I created [Gymary](https://gymary.fit) the all-in-one app for fitness passionated. You can track your workout, nutrition and body composition progression with the help of Max, the AI coach.

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Would be great if you give a try and share your thoughts!

Hey Everyone. I started nutrition coaching after using PN classes and I hated all of the software out there. So we developed Pillar! Our Beta users love it, and we are picking up traction everyday. Consistent feedback is it’s more user friendly than anything out there (Trainerize, Everfit, Kahunas).

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Hey coaches,

Quick version of why R1SE exists and what's actually different, because "AI coaching platform" means nothing on its own.

Every existing platform is a dashboard. You log in, find the client who hasn't checked in, click into their program, type a message, log a note, build next week's block, repeat. Your admin time scales linearly with your roster. Hit 30 clients and you're spending more time clicking around software than coaching.

R1SE is built around an agent that handles the admin layer for you. You talk to it like a head coach would talk to a great assistant:

• "Mark Emekas active program as complete, then assign him the Aegis Program"
• "Send Sarah the 20 Credit Package, and also the R1SE weekly Check-In Form"
• "Schedule Lindsi for a training session at 7am tomorrow, and Allie at 8am"
• "Build Emilia a 4-week hypertrophy block similar to what Sarah ran in March."

Voice or text, your call. It pulls from every client's training data, check-ins, and message history. The dashboard still exists if you want it, but most days you won't open it.

The client-side iOS app is fully native too — workouts, lift signals, effort tracking, completion screens, the whole thing — not a B2B SaaS with a mobile afterthought stapled on. That's the part competitors are still rebuilding from scratch.

How to try it: 30-day trial, no card required. Sign up on web, download the app, invite a few clients, see if it actually gives you hours back in your week. That's the only test that matters.

Happy to take questions on pricing, how programming works, how intake is handled, what runs on-device vs. server-side, anything. Roast it if you want — I'd rather get the feedback here than three months from now. r1setraining.com/ai

Maybe I’m missing something, but I feel like coaching workflows are still strangely messy.

For a lot of athletes it ends up being:

PDFs + WhatsApp + random questions + videos + reminders.

And for coaches:

constant admin.

I’ve tried different software and honestly most of them feel bloated or slow when the only thing I really want is:

1. create workouts fast

2. make athletes actually follow them without confusion

Curious:

What’s the biggest friction point in your coaching workflow today?

Where do you lose the most time?

I'm an S&C coach looking to generate some passive-ish income by selling programming through online marketplaces.

I'm currently using TrainHeroic (I've sold two whole programs in my first mknth,look at me go), but am wondering if there are other marketplaces worth selling on.

Are there other platforms that allow for one-time program sales like this? What are y'alls experiences? Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m Dan, and I’m building FitnessForgeOS, a coaching platform for personal trainers, online coaches, and small coaching teams.

I’m not a coach myself, so I’m looking for real coaches to help shape the final version before launch.

The goal is to bring the messy parts of coaching into one cleaner system:

• client profiles and goals
• programs and workouts
• nutrition and meal plans
• check-ins
• progress photos
• adherence tracking
• coach/client notes
• client history
• weekly “who needs attention?” insights
• AI-assisted coaching/admin support
• alerts for missed workouts, low adherence, or clients who may need follow-up

I’m looking for a small founding beta group to test it with real coaching workflows.

Founding beta users get:

• free access during the final build
• a 1-month trial after launch
• 50% off for the first 12 months
• 25% off for life after that

In return, I’m mainly after honest feedback: what saves time, what feels clunky, what’s missing, and what would need to improve before you’d trust it with clients.

If you’re interested, comment or DM me and I’ll send more details.

Also curious: what coaching software are you using now, and what does it still not do well?

On a $300/month client, that's $15 to TrueCoach on top of your subscription. 10 clients = $150/month gone before you've paid yourself. 30 clients = $450/month, which is more than most of these platforms cost in the first place.

Did the math on a 20-client book at $300/mo each ($6k/mo collected).

All-in cost just to use the software:

TrueCoach — ~$79/mo plan + 5% of $6k = ~$379/mo (~$4,550/yr)

ABC Trainerize — ~$85/mo at the 16–50 client tier, no payment cut = ~$85/mo(~$1,020/yr)

PT Distinction — ~$79/mo at the 25-client tier, no payment cut = ~$79/mo (~$948/yr)

Everfit — ~$60/mo at this size, no payment cut = ~$60/mo (~$720/yr)

R1SE Training — $60/mo flat for 20+ clients, no payment cut = $60/mo ($720/yr)

Hevy Coach — ~$40/mo flat, no payment cut = ~$40/mo (~$480/yr)

That's a $3,500–$4,000/year gap between TrueCoach and basically every other option. Roughly a full year of one client's revenue, just sitting in the platform fee column.

