Best App for Marketing Coaches: 12 Options Ranked
The best app for marketing coaches is the one your clients actually open on a Tuesday afternoon, when the content calendar says "post the case study" and nobody is watching. Marketing clients rarely fail for lack of strategy; they stall between sessions. So the deciding question is simple: which app puts this week's task, the lesson behind it, a quick check-in and a place to ask for feedback on one phone screen, under your brand?
Our pick is Coachful's client app. Your clients install it on iPhone or Android and see your branding, your programs, their daily habits, morning and evening check-ins, courses, community and messages in one place, while you run booking, payments, agreements and email from the same account. One disclosure up front: we make Coachful. That is why the ranking below states its criteria plainly and ends every other entry with the situation where it beats us.
This article is about the client's side: what a founder, freelancer or small-business owner you coach installs and uses between calls. If you are still choosing your whole back office, our guides to coaching software and coaching portals with a mobile app cover the coach's view.
What do marketing coaching clients actually do in an app each week?
They execute small, repeatable marketing actions and report back on them. A typical client of a marketing coach is a solo founder, consultant, creator or service business owner who knows they should publish, follow up and launch, but loses the thread between calls.
Week to week, that client usually needs to:
- See this week's one or two priorities. "Write the lead magnet outline" and "send three follow-up emails", not a 40-slide strategy deck.
- Tick off daily habits. Post once, engage for 15 minutes, add five contacts to a list. Streaks matter here because consistency is the whole game in content marketing.
- Open the lesson behind the task. A short module on hooks, email sequences or offer pages, ideally right next to the task that needs it.
- Check in with numbers and mood. Leads this week, posts published, what felt hard. A morning and evening check-in gives the coach signal without another call.
- Ask for feedback. Drop a draft headline or a landing page link in a direct message or a group thread.
- Show up to the group. Many marketing coaches run cohorts or masterminds, so a community feed and live Q&A calls are part of the deal.
- Book and pay without friction. Renewals, add-on audits and extra sessions should not require a separate login.
Notice what is missing: workout logging, food diaries, clinical notes. Several popular "coaching apps" are built around those, which is why some well-known names land near the bottom of this list. If you want to sharpen the marketing methods you teach, our content marketing strategy for coaches and marketing for coaches guide go deeper on the substance.
Quick picks: which app wins in which situation?
Coachful is the best overall client app for marketing coaches; the others win narrower scenarios. Vendor prices are as listed in October 2026 and exclude payment processing.
| Tool | Best for | Native client app | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Best overall: programs, habits, check-ins, courses, community and booking in one branded client app | iPhone and Android, your branding inside the Coachful app | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients |
| Kajabi | Coaches selling high-volume courses through big funnels | Kajabi markets a branded mobile app; check plan inclusion | $179/mo ($143/mo annual) |
| Circle | A paid mastermind community at the centre of the offer | Circle app; own-brand app only on custom-priced Circle Plus | $89/mo billed annually |
| Teachable | The cheapest route to an iPhone and Android student app for one course | iOS and Android student apps on every plan | $39/mo ($29/mo annual), 7.5% transaction fee on Starter |
| Skool | A gamified group with a classroom and low monthly fee | Not documented on its pricing page | $9/mo, 10% + 30¢ per transaction on Hobby |
| Practice Better | Coaches who also need practitioner-style charting | Client app and portal | Free for 3 clients; $35/mo Starter |
| CoachAccountable | Metrics-heavy 1:1 accountability in a browser | None (browser only) | $20/mo for 2 active clients |
How did we rank these client apps?
Ranking criteria, in one line: one login for the whole client journey, between-session delivery (habits, check-ins, lessons), community and messaging, iPhone and Android access, total stack cost, and setup effort.
We did not run hands-on trials of each product. Every vendor fact below comes from the vendor's own documentation and pricing pages as listed in October 2026, plus what public reviewers report. Where a vendor does not document something, we say so instead of guessing. Ratings quoted are Trustpilot scores as seen in October 2026.
Weighting leaned toward the client's week. An app that only stores invoices and session notes may be excellent back office software, but if a client cannot see their habits, tasks or lessons on a phone, it does less for a marketing client's follow-through. Tools without a native app at all are flagged clearly in their sections and in the matrix. For the broader logic of branded apps, see what to check before buying a custom branded coaching app.
