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VanVed vs ABC Trainerize
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Why businesses choose VanVed over ABC Trainerize
VanVed's coaching module is honest about what it is and costs one price with no add-on ladder — Trainerize charges separately for nutrition, video coaching, payments and the branded app, so a realistic solo-coach bill is many times its headline. VanVed's coach also sits inside a full business system, with the same client record feeding CRM, invoices and payroll.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | ABC Trainerize |
|---|---|---|
| Coach profiles and programs | Coach profile with expertise and experience, programs with a duration in weeks and a draft/active/archived lifecycle | Coach profiles and a full program builder |
| Workout assignment | Exercise name, sets, a rep prescription that accepts ranges and schemes, and coaching notes — deliberately minimal, no exercise library | Exercise library with demo videos, custom exercise videos, and an AI workout builder |
| Nutrition and meal plans | Nothing. There is no nutrition concept anywhere in the module | Smart and flexible meal planners with photo and barcode food logging — a $20–45/month add-on |
| Progress tracking | Sessions completed against sessions planned, plus coach notes. No body metrics, no progress photos, no habits | Progress reports, compliance tracking, habit streaks and badges |
| Coach to client messaging | None. There is no coach-client message thread in the product | One-to-one and group in-app messaging, voice messages and group video calls |
| Client mobile app | No mobile app for this module — the client sees their assigned workouts on the web | Client app on every tier; a branded app is $169 one-time on Pro, included on Studio Plus |
| Selling a package of sessions | Packages can be created and priced, but a paid package is never fulfilled — no progress record is created or updated. Only a whole program fulfils on payment | Stripe one-time and recurring billing, as a $10/month add-on |
| Cost of a full coaching setup | One price, no add-ons — coaching arrives with CRM, billing, HR and the rest of the platform | The $23 headline becomes $100–200/month once nutrition, video coaching, payments and the branded app are added |
Where ABC Trainerize is ahead of us today
For a working personal trainer this is not a fair fight. Trainerize has an exercise library with demo videos, meal planning with photo food logging, habit streaks, wearable sync across Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit and MyFitnessPal, in-app messaging and a branded client app. VanVed's coaching module has a text-only exercise prescription, a session counter and no way for a coach and client to talk inside the product. A purchased session package does not even grant anything.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, ABC Trainerize may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Coaching module does
- Coach profiles
A public profile per coach, with their programs.
- Programs and packages
Structure what you offer and how it is sold.
- Progress records
A running history against each client.