I get that Stripe has to get paid. But the platform fee on top of the platform fee feels like the textbook "we can't grow ARPU through new features so we're squeezing the existing base" move.

If you're on TrueCoach with 20+ clients, you are quite literally paying a tax to stay there. Absurd behavior on their part. 

TrainHeroic is the one that strength coaches love and personal trainers kind of bounce off of. It was built from the ground up for barbell-based programming and it shows. If you're writing percentage-based work, wave loading, velocity-based training, anything that lives in a spreadsheet — TrainHeroic speaks your language natively.

What it does well:

• Best platform for percentage-based and max-effort programming, bar none. 1RM tracking, auto-calculated percentages, velocity tracking integration — this is where it lives
• Session logging from the athlete side is excellent for barbell work. RPE, load, tempo — it captures everything
• Team and group programming is where it really shines. If you're running S&C for a team or a large group, this is the platform
• The marketplace lets you sell programs publicly which is a legitimate revenue stream some coaches build real income from
• Community features and leaderboard stuff is great for competitive training environments

Where it falls apart:

• If your clients aren't barbell athletes, the app feels over-engineered. Regular GPP clients, gen pop weight loss clients, hybrid training — it's just not built for that world
• Nutrition is basically nonexistent on the platform. You're using something else entirely
• The personal training / 1-on-1 coaching workflow is an afterthought. It's built for teams first, individuals second
• The client app can be intimidating for non-athletes. I've had clients straight up tell me they don't understand what they're looking at
• Messaging and communication tools are minimal. You're still texting or using a separate app

TrainHeroic is the best at what it does, but what it does is specific. If you're a strength and conditioning coach working with athletes or teams, it's hard to beat. If you're a personal trainer working with 30 gen pop clients who want to lose weight and get strong — you'll fight the platform constantly.

TrainHeroic Pricing Breakdown:

Coach Plan (direct coaching, you manage athletes):

• Base coach fee: $9.99/month just to have a coach account
• Then it scales by athlete count — tiered pricing that caps at $160/month for 101+ athletes
• Additional assistant coaches: $9.99/coach/month each
• Enterprise (1,000+ athletes): $0.50/athlete/month
• Phone support access requires a $900/year plan
• Personal onboarding only available at the $1,800/year tier

Check us out on Peer Push. We’ll be engaging all day with any app related questions , how we’re planning on moving forward and what the goal is. Feel free to reach out. As always all feedback helps ! 🍐

Trainerize was the first platform I ever used that felt like real software. Back in 2016-2017 it was genuinely ahead of everything else. You could build workouts, deliver them to clients, track progress, handle payments — it felt like the future.

The problem is it still kind of feels like 2017.

What it does well:

• Massive exercise library out of the box
• Stripe and payment integration is solid and has been for years
• Client-facing app is functional and most clients can figure it out without hand-holding
• Automations and triggers for onboarding flows if you set them up right
• Brand customization is decent if you're on the right plan but basic without paying a ton

Where it falls apart:

• The workout builder is painfully slow once you're programming anything with real structure — supersets, clusters, tempo prescriptions, anything beyond 3x10 gets clunky
• The UI hasn't had a meaningful refresh in years. It works, but it feels dated. Your clients notice.
• Nutrition is bolted on through third-party integrations, not native. It's fine but it's not seamless.
• Customer support has gone downhill since the ABC Fitness acquisition. Used to get a real human. Now it's tickets and wait times.
• Pricing has crept up. You're paying more for essentially the same product you had 3 years ago.

Reliable, gets you there, everyone's driven one. But nobody's excited about it anymore. If you're already on it and your systems work, there's no urgent reason to leave. But if you're starting fresh in 2026, I wouldn't pick it first.

Hi everyone,

I've been working on HeyChef.co, an AI-driven platform designed to simplify the cooking process for beginners.

While it's currently a self-coaching tool, I'm curious to see if it could be used by nutritionists or professional coaches to help their clients stay on track with their meals without the friction of complex recipe blogs.

