Acuity alternative
Acuity is a very good appointment scheduler, and if you teach one-to-one it may be all you ever need. A class is a different shape: a room with a capacity, a waitlist, a pack of credits and members who come back every week for years. Stretching an appointment tool to that shape works right up until it doesn’t.
Strong OS vs Acuity Scheduling
| Strong OS | Acuity Scheduling | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Studios that run classes | One-to-one appointments |
| Class capacity & register | Built in | Appointment-shaped |
| Waitlist auto-fill | Yes | Limited |
| Memberships & class packs | Yes | Basic packages |
| Member app | Yes, in your branding | Booking page |
| One-to-one appointments | Yes | Yes — and very good at it |
Acuity Scheduling figures from their own public pricing and product pages; check current terms with Acuity Scheduling before you decide.
Twelve places, a waitlist, and an instructor-friendly register on the day. Not one client booking one slot, twelve times over.
Monthly memberships and class packs that entitle, expire and renew on their own — the repeat business an appointment scheduler was never designed to manage.
Someone drops out, the next member is offered the place automatically. That’s revenue you’re currently losing quietly.
Members book, cancel, join waitlists and check in from an app in your branding — which is what makes them book again without thinking about it.
Payments, memberships, packs and reporting in the same place as the timetable, so you can see what’s actually working.
Acuity genuinely is excellent at what it was built for. If most of your revenue is one-to-one sessions and classes are a sideline, staying put is a reasonable decision — and we’ll say so on the call rather than talk you into a switch you don’t need.
It can take bookings for them. What it wasn’t designed around is the rest of a class business: capacity with a proper waitlist, class packs with per-class-type credits, memberships that renew and entitle. That’s where studios feel the strain.
Yes — a diary per instructor for one-to-ones sits alongside the class timetable, with the same members, memberships and payments behind both.
One of the easiest we do. Your client list and timetable come across, we set them up for you, and you’re usually live within a day.
If classes are a small side of a mostly one-to-one business, quite possibly, and we’d rather tell you that than sell you something. The switch pays for itself when a full class with a waitlist becomes a normal week.
Book a 20-minute demo and we’ll show you exactly how a switch from Acuity Scheduling would work for your studio.