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The self-hosted Zen Planner 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 Zen Planner every month.

Own Gymora for $69 Try the live demo

Stop renting Zen Planner.

Rented Zen Planner Studio "Starting at $99/month"; extensions on top: Website $99/month, Engage $249/month, Branded App $39/month; "*Additional charges and/or fees may apply." ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Gymora

$69 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

1 month of Zen Planner costs what Gymora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: NOT re-read on 2026-09-03: the page came back truncated mid-content, so nothing could be verified and the date stands. The core Studio product at its published starting price; the marketing site, automation and branded-app extensions are separate monthly lines on top, and the page itself footnotes further charges. Gymora is one payment with no extensions to buy.

How Zen Planner pricing grows

Zen Planner meters by MODULE: the core is $99/month "starting at", and website, marketing automation and the branded app are each another monthly line.

“*Additional charges and/or fees may apply.”, their own page, read 2026-08-30

What Zen Planner does that we don't

Zen Planner sells the full studio stack — membership, scheduling, marketing automation, a branded member app and integrated payments — from one vendor.

“Custom-branded mobile app for member engagement”, their own page

Who should stay with Zen Planner

Stay with Zen Planner if you want integrated payments, a branded member app and marketing automation from one hosted vendor. Gymora is the front desk — members, check-ins, class packs — on your own server, with no payments and no app store presence.

What Gymora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Zen Planner.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Zen Planner's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

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 Zen Planner.

Is this a public booking site my members log into?

Your front desk runs it, and members get their own page to book classes and see what is due: a private link, with no password to forget. The join page offers the plans you choose.

Does it charge my members' cards?

Never automatically, and no card ever passes through it. With card payments switched on (your own Stripe account), a member pays a charge or buys a plan by card on Stripe's own page from their member page, and the payment is recorded when Stripe confirms it; each term is one payment the member makes. Otherwise Gymora shows your own payment link and you mark charges paid, or you take payment at your own card terminal or in cash.

Will this run on my shared hosting?

Yes. Gymora needs PHP 8.1+ with PDO — present on virtually all cPanel/Plesk hosts. Choose SQLite for zero database setup, or MySQL for production. The web installer takes about two minutes.

Can I trust the check-in logic?

The entire membership/check-in core lives in one class and ships with 90 offline test assertions covering the guards, credit decrement, status transitions, expiry, arrears, and revenue math.

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Sources

Zen Planner: price checked 2026-08-30, source“'Zen Planner Studio' ... 'Starting at' ... '$99/month' ... 'Website' ... '$99/month' ... 'Engage' ... '$249/month' ... 'Branded App' ... '$39/month' ... '*Additional charges and/or fees may apply.'”

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.

Replace Zen Planner with Gymora.

Open the live demo first; it costs nothing.

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