any fitness business, but your fitness business. Instead of being required to use Gymcatch’s standard layout system, with Exercise.com you can personalize the layout and booking options to your preferences and needs. And that doesn’t include the other customizable features which empower you to grow and manage your business with confidence!
The Bottom Line: Pros and Cons
Choosing the right management software is a critical business decision. It can be the difference between a thriving, growing business and one that checks all the right boxes but doesn’t gain any momentum. While it’s commendable (and necessary) to save money where you can, investing in Gymcatch won’t cut many corners. You may have a great scheduling software platform, but you’ll need to piece together various programs in order to effectively manage every other aspect of your business.
With Exercise.com, all you need is one software! Our platform is here to help your business flourish. It’s easy for managers, trainers, and customers to use, which boosts customer satisfaction, aids in retention, and creates raving fans.
Gymcatch Cons
Gymcatch isn’t a bad booking and scheduling platform. In fact, it has dozens of highly positive reviews with satisfied customers. However, it’s key to remember that because it’s primary function is scheduling, Gymcatch lacks features that are crucial to managing and growing a fitness business, such as:
- Fitness centers must use Gymcatch’s one-size-fits-all website and app, not their personalized brand. Gymcatch’s brand takes front and center.
- It doesn’t offer reporting or marketing integration features that help manage and grow your business. These must be done manually or with another program.
- It doesn’t offer any personal trainer features such as workout creation, exercise library, nutrition plans, performance assessments, or client resources. Trainers and clients must use multiple software platforms, which can be confusing and frustrating for some clients.
- It doesn’t offer any ecommerce capabilities, leaving you with missed opportunities to engage members and grow your business.
It’s clear to see that while Gymcatch may do a wonderful job of keeping your schedule organized, it won’t grow your business. In order to stand out in a sea of fitness centers, you must invest more time and money to fill these gaps with other apps, programs, or personnel. Otherwise, your business may remain stagnant.
Exercise.com Pros
Instead, choosing the Exercise.com All-in-One platform takes the brunt of managerial duties so you can spend more time equipping your staff and building relationships with customers. It encourages staff and trainer productivity by staying in one program and avoids any client frustration of switching between apps. Additionally, Exercise.com software aids your business by:
- Boosting your business’s efficiency and revenue through easy-access reporting and unlimited marketing integrations.
- Keeping customers engaged with your brand by using your completely custom-designed website and app.
- Completely customizing workout and nutritional plans for every client with videos, personalized instructions, initial and periodic performance assessments, and resources.
- Capitalizing on every opportunity to engage members through countless ecommerce and POS customizations
- AND providing a hassle-free scheduling and booking experience for your staff and customers that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, on any device.
While Exercise.com provides an easy and reliable scheduling layout, it does so much more than that! Our platform helps you manage and grow your business for years to come. The convenience of needing only one software is unbeatable, and you can depend on Exercise.com to deliver a professional, personalized customer experience every time. Interested in learning more? Book a demo today!