Exercise.com: Your Wodify Alternative
Why Choose Exercise.com?
Here are five reasons why fitness professionals use Exercise.com vs. Wodify.
Fitness Business Management Software to Run Your Business
Unlike Wodify, 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 Wodify, 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
Wodify workout software doesn't allow for clients to participate in TV workouts or workout challenges. 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.
Ecommerce Software to Increase Revenue
Fitness professionals cannot use the limited ecommerce features of Wodify to sell training packages or group training plans. Exercise.com, however, has full ecommerce capabilities allowing trainers to sell single workout plans, offer automated workout memberships, run workout challenges, and deliver individual training.
Ecommerce Software to Increase Revenue
Fitness professionals cannot use the limited ecommerce features of Wodify to sell training packages or group training plans. Exercise.com, however, has full ecommerce 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
Wodify lacks assessment software, but that's not the case with Exercise.com. Take your clients through personalized assessments to deliver custom workouts for their individual needs – providing massive growth potential and saved time.
Stand Out With Your Own Custom-branded Apps
Wodify's apps provide no options to design custom exercises. Exercise.com, however, offers apps that are fully customized 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
Wodify's apps provide no options to design custom exercises. Exercise.com, however, offers apps that are fully customized 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 Wodify’s additional features stack up to Exercise.com software features, check out our in-depth guide below.
What is Wodify?
After taking his first CrossFit class, Wodify founder and CEO, Ameet Shah, realized that part of the class’s success had to do with the competition among the participants. This competition was promoted by recordings on a whiteboard for the entire class to see and then more recordings by many individuals to keep track of their own results.
The online and in-app features of Wodify allow CrossFit athletes to track their workouts, log their diet, and view their progress. From an owner’s perspective, Wodify attempts to automate class scheduling and building, as well as allow coaches to configure workouts in advance and track various metrics of the athletes.
While Wodify touts itself as gym management software, it is fairly clear that they are content and committed to serving the CrossFit market. Even Shah was quoted, in regards to CrossFit, “That is our addressable market, as we don’t intend to expand into other markets.” Wodify programming and Wodify workouts reflect that claim.
Even in their own niche, Wodify is not necessarily useful to everyone in the market. In 2016, CrossFit Fringe decided to take its business to another company:
“From the spinning wheel of death to frequent down times, Wodify has been suffering from some growing pains, and it’s been hurting us as a gym.”
When a business focuses on a very specific section of the market, it is imperative that they excel in all areas in order to be successful. Clearly, upon review of previous customers, there is some work to be done.
Unless otherwise stated, all images and reviews below are of/about the Exercise.com All-In-One Fitness Business Management software platform
Fitness Business Management Software
Running a business is hard enough without having to use multiple platforms or types of software to encompass all aspects of your day-to-day and overall operation. Exercise.com allows you to do everything in one place. You and your staff no longer have to learn multiple programs to provide exceptional service to your customers. From booking to billing and everything in between, Exercise.com gym management software provides you with a one-stop-shop to fit your needs.
Not only can you find everything you need in one place, but the features are very user-friendly, meaning you and your employees will not need to spend countless hours trying to figure it out. This ease of use also translates into a better experience for their customers. They are easily able to view their progress and track their workouts without the hassle of learning a complicated app.
Let’s take a more specific look at the features of Exercise.com compared to Wodify.
Client/Class Scheduling
Wodify was originally created for CrossFit boxes and, therefore, the features reflect the needs of those gyms. Despite offering the ability for gyms to schedule classes and participants to book their spot in advance (and sign in through the Wodify kiosk), Wodify was not built for facilities that offer multiple classes running at the same time in different studios.
Exercise.com, on the other hand, is built for your business. The software easily displays multiple studio locations, allows owners and managers to create visually appealing schedules, and provides members access to book their spot in advance.
The software provided by Exercise.com also is useful for personal training. Schedules can be sorted by trainer, client, or overall schedule to easily see when there are openings. Trainers are also able to schedule recurring appointments for their clients who come in during the same timeframe every week.
Gym/Facility Management
Wodify and Exercise.com both offer gym/facility management features including insights and reports, but many of Wodify’s facility management tools are only available with the highest-priced package.
Business Dashboard Reports
With the business dashboard in the Exercise.com software, you are able to generate reports on more than a dozen different categories in whatever timeframe you choose. Not only are you able to view a report on your overall revenue, but you can also get reports on various types of client activities to get a better idea of what services are receiving a higher usage rate and can send performance assessment reports.
With Exercise.com, you get a fully customizable report dashboard where you can easily view all your most frequented reports. This keeps your finger to the pulse of your business at all times so you can make the best decisions for your business. Wodify has a dashboard, but you aren’t able to customize which reports are presented or the layout.
