A Virtuagym alternative
sized for a coach, not a chain.
Virtuagym is club software: coaching and management sold separately, priced per location, stepped by client count, with twelve add-ons around the outside. Starter A$49/mo for 25 clients, Pro A$99/mo for 100. A lot of machinery to carry if what you have is clients.
Virtuagym vs REPley by BuildStability, monthly
Virtuagym quotes per location per month, stepped by client band. All-in-One is US$82 up to 20 clients, US$103 up to 50, US$144 up to 150; Manage and Coach are cheaper because each is half the product. Figures are shown in dollars excluding VAT, so roughly A$143 at 1 USD = 1.39 AUD before GST. Card payments taken through their billing add 2.75% plus $0.20 per transaction. Annual billing saves 10%. BuildStability Starter is A$49/mo for 25 clients and Pro is A$99/mo for 100, which still sits under their 50-client All-in-One, with the AI included because it is included on every plan. Both products offer a 14-day free trial with no credit card. Verified against business.virtuagym.com/our-prices, 8 September 2026.
“Most PT software is glorified data storage with a subscription attached.” Vinay Koka
“Built for PTs first and foremost, not just an app that works for your clients.” Ad Coutts
“I was recommended another app that everyone uses… then I found REPley. It is so useable.” Shayna Fernando
You master your craft. REPley masters the business.
A business coach, not another PT app. You coach, REPley does the paperwork, and anything that reaches a client waits for your approval. One price, every feature, no commission on what your clients pay you.
01 / EASY TO LEARN
Ask it the way you would ask a person:
- “Who is about to quit?”
- “What did I earn this month?”
- “Build Sarah a 12-week block.”
No manual. No setup marathon.
02 / A COACH FOR THE BUSINESS SIDE
- Reads your numbers like an accountant
- Drafts the invoice, the reminder, the plan
- Flags what needs attention before you ask
Built by a CPA who watched sole traders get squeezed by fees.
03 / ONE PRICE, EVERY FEATURE
- No add-ons to decode
- No commission on client payments
- No per-client charges
Plans differ by one thing: how many clients you hold.
The AI writes the workout. Who does the rest?
Virtuagym and BuildStability both generate programs. This is everything else you do in a week.
| The job | Virtuagym | REPley |
|---|---|---|
| Write a 6-week periodised block | MAX AI Coach, about 20 seconds | Ask once. 60 seconds. |
| Spot who is about to quit | Not available | Ask it. Flags them 30 days out. |
| Find out what the month earned | Business Analytics is a paid add-on | Ask it. |
| Take a booking | Scheduling sits in the Manage plan | Built in, every plan. |
| Chase an unpaid invoice | Automated payments, in the Manage plan | It drafts it. You approve. |
| Learn where all of it lives | Two plans plus twelve add-ons to learn first | Ask in plain words. |
That last row is the one that costs you. REPley has already mastered the software, so you can master your craft.
Feature comparison. Checked 8 September 2026.
Taken from Virtuagym’s own pages. Rows they win are marked. If we have one wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it.
