The 13 Best Mobile Apps for Gym and Fitness Studio Owners
Last Updated on 2 October, 2025
Mobile apps have changed the face of the fitness and wellness industries. Fitness apps are expected to grow at a rate of 21% per year through 2028, one of the fastest-growing sectors around.
As a gym owner, you eat and breathe fitness. But it can be a major challenge to stay on top of the best technology and optimize the client experience. Mobile apps can help.
Whether you want to help clients get better results, grow your revenue, or take a break for some much-needed meditation, there are tons of great apps to have on hand.
In this guide, we showcase the very best mobile apps for owners of gyms and fitness studios.
Health and wellness apps
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1. MyFitnessPal
With MyFitnessPal, you get an easy-to-use nutrition planning and tracking app. This app is great for helping clients maintain a healthy diet. It includes a food tracker, calorie counter, macro tracker, product scanner, and meal planner all in one place. Personal trainers and staff can recommend it to clients or use it for their own health goals.
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2. Eat This Much
Here’s another great app trainers can use to help clients achieve their diet goals. With Eat This Much, you can put your diet planning on autopilot. Simply enter goals, the foods you like, your grocery budget, and schedule, and the app will automatically generate a meal plan for you.
This app works for any eating style, such as keto, paleo, vegetarian, or vegan. You can ensure that you’ll hit your macros and calorie targets every day. Daily plans include recipes that can be easily edited to fit your preferences. If you don’t like a suggestion, you can always swap it for something else or update your food likes and dislikes to get more accurate plans.
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3. Headspace
Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Consider adding the Headspace app to your mobile phone. This app includes hundreds of guided meditations to help you manage anxiety, improve your focus, and positively alter the trajectory of your day.
Purchase it for yourself, or consider a business subscription, which allows you to gift the app to your employees. You can also remind trainers to recommend this app to clients who need help coping with stress.
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4. MyNetDiary
With MyNetDiary, you get an easy-to-use mobile app for tracking calories, macros, and diet plans. You can encourage your personal training staff to recommend this app to clients who are working towards their weight loss goals. The app is particularly helpful for managing intermittent fasting.
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Member experience apps
Use these apps to better engage and retain clients.
5. Struct Club
Do you and your staff lead fitness classes that are driven heavily by music? Then Struct Club is certainly worth downloading. The app was designed to bring structure to music-inspired fitness classes. You can manage your workout plan, music playlist, and cue-prompter all in one place. It’s like having a music-synched teleprompter.
Based on your class plan, the Struct Club cues you on what to do, when, and for how much time. It includes a countdown timer (with time and beats remaining) to keep you on point. This app enables instructors to focus more on hyping up the clients and spend less time worrying about the next steps.
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6. Myzone
Myzone offers an active and inclusive online community that can help you and your clients stay fit. You can join fitness challenges and engage with other users or develop your own community of family, friends, or clients. Communities keep each other motivated and accountable, while the app syncs with smart watches and fitness trackers to award points and automatically calculate leaderboards.
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7. Spivi
Spivi is a great app for spin studios or gyms that offer spin classes. Clients can book classes, join challenges, and track their performance data. WellnessLiving integrates with Spivi so you can create a more interactive workout experience for indoor cyclists.
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8. AcurroFit
With our AccuroFit integration, you can provide next-level fitness tracking for your clients. Use the integration to sync heart rate monitoring with your loyalty program so that clients rack up points for keeping their heart rate high. They can then cash these points in for free swag, services, or discounts.
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9. Sworkit
Sworkit offers customized workout plans that can be used with or without equipment. The app makes it easy to adjust fitness goals each day, so users can focus on flexibility, endurance, injury recovery, or pain reduction as needed. Clients can integrate Sworkit with Apple Health to keep track of their fitness data. The app’s content for children is 100% free, making it a great recommendation for busy parents.
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10. Charity Miles
Charity Miles is the most popular mobile app for giving back to charity while walking or running. As a gym owner, you have a few different options for how to make the most of this app. You can utilize it as any user would, and simply log in to track your next walk or run. Corporate sponsors pay per mile, and you get to choose which charity to support.
Or you could create your own charity competition and encourage members to use Charity Miles while they’re walking or running on the treadmills at your gym. You would then pay out to the charities that members chose to benefit. With Charity Miles, you can set a maximum donation budget, so you don’t have to worry about going over that amount.
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Business management apps
With these apps, you can more easily manage your business.
11. WellnessLiving’s Elevate Staff App
It’s so helpful to have a mobile app where you can manage essential tasks for your business. WellnessLiving’s Elevate Staff App is a mobile app for you and your staff. You can enroll new clients, review client information, book appointments, manage store checkouts, accept payments, review schedules, and check revenue and marketing reports.
From the WellnessLiving platform, you can add new staff members and assign them the correct roles and permissions. For instance, some staff might only be able to check their schedule and clock in, while others might be able to edit client details and take payments.
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12. WellnessLiving’s Achieve Client App
WellnessLiving’s Achieve Client App is a great app for improving client engagement and retention. It offers your clients all the key features they need in the palm of their hands: purchasing classes, booking appointments, viewing fitness schedules, as well as tracking and cashing in loyalty program points.
No matter your business model—whether you sell memberships, class passes, or a combination—you can customize the Achieve Client App accordingly. And with the no-code, custom-branded technology, you can affordably launch and maintain an app from our web portal (no expensive development agency required).
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13. CoverMe
Oh no, one of your fitness instructors just called in sick, and no one else is available to cover for them! What are you going to do? Download CoverMe and post the emergency gig in the app. Nearby fitness instructors with qualified experience can accept the jo,b so you don’t have to cancel class.
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There are so many great mobile apps for gym or fitness studio owners. Just make sure you’ve got the essential business tools covered so you can manage your studio on the go.
WellnessLiving is your one-stop shop for fitness business management apps
In today’s on-the-go world, the customized business apps aren’t nice-to-haves; they’re essentials.
With Elevate, studio owners and staff can run the business from anywhere: adjust schedules, manage classes, view client info, and process sales all from a mobile device.
On the flip side, Achieve empowers your clients with branded, intuitive tools to book classes, pay, leave reviews, shop your studio’s store, and earn rewards, all while boosting your visibility and retention.
Together, they create a seamless, professional experience for both your team and your community. Utilizing these apps frees you to focus on what you do best: teaching and growing your studio. Book a demo today to learn how WellnessLiving can streamline your business operations!
