By David Spitdowski, co-founder of FitCentral and practicing personal trainer. Last updated: May 2026.

Short answer: My PT Hub is a deep, established platform, and its flat fee for unlimited clients is genuinely strong on raw cost at a large roster. But if you want a fast, reliable client experience, one predictable price with no add-on menu, and a founder-led team you can actually reach, FitCentral is the better fit for most independent coaches, online coaches, and small teams. Here is my honest take.

FitCentral is coaching software for independent personal trainers, online coaches, and small coaching teams. My PT Hub is a broad, established coaching platform founded in the UK in 2015 and now owned by EverCommerce, used by more than 130,000 trainers, with workout building, nutrition, payments, and a large feature menu. If you are looking for the best My PT Hub alternative for personal trainers, online coaches, or small teams, or just weighing whether My PT Hub still fits how you coach, this is the honest comparison, written by someone who coaches for a living.

I will be honest with you up front: I co-founded FitCentral, so I have a side. But I am also a working trainer, and My PT Hub is a serious, well-built platform that a lot of coaches genuinely like, so I am not going to pretend otherwise. What I am going to do is show you exactly where My PT Hub is the stronger pick and where FitCentral is, so you can choose the one that fits how you actually run your business.

FitCentral vs My PT Hub at a glance

Here is how FitCentral and My PT Hub compare at a glance for independent coaches and small teams, with the detail below.

The real question: can you trust the software your clients live in?

Both platforms cover the coaching essentials. They build programs, track nutrition and progress, message clients, take payments, and run on iOS and Android. On a feature checklist, they look similar, which is exactly why the checklist is not where this decision lives.

The real question is whether you can trust the software your clients open every day. Your app is the part of your business clients touch most, so when it is slow or it crashes, that is your name attached to a bad experience, not the software company's. And when something does break, the next question is whether you can reach a human who actually fixes it.

That is the lens I would use to choose, because it is the part that quietly decides whether clients stay.

Where My PT Hub is genuinely strong

I want to be fair, because My PT Hub has earned a real following.

It is genuinely well-liked, holding about a 4.6 rating from more than 3,000 reviews, a large and hard-to-fake sample, and coaches consistently praise how much you get for the price.

Its flat pricing also scales well at volume. The Premium plan gives you unlimited clients for one monthly fee, so a coach running hundreds of clients can keep software cost flat as they grow. That model is genuinely strong, and I come back to it in the pricing section.

It has a deep feature menu. Workout building, native nutrition, communities, custom landing pages, strong onboarding and intake forms, and a white-label option are all there. Coaches who want a lot of surface area and an established brand their clients may already recognize have a real reason to like it.

If a flat fee for unlimited clients and a broad feature menu are what you care about most, My PT Hub is a strong, proven choice. For the coaches I talk to, though, the day-to-day experience and who stands behind the software matter more, and that is where this turns.

Where FitCentral wins for independent coaches and small teams

A client experience that protects your reputation. Your clients live inside the app, so it is a direct reflection of your business. The single most consistent criticism of My PT Hub across independent review sites is glitches, crashes, and slow load times, and as one reviewer put it, nothing makes a client want to quit faster than an app that crashes mid-set. FitCentral is built on modern infrastructure so the daily experience stays fast and smooth. That matters most when you have a full roster and a brand to protect, because a buggy app does the most damage when the most people are watching.

A founder-led team you can actually reach. My PT Hub is owned by EverCommerce, a large company with hundreds of thousands of business customers across many industries, and support reports on review sites are hit or miss. FitCentral is independent. When you send feedback, it reaches the people building the product, and one of them is me, a trainer who uses this daily. That does not change when your roster grows. You are not a smaller voice at 200 clients than you were at 20.

One predictable price, with the toolkit included. FitCentral is $29 per month plus $1 per active client, and that includes programming, scheduling, messaging, nutrition, habits, progress tracking, payments, and community, with no add-on menu. On My PT Hub, several tools a growing coach reaches for are separate paid add-ons, including AI check-ins, the Zapier integration, and a white-label app, each with its own monthly fee. Coaches also report surprises in the fine print, like an extra recurring payment fee and longer contract terms than they expected. With FitCentral, the price you see is the price you pay.

Room to grow as a partner, not account number 130,001. Whether you are solo, an online coach with a couple hundred clients, or a small team, FitCentral grows with you. You can add assistant coaches and assign them to specific clients, and because we are small and independent, you stay a coach we know rather than one more account in a very large book of business. Being small enough to actually listen is the entire point.

My PT Hub pricing vs FitCentral pricing: the real monthly cost

The two platforms price in completely different ways, so here is the direct answer: FitCentral is the simpler, fully included price, and My PT Hub's flat fee makes it cheaper on raw cost once you pass roughly 25 to 30 clients. The honest detail depends on your roster.

