Gymcatch vs Pike13

Gymcatch is a booking and customer management platform for independent fitness and wellness businesses. It lets businesses schedule classes, appointments, and events, including livestream and on-demand sessions, then sell access through pay-as-you-go payments, passes, bundles, courses, or memberships. Booking tools include multi-place bookings, automated wait lists, priority access, and cancellation policies. A customer management portal, customer and admin email and push notifications, online booking, automated billing, digital waivers, and a member mobile app support daily operations. Gymcatch documents integrations with Zoom, Stripe, GymcatchPay, and GoCardless; Zoom can create meeting links for sessions and share details with attendees. It is available on Android, iOS, and web. Gymcatch costs £10 a month for unlimited bookings, customers, and team members; optional bolt-ons cost £2 a month each. There is no free plan, but a free trial is available. GymcatchPay and GoCardless are limited to UK customers, and GoCardless is temporarily disabled in the Android app. The maker says payment providers process payments, so Gymcatch does not hold payment data.

Pike13 provides scheduling, enrollment, payment, and skill-tracking software for activity-based businesses, including fitness studios, gyms, swim schools, martial arts academies, dance schools, education programs, and recreation businesses. It handles classes, courses, appointments, recurring events, waitlists, and client self-booking. Billing supports recurring charges, prepaid plans, passes, gift cards, and payment-processing integrations. Family Accounts link child profiles with a parent account for managing dependent bookings, payments, and schedules. All plans include unlimited staff seats and client profiles, as well as staff, client, and kiosk apps for iOS and Android; the desktop portal runs in a browser. Listed integrations include Mailchimp, Zapier, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, ClassPass, Smartwaiver, Perkville, and Looker. Pike13 says payment details are encrypted and tokenized, with raw card data held by payment partners rather than Pike13. Multi-factor authentication is required for staff, managers, and owners. Plans have 12-month contracts and are billed monthly: Essential is $159 a month, Advanced is $225 a month, and Premium is $286 a month. The maker also lists pricing from $139/mo (annual) and a 7-day trial.