| Feature | REPleyby BuildStability | Virtuagym |
|---|---|---|
| Starting monthly price | From A$19/mo (Essential), Starter A$49/mo, Pro A$99/mo | From US$46 per location/month (Manage or Coach, up to 20 clients); All-in-One US$82. Prices in dollars, excluding VAT |
| Every feature included on every plan (tiers change client count, AI volume and support speed, never features) | ● | Coaching and management are separate plans. All-in-One buys both, and twelve add-ons sit outside all three |
| Priced per business, not per location | ● | Priced per location, per month, and stepped by client-count band |
| Built in Australia (AUD billing, GST invoices) | ● | — |
| Zero commission or platform fee on client payments | Stripe Connect, your own merchant account. You pay Stripe, we take nothing on top | Card-not-present payments through Virtuagym billing are 2.75% + $0.20 per transaction, with discounts at higher volumes |
| AI program builder | 60-second periodised plans, on every plan including Essential | MAX AI Coach generates a plan in about 20 seconds in the Coach app, from client profile plus trainer input |
| AI that suggests the next progression after each logged session (RPE trends, trainer confirms, new plan version kept with full history) | ● | — |
| One assistant across the whole business, asked in plain English | ● | AI is plan generation today. Their launch names AI meal planning, content and business insights as future work |
| Nutrition that knows the food your clients actually eat | Australian and NZ shelf: Coles, Woolworths and the big chains. Log by barcode, photo or voice | Nutrition plans and a food diary included in Coach. No Australian-specific food data documented |
| Client churn prediction (engagement scoring, 30 days ahead) | ● | — |
| A 90-day client journey that fills itself in from logged sessions | Included on every tier | — |
| Habits that stick between sessions, drafted per client | ● | — |
| Pre-exercise health screening | Australian APSS-aligned adult and youth screening; condition flags surface before you program, and AI plan or habit suggestions respect them | Health questionnaires available; no Australian screening standard documented |
| Digital waivers and intake forms with e-signature | Included on every tier, auto-attached by your onboarding recipe | Digital contracts included in Manage |
| Self-serve booking, class capacity, waitlists and QR check-in | Included on every tier | Scheduling included in Manage; access control is a separate add-on |
| Your clients see your brand, not ours | Logo, colours and business name on every screen. Included on every tier | Custom Mobile App is a paid add-on |
| Cancel in 1 click, no support ticket | ● | — |
| Exercise library size(Virtuagym wins) | Mid-sized curated library | 6,000+ activities with 3D animation |
| White-label app under your own name in the App Store and Google Play(Virtuagym wins) | Not available. Clients use the BuildStability app, branded to your business throughout | Custom Mobile App add-on |
| Gym floor hardware: door access control, check-in kiosk, equipment data sync(Virtuagym wins) | — | Access Control, Virtuagym Touch and Virtuagym Connect add-ons |
| Multi-site chain operations from one console(Virtuagym wins) | One business at a time; trainers can hold several businesses | Multi-Club Support add-on, and the per-location model is built for it |
Virtuagym claims last verified against Virtuagym’s own public pricing page on 8 September 2026. We re-verify quarterly.
Modern software for the next generation of trainers.
Built with the mobile and AI tools this decade actually has, and an interface that stays out of your way. Here is what coaches said after they made the switch.
“Most PT software is glorified data storage with a subscription attached. BuildStability is different.”
Vinay Koka · Founder, Synergy Training & Health
“It’s built for PTs first and foremost, not just an app that works for your clients. I’m an actual PT with face-to-face and online clients who switched, and couldn’t be more convinced this is the holy grail.”
Ad Coutts · Ad Coutts Personal Trainer
“The software is amazing! I am only just starting out as a PT but loving it. Building my client base, getting my face out there. As a rent paying PT I was recommended another app that everyone uses by one of the other trainers. Then I found REPley, and I am SO grateful. It is so useable.”
Shayna Fernando · Live Lift Love with Shayna · Toowoomba QLD
When Virtuagym is the better choice.
Every comparison page on the internet tries to pretend their product wins every case. It does not. Here is when we think you should pick them over us.
- 01You run a gym, club or chain with a front desk. Door access control, the Touch check-in kiosk and equipment data sync are theirs, and we do not ship any of it.
- 02You operate across several sites and want one console per location, with Multi-Club Support holding them together.
- 03You want the largest animated exercise library as your in-session reference: 6,000-plus activities with 3D animation.
- 04You need a white-label app published under your own business name in the App Store and Google Play. We give clients a branded portal inside our app, which is not the same thing.
One thing we care about more than feature parity.
We never want to see you go. Life changes, and we hope it's that, not that the product let you down. Either way, cancellation isn't a fight. The PT software industry has a reputation for punishing it. We do the opposite, on the record.
Cancel in 1 click. Directly from the Business page. No support ticket. No phone call.
Keep access until the end of your billing period. No immediate lockouts. Export your data on your schedule.
Changed your mind? Undo in 1 click. Reverse a pending cancellation any time before it takes effect.
Questions people ask before switching from Virtuagym.
How does Virtuagym pricing compare to BuildStability?
