GymVision vs PushPress.
The short version: PushPress is the established player with a big ecosystem and new owner-side AI tools. GymVision is the operator-built challenger with flat pricing, Stripe at-cost (zero markup on your revenue), deeper analytics, and the one thing nobody else has: an AI receptionist that actually answers your gym's phone.
Below is the honest breakdown, including the three places PushPress beats us today.
At a glance
PushPress details from their public pricing and 2025 release notes, audited June 2026. Spot something stale? Email us and we'll fix it.
Pricing: flat vs tiered-plus-add-ons
PushPress prices in layers: a free tier (with up to 4.99% payment processing), paid tiers at $159 and $229/mo, and add-ons like Grow at $329/mo for marketing automation. The sticker is low; the working total for a gym that uses the platform seriously usually isn't.
GymVision is $249/mo (Starter) or $499/mo (Pro), flat. Lead drips, broadcasts, analytics, and the member app are all in the box, and payments run through your own Stripe account at Stripe's published rates. We never touch a percentage of your revenue. Our pilot gym's all-in displacement was about $1,400/mo.
The phone: the gap nobody else covers
Every missed call at a gym is a missed trial, and most gyms miss calls all day because coaches are coaching. PushPress has no answer for this; their AI investments are owner-side text tools.
GymVision's AI receptionist answers the phone, books trials into your actual schedule, quotes your actual pricing, and takes messages for anything it shouldn't handle. It's in private beta with founding gyms. Hear it call you live from the homepage.
Analytics and retention
This is where the products diverge most for owners. GymVision ships a live ops dashboard, cohort retention by joined month, and an explainable churn score per member, so you know who's drifting before they cancel. PushPress shows at-risk flags on a static dashboard, and shallow analytics is a recurring theme in their own customers' reviews.
Member experience
GymVision's member portal behaves like a consumer app: a feed with reactions, sixteen auto-unlocking achievement badges, automatic PR detection with a celebration moment, and a GitHub-style attendance heatmap. PushPress revamped its feed in 2025 and has a tenure leaderboard, but there's no PR engine and no heatmap. Members notice the difference in the first week.
Where PushPress wins today
Honesty section. PushPress shipped a text-based AI assistant and AI marketing copy generation in 2025; ours are still in development. They offer Tap-to-Pay kiosk hardware; we run on any tablet but don't do proprietary hardware. And they've been at this a decade with a $20M Series B behind them, which buys ecosystem maturity and integrations we're still earning. If those three things top your list, buy PushPress with our blessing.
Choose GymVision if
- · You're tired of platform fees scaling with your success and want Stripe at-cost
- · Missed phone calls are costing you trials
- · You want retention analytics that name the members worth a text today
- · You want a founder on the phone, not a ticket queue
Choose PushPress if
- · You want Tap-to-Pay kiosk hardware today
- · Owner-side AI text tools matter more to you than phone coverage
- · You'd rather have a decade-old ecosystem than a private beta, even a fast-moving one
- · A free tier with processing markup fits your stage better than a flat fee
Switching is one afternoon, not one quarter
Gas House Gym in Spokane ran on PushPress until 2026. We imported all 260 active members, their plans, and their history in one day, and the gym kept booking classes the same week. Members, plans, punchcards, and check-in history come over via CSV; we run the import with you on a call and verify counts together.
Read the full story: the Gas House case study.
Common questions
Is GymVision cheaper than PushPress?
For a working gym, usually yes, and the gap is bigger than the sticker price. PushPress tiers plus the Grow add-on can pass $500/mo before processing margin. GymVision is a flat $249 or $499/mo with Stripe at-cost, so we take no cut of your member revenue. Our pilot gym displaced about $1,400/mo in platform and processing costs.
What does PushPress do better than GymVision?
Three honest answers: a shipped text-based AI assistant for owners, AI-generated marketing copy, and Tap-to-Pay kiosk hardware. PushPress also has a decade of ecosystem maturity and a large integration catalog. If those outweigh phone coverage, analytics depth, and flat pricing for you, PushPress is the right call.
How hard is it to switch from PushPress to GymVision?
One afternoon. Members, plans, and history import via CSV; our pilot gym (Gas House Gym, Spokane) moved 260 active members in one day and kept booking classes the same week. We do the import with you on a call.
Does GymVision really answer the phone with AI?
Yes. The AI receptionist answers calls, books trial sessions, answers pricing and schedule questions, and takes messages. It's the reason GymVision exists. It's in private beta with founding gyms now; you can hear it live by requesting a demo call on our homepage.
Still on PushPress?
Join the waitlist and we'll walk you through exactly what your gym's migration would look like, numbers included.
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