Rating
4.8
148 reviews
Starting price
$75
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Founded
2016
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61
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32.6M
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Gym owners use our martial arts software to streamline their business. Manage your members, receive automatic payments, and make smarter business decisions with beautiful reports. Impress and retain your members by elevating their experience and get them talking about your school. Increase your revenue with easy setup sales automation. Build your own website in minutes using our templates to capture more leads. No sales call required- try it free for 30 days to make sure it’s right for you.
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$14K
152 paid keywords
Paid visits / mo
948
Organic keywords
22,546
Organic visits / mo
40,175
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44
6,061 ref domains
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(148 reviews)
We first started using Gym Desk at the end of 2024. In January 2025, we fully switched from a previous CRM (Zen Planner) to using Gym Desk full-time for managing our martial arts school of ~350 members. By every account, we switched to Gym Desk at precisely the worst time. The company has changed in all the wrong ways (acquired by private equity), causing both gym [sensitive content hidden] and members to suffer from this transition. If you are looking for a basic CRM that can process automated monthly payments, Gym Desk is a suitable option. If you require any additional functionality, such as using a schedule, booking, attendance, private lessons, financial reporting, etc. I'd avoid this platform. It just cannot keep up with tasks beyond member sign-up and automated billing. The quality of customer service has declined so fast, even in the short time we've been clients. You will wait a week for a reply that doesn't even solve a problem or answer a question.
Pros: I was drawn to Gym Desk because they employ what I perceived to be trustworthy business practices, including integration with third-party payment processing, transparent pricing, and no contracts for using their software.
Cons: $93
Avigayil B. · Director · Sports · October 16, 2025
When we first started implementing Gymdesk, we took advantage of the ability to ask questions via a Zoom consultation, which answered many of our initial questions regarding set-up and integration. After two months up and running our school, it has proven to be well worth the investment! We have had an excellent experience thus far and anticipate continuing to enjoy this interface for years to come!
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Pros: Gymdesk was easy to learn and implement. We enjoy having an all-in-one solution for managing our member lists, program registrations, payment processing automations, check ins and attendance tracker. Managing our school calendar in the Gym Schedule section has worked well and integrated well into our external website.
Cons: The only frustrations we have consistently encountered are from parents desiring to sign up more than one student member at a time. Having to do the entire registration process separately for each of their kids is time consuming and has an high time cost. They have also expressed a desire to have a parental non-member account to manage their karate students’ memberships from, as opposed to designating an arbitrary child to be the Primary family member account.
Kimberly S. · Operations Director · Recreational Facilities and Services · September 3, 2025
Gymdesk is by far the best fitness gym software and have set the bar high. Their customer support is fantastic. Highly recommend!
Pros: Easy to use, clean & dynamic platform, tracks class attendance and students progress, belt ranking, etc.
Cons: None. They have been amazing every step of the way. From on onboarding, to training, videos, emails, etc.
Andrew F. · Owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · July 18, 2025
Excellent! I have used multiple platforms over the years, and NONE were as simple and straightforward as Gymdesk!
Pros: The simplest program to use. It's dummy-proof! The BEST thing about Gymdesk is the customer service. Everyone is sooo helpful!!!
Cons: There is really nothing I can complain about! Okay, I take that back. This review is dumb! There is nothing I have not liked, so I don't know why I have to write out this long answer.
DENA p. · owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · May 9, 2025
I was able to get setup extremely quickly and make it work for our use case. I evaluated many other vendors and GymDesk was one of the only ones that didn't lock me into a proprietary payment processor/hardware, didn't require implementation fees or contracts, and was very transparent and affordable with pricing.
Pros: The onboarding and live support was fantastic. I was truly impressed with everyone I interacted with and the company's willingness to take my feedback. I also love the fact the there's no implementation fees or contracts.
Cons: The platform is a bit restrictive, would be great to have more flexibility in the configuration and customizations.
Logan B. · COO · Non-Profit Organization Management · May 9, 2025
Can’t complain, highly recommend using the software for businesses
Pros: Attendance tracking and signing up new members at my bjj academy, all the students love using the app and checking in to class is seamless.
Cons: Need to be able to add videos to content just for members
Kyle R. · Owner and Head Coach · Sports · April 30, 2025
Excellent. We have over 200 clients and all love how easy the information is available
Pros: Ease of access for information to clients
Cons: More customizable options for testing/promotion
Adam P. · Owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · March 13, 2025
Great easy to navigate. Also to set up works great with my website
Pros: Easy friendly to use. Also for the price is great lots benefits and different ways to use
Cons: Nothing at the moment. If I find something will post it
Al s. · Owner · Sports · March 10, 2025
We just opened our academy, had a lot going on especially moving our lives interstate. Gymdesk was recommended by a few other gyms when I was tossing up different softwares. I researched it, and I loved the features. It's straight forward and super easy to use. Makes my admin life a whole lot simpler
Pros: It's super easy to use and most importantly if I have any questions, I shoot the team an email and I get an extremely helpful response within 24 hours.
