What does the Kajabi branded app cost, and what are the alternatives?

The Kajabi Branded App is Kajabi's app in your brand, listed under your own name in the App Store and Google Play. It comes with the Pro plan at $499 a month, or as a $199 add-on to Basic or Growth: $378 a month with Basic, billed monthly. Kajabi builds and maintains it and takes no revenue share.

• $378/moBasic plus the $199 app add-on, billed monthly
• $499/moPro, app included ($399 billed yearly)
• 6–8 wksTypical time to a published app
• 0%Revenue share. Card fees still apply.

This page is for fitness creators who sell on Kajabi, or are weighing it, and want their own app. It compares Kajabi's app with five alternatives on one basis: 500 members paying $14.99 a month.

Kajabi's app and 5 alternatives, side by side

Every option below puts an app with your name on your members' phones. They differ in who builds it, what it can do and how you pay.

Kajabi's branded app and the alternativesUSD, monthly billing. Checked 14 Sep 2026.

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Store accounts come on top everywhere: Apple Developer Program $99 a year and Google Play $25 once, in your name. Agency figures: a fitness MVP costs "from $50,000" at ScienceSoft and $70,000 to $110,000 in 12 to 16 weeks at Topflight. Upkeep runs about 25% of the build a year (GoodFirms survey, around 2022), and Clutch puts a typical project at about 11 months.

What the Kajabi branded app costs: $378 to $499 a month

Kajabi sells the app two ways. The Pro plan includes it. The two cheaper plans can add it for $199 a month.

Pro

$499 a month, or $399 billed yearly. The app is included, which Kajabi prices as a "$199/mo value". Unlimited products, 100,000 contacts and 3 communities.

Basic + app

$179 + $199 = $378 a month. Basic allows 5 products, 2,500 contacts and 1 community. Billed yearly, the plan itself is $143.

Growth + app

$249 + $199 = $448 a month, with 50 products and 25,000 contacts. Billed yearly, the plan is $199.

Card fees

Kajabi Payments charges 2.9% + 30¢ per charge on Basic, 2.8% on Growth and 2.7% on Pro. Subscriptions add 0.7% on every charge. Another payment provider costs 2%, 1% or 0.5% extra, by plan.

In-app sales

Offers bought inside the app pay Apple and Google a fee "generally ranging from 15% to 30%".

Store accounts

Your own Apple ($99 a year) and Google Play ($25 once) developer accounts. Kajabi calls them "essential".

Sources: Kajabi pricing, Branded App FAQs, Kajabi Payments fees (US). Checked 14 Sep 2026.

Billed yearly, Pro costs $399 a month. That is $21 more than Basic plus the app on monthly billing. If you would outgrow Basic's 5 products, price Pro instead.

What you get, and what you don't

Most of this comes straight from Kajabi's branded app FAQ.

The app's features are Kajabi's features. That suits a course and community business well. If your method needs a feature Kajabi doesn't offer, you can't add it.

Five options build the app for you, two build your own features

The five alternatives cover the four routes in our guide to creating your own fitness app. Each card shows the price of your own store listing.

What each option costs a month at 500 members

At 500 members paying $14.99, fixed fees look small and a share of revenue looks big. The chart shows each option's monthly cost at that size. Card fees, which every option pays, are left out.

For a range, the bar shows the higher figure. Uscreen is $499 + 500 × $0.99, and Passion.io is $699 + 2% of $7,495. Agency upkeep comes after a $50,000 to $110,000 build.

The order flips for a small app. At 50 members, a 30% to 50% share costs $212 to $354 a month, less than Kajabi's $378. Kajabi Basic plus the app costs less than a 30% share from about 90 members.

Year one at 500 members: what you keep

Here is the whole first year in the same scenario. Every option launches on the same day and pays $124 for store accounts.

Year one with 500 members at $14.99 a monthWeb checkout, monthly billing. Every cost includes $124 in store accounts; the agency's also includes the build.