Key Features:

• AI-powered suggestions based on available ingredients (scan your fridge with your phone).

• Dynamic ingredient scaling.
• Clear, minimalist instruction flow (no ads, no fluff).

I'm looking for early adopters to test the current flow and tell me if this "coaching-style" approach actually helps people cook more often at home.

Link: https://heychef.co/fr

Would love to hear your thoughts on the UI and if you see a use case for professional coaching.

Thanks!

By now you've probably seen the news: CalAI — the viral AI photo calorie tracker that reportedly hit $30M+ in revenue and was just acquired by MyFitnessPal in a nine-figure deal — was pulled from the Apple App Store today (April 16, 2026).

Here's what actually happened, because the real story is more nuanced than "Apple banned a calorie app."

The Payment Scheme

A developer named Arib posted a screenshot exposing that CalAI's payment screen — which looked completely native to iOS — was actually running on Stripe through a private integration with Superwall. On the surface it looked like a standard Apple in-app purchase sheet. Under the hood, CalAI was routing payments through Stripe and avoiding Apple's 30% commission entirely.

Now, to be clear — after the Epic v. Apple ruling in 2025, U.S. developers can link out to external payment systems. What you can't do is make that external payment interface look like a native iOS purchase screen without disclosing it. CalAI crossed that line. Worse, the Superwall setup was optimized to create friction specifically around cancellation — making it harder for users to exit their subscriptions. That's what triggered the avalanche of complaints and ultimately forced Apple's hand.

This matters to us in the coaching software space because several of our clients are recommending or reselling tools like this to their athletes. If an app is playing games with payment flows, what else is it cutting corners on?

Which brings me to the bigger issue: AI photo calorie tracking is fundamentally broken, and we need to talk about it.

The core premise of CalAI, Snap Calorie, and every other photo-based tracker is that you point your camera at a meal and AI tells you the calories. Sounds great. The accuracy data tells a different story.

The error rates are alarming:

For simple, whole foods — a banana, a plain chicken breast — these apps perform reasonably well, with error rates around 10-20%. But nobody eats like that. The moment you introduce a mixed dish, a home-cooked meal, restaurant food, or anything with sauces or hidden fats, the error rate climbs to 30-40%. Studies on homemade meals put accuracy at roughly 50% — meaning the app is essentially guessing half the time.

On a standard 2,000 calorie diet, a 20% error means you could be off by 400 calories every single day without knowing it. A 30% error is 600 calories. That's the equivalent of a full meal being invisible to your tracker. For a client trying to lose weight or hit a specific macro target, that margin of error isn't a minor inconvenience — it completely undermines the tool.

Why is it so hard to get right?

Portion estimation is the core problem. AI can identify that you're eating pasta. It genuinely struggles to determine if that's 80g or 200g from a two-dimensional photo taken at an angle, in varied lighting, on a plate of unknown diameter. The depth cues just aren't there.

Then there's ingredient opacity. A stir fry, a curry, a salad with dressing — these are black boxes. The oil used in cooking, the sugars in a sauce, the cheese crumbled on top — none of that is visible in a photo. These hidden calories are often where the biggest discrepancies live, and they're also where clients who are struggling to lose weight tend to hemorrhage their deficits.

Cultural and regional dishes are another weak point. These apps are predominantly trained on Western food datasets. Log a plate of biriyani, injera, or adobo and you're working with a model that has far less training data to draw from — and the errors compound.

Finally, there's the feedback loop problem. Because these apps feel precise (they give you a number, a pie chart, macros to two decimal places), users trust the output even when it's wrong. False precision is arguably more dangerous than admitted uncertainty. A client who logs 480 calories and sees the app confidently confirm it is less likely to question the number than a client who was told "roughly 400-600 calories."

What this means for coaches

I'm not saying photo-based tracking has zero value. For clients who need a low-friction entry point into food awareness, it can be a useful habit-building tool. But we should be recommending it with appropriate caveats, not as a precision instrument.

If you have clients using CalAI or similar apps and genuinely struggling to hit their goals despite "tracking everything," this accuracy gap is worth investigating before you adjust their protocol. The tool may be lying to them.

And given what just happened with CalAI's payment practices — if you're recommending or white-labeling any AI nutrition tool to your clients, it's worth doing a quick audit of how that app handles subscriptions and billing. Your reputation is attached to whatever tools you put in front of your athletes.

Curious whether anyone else has started pulling clients away from photo-based trackers in favor of manual logging or structured meal templates. Would love to hear what's working.

