Pilates studio software compared
Seven booking systems judged on the thing that actually decides it for a pilates studio: how they cope with lots of small classes. Punchpass and Pike13 charge a flat rate whatever your volume. Momence trades a low monthly fee for a cut of every payment. Mindbody is the only one that brings you people who have not heard of you. Zenamu, our own tool, suits European studios selling a course series and drop-ins side by side. Prices were read from each vendor on 2026-09-03.
A reformer room seats six to twelve. That single fact changes which software is right for you more than any feature list does. Your week is made of many small classes rather than a few large ones. A no-show costs a noticeable share of the class. And a late cancellation leaves a gap that only a waitlist fills.
So the questions worth asking are narrow. Does the price move when you add classes or clients? Does a canceled place get offered to the next person automatically, or does someone have to notice? Can you sell a six-week beginner series and a drop-in from the same schedule? The comparison below answers those, and links to the vendor page each price came from.
We make one of the seven, so read this with that in mind. What we control is the method: prices came from the vendors themselves on the date shown, nothing is listed without something it is weaker at, and our entry sits in the middle rather than at the top.
Seven booking systems for pilates studios
Vendor pages last checked on September 3, 2026. Prices and plan names change; follow the source link on each entry before you decide.
Punchpass
A pilates studio runs more classes with fewer people in each than almost any other discipline, which makes per-customer pricing awkward. Punchpass charges the same at any volume, with unlimited classes, passes, and instructors on every tier, so a schedule of twenty small classes a week costs what five large ones would. That is the whole reason to look at it.
Strong at
- Flat price regardless of class count or student numbers
- Passes are the core object rather than an add-on, which suits series selling
- Simple enough to hand to a front desk without training
Weaker at
- Starts at $59 a month, so there is no free way in
- Lighter on marketing and retail than the bigger suites
- Not built for multi-location operations
Checked against punchpass.com/pricing
Momence
Momence lets you choose where the cost sits. Nothing monthly, but 5% from you and 4% from the client on payments. Sixty dollars, and your share drops to 2.5%. One hundred and ninety-nine, and the platform fee goes. Pilates studios usually charge more per class than yoga studios do, so that percentage compounds faster here, and the free tier stops being cheap sooner than you expect.
Strong at
- A genuine free tier for a studio just opening
- The top plan removes the platform fee rather than only reducing it
- Marketing and retail add-ons for studios that sell more than classes
Weaker at
- A percentage of payments hurts more at pilates class prices than at drop-in yoga prices
- Reporting, staff, and multiple locations are excluded from the free and Pro tiers
- Card processing is billed on top, at 3.9% + $0.30 in the US
Checked against momence.com/pricing
Zenamuthat is us
Our own tool. You set each class capacity to match the number of reformers in the room, and bookings close when it fills. Courses, passes, credits, and 1:1 appointments live in the same account, which matters if you sell a six-week beginner series and drop-ins side by side. Be clear about the limit: capacity is a seat count, not a named machine assigned to a named client.
Strong at
- Every plan price and order limit is published, in ten currencies priced per market
- No fee per booking, so a schedule of many small classes costs the same as a few large ones
- Cancellation rules and a late-cancellation fee you set yourself, and waitlists from the Expert plan
Weaker at
- Capacity is a number of places, not a specific reformer or spot assigned per client
- No consumer marketplace to introduce you to new clients
- The free plan stops at 30 orders a month, courses and passes need Standard, and the waitlist this page calls decisive needs Expert
- Better known in Europe than in the United States
Checked against zenamu.com/pricing
Pike13
Pike13 is priced flat per tier, with unlimited staff seats and unlimited client profiles, which fits a studio whose costs scale with instructors rather than with sign-ups. It is aimed at recurring, scheduled clients more than at a walk-in timetable. The entry price is the highest published figure on this page, so it earns its place only if the recurring-client model is genuinely how you work.
Strong at
- Unlimited staff seats and client profiles at every tier
- Built around recurring, scheduled clients rather than drop-in traffic
- Flat rate within a tier, with no per-user scaling
Weaker at
- The highest published entry price here, at $139 a month on annual billing
- The trial is seven days, shorter than most
- Franchises pay per-location fees on top of the base plan
Checked against www.pike13.com/pricing
WellnessLiving
WellnessLiving covers more ground than a booking tool, with point of sale, rewards, lead management, and email and text marketing in the same account, and a white-label client app on the top self-serve tier. The pricing display is the thing to watch: the tiers are shown at a heavy promotional discount for the first two months, so read the regular price rather than the number in large type.