1. Coachful: best overall client app for marketing coaches
Coachful wins when your offer is a program, not just a call: a 90-day marketing accelerator, a launch cohort, or ongoing 1:1 coaching with weekly assignments. The client gets one app on iPhone or Android carrying your branding inside the Coachful app, and you get one login for everything behind it.
What your client sees on their phone
Inside a multi-week program, each week has goals and daily tasks. Habits like "publish one post" or "add five leads to the list" sit beside goals with progress bars and streaks, so a client can see momentum building. Morning and evening check-ins ask the questions you choose, which for a marketing client might be "What will you ship today?" in the morning and "What did you publish, and how many leads came in?" at night.
Courses with modules, lessons, drip release and completion tracking live in the same branded home, alongside downloads, videos, books, AI tools and events. That means the "email sequence" lesson can sit right next to the week where the client writes one. The client's coaching hub shows the next session, programs, sessions, progress and documents in tabs, so pre-session work is hard to miss.
Community comes built in: a feed, group chat, direct messages and video events. When a client enrolls in a program, Coachful creates the cohort group automatically, so a launch cohort has its own space from day one. Group calls and webinars run from the same account.
Here is a short walkthrough of how check-ins are set up and how they reach the client:
What runs behind the app
Booking pages handle availability rules, buffers, minimum notice and time-zone detection, with two-way Google, Apple/iCloud and Outlook calendar sync and built-in video or auto-created Zoom, Meet or Teams links. Reminders go out by email, plus SMS 24 hours before and WhatsApp one hour before once messaging is enabled. Coaching agreements with e-signature go out before the first call and are stored on the client record.
Payments run through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account: one-time, subscriptions, payment plans, order bumps, coupons, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Coachful has charged a 0% platform fee since August 2026, so you pay only Stripe or Razorpay processing.
Each client record pulls goals, check-ins, habits, notes, intake answers, tags, payments and sessions together, with a status of thriving, active, quiet or at risk. For a marketing coach with 20 clients, that status is the early warning that someone stopped posting two weeks ago. Michelle, the built-in AI assistant, works from that live data to brief you before sessions, summarize recorded calls, draft emails and build programs. Questions and planning are included in your Coachful membership; confirmed builds and changes use AI credits. You can also configure an AI Coach, an AI version of you that selected clients can chat with between sessions.
Marketing coaches also tend to practise what they preach, and Coachful's own marketing tools are there for that: a section-based website builder with blog and custom domain, booking, application, lead-magnet and checkout funnels with pixels and UTM tracking, a link-in-bio page that sells, and email lists, broadcasts and sequences with branching and A/B splits. It is a practical demo for clients too: you can show them a working funnel you built yourself. Our email marketing tools comparison puts the email side in context.
Setup help included
Why Coachful stands out: a free white-glove service. From Create > We'll build it for you, you describe what you want built (a program, a course outline and written material, a funnel, a sales page, an email sequence, a website, a coaching flow) and attach up to 8 reference links and 10 files. The Coachful team builds it inside your own account, usually within about 24 hours. Nothing gets invented: no fake testimonials, credentials or prices; gaps are left for you to fill. One recent example: a business mentor for beauty professionals got a 12-week mentorship sales page, a free start-up-guide funnel and rewritten follow-up emails. It does not cover recording videos, logo design, ad management or ongoing marketing. Read more in how the free white-glove service works.
Limits worth knowing
Coachful's client app ships under the Coachful listing with your branding inside it; it is not your own App Store account. There is no PayPal, no permanent free plan, no Salesforce or HubSpot integration and no multi-stage sales deal board for large teams. It is not a course marketplace, and it has no third-party plugins. The affiliate program tracks links, clicks, conversions and revenue, but payouts are recorded manually. Coachful is not HIPAA-certified, which rarely matters for marketing coaching but is worth stating.
Pricing is flat monthly plans; lower plans cap the number of clients, Pro is unlimited and team plans add coach seats (current plans: Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients; Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients; Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients; Studio: $199/month with unlimited clients). There is a free trial, and monthly plans cancel in one click. Coachful is based in Tallinn, Estonia, and holds a Trustpilot 4.5 from 21 reviews.
2. Kajabi: strongest for course-led marketing businesses
If your business is mostly a course with a large email list and a funnel feeding it, Kajabi is the most complete runner-up. It combines courses, communities, websites, funnels and email, and its site navigation in October 2026 lists a Branded Mobile App product. We did not verify which plans include it, so confirm on Kajabi's pricing page before you promise clients an app.
