These four are not competing for the same job. Two are video review apps, one is an operations platform for facilities, and one is organized around the follow-up after the session ends. Every competitor figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 29 October 2026, and every CoachNow price appears, at every tier and both cadences, because a comparison that cherry-picks tiers is worth nothing.
Who each tool is actually for
Dynamos turns a session into a recap. Record or upload the clip, review the cues Dynamos drafts, edit them until they sound like your coaching, and send the approved version to the athlete and family. It is organized around two or three actionable cues plus the next step, in about two minutes, with progress carrying across sessions.
CoachNow is video analysis and coach-athlete communication. Spaces give each athlete or group somewhere to post clips and comments, and higher tiers add scheduling, billing and automation. If most of your coaching is film it, mark it up, and send it back, CoachNow does that well.
OnForm is video analysis for individual and technical sports, with multi-cam and 3D. Standard allows two angles and Pro allows four, and Pro adds 3D visualizations and kinematic sequence for golf. If the value in your coaching sits in frame-by-frame mechanics, OnForm does that better than anything else here.
CoachIQ is a business platform, not a video tool: website builder, athlete portal, scheduling, payments, forms, CRM and automations. It targets facilities and multi-location operators, with the $99 plan as the way in for an independent coach.
The comparison table
| Feature | Dynamos | CoachNow | OnForm | CoachIQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes. Free, $0, one analysis a month | No free tier listed. 7-day app trial | No free coach plan. Coached athletes record and share free | No free plan |
| Entry price | $0, then $9/mo (Pro) | $9.99/mo (Analyze) | $19.99/mo (Coach Basic) | $99/mo (Starter Coach) |
| Price at the tier a solo coach needs | $49/mo (Coach, 25 athletes) | $49.99/mo (PRO) | $39.99/mo (Coach Standard) | $99/mo plus fees |
| Quarterly price, all tiers | Not offered | Not offered | $53.99 / $107.99 / $161.99 (Basic / Standard / Pro) | Not offered |
| Annual price, all tiers | 20% off the monthly rate | $59 / $499 / $899 (Analyze / PRO / Academy) | $199.99 / $399.99 / $599.99 (Basic / Standard / Pro) | Not stated on their pricing page |
| Highest monthly price, all tiers | $199/mo (Academy) | $89.99/mo (Academy) | $59.99/mo (Coach Pro) | Facility packages quoted at demo |
| Transaction fees | None. Does not process client payments | Stripe Connect on the $89.99 tier; any CoachNow fee not stated | None listed | 2.9% + $0.30 to Stripe, plus 1% + $0.20 to CoachIQ |
| Free trial | 14 days | 7 days, in app | 14 days, no card | None. Demo-led |
| Self-serve signup | Yes | Yes | Yes | No. 20-minute demo required |
| Video analysis | Yes. Upload a session clip and review the cues | Yes. Video and image analysis with slow motion | Yes. Multi-cam, and 3D on Coach Pro | Not listed as a plan feature. Their pricing page links a case study on video analysis |
| Multi-cam | No multi-angle sync listed | Yes, MultiCam on PRO and above | Yes. 2 angles on Standard, 4 on Pro | Not listed on their pricing page |
| Athlete-facing recap | Yes. Coach-approved recap card with 2 to 3 cues | Clips and comments in Spaces; a written recap card is not stated | Video and voiceover sharing; a written recap card is not stated | Portal and messaging; a session recap is not stated |
| Parent or family view | Yes. Parent dashboard from $9/mo Pro | Not stated on their pricing page | Not stated on their pricing page | Portal shared with families; a separate parent view is not stated |
| Progress tracking over time | Yes. Progress dashboard on Free, per-player on Coach | Not stated on their pricing page | Not stated on their pricing page | Client history in CRM; athlete progress is not stated |
| Client billing and invoicing | No | Yes on the $89.99 tier, via Stripe Connect | No. Invoicing is for paying OnForm, not your clients | Yes. Payments and billing |
| Pricing checked 29 October 2026 against coachnow.com/pricing, onform.com/pricing, coachiq.io/pricing and dynamos.app/pricing. OnForm prices are shown at the monthly cadence; their page opens on the quarterly toggle, where the Coach plans are charged at $53.99, $107.99 and $161.99 per quarter. Features are as stated on each vendor's pricing page, and where a feature is not listed there the table says so rather than inferring it. | ||||
The tier a solo coach needs assumes 15 to 25 active athletes. A coach working with three or fewer would pay $9 for Dynamos Pro, or nothing at all.
Starting a solo practice: the signup question
The most durable difference here is not a feature. It is whether you can begin today.
CoachIQ has no self-serve signup. No signup form, no trial. The page offers a demo, and the $99 Starter Coach plan is reached through it. Their FAQ says the site points buyers toward a walkthrough before pricing is finalized. For a facility weighing a large operations decision that is sensible. For a solo coach with 20 lessons a week who wants to stop texting clips at nine in the evening, it is a gate, and the gate is a business model rather than a page nobody built.
The other three let you start without a call. CoachNow offers 7 days through its app, OnForm 14 days with no card, and Dynamos a free plan with one analysis a month, so you can put a real session through it first.
And on tiering, said once and without scorekeeping: CoachNow's entry plan for a solo coach is $9.99 a month, not $89.99. The $89.99 figure is a real price, but it buys calendar, billing and multi-coach tooling that a single coach may never open. Any comparison that prices a solo coach at $89.99 is quoting a tier they do not need, so this page lists all three and lets you pick.
Features get matched. OnForm could ship a recap card next quarter and CoachNow could rebuild its progress view, and neither would change how a coach gets through the door.
What each one costs, tier by tier
CoachNow has three tiers, each priced monthly or annually. Analyze is $9.99 a month or $59 a year, for 5 Spaces and 250 media items. PRO is $49.99 a month or $499 a year, with unlimited Spaces. Academy is $89.99 a