Exercise.com: Your PTminder Alternative
Why Choose Exercise.com?
Here are five reasons why fitness professionals use Exercise.com vs. PTminder.
Fitness Business Management Software to Run Your Business
Unlike PTminder, 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 PTminder, 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
PTminder offers limited workout software that doesn't allow for clients to participate in any workout challenges that you create. The intuitive and easy-to-use Exercise.com workout plan creator and exercise manager provide flexible solutions to save you time creating workouts with built-in integrations, tools, automated delivery, and more.
Ecommerce Software to Increase Revenue
Fitness professionals cannot use PTminder to sell online memberships or group training. Exercise.com, however, has full ecommerce capabilities allowing trainers to sell merchandise and single workout plans, offer automated workout memberships, run workout challenges, and deliver individual training.
Ecommerce Software to Increase Revenue
Fitness professionals cannot use PTminder to sell online memberships or group training. Exercise.com, however, has full ecommerce capabilities allowing trainers to sell merchandise and single workout plans, offer automated workout memberships, run workout challenges, and deliver individual training.
Assessment Software to Improve Client Engagement and Retention
PTminder offers assessment software. However, unlike Exercise.com, it does not provide automated workout recommendations based on assessment data. 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
PTminder does not offer websites and only offers app customization for an added fee. On the other hand, Exercise.com offers fully customized apps and websites 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
PTminder does not offer websites and only offers app customization for an added fee. On the other hand, Exercise.com offers fully customized apps and websites 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 PTminder’s additional features stack up to Exercise.com software features, check out our in-depth guide below.
What is PTminder?
PTminder was founded in 2012 and its headquarters are located in New Zealand. PTminder is focused on fitness business software for individual personal trainers or small or medium personal training or fitness businesses.
Exercise.com was founded in 2010 and offers an all-in-one software option that fitness professionals and personal trainers can use to enhance loyalty with clients, maximize revenue, and build a successful business. Using Exercise.com to build and manage your fitness business gives you access to features like custom dev for mobile apps and websites and a successful team with a proven record.
Exercise.com also has an advisory board made up of fitness professionals and experts that provide feedback and expertise to build features that fitness businesses and personal trainers will actually use.
Unless otherwise stated, all images and reviews below are of/about the Exercise.com All-In-One Fitness Business Management software platform.
PTminder is a cloud-based personal trainer software geared toward personal trainers and personal training businesses. The software offers five pricing plans based on the number of active clients and active personal trainers. Each tier offers similar options such as scheduling, client management, assessments, workout and nutrition planning, payments, reporting, and automation.
In comparison, Exercise.com offers all of these features, plus additional useful features, without pricing tiers based on the number of clients and trainers. As you grow your business, there is no need to worry about changing your plan or paying more as you add more clients.
Exercise.com offers additional options not offered by PTminder, such as a full suite of fully customizable performance assessments, marketing integrations, client and trainer workout logging options, and staff roles and permissions.
Fitness Business Management Software
There is a multitude of fitness business management software options available on the market. The software you choose should work for you and allow you to spend time growing your business, not learning and training staff on two or more separate systems.
PTminder has many useful features for personal trainers and fitness professionals but is lacking in some areas. Fitness businesses and trainers would need additional software to maximize their potential, increase productivity, and optimize efficiency.
PTminder’s negative ratings are based on features and ease of use. Users commented that the visual appeal is lacking, the interface is clunky, and the app does not flow well across screens.
Exercise.com is software that provides personal trainers and fitness professionals with numerous options for scheduling and booking, payment tools and reports, workout creation/delivery, and business/management processes. Everything you need to run a successful business is at the tip of your fingers and no need to learn separate systems or software to manage your business.
Client/Class Scheduling
PTminder allows trainers to set their availability and clients can book sessions or appointments from the personal trainer booking app or dashboard. Some users have commented that it can be difficult or tedious to make new calendar entries or mark unavailable time for the trainers. However, PTminder doesn’t have the option to schedule events.
Exercise.com allows you to set the trainer’s availability, track visits, book classes or appointments, schedule and manage events, provide recurring appointment reminders via email and text, and offer calendar integration with Google and Apple for easy management.
