Trainary

Trainary provides workout management for personal trainers, strength coaches, and gyms on iOS and macOS. A guided builder creates workouts with supersets, warmups, homework, and group sessions. During sessions, coaches can log sets and reps in real time, run rest timers, swap exercises, and reorder activities. Charts track weight, reps, RPE, and tempo, with side-by-side session comparisons. Trainary extracts exercises, sets, and reps from program photos and spreadsheets, with photo matches reviewed before saving. Coaches can produce PDF progress reports and export raw figures to Excel. Apple Health sync adds heart rate, calories, and workout duration. Studio accounts include shared exercise libraries, team floor schedules, coach coverage, per-coach performance, and client transfers; one studio plan seats up to 25 coaches. Coach Basic is free forever for up to two clients. Coach Premium costs $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year.

Trainary combines program creation, live workout logging, progress reporting, and gym coordination. The free tier covers small coaching workloads, while paid plans add unlimited clients, imports, reports, and management features.

Trainary suits personal trainers, strength coaches, and gyms managing programs, live sessions, and client progress. Studio tools are intended for coaching teams needing shared schedules and coverage.

Trainary is workout-management software for personal trainers, strength coaches, and gyms, with tools for programming, session logging, and client progress. It suits coaches who want those jobs in one place, especially on Apple devices. Its clearest trade-off is scale: the free plan stops at two clients, while studio features target teams.

Overview

Trainary brings coaching work from planning through review into a single workflow. A guided builder supports warmups, supersets, homework, and group sessions; during training, coaches can log sets and reps in real time, adjust exercise order, swap movements, and use rest timers. That makes it more coach-oriented than a basic workout log.

After a session, charts track weight, reps, RPE, and tempo, and side-by-side comparisons help coaches review changes between two workouts. Apple Health sync adds heart rate, calories, and workout duration. These tools make progress review more substantive than a simple activity history, though the free plan’s two-client cap limits how far an independent coach can grow without upgrading.

Key features

Programming, logging, and progress

The workout builder covers both individual and group coaching, including attendance. During a live session, set-and-rep tracking, rest timers, exercise swaps, and reordering let a coach adapt a plan as the workout unfolds. Progress charts include several useful training measures, and session comparison gives coaches a direct way to inspect change over time.

Imports and reporting

Premium can extract exercises, sets, and reps from program photos and spreadsheets. Photo matches are reviewed before saving, an important check when recognition could otherwise carry an error into a workout plan. PDF progress reports and Excel exports make it easier to share a polished summary or take raw numbers elsewhere. These capabilities are useful for coaches moving existing programs into the app, but they sit outside the free tier.

Studio operations and privacy

Studio accounts include a shared exercise library, floor schedule, coach coverage, per-coach performance, and client transfers. One studio plan can seat up to 25 coaches, giving teams room to coordinate without treating each coach as a separate solo operation. Trainary says it uses industry-standard encryption for stored and transmitted data and does not sell user data. Submitted import images go through third-party AI services and are not permanently stored on Trainary servers after processing.

Pricing

Trainary has a free plan and several paid tiers. Coach Basic costs nothing, billed Free, forever, and allows up to two clients. It includes the full workout builder and live logging, group sessions and attendance, progression charts and session comparison, chat, measurements, and Apple Health. This is a credible starting point for a small coaching workload, but the hard client ceiling makes it unsuitable for a growing roster.

Coach Premium costs $4.99 a month and removes the client limit while adding photo and spreadsheet import, AI summaries, reports, and gym management. For an individual coach who needs more than two clients or wants reporting and imports, this is the clearest upgrade. Coach Premium Yearly costs $39.99 a year and includes Coach Premium features, lowering the effective monthly outlay for someone ready to commit annually.

For teams, Enterprise Basic costs $29.99 a month, Enterprise Studio costs $44.99 a month, and Enterprise Platinum costs $89.99 a month. Enterprise Basic Yearly costs $199.99 a year. Enterprise Studio is the tier expressly described for gyms and coaching teams; the studio feature set includes shared resources and coordination tools, with one studio plan seating up to 25 coaches. The other Enterprise tiers have custom pricing details beyond their stated prices, so buyers should compare their requirements with the named plan before choosing. No trial term is stated for Trainary.

Platforms

Trainary is available on iPhone and iPad. Mac compatibility requires macOS 14 or later and an Apple M1 or later. The app supports English, Czech, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Its Apple-device focus is a practical constraint for coaches whose clients or staff rely on Android or Windows.

Who it's for

Trainary is a strong fit for personal trainers and strength coaches who program sessions, log training with clients, and want structured progress comparisons. The free plan is particularly suitable for a coach serving no more than two clients. Premium fits independent coaches who have outgrown that limit, while the studio plan is aimed at gyms and teams coordinating multiple coaches. It is a weaker choice for users who need Android support or a cross-platform coaching setup.

Pros and cons

• Pro: The workflow spans programming, live changes, and progress review, so coaches can keep core training tasks together.
• Pro: Import, PDF reporting, and Excel export give Premium users practical ways to move programs in and share results out.
• Pro: Studio tools cover shared exercises, floor scheduling, coverage, performance, and client transfers, with a stated capacity of up to 25 coaches per studio plan.
• Con: Coach Basic is capped at two clients, so even a modestly expanding practice needs a paid tier.
• Con: The listed device support is centered on Apple hardware, excluding Android and Windows users.
• Con: Import images are processed by third-party AI services, which may matter to coaches handling sensitive client material despite the stated non-retention on Trainary servers.

Alternatives

Fitness Workout Tracking Software is a useful place to compare more options across the category.

• TrainingPeaks is the better comparison for athletes who want a broad platform spanning Android, iOS, Mac, web, and Windows, with a free Basic athlete account and a $19.95 a month Premium athlete plan.
• ABC Trainerize is worth considering for Android support and a free Basic tier limited to one client; its Grow plan costs $9 a month and includes two client seats.
• Alpha Progression suits an individual focused on self-directed workout logging, with a free tier that includes unlimited logging, 795 exercises with video, measurements, and export, but no plan generator.
• Boostcamp is a relevant alternative for people seeking a large program library and workout tracker rather than Trainary’s coach-and-studio management focus.
• ASICS Runkeeper is a better fit for activity tracking and prescribed workouts across Android, iOS, and web; its Basic plan is free.
• Charity Miles is a free alternative for users seeking a no-cost fitness app.
• Final Surge is an alternative with athlete features, device sync, stats, and analysis across web, iOS, and Android.
• Sleep as Android is an alternative for Android users.

Verdict

Choose Trainary if you coach clients on Apple devices and want programming, live logging, and progress review tied to a practical studio toolkit. Its free tier is useful for a two-client practice, and Premium is a direct path to an unlimited roster with imports and reports. Look elsewhere if Android or Windows support is essential, or if your coaching workload already exceeds the free cap and the paid plans do not match your needs.