FitCentral is $29 per month plus $1 per active client, everything included:

• 5 active clients: $34/month

• 15 active clients: $44/month

• 30 active clients: $59/month

• 50 active clients: $79/month

• 100 active clients: $129/month

My PT Hub is tiered. The Starter plan is about $22.50 to $25 per month but caps you at 3 clients and leaves out groups, community, automated check-ins, and scheduled messaging, so most working coaches need Premium. Premium is about $52 to $59 per month for unlimited clients, depending on annual or monthly billing. Ultimate is about $195 to $215 per month and bundles the add-ons. On top of Premium, AI check-ins, Zapier, a white-label app, and extra trainers are separate monthly fees, and a custom branded app is a one-time fee.

Here is the honest read. Because My PT Hub Premium is a flat fee for unlimited clients, once your roster grows past roughly 25 to 30 clients, My PT Hub becomes the cheaper option on raw monthly cost, and the gap widens the more clients you add. I am not going to pretend otherwise. If the lowest possible sticker price at a large roster is what you are optimizing for, that is a real point in My PT Hub's favor.

What FitCentral gives you instead is a price with nothing hidden inside it. There is no add-on menu, no surprise payment fee, and no contract term you did not expect, and the client experience that price buys is built to stay fast and reliable. For most independent coaches and small teams, paying a predictable, fully included price for software their clients can actually rely on is worth more than shaving the sticker price, and that is the whole reason FitCentral exists.

My PT Hub pricing verified from mypthub.net at time of writing, shown in US dollars. Pricing may display in your local currency, and add-on availability can change, so always confirm current pricing on the provider's site before deciding.

FitCentral vs My PT Hub: which should you choose?

Pick My PT Hub if you want a flat fee for unlimited clients at a large roster, a deep and established feature menu, and you are comfortable adding paid add-ons and accepting the occasional glitch that comes with a big, broad platform.

Pick FitCentral if you want a fast, reliable client experience that protects your reputation, one predictable price with the toolkit included and no add-on menu, and a founder-led team you can actually reach as you grow. If you like the breadth of My PT Hub but you are tired of the glitches, the add-ons, or feeling like one account in a list of 130,000, this is the My PT Hub alternative built to fix exactly that.

Frequently asked questions

Is FitCentral a good My PT Hub alternative for personal trainers? Yes, especially if you want a reliable client experience and a team that answers. FitCentral covers the coaching essentials, including programming, nutrition, scheduling, messaging, payments, habits, progress tracking, and community, in one predictable price with no add-on menu, and it is built on modern infrastructure to stay fast for the clients who use it every day.

How much does FitCentral cost compared to My PT Hub? FitCentral is $29 per month plus $1 per active client, with everything included, so a 30-client roster is $59 per month. My PT Hub's Premium plan is about $52 to $59 per month for unlimited clients, plus paid add-ons like AI check-ins and a white-label app. Because My PT Hub's fee is flat, it becomes the cheaper option on raw cost once your roster grows past roughly 25 to 30 clients, while FitCentral keeps everything in one predictable price with nothing to bolt on.

Is My PT Hub or FitCentral more reliable? My PT Hub is well-liked overall, but its most consistent criticism on independent review sites is app glitches, crashes, and slow load times. FitCentral is built on modern infrastructure specifically so the daily client experience stays fast and dependable. If reliability is the thing you cannot afford to get wrong, because your clients judge your business by your app, that is a core reason coaches choose FitCentral.

Does FitCentral work for online coaches with bigger rosters or a small team? Yes. FitCentral is built for independent coaches, online coaches, and small teams, at any roster size. You can add assistant coaches and assign them to specific clients, and your pricing scales in a straight, predictable line as you grow, so a larger online roster always knows exactly what it costs.

What does FitCentral include that costs extra on My PT Hub? FitCentral includes its full toolkit in the base price with no add-on menu. On My PT Hub, several tools are separate paid add-ons on top of your plan, including AI check-ins, the Zapier integration, a white-label app, and additional trainers, plus a one-time fee for a custom branded app. Both platforms include native nutrition, so that is not the difference. The difference is that FitCentral does not sell its features back to you piece by piece.

Why do some coaches switch from My PT Hub? Usually for a few recurring reasons: app glitches and slow load times that affect the client experience, the cost of stacking paid add-ons, support that can be slow to respond, and surprises in the fine print like extra payment fees or contract terms. Many coaches are genuinely happy on My PT Hub, so it depends on what matters most to you, but those are the themes that come up most on review sites.

Can I move my clients from My PT Hub to FitCentral? Yes. FitCentral uses an invite-based setup where you bring your existing clients over by email, and our team helps you make the move. Because we are founder-led, you can talk to a real person about your specific roster rather than working through a ticket queue.

Is FitCentral reliable as a smaller company? FitCentral is built on modern, stable infrastructure designed to be dependable rather than a large platform stretched across many products. Being small is the point: it lets us stay responsive, ship fixes quickly, and keep the client experience fast, while still running professional-grade infrastructure behind the scenes.

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If you want the breadth without the glitches, the add-ons, or feeling like one account in a list of thousands, FitCentral is built for exactly that. One predictable price, every feature included, and a founder-led team you can actually reach as you grow.

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About the author: David Spitdowski is a practicing personal trainer and the co-founder of FitCentral, the coaching software he uses every day with his own clients.