# Zen Planner review (2026): is it worth $99 a month? > Membership, scheduling and billing software for gyms and studios Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Zen Planner is gym management software for martial arts schools, CrossFit boxes, yoga and fitness studios. The base Studio package covers memberships, class scheduling, billing, attendance, payroll and staff and member mobile apps. Higher packages add a custom website and marketing automation, and pricing follows the number of active members. - **Category:** Salon, Spa & Studio Booking - **Made by:** Zen Planner - **Website:** https://zenplanner.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you grow, as the bill rises with active members and the $99 figure is only a starting price. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Zen Planner is a paid product, starting at $99 per month and up, priced by active members. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Zen Planner Studio | $99 per month and up, by active members | Memberships, billing, class scheduling, attendance, payroll, reporting and staff and member apps. Price rises with active members. | | Zen Planner Essentials | $198 per month and up, by active members | Everything in Studio plus a branded, SEO-optimized website with lead capture. | | Zen Planner Ultimate | $348 per month and up, by active members | Everything in Essentials plus marketing automation, CRM, AI email and text campaigns and lead tools. | Read from https://zenplanner.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Zen Planner before buying. ## Key features - **Memberships and billing:** Membership management with automated billing and payment processing, plus attendance tracking and payroll management. - **Class scheduling and booking:** Online scheduling with member self-service, belt and skill tracking, and a staff mobile app. - **Member app:** A member mobile app comes with every package, and a custom-branded app is sold separately. - **Website and lead capture:** Essentials adds a custom website with SEO optimization and built-in lead capture and form integration. - **Marketing automation:** Ultimate, or the separate Engage product, adds automated email and text campaigns, AI-powered tools and lead follow-up workflows. - **Reporting and dashboards:** Reporting and dashboards in every package, with a SugarWOD integration for workout tracking. ## Good for - Martial arts schools and CrossFit gyms - Gyms that want to be billed only for active members - Studios that prefer month-to-month terms ## Worth knowing - Prices are 'starting at' figures: the bill follows the active member count, and multi-location pricing is quoted in a demo. - Payment processing carries additional charges or fees; the card readers cost $39 per month each, and a branded mobile app is $39 per month. - Zen Planner Engage is sold separately from $249 per month, and a stand-alone website from $99 per month. - The pricing page mentions no free trial; plans run month to month, with an annual contract available on request. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Zen Planner covers memberships, billing, class scheduling, a member app and lead capture for studios. Prices start at $99 a month and rise with your active member count, and card readers, the branded app and payments each cost extra. - **Value for money: C.** From $99 a month, priced by active members, against a middle of $49.90 and a dearer quarter from $119. Plans run $99, $198 and $348, with readers and the app on top. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No trial or free plan on the pricing page. Plans run month to month. - **Features: C.** Memberships, billing, scheduling, a member app, lead capture, marketing and reports. Marketing automation is a separate product, Engage, from $249 a month. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. A studio builds its programs, memberships and billing first. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only on the listing, with one integration. A member app is sold as an add-on. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Zen Planner's own pages on 12 November 2026. Its pricing page was blocked when we checked, so this rests on the listing. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among salon, spa and studio booking apps - Zen Planner's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 1 of the 33 other salon, spa and studio booking apps we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 4 of 33) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $99 a month, against a middle price of $49.90 for the category: 14 of the 20 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/service-booking ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Zen Planner you would be making texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 27 of the 33 other salon, spa and studio booking apps grade higher. It costs $1,188 a year. - You could make: Class booking and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with SugarWOD **Tags:** Class booking, Reports, SMS marketing, AI features ## Alternatives - [Wodify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wodify): Gym management software for CrossFit, martial arts and studios. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/wodify-vs-zen-planner) - [PushPress](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pushpress): Gym management for CrossFit, martial arts and training gyms. 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