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Kajabi's app leaves you $78,970 to $80,242, close to a coaching platform. Uscreen and Passion.io leave you less here, because their fees grow with members or sales. A revenue share leaves less than any fixed monthly fee at this size, and an agency build may not pay back in year one.

Cash is not the whole price. The table leaves out your time, which is the largest cost when you run the app yourself. For 100 and 2,000 members, and a calculator, see what a fitness app costs.

Where a revenue-share partner like Fitera fits

A partner builds and runs your app for no upfront fee and keeps a share of revenue. Fitera keeps 30% to 50% of net revenue, the money left after payment fees. You keep 50% to 70%.

• Who pays what. We pay for development, hosting, third-party services and member support out of our share. You pay for your developer accounts, content and any ads.
• Features built around your method. Dense Club was designed around Keegan Smith's Dense Method, with daily EMOM workouts, automatic PRs and a Force Score.
• Your accounts, your members. Stripe and the store accounts are in your name, so subscriptions leave with you.
• A clear exit. After a 12-month minimum term, either side can leave with 60 days' notice. The code stays with Fitera, and you can buy it out by agreement.

Some partners take a smaller share. Playbook keeps 20% of net revenue, inside its shared app. Foundry takes 15% to 30% plus a monthly fee, and you own the code.

Fitera is the wrong choice for a plain video catalogue: Kajabi or Uscreen fits that better. We partner with creators from about 20,000 followers with high engagement, after a call. Apply with the 2-minute form.

Which one fits you

Start from what you sell and what you have. The right column names the option to price first.

On Kajabi now

Courses and a community already on Kajabi? Add the branded app. It comes pre-loaded with your Kajabi content.

Video library

Compare Uscreen App Essentials with Kajabi Pro.

1:1 coaching

A coaching platform, $99 to $275 a month. See our Trainerize alternatives.

Build it yourself

Passion.io Expand, or a no-code builder from the guide.

$50,000 or more

Want to own the code? Hire an agency, and budget for running the app.

Audience, no team

An engaged audience but no capital or team? A revenue-share partner builds and runs it for a share.

Questions creators ask

Sources and method

We checked every price on the vendor's own site on 14 September 2026. We did not use one vendor's pages about another. Kajabi's terms come from its pricing page, its Branded App FAQs, its Branded App overview and its US payment fees.

The scenario is 500 members at $14.99 a month, so members pay $7,495. Card fees at 3.6% + 30¢ per charge take $420, leaving $7,075.18 of net revenue. On Kajabi Pro the card rate is 2.7%, so fees take $405 and net revenue is $7,090.17.

How we got each row:

• Kajabi Basic + app: $124 + 12 × $378 = $4,660. You keep 12 × $7,075.18 − $4,660 = $80,242.
• Kajabi Pro: $124 + 12 × $499 = $6,112. You keep 12 × $7,090.17 − $6,112 = $78,970.
• Uscreen: $499 + 500 × $0.99 = $994 a month. Year one costs $12,052, and you keep $72,850.
• Passion.io: $699 + 2% of $7,495 = $849 a month. Year one costs $10,311, and you keep $74,591.
• Coaching platform: $99 (Kahunas Ultimate) to $275 (Trainerize Studio) a month.
• Agency: a $50,000 to $110,000 build, plus 25% of it a year for upkeep, or $1,042 to $2,292 a month.
• Revenue share: Fitera's 30% to 50% of $7,075.18, or $2,123 to $3,538 a month.

We count cash only, not your time, content or ads. Every option launches the same day on monthly billing, and options without a published card rate get Stripe's 3.6% + 30¢. Figures are rounded to the dollar, and the agency and revenue-share rows match our cost guide.

Alternatives: Uscreen, Passion.io, Passion.io help centre, Kahunas, Trainerize, Playbook, Foundry. Fees: Stripe, Apple Developer Program, Google Play registration.

Agency costs: ScienceSoft, Topflight, GoodFirms (around 2022) and Clutch. Fitera's terms come from our contracts.

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