Built only where off the shelf genuinely stops
The first thing we do is check whether your platform's bundled app already covers it. Often it does, and that is a short conversation and no invoice.
Build and Integrate
Mobile App Development
Custom member apps for multi location studios and larger operators.
Quoted per projectYoga and Pilates studios only
A branded booking app on its own is not worth building, because platforms bundle one for around fifty dollars a month. Custom app work is worth it when you need something those platforms do not do: retention programming, multi location membership logic, teacher training delivery, or a member experience tied to your own data.
A branded booking app is already bundled with your platform
Most studio management platforms include a white label member app for a modest monthly fee. If all you need is booking, buying and a class list, building your own is a large invoice for something you can already switch on. Custom work earns its cost only where the platform genuinely stops, and that is a narrower set of cases than most agencies will admit.
What you get
Multi location membership logic
Cross site credits, tiered access, home studio rules. This is where bundled apps usually break for operators running several locations.
Retention and progression features
Programming that carries a member from an intro offer into a habit. That is the expensive problem in a studio, and it is rarely a booking problem.
Course and teacher training delivery
For operators running teacher training, where the content, the cohort and the schedule are the product rather than a drop in class.
What is included
- A build or do not build assessment against your existing platform first
- Product definition around the specific gap, not a feature list
- iOS and Android build
- Integration with your booking platform so it stays the source of truth
- App store submission and release handling
- Analytics on the behaviour the app was built to change
How it works
Try to talk you out of it
Genuinely. If the bundled app covers your case we say so, because a custom app that duplicates one you already pay for is the most expensive mistake on this page.
Define the gap precisely
One clear thing the platform cannot do, tied to a number in the business: retention, cross site usage, course completion.
Build the smallest version that tests it
Ship the feature that closes the gap and nothing else. Everything else waits for evidence members use the first one.
Measure against that number
If retention was the reason, retention is the report. Downloads are not an outcome.
What it costs
Custom
Starting range, not a quote
Custom, and quoted only after the assessment. Platform count, the depth of booking integration and whether payments run inside the app are what move it. Tell us how many locations you run and what software you are on and we will give you a real number.
Is this right for your studio
Worth it if
- Multi location operators whose membership logic breaks bundled apps
- Teacher training operations delivering course content
- Studios with a retention problem no booking flow can solve
When we would tell you not to
Single location studios that need booking, buying and a schedule. Your platform already includes an app that does this and it will cost you a fraction of a custom build. Take it.
Mobile App Development questions
Usually not. Most studio platforms bundle a white label member app for a modest monthly fee, and for booking, buying and a class list that is the right answer. Custom work makes sense when you need something the platform cannot do at all, such as cross location membership logic or course delivery.
It is quoted per project, because the range is genuinely wide and a fake starting price would be worse than no number. We run the assessment first, and if the answer is that you do not need one, that is the end of it.
Only if it does something the website and the bundled app do not. An app that duplicates your booking page competes with a home screen full of apps people already ignore. This is the main reason we start by asking whether it should exist.
It should, and that is how we build it. The platform stays the source of truth for classes, memberships and payments, and the app adds the layer on top. Two systems both believing they own the schedule is a problem you do not want.
Starting fromCustomGet a real number