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Both Mindbody and WellnessLiving pitch themselves as all-in-one platforms for fitness, wellness, and beauty businesses — and on the surface, they look remarkably alike. The real difference comes down to how they handle pricing transparency, which business types they explicitly call out, and where the friction tends to show up in day-to-day use. Here’s how they stack up on the things that actually matter when you’re picking software for your studio or clinic.
The Core Difference Up Front
Mindbody publishes a “starting at $79/month per location” figure on its pricing page, but every named plan — Starter, Accelerate, and Ultimate — is quote-only, so the number you actually pay requires a sales conversation. WellnessLiving does publish its plans and prices on its pricing page, but we weren’t able to capture the current figures this round, so you’ll want to check there directly. Neither tool gives you a fully self-serve, compare-and-buy experience right now, but they’re opaque in different ways.
Pricing
Side-by-Side Pricing Table
| Mindbody | WellnessLiving | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Quote-only per location | Plans published on site (figures not captured this round) |
| Starting figure | From $79/month per location (headline only) | Check wellnessliving.com/pricing directly |
| Named tiers | Starter, Accelerate, Ultimate | Not captured |
| Per-plan prices | Not published — contact sales | Published on site — check directly |
| Free plan | Not captured | Not captured |
What This Means Practically
Mindbody gives you a floor ($79/month per location) so you know the conversation won’t start at zero, but you can’t get a real quote without talking to their team. WellnessLiving does put its pricing on the page — their positioning even leads with “cut fees” — but because our research capture didn’t bind the figures to plans this round, we can’t report specific numbers here. If price comparison is your first filter, visit WellnessLiving’s pricing page directly before committing to a demo with either vendor.
Features
What Mindbody Does
Mindbody is positioned around fitness, beauty, and wellness businesses, with explicit support for beauty categories (hair salons, barbershops, lash salons, nail salons) and enterprise/multi-location operators. On the operational side, the captured features include staff management, staff sign-in, a branded app, scheduling (booking, editing, and canceling appointments, signing clients into classes), and payments (accepting payment for appointments, processing purchases, selling products, services, and contracts). Clients can be added, photos taken, and signatures captured for liability waivers. There’s also client account and profile access.
Mindbody also highlights access to what it calls “the industry’s largest fitness & wellness marketplace” and AI-powered tools for driving new revenue. Every plan includes unlimited users per location, live customer support, access on any device, 1-on-1 setup and training, data migration support, and business education resources.
What WellnessLiving Does
WellnessLiving covers a notably wide range of business types, including gyms, fitness studios, yoga, pilates, martial arts, dance, personal training, pole fitness, wellness studios, ninja gyms, events businesses, play cafés, swim schools, med spas, massage clinics, spas, integrative health centers, salons, barbershops, dental practices, music schools, tattoo shops, and enterprise/multi-location operators.
Feature-wise, the captured items include online booking, client management, payments and a point-of-sale system, custom forms and surveys, a rewards/loyalty program, a two-way SMS message center, enterprise cloud tools for multi-location reporting, direct mail (postcards), and door access for facility security. On the integrations side, WellnessLiving lists Zapier (connecting to over 5,000 apps), AccuroFit for fitness tracking, GoHighLevel for marketing automation, Wellhub for corporate wellness, and FitGrid for market intelligence.
Comparing on Features
Both platforms include scheduling, payments/POS, client management, and multi-location/enterprise support. Where they diverge in the captured data:
- Mindbody explicitly includes a branded app, liability waiver signature capture, a marketplace for consumer discovery, and AI-powered revenue tools.
- WellnessLiving explicitly includes a rewards/loyalty program, two-way SMS, direct mail (postcards), door access automation, and named third-party integrations including Zapier, AccuroFit, GoHighLevel, Wellhub, and FitGrid.
The fact sheets don’t map features to specific plan tiers, so treat everything above as available at the product level — which specific plans unlock which features is a question for each vendor’s sales team.
Business Type Coverage
Mindbody names fitness, beauty, and wellness broadly, with specific callouts for beauty subcategories and enterprise/multi-location businesses.
WellnessLiving names a longer and more specific list of business types in its captured data — including dental practices, music schools, tattoo shops, swim schools, play cafés, ninja gyms, and med spas alongside the standard fitness and beauty categories. Whether that breadth translates to meaningfully different software behavior is worth asking each vendor directly.
Friction to Note
Both tools have user-reported friction worth knowing before you commit:
Mindbody: Some users report friction with customer support, scheduling, invoicing and payments, the mobile app, and reliability/bugs.
WellnessLiving: Some users report friction with customer support, onboarding and setup, scheduling, invoicing and payments, and features and functionality.
Customer support and scheduling friction appear in both. WellnessLiving adds onboarding/setup complaints — worth flagging if a smooth launch is a priority for you. Mindbody adds mobile app and reliability concerns.
Choose Mindbody If…
- You want a published “starting at” price point ($79/month per location) to anchor your budget conversation before going into a sales call.
- Your business falls into fitness, beauty, or wellness categories and you want a branded app and marketplace consumer discovery as part of the platform.
- Liability waiver signature capture at check-in is important to your workflow.
- Unlimited user logins per location and 1-on-1 setup training matter to your team.
Choose WellnessLiving If…
- Your business type is one of the more specific categories WellnessLiving explicitly covers — dental, music school, tattoo, swim school, med spa, or similar — and you want a platform that names your category directly.
- A built-in rewards and loyalty program, two-way SMS, or direct mail postcards are features you’d otherwise need to stitch together from outside tools.
- Door access automation for your facility is on your requirements list.
- Named integrations with Zapier, GoHighLevel, Wellhub, or FitGrid are relevant to your stack.
Bottom line: Neither tool lets you fully self-serve through pricing today. Go into both demos with a short list of must-have features and a direct question about per-location costs at your current and projected scale — that’s the fastest way to cut through the opacity on both sides.