Best Gym Website Builder 2026: Timetables, Memberships & Real Costs

A gym website builder has one job most builders can't actually do: publish your class timetable, let a member book a spot, and take the payment — without stapling three extra subscriptions to the bill. Plenty of studio owners learn that the expensive way, buying the cheap plan first and discovering the booking engine costs extra second.

We priced the three realistic routes for a gym or fitness studio as of August 2026: Wix with its Bookings app, Squarespace with Acuity bolted on, and Mindbody at the specialist end. Here's the desk verdict.

What a gym site actually needs

Strip away the stock photos of kettlebells and a gym site earns its keep with four things:

• A live class timetable — one members book against, not a PDF re-uploaded every Sunday night.
• Memberships and packages — recurring billing for the monthly crowd, class packs for the commitment-shy.
• Trainer pages — people buy coaches, not treadmills; each trainer needs a face, a specialism and a booking link.
• Trial-pass capture — a form that turns a curious visitor into a first session before the tab closes.

Everything else — the blog, the supplement shop, the testimonial wall — is decoration until those four are live. Judge a builder on how many of the four it covers without a third-party bolt-on, and on what the bolt-on costs when it doesn't.

The top pick: Wix, with the real price attached

Wix wins this trade because Bookings, its scheduling engine, is a free app that genuinely covers the gym list: class schedules, group sessions, staff calendars and memberships. You build the marketing site — trainers, pricing, the trial offer — and the timetable is just another page on it, edited in the same dashboard.

Now the price honesty. Bookings costs nothing to install, but accepting online payments for those bookings requires the Core plan at $29/mo on annual billing. The scheduling tiers ride the plan ladder: Basic scheduling on Core, Standard on the $39/mo Business plan, Advanced on Elite — and none at all on the $17 Light plan. So the advertised entry price is a brochure price; a functioning gym site on Wix starts at $29/mo, billed upfront for the year.

One routing note: if your product is really an online community — remote programming, check-ins, a members' feed — that's a different trade with different tools. Read our membership website builder guide before you buy anything here.

The generalist alternative: Squarespace plus Acuity

Squarespace makes the best-looking fitness sites of any generalist, but booking is in no Squarespace website plan — you rent it separately as Acuity Scheduling. Acuity runs $16/mo on annual billing for Starter (one calendar), $27 for Standard (six calendars) and $49 for Premium (thirty-six). Month-to-month those become $20, $34 and $61.

The arithmetic for a real studio: Squarespace Basic at $19/mo plus Acuity Starter at $16 lands around $35/mo, both annual — and Starter's single calendar suits a solo personal trainer, not a six-coach rota. Several trainers puts you realistically at $19 + $27 = $46/mo. That buys genuinely nicer design than Wix; whether it's worth roughly $17/mo extra over Wix Core is a branding call, not a functional one. The same two-bill sums apply to beauty businesses — we walk them in the salon website builder guide.

Mindbody: the specialist ceiling

Mindbody is where studios land when the front desk, not the website, becomes the bottleneck. US pricing starts at $99/mo per location, with published tiers running from Starter at $99–$159 through Accelerate at roughly $259–$279 to Ultimate at $499 and Ultimate Plus from $699/mo — and the branded member app is an add-on that pushes bills past $700/mo. Every one of those figures is per location.

Two catches before anyone signs. First, Mindbody is studio-management software with a booking presence, not a website builder — most studios still run a marketing site alongside it, so the Wix or Squarespace bill doesn't disappear. Second, at last check, bookings arriving through Mindbody's consumer marketplace carried around a 20% new-client commission, on top of processing in the region of 3.5% — discovery there is a paid channel, not a free one.

The honest threshold: stay on builder-plus-booking until you employ people who live in scheduling software all day, have multiple rooms to allocate, or need retention reporting the builder can't fake. Below that line, Mindbody is a $1,200-a-year-minimum answer to a $348 question.

What a gym site really costs per month

• Wix route: Core $29/mo annual ($348 billed upfront) plus a domain from a budget registrar at $10–15/yr — call it $30–31/mo all-in before card fees.
• Squarespace route: Basic $19 + Acuity Starter $16 = $35/mo for a solo trainer; $46/mo once Acuity Standard's six calendars are needed.
• Mindbody route: from $99/mo per location for the software, plus a marketing site in front of it — $116/mo minimum with a $17 Wix Light brochure doing that job.

Card processing applies on every route, so compare it alongside the subscriptions rather than after them. Then hold the totals against your member count: the $70/mo gap between Wix Core and Mindbody Starter is $840 a year — real money for a fifty-member studio, a rounding error once two receptionists depend on the software daily.

Mistakes gyms make with their websites

• Buying Wix Light and expecting to charge for classes. It takes zero online payments; the upgrade dance costs you a week of momentum.
• Publishing the timetable as a PDF or screenshot. Nobody books a PDF, and search engines can't read your class names out of one.
• Burying the trial pass three clicks deep. It's the single highest-value form on the site; it belongs on the homepage above the fold.
• Paying Mindbody prices for a one-room studio because a franchise down the road uses it. Per-location software pricing is built for chains.
• Skipping trainer pages. A coach's name is what members search after the taster session — give each one a page that books.

One guide, one trade. If you run more than a gym — or you're weighing this same call for a different business — our board of the best website builder by industry compares all ten trades' picks in one place.