# Method vs TrainHeroic: a team and marketplace platform compared with private one-to-one coaching Updated: 2026-09-07 Published: 2026-09-07 Canonical page: https://methodapp.net/trainheroic-alternative Homepage: https://methodapp.net/ TrainHeroic is a strength coaching platform built around team calendars, leaderboards, and a Marketplace for selling programs. Method is a Coach Workspace for private one-to-one coaching with per-set RIR or RPE prescriptions, publish review, and annotated form checks. This page shows where each one fits. Checked against: - TrainHeroic homepage (https://www.trainheroic.com/) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic For Coaches page (https://www.trainheroic.com/coach) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic pricing page (https://www.trainheroic.com/pricing) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trainheroic-strength-training/id955074569) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.TrainHeroic.TrainHeroic) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, Marketplace Seller Terms and Payment Information (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18156808889997) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, Billing personal training clients (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18156629990797) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, RPE, tempo, and rest (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18156668189581) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, LWP and percentages (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18156690075917) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, Readiness Surveys (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18156877108109) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, Form-check videos (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18171037417101) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, Leaderboards (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18170915515917) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, Integrations (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18156689314701) on 2026-09-07 - TrainHeroic help center, Customize app and API (https://support.trainheroic.com/hc/en-us/articles/18156691093773) on 2026-09-07 > **In short.** TrainHeroic is a strength coaching platform for teams and a Marketplace. Coaches program a shared Team calendar, run leaderboards and readiness surveys, and prescribe by percent of working max. TrainHeroic sells their Team subscriptions and Programs and handles the billing. Method is a Coach Workspace for private one-to-one coaching. You write per-set RIR or RPE prescriptions and review every change before you publish. You draw on form check videos and build your own check-ins. Method has no marketplace and no client billing. Pick TrainHeroic for teams, program sales, or Android. Pick Method if each client gets their own program and structured feedback. ## The short version of each app TrainHeroic calls itself the premier platform for strength coaches. Coaches build sessions in a Session Designer on a calendar. Library programs are templates assigned to a Team or an athlete's 1:1 calendar. Everyone on a Team sees the same programming each day. A prescription takes reps, time, or distance, a rep range, and a percentage of working max. Athletes answer a fixed readiness survey and log in the iOS or Android app. The Marketplace sells Team subscriptions, one-time Programs, and Bundles, and pays coaches through PayPal. Method is a workout planner and tracker with a Coach Workspace for coaches who program clients. The coach side is a web app. You build programs in a Coach Library with blocks, weeks, sessions, and per-set prescriptions. Each program is published to one client at a time. The client follows it in the iPhone app, logs every set, answers check-ins, and sends form checks. Every completed workout stores the prescription it started from, so you see partial sessions and deviations. Coaching is one to one, with no teams, leaderboards, marketplace, or client billing. ## Side by side TrainHeroic facts come from its website, store listings, and help center on the date at the top of this page. Method facts come from the shipped product. | | Method | TrainHeroic | | --- | --- | --- | | Who it is for | Coaches who program clients one to one | Strength coaches with Teams and 1:1 athletes, plus Marketplace sellers | | Coach side runs on | Web app | Web app, plus a coach login in the mobile app | | Client side runs on | iPhone app (iOS 26 or later) | iOS and Android app | | Android | No | Yes | | Program builder | Web editor with blocks, weeks, sessions, spreadsheet view, bulk-edit rules | Session Designer on a calendar; Exercise, Circuit, and Superset blocks; Parent Calendars | | Set prescription | Set type, reps as exact, range, or AMRAP, RIR or RPE with half values, rest, tempo, notes, load relative to another set | Reps, time, or distance; rep range; percent of working max; Linear Weight Progression; RPE, tempo, and