Fitness AI Review: What Coaches Actually Need to Know
An honest Fitness AI review for working coaches — covering gym workout planner features, pricing, and whether it beats building your own app.
Monetize your audience. Own the code base. Keep 100% of your sales. No subscriptions, no revenue share, no intermediary taking a cut. Tailor it to your discipline with AI-powered, sport-specific workouts
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Chris Hemsworth sold Centr in a $200 million deal. Kayla Itsines sold Sweat in a deal reported at $400 million. MyFitnessPal sold to Under Armour for $475 million. Smaller niche apps in cycling, running, yoga, and strength get acquired every year, quietly, in the seven and eight figures. But none of it happens unless you own the code.
Sport-specific workouts built from your years of training and IP.
A deep exercise catalog you can edit, expand, and shape around the sport you actually coach.
Your demos, your face, your voice on every workout. A content library you own outright that pays you while you sleep.
Monthly memberships, annual plans, one-off programs. Recurring revenue, paid directly to you.
Built-in challenges, leaderboards, and community features that turn solo workouts into something your audience comes back for.
Years of client data — weights, PRs, measurements, photos — stored in your backend, not someone else's.
Add anything your sport demands — race calendars, climbing grades, fight prep timers, mobility scoring. It's your code. Hire a developer, prompt an AI, or learn it yourself.
In-app conversations with your clients — form checks, questions, accountability — all owned and logged on your server.
Your logo, your colors, your name on every screen. Nothing says "powered by" anyone else.
Years of training clients, refining your method, learning what actually works. The expertise is real. Nobody can take that.
Followers, subscribers, DMs, comments. People who watch your content because they trust your voice. The audience is real too.
This is where most coaches stop. In-person training is limited to the hours in your day. Online 1-on-1 caps out around 30 clients. Your audience grows. Your income doesn't.
Branded, niche-specific, AI-powered. Live on the App Store under your name in 30 days. Your audience finally has something real to download.
Recurring subscriptions. Owned content library. A real business — one you could run for the next decade or sell when you're ready.
| Service | Year 1 cost | Year 5 cost | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trainerize Pro 100 (with branding, payments, video, nutrition, business add-ons) | ~$3,949+ | ~$19,069+ | No |
| Everfit Studio (with automation, payments, meal plans) | ~$2,904+ | ~$14,520+ | No |
| TrueCoach Pro+ (custom pricing past 50 clients, plus 5% transaction fee) | ~$3,000+ | ~$15,000+ | No |
| Custom dev agency | $50,000–$180,000+ | maintenance contracts | Yes |
| Playbook marketplace | 30% of every sale, forever | 30% of every sale, forever | No |
| FitDev (codebase + program, one-time) | $499 (first 100 waitlist members, then $1,999) | $499* | Yes |
* Plus hosting and other costs.
Launch price: $499 for the first 100 waitlist members. Full price after launch: $1,999.
Competitor pricing accurate as of April 2026 — based on each platform's published rates.
Recurring income. Less grind. More leverage. This is what the big coaches are getting right
Simon Klobas
Founder
Hi, I'm Simon, and this is why I built FitDev.
I'm a surfer, sailor and software developer. Sport has always been a huge part of my life.
But three years ago, I couldn't paddle out into the surf. I had hectic neck and shoulder pain and I was really unfit. On top of that I was about to move from Sydney to New York City and was scared shitless it would kill my surfing dream and fitness entirely.
Then I found a surf coach online who had built an app specifically for surfers. Not generic workouts. Not "fitness." Surfing-specific programming from someone who understood the sport.
That program changed everything. Within months, I was back in the water and surfing at a higher level than ever before — just because I was doing the right kind of training. Now I'm hitting the gym 5-6 days a week doing tailored exercises and I can't imagine training any other way.
Turns out generic fitness wasn't going to cut it. What I actually needed was someone who understood surfing, building programs for surfers, in an app I could check anytime.
Every coach has this ability. Every fitness professional has the expertise to build what I found. But most of them are stuck with no platform to deliver it — or they're using generic, expensive white-labelled platforms that don't let them build for their niche.
They're forced to give generic workouts instead of sport-specific coaching, and they're paying platforms a cut of every sale. They're building someone else's business.
I looked at Kayla Itsines and her SWEAT app and Chris Hemsworth's CENTR app and the huge success they had, and I thought: more people could do this if they had my software skills, or if I had their coaching skills.
So I built FitDev to bridge that gap — and to help trainers build their own businesses.
If you have an audience and you understand your sport better than anyone else, you should be able to ship an app that reflects that expertise. You should own it. You should keep the revenue. And your clients should get coaching tailored to their sport — not a templated program from a third party company.
That's what FitDev does. It gives you the codebase and the guidance to launch your own app in 30 days — so you can do for your audience what my surf coach did for me.
Yew.
Cheers, Simon
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We give you the fully built codebase. Twelve plain-English video steps walk you through it — brand the app with your colors and logo, configure your exercise catalog, set up your programs.
Submit to the App Store. Your name on the icon. Your branding on every screen. Live in front of your audience in 30 days.
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