Gym/Facility Management
PTminder has several basic reports such as attendance, projected earnings, and expenses. But Exercise.com has a plethora of standard and customized reports so you can analyze your business from every angle.
Exercise.com Fitness Business Management (FBM) software makes reports easy. Never worry about sales, staff, clients, or data logged falling between the cracks with reporting at your fingertips in your custom web and mobile apps. Managing a staff of any size is time-consuming, but FBM saves you time with assignable staff roles so that you can put staff management on autopilot.
Business Dashboard Reports
All your reports can be run in a single software. No more safaris for which software has which reports. Exercise.com Fitness Business Management (FBM) software makes reports easy — sales, business, appointments, class, and payroll reports all in one place. Plus you can also sort reports by:
- Client
- Location
- Services
Only with Exercise.com can you organize these reports on a completely customizable reports dashboard. You choose the featured reports, layout, and more, so you have a clear snapshot of your business at all times. These reports empower you to make the best decisions for your business.
Client Automation
PTminder offers automated text and email reminders for upcoming classes and bookings.
Exercise.com not only offers automated reminders but also offers additional automated features, including:
- Automatic Emails and Texts/Other Automatic Features
- Automate Workout Delivery
- Automate Resource Delivery
- Automate Assessment Delivery
- Automate Reminders/Alerts via app, text, and email
Dedicated Zapier Support
Exercise.com partners with Zapier so that your business can have access to any tool it needs for a fully customizable, immersive, user-friendly experience.
Dedicated Account Manager
PTminder has customer support via email, live chat, and phone. But Exercise.com takes customer service very seriously, so every Exercise.com client receives a dedicated account manager for all of their software-related needs. From adding an online store to full website redesigns, your account manager is there to help you and your business succeed.
Customized Software
Customized software is a must-have in today’s digitally-fueled world and it’s a feature that Exercise.com not only offers but excels in.
Let’s look at how Exercise.com excels in the area of app and web customization.
Custom-Branded
The additional cost for mobile app branding and customization with PTminder is $36 a month on top of the monthly subscription fee. With this addition, businesses or trainers can use their colors, logos, and are listed in the app store with the business name and description.
Exercise.com offers a fully customized fitness trainer app, along with options for web customization and additional dev work. The exercise library is customizable as well; personal trainers can also embed their own videos into their platform, add training blocks, and customize performance assessment features that work best for them and their clients.
iOS & Android Apps
An effective mobile app is critical for personal trainers and fitness businesses because clients want to book and manage classes and appointments, see workout progress, view and log workouts, and manage payments anytime and anywhere.
PTminder has a mobile app available in the app store for iOS and Google Play. The standard PT Minder app is available with all pricing tiers, but the branded and customized mobile app is a paid add-on of $36 a month in addition to the monthly subscription fee of $36 to $110.
Exercise.com offers a variety of features with its mobile apps, including automation, security, and integrations. In addition, mobile app customization is available for all customers, no need to pay an additional monthly fee for that benefit.
Websites
PTminder does not offer websites.
Exercise.com offers clients a custom-branded, SEO-optimized fitness website built to convert visitors to leads. There is an array of customizable features like inputting a blog for posts, inputting sections for e-commerce, unlimited theme changes, and custom graphic work. If there’s something that you want to be added to your website, our world-class dev team will make it happen.
Security Features
PTminder is SSL secure, but there is limited information online about additional security features.
No need to worry about security with Exercise.com. We offer a secure platform, with software that is SSL Secure, a Privacy Shield Framework, and access using Google Cloud.
Marketing Integrations
PTminder has integrations with MailChimp for a variety of marketing campaigns but doesn’t have the integration diversity of Exercise.com. Only with Exercise.com will you receive endless integrations and add-ons, including MailChimp, ConstantContact, ConvertKit, Google Analytics, and Facebook Pixel–plus thousands more through Zapier.
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Exercise.com is the best PTminder alternative.
Workout Software
PTminder has an exercise library and workout planner that can be used to plan and send workouts to clients. Clients and trainers can also track and log workouts in the mobile app.