rest in notes | | Cardio in programs | 20 activity types with distance or duration targets and intervals | Time or distance as a block parameter; Circuit Blocks | | Program delivery | Publish to one client at a time, coach dated or client placed, with publish review | Team calendar, athlete 1:1 calendar, or the Marketplace | | Program library and templates | Coach Library programs and a workspace exercise library | Programs, sessions, circuits, supersets; 1,500+ movement library; custom exercises | | Program sales or marketplace | No | Team subscriptions, one-time Programs, and Bundles, in USD | | Auto-generated or AI programming | No | Not described on the pages checked | | Client logging | iPhone app, every set and cardio detail | iOS and Android app with Offline Mode | | What the coach sees | Coach Today (Review, Reply, Plan); per client Training, Trends, Check-ins, Form checks, Measurements, private Notes | Activity Feed, Compliance, Readiness, and Training Summary Analytics, working maxes, leaderboards | | Video form feedback | Pause, draw on the frame, timestamped notes, summary; allowance per workspace and client | Videos in TH Chat or Session Comments; capped at 1 minute, kept 30 days; no annotation described | | Check-ins and forms | Templates from your own questions, intake forms, rhythm per client | Fixed five-question Readiness Survey; post-session RPE; no custom questionnaires | | Messaging | One conversation per client; text, photos, videos; push; encrypted per message | TH Chat direct and group; Team Feed; Session Comments; no file attachments | | Habits and nutrition | None | Athlete Pro Nutrition reads from Apple Health on iOS; habits not described | | Client payments and billing | None | 1:1 athletes billed outside TrainHeroic; Marketplace sales billed by TrainHeroic | | Custom-branded app | No | No | | Integrations | Apple Health and Apple Watch cardio on the athlete side | Apple Health (nutrition) and Zapier; API is closed | | Team seats | Additional member $9.99 per month | Assistant coach $9.99 per month | | Trial | 14 days | 14 days, no credit card | | Price (USD, date checked) | $19.99 per month, $2.00 per additional client, annual at 10 months for 12 | $9.99 per month for 1 athlete up to $399.99 for up to 1000, monthly | | Clients included | 5 | Priced by athlete count from 1 | ## Where Method is stronger **Every set carries a structured prescription.** A Method set has a type of warm-up, working, drop, or failure. Reps are exact, a range, or AMRAP. Effort is RIR or RPE with half values, stored once as RIR and shown as either. Rest seconds, tempo, notes, and load relative to another set are fields too. TrainHeroic's help center suggests you write RPE, tempo, and rest in the Exercise Notes. No RIR field is described on the pages checked. **You see what the client will receive before it lands.** Editing a published program changes nothing for the client until you publish again. The workspace shows an unpublished changes badge. Publish review lists every change the client will get. If the structure or training days changed, Method offers Publish and reschedule. **Check-ins are your questions.** Templates take written answer, yes or no, choice, rating, number, pain or injury, measurement, and photo questions. A Client intake template is asked once. Each client gets a rhythm, and Method sends each check-in when due. TrainHeroic's Readiness Survey has five fixed questions that cannot be modified. Its help center points coaches to a Google Doc link for custom questionnaires. **Form checks get drawn on and kept.** Either side can start a form check. You pause the video, draw on the paused frame, leave a note at that timestamp, and send a summary. The client sees the drawings and notes in the app and can return to them. An allowance is set per workspace and per client. TrainHeroic caps uploaded videos at 1 minute and keeps them for 30 days. No annotation tooling is described on the pages checked. ## Where TrainHeroic is stronger **Teams.** A Team calendar puts the same programming in front of everyone on the roster each day. A Leaderboard on any exercise, circuit, or superset ranks the Team by reps, weight, or time. TH Chat adds group messages and a Team Feed. Method has no groups, no team calendar, and no group chat. **Billing through the Marketplace.** TrainHeroic sells Team subscriptions that auto-renew monthly or annually, one-time Programs of fixed length, and Bundles. TrainHeroic handles billing, cancellations, refunds, and support, and pays out through PayPal monthly. Method processes no payments between a coach and a client, so you invoice elsewhere. **Android and a coach login in the app.** TrainHeroic athletes use iOS or Android. Offline Mode lets them log without a connection. Coaches log in to the same mobile app for messaging, session building, and logging. Method's coach side is the web app, and Method clients need an iPhone on iOS 26 or later. **Percent of working max and linear progression.