Client Automation
Wodify can automate emails for invoices, expiring memberships, class cancellations, and more, but doesn’t have any automations that are specific to fitness.
In addition to all the automatic emails Wodify can send, the automation features from Exercise.com keep clients engaged and motivated on their fitness success. A few of Exercise.com automation offerings are:
- 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
Both Exercise.com and Wodify have a partnership with Zapier that includes dedicated Zapier support. With over 2,000 apps to choose from, your company’s website will be as efficient and user-friendly as possible.
Zapier is only included with Wodify’s highest-priced package, but Exercise.com doesn’t withhold the benefits of Zapier from any of our customers!
Dedicated Account Manager
At Exercise.com, we take customer service very seriously. We go beyond standard customer service and assign every Exercise.com client works a dedicated account manager. This point of contact is there to address any and all software-related needs. From website redesigns to setting up ecommerce stores, your Exercise.com account manager will help you every step of the way.
Customized Software
Successful businesses have one or more qualities that set them apart as a unique establishment. In order for people to see these qualities, you need to promote them. There is no better way to do that, within your business software, than to customize your website and smartphone app.
When people are searching the web for information on a gym, are they more likely to spend more time on a website with a generic look or one that is fully branded to reflect the mission, vision, and unique qualities of that facility? The answer seems pretty straightforward, and it’s one that Exercise.com is happy to provide.
It is also can be very beneficial for owners to be able to manage their business from anywhere using their app. This is not a feature that Wodify provides to its customers.
Custom-Branded
Wodify got its start when its founder recognized that there was a more efficient way to post and record workouts rather than using a whiteboard and a notebook. This is certainly true and there have obviously been other companies, including Exercise.com, which have launched programs to accommodate these needs.
What Exercise.com has done better, however, is customize the template to be specific to your brand. People are no longer talking about the workout they just did at “the gym,” they are talking about the workout they did at your gym. Why? Because by customizing your brand, you are building a community. When people feel they are accomplishing something within a community, there are excited to talk about it and invite others to join their community.
By having software that is customized, you are not only visually marketing your brand but you are also encouraging others to market for you by word of mouth.
Wodify allows you to upload a custom logo to the banner of your software and customize a check-in kiosk color. Wodify is vague about how much customization or branding is allowed on its websites. With Exercise.com, you can completely customize and brand your software, app, and website!
iOS & Android Apps
Wodify has an app for iOS and Android, but it is very poorly rated. Users complain of incredibly slow load times, freezing, crashing, inefficient interface, and more. It also has no custom branding or customizable features.
Exercise.com’s branded apps for personal trainers are user-friendly, responsive, fully customizable, and branded to your business. You can accomplish any task on our app as you can on the desktop version, including workout creation, client management, reporting, and more! Clients can easily view and log their workouts and communicate with their trainers.
Websites
Websites have almost completely taken over phonebooks, newspapers, or other methods from which to gather information about a business. With this in mind, you want a website that delivers all of the information someone may need while giving them a visual representation of your company. Wodify does not offer custom websites unless you purchase their ‘Wodify Sites’ add-on for $119/month and a $399 launch fee.
Exercise.com, however, includes a custom-branded, SEO-optimized fitness business website with its software package. Some of the features that our custom websites provide are:
- Responsive
- SEO optimized
- Unlimited theme changes
- Built to convert visitors to leads
- Custom graphic work
- Google Certified Partner
Security Features
With the amount of sensitive information contained in a software program, you want to make sure it is not going to fall into the wrong hands. For this reason, Exercise.com has the following security measures:
- SSL Secure
- Privacy Shield Framework
- Google Cloud
Marketing Integrations
Wodify and Exercise.com both offer marketing integrations.
At Exercise.com, we made sure to build all of our client engagement features into our all-in-one software. Trainers can chat with clients, send performance assessment data, create and deliver individualized workouts, create workout challenges, and develop leaderboards.
Additionally, we integrate with top marketing platforms for the best customer and client engagement:
- MailChimp
- ConstantContact
- ConvertKit
- Zapier
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Pixel
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Workout Software
Many gyms and trainers are now trying to optimize their business by providing workouts to their clients or members outside of their time in a class or training session. For these purposes, Exercise.com provides creation and delivery methods to ensure that your workouts are easy to design and even easier to deliver.
Wodify is more limited in its offering for workout creation. It only offers pre-loaded workouts with its add-on Wodify Perform for $49/month. Not only are exercise libraries not as customizable, but they are not applicable to all scenarios, given that the software was initially designed to be used for CrossFit.
