Comparison
MoveMembers vs Glofox, an honest comparison
A transparent, independently funded alternative for independent studios and boxes, weighed fairly against Glofox's multilingual, multi-currency suite.
Prices as recorded on 17 October 2026
Which one is right for you?
Side by side
MoveMembers vs Glofox, compared
MoveMembersCost
What each one costs, and when we checked
MoveMembersOur prices come from the pricing page you can read right now. Theirs were recorded from their public pages on 27 August 2026 and are not re-checked automatically: ask them to confirm in writing before you sign.
What it costs over a year
The honest comparison here is not this month, it is the third year. A studio that signs at a quoted price has no published tier to point at when the renewal arrives, and no way to have priced that risk in advance. We did not measure Glofox's renewals and we quote none; the point is only that a number you cannot read today is a number you cannot compare in three years. That is the cost the table cannot show.
On MoveMembers the same studio pays 2,490 baht a month on Pro, or ten months of that billed annually, and it can read the price of every other tier on the same page before deciding. If the price ever changes, it changes for everyone, in public, and a studio can leave with its data the same afternoon.
Size
Which one fits a gym your size
Under 20 members
MoveMembers. Glofox has no free plan, so a studio still filling its first room pays from day one for a tier it cannot use.
20 to 200 members
MoveMembers, on the published price and on the renewal terms you can read before you sign. Glofox is worth asking for a quote if you specifically want its branded member app.
Above 200 members
Get both quotes in writing, with the renewal terms next to them. This is the band where a flat $199 with several locations included is easiest to compare against a number nobody will publish.
Decision
Which should you choose?
Choose MoveMembers if
You are an independent single-location studio, boutique, or CrossFit box that wants published pricing you can compare without a sales call and a free tier to start. It is a strong fit if you need LINE and multilingual reach in Thailand and SE Asia, or martial-arts grading.
Stay on Glofox if
You run a franchise or multi-location network, especially inside the ABC Fitness ecosystem, and need franchise and royalty workflows, enterprise account management, or its branded member app at scale.
Honest limits
What MoveMembers does not do
Those are real, and the first one is the one worth thinking about. A branded app changes how a studio looks to its members, and for a boutique brand that spends on its identity, that is not a vanity feature. What it costs is a per-month line and a dependency, and what it buys is an icon on a phone rather than a page saved to a home screen.
Where the comparison turns is not the app, it is the price you will pay in year three. A published tier can be read before signing and compared after; a quote cannot, because the number lives only between you and the seller.
What we could read matters here. On 17 October 2026 we read glofox.com/pricing and glofox.com/about. The pricing page showed only a title asking for a price quote, with no plan and no price in the text, so this page puts no figure on Glofox. From the About page we can say it lists 17 languages and more than 80 countries and presents itself as part of ABC Fitness. Everything else on this page about Glofox is a judgement of fit, not a measurement, and we will correct anything it gets wrong.
How to make the comparison fair. Ask Glofox for the full price in writing, with the length of the contract, the renewal terms, the payment fees and the cost of the branded app. Then put the same five lines next to our public price for your own member count, which the pricing page computes in a minute. A comparison is only fair when both columns hold numbers someone can check.
No branded native app for members.
Glofox sells one, and if a member-facing app under your own name is the point, it has something we do not.
A smaller company, with a smaller support team.
We answer fast, but there are fewer of us, and there is no overnight shift.
No consumer marketplace or discovery channel of any kind.
A shorter track record.
Glofox is part of ABC Fitness and says it operates in more than 80 countries; we do not, and no page can manufacture that.
Origins
Who each product was built for
MoveMembers is funded by the gyms that pay for it and by nothing else. There is no investor whose return depends on raising your price at renewal, and there is no tier we will not show you. That is not a moral claim, it is a structural one: a company with outside capital has an obligation we do not have, and it eventually shows up on an invoice.
Glofox was built for boutique studios that invest in their brand, in a market where a member downloads a studio's own app and pays by card. Its strengths follow from that: the branded app, the front-of-house polish, the marketing tooling.
The practical consequence for a studio choosing today is simple. If the branded app is the reason you are looking, ask them for a quote and a written renewal clause. If a price you can read and a bill that does not move is the reason, that is the whole argument of this page, and it does not need a table.
Five questions to put to them in writing
A demo answers what the software does. These answer what it will cost you and what happens if you leave, which is what you cannot undo.
- What is the price of every tier, not only the one you are proposing?
- By how much can the price rise at renewal, and is that in the contract?
- What is the minimum term, and what happens if I leave before it ends?
- Who answers support, and what response time is committed in writing?
- Can I export members, memberships and attendance, and in what format?
Switching
Switching takes an afternoon
Bring your data across at your own pace, with hands-on help from the team and no lock-in.
Import members, memberships and class schedule from CSV
The team helps map and check your data before go-live
Keep your data, export anytime, no lock-in
No setup fee
Where to go next
Questions
Glofox vs MoveMembers: common questions
Comparable only after a quote. MoveMembers has a free plan and publishes all tier prices; Glofox's pricing page showed no price when we read it on 17 October 2026, so we put no figure next to it.
Yes. Export your members, memberships, and schedule from Glofox and import them into MoveMembers via CSV, with hands-on help from the team. Because setup is self-serve, most single-location studios and boxes are live in an afternoon rather than waiting on an onboarding rep.
MoveMembers is independent and funded by the gyms that pay for it, with no outside investors. Glofox is part of ABC Fitness.
Yes. MoveMembers has built-in LINE and WhatsApp messaging and a UI in 15 languages including Thai, Burmese, Khmer, and Chinese. Glofox is also multilingual and multi-currency but sends via SMS, email, and push with no native LINE, so MoveMembers fits Thailand and SE Asia better.
Glofox is a better fit if you run a franchise or multi-location network, especially inside the ABC Fitness ecosystem, and need franchise and royalty workflows, enterprise account management, or its branded app at scale. MoveMembers targets independent single-location studios and boxes instead.
Yes. Free, Pro and Max are published on the pricing page, in four currencies, and you can create an account without a call. Glofox publishes one headline figure and quotes the rest, so the tier you would actually be on is not something you can read in advance.
That it is published. A tier everyone can read cannot quietly become a different number for one customer, and if it ever changes it changes for everyone at once, in public. A quote works the other way: the number exists only between you and the seller, so ask for the renewal terms in writing before you sign.
Not on self-serve plans: month to month, cancel anytime, and annual billing is optional and simply gives you two months free. Ask about the minimum term and the notice period wherever you go, because those two clauses decide what a bad year costs you.
You export it and go. Members, memberships and attendance come out in CSV, and nothing is held back. It is worth asking the same question of any platform before signing: the answer tells you how it plans to keep you.