Services · Mobile app development · Fitness apps
Codeeo handles fitness app development in Riyadh for gym chains, boutique studios, women's clubs and corporate wellness providers. We build the member app, the coach app and the admin dashboard as one product: class booking, memberships, check in, payments and progress tracking. Riyadh members train late, move between branches across a large city and expect Arabic first screens, so the app has to follow those habits rather than a template made for somewhere else.
Part of our team of 80+ works from Riyadh, alongside colleagues in Dubai and Karachi, so workshops with your operations and sales staff can happen in a room at your head office instead of over a weak video call. Our developers then carry on the work across all three offices.
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Inside the app
A Riyadh gym member rarely trains at one fixed hour. Summer pushes sessions into the late evening, Ramadan moves peak traffic past Taraweeh and toward suhoor, and many people switch between a branch near the office in Olaya or KAFD and another near home in the northern districts such as Al Malqa or Hittin. A capital city operator also tends to run separate facilities for men and women, each with its own timetable and staff.
So we design the app around branch choice, flexible hours and gender specific access from the first sketch. The pieces below are the ones Riyadh operators ask for most often. Your first release may need only half of them; discovery decides which half.
Members see classes for the branch they choose, filtered by the facility they are allowed to enter. Waitlists fill cancelled spots automatically, and booking windows can differ by branch so a busy Olaya studio opens slots earlier than a quieter suburban one. Instructors see their class lists on the coach app before the session.
Classes fill without front desk staff chasing no shows.
Many Riyadh operators run ladies only branches or sections. The app routes each member to the facilities, coaches, timetables and imagery that apply to them, and admin roles keep female staff in charge of women's branch data where your policy requires it. Family plans can cover members across both sides.
One app serves both sides of the business without mixing schedules.
Switch the whole network to Ramadan opening hours in one action, with class times shifted and members notified. The same tool handles summer evening schedules and special sessions during Riyadh Season events. Coaches confirm their revised hours in the coach app, so managers see staffing gaps before the first night of the month rather than on it.
Schedule changes reach every member before they arrive at a closed door.
Single branch, all branch and off peak plans, freezes for travel, upgrades and renewals, all handled inside the app. Payments run through mada, Apple Pay and STC Bank via a licensed payment gateway, with VAT invoices issued in a form that fits ZATCA e-invoicing. Failed card renewals trigger polite reminders.
Renewals happen on the phone, not at the reception counter.
A rotating code in the app opens the turnstile or registers attendance at reception. Each visit is logged against the member and branch, which feeds occupancy views for managers and attendance streaks for members. Guests invited by a member receive their own temporary code, and managers can block a code instantly if a membership is suspended or shared.
Faster entry at peak hour and honest visit data for the business.
For personal trainer app development in Riyadh we add coach profiles, session packs, availability calendars and in app notes. Trainers see their day on a coach app and log each session so packs deduct correctly and commission reports stay accurate. Clients can rebook with their usual coach in seconds.
PT revenue becomes visible and easy to sell.
Employers in KAFD and the business towers along King Fahd Road can sponsor memberships for staff. Company admins invite employees, see aggregated usage and manage seats, while individual workout data stays private to each employee. Invoices go to the company on agreed terms, and seats can be reassigned when an employee leaves or a new hire joins the programme.
A B2B sales channel built into the same product.
Workout app development in Riyadh often means home and travel programmes too: video sessions, coach assigned plans and logs. We connect Apple Health and Google Health Connect so steps, heart rate and sessions from wearables appear beside gym visits. Members stuck in traffic on a long commute can swap a gym session for a short home routine with one tap.
Members keep training on the days they cannot reach a branch.
Head office sees revenue, renewals, churn risk, class fill rates and trainer utilisation across every Riyadh branch, with drill down to one facility. Branch managers get their own scoped view and cannot see other branches' figures. Exports go straight to finance, and alerts flag a branch whose renewals drop below its usual pattern.
Decisions based on the whole network, not one branch's spreadsheet.
Points for visits, rewards for bringing a friend and monthly challenges between branches give members a reason to open the app between workouts. Rewards can be free PT sessions, retail discounts at your branch shop or partner offers from cafes near the club, all managed from the dashboard without a developer.
Members who feel recognised renew more readily.
Who we build for
The capital holds the widest spread of fitness operators in the Kingdom, from national chains whose head offices sit in the city to single studios in a strip mall off Prince Turki Road. Each needs a different first release. We prefer to say early which features matter for your model and which can wait, because a smaller app that members open every day is worth more than a large one they ignore. Below are the four starting points we meet most often in the capital, and how the first release usually differs for each.
Your members drive between branches, your marketing team runs campaigns across the city and your managers each report differently. We build one member app with a single account and branch selector, a coach app for floor staff and trainers, and a head office dashboard that pulls every branch into the same view. Integration with your existing access control and accounting systems is planned in discovery so the rollout does not stall at the turnstile. We also plan how members who hold older paper or card memberships move into the app without losing their remaining days.
Network apps usually launch branch by branch, not all at once.
Cycling, reformer Pilates, boxing and functional training studios around Hittin, Al Malqa and Al Yasmin live on class bookings and packs rather than long memberships. The app here is lean: timetable, credits, waitlist, instructor profiles and a referral flow. We keep the design close to your brand so it feels like the studio, not a generic booking tool with your logo dropped in. Credits can be shared with a friend, and late cancellation rules are enforced by the app so instructors stop arguing over them at the door.
Women's gyms in Riyadh need privacy built into every layer: no member photos visible to other users unless chosen, female only staff access to sensitive records, and push messages worded carefully. We also plan for guardian or family accounts where a parent pays for a daughter's membership, and for women's specific programmes such as pre and postnatal training. Content for these programmes can be reviewed by your own female coaches inside the dashboard before it is published. Booking reminders can go to a guardian's phone as well, where the family prefers.
Privacy settings are agreed with your management before design.
Some Riyadh businesses sell fitness to employers rather than individuals: on site classes in office towers, challenges for staff or access passes across partner gyms. We build company onboarding, seat management, challenge leaderboards and reports that show participation without exposing any one employee's health data to their employer. Reports can be exported for HR teams that run their own benefits platforms. Challenges between departments or between companies in the same tower tend to drive the most participation. Every company sees only its own employees in the admin view.
Ways to work with us
Most Riyadh operators begin with a fixed scope first release covering booking, memberships and check in, then move to a monthly retainer for new features and support. Chains with in house product teams sometimes prefer a dedicated squad of our developers and designers who join their planning meetings and work to their roadmap. Cost depends mainly on how many apps are involved, how many branches and systems must connect, whether you need a coach app, and how much video content the workout section carries. Timing also depends on how quickly your branch managers can test, so we agree a review rhythm with them at the start.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We usually build member and coach apps in Flutter or React Native for one codebase across iOS and Android, with a web dashboard and cloud hosting chosen to suit your data residency preferences and the team who will maintain it. Push notifications, analytics and crash reporting are set up under your own accounts from the first build.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on scope, integrations and how many branches launch at once.
A studio app with booking and credits moves faster than a chain platform with turnstile integration, a coach app and corporate accounts. We agree the first release in discovery and give you written dates before design starts. For networks across Riyadh, we normally plan a pilot at one branch, then add the rest in waves, so the overall programme is longer than the first launch date. Store review by Apple and Google adds a short wait at the end, so we submit early builds for review while staff training is still under way.
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