How can I get a fitness app with no upfront cost?

Work with a revenue-share partner: a company that builds and runs your app for a share of what it earns. At Fitera, you pay no upfront fee, keep 50 to 70% of net revenue, and launch your own branded app in 4 to 6 weeks. We build and run it, and we pick partners after talking in person.

• $0 Upfront fee, and no monthly bill
• 50–70% Of net revenue stays with you
• 4–6 weeks From signed contract to launch
• 12 months Minimum term, then 60 days' notice to leave

Net revenue is what members pay, minus App Store, Google Play or Stripe fees. Fitera keeps the other 30 to 50% for as long as the partnership runs. That share pays for the build, the servers and the people who run your app.

How does a partnership work, step by step?

Here is the path from the form to a running app. Where a step has a fixed length, we give it.

1. 2 minutes

   You apply

   Tell us your handle, your audience size and what you coach. We read every application and reply personally.

2. Before we say yes or no

   We review the fit and talk in person

   We look at your audience, your niche and the product you want. Then we talk to you in person, because we invest heavily before the app earns anything.

3. Before any work starts

   We fix the terms in a contract

   Your share, 50 to 70% of net revenue, depends on the scope of the app. The contract fixes the exact split, the 12-month minimum term and the exit terms.

4. Week 1

   We map your method

   You tell us what you sell and how the app should look and sound. In week one, that becomes a product plan for you to approve.

5. 4 to 6 weeks after signing

   We build and launch your app

   iPhone and Android apps, a web app, or an installable web app (PWA), whichever fits your audience. Dense Club, the app we built for strength coach Keegan Smith, went live from zero in four weeks.

6. From launch, for the whole partnership

   You post, we run the app

   You keep making content and point your audience to the app. We handle payments, hosting, updates, member support, analytics and growth experiments.

Step one: apply with the 2-minute form. There is no commitment, and we reply to every application.

Where does a member's $14.99 go?

Payment fees come off first, and they depend on how members pay. On the web, Stripe takes 2.9% + 30¢ per card charge, plus 0.7% for subscription billing. The App Store and Google Play take 15% from a small developer.

One $14.99 monthly subscription, step by stepUS cards, Fitera's split. Checked 14 Sep 2026.

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Fees: Stripe pricing (international cards +1.5%, currency conversion +1%); Apple's Small Business Program, 15% for developers under $1 million a year and 30% above; Google Play's subscription fee, 10% plus a 5% billing fee in the US, UK and EEA since 30 June 2026.

In the US, an app can send members to web checkout, so more of each subscription stays with you. Our cost guide runs the same numbers for 100, 500 and 2,000 members, next to the three other routes to an app.

Who pays for what?

Fitera's share covers building and running the app. The accounts in your name, and what you create, are yours to pay for.

An installable web app needs neither store account. Dense Club installs that way on iPhone, Android and desktop today, with store versions coming.

Who owns the app, and how do you leave?

On coaching forums, lock-in is one of the most common complaints about platforms.

So here are our terms, as they stand in the contract.

Accounts

The Stripe account and the App Store and Google Play developer accounts are in your name. We run them for you.

Members

Subscriptions, the member list and your content belong to you.

Minimum term

12 months. After that, either side can end the partnership with 60 days' notice.

Leaving

Your members, subscriptions and content stay with you, and Fitera's share stops.

The code

The app's code stays with Fitera. You can buy it out by agreement.

Next level

When the app gets real results, the partnership can grow: a bigger scope, deeper terms and, at the top level, shared ownership of the intellectual property.

Who is it for, and who should pick another route?

We invest heavily before an app earns anything, so we choose partners carefully.

For a small audience, we would give the same advice. Our guide to creating your own fitness app compares all four routes, and which fitness influencers have their own apps shows who built them.

Sound like you? Apply with the 2-minute form. We read every application and reply personally.

How do other revenue-share partners compare?

Fitera is one of several companies that give you an app, or a channel in theirs, for a share of revenue. Here is how four of them split the money.

Plankk also designs, builds and maintains branded fitness apps. It does not publish its share.

Playbook and Foundry leave you a bigger share than we do. Transformation Challenge's 70% sits at the top of our range, counted on a different base. Theirs is subscription revenue minus a 3% card fee; ours is net revenue.

What the difference buys: an app designed around your method rather than a channel in a shared app (Playbook), no monthly fee (Foundry charges one), and a team that runs the app every day. If a bigger share matters more to you, one of them may suit you better.

Questions creators ask

Sources and method

Fitera's terms come from our partnership contracts and match our home page and About page. The fee table uses the same numbers as our cost guide, checked on 14 September 2026. No vendor paid for or reviewed this page.

Fees: Stripe, Apple Small Business Program, Google Play service fees. Store accounts: Apple Developer Program, Google Play registration.

Other partners: Playbook, Transformation Challenge, Built by Foundry, Plankk. Quotes come from r/personaltraining threads, linked where they appear. Product names are trademarks of their owners.