DynoTeamUp vs Dyno
The TeamUp alternative with a member app your community will actually use.
What is Dyno?
Dyno offers the same dependable memberships, classes and payments, and adds a genuine native member app with a community feed, chat, events and passes, so your members stay engaged between sessions, not just when they book.
What is TeamUp?
TeamUp is well-liked class-management software for gyms, martial arts and fitness businesses, with strong scheduling, memberships and payments. Its member-facing experience is largely web/booking based rather than a rich native community app.
TeamUp vs Dyno: feature by feature
TeamUp details are based on publicly available information and last reviewed July 2026; they may have changed, check TeamUp’s website for their current features and pricing.
Why clubs go looking for a TeamUp alternative
TeamUp deserves its reputation: scheduling and membership admin are dependable, pricing is fair, and plenty of clubs are happy with it. The gap clubs describe is on the member’s side of the counter. Booking happens on the web, and everything that makes a club feel like a club (the banter, the event photos, the "who’s coming on Saturday?") ends up scattered across a WhatsApp group, a Facebook page and an email list, none of which the club actually controls.
If that split does not bother you, TeamUp remains a solid choice, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. The clubs that switch to Dyno are the ones who want the booking system and the community in one place, with a native app their members keep on their phone.
How Dyno approaches the same job
The admin core matches what you are used to: recurring memberships by card or Direct Debit through Stripe, class timetables with waitlists and cancellation deadlines, class packs and passes, digital waivers and attendance tracking with kiosk check-in.
The difference is that all of it lives inside a real iOS and Android app that also carries your club’s feed, chat, events and leaderboards, so the WhatsApp sprawl comes home. For martial arts clubs there is belt and grade progression tracking built in, and gradings, seminars and socials run as proper ticketed events with member and non-member pricing rather than being wedged into the class schedule.
What switching from TeamUp actually involves
We migrate your members, membership plans and records for you, and most clubs run a short overlap rather than a hard cut-over. Recurring payments are the one part that needs care: when you change platform, members’ card and Direct Debit authorisations have to be re-established with the new payment provider. Dyno collects these through Stripe as members activate their account in the app, and the dashboard shows you exactly who has moved across and who still needs a nudge, so nothing falls through the cracks mid-switch.
Dig into the details
Switching from TeamUp: common questions
- TeamUp works fine for us. Why would we switch?
- If booking and billing are all you need, you may not have a reason to; TeamUp is good at those. Clubs switch to Dyno when they want the member experience too: a native app with the club’s feed, chat, events and progression, instead of a booking page plus a separate WhatsApp group.
- Does Dyno handle martial arts gradings and belts?
- Yes. Progression tracking (belts, stages and levels with promotion history) is built in and free, and gradings run as ticketed events with capacity and member pricing. Family accounts cover parents managing children’s memberships.
- Can you import our members from TeamUp?
- Yes, our team moves members, memberships and key records across for you; most clubs are live within a week. Recurring payment authorisations are re-collected through Stripe as members activate their accounts in the app.
- Does Dyno support Direct Debit like TeamUp?
- Yes. Recurring memberships collect by Direct Debit or card (including Apple Pay and Google Pay) through Stripe, paid directly into your own bank account.
- How hard is it to get members onto the Dyno app?
- Members download the Dyno app and join your club with a link or invite; their memberships, passes and bookings are already there. Clubs typically announce the move a week ahead, and the feed and chat give members a reason to stay once they arrive.
Switch from TeamUp to Dyno
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