Hevy Coach vs Trainerize: the honest comparison.

A lean workout layer vs an established all-rounder.

It is worth being honest from the start: both of these are capable platforms, and they overlap on the part most coaches care about most, which is delivering training. Both give you a workout and program builder, an exercise library, a client app, progress tracking, and client chat. So on the core programming loop they are closer than they look. The difference is scope and packaging. Hevy Coach is a coach-facing layer built on top of the consumer Hevy lifting app: your clients log their workouts in the regular Hevy app they may already use, and the coach platform adds a program builder with 400+ exercises, a progress dashboard, client chat, team coaching, and a customizable contact form. It is workout-delivery-first by design, with no native nutrition, no built-in structured check-in system, and no client-payment collection on its own pages. Trainerize, by contrast, is one of the more established workout-first platforms, part of the ABC Fitness group, with a large, mature exercise library, a client app, in-app messaging, habit and activity tracking, basic nutrition included, and a set of paid add-ons for advanced nutrition, Stripe payments, and a custom-branded app. Neither approach is wrong. The right one depends on whether you want a simple, focused programming layer or a deeper toolkit you can extend with add-ons.

This comparison is built from operational experience working with online coaches over many years, rather than reading spec sheets. If you want the full feature checklist behind these criteria, our online coaching platform guide walks through the entire stack, and the companion piece on the best workout builder software for online coaches goes deeper on the programming side.

Pricing: simple client-count bands vs a tiered ladder with add-ons.

The two price very differently. Hevy Coach uses a single published per-client-count ladder, all listed on its pricing page. It is USD 25 per month for 1 to 10 clients, USD 50 for 11 to 25, USD 90 for 26 to 50, USD 160 for 51 to 100, and it keeps climbing on published bands: USD 250 for 101 to 200, USD 360 for 201 to 300, USD 460 for 301 to 400, USD 550 for 401 to 500, and USD 700 for 501 to 1,000 clients. Pricing is monthly only, with no annual option, and you can cancel anytime. There is a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, your clients pay nothing, and they get a free Hevy Pro subscription while coached. The appeal here is simplicity: one number per client band, no add-ons to layer on.

Trainerize uses a tiered ladder with optional add-ons. There is a free tier for 1 client, Grow at USD 9 per month for up to 2 clients, Pro from about USD 23 per month scaling from 5 up to 200 clients, and Studio Plus at USD 248 per month per location for 500 to 1,000 clients. Several capabilities are separate add-ons: Stripe-integrated payments at USD 10 per month on Grow and Pro (included on Studio), a custom-branded app at USD 169 one-time on Pro (included on Studio), and advanced nutrition coaching at about USD 20 to 45 per month (included on Studio). There is a 30-day free trial with no credit card required. So the headline tier prices can look low, but a coach who wants branding, payments, and advanced nutrition should add those line items into the real monthly cost.

The honest takeaway: do the math on what you actually need. Hevy Coach is the simpler bill, one published number per client band with no add-ons, but it is workout delivery only, so nutrition and client billing live elsewhere. Trainerize can start cheap on its lower tiers but climbs once you bolt on the add-ons that round it out. For a different model again, Coachway uses predictable per-client pricing, EUR 69 per month for up to 5 clients plus EUR 9 per additional client, with training, nutrition, and check-ins in one and your own Stripe included; you can sanity-check that math against current Coachway pricing.

The feature differences that actually matter.

