The self-hosted GymMaster alternative
Gymora: Self-hosted gym membership manager with front-desk check-in guards and class-pack credit tracking. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying GymMaster every month.
Stop renting GymMaster.
Gymora1 month of GymMaster costs what Gymora costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: Foundation caps at 100 current members; yearly billing gives 10% off. The page prints USD, AUD and NZD side by side ($89 / A$119 / NZ$129 on Foundation), so the currency is chosen on the page rather than served by location.
GymMaster meters its per-site plans by 'current members' - a count that includes paid, billing, and future-start members - so growing your membership is what pushes you into a pricier tier.
“Current members are those with paid in full or regular billing membership, including $0 memberships, members signed up for a future start date and any members who are exempt from internal reporting.”, their own page, read 2026-08-11
GymMaster does not lock customers into a fixed-term contract.
“No! GymMaster will never lock you into a contract.”, their own page
If you need a public booking site or a payment service run for you, stay where you are — Gymora has neither. Members book classes from their own private member page; card payments run only through your own Stripe account (since Own It 4.1) and texts only through your own SMS gateway (since 3.2), both off until you switch them on; it emails members before their membership ends, through your own SMTP.
What Gymora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting GymMaster.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in GymMaster's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Gymora vs renting comparison.
Questions about moving off GymMaster.
Is this a public booking site my members log into?
Does it charge my members' cards?
Will this run on my shared hosting?
Can I trust the check-in logic?
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Sources
- GymMaster: price checked 2026-09-03, source“USD $89/month”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.