For the client, Kajabi delivers lessons and a community well. What it does not do is per-client coaching: there is no habit tracking or daily client check-in, and coaching is modelled as products and communities rather than individual plans. A marketing client can watch the "launch week" module, but there is no native place for them to tick off "sent launch email #2" and have you see it on their record.
Price is the other consideration. As listed in October 2026, Basic is $179/mo ($143/mo annual) with 5 products, 2,500 contacts, one community and 0 AI credits. Growth is $249/mo ($199/mo annual) and Pro $499/mo ($399/mo annual). Kajabi Payments in the US costs 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, and using another processor (other than PayPal) adds a 0.5% to 2% Kajabi fee. Trustpilot shows 3.4 from 2,347 reviews.
Pick it over Coachful if your revenue is mostly self-paced course sales to thousands of students, your contact list is your main asset, and individual habits and check-ins are not part of what you sell.
3. Circle: built for the mastermind-first coach
Circle earns third place for marketing coaches whose core offer is a paid community: a mastermind, a membership of agency owners, or a creator collective. Its strength is the community itself, with courses, events, live streams and paid memberships around it.
Clients use Circle's app to read threads, join events and take courses. The catch for a coaching business is the back office: Circle has no 1:1 scheduling or client management, and no per-client habits, check-ins or coaching plans. Your own branded app is only available on custom-priced Circle Plus; on lower plans clients use the Circle-branded app.
As listed in October 2026, Professional is $89/mo billed annually, Business $199/mo and Scale $419/mo (annual figures), with a 14-day free trial and no card required. Circle takes 2% of payments on Professional, 1% on Business and Scale, and 0.5% on Circle Plus, plus Stripe processing. Trustpilot shows 4.1 from 129 reviews. Our community platform overview compares this format with built-in coaching communities.
Pick it over Coachful if the community is the product, you have moderators to run it, and 1:1 work is a small add-on you are happy to manage in a separate tool.
4. Teachable: the low-cost student app for a single flagship course
Teachable takes the scenario where you sell one or two marketing courses and want students to have an iPhone and Android app without paying enterprise prices. Its pricing page, checked today, lists "iOS & Android student apps" on every plan, including Starter.
Plans as listed on its pricing page today: Starter $39/mo ($29/mo billed annually) with 5 products and a 7.5% transaction fee; Builder $89/mo ($69/mo annual) with 10 products and 0% transaction fee; Growth $189/mo ($139/mo annual) with 50 products. Each comes with a 7-day free trial and a 30-day guarantee. The site also lists coaching and memberships as products it can sell.
For a marketing client, the student app is a lesson player first. Teachable's pricing page does not list habits, daily check-ins, client records or a coaching community, so between-session accountability would live elsewhere. That 7.5% fee on Starter also adds up quickly on a $500 course (an illustrative $37.50 per sale).
Pick it over Coachful if you sell a single course with no ongoing coaching, want students on a mobile app immediately, and do not need check-ins or 1:1 booking.
5. Skool: where a cheap, gamified group beats a full platform
Skool suits the marketing coach running a low-ticket or free community that funnels into higher-ticket coaching. It puts a community, a classroom and a calendar in one group, with leaderboards that reward participation, which some audiences love.
Pricing is simple. As shown on its pricing page today: Hobby $9/month and Pro $99/month, both with unlimited members, courses, videos and live calls. The fees are where it bites: Hobby takes 10% + 30¢ on every transaction, and Pro 2.9% + 30¢ up to $899 and 3.9% + 30¢ above $900, with payments only through Skool Payments. Trial length is not stated on the pricing page.
On the client side, there are no 1:1 client records, intake forms, habits or check-ins, and no custom-domain website, funnels or email automation. Skool's pricing page does not describe a mobile app, so check the app stores yourself before telling clients how they will access it. Trustpilot shows 1.6 from 54 reviews as of October 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if you want a cheap community with gamification as a top-of-funnel group and are comfortable running paid coaching, booking and email somewhere else.
6. Practice Better: practitioner tools with a client app attached
Practice Better is the right call when you coach marketing for wellness practitioners and also deliver some practitioner-style services yourself, because it was built for nutrition and wellness practices. It covers scheduling, telehealth, charting, billing, programs and a client portal, and clients can use its app (we cover it in our Practice Better app review).