Cons: Only stripe can take bank transfer payments
Mary W. · Manager · Sports · March 1, 2025
$94
Pros: member profile management is thorough, rank and program management is great, contract setup is really simple, and the interface is easy to navigate. Customer Service is friendly and has good response time.
Cons: Reporting is extremely limited and not entirely clear with the information it presents. Event management is poor.
Alec R. · Owner, Manager · Health, Wellness and Fitness · December 17, 2024
Pros: Very simple to operate and easy to understand.
Cons: The pricing is a bit high for the Asian market.
Janelle L. · General Manager · Sports · December 15, 2024
Changing from glofox to gym desk was the best decision ever for my gym i would recommend gymdesk to anyone
Pros: The program is simple and easy work with.
Cons: There is no cons about this software its amazing.
Chris M. · Instructor · Sports · December 11, 2024
It is an easy-to-use and modify application for any gym.
Pros: Gymdesk took me 2 days to fully set up for my new gym. As I grew and needed to change and adapt certain aspects, I could do it on the computer or from the app in a matter of minutes. When I had a question about merging clients, they were super responsive and gave easy instructions.
Cons: I like it all. I have not had any issues.
Jeff L. · Owner and Operator · Health, Wellness and Fitness · November 11, 2024
Very good, streamlined everything so far. Daunting task of a new gym, kids members, uniforms and sales all simplified with gym desk.
Pros: Simple, easy to use platform. No crashes, lagging or interruptions between client and gym. Underestimated this software, worth the price.
Cons: We are using our own website portal which means another cost for us but have not had enough experience with the provided website to use yet.
Jerry S. · Head Coach Owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · October 23, 2024
Satisfying! The company has put a lot of effort into creating this and working with business owners.
Pros: Gymdesk fits all of our business needs for tracking memberships, hosting a website and communicating with clients - it is extremely user friendly and customer service is on point!
Cons: There are no significant cons. I understand it's a product that is undergoing constant adjustments in conjunction with user feedback.
Cameron P. · Head Instructor - Owner · Sports · October 11, 2024
Pros: User friendly and only what I need, nothing too complicated
Cons: Would be great to have a texting platform that can be used from a phone app on the business side. And a general business management app. Also- programming that you're able to write for each individual member rather than linking a program to a specific membership.
Andrea T. · Owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · October 3, 2024
Super easy to install, fast interface and integration for my needs. Love it.
Pros: Easy to work with, great interface, like the flexible options!
Cons: No real complaints… Maybe customized belt test promotion option!
Kris M. · Business owner · Sports · October 2, 2024
Awesome software. Everyone finds it easy to use. No real complaints at all.
Pros: Easy to use, logical UI, helpful staff. It's very enjoyable, and leagues ahead of the others I tried.
Cons: Checking in history isn't saved.. I guess if you use the front desk app it might, but that's a whole load of overhead for us. Also seem to have 2 waivers being signed sometimes somehow, dunno how or why there are two 😄
Matthew D. · Co-owner and coach · Sports · September 17, 2024
9/10 love everything about the software, it’s helping us grow rapidly!
Pros: We love everything about it other than the website builder. Managing leads, students, emails, waivers, pretty much whatever has been super easy..
Cons: Our only issue with website builder is that it downgrades our quality of photos and images don’t fit properly and are not scale able to fit.
Sean M. · Owner, Head Instructor · Health, Wellness and Fitness · September 11, 2024
Pros: Super responsive customer service through the set up process!
Cons: So far there isn't anything I don't like! I haven't been using that long- but its been a breeze!
Dana O. · Gym Manager · Health, Wellness and Fitness · September 10, 2024
Great! Effective in exactly what we needed. the different channels in managing members helped up update from our old school system.
Pros: The options to manage each membership and edit the clients details accurately. Keeping pricing continuously updated and getting reminders on if we need to update.
Cons: I very much love this service, however we did need to update our wifi to have the best and easiest running time
Paige B. · Business Administration Support · Education Management · September 4, 2024
Overall, we use it, it works well.We wish it would hook up to our website and to our scheduling system.A lot better.
Pros: It's fairly easy to use, and it has a lot of good information.
Cons: It does not interact very well with websites and facebook and instagram interlinking.
Angelo C. · Owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · August 19, 2024
Absolutely love the experience. Customer service has been very attentive and responsive
Pros: Very easy to use. I love the web design function.
Cons: A lot to learn. As I have played around I have gotten more effcient
Bobby A. · Owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · August 17, 2024
Very good product. Easy to use for members and staff.
Pros: Supports staff and clients well. Easy to set up.
Cons: Still having some trouble with tax reconciliation.
Janet L. · Owner and Head Instructor · Health, Wellness and Fitness · August 9, 2024
Pros: Simple to set-up and use, provides commonly needed features, making it easy to communicate with students, handle memberships, take payments, waivers/contracts, track prospective students, as well as provides small details that software we used in the past have overlooked (ability to close your gym operations for a period of time, so you don't have to manually freeze each member)
Cons: the freezing of memberships is counterintuitive, and requires some workarounds
Sean N. · Owner · Health, Wellness and Fitness · August 8, 2024
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