How is this fitness & wellness ranking decided?

Mechanically. The 20 approved fitness & wellness listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.

Is this list re-ordered for students?

No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the students framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Students want the $0 column. Anything on this page with a published free plan or an open-source licence is usable without a purchase decision at all.

How much does fitness & wellness software cost?

Across the 20 fitness & wellness tools listed here, paid plans start between $2.99 and $200 a month, with a median entry price of $18. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $1,495 a month (Mirror). 5 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.

What is the cheapest fitness & wellness software?

1 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Hevy has the lowest published entry price at $2.99 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.

Is there free fitness & wellness software?

Yes, 5 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 1 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.

What features should fitness & wellness software have?

Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are advanced analytics (2 of 12 tools that publish plan detail), all free features (2) and progress tracking (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as ad-free or athlete content, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.

How is fitness & wellness software usually billed?

subscription (10), freemium (1), counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not.

What does fitness & wellness software actually cover?

The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are tracking (5), premium (4), strength (4), coaching (3), nutrition (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under fitness & wellness may overlap on very little.

How many pricing tiers do fitness & wellness tools offer?

12 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 1 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.

How many fitness & wellness tools are listed on Softwr?

20 approved fitness & wellness listings appear on this page, including Apple Fitness+, Centr, Cronometer, Eight Sleep. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/fitness-wellness, which ranks the same set by published rating.

Fitness & Wellness · ranked shortlist

Best Fitness & Wellness software for Students in 2026

20 approved fitness & wellness listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Students want the $0 column. Anything on this page with a published free plan or an open-source licence is usable without a purchase decision at all.

Tools ranked: 20
Entry price range: $2.99-$200
Publish a $0 plan: 5 of 20

How this ranking is derived

The sort key

Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.

Where the ratings come from

No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.

What the pool is

Approved fitness & wellness listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the fitness & wellness category page.

The ranking

Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.

#1
Apple Fitness+
Highest rated here
Guided workouts powered by Apple Watch
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $9.99 a month, with no free plan.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
apple, streaming, wearables, premium
Apple Fitness+ breakdown Compare with Centr
#2
Centr
Chris Hemsworth's fitness and wellness app
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
Tags
fitness, wellness, celebrity, holistic
Centr breakdown Compare with Cronometer
#3
Cronometer
Track nutrition, not just calories
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $4.99 a month.
Billing
Model not published
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
nutrition, micronutrients, tracking, health
Cronometer breakdown Compare with Eight Sleep
#4
Eight Sleep
The sleep fitness company
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $19 a month, with no free plan.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
sleep, recovery, smart-home, temperature
Eight Sleep breakdown Compare with Ergatta
#5
Ergatta
Game-based connected rower
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $29 a month, with no free plan.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
rowing, gaming, connected, racing
Ergatta breakdown Compare with Everfit
#6
E
Everfit
Online coaching software for fitness professionals
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
Everfit breakdown Compare with FitNotes
#7
FitNotes
Free workout tracker for Android
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
workout, Free, android, tracking
FitNotes breakdown Compare with Future
#8
Future
Your personal trainer in your pocket
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $199 a month, with no free plan.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
personal-training, coaching, premium, custom
Future breakdown Compare with Gymdesk
#9
G
Gymdesk
Gym management software priced by member count for billing and class booking
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
Gymdesk breakdown Compare with Gymshark Training
#10
Gymshark Training
Train with Gymshark athletes
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $9.99 a month.
Billing
freemium
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
gymshark, training, strength, programs
Gymshark Training breakdown Compare with Hevy
#11
Hevy
Workout tracker and gym log
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $2.99 a month.
Billing
Model not published
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
workout, social, gym, tracking
Hevy breakdown Compare with Hydrow
#12
H
Hydrow
The live outdoor reality rower
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $44 a month, with no free plan.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
rowing, connected, live-classes, cardio
Hydrow breakdown Compare with JEFIT
#13
JEFIT
Your personal gym workout planner
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $12.99 a month.
Billing
Model not published
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
workout, gym, strength, tracking
JEFIT breakdown Compare with Liteboxer
#14
Liteboxer
Music-driven boxing workouts at home
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $29 a month, with no free plan.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
boxing, music, home-fitness, cardio
Liteboxer breakdown Compare with MacroFactor
#15
MacroFactor
The smart macro tracker
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $11.99 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $71.99.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
macros, nutrition, tracking, adaptive
MacroFactor breakdown Compare with Mariana Tek
#16
Mariana Tek
Boutique fitness software
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $200 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $500.
Billing
subscription
Published tiers
2 tiers
Tags
boutique, Enterprise, franchise, booking
Mariana Tek breakdown Compare with Mirror
#17
Mirror
The nearly invisible home gym
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $39 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $1,495.
Billing
Model not published
Published tiers
3 tiers
Tags
home-fitness, mirror, streaming, lululemon
Mirror breakdown Compare with My PT Hub
#18
M
My PT Hub
Personal training software for coaches to manage clients, workouts and nutrition
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
Billing
subscription
My PT Hub breakdown Compare with Nike Training Club
#19
Nike Training Club
Free workouts from world-class Nike trainers
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
Billing
Model not published
Published tiers
1 tier
Tags
fitness, Free, strength, yoga
Nike Training Club breakdown Compare with Noom
#20
Noom
Psychology-based weight loss
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $17 a month, with no free plan.
Billing
Model not published
Tags
weight-loss, nutrition, psychology, coaching
Noom breakdown