Exercise.com allows personal trainers to deliver workouts to clients near and far using workout software built for fitness professionals and exercise library and automated delivery to clients. Imagine designing workouts for clients in another state, planning a program specific to their fitness goals, and having that automatically delivered to them based on their workout routine and schedule.
Clients and trainers can track and log workouts for easy viewing of progress toward goals and to see short-term and long-term results.
Workout Creator/Logger
PTminder has a workout creator, which utilizes an exercise library to create individualized workout plans. There is also an option to add custom exercises and website addresses for videos you prefer from certain websites.
Similarly, Exercise.com offers an easy-to-use workout creator and exercise library. Not only can you add custom exercises, but you can also add videos, notes, or tips with those custom exercises. You can also automate the delivery of your workouts. PTminder does not have an automated delivery option for workout plans. You can create and assign workout plans for clients, but there is not an option to have them delivered automatically on specific dates/times. With Exercise.com, personal trainers can automate workout plans, nutrition plans, or fitness information in a pdf format to clients.
1-on-1 Training
One-on-one training is meant to be personalized and a client should feel like they are receiving top-of-the-line service. Exercise.com software provides trainers and fitness facilities with the software needed to make one-on-one training as simple and as personal as possible.
Group Training
The Exercise.com group training feature provides the same resources and support as it does for one-on-one training but members benefit from the community and accountability of the group setting.
Online Training
Let’s say you have a client that travels for work but enjoys working out three times a week in his/her hotel gym. With Exercise.com, you can create a workout plan and set up automatic delivery on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for the client to access from their cell phone.
Exercise Library
PTminder offers an exercise library, as does Exercise.com
With the Exercise.com exercise library, you can customize your own exercise library with videos, tips, steps, and notes.
Custom Exercises
PTminder doesn’t allow trainers to upload custom exercise demonstration videos. This is unfortunate because custom videos add value to your brand and encourage creativity in workout creation. With PTminder, your trainers are constrained to the provided videos.
The Exercise.com exercise library provides users with the ability to add their own custom exercises, exercise demos, and workout videos to the library. Some workout customization options include:
- Workout Plan Creator
- Intervals
- Alternate
- Block
- Smart Delivery
- Custom Exercise Library
- Easily Embed Your Videos into Your Platform
- Your Descriptions, Workouts, etc
TV Workouts
Clients in busy group sessions can see you performing the movements along with them by casting your custom exercise videos directly onto gym television screens.
Gym Ecommerce Software
PTminder includes features for clients to book and pay for classes or packages from the calendar during the booking process via the mobile app. Using the workout creator, trainers that use PTminder can send custom workouts to clients. There are no features to sell workout plans to virtual clients, sell group memberships, or offer group challenges.
With Exercise.com’s gym ecommerce software, the options are endless to engage clients and increase revenue. You can sell workout plans to face-to-face or virtual clients, offer group workout membership or workout challenges, and deliver customized or sport-specific workouts via the mobile app.
Payment Processing
PTminder works with Stripe and PayPal for payment integration services.
Exercise.com makes it easy to set up packages for your personal training where clients can pay a one-time or recurring fee or membership with cash, check, or credit card. You can also allow online purchasing of packages and run business and sales reports from your dashboard.
Sell Products
Increase revenue by selling products like branded apparel, water bottles, gear, and supplements. A big benefit of being able to sell branded merchandise is that your clients will become walking advertisements for your fitness facility or training program.
Both PT Distinction and Exercise.com software provide e-commerce capabilities so you can increase merchandise sales, but PT Distinction doesn’t have the capability to upload a photo with the product. Users must rely on the description provided next to the item. This reduces the likelihood of selling branded merchandise or apparel since many customers want to know what the product looks like before purchase. Exercise.com allows you to upload photos, customize your storefront, and more!
Sell Workout Plans
PTminder doesn’t provide the opportunity to sell workout plans, but Exercise.com does! There’s no cap on how many plans you can sell, so there’s no limit to your potential profit. You can design generic plans or niched ones, like fitness during pregnancy or low-impact workout plans. The options are endless.
Exercise.com client Mike Boyle, of Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning (MBSC), had over 700 clients within 12 months of releasing programming online using our software!
