Arketa vs Puter for Personal Trainers

Arketa provides fitness and wellness studio software for scheduling, payments, payroll, and business automations. Clients can book classes, appointments, and events, with waitlists and guest passes. The Individual plan includes class, private, and event scheduling, client management, an on-demand library, memberships and packages, and an embeddable booking widget. Higher-tier plans add features such as staff management, payroll reporting, email and text campaigns, automated workflows, lead management, and an AI-powered email builder. Studios can publish a branded app in the App Store and Google Play for clients to book, pay, and watch classes. Listed integrations include Google Calendar, Google Business, Facebook, ClassPass, Wellhub, Kisi, Mailchimp, and Zapier. Arketa targets businesses including yoga, Pilates, gyms, recovery, personal training, and massage, and says it supports operations from one to 100 locations. Individual costs $49 a month billed annually, plus a 3% Arketa transaction fee and Stripe fees. The stated U.S. Stripe card processing fee is 2.9% plus $0.30.

Puter for Personal Trainers is a builder for creating apps and websites from plain-English descriptions of a training business. It can produce booking pages, client portals, progress trackers, and training sites. Booking pages can display session availability in a weekly grid and reopen a slot after a cancellation. A portal can give clients accounts to view plans, session history, and assigned work. Trainers can build sessions from an exercise library, assign them, and duplicate a previous week. Progress tracking covers lifts, weight, measurements, and photos, with charts over time. Built apps can call AI to draft programming, summarize check-ins, or answer common client questions. Published projects have their own address and can be downloaded as standard web files. Apps work on phones and can be added to a home screen. Building is free with a Puter account; clients using per-user data need free Puter accounts. The builder does not process session payments, so the page suggests linking an existing payment page. Its feature page describes per-user storage and authentication, while its AI SaaS page advises reviewing generated code when handling health or other sensitive information.