What fitness & wellness software costs

Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.

Cheapest paid plan: $2.99Hevy
Median entry price: $18across 14 priced
Dearest entry price: $200Mariana Tek
Publish a $0 plan: 5of 20

Paid fitness & wellness plans in this set start anywhere from $2.99 a month for Hevy to $200 for Mariana Tek. The median entry price across the 14 tools that publish one is $18, half of them start below that figure and half above it.

Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Mirror's at $1,495 a month, 7.5× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.

5 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 1 of those charge nothing at all. 10 tools have no free tier of any kind.

Hevy pricing Mariana Tek pricing Mirror plans

How these vendors bill

The billing model each of the 20 fitness & wellness listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.

subscription: 10
freemium: 1

What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for

Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 12 fitness & wellness tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.

Named most often

Advanced analytics , 2 of 12
All Free features , 2 of 12
Progress tracking , 2 of 12
Unlimited workout logging , 2 of 12

Named by fewer

Nothing else is named by more than one vendor, beyond the list on the left, no two of these tools describe their tiers the same way.

Named by exactly one vendor: Ad-free, Athlete content, Custom charts and macro scheduler, Full exercise library (200+ videos), Mirror screen, Sleep reports. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.

What “Fitness & Wellness” covers in practice

The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.

tracking5
premium4
strength4
coaching3
nutrition3
workout3
cardio2
connected2
fitness2
Free2
gym2
health2

Carried by a single tool: accountability, booking, community, gymshark, micronutrients, personalized, rhythm, social. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.

How to choose between them

Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.

Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them

5 of 20 fitness & wellness tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with advanced analytics, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.

Read the spread before you read the features

$2.99 to $200 is a $197.01 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $200 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.

Check which tier you actually land on

1 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 2 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, advanced analytics, all free features, progress tracking, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.

The billing model matters more than the headline number

This category splits across 2 billing models: subscription on 10 listings, freemium on 1, and nothing else. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.

Compare fitness & wellness tools directly

Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.

Go straight to the numbers

Build your own comparison See the shortlist instead

Questions people ask about fitness & wellness software

Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.

How is this fitness & wellness ranking decided?: Mechanically. The 20 approved fitness & wellness listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
Is this list re-ordered for students?: No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the students framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Students want the $0 column. Anything on this page with a published free plan or an open-source licence is usable without a purchase decision at all.
How much does fitness & wellness software cost?: Across the 20 fitness & wellness tools listed here, paid plans start between $2.99 and $200 a month, with a median entry price of $18. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $1,495 a month (Mirror). 5 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
What is the cheapest fitness & wellness software?: 1 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Hevy has the lowest published entry price at $2.99 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
Is there free fitness & wellness software?: Yes, 5 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 1 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
What features should fitness & wellness software have?: Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are advanced analytics (2 of 12 tools that publish plan detail), all free features (2) and progress tracking (2). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as ad-free or athlete content, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
How is fitness & wellness software usually billed?: subscription (10), freemium (1), counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not.
What does fitness & wellness software actually cover?: The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are tracking (5), premium (4), strength (4), coaching (3), nutrition (3). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under fitness & wellness may overlap on very little.
How many pricing tiers do fitness & wellness tools offer?: 12 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 1 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
How many fitness & wellness tools are listed on Softwr?: 20 approved fitness & wellness listings appear on this page, including Apple Fitness+, Centr, Cronometer, Eight Sleep. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/fitness-wellness, which ranks the same set by published rating.

Keep reading

Neighbouring categories

Adjacent in the same taxonomy, not a ranking.

How this ranking is derived

The sort key

Where the ratings come from

What the pool is

The ranking

Apple Fitness+

Centr

Cronometer

Eight Sleep

Ergatta

Everfit

FitNotes

Future

Gymdesk

Gymshark Training

Hevy

Hydrow

JEFIT

Liteboxer

MacroFactor

Mariana Tek

Mirror

My PT Hub

Nike Training Club

Noom