Offer Online Workout Memberships
Cater to traveling clients, stay-at-home moms, and any other target demographic that cannot find time to go to the gym by offering online workout memberships; this way, you can attract and retain more clients and you free up space in your facility as these clients will be working out at home, in a hotel gym, or elsewhere.
Sell Workout Challenges
Workout challenges are a great way to keep clients engaged and motivated! Challenges are also a great way to attract potential gym members or clients who may be on the fence about signing up for a membership. If they are able to participate in a challenge with their friends or loved ones, they will stick to the challenge and this will give you time to sell them on potential membership.
Fitness Assessments
PTminder has features to add and track client assessments, including standard assessments like height, weight, blood pressure, and percent body fat. There is also an option to add custom measurements and you can upload photos or documents. Graphs allow trainers and clients to track progress.
Exercise.com offers fitness assessment software but also features additional options. When you start with a new client, Exercise.com makes it easy to complete a baseline assessment with them, enter their assessment data, and then plan a workout program to match their results and meet their fitness goals.
You can also enter measurement data and injury information. Clients can view their assessment data or graphs to show progress at any time from the dashboard or mobile app.
The performance assessment options are fully customizable, so trainers can include the data that is most helpful for their clients. One cool feature is that you can set up automated assessments to keep your clients regularly engaged and on track to meet their fitness goals.
Assessments
With Exercise.com you’ll be able to do the following with health assessments:
- Take clients through your custom assessment to automatically create personalized workouts based on the data important to their success.
- Implement scalable processes that will sustain the progress of your business, so you don’t lose ground.
- Easily show clients areas they can improve on from their assessment and turn them into leads
Performance & Measurement Reports
Exercise.com Performance Health Software allows you to deliver automated assessments to re-engage clients while also providing progress photos and measurements. That assessment can provide history, measurement data, injuries, photos/videos, and goals. You can also use the assessment to trigger a workout specifically developed for that client’s success based on smart data from their onboarding. You can put together a custom way of re-engaging clients how you deem fit.
Nutrition
Both PTminder and Exercise.com provide users with nutrition tracking capabilities.
PTminder Pricing
PTminder does offer a 14-day free personal trainer software trial with a limit of two clients. Only two personal trainers are included in each pricing tier, but you can add on additional trainers or staff for an extra cost.
The price to add the customized branded mobile app is $36 a month in addition to the monthly fee, for all pricing plans.
Exercise.com does not require a cost-per-user, which makes it affordable for all trainers, no matter if you train two people or 200 people.
PTminder Alternatives
Additional alternatives of PTminder are:
The Bottom Line: Pros and Cons
PTminder has some useful features for personal trainers but is also lacking features in specific areas. When comparing PTminder to Exercise.com, Exercise.com has all the features that trainers and businesses would need to manage their clients and run a successful operation.
PTminder Cons
Overall, PTminder is missing some e-commerce, automation, and performance assessment options that other competitor software includes. Trainers or businesses would need one or more additional software packages to have access to all useful features.
Online reviews on PTminder comment on the exercise database and nutrition features, such as the meal plan builder, as lacking. One issue is that the exercise database videos open up a YouTube video, which may or may not show the correct form and technique.
The other major con of PTminder is that all pricing plans only include two trainers. You can add additional trainers for an extra cost, which can get pricy. This would be an expensive option for larger personal training or fitness businesses.
Exercise.com Pros
Exercise.com is truly an all-in-one solution for small, medium, and large personal training and fitness businesses. One option for client management, scheduling and calendars, booking, payments, workout management, and e-commerce. Exercise.com fits the needs of any fitness business, whether you are a single personal trainer looking to build your brand, or a large personal training facility managing the schedules and clients for 25 trainers.
Exercise.com has one goal: to help you maximize income and improve efficiency and availability to serve more clients. Our team is made up of seasoned entrepreneurs with a passion for fitness who have created not just “cool” features, but “powerful tools” to create engagement and revenue.
This comparison described the features of PTminder vs. Exercise.com. PTminder has many pros, but there are also some cons that can hinder personal trainers and fitness businesses. Exercise.com offers all the features that PTminder has, plus more.
What was most helpful in this comparison? If you’re ready to grow and manage your business with a software option that can be customized to your business, book a demo with Exercise.com.