Workout Builder Plugins for WordPress (2026): Haut 12 Par rapport

WordPress.org lists exactly two plugins under its workout étiquette. The larger of the two runs on 30 des sites. Filter by gym and you get five, en tête à 100 installe. Filter by la musculation and you get nothing at all. So there’s no real category here to crown a winner from. That’s why guides on this topic pad the list out with SEO plugins and header-image tools. This one sticks to what works, and what it costs.

Réponse rapide: Building workout plans on a budget? WM Workout Manager does it free, and nothing else does that job for USD 0. Running a studio with classes, trainers and members? Gym Builder covers all three free. Son USD 59.99 Pro Bundle adds progress charts and Stripe. Charging for access? Simple Membership does recurring billing free, which saves the USD 276 Ultimate Member wants for the same job. Selling programs to clients? Tutor LMS at USD 199 a year handles drip-fed weeks better than any fitness-branded plugin here.

Dernière révision: septembre 2026. Prices and plugin status verified against the WordPress.org plugin API and vendor pricing pages on 1 septembre 2026.

How We Selected These Plugins

Every plugin here cleared three hard gates on 1 septembre 2026. Première, it has to still be installable. We queried each candidate against the WordPress.org plugin API and opened every premium listing directly. Four plugins from the earlier version of this guide are now closed on WordPress.org. One premium plugin has vanished from its marketplace entirely. Those are documented below rather than quietly dropped.

Deuxième, it has to have shipped code in the last twelve months. Anything whose last update predates September 2025 was cut, aucune exception. WordPress 7.1 est la version actuelle. A plugin never tested against WordPress 7.0 is a support problem waiting to happen.

La troisième, it has to do a job a fitness site actually needs. That means building workout plans, scheduling classes, gating content behind payment, tracking client progress, or delivering video. Yoast SEO and WP Header Images were on the old list. Both are fine plugins. Neither builds a workout, so neither is here.

We weighted free-tier capability heavily, because most people building a fitness site are one trainer with no budget. Install count and review volume mattered too, but both got discounted for this category. A workout plugin with 100 installs isn’t fringe here. It’s near the top of its tag. What we didn’t do is run load tests or measure page speed. Where a renewal price isn’t published, nous le disons au lieu de deviner.

Prenez simplement rendez-vous – Best for One-to-One PT Bookings

Free core, Plus USD 99/year | 50,000+ installe | Mise à jour 25 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

You coach clients one at a time, dans 30, 45 and 60-minute slots. You want them booking those slots themselves. That’s the exact shape Simply Schedule Appointments fits, and the free tier covers it completely. Unlimited appointment types, blackout dates for holidays, email confirmations, and a booking form for any page builder.

Where it stops mattering is group work. This plugin books a person into a slot. It won’t cap a spin class at 20 riders and it won’t sell a ten-session pass. If your business is classes rather than sessions, you’re on the wrong tool. le 155 reviews behind its rating come mostly from consultants and solo practitioners. That tells you who it was built for.

Taking money at booking is the expensive part. Stripe and PayPal live in the Professional tier at USD 199 une année. There’s no cheaper route to them. Gym Builder bundles Stripe into a USD 59.99 Pro Bundle, so you’re paying 3.3x more here for payment handling alone. That gap only pays off if SMS reminders and webhooks earn their keep too.

Avantages

• Unlimited appointment types on the free tier
• Support replies to free users within one business day
• 30-day money-back guarantee on paid tiers
• Integrates with Gravity Forms, Formidable and MemberPress

Les inconvénients

• Payments locked behind the USD 199 Professional tier
• No class capacity limits, so group sessions need another plugin
• Every paid tier covers one site only

Tarification: The free Basic edition works on unlimited sites. Plus is listed at USD 99 a year against a USD 129 tarif régulier. Professional runs USD 199 contre USD 249, and Business USD 399 contre USD 499. Those first-year figures are introductory, so budget for the higher numbers from year two.

Meilleur pour: Personal trainers selling one-to-one sessions who want zero booking software cost.

Ignorer si: Your revenue comes from group classes.

Verdict: Buy this if you’re a solo trainer and your calendar is made of individual appointments. Don’t buy it if you run classes. Gym Builder handles capacity-limited sessions free, where this plugin can’t handle them at any price. And if you only want a deposit at booking, USD 199 for that one feature loses badly to Gym Builder’s USD 59.99 bundle.

