A Trainerize alternative for online fitness coaches

Why coaches switch

If you're the glue between six apps, typing every new client in again, that's the job Helms is built to stop. Training, nutrition, check-ins, booking, community and revenue sit in one place, so you enter a client once.

What you can check

• Clients log sets, food, habit ticks, check-ins and messages offline. Each action carries a key made on the phone, so a reconnect can't log the same thing twice.
• Training history is kept as long as the account exists. Nothing is deleted for age.
• You get a message the morning after a client skips a session.
• You set a progression rule on the exercise once. The app reads the client's own last log and offers the next weight, with the reason beside it.
• Group and semi-private sessions have a real capacity, and the waitlist promotes the next person when someone cancels.
• On any paid plan your clients download an app with your name, icon and colours. On Free they get the Helms app with your business name inside it.
• Your clients pay you through your own Stripe or GoCardless. Helms reads the numbers and takes no cut.
• The AI drafts and proposes. It's blocked in code from writing a programme for you, and nothing reaches a client without your say-so.

The bigger the business got, the more of my week went on juggling apps and re-typing the same client into all of them. It felt like more admin than coaching. I wanted one place for the lot: the client work, the business numbers, the social side. So I built it.Logan Russo, who built Helms and still coaches clients on it. From usehelms.com/coaching

Prices

I'm not quoting Trainerize prices. Their pricing page shows more than one set of figures for the same plan, and you should read the live page rather than trust my copy of it. Helms prices are on the pricing page, in pounds.

When to stay where you are

Helms has no Android app for your clients and no Apple Watch app yet. The rest is on who Helms is not for.

Getting your clients across

Moving your clients is free on any plan. Send me whatever you can get out of your current platform and I'll rebuild it in your Helms account: clients, plans, supplements and check-in history. There are self-serve importers too, for a client roster CSV, the full Helms template, and Cronometer or MyFitnessPal food diaries.

You can export a client's whole record from their page on any plan, Free included: plans, every logged set, check-ins, progress photos, biomarkers, supplements and messages.

Quick answers

Can I move my clients from Trainerize to Helms?

Moving your clients is free on any plan. Send me whatever you can get out of your current platform and I'll rebuild it in your Helms account: clients, plans, supplements and check-in history. There are self-serve importers too, for a client roster CSV, the full Helms template, and Cronometer or MyFitnessPal food diaries.

Can I get my data out of Helms if I leave?

You can export a client's whole record from their page on any plan, Free included: plans, every logged set, check-ins, progress photos, biomarkers, supplements and messages.