• Scope and the client app. This is the clearest split. Hevy Coach is a coaching layer on top of the consumer Hevy app: clients log workouts in the standard Hevy app and get free Hevy Pro while coached, and there is no branded or white-label app option. Trainerize ships its own client app and offers a custom-branded (white-labeled) version as a paid add-on, USD 169 one-time on Pro and included on Studio. If a branded client app matters to you, Trainerize supports it as a paid line item, while Hevy Coach does not document one.
• Nutrition. Trainerize goes deeper here. Hevy Coach has no native nutrition feature documented on its own site; a Cronometer integration appears in some third-party listings but is not stated on hevycoach.com, so it is fair to treat Hevy Coach as workout-delivery-first without built-in nutrition. Trainerize includes basic nutrition and sells an advanced nutrition add-on at about USD 20 to 45 per month. If meal guidance is part of your offer, Trainerize is the fuller toolkit.
• Client payments. Trainerize collects client payments; Hevy Coach does not. Hevy Coach has no built-in client-billing system on its pages; the only payment is the coach's own subscription, processed by Paddle, so you would collect client payments through tools of your own. Trainerize offers Stripe-integrated payments as an add-on, USD 10 per month on Grow and Pro and included on Studio, so you can bill clients inside the platform.
• Exercise library and programming. Both are strong on programming, which is their shared core. Hevy Coach lists 400+ exercises with a program builder, and the consumer Hevy app it sits on is well-rated (4.9 across the app stores with over 500,000 ratings). Trainerize is known for one of the larger, more mature exercise libraries in the category, with a deep program builder. Both will deliver training well; Trainerize leans toward library depth and maturity, Hevy Coach toward a focused, simpler build.
• Check-ins and structure. Trainerize is the more structured platform overall. Hevy Coach does not document a native structured check-in workflow (progress photos plus measurements plus coach review) on its own pages; it offers progress tracking and a contact form. Trainerize is a deeper all-rounder with habit and activity tracking, messaging, and dashboards built around an ongoing coaching relationship. If you run formal weekly check-ins, that is worth weighing.
• Language. Both lean English. Trainerize states on its own help center that the app is available only in English, though you can manually write programs, workouts, and exercises in your own language. Hevy Coach does not document native-language UI support for Nordic or DACH markets; its site is English with no language switcher found. Neither publishes native-language client apps across the full Nordic set, so if your clients should see the app in their own Nordic language, that is a gap to weigh on both.

Which should you pick?

The decision comes down to a few honest questions: do you want a lean programming layer or a deeper all-rounder, does nutrition belong inside the platform, do you need to bill clients in-app, and how much do you care about a branded app? Here is the fair way to land it.

• You want a simple, workout-delivery-first layer and your clients already use Hevy. Hevy Coach. It sits on top of the consumer app, clients train for free with Hevy Pro, and the bill is one published number per client band.
• You want the simplest possible pricing with no add-ons to manage. Hevy Coach. Its published per-client-count ladder runs from USD 25 per month for 1 to 10 clients up to USD 700 for 501 to 1,000, monthly only, with nothing to bolt on.
• You want a deeper, established all-rounder with a large exercise library. Trainerize. Its mature library, client app, messaging, and habit tracking make it a fuller toolkit out of the box.
• You want nutrition and client billing handled inside the platform. Trainerize over Hevy Coach. Trainerize includes basic nutrition with an advanced add-on and offers Stripe-integrated payments, while Hevy Coach documents neither natively.
• You want your own logo on the client app. Trainerize. Its custom-branded app is a paid add-on (USD 169 one-time on Pro, included on Studio); Hevy Coach does not offer a branded app.
• You run a large caseload and want one flat, predictable monthly number. Hevy Coach can be appealing here, since its top bands hold a lot of clients on a single published price; just confirm the current figures with the provider.
• You want training, nutrition, and check-ins in one and a client app in your clients' own language. Neither of these two covers the full Nordic set head-on. Coachway is the honest third option here: training, nutrition, and weekly check-ins in one workflow, 1,100+ recipes and 3,900+ ingredients built in, your own Stripe, and a branded client app reviewed by native speakers in each of its six languages, from Danish to German.

Still weighing it up? Our walkthrough on choosing an online coaching platform turns this into a step-by-step shortlist, and our Coachway vs Hevy Coach and Coachway vs Trainerize comparisons go deeper if either of these is on your shortlist next to Coachway.

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