All-in-One Coaching App: Live, Courses, Community

Which coaching app includes live streams, online courses, a client community and automations in one plan?

Of the coaching platforms checked in October 2026, Trainera Business ($99 a month in US dollars, up to 75 clients) is the lowest-priced plan in this comparison that lists all four: scheduled weekly live sessions on YouTube with join reminders and attendance, online courses (up to 20), a client community and 10 automations with a visual builder. The closest alternatives cover three: My PT Hub lists live streams, community features and automated check-ins among its features but no courses, and Thinkific Start ($109 a month) bundles courses, a community and Zoom sessions with attendance tracking, but it is a course platform rather than a training app. Most other tools in this check cover one or two of the four, or sell the missing pieces as add-ons.

The words "live", "course", "community" and "automation" mean different things on different pricing pages, so the sections below show what each vendor actually lists, what the full set costs, and when a stack of separate tools is still the better buy.

What should each of the four features actually do?

Each feature only saves you time if it works inside the same app your clients already open for workouts.

A "community" can be a feed for your clients or a group for coaches who use the software. "Live" can be a meeting where you see everyone or a broadcast where they only see you. Check the definition before you count a feature as covered.

For a deeper look at the community side, see our guide on building an online community for coaching clients.

Which platforms bundle which of the four?

Only Trainera's Business and custom-priced Enterprise plans list all four in this check; most tools list one or two, and some put automations or video content behind add-ons.

Everything below comes from each vendor's own pricing or product page, checked October 2026. "Not listed" means the feature was not on the pages checked, which is not proof that it is missing, so ask the vendor before you rule a tool out.

Sources: My PT Hub pricing (features are listed for the product, not per plan, and the displayed currency appears to depend on where you visit from), Thinkific pricing, Coach Catalyst pricing (per the pricing-page calculator), Playbook, Kahunas, Everfit pricing and Kajabi pricing, all checked October 2026. Prices exclude tax and payment processing.

Two details change the picture. Everfit's Autoflow is priced by usage, "first 30 clients $29", so it grows with your roster; if automations are your main need, see our post on Everfit Autoflow alternatives. And Playbook has no software fee at all: it keeps 20% of your net revenue, which is cheap at the start and expensive once you sell a lot.

What does it cost to get all four?

In one plan, the full set costs $99 a month on Trainera Business; built from separate tools, the same four features cost about $178 to $265 a month at 30 clients.

The stacks below use monthly billing, the cheapest tier that fits 30 clients, and prices checked October 2026. Zoom Pro is added where your live sessions run on your own Zoom account and last longer than the 40 minutes the free Zoom Basic plan allows (Zoom pricing).

Teachable Builder is $89 a month with 0% Teachable transaction fee and includes community, which the $39 Starter plan does not (Teachable pricing). Payment fees come on top of every row: Kajabi Payments charges 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, and Trainera charges a 3% platform fee on Business for payments collected through its Stripe or PayPal checkout, 0% on cash and bank transfer.

The stacks also cost time. Each extra tool is another login for clients, another place to post the same announcement, and another list of members to keep in sync when someone joins or leaves.

Where Trainera fits

Trainera is coaching software for personal trainers and online coaches that keeps training, nutrition, check-ins, chat, payments and the four features in one app, with flat prices per plan rather than per client.

• Live sessions (Pro, Business, Enterprise): you schedule weekly live sessions on YouTube, assign them to clients, and Trainera sends join reminders and tracks attendance. It is a YouTube broadcast, not native in-app streaming and not a meeting, so you do not see clients on camera. For form feedback over video, a meeting tool is still the right choice; our guide to running live group sessions for online clients explains the difference.
• Courses (Business with up to 20 courses, Enterprise unlimited): the Education feature, in the same app as the client's plan. Not on Free, Starter or Pro.
• Community (Pro and up): a feed for your clients inside the app.
• Automations by plan: Starter 1, Pro 3, Business 10 with the visual builder, Enterprise unlimited. Messages can go out through WhatsApp from your own number connected through Meta, or in a manual mode where Trainera prepares the text and you tap Send. By default nothing is sent between 21:00 and 08:00, one person gets at most 2 automated messages a day and 6 a week from you, and a client who replies STOP is not messaged again by your automations.

Business is $99 a month in US dollars on trainera.fit/pricing, and prices differ by country; yearly billing is about 10 times the monthly price. Pro at $49.99 gives you live sessions, community and 3 automations without courses, which is enough if you do not plan to teach a course. Gyms and studios get courses on every gym plan and automations on Studio or as an add-on, but live sessions are a trainer feature and are not part of the gym plans.

When is a separate stack still the better choice?

A stack wins when the course or the audience is the business, not a part of coaching.

• You sell to people you will never coach. Course platforms are built around checkout pages and email lists. Kajabi Basic includes 2,500 contacts and Thinkific's Basic, Start and Grow plans allow 10,000 current students, as their pricing pages show. Our guide to selling online courses as a personal trainer compares them.
• Your live sessions need eyes on every client. Small-group strength work with cues needs a video meeting. Trainera's live sessions are a broadcast, so you would add Zoom either way.
• You need more than 20 courses but not an Enterprise plan. Thinkific lists unlimited published courses on every plan.
• Your community already lives elsewhere and is active. Moving an engaged group costs more than the software saves.
• You run marketing funnels at scale. Kajabi lists unlimited landing pages, funnels and marketing emails on all plans.

If none of these apply and your courses, sessions and community exist to keep paying clients coached and engaged, one plan is cheaper and easier for clients to use.

How do you test an all-in-one plan in one week?

Run one real week of your business through the trial, with three test clients, before you commit.

1. Day 1: create a short course with three lessons and set lesson two to release a week after lesson one.
2. Day 2: schedule a weekly live session, assign it to the test clients, and check that the reminder arrives on their phones.
3. Day 3: post a prompt in the community and reply from a test client account.
4. Day 4: build two automations: a welcome message for new clients and a nudge after a missed check-in.
5. Day 7: run the session, then check the attendance record and whether the automations fired on time.

These are messages coaches commonly automate. Check that your tool offers each trigger, and write the text in your own voice; the point is that the software sends them, not you.

More examples by situation are in our list of what to automate as a personal trainer.

Your shortlist for live sessions, courses, community and automations

Pick by what you need most, using the prices checked October 2026.

• All four in one coaching plan: Trainera Business, $99 a month for up to 75 clients.
• Live sessions, community and automations without courses: Trainera Pro at $49.99 for 30 clients, or My PT Hub Premium at €59 for unlimited clients if you prefer one flat price at any size (see My PT Hub pricing).
• Courses for a public audience: Thinkific Start or Kajabi, with your training app next to it.
• Revenue share instead of a fee: Playbook, if 20% of net revenue is lower than a subscription at your sales volume.

Solo trainers deciding what they need at all should read our guide to the best software for a solo personal trainer first.

See which Trainera plan includes live sessions, courses, community and automations on the pricing page.