Services · Mobile app development · Gym apps
Codeeo offers gym app development Saudi Arabia operators use to run memberships, entry, classes, personal training and staff across the Kingdom. We build the member app, the staff tools and the head office platform as one system, designed around Saudi payment rails, e-invoicing, data protection law and Arabic first interfaces. A chain opening its fifth city should be working from the same membership rules and reports as it did with its first club.
Our scope is the gym as a business, not the individual workout. That means plans, contracts, access, scheduling, branches and people. Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. Having engineers in Riyadh helps when workshops, pilot launches or reviews with a Riyadh head office need to happen in person.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Platform capabilities
The Saudi gym sector has grown quickly since the Quality of Life Program under Vision 2030 made physical activity a national priority and licensing opened for women's gyms. The result is a market of national chains, regional groups, franchise brands and independent clubs, many of them now operating in Riyadh, Jeddah, the Eastern Province and secondary cities such as Makkah, Madinah, Abha, Tabuk and Buraidah.
Running clubs in several regions brings problems a single gym never sees: different pricing by city, separate men's and women's operations, national corporate contracts, and compliance that has to be right everywhere at once. A gym management app at this scale is closer to an operating system for the company than a booking tool. These are the capabilities that matter most.
One rule set for plan types, durations, freezes, upgrades and transfers, with prices and access defined by region, city and branch. A member who moves from Jeddah to Riyadh transfers their plan without cancelling, and head office changes a national offer once rather than branch by branch. Legacy plans from older systems can be honoured until they expire.
Consistent membership rules everywhere you trade.
mada, Apple Pay, STC Bank and international cards through a gateway licensed by SAMA, plus SADAD and bank transfer for corporate invoices. Recurring billing, retries and instalment options through Tabby or Tamara are configured per plan type. Failed payments trigger reminders before any access is suspended.
Members pay the way Saudis already pay.
Every sale, renewal, refund and corporate invoice produces structured invoice data that your e-invoicing solution or ERP submits through ZATCA's Fatoora platform. We design the data model so VAT and invoice records match across branches and cities. Branch level overrides are logged so audits can trace who changed what.
Invoices that hold up when ZATCA asks.
Where your terms require verified identity, members confirm it through Nafath before signing a membership contract in the app. Contracts show Hijri and Gregorian dates, store accepted terms with a timestamp and are retrievable by member, branch or date. Minors can be added under a guardian's verified account.
Fewer disputes about who agreed to what.
App credentials work across the turnstile and door hardware at all your clubs, even when different cities use different vendors. Each scan checks plan, branch rights and time rules centrally, so a frozen membership is refused in Tabuk the same way as in Riyadh. Offline fallback rules cover short network outages at the door.
One access policy across mixed hardware.
Women's branches, women's hours and female coaching teams are modelled explicitly. Staff permissions keep member data inside the right operation, and the app shows each member only the branches, classes and coaches that apply to them. Content and coach profiles are written separately for each audience.
Privacy expectations met by design.
National class formats with local timetables, coach calendars per branch, PT packages that can be used in any city, and commission rules for trainers. Ramadan timetables are prepared nationally and switched on by date. Coaches see their sessions and earnings in their own app.
Programming consistent nationally, flexible locally.
Large employers with staff in several regions sign one agreement and enrol employees wherever they work. Billing, usage reports and branch coverage follow the contract, and regional sales teams see the accounts they manage. Corporate rates can differ by region within one contract.
Company deals that scale with the employer.
Shift rotas, attendance, task checklists for opening and closing, maintenance tickets and incident logs for every club. Area managers see their region, head office sees everything, and data exports support HR and Saudization reporting.
Branch standards visible from head office.
Members, revenue, churn, utilisation, class fill and PT sales by brand, region, city and branch. Comparable figures across clubs help you decide where to open next and which branches need attention. Dashboards are filtered by role, so area managers only see their own region.
Expansion decisions based on your own data.
Who this is for
Gym membership app development in Saudi Arabia looks very different for a ten branch chain than for a single club. These four profiles cover most of the national and regional businesses that come to us, and each points to a different first release. The common thread is gym management app development in Saudi Arabia that has to grow beyond one city without being rebuilt.
Growth by acquisition or rapid opening often leaves a chain with different software in different cities. We map every system, design one membership model, migrate members and balances city by city and retire the old tools in order. Head office gets one source of truth for the first time, and branch staff learn one set of tools. Reports from before the switch are kept, so year on year comparisons still work.
Migration is planned city by city, not all at once.
Franchisors need brand control and visibility while franchisees run their own clubs. We build a platform where each franchisee manages its branches and staff, while the brand controls the app, national offers, content and reporting. Royalty calculations draw on the same sales data. Franchise agreements can define which data each side may export, and the platform enforces it.
Women's gyms carry particular expectations about privacy, staff access and communication. We design the platform around those from the start, with female only admin roles where needed, careful photo handling and booking flows tuned to a class heavy member base, then roll out city by city. Communication templates, imagery and staff training materials are prepared with your team for each new region.
A new brand with plans for several cities needs a platform that will not have to be rebuilt after the first few clubs. We start with a focused first release for the opening branch, built on an architecture that already supports regions, brands and corporate accounts, so growth adds configuration rather than rework. Investors also get clear reporting from day one, which helps when raising the next round of funding for new clubs.
Build for the first club, design for the tenth.
How we work together
National platforms usually start with discovery and a fixed scope first release for one city, followed by a dedicated team that handles the rollout and the roadmap. Smaller regional groups often prefer a fixed scope build and a monthly retainer. Gym booking app development in Saudi Arabia for a single studio brand is a lighter engagement, and we size the team to match. Governance includes a steering meeting with your leadership at each phase gate, where scope for the next wave is confirmed.
Cost is driven by the number of brands and regions, the variety of access hardware, payment and ERP integrations, e-invoicing requirements, the volume of member data to migrate and the security controls your board or investors require. We set these out item by item so you can phase the investment.
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 build native or cross platform apps for iOS and Android, a web admin and APIs designed for multiple brands and regions. Hosting is agreed with you with the PDPL rules on data transfer in mind, and everything is documented for your internal team. Monitoring and alerting are set up before the first city goes live.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Data protection, e-invoicing, payment rules and your sports licensing obligations.
The Personal Data Protection Law, overseen by SDAIA, governs how member data is collected, stored and transferred. ZATCA's e-invoicing rules affect how sales are recorded. Payments must run through a SAMA licensed provider. Your gym licences from the Ministry of Sport and the municipality sit outside the app, but the platform should support the records and reports you may be asked for. We design for these from the start. Consent for marketing messages, retention periods and a process for members who ask to see or delete their data are built into the product rather than handled by email. Where rules change, the admin lets you update terms and request fresh consent without a new release.
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