Compare gym software, honestly
Every page here says what the other platform does better than us. That’s not modesty — it’s the only way a comparison is worth reading.
Figures last checked All pricing NZD unless statedRe-verified quarterly (68d)
The comparisons
PATO vs GymMaster
The NZ incumbent, 28 years in, and the highest-rated local option. The comparison turns on access hardware and what a branded app costs.
- Branded member app
- $200/mo + $600 setup$99/mo + $499 setup
- Door hardware
- Theirs onlyLocks you own
PATO vs PushPress
Their entry plan is free and funded by a percentage of your members’ payments. This one is arithmetic.
- Cut of member payments
- 4.99% + $0.30 on cards (Free plan)None
- Subscription
- From freeFrom $99/mo
PATO vs Mindbody
They have a consumer marketplace we can’t match. They also take a cut of everything, priced per location.
- Cut of member payments
- Not publishedNone
- Consumer marketplace
- Yes — a real oneNo
PATO vs Glofox
Part of ABC Fitness, and the only one here that won’t tell you what it costs — their pricing page is a quote form.
- Published pricing
- Not published — quote onlyFrom $99/mo
- Branded member app
- Not published — charged separately$99/mo + $499 setup
PATO vs Gymdesk
A tidy admin tool with genuinely simple pricing — but no AI, no nutrition tracking and no member companion.
- Subscription
- US$75–325/monthFrom $99/mo
- Member AI companion
- NoneIncluded
Best gym software in New Zealand
Six options side by side, including four we recommend ahead of ourselves in specific situations.
- Platforms compared
- 6incl. ours
- We recommend others
- 4 situationsstated plainly
Written by one of the two companies
Most comparison pages are written by one of the platforms being compared and it shows. Ours are too — so here’s how we’ve tried to make them useful anyway.
Every page opens with where the competitor is genuinely stronger.
Not a token concession buried at the bottom.
Every number is checkable.
Competitor pricing is published, dated and linked to the page we read it off, and re-verified quarterly. Where they don’t publish a figure, we say so instead of estimating.
Every page names who should not choose us.
If a platform fits you better, we’d rather you found out here than three months in.
The three questions that settle most of these
1. What’s the total cost, not the sticker price?
Most platforms take a percentage of your members’ payments. It never appears on your subscription — it appears in what actually leaves your account. PushPress’s free plan takes 4.99% + $0.30 on cards (Free plan)pushpress.com(opens their pricing page in a new tab), which on $20,000 a month is about $11,976 a year.
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2. What do your members get?
Every platform includes a member app. Almost all of them are a timetable with a login. That’s the difference that decides whether anyone opens it after week one.
3. Who follows up the enquiries?
Ask where the follow-up lives. On most of this list it’s a separate product, a tier you upgrade into, or an agency bolting a CRM onto your gym software with a Zapier in between. That seam is where someone gets chased as a lead and messaged as a member on the same morning. Ours is the same system that watches retention.
Or skip the reading and try it yourself
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