Dance studio software compared
Dance software splits in two, and picking from the wrong half is the expensive mistake. Children's schools with seasonal enrollment, family accounts, and a recital want Studio Pro or Jackrabbit Class. Adult studios selling term courses, passes, and drop-in classes want a class booking system, where Punchpass, Momence, and our own Zenamu sit. Six tools are compared below, with prices read from each vendor on 2026-09-03.
Ask one question before you look at any feature list. Do parents pay you for children, or do dancers pay you for themselves? A school billing a family for two children across a September-to-June season, with costumes and a show at the end, has an accounting problem. An adult studio selling a six-week salsa course and a Tuesday drop-in has a scheduling problem. The software built for one is clumsy at the other.
We build for the second kind, so this page is upfront about where it stops being useful. If you run a children's school, the honest recommendation is to look at the dance-school platforms and skip the rest of this comparison. If you teach adults, the list below is the one that matters, and it is cheaper.
Two names are missing prices on purpose. Jackrabbit Class and Class Manager both block automated access, so we could not read their pricing pages, and this page does not quote a number it has not verified. Both are worth checking directly if you run a school.
Six booking systems for dance studios
Vendor pages last checked on September 3, 2026. Prices and plan names change; follow the source link on each entry before you decide.
Studio Pro
Studio Pro is written for the dance-school shape of the business: children enrolled for a season, parents paying for more than one child, and a year that ends in a recital. It also covers cheer, gymnastics, theater, and martial arts programs, which is the same shape of problem. If that describes you, most of this page is the wrong list and this is the right one.
Strong at
- Built for dance schools rather than adapted to them
- Flat monthly price with unlimited students and classes
- A 30-day trial, the longest on this page
Weaker at
- Aimed at children's programs, so an adult drop-in timetable is not the design target
- No free plan
- Strongest in the US market
Checked against www.gostudiopro.com/pricing
Zenamuthat is us
Our own tool, and it belongs on the adult side of the split. You organize a program by style and level, then sell a term course, a pass, or a single class from the same schedule. What we do not do is the children's school half: no family accounts where one parent manages several children, no seasonal tuition installments, and no recital or costume billing.
Strong at
- Term courses, passes, and single classes in one schedule, organized by style and level
- Every plan price and order limit published, in ten currencies priced per market
- Waitlists that notify the next dancer when a full class frees up, from the Expert plan onward
Weaker at
- No family accounts, so a parent cannot manage several children from one login
- No seasonal tuition installments, recital fees, or costume billing
- No consumer marketplace to introduce you to new dancers
- The free plan stops at 30 orders a month, courses and passes need Standard, and waitlists need Expert
Checked against zenamu.com/pricing
Punchpass
Punchpass keeps the same price whatever your volume, with unlimited classes, passes, and instructors on every tier. For a studio running a wide adult timetable across several styles, that predictability is worth more than a long feature list. It is a booking tool rather than a school management system, and it does not pretend otherwise.
Strong at
- The bill does not move as classes or students are added
- Passes are a first-class concept, which suits a multi-style timetable
- Quick to learn and quick to hand over
Weaker at
- No free plan, starting at $59 a month
- No enrollment, tuition, or family tooling for a children's school
- Lighter on marketing than the larger suites
Checked against punchpass.com/pricing
Momence
Momence gives you a choice between a monthly fee and a cut of your payments. The free tier takes 5% from you and 4% from the client, the $60 tier halves your share, and the $199 tier removes the platform fee. For a new dance studio with more time than money, that first tier is genuinely useful, provided you move off it before the percentage overtakes the subscription.
Strong at
- A real free tier to open with
- The top plan removes the platform fee rather than discounting it
- Marketing and retail add-ons as the studio grows
Weaker at
- The layered platform fee makes the true monthly cost hard to predict
- Reporting, staff, and multiple locations are excluded below the top tier
- Card processing is billed on top, at 3.9% + $0.30 in the US
Checked against momence.com/pricing
TeamUp
TeamUp counts each person once a month, however often they book, which rewards a studio with a steady, committed roll and penalizes one with a large occasional crowd. There is no setup fee and no contract, and the bill falls when the count drops. Work out your own active-customer number before comparing it with anything flat-rate here.
Strong at
- Unlimited locations under a single account
- The bill moves down as well as up with your roll
- Month to month, with no setup fee
Weaker at
- A busy term costs more than a quiet one
- A branded app is a $99 per month add-on
- The pricing page publishes one example figure rather than the whole table
Checked against goteamup.com/pricing
Pike13
Pike13 serves dance among several other class-based industries, and is priced flat within each tier, with unlimited staff seats and client profiles. It suits a studio whose members are on standing schedules rather than dropping in, and whose costs rise with instructors rather than with sign-ups. It also has the most expensive published entry price here.
Strong at
- Unlimited staff seats and client profiles on every tier
- Suits recurring, scheduled attendance rather than walk-in traffic
- Multi-location tooling above the entry tier
Weaker at
- The highest published starting price on this page
- A seven-day trial, shorter than most
- Franchise networks pay per-location fees on top
Checked against www.pike13.com/pricing
Choosing across the split
If you sit on the school side, the questions are about billing. Can one parent see and pay for two children? Does a season split into installments? Can you charge a costume fee that is not a class booking? Answer those first, because a booking system that cannot do them will cost you more in manual invoicing than it saves in subscription.
If you sit on the adult side, the questions are about the timetable. Does a freed place go to the next person on its own? Can the same schedule hold a term course and a single class? Does the price move when you add another style on a Thursday night? Those decide it, and the answers are cheaper to buy than the billing ones.
For how we handle the adult case, the dance studio booking system page walks through levels, term courses, and waitlists, and our pricing page lists every plan in your currency. We ran the same comparison for yoga and pilates studios too.
Dance studio software questions
What is the best software for a dance studio?
It depends which kind of dance business you run. A children's school with seasonal enrollment, families, and a recital wants dance-school software such as Studio Pro, Jackrabbit Class, or Class Manager. An adult studio selling term courses, passes, and drop-in classes wants a class booking system, and Zenamu, Punchpass, and Momence all fit that shape. Choosing across the split is the most common expensive mistake.
Why is Jackrabbit Class not priced on this page?
Because we could not read its pricing page. Jackrabbit Class and Class Manager both block automated access, and this page only quotes prices we read from the vendor ourselves. Both are serious options for a children's dance school and are worth checking directly. We will not put a number next to them that we have not verified.
Do I need dance-specific software, or will a class booking system do?
If your dancers are adults who book themselves, a class booking system does everything you need and usually costs less. If parents pay for several children, you bill tuition across a season, and you sell costumes or recital tickets, you need dance-school software. The dividing line is who pays and how often, not what style you teach.
Is there free dance studio software?
Momence and Zenamu both have a permanent free plan. Momence takes 5% from you and 4% from the client on payments. Zenamu charges no booking fee but caps the free plan at 30 orders a month. None of the dance-school platforms on this page has a free tier, though Studio Pro offers a 30-day trial.
How was this comparison put together?
Every price here was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-03, and each entry links to the page it came from. Where a vendor blocks automated access or publishes no price, this page says so rather than estimating. Zenamu is our own product, listed second, with the parts of the dance market it does not serve stated plainly.
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