WP Calorie Calculator – Best for Capturing Leads

Free core, Pro USD 49/year | 1,000+ installe | Version 4.4.2, mise à jour 20 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

This isn’t a workout tool, and treating it as one is how people waste USD 49. It calculates daily calorie targets from height, poids, age and activity level, then emails the result. The workout content is yours to write. What this plugin does is give a visitor a reason to hand over an email address.

Look at it as lead capture and the numbers change. It’s the most-installed plugin carrying the fitness tag on WordPress.org, sur 1,000 active sites. That tag holds only 19 plugins in total. In a category this small, that makes it the closest thing to a standard. le 12 ratings behind its score are thin, bien que, so treat the rating as a weak signal.

Development is steady rather than fast. WP Calorie Calculator 4.4.0 atterri sur 21 février 2026 with a redesigned admin interface, and renamed the “Sex” field to “Le genre” tout au long de. Version 4.3.0 had added WordPress 6.9 support in December 2025. That’s a maintained plugin, just not an ambitious one.

Sur le prix, Pro is USD 49 un an pour un site. That buys three calculation formulas and editable macronutrient breakdowns. Formidable Forms lists calculations at USD 79, donc USD 30 plus, though it builds every other form on your site too. Discount both for year one and the gap almost vanishes: environ USD 39.20 here against Formidable’s USD 39.50. You’re paying either way to skip building the form yourself.

Avantages

• Free version is genuinely usable, pas une démo
• Emails results, so it doubles as a list builder
• Three formulas in Pro, including Mifflin-St Jeor

Les inconvénients

• Builds no workouts and stores no client history
• Rating rests on seulement 12 Commentaires
• Pro is per-year, not one-time

Tarification: Free on WordPress.org. Pro runs USD 49 a year for a single site, USD 79 for five sites, et USD 199 for fifty. UNE 20 percent first-year discount applied automatically at checkout when we looked, so year two costs more than year one.

Meilleur pour: Fitness bloggers who want an email list and have no client base yet.

Ignorer si: You need to store what a client weighed last month.

Verdict: Install the free version on any fitness blog. It costs nothing and converts readers into subscribers. Don’t pay USD 49 for Pro until you’ve measured that the calculator drives signups. Want calculators plus progress tracking plus client records? Gym Builder bundles four calculators into USD 59.99 and does the tracking this plugin never will.

Membre ultime – Best Free Member Profiles

USD 276 une année. That’s what Ultimate Member charges for its cheapest paid plan, et ça achète 21 extensions on one site. Gardez ce numéro, because it reframes everything else on this page.

Free core, Standard USD 276/year | 200,000+ installe | Version 2.13.0, mise à jour 24 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

The free plugin is why it has 200,000 installe. You get member registration, s'identifier, editable profiles, member directories and role-based content restriction. For a gym site where members log in to see their program, that’s most of the job done at no cost. Profile photos, custom fields for height and starting weight, a searchable member list: tout est gratuit.

Its reputation is uneven and the ratings show it. De 1,444 Commentaires, 1,139 are five stars but 152 sont une étoile. That’s an unusually heavy tail for a plugin this popular. The complaints cluster around upgrade breakage and extension support. Read it as a plugin that works well once configured and hurts when you touch it.

Pricing is where it falls down for fitness sites. Simple Membership gives you paid membership levels with Stripe, PayPal and Braintree recurring billing for USD 0. Ultimate Member wants USD 276 a year to reach comparable territory. C'est des dollars américains 276 of pure difference for a job a free plugin already does.

Avantages

• Inscription, profiles and directories all free
• Custom profile fields suit body-metric tracking
• 30-garantie satisfait ou remboursé
• Content restriction by user role in the free core

Les inconvénients

• 152 avis d'une étoile, mostly about update breakage
• Standard plan is USD 276 pour un site
• Payments require paid extensions

Tarification: Core is free forever. Standard is USD 276 a year for one site with 21 extensions. Pro is USD 348 un an pour deux sites, adding Stripe, Zapier and the Ultimate Member theme. Both include a year of updates and email support. The vendor quotes these prices in USD on its own page.

Meilleur pour: Gyms that want member logins and profile pages without paying anything.

Ignorer si: You need to charge for membership.

Verdict: Use the free version for member profiles and directories, where it’s the strongest option here. Never buy Standard just to take payments. Simple Membership does recurring billing free and saves you the full USD 276. Want profiles and paid access together? Run Ultimate Member free alongside Simple Membership free and pay nothing at all.

Entraîneur – Best One-Time Purchase, With a Catch

Commencez par le problème. Fitness Trainer was last updated on 30 janvier 2025, plus de 19 il y a des mois. WordPress 7.0 shipped in May 2026 et 7.1 en août 2026. This plugin has never been updated against either.