Clients are more likely to stay on track and continue utilizing your services if they are having success. By sending them custom workouts and giving them an avenue to track their progress and see success, you are also setting up your business for long-term success. Exercise.com’s workout software can help with:
- Workout Planning-Personal Training
- Nutrition Assistance
- Goal Setting
- Traveling Athletes
- In-Person Clients
- Trainer Logging
- Online Clients
- Hybrid Clients (in-person/online)
- Busy Professionals
Workout Creator/Logger
Within the Wodify software, you have the option (for a fee) to receive weekly workouts published into your account. You are then able to tweak these programs to fit the needs of your clients.
There are two main problems with this idea. The first is that, by giving your clients workouts made by a third party, you are not selling your business. You are giving them someone else’s design featuring videos or pictures with employees from another company. This does nothing to promote brand loyalty and, in fact, may show your customers that they can find a quality service somewhere else.
The other problem is that, while you may save time utilizing this strategy with only a few clients, you will end up spending more time as your client-base grows and you need to tweak each workout more times to accommodate more people.
With Exercise.com, you can skip these problems. You can build your own custom workouts to deliver to clients. Upload your own videos to promote your business, employees, and show customers why your business is better than the other options they have. A few other features are:
- Workout Plan Creator
- Intervals
- Alternate
- Block
- Smart Delivery
- Custom Exercise Library
- Easily Embed Your Videos into Your Platform
- Your Descriptions, Workouts, etc
This provides flexible solutions that allow the delivery of custom workouts for any scenario such as:
1-1 Training
Wodify doesn’t have 1-1 training capabilities, but the Exercise.com workout software platform gives personal trainers the option to conduct one-on-one training sessions with clients that are looking for that personal touch.
Group Training
Wodify doesn’t have the option for group training. With Exercise.com, clients can access group training sessions online in addition to in-person. 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
Online training is rising in popularity and Exercise.com was certainly ahead of the curve! Our software allows users to send workouts to any client, at any time, anywhere. You can also sell online workout plans for added profit! This option isn’t available with Wodify, so your business would miss out on this opportunity. Only with Exercise.com can you promote your business with online training.
Exercise Library
As stated above, Wodify’s exercise libraries are not as customizable and are not applicable to all scenarios.
The Exercise.com exercise library is full of workout demos. Our software also gives trainers the option to upload their own custom exercises and videos to the library as well.
Custom Exercises
By filming yourself performing the movements you’ve asked your clients to perform, you’re showing them that you’re invested in their success. Custom exercises are especially beneficial if you are training elderly clients or clients that need modifications due to disabilities, injuries, or chronic illnesses.
TV Workouts
With your Exercise.com software, you can cast videos onto gym television screens during group classes or one-on-one training sessions.
Gym Ecommerce Software
While Wodify software does offer the option for sales to be made either in person or online, it is not clear, at the current time, exactly what types of products or services can be accommodated in this system.
On the other hand, Exercise.com provides gym ecommerce software to increase your revenue through multiple different services.
Payment Processing
Both Wodify and Exercise.com utilize Stripe to accept payments, however, it is not clear as to whether or not Wodify software easily accommodates different forms of billing.
With the Exercise.com software, gym owners have the ability to bill members in multiple ways, depending on the type of service they are using. You can make a one-time sale, send a monthly invoice, and set up custom payments for bundled services or packages.
A gym is able to sell products utilizing a single payment option, memberships using automated billing, or personal training packages with varying price tags and payment options. Best of all, Exercise.com allows you to view all of your invoices in one place so you can easily keep track of your revenue.
Sell Products
Wodify and Exercise.com both allow their clients to sell products online, but Wodify only offers this option with the highest-priced package.
With the Exercise.com software platform’s ecommerce capabilities you can sell products like gym merchandise. This allows you to build your business and utilize free advertising by selling shirts, hats, etc., with your brand’s logo.
Sell Workout Plans
There is a large market, in most gyms, for people who are looking for a workout to follow but also do not want to utilize the services of a personal trainer. For these people, purchasing a pre-built workout plan is a great option and the Exercise.com software platform’s ecommerce capabilities make that possible.
This is a workout, available within your software, that people have access to for life once they make the purchase. You can choose to make the workout look however you’d like, but once the sale is made, it is on the individual to perform it. This could also lead to revenue in the future, once individuals see the benefit of the workouts put together by your personal training team.
Offer Online Workout Memberships
Exercise.com also allows your business to offer pre-built workouts to be automatically delivered to clients on a monthly basis. This can be beneficial for all involved. You optimize your business by having the same workout available for purchase by multiple customers, and these customers receive a high-quality program at an interval that allows them to track their progress.
Additionally, rather than having individuals purchase a pre-made plan, you could also give an option for a program custom-designed to them, which is automatically delivered to them. This gives the client a workout program individualized for them that can also be done at their convenience, rather than on the schedule of a trainer.
Sell Workout Challenges
Competition can be a motivator for many people, and capitalizing on that can be a great move for your business and your members. Having a challenge also promotes a sense of community within a friendly competition, which is good for business.
