Fresha alternative
Fresha grew up in hair and beauty, where one client books one slot with one person. A class is a different shape entirely — a room with a capacity, a waitlist, a pack of credits and members who come back every week. Strong OS is built for that shape.
Strong OS vs Fresha
| Strong OS | Fresha | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Studios that run classes | Salons, barbers & appointments |
| Class capacity & register | Built in | Appointment-shaped |
| Waitlist auto-fill | Yes | Limited |
| Class packs & credit types | Yes | Basic |
| Recurring weekly timetable | Yes | Staff calendar |
| Your members | Yours — no marketplace | Marketed to via the marketplace |
| Onboarding & migration | Hands-on, included | Self-serve |
Fresha figures from public 2025–26 pricing and product pages; check current terms with Fresha.
A class has a capacity, a waitlist and a register. Strong OS treats it that way from the start, instead of stretching a one-client-one-slot booking to fit a room of twelve.
Sell a ten-class pack or a monthly membership and the credits behave — reformer credits stay reformer, they expire when you say, and renewals happen without you chasing anyone.
When someone drops out, the next member is offered the spot automatically. No screenshots of a full class, no messages at 10pm.
Members book on your page and in an app in your branding — not on a marketplace where the studio down the road is listed underneath you.
Your clients, passes and timetable come with you, set up by a real person who answers the phone afterwards.
Credit where it’s due: for appointment businesses Fresha is genuinely good, and its marketplace can put new faces in front of you. If that’s where your new clients come from, keep it — plenty of studios list on a marketplace for discovery and run the studio itself somewhere built for classes.
It can take bookings for them, but it was designed around one-to-one appointments — so capacity, waitlists, class packs and per-class-type credits are where studios feel the strain. That’s exactly what Strong OS is built around.
No. If the marketplace brings you new clients, keep listing on it — plenty of studios use a marketplace for discovery and run their timetable, memberships and members somewhere built for classes.
Yes. We migrate your clients, passes and schedule and set you up personally — usually within a day.
If you run a timetable of classes and memberships, yes — it’s built for pilates and reformer, and works just as well for barre, yoga and beyond.
Book a 20-minute demo and we’ll show you exactly how a switch from Fresha would work for your studio.