USD 39 une fois | 750 Ventes | 4.75 étoiles de 36 notes | Last update 30 janvier 2025

That’s a shame, because feature-for-price it’s the best value here. USD 39 buys training plans in calendar or list form, plus diet and detox plans. You also get physical records for each client, a recipes section, and private comments between trainer and client. Subscription billing runs through PayPal or Stripe, with daily, hebdomadaire, monthly and yearly options plus free and paid trials.

Against Gym Builder’s USD 59.99 une année, this costs USD 20.99 less in year one and nothing after. Over three years you pay USD 39 contre USD 179.97. That’s the argument, and on a spreadsheet it wins comfortably.

The counter-argument is the 19-month gap. This plugin handles payment data and client health records. No update through two major WordPress releases is a risk you’re choosing to accept. The Envato listing claims compatibility to WordPress 6.9, superseded back in May 2026. Buy it knowing that.

Avantages

• One-time USD 39, no annual renewal
• Training plans, diet plans and client records in one plugin
• Subscription billing built in, no extension needed
• 4.75 étoiles à travers 36 notes

Les inconvénients

• No update since January 2025
• Never tested against WordPress 7.0 ou 7.1
• Support runs six months, then costs extra

Tarification: USD 39 for a regular license covering one site. That includes six months of developer support and future updates. An extended license exists for sites that charge end users. There’s no annual fee, so the only recurring cost is optional support renewal.

Meilleur pour: Trainers who want plans, diets and billing in one purchase, and who test on staging first.

Ignorer si: You handle client payment data and can’t accept a stale codebase.

Verdict: Buy it if USD 39 once beats USD 59.99 a year for you, and test it on staging before going live. Don’t buy it if the site takes card payments from the public. An unpatched plugin in that path isn’t worth USD 21 of savings. Pay Gym Builder USD 59.99 for code that shipped last week, or Tutor LMS USD 199 if the plans need real course structure.

WM Workout Manager – Best Free Workout Plan Builder

Thirty active installs. That’s the entire user base, and it’s still the most-installed plugin carrying the workout tag on WordPress.org. The tag contains two plugins. This is what the category looks like from the inside.

Gratuit | 30+ installe | Version 1.1.0, mise à jour 13 janvier 2026 | Added to the directory 21 août 2025

Small doesn’t mean bad. The plugin does one thing cleanly. You get custom post types for exercises and for workouts. Assemble those exercises into a named plan, then render it anywhere by shortcode. WM Workout Manager 1.1.0 expédié le 13 janvier 2026 with a card layout, a custom CSS editor and live admin preview. The accordion template ships accessibility-ready, which matters more than it sounds when your members skew older.

What you don’t get is anything around the workout. No client accounts, no progress logging, pas de paiement, no scheduling. It publishes plans. Say you’re a trainer with a blog, and you want “Semaine 3: Lower Body” to look like a structured workout rather than a bulleted list. This is the whole answer, et ça ne coûte rien.

Set it against Fitness Trainer’s USD 39 and you’re giving up client records and billing to save that USD 39. Set it against Gym Builder’s free tier and it wins on the point that matters most: it builds workout plans without a paid add-on. Gym Builder locks workouts inside its USD 59.99 Fitness Tracking module.

Avantages

• Genuinely free, with no upsell tier
• Separate exercise and workout post types, so exercises are reusable
• Accessibility-ready accordion template
• Custom CSS editor for matching your theme

Les inconvénients

• Seulement 30 installations actives, so abandonment risk is real
• No client accounts, tracking or payments
• Tested to WordPress 6.9.7, ne pas 7.1

Tarification: Gratuit, with no paid tier and no add-ons. There’s no renewal because there’s nothing to renew. The trade is that a single unpaid developer maintains it, and two ratings won’t tell you how it behaves at scale.

Meilleur pour: Trainers publishing workout plans as content on a blog or portfolio site.

Ignorer si: Clients need to log in and record what they lifted.

Verdict: Install it if publishing structured plans is the whole requirement, because nothing else does that for USD 0. Don’t build a business on it. Thirty installs and one maintainer is a thin foundation. Once you need client logins or payment, move to Gym Builder free plus Simple Membership free. That pair still costs USD 0 and covers far more.