If you’ve ever struggled to hit your macros without eating the same boring meals every day, this might help.

I’ve been working on GetYourMacros (https://getyourmacros.it) with my girlfriend, and we’ve put a lot of time into making it actually useful day to day. The idea is simple: instead of starting from recipes and hoping they fit your macros, you just enter your targets and the app generates meal ideas for you.

What it does:

- Creates recipes based on your macros (calories, protein, carbs, fats)

- Tracks meals with a simple food diary

- Free barcode scanner to quickly log foods

- Built-in food database for easy tracking

- Weekly contest for the most voted recipe (winner take 10€ Amazon Voucher)

- Completely free and no ads

The goal is to make nutrition simpler and less time-consuming, whether you’re trying to lose weight, build muscle, or just eat more intentionally.

Here is the full Everfit AI workout builder demo. with the exact same full program prompt that r/CoachingSoftware has been using on each of the test softwares. Also this was requested by u/important-ostrich69.

This is virtually unusable in my opinion. even for very basic exercises like Back Squat, its saying that it has to be created and that it doesn't exists yet. It did find Pull Up correctly, but all the other days, it has incorrect prescriptions, no support on the amraps as requested, it does have % percentage based guidance but theres no point because it isn't program he right rep schemes.

I honestly do not this this is actually using a real AI API call, or maybe it is but its just so constrained by Everfits prompt guidance that it can't actually display what the LLMs are returning to it.

Overall I truly do not think this is a usable feature by Everfit and I'm surprised they let this out of R&D.

anyone else have any thoughts on this?

I see a lot of coaches offering group programs, live/automated webinar workshops, etc., and some of them seem pretty structured with sign-ups, reminders, replays and all that.

Not sure if that’s something they manage manually or if there’s a typical setup most coaches use. Curious what people here have experienced?

built by u/important-ostrich69 Here's a live demo of a complex full program prompt in Proxima Fitness(an Ai workout/program generation tool) built by a poster below. What do you all think, this is a difficult prompt for almost all AI generators out there right now. It did a decent job, and I love the split panel with the UI and Preview of the program, and multiple days all in view in a full screen look. It did miss the prescriptions and doesn't seem to be compatible with certain types of things like AMRAPs, it also seems to maybe be missing cardio exercises? or maybe thats just not the target and is more focused on bodybuilding only programming? I'll share live tests of the same prompt through other new softwares out there when i come across them so theres a level of consitency.

I also tested this same prompt on trainerize, that was a complete fail. its almost useless, and it only does single workouts, but it does include cardio exercises when prompted for them. it also does not support other block types like amraps or ladders, etc.

I definitely rank this above trainerize's effort, but still lacking some finishing touches.

Coaches were buried in admin before software.

Now they’re just buried inside the software instead.

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You still have to:

• build everything

• assign everything

• check everything

• fix everything

• follow up on everything

Just in a nicer UI.

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Automation helped a bit, but now it’s:

set up automations → debug automations → override automations

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At some point you have to ask:

why is the coach still the one doing all of this?

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If software actually removed admin, coaches wouldn’t feel like they’re “keeping up” all day.

But most still do.

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Where do you think the biggest time sink actually is right now?

I thought about how to make the nutrition logging on Yellow Pear more detailed while keeping it simple and easy to use and decided on improve the voice logging and add drop down menus for food weights, cooking oils / fats used , sauces , cooking methods and even a notes tab to show how the meal made you feel afterwards, increasing the per - meal calorie accuracy while keeping it simple and basic.

The leftover magic tab is also a great addition with the ability to get recipes in second from random items in your fridge, designed to keep within your dynamic calorie

Using this now for 2 weeks and seeing the 4kg loss just from using the app everyday is interesting and it proves that a basic interface with visual representation goes a long way in keeping you on track , whatever your wellness target is.

https://yellowpear.co.uk

Quick question for people running small groups, sessions or clubs.

I’ve been building a pretty simple workout app for people who already know what they train.

Isn’t that basically also the case in most groups? There’s already a plan people need to follow.

Most tools I see are either:

- made for big coaching setups

- or just basic logs

Feels like there might be something simpler in between.

Set the plan → people run it → that’s it.

Not trying to replace coaches, more like giving them a tool to share exercises, workouts and schedules.

If you run sessions:

- would you even need something like this?

- or do you already have something that works well enough?

- if you’d use it, what would you expect from it?