Virtuagym charges per location, per month, and the figure steps up with a client-count band. At the up-to-50-client band their All-in-One plan is US$103 per location per month, roughly A$143 at 1 USD = 1.39 AUD. At up to 150 clients it is US$144, roughly A$200. Cheaper options exist but they are half the product: Manage is operations without coaching, Coach is coaching without operations. Card payments taken through their billing carry 2.75% plus $0.20 per transaction. Prices are shown in dollars excluding VAT, so an Australian buyer is converting and adding GST themselves. BuildStability has one list in Australian dollars: Essential A$19/mo for 6 clients, Starter A$49/mo for 25, Pro A$99/mo for 100, Pro+ A$249/mo for 250. Every feature is on every plan, and the only thing that changes between plans is how many clients you hold. Source: business.virtuagym.com/our-prices, read 8 September 2026.
Does Virtuagym have AI?
Yes. Virtuagym launched MAX AI Coach in August 2025. It generates a personalised workout plan in about 20 seconds inside their Coach mobile app, drawing on their 6,000-plus animated activity library and taking the client profile plus what the trainer specifies, including training frequency, equipment, injuries and styles like supersets or circuits. The coach edits, regenerates or assigns it. Anyone telling you Virtuagym has no AI is out of date. The difference is scope. Their shipped AI writes the plan; their own announcement lists AI meal planning, content generation and business insights as future work. REPley by BuildStability writes the plan too, then suggests the next progression after each logged session from RPE trends, and answers questions across the rest of the business: who is at risk of quitting, what you earned this month, book this client in, draft this invoice. Anything that reaches a client, you approve first.
Does Virtuagym charge per location?
Yes. Every plan on their pricing page is quoted per location per month, and the price also steps up through client-count bands at 20, 50, 150, 500, 1000 and 2500 clients. That model makes sense for a gym chain adding sites. It is a poor fit for a coach who trains in a park on Tuesday, a hired studio on Thursday and online the rest of the week, because the question "how many locations is that" has no comfortable answer. BuildStability prices per business by client count only. Where you coach is not a billing question.
Is BuildStability a good Virtuagym alternative for a solo PT or a small studio?
That is who it is built for. Virtuagym is club software: 10,000-plus fitness businesses, access control, kiosks, equipment sync, multi-club support. Powerful if you run a facility with a front desk. A lot of machinery if you coach people. BuildStability gives an Australian solo trainer or small studio AUD billing with GST-compliant invoices, AI programs on every plan including Essential at A$19/mo, progressions suggested after each session, churn prediction, a 90-day client journey and an assistant that runs the admin in plain English. If you have a turnstile to open, buy Virtuagym. If you have clients to keep, start here.
Can I migrate from Virtuagym to BuildStability?
Yes, with our help. For your client list, export it from Virtuagym and email us the CSV. We review the data and load what fits. For payments, if you already process through Stripe with your own dashboard access, connect that Stripe account and we bring products, customers and active subscriptions across, with saved cards staying on Stripe so your clients are never asked to re-enter card details. For your programs, you do not have to rebuild from scratch: paste your existing plans into REPley and tell it to save them verbatim, and your exercises, sets, reps and notes are stored exactly as written, with no AI rewriting. See Save an existing program into your library for the exact prompts and a worked example.
Does BuildStability do door access, check-in kiosks or gym equipment sync?
No, and that is a real gap rather than a soft one. Virtuagym sells Access Control, the Virtuagym Touch kiosk and Virtuagym Connect for syncing training data off gym machines. We ship QR check-in for classes and self-serve booking, which covers a studio running scheduled sessions, but there is no door hardware and no equipment integration. If unlocking a 24-hour gym is part of the job, Virtuagym wins that row outright.
What does BuildStability take from my client payments?
Nothing. Payments run through Stripe Connect on your own merchant account, so you pay Stripe their processing fee and we add no commission and no platform fee on top. Virtuagym takes card-not-present payments through their own billing at 2.75% plus $0.20 per transaction, with discounts available at higher volumes. On A$5,000 of monthly card payments that difference is real money, and it recurs every month.
Try REPley by BuildStability free for 14 days.
No credit card required. Export your data at any time. Cancel in 1 click. If REPley is not a better fit than what you are using now, you will know within a week.
Virtuagym is a registered trademark of Virtuagym B.V.. BuildStability is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Virtuagym. All claims on this page reflect Virtuagym’s public pricing and feature documentation as of 8 September 2026. Claims are re-verified quarterly.