Gym Builder – Best All-Round Studio Plugin

Where Ultimate Member charges USD 276 a year and Tutor LMS charges USD 199, Gym Builder’s full Pro Bundle is USD 59.99. That’s under a third of Tutor’s price and under a quarter of Ultimate Member’s. The free tier alone covers more studio-specific ground than either.

Free core, Pro Bundle USD 59.99/year | 100+ installe | Version 2.5.2, mise à jour 25 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

The free version runs a small studio. You get classes with a weekly timetable and per-slot capacity, plus trainer profiles with bios and schedules. A member database auto-creates WordPress accounts. Membership and pricing plans work in multiple currencies, and both members and trainers get front-end dashboards. Four fitness calculators are included: BMI, body fat, water intake and protein intake. None of that costs anything.

Development is the fastest here. Gym Builder 2.3.0 added a separate trainer and student login system on 24 février 2026, et 2.5.0 added multi-class membership on 15 juin 2026. Ten releases landed in the first eight months of 2026. No other fitness-specific plugin on this page matches that rate.

Here’s the part to price in. Workout plans and progress tracking aren’t free. They live in the Fitness Tracking add-on inside the Pro Bundle. That bundle also carries Stripe subscriptions, personal-session booking, attendance check-in, Zoom and 17 Widgets Elementor. Individual add-ons run USD 19.99 en USD 39.99 une année. Just two at the top of that range cost USD 79.98, comfortably more than the whole bundle.

Avantages

• Class capacity limits free, which Simply Schedule can’t do at any price
• Four calculators bundled, contre USD 49 for WP Calorie Calculator alone
• Perfect rating across seven reviews
• Ten releases in 2026 jusqu'à présent

Les inconvénients

• Workout plans and progress charts need the paid Pro Bundle
• Seulement 100 installations actives
• Seven ratings is too few to judge edge cases

Tarification: Free core with no time limit. The Pro Bundle is USD 59.99 a year for a single site and unlocks ten add-ons, with a lifetime option offered. Individual add-ons sit between USD 19.99 et USD 39.99 une année.

Meilleur pour: A studio or box running scheduled classes with named trainers and a member roster.

Ignorer si: You coach individuals only and never run a class.

Verdict: This is the pick for anyone running classes. The free tier alone beats paying Ultimate Member USD 276 for a comparable member system. Buy the USD 59.99 bundle the moment you need progress charts or Stripe. If you coach one-to-one and never run classes, Simply Schedule Appointments does your booking free, and this plugin’s class engine goes unused.

Formes formidables – Best Replacement for the Closed Weight Trackers

You need clients logging weight, waist and lifts each week, with a chart showing the trend. Jusqu'à 2024 that job had two obvious answers. Then WordPress.org closed both Weight Tracker and Meal Tracker on 2 septembre 2024, citing a security issue for each, and neither has returned. Formidable Forms is where people went instead.

Free core, USD de base 39.50 | 300,000+ installe | Mise à jour 27 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

It’s a form builder, so nothing about it is fitness-specific. That’s the point. You define the fields you want tracked, set up a form clients submit weekly, and the entries accumulate as data you own. Calculations are available from the Basic tier, so BMI or one-rep-max formulas are a field setting rather than another purchase.

Charts are the part that costs. Graphs unlock in Plus at USD 99.50 pour la première année, listed against a USD 199 tarif régulier. Gym Builder puts progress charts inside its USD 59.99 bundle. Vous payez en USD 39.51 more here for year one, and considerably more after that. What the difference buys is a license that builds every other form on the site.

Watch the tier ladder carefully. Front-end user registration and profile views sit in Business at USD 199.50. You need those if clients log in to see their own history. That’s the real price of a self-service client portal built this way. Compare it against Tutor LMS at the same USD 199 avant de s'engager.

Avantages

• The highest install count here at 300,000, avec 1,380 notes
• Calculations available from the USD 39.50 Niveau de base
• Client-owned data, no third-party service
• Handles every other form on the site too

Les inconvénients

• Charts need Plus at USD 99.50, en hausse en USD 199
• User registration needs Business at USD 199.50
• Nothing fitness-specific, so you design every field yourself

Tarification: Free on WordPress.org. Basic is USD 39.50 for year one against a USD 79 tarif de liste. Plus runs USD 99.50 contre USD 199, Entreprises USD 199.50 contre USD 399, and Elite USD 299.50 contre USD 599. Those first-year prices roughly halve the list price, so plan for the full rate at renewal. A 14-day refund window applies.

Meilleur pour: Coaches who want weekly client check-ins with charts and full control of the data.

Ignorer si: You only need one calculator on a public page.

