Member apps and portals
Barn Gym, a personal training and group fitness gym in Burwash, had no single place for members to log training, food, photos and measurements. We built one: set-by-set logging with personal records, a macro calculator, check-ins, progress photos and streaks, and a dashboard that opens on today’s sessions and the member’s coach. Coaches build plans from a 205-exercise library and a 120-meal database. It’s one platform, about 50,000 lines of code across roughly 85 database tables, replacing a paid community tool and separate booking software, and it’s now becoming a product for other gyms.
Booking and scheduling
Bookings are where an app earns its keep. Barn Gym’s platform handles class, PT and consultation bookings with automated waitlists, so a cancelled place can be filled without anyone ringing round. It runs coach schedules and time off, and a public booking page with a pre-consultation health form and coach approval. Before, coach diaries and time off lived outside any system. Now the owner sees it all in one admin, with dashboards, bulk actions, spreadsheet export and analytics for each coach.
AI inside the app
Barn Gym’s coaches used to write every client’s meal plan by hand. In the coach portal, AI now writes a full week of meals in seconds, using Google’s Gemini; the coach checks it, regenerates any day that isn’t right, and builds the member’s plan from there. AI drafts, the coach decides. Your team uses AI without having to learn it, because it’s a button in a tool they already open every day. The same pattern works for workout plans, quotes and reports.
Communities you own
Live Happy’s members-only community has posts, comments, reactions, mentions, search and moderation, with access set by membership tier, all in the same codebase as the website. Barn Gym’s has spaces, channels, challenges, polls and events, plus messaging between coaches and members. Moderation is built in, so the owner decides what stays up, and search means a good answer from last spring can still be found this winter. Your members stay on your platform and your brand, and their data stays yours rather than a rented tool’s.
Native iOS and Android apps
When customers need you on their home screen, with notifications, the camera or offline use, a native app is the right call. We build for iOS and Android the same way we build everything else: an agreed version one, a working build early, and the back office wired in from the start. The code and the store accounts are in your name. And if a web app would do the job for less, we’ll tell you before you spend anything.