As listed in October 2026: Sprout is free for 3 clients; Starter $35/mo ($25/mo annual) for 10 clients; Professional $69/mo ($59/mo annual) for 300 clients; Plus $99/mo ($89/mo annual) for unlimited clients; Team $155/mo ($145/mo annual). Evergreen programs, portal branding, a custom URL and SMS start on Plus. It has no website builder or funnel pages, and Trustpilot shows 3.8 from 87 reviews.
For a marketing client, charting and telehealth language feels out of place, and there is no community feed documented in our notes. It is a sound system with a client app, just aimed at a different profession.
Pick it over Coachful if you run a hybrid practice where clinical-style notes and practitioner billing matter more than funnels, community and marketing tools.
7. CoachAccountable: no native app, but deep metrics in the browser
CoachAccountable is the pick for a metrics-obsessed 1:1 marketing coach who wants clients to log numbers like leads, calls booked and revenue every week. It handles sessions, action plans, metrics, worksheets, courses, invoicing and agreements.
There is no native mobile app, according to our older profile of the tool, so clients use it in a phone browser. It has no landing pages, website or marketing automation. Pricing is per active client, as listed in October 2026: Starter $20/mo for 2 active clients, Level 2 $70/mo for 10, Level 3 $120/mo for 20, up to Level 5 at $400/mo for 100. That model gets expensive for large group programs. There is a 30-day trial with no card. Trustpilot shows 4.8 from 47 reviews, the highest score on this list. If you are weighing a move, see our CoachAccountable alternatives.
Pick it over Coachful if you coach a small number of 1:1 clients, care most about custom metrics, and your clients are happy working in a browser.
8. Satori: tidy 1:1 admin for newer coaches
Satori fits a newer marketing coach who mainly needs scheduling, packages, invoices and contracts, and whose clients only need a portal to see sessions and pay.
No native mobile app and no native Zoom integration are listed in our older profile, and it has no landing pages, courses or community. As listed in October 2026: Scholar is free for unlimited pro-bono clients if you are studying for a certification (apply via a form); Essentials $33/mo ($27.50/mo annual) for up to 10 active paying clients; Pro $49/mo; Leader $124/mo. Only active clients count toward billing. The 15-day trial needs no card, and Satori takes no cut of client payments beyond PayPal and Stripe fees.
Pick it over Coachful if you only sell 1:1 packages, want the simplest possible admin, and do not plan to deliver programs, courses or a community.
9. Paperbell: one price for solo booking and payments
Paperbell suits a solo marketing consultant who sells session packages and wants one flat fee for booking, packages, payments, contracts, a client portal and a simple website.
Clients get a mobile browser experience only; there is no native app according to our older profile. It has no courses, community, goal or habit tracking. As listed in October 2026, the single plan is $97/mo ($80.83/mo annual) with unlimited clients, and Paperbell states "no additional transaction fees". Trustpilot shows 3.5 from 14 reviews. More options are in our Paperbell alternatives roundup.
Pick it over Coachful if you want a fixed single price for 1:1 packages, need PayPal, and your clients never need habits, lessons or a group.
10. Mighty Networks: a branded community app for large memberships
Mighty Networks becomes the better fit once your marketing membership is large enough that a community app with livestreams and events is the main deliverable. Members use Mighty-branded apps; your own branded app requires custom-priced Mighty Pro.
As listed in October 2026: Launch $95/mo ($79/mo annual), Scale $215/mo ($179/mo annual), Growth $354/mo billed annually. Mighty takes a platform fee of 2% on Launch, 1% on Scale and 0.5% on Growth and Mighty Pro, plus Stripe processing. There is no 1:1 scheduling, invoicing or contracts, and no per-client habits, check-ins or private coaching plans. The 14-day trial needs no card. Trustpilot shows 3.3 from 219 reviews.
Pick it over Coachful if you run a membership of several hundred people with livestreams and events, and 1:1 coaching is not part of the offer.
11. Everfit: a fitness app that only fits a side offer
Everfit wins only one narrow marketing-coach scenario: you also run a wellness or fitness side program for founders and want a dedicated training app for it. It is a fitness coaching app with workouts, habits, nutrition and messaging, priced by client count.
As listed in October 2026: Starter is free for up to 5 clients; Pro starts at $19/mo ($16/mo annual) for 5 clients and scales to $290/mo for 300; Studio starts at $105/mo. Automation, payments and meal plans are paid add-ons. There is no course builder, website, funnels or email marketing, which is everything a marketing client would study. Trustpilot shows 2.7 from 16 reviews.