Verdict: Buy Plus at USD 99.50 if progress charts are the requirement and you need forms elsewhere too. If charts are the only reason you’re here, Gym Builder delivers them for USD 59.99 with a member system attached. That’s the better buy. For a single public calculator with no tracking, WP Calorie Calculator’s free tier costs nothing and takes ten minutes.

Tutor LMS – Best for Selling Structured Programs

A 12-week strength program is a course. Accept that, and the fitness-plugin category stops being the place to shop. Tutor LMS treats each week as a module and each session as a lesson. It drip-feeds them on a schedule, so clients can’t skip ahead to week ten.

Free core, Individual USD 199/year | 100,000+ installe | Mise à jour 21 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.0.4

The free version already handles a lot. Unlimited courses, cours, quiz, a student dashboard and course progress all cost nothing. For a trainer packaging a program as a lead magnet, la gratuité suffit. Paid adds the parts that make it a business: abonnements, certificats, assignments and content dripping.

Price it honestly against the alternatives. USD 199 a year for one site is more than three times Gym Builder’s USD 59.99, and Simple Membership does its own job for USD 0. What USD 199 buys that neither offers is real course sequencing, quiz-gated progression and completion certificates. If your product is a program with an order, that structure is the thing you’re paying for.

The lifetime option changes the math. USD 499 once for one site pays for itself in two and a half years. For a coach planning to sell the same program for years, look at that tier first. Note that the vendor moved its product pages to a new domain, so older bookmarks pointing at themeum.com now redirect.

Avantages

• Content dripping stops clients jumping ahead in a program
• Free tier runs unlimited courses and students
• 30-garantie satisfait ou remboursé
• Lifetime license available at USD 499

Les inconvénients

• USD 199 a year is the highest recurring price here
• Tested to WordPress 7.0.4, one release behind current
• Nothing fitness-aware, so no sets, reps or body metrics

Tarification: Free core on WordPress.org. Individual is USD 199 a year or USD 499 lifetime for one site. Les affaires sont en USD 399 a year or USD 999 lifetime for ten sites. Agency is USD 799 a year for unlimited sites, ou USD 1,999 lifetime capped at 50. All tiers carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Meilleur pour: Coaches selling multi-week programs where the order of sessions matters.

Ignorer si: Clients need workouts on demand rather than in sequence.

Verdict: Choose Tutor LMS when you sell a fixed-sequence program and want dripping and certificates. Take the USD 499 lifetime license over the annual one if you expect a third year. If clients pick workouts freely instead of following a sequence, ce dollar 199 buys structure you won’t use. Gym Builder plus Simple Membership covers you for USD 59.99.

Presto Player – Best for Workout Video Delivery

La faiblesse d'abord, because it decides whether this suits you. Presto Player is a player, not a host. It doesn’t store your video files. You still need Bunny.net, Vimeo or YouTube behind it, and that bill is separate from the numbers below.

Free core, Démarreur USD 79 | 100,000+ installe | Version 4.4.1, mise à jour 27 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

What it does instead is make video usable for training. Chapters let a member jump straight to the warm-up or the cool-down inside a 40-minute session. Presets keep every video branded the same way. Email capture can gate a video partway through, turning a free workout into a list-building tool. Analytics show where people stopped watching, which tells you which exercise lost them.

UNE 96 percent score across 339 ratings puts it among the better-reviewed plugins on this page. Chapters alone justify it on a fitness site. Scrubbing a video to find the third circuit is exactly the friction that makes members give up.

The tier pricing has an odd shape worth exploiting. L'entrée est en USD 79 un an pour un site. Pro is USD 119 a year for 25 des sites. C'est des dollars américains 40 plus pour 24 extra sites, ou USD 4.76 per site against USD 79. Run more than one fitness site, or build them for clients, and Starter is the wrong purchase.

Set that against the rest of this list and video looks expensive. Presto Player Pro at USD 119 coûte USD 59.01 more than Gym Builder’s entire USD 59.99 Pro Bundle, which covers workouts, paiements, booking and check-in. Video is the single priciest job on a fitness site, et ce n'est pas proche.

Avantages

• Chapters let members skip to a specific exercise
• Email gate mid-video converts free workouts into signups
• 96 percent rating across 339 Commentaires
• Pro covers 25 des sites pour USD 119

Les inconvénients

• Hosting and bandwidth are still your bill
• Seulement une fenêtre de remboursement de 14 jours
• Analytics and chapters both need a paid tier

Tarification: The free version on WordPress.org covers basic playback and branding colours. L'entrée est en USD 79 for year one against a USD 99 tarif de liste, pour un site. Pro is USD 119 contre USD 149 and covers 25 des sites. A lifetime license is USD 399 contre USD 499, aussi 25 des sites, or three payments of USD 139.