Exercise.com software provides a platform to both promote the challenge and also accept payments that come in for it from customers.
Fitness Assessment Software
In order to know where you’re going, you have to know where you’re starting. This is equally as true in fitness as in any other area of our lives. This where having custom fitness assessment software at your facility becomes a valuable asset.
Wodify doesn’t have an assessment feature, but everything is included with Exercise.com! We tailor our software to your program to meet your needs. Performance assessments can provide tremendous value to your business, and therefore are included in our pricing.
Assessments
Assessments provide value to both businesses and customers; let’s start with the latter.
An assessment gives individuals the opportunity to establish baseline metrics when they begin a fitness journey. The items being assessed can and should be changed, depending on the client’s goal, and that is why the customization offered by Exercise.com is so important.
Having a baseline allows clients to see exactly what they have accomplished since starting on their fitness journey. It provides motivation to continue on a program when they can see tangible results. It is much easier for clients to see results in an assessment tracker than trying to remember baseline numbers by themselves.
From a business perspective, many customers don’t even know certain areas they may need improvement. Providing an assessment for these individuals allows for an opportunity to discuss how your facility and staff can help correct imbalance, achieve goals, and provide a better overall experience.
The customization offered by Exercise.com allows your facility to give a complete assessment specific to each member that walks in your door. Instead of giving a one-size-fits-all assessment that includes push-ups, wall-sits, and a plank, you can provide something specific to each individual. This will help the customer become more successful and will also lead to revenue for your business.
Performance & Measurement Reports
It is much more difficult to acquire a new customer than to retain an existing one. For this reason, it is important to keep your clients engaged and mindful of their goals and progress. This can be a tedious process, but Exercise.com makes it easy by automating interactions with your clients.
Wodify allows CrossFit participants to input their results in Wodify’s kiosk. Wodify also offers a heart rate monitor system called Wodify Pulse for $99/month.
Exercise.com performance health software allows you to deliver recurring assessments, progress photos, and measurements to promote client re-engagement and retention.
Nutrition
Wodify and Exercise.com both offer nutrition tracking.
Wodify Pricing
We have touched on certain elements of the Wodify software options and minimally on price, but here is a more comprehensive breakdown of Wodify pricing. Please note that, in the features portion of the table, the Grow option also contains everything from the Engage option, and the Promote option also includes everything from the Grow and Engage options.
There are four add-ons available that can be applied to each of the three core options listed above. These add-ons are not inclusive of each other, meaning that they are priced individually and each add-on contains separate components from the others.
Wodify Alternatives
The needs of businesses in the fitness industry are constantly evolving and, as long as this is the case, more and more competitors will try to find their way into this space. Below, we have listed a few of Wodify’s competitors. All pricing is based on available information at the time of writing.
The Bottom Line: Pros and Cons
Choosing the right software is important to the success of your business. It could mean the difference between just staying afloat or increasing your revenue. Despite the importance of this decision, it does not have to be a difficult one.
We believe that Exercise.com provides the most inclusive option for businesses, and we are confident that it is the clear choice for you.
Wodify Cons
One of the most prominent downsides to Wodify is that it was built for CrossFit box gyms and that remains its identity today. While many of the features may apply to facilities in more broad or other niche markets, a software designed specifically for one niche will always have a difficult time meeting the needs of a wide range within the market.
It is also difficult to purchase everything you need, with Wodify, without paying for features that you don’t need. While the minimum price tag is $49 per month, it is unlikely that this option will meet all of your needs. If you were to utilize every add-on available with Wodify, you could end up paying up to $755 per month, as well as a $399 website launch fee.
Finally, Wodify also lacks unlimited client management, automated workout engagement, and has limited integration options without taking advantage of an add-on.
Exercise.com Pros
Exercise.com is set apart from its competitors, particularly Wodify, by the full customization offered within the software. Your company’s brand can be represented with a custom app and website utilizing your logo and colors, but you can also customize the function of the software to make it work specifically for your business.
You have the opportunity to customize performance health assessments, automate emails and workouts to engage clients, and access reports to help grow your business.
Best of all, Exercise.com includes all of its features at one price. You tell us your needs and your business vision and we will deliver software to provide you with the best opportunity to succeed. There are no add-ons to deal with or decisions to make as to whether you can get by without a specific service because it costs extra. There are no guessing games with Exercise.com. You get everything you need without having to pay for anything you don’t.
Now that you have the details, you can make the best, informed choice for your business. You certainly have options when it comes to choosing your path for success, but we believe that Exercise.com is the clear favorite to help your business reach its goal.
Does Exercise.com provide the services and features that you consider to be most important to your business?
If, after reading the details above, you feel that Exercise.com could provide benefits for your business, request a demo today.