Pick it over Coachful if your clients are training clients first and marketing is incidental.
12. ABC Trainerize: personal training software in a marketing list
Trainerize is here because it appears in many "coaching app" searches, and it suits personal trainers, not marketing coaches. It offers workouts, habits, nutrition tracking and messaging, priced by client seats.
As listed in October 2026: Basic is free for 1 client; Grow $10/mo for 2; Pro starts at $25/mo for 5 clients with tiers up to 200; Studio Plus $275/mo. Scheduling, selling products, payments and video are separate paid add-ons below Studio, and there is no course builder, website, funnels or email marketing. Our older profile notes that client data export excludes messages, photos and attachments. Trustpilot shows 3.1 from 100 reviews.
Pick it over Coachful if you are a personal trainer who needs workout programming in an app, and none of your clients come to you for marketing.
Which client app features does each tool include?
Only three of the twelve document daily habits or check-ins in a native client app, and only Coachful pairs them with courses, community and 1:1 booking. "Not documented" means the vendor's materials we reviewed did not say.
| Tool | Native iPhone/Android app | Habits and check-ins | Lessons/courses | Community | 1:1 booking | Own branding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Yes | Yes, with streaks | Yes, with drip | Feed, group chat, DMs, events | Yes | Your branding inside the Coachful app |
| Kajabi | Branded app product listed | No | Yes | Yes | Not documented | Check plan |
| Circle | Yes (Circle app) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Circle Plus only |
| Teachable | Yes, all plans | Not documented | Yes | Not documented | Not documented | Branding removal on Growth |
| Skool | Not documented | No | Yes | Yes, gamified | No | Custom URL |
| Practice Better | Yes | Not documented | Programs | Not documented | Yes | Portal branding on Plus |
| CoachAccountable | No (browser) | Metrics and action plans | Yes | No | Yes | Not documented |
| Satori | No (browser) | No | No | No | Yes | Not documented |
| Paperbell | No (browser) | No | No | No | Yes | Simple website |
| Mighty Networks | Yes (Mighty-branded) | No | Yes | Yes | No | Mighty Pro only |
| Everfit | Yes | Habits | No | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| ABC Trainerize | Yes | Habits | No | Not documented | Paid add-on | Not documented |
What does a week in Coachful's app look like for a marketing client?
Here is an illustrative week for a fictional client, a freelance designer in week three of a 12-week "Client Pipeline" program. The client and details are an example, not a customer story.
- Monday, 8:00. The morning check-in asks for today's one marketing action. The client writes "publish the portfolio case study" and sees this week's goal, "three posts and one email", with its progress bar at zero.
- Monday, 12:30. They open the week-three lesson on case study structure in the program, then tick the "write for 30 minutes" habit. The streak counter moves to 12 days.
- Tuesday. A draft headline goes into a direct message to the coach. Later the client posts a question in the cohort group, which Coachful created automatically on enrollment, and two peers reply.
- Wednesday. The client joins the group Q&A call from the community feed. Afterwards, they download the email template the coach attached to the lesson.
- Thursday evening. The evening check-in asks how many leads came in and what felt hard. The coach, reviewing the client record, sees the status move from quiet to active.
- Friday. A reminder arrives for next week's 1:1, booked through the coach's page and already on both calendars. The client pays for an add-on landing page audit in the same app.
On the coach's side, Michelle's pre-session briefing summarizes those check-ins, so the call starts from the real week rather than "so, how did it go?". If you are building a program like this from scratch, our guide to creating a coaching app without developers walks through the structure, and the group coaching software page covers cohorts.
What do three realistic stacks cost per month?
A single platform usually costs less than stitching a community or course tool to a separate back office. These three example stacks assume a marketing coach with about 15 clients and a small group program; vendor prices are as listed in October 2026, before payment processing.
| Stack | What the client gets | Monthly software cost | Extra fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful alone | One branded app on iPhone and Android: habits, check-ins, lessons, community, booking, payments | Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients | 0% platform fee; Stripe or Razorpay processing only |
| Kajabi Basic + CoachAccountable Level 3 | Course and community in Kajabi; metrics and sessions in a browser portal; two logins | $179 + $120 = $299/mo (20 active clients) | Kajabi Payments 2.9% + $0.30, or an extra 2% with another processor |
| Skool Pro + Paperbell | Group and classroom in Skool; 1:1 booking and payments in Paperbell; two logins | $99 + $97 = $196/mo | Skool 2.9% to 3.9% + 30¢ per transaction |
Two logins also means two places for clients to forget about. If you want to plan these costs against your wider marketing spend, use our marketing budget template for coaches.