Meilleur pour: Studios delivering recorded classes where members jump between exercises.

Ignorer si: Your workouts are written, not filmed.

Verdict: Buy Pro at USD 119, not Starter at USD 79, unless you’re certain you’ll never run a second site. Skip the plugin entirely if your programs are text and images, since Gym Builder or WM Workout Manager display those free. Budget separately for video hosting before you commit. That recurring cost usually exceeds the USD 119 Licence.

MotoPress Timetable – Best Free Class Timetable

Gratuit | 30,000+ installe | Version 2.4.19, mise à jour 28 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

Publishing a weekly class grid is a display problem, not a booking problem. This plugin solves the display half properly for USD 0. You define columns as days and rows as time slots, then fill in classes with instructors and descriptions. It renders as a readable grid in Gutenberg or Elementor, and an upcoming-events widget handles the sidebar.

Longevity is the reassuring part. It’s been in the directory since April 2016, sits on 30,000 active sites, and shipped an update four days before we checked. For a plugin with no paid tier funding it, that’s an unusually stable base to build on.

The ratings deserve a caveat. De 69 Commentaires, 54 are five stars and 9 sont une étoile. That one-star cluster is large for the sample size. Complaints center on the limits of the free version rather than on bugs. Recurring events, month and day views, and multi-day events aren’t included.

The upsell is a separate product, not a pro tier, and it isn’t thriving. MotoPress Events Calendar sells for USD 39 on CodeCanyon, was last updated on 17 octobre 2025, and has recorded 16 Ventes. Now compare that USD 39 with Gym Builder’s USD 0 niveau gratuit, which includes the per-slot capacity limits this plugin doesn’t offer at any price.

Avantages

• Fully free with no metered limits
• 30,000 installs and a decade in the directory
• Gutenberg and Elementor support built in
• Updated within the last week

Les inconvénients

• Displays classes but can’t take bookings
• No recurring events in the free version
• Paid upgrade is a separate USD 39 product with 16 Ventes

Tarification: Gratuit, en permanence, with no pro tier attached to this plugin. The vendor’s paid Events Calendar is a distinct CodeCanyon product at USD 39 pour une licence régulière. Given 16 recorded sales and a last update in October 2025, treat it as a low-activity product rather than an active roadmap.

Meilleur pour: Studios that take bookings by phone or in person and just need the grid online.

Ignorer si: Members should be able to reserve a spot themselves.

Verdict: Use it when the timetable is information rather than a booking system, and it’ll cost you nothing forever. Don’t buy the USD 39 Events Calendar upgrade. Sixteen sales and a ten-month-old update aren’t a product to depend on. If members need to book a place in a class, Gym Builder’s free tier does capacity-limited booking and this plugin never will.

Simple Membership – Best Free Paywall

Ultimate Member wants USD 276 a year to charge for membership. Tutor LMS wants USD 199. Simple Membership does recurring billing through PayPal, Stripe and Braintree for USD 0, and has done since 2014.

Gratuit | 40,000+ installe | Version 4.8.2, mise à jour 31 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

The mechanics are plain, and that’s the appeal. Create membership levels called whatever you like, mark posts and pages as protected, then assign them to levels. Members register, payer, and see the content their level unlocks. One-time and recurring payments both work in the free core. That’s the feature most free membership plugins hold back.

For a fitness site the fit is direct. Put your workout library behind a Silver level at USD 15 un mois. Put video sessions behind Gold at USD 30. The plugin handles who sees what. Combine it with WM Workout Manager for the plans themselves, and your entire paid workout site costs nothing in licenses.

Ses 475 ratings run 399 cinq étoiles contre 32 une étoile. That’s a healthier spread than Ultimate Member’s 1,139 contre 152. It updated the day before we checked. The honest limitation is polish: the admin interface is dated, and there’s no drag-and-drop anything. You’re trading appearance for USD 276 of savings.

Avantages

• Recurring billing free, via PayPal, Stripe and Braintree
• Unlimited membership levels at no cost
• 6.7 percent one-star reviews, against Ultimate Member’s 10.5
• Twelve years in the directory, mise à jour 31 août 2026

Les inconvénients

• Dated admin interface
• No member profiles or directories, unlike Ultimate Member
• Add-ons exist but their prices aren’t published

Tarification: Gratuit, with the payment gateways included rather than sold as extensions. Premium add-ons are offered on the vendor site, but no prices are listed on the pages we checked, so we can’t quote them. The core paywall requires no payment at any point.

