Zen Planner Staff App vs PushPress Staff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zen Planner Staff App
Manage your fitness business operations remotely. This app allows staff to view schedules, check-in clients, manage appointments, process payments, and update customer information. It's designed for businesses already using the Zen Planner platform.
- View full business schedule
- Check class capacity
- Check clients into sessions
- Schedule and edit appointments
- Sell drop-ins
- Process payments
- Manage customer profiles
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Now Available on Tablet! With Zen Planner's Staff App, stay connected with your fitness business from anywhere! Use the Zen Planner Staff App to: - Check the full schedule for your business - current, past and future - Preview class capacity info and plan your day around expected attendance - Check customers into classes, appointments, and events - Schedule appointments from your mobile device - Edit class/appointment sessions - Sell drop-ins - Create profiles for new people - Add credit cards and make payments - View your customer's membership information - View class alerts and resolve alerts for customers - Let customers sign documents like waivers and contracts - Update customer profile information and photos - Coaching at multiple businesses? Log in to all of your Zen Planner accounts, in one place Note: your business must use Zen Planner, and you must login with your valid staff credentials. Need help with our app? Contact support@zenplanner.com
PushPress Staff
Manage class check-ins, waitlists, and member communications. Staff can easily look up and contact members or leads, and chat with colleagues via direct or group messages.
- Member and lead lookup
- Contact management
- Class check-ins
- Waitlist management
- Staff direct messaging
- Group messaging
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The PushPress Staff App is the go-to place for your staff members to complete key tasks. They can look up and contact any member or lead, manage check-ins and waitlists for classes, and chat with other staff members through DMs or group messages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PushPress Staff at 81% against Zen Planner Staff App's 16%. PushPress Staff also leads on rating (3.6 vs 1.7) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Zen Planner Staff App's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PushPress Staff holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 91 and 47 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Zen Planner Staff App's written reviews are positive against 81% of PushPress Staff's.
Zen Planner Staff App ships an update every 3 months, PushPress Staff every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 12, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zen Planner Staff App | PushPress Staff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (91 ratings) | 3.6 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.6% of reviews | 81.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daxko LLC | PushPress, Inc. |
Customer experience
Zen Planner Staff App
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In-app purchases
Zen Planner Staff App
No in-app purchases
PushPress Staff
No in-app purchases
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