Which mistakes do marketing coaches make when choosing a client app?
The most common mistake is choosing for the coach's dashboard instead of the client's phone. A few others come up repeatedly:
- Assuming every "coaching app" has an app. CoachAccountable, Satori and Paperbell run in the browser. That can be fine, but decide it on purpose.
- Buying a community tool for a coaching business. Circle, Skool and Mighty Networks are strong at groups but have no per-client habits or check-ins, so 1:1 accountability moves to spreadsheets.
- Ignoring transaction fees. A 10% fee on Skool Hobby or 7.5% on Teachable Starter can outweigh a low monthly price once you sell a few programs.
- Overpromising a "your own app" listing. Own-brand App Store apps sit on custom-priced tiers at Circle and Mighty Networks. Coachful's client app carries your branding inside the Coachful app, and you should describe it to clients that way.
- Splitting lessons from tasks. If the module is in one app and the to-do list in another, the client watches the video and forgets the action.
- Skipping setup help. A half-built program is worse than none. Use a done-for-you build if the tool offers one.
Verdict: which app should a marketing coach choose?
Choose Coachful if you sell programs, cohorts or ongoing coaching and want clients to see tasks, habits, check-ins, lessons and their group in one branded app on iPhone and Android. Choose Kajabi for course-volume businesses, Circle or Mighty Networks when the community is the product, Teachable for a single course with a cheap student app, and Skool for a low-cost gamified group. The 1:1 admin tools (Practice Better, CoachAccountable, Satori, Paperbell) work when clients only need sessions and invoices.
Coachful, in one paragraph: a coaching platform for coaches who deliver programs, from solo coaches to small teams replacing four to six tools. It covers booking, payments, agreements, programs with habits and check-ins, courses, community, a website with funnels and email, and an AI assistant. It does not offer PayPal, HIPAA certification or your own App Store listing. To start, take the free trial and request the free white-glove build so your first program is ready before your first client logs in. Marketing coaches who also coach business owners can browse the page for business coaches.
FAQ
What is the best app for marketing coaches?
For coaches who deliver programs and want clients to follow through between sessions, Coachful's client app is our pick. It puts habits, check-ins, lessons, community, messaging and booking in one app on iPhone and Android with your branding. Kajabi is the strongest alternative for course-led businesses.
Does Coachful give me my own app in the App Store?
No. Clients download the Coachful app on iPhone or Android and see your branding, programs and content inside it. It is not published under your own App Store account.
Which coaching tools have no native mobile app?
Among the tools here, CoachAccountable, Satori and Paperbell have no native app according to our profiles, so clients use them in a mobile browser. Skool's pricing page does not describe its app, so check the app stores before deciding.
Can marketing clients track habits like posting daily?
In Coachful, yes: habits sit inside the program with streaks and progress, alongside morning and evening check-ins. Community tools such as Circle, Skool and Mighty Networks do not offer per-client habits or check-ins.
What is Coachful's free white-glove service?
It is a done-for-you build included on every plan. You describe a program, funnel, website, course outline or email sequence, attach references, and the Coachful team builds it in your account, usually within about 24 hours. It does not include recording videos, logo design or ad management.
Is Skool or Circle better for a marketing mastermind?
Circle offers more structure, admins and moderators, with platform fees of 0.5% to 2%. Skool is cheaper per month and gamified, but charges 10% + 30¢ per transaction on Hobby and 2.9% to 3.9% + 30¢ on Pro. Neither handles 1:1 client records or check-ins.
Does Coachful take a cut of my sales?
No. Coachful has charged a 0% platform fee since August 2026. You connect your own Stripe or Razorpay account and pay only their processing fees.
Can I run a cohort and 1:1 clients in the same app?
Yes. In Coachful, enrolling clients in a program creates a cohort group automatically, while 1:1 sessions, notes and payments sit on each client record. Clients see both in the same app.
Is a fitness app like Trainerize or Everfit useful for marketing coaches?
Rarely. Both are built around workouts and nutrition and lack course builders, websites and email marketing. They only make sense if you run a separate fitness offer.
How do I move my existing clients into a new app?
With Coachful, clients, programs and content are imported for you during onboarding, and you can export full client data as a ZIP later. For other tools, check their import and export documentation before signing up.