Meilleur pour: Anyone charging monthly for access to workout content.

Ignorer si: You need member profiles and a searchable directory.

Verdict: This is the default paywall for a fitness site. Paying Ultimate Member USD 276 to do the same job is money thrown away. Choose it whenever the requirement is “charge for access”. If you also need public member profiles and directories, run Ultimate Member’s free tier alongside it rather than buying either paid plan.

GamiPress – Best for Challenges and Streaks

A client who has logged twelve straight sessions doesn’t cancel. That’s the whole business case for gamification on a fitness site. It’s also why the old version of this guide included a leaderboard plugin. That plugin is no longer identifiable as a live product. GamiPress is where the job went.

Free core, Personal Pass USD 199/year | 10,000+ installe | Mise à jour 31 août 2026 | Tested to WordPress 7.1

The free core covers points, achievements and ranks. Award points when a member completes a workout. Unlock a badge at ten sessions. Promote them from Bronze to Silver at fifty. For a 30-day challenge with a visible progress bar, the free version is the whole build.

Ses 493 ratings produce a 98 percent score. Among plugins here with more than 100 Commentaires, only Simply Schedule Appointments beats it, with a perfect score across 155. That’s a meaningful signal in a category where most fitness-specific plugins have fewer than 15 reviews between them.

Paid pricing gets awkward for small sites. Personal Pass is USD 199 une année, the same as Tutor LMS Individual, and there’s no cheaper paid tier. (No USD 49 point d'entrée, which for a plugin this fiddly to configure feels like a missed step.) You’re either on the free core or paying USD 199, and that tier unlocks the leaderboards most fitness sites actually want.

Avantages

• Points, badges and ranks all free
• 98 percent from 493 Commentaires
• Integrates with Tutor LMS, so course completion awards points
• Updated the day before we checked

Les inconvénients

• Leaderboards need the USD 199 Personal Pass
• No cheap paid tier between free and USD 199
• Setup is fiddly, with points, types and triggers configured separately

Tarification: Core is free on WordPress.org. Personal Pass is USD 199 a year for one site with all add-ons. Professional Pass is USD 399 for five sites, All Access USD 699 for unlimited. Three-year and five-year terms are discounted by 20 et 40 pour cent. No refund period is stated on the pricing page.

Meilleur pour: Membership sites running challenges where streaks drive retention.

Ignorer si: You have fewer than 50 membres, since nobody competes on an empty leaderboard.

Verdict: Run the free core on any site with an active member base. Badges and ranks cost nothing and measurably hold people. Only pay USD 199 once you have enough members for a leaderboard to feel competitive. Au dessous de 50 active members, spend that USD 199 on Tutor LMS instead and give people better programs to follow.

How to Choose a Workout Plugin for Your Site

Most guides hand you a feature checklist here. That isn’t useful when half the category is dead. What matters is matching your situation to a stack, so here are four, avec des nombres réels.

Budget USD 0. Solo trainer, no clients yet. Use WM Workout Manager for the plans, Simply Schedule Appointments free for one-to-one bookings, and WP Calorie Calculator free to capture emails. Total license cost is zero and it stays zero. Skip Gym Builder here even though it’s better built. Its workout module is the paid part, and you’ve no members yet to justify USD 59.99.

Charge de travail: 15+ classes a week. A studio with named instructors. Gym Builder free covers the timetable, capacity limits, trainer profiles and member roster. Add the USD 59.99 Pro Bundle when you want Stripe and attendance check-in. Skip Simply Schedule Appointments entirely: it can’t cap a class, so its USD 199 payment tier buys nothing you need.

Public: 200+ paying members. Monthly access to a video library. Use Simple Membership free for the paywall, Presto Player Pro at USD 119 pour 25 des sites, and GamiPress free for streaks. C'est des dollars américains 119 a year in total. Skip Ultimate Member’s USD 276 Plan standard, which does the paywall job Simple Membership already does free. Skip Formidable Business at USD 199.50 unless clients submit weekly measurements.

Product: a 12-week program. Sold once, followed in order. Take Tutor LMS at USD 499 durée de vie, because dripping is the feature and you’ll sell this for years. Évitez les dollars américains 199 annual tier if you expect a third year, since lifetime breaks even at two and a half. Skip Fitness Trainer’s USD 39 despite the price. A plugin last updated in January 2025 shouldn’t handle subscription payments.