Strong at
- Point of sale, marketing, and lead management alongside booking
- A white-label client app without going to a quote-only plan
- Free data migration is offered on the entry tier
Weaker at
- The headline prices are promotional, and the regular rates are much higher
- The Starter tier includes only one staff member
- More system than a single reformer room needs
Checked against www.wellnessliving.com/pricing
Glofox
Glofox comes from boutique fitness, and a branded app carrying your studio name is the reason people choose it. For a pilates brand with more than one room, that is a real advantage. The cost of it is that four tiers are listed and one starting price is published, so you cannot line Glofox up against anything else here without first having a sales conversation.
Strong at
- A custom-branded mobile app under your own studio name
- Built for multi-location boutique operators
- Reporting and member engagement beyond booking
Weaker at
- Only a starting price is published, with no per-tier figures
- Every tier goes through a pricing request first
- Heavier than a one-room studio needs
Checked against www.glofox.com/plans
Mindbody
Nothing else here has a consumer app that people already open when they want to book a class near them. For a new pilates studio in a competitive city, that reach can be worth more than the subscription costs. The trade is that pricing is per location, and add-ons and transaction fees stack on top of the base plan, and the actual figure only arrives through a sales conversation.
Strong at
- A consumer marketplace that puts you in front of people searching for a class
- Deep tooling for multi-location wellness businesses
- A large integration ecosystem
Weaker at
- Priced per location, with only a starting figure published
- Add-ons and transaction fees make the true total hard to work out in advance
- Considerably more system than an independent instructor needs
Checked against www.mindbodyonline.com/business/pricing
Working out what it will actually cost you
Take your monthly revenue from classes and multiply by each platform fee before you compare monthly prices. A studio turning over three thousand a month pays a hundred and fifty on a 5% fee, which makes the free tier more expensive than most paid plans on this page. The same calculation at three hundred a month makes it the cheapest option here. Neither answer is obvious from the pricing table.
Then decide whether you are buying reach or buying admin time back. Mindbody is the only tool here that can put you in front of someone who has never heard of your studio, and it is priced accordingly. Everything else assumes people already know where to find you and simply makes booking, paying, and rescheduling less work.
If you want to see how the class-and-series case works in ours, the pilates studio booking system page walks through capacity, waitlists, and course terms, and our pricing page shows every plan price in your currency. For the neighboring discipline, we ran the same comparison for yoga studio software and for dance studios, where the shortlist comes out differently again.
Pilates studio software questions
What software do pilates studios use?
Most independent pilates studios run one of the class-based booking systems on this page rather than pilates-specific software, because the scheduling problem is the same as in any small-capacity class business. The bigger studios and franchises tend to sit on Mindbody, WellnessLiving, or Glofox, mainly for the marketing and multi-location tooling rather than for anything pilates-specific.
Can booking software assign a specific reformer to each client?
Very few systems do true per-machine assignment, and none of the tools on this page advertises it as a headline feature. What every one of them does is cap the class at the number of places you set, which for most studios is the same thing in practice. If naming the machine genuinely matters to you, ask each vendor directly before signing up rather than assuming it is there.
Why does per-customer pricing hurt a pilates studio?
Because a reformer room holds six to twelve people, a full week is many small classes rather than a few big ones. Tools that bill by active customer are priced for a business with a large member base and steady attendance, which is not the shape of a reformer schedule. A flat price per month usually works out better for a studio whose revenue comes from a high number of low-capacity sessions.
Is there free pilates studio software?
Momence and Zenamu both have a permanent free plan, and they charge for it differently. Momence takes 5% from you and 4% from the client on every payment. Zenamu charges no booking fee but caps the free plan at 30 orders a month. At pilates class prices, the percentage adds up quickly, so compare against your own monthly revenue rather than the plan name.
How was this comparison put together?
Each price was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-03, and every entry links to the page it came from. Where a vendor publishes no price, this page says so rather than estimating. Zenamu is our own product, listed third, with its limitations stated in the same terms as everyone else's.
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