Best apps for running clubs (2026)

We make Siloh. Here's how we judged:

1. Cost to the club. What you pay to run the club, and what the platform takes from each payment.
2. Event tools. Scheduling, RSVPs and how attendance is checked.
3. Community tools. Roles, join approvals, posts, challenges and sub-groups.
4. What members get. Whether the app helps runners outside the weekly meetup.
5. Payments. Whether you can charge for events, dues or merch.

Comparison table

The apps

1. Siloh

Best for: free clubs that want events, check-in, challenges and chapters in one app, plus nutrition and training for every member.

Siloh is a nutrition and training app that plans your meals and your workouts as one system, so training days and rest days eat differently. Clubs is free and built for run clubs and gyms.

Pros

• All of Clubs is free: owner and member roles, join requests with an approval queue, pinned notices, post moderation, events with GPS check-in, and challenges with challenge leaderboards.
• Chapters and squads let a club with several locations or pace groups stay under one roof.
• Each member also gets food logging, recipes, GPS run tracking, streaks and a weekly report for free. Siloh Pro adds AI meal plans and running programs that adapt to training days.

Cons

• iPhone only for now. Android is coming soon, so clubs with many Android runners should wait or pair it with another tool.
• No paid events or ticketing, and Siloh is a newer app (launched July 30, 2026).

Price: Free. Siloh Pro is optional for individual members: a 7-day free trial, then $19.99/month or $149.99/year.

2. Strava

Best for: clubs whose runners already record every run on Strava.

Pros

• Club owners and admins can create run events with a meeting point, route and repeat schedule, and RSVPs get a reminder 24 hours before the start.
• A weekly club leaderboard (for clubs of 500 members or fewer) and club posts keep members engaged between meetups.
• The Events tab, added in July 2026, helps runners find local group runs and races. It is available to free and Premium users.

Cons

• Strava's club help pages do not describe payments, ticketing or attendance check-in.
• No nutrition planning.

Price: Free account available; Premium is a paid subscription.

3. SweatPals

Best for: clubs that sell tickets and want help filling events.

Pros

• No monthly subscription to list events, and QR check-in with real-time attendance.
• Events can appear in SweatPals discovery, and you can run recurring classes and memberships.

Cons

• Paid tickets carry a 7% platform fee plus Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30, and a 10 to 15% commission applies to sales that come through SweatPals discovery.
• No training or nutrition tools for members.

Price: Free to list; fees on paid transactions.

4. Heylo

Best for: clubs that collect dues or run multiple chapters.

Pros

• The free Base plan includes unlimited members, events and RSVPs, group chats, member directories and payment collection.
• An Organization plan supports multi-chapter management.

Cons

• The free plan charges 5% + $0.59 per transaction; lower fees require a paid plan.
• No training or nutrition tools.

Price: Base $0; Plus $19/month; Pro $59/month; Business $199/month; Organization custom.

5. Spond

Best for: clubs that want simple scheduling, messaging and payment requests.

Pros

• Spond describes itself as a free platform, with events, messaging, invites and reminders, and groups with subgroups.
• Payment requests can be sent to a whole group or a subgroup.

Cons

• US payments cost $1.00 + 3.29% per product, paid by the group unless you pass it to members.
• Built for teams of every kind, so there is nothing run-specific like run tracking.

Price: Free; fees on payments.

6. RunSignup

Best for: established clubs that tie membership to races.

Pros

• Free setup with no contracts, plus automatic renewals, email, a free club website and member race discounts.
• On-site member check-in by scanning a membership QR code (launched May 2026).

Cons

• Built around memberships and races, not day-to-day community or member training.
• Processing fees apply to dues, donations and merchandise.

Price: Free setup; processing fees on transactions.

How to choose

If your club is free to join and you want one app for events, check-in and challenges, start with Siloh, as long as most members use iPhone. If you charge for tickets, pick SweatPals for discovery or Heylo for dues. If your club already lives on Strava, keep it there for activity sharing and add a second tool for anything Strava does not cover.

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