Every trial, side by side
Read from each vendor's own pricing page on the date above. Sorted by trial length, longest first.
| Tool | Free trial | Card up front | Free plan after | Cheapest paid plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC Trainerize | 30 days | No | Yes, 1 client, never expires | $10 (Grow, 2 clients) |
| Everfit | 30 days | No | Yes, 5 clients, forever | $19 (Pro, 5 clients) |
| My PT Hub | 30 days | No | Yes, you drop to it automatically | $25 (Starter, 3 clients) |
| Hevy Coach | 30 days | No | No | $25 (1 to 10 clients) |
| PT Distinction | 1 month | Yes | No | $19.90 (Basic, 3 clients) |
| Onyx Coach | 14 days | No | No, but the client app is free | €29 (Pro, unlimited clients) |
| TrueCoach | 14 days | No | No | $26.34 (Starter, 5 clients) |
| TrainHeroic | 14 days | No | No | $9.99 (1 athlete) |
| FitPros.io | No trial | No | Yes, unlimited clients, $0 forever | $39 (Pro Tools) |
Prices are the monthly-billed rate in the vendor's own currency. Two platforms are missing on purpose. Virtuagym advertises a free trial but publishes neither its length nor its prices. Fitr does give 14 days with no card, but it bills per active client in pounds rather than by plan, so there is no comparable monthly figure to put in the column.
Three different things called free
The word covers three arrangements that behave nothing alike, and the difference decides what happens in week five.
A free trial is full access for a fixed window, then it stops. Most of this list works this way. The number that matters is not the length but whether a card is required, because a trial that took your card renews itself. Of the nine, only PT Distinction asks for one up front.
A free tier is a permanent plan with a low ceiling. Everfit gives five clients forever, Trainerize gives one, FitPros.io gives unlimited clients with a smaller feature set, and My PT Hub drops you onto its free plan when the trial ends instead of locking you out. If you coach two or three people, a free tier can genuinely be the answer, and the honest thing to say is that none of the paid platforms here is worth it at that roster size.
Free for the client is the third, and it is the one that actually shows up on the invoice. Every platform on this list gives clients the app at no charge; the coach pays. It is worth checking because a handful of smaller tools do charge per client seat.
What to test in the two weeks
Most trials are wasted browsing the feature list. The way to spend one is to rebuild a week you have already coached, for a client you already have, and see what breaks.
Four things are worth timing. Write one real program, start to finish, and note how long it took; that number times your client count is your admin week. Log a live session from your phone on the gym floor, standing up, between sets, because that is the only condition that matters and most platforms are designed for a desk. Send the invite to a friend and watch them install it and find their workout without help. Then change something, swap an exercise, move a session, and see how many taps it costs.
Two weeks is enough for all four. Thirty days does not make the software better, it just moves the moment you find out.
What usually costs extra
The trial shows you the product; the pricing page shows you the bill. Three things reliably sit outside the headline price.
Client count. Most of this list prices by tier, so the number to look at is not the entry price but the one at the roster you expect in a year. Everfit is $19 at five clients and $95 at fifty. TrueCoach caps its Starter plan at five for $26.34. TrainHeroic starts at $9.99 for a single athlete.
Add-ons. Everfit sells automations, meal plans, an on-demand library and payments separately. PT Distinction charges per client above its plan limit.
The annual discount. Nearly every price above drops 10 to 25 percent if you pay for a year, which is a fair deal after you have run a trial and a bad one before.
Where Onyx does and does not win
Onyx Coach gives 14 days and no card, which is shorter than Trainerize, Everfit, My PT Hub and Hevy Coach. If a long runway is what you want, those four give you more of it and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
What the 14 days buy is a platform with no client tiers. €29 a month is unlimited clients, so the price you see in the trial is the price at 5 clients and at 60, and there is no plan boundary to plan around. Sets, reps, RPE and rest seconds are logged live from your phone while the client lifts, a 1RM is stored per exercise so you can prescribe percentages that recalculate themselves, and the client app is free.
What it does not do: meal plans, in-app payments, video calls or a white-labelled app. If those are on your list, Trainerize and My PT Hub are the better fit and this page has told you so.
