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Wodify vs PushPress in 2026, which fits your gym
Wodify lists Essentials at $199, promoted at $99 with a demo. PushPress starts free and publishes everything. The real difference is pricing philosophy.
The short version: pick PushPress to start free or cheap with every price published; pick Wodify if performance tracking is your gym's culture and you are comfortable getting the real total from sales, since only its Essentials tier is public, $199 list and $99 on a demo promotion, as of August 2026. Both are built for class-based gyms and both work for martial arts, and our crawl says Wodify's martial arts users are mostly BJJ gyms.
These two get compared constantly because they solve the same problem for the same kind of gym: class-based training, memberships, a coach at the front of the room. The honest difference is less about features than about how each company sells. One publishes its numbers, one asks you to call. Everything below is from the two vendors' pricing pages, checked August 2026, plus what our directory of more than 11,000 martial arts gyms can see of real usage.
Two pricing philosophies, side by side
PushPress puts everything on the page: a genuinely free tier with unlimited members, Pro at $159, Max at $229, and the add-ons priced too, training from $79 and a branded app from $81 a month. You can cost the whole stack from your sofa. Wodify publishes one tier and stops there: Essentials lists at $199 a month per location, struck through to $99 for gyms that book a demo while the promotion runs; Accelerate and Ultimate are quoted by sales, most add-ons likewise, and there is an onboarding fee whose size is not listed. It does publish processing rates, from 2.7% plus 30 cents for cards and 1.5% plus 30 cents for ACH, which are competitive numbers.
Neither approach is wrong, but they reward different buyers. If you hate negotiating, PushPress's transparency is worth real money. If you are happy to push sales for a deal, Wodify's quoted world sometimes prices keener than the page ever would, and its entry tier undercuts PushPress's first paid plan.
Where Wodify wins
Performance tracking is the product's spine: workouts programmed, scores logged, leaderboards on the whiteboard screen, progress graphs members check on their own. Gyms whose culture runs on measurable progress get something PushPress does not really offer. It is also further into martial arts than its CrossFit image suggests: of the 47 gym websites running Wodify in our August 2026 crawl, 32 are BJJ gyms, which makes sense, since grappling rooms share the class-plus-progress shape that CrossFit boxes have.
Where it wins:
- Performance tracking and whiteboard culture, native and deep
- Published processing rates from 2.7% plus 30 cents
- Real BJJ adoption: 32 of its 47 sites in our crawl are grappling gyms
Where it falls short:
- Only the entry tier is public ($199 list, $99 on a demo promo); upper tiers, add-ons and the onboarding fee arrive by sales call
- Heavier product than a simple gym needs
- Belts and gradings are not native structures
Where PushPress wins
The free tier is not a demo: unlimited members, staff and leads at $0 a month, with the company earning on payment processing and add-ons. For a gym under a couple of hundred members that wants software without a subscription line, that is the cleanest offer on the market, and everything you might add later has a visible price. The product itself is modern and quick at the desk.
Where it wins:
- Free tier with unlimited members, genuinely usable
- Every price published, including add-ons
- Clean, fast product at the front desk
Where it falls short:
- The features gyms grow into live in paid add-ons, so cost the configured version
- Processing rates on the free tier run higher than paid plans; ask for your number
- No performance-tracking depth to match Wodify
The decision, plainly
Pick Wodify if members logging their training is the point of your gym, you want the whiteboard on a screen, and you will get the full configured price in writing before signing. Pick PushPress if you want to start free or cheap, know every number upfront, and add pieces as the gym grows. In either case the trial that matters is one real week: programme Monday's class, check everyone in on Tuesday evening at your busiest hour, sell one membership and one drop-in, and watch which system your coaches stop complaining about first.
If your gym is martial arts first, there is a third conversation. Neither of these platforms speaks belts, gradings or mat-time natively; that is the gap Mat Track exists for, ours, free up to 200 contacts, with the retention mechanics we covered in the retention guide. PushPress could not be measured in our crawl and we say so; we hold ourselves to the same rule, so test all three against your own week rather than trusting any vendor's blog, this one included.