** TrainHeroic prescribes weight as a percentage of a working max. The working max is a projected 1RM, updated by testing sessions or edited by hand. Linear Weight Progression raises the prescribed weight from the athlete's last logged set. Method has no percent-of-tested-1RM prescription and no auto-progression. **Reporting and track record.** The coach sees Compliance, Readiness, and Training Summary Analytics, with print and export. Method's client record shows completed sessions and estimated 1RM trends, with no coach-specific export. The TrainHeroic iOS app first shipped in May 2015. Method's coaching is launching now. ## Pricing, read carefully TrainHeroic prices by athlete count on a slider, in USD, billed monthly. No annual option was shown on the date checked. One athlete is $9.99 per month. Up to 5 is $17.99 and up to 15 is $34.99. Up to 25 is $44.99 and up to 35 is $59.99. Assistant coaches are $9.99 per month each. Marketplace sales carry fees. Self-attributed Team sales cost $1 per month per subscription plus 2.9% and $0.30 in bank fees. Sales through Marketplace Match carry a 30% fee on the purchase price plus the same bank fees. Method's Coach Workspace is $19.99 per month in USD on the web on the date checked. It includes 5 clients and the owner as the workspace member. Each additional client is $2.00 per month and each additional member is $9.99 per month. Annual billing charges 10 months for 12, so the base workspace is $199.90 per year. Client invitations and messaging start with the first payment. Clients use their own Method account, free or Pro. The worked example assumes one coach on monthly billing with no extra member. Clients are invited directly rather than through the Marketplace. Five clients. TrainHeroic's Up to 5 tier is $17.99 per month. Method is $19.99 per month. Fifteen clients. TrainHeroic's Up to 15 tier is $34.99 per month. Method is $19.99 plus 10 extra clients at $2.00, which is $39.99 per month. Thirty clients. TrainHeroic's Up to 35 tier applies at $59.99 per month. Method is $19.99 plus 25 extra clients at $2.00, which is $69.99 per month. TrainHeroic is cheaper at each of the three sizes on monthly billing. Method's annual option lowers the base to $199.90 per year, and TrainHeroic showed no annual option. Method grows by $2.00 per client, and TrainHeroic steps up a tier at 16 athletes. Live prices are on Method's [pricing page](/pricing) and TrainHeroic's pricing page. ## Who should pick which Pick TrainHeroic if you coach a team that trains from one calendar. It also fits if you want leaderboards, percent of working max, Android, or a platform that sells your programs. Pick Method if each client gets a program written for them. It fits if you want RIR or RPE, rest, and tempo as fields on every set. Choose it for publish review, check-ins built from your own questions, and form check videos you can draw on. Read [Method for coaches](/coaches) and the [coaching docs](/docs/method-for-coaches) for the full workflow. ## What Method does not do Method has no team calendar, training groups, leaderboards, or community feed. It has no marketplace, program sales, or client billing. There is no Android app and no coach app on iPhone. Clients need an iPhone on iOS 26 or later. Method does not prescribe by percent of tested 1RM, does not auto-progress loads, and does not generate programs. There is no nutrition or habit tracking, no white-label app, no client-facing booking, no Zapier, and no coach-specific export. ## Common questions ### Is Method a TrainHeroic alternative? Yes, for coaches who program clients one to one and want per-set RIR or RPE targets, custom check-ins, and annotated form checks. TrainHeroic is the better fit for teams, leaderboards, Android clients, and selling programs through a marketplace. ### Does Method have a marketplace like TrainHeroic? No. Method has no marketplace, no program sales, and no client billing. TrainHeroic's Marketplace sells Team subscriptions, one-time Programs, and Bundles, and TrainHeroic handles the billing and payouts. ### Which is cheaper, Method or TrainHeroic? On the date checked, TrainHeroic was $17.99 per month for up to 5 athletes and $59.99 per month for up to 35, billed monthly in USD. Method is $19.99 per month for 5 clients plus $2.00 per month for each additional client, with annual billing at 10 months for 12. ### Can I prescribe RPE and tempo in TrainHeroic? TrainHeroic's help center suggests writing RPE, tempo, and rest in the Exercise Notes rather than the prescription table. Method stores RIR or RPE, rest seconds, and tempo as fields on each set. ### Does TrainHeroic run on Android? Yes. TrainHeroic has iOS and Android apps for athletes, and coaches can log in to the same app. Method has no Android app for coaches or clients. ### Can Method coach a team? No. Method coaching is one to one. Each program is published to one client at a time, and there are no training groups, team calendars, or leaderboards. ## About this page Method writes and maintains this page. Every statement about Method is checked against the shipped product. For general references, link to https://methodapp.net/.