What gym management software really costs in Pakistan

Ask what gym software costs and you rarely get a number. You get a form. That is not an accident — for most of the products sold into this market, the answer depends on how many members you have, how many branches, which add-ons you switch on, and what percentage of each payment the vendor takes. This post lays out the real structure of those costs so you can compare like with like.

The four ways gym software charges you

Almost every product uses one of four pricing models, and the differences matter far more than the headline number.

• Per member. The price band rises with your active roster. Good when you are small, expensive exactly when you succeed.
• Per location. Each branch adds a fixed monthly fee, so a three-site chain pays three times.
• Per feature. A low base price, then add-ons for the things you assumed were included — a branded app, marketing tools, advanced reports.
• A cut of payments. The subscription looks cheap because the vendor earns on every card transaction instead.

A product can use several at once. That is why two gyms paying "the same" software can have bills that differ by a factor of five.

What the well-known products actually publish

These were checked on 11 September 2026 against the vendors and independent review sites. Treat them as a starting point and confirm before you commit, because vendors change pricing without notice.

• Mindbody publishes an entry tier from roughly $99 to $139 a month per location. Its larger plans are not published at all — you book a call. Reviewers report those at about $279 to over $700 a month, and put the real all-in cost between roughly $565 and $1,080 once payment processing and add-ons are counted.
• PushPress has a genuinely free tier at $0 a month, which is unusual and worth knowing about. The trade-off is card processing reported at 4.19% plus $0.30 per transaction. Its paid plans are $159 and $229 a month, and the full stack with add-ons is reported above $559.
• Gymdesk starts around $75 a month for up to 50 members and steps up with your roster — about $100, $150 and $200 as you pass 100, 200 and 400 members. Every feature is included at every tier, which is refreshingly honest, but additional locations are about $50 a month each.

The costs that are real but rarely on the pricing page

• Payment processing. A percentage of every transaction. On a gym collecting PKR 1,000,000 a month, two percentage points is PKR 20,000 — often more than the subscription.
• Currency. Software priced in dollars is billed to a card in dollars. Your cost moves with the exchange rate, and you need a card that works internationally.
• Onboarding and data import. Some vendors charge to move your existing member list in. Ask before you sign.
• SMS. Where reminders go by SMS, they are usually billed per message on top.
• The branded mobile app. Almost always a separate monthly line.

Where Gymora sits, and where it does not

Gymora is PKR 6,000 or PKR 9,000 a month, published, flat. It does not rise with your member count and extra branches cost nothing. There is a 7-day trial that does not ask for a card, and onboarding, member import and connecting your ZKTeco machine are included rather than quoted.

It takes no percentage of your money for a simple reason: payments do not pass through it. That cuts both ways, and the honest version is worth stating plainly — Gymora cannot charge a member’s card automatically each month. A member can see what they owe and tell you they have paid with the transfer reference, and your staff confirm it. If automatic card billing is essential to how you run, one of the products above will suit you better.

Gymora also has no class scheduling or class booking. If your gym’s business is timetabled classes, that is a real gap and every product named here fills it. We list the rest of them on each comparison page.

How to compare without getting lost

• Work out your cost at the size you expect to be in a year, not today. Per-member pricing punishes growth.
• Add the payment processing percentage to the subscription before you compare. It is often the larger number.
• Count the add-ons you will actually switch on, not the base plan.
• Check what currency you are billed in, and whether you hold a card that works.
• Ask what onboarding and data import cost, in writing.

And the cheapest option is not on this list at all: it is the register book or the Excel file you already have, at zero. That is a serious answer for a small gym, so we wrote it up honestly — what the spreadsheet does well, and what it quietly costs you.

The cheapest software is rarely the one with the lowest headline price. It is the one whose pricing model matches how your gym actually grows.