One general rule cuts through the rest. Free tiers in this category are unusually strong, because the paid market is too small to sustain aggressive metering. Install the free version, fais-le fonctionner pendant un mois, and pay only when a specific missing feature blocks you. Still choosing where the site will live? Notre guide pour Hébergement WordPress pour le commerce électronique covers what selling memberships demands from a host. Et hébergement WordPress géré aux États-Unis matters more than usual once you start serving video.

Watch the plugin count as you assemble this. A fitness stack reaches six or seven plugins quickly. Notre guide sur how many plugins you should install explains why the number matters less than whether each one is maintained.

Questions fréquemment posées

Is there a free WordPress plugin for creating workout plans?

Oui, but only one worth naming. WM Workout Manager builds exercises and workout plans free, with no paid tier, and renders them by shortcode. Gym Builder’s free version does classes, trainers and members, but puts workout plans in its USD 59.99 Pro Bundle. Everything else free in this space handles scheduling or calculators, not the workouts themselves.

Is WPGYM still available in 2026?

Non. The WPGYM CodeCanyon listing returns “This item is no longer available”. The developer’s own site, mojoomla.com, serves a hosting suspension page as of 1 septembre 2026. The developer is still an active Envato author selling the WPGYM companion mobile app for USD 99. The WordPress plugin that app connects to is gone. Roundups published in 2026 still recommend it. Gym Builder is the closest live equivalent.

Can I sell workout plans on WordPress without WooCommerce?

Oui. Simple Membership takes recurring payments through PayPal, Stripe and Braintree in its free version, with no WooCommerce needed. Tutor LMS handles one-off program sales at USD 199 une année. Fitness Trainer includes subscription billing in its USD 39 one-time price. WooCommerce only earns its place once you also sell physical goods like supplements or apparel.

Which plugin lets personal trainers track client progress in WordPress?

Gym Builder’s Fitness Tracking add-on covers workouts, métrique, goals and progress charts inside the USD 59.99 bundle. Formidable Forms does the same job through custom forms, with charts unlocking at USD 99.50 pour la première année. WordPress.org closed Weight Tracker and Meal Tracker, the two plugins that used to own this job, sur 2 septembre 2024 over security issues. Any guide still recommending them is out of date.

How much does a complete WordPress fitness site cost in plugins?

Zéro, if you accept the free tiers. WM Workout Manager, Simple Membership, Gym Builder free, MotoPress Timetable and GamiPress free together cover plans, paiements, Des classes, timetables and challenges with no license fee. A realistic paid stack runs USD 179 une année: Gym Builder Pro at USD 59.99 plus Presto Player Pro at USD 119 for video. Adding Tutor LMS pushes that to USD 378.

Verdict final

The honest summary is that “workout builder plugin” isn’t really a category. Two plugins carry the tag on WordPress.org, and the larger runs on 30 des sites. Anyone telling you there are 15 great options is padding. C'est exactement ce que 2021 version of this page did, with Yoast SEO and a header-image plugin.

So build a stack instead. WM Workout Manager is the only free plugin that builds workout plans. Start there if publishing programs is the whole job. Gym Builder is the strongest all-rounder and our pick for a studio. Ten releases shipped in 2026, and class capacity limits are in the free tier. Simple Membership is the paywall, gratuit, and it makes Ultimate Member’s USD 276 Standard plan hard to justify for anything but profiles.

Pay for exactly three things. Gym Builder Pro en USD 59.99 when you need progress charts. Presto Player Pro en USD 119 when workouts are filmed, taking the 25-site tier rather than USD 79 pour un. Tutor LMS en USD 499 lifetime when you sell sequenced programs and expect a third year.

Two things to avoid outright. Don’t install anything still recommending WPGYM, Fitness Schedule, Weight Tracker or Meal Tracker. All four are gone, and three were closed over security. And don’t buy Entraîneur for a site taking public card payments, however good USD 39 once looks against USD 59.99 une année. Nineteen months without an update isn’t a risk worth USD 21.

Building the rest of the site? Notre comparaison de event and appointment plugins goes deeper on booking than this page does, and covers class-based scheduling in more detail. For everything that isn’t fitness-specific, from caching to backups, see our list of must-have WordPress plugins. One last thing worth watching. AllCoach, a coaching-management plugin from ThemeGrill, joined the directory on 5 Mai 2026. It’s on roughly 100 sites with no reviews yet, so it’s too new to recommend. It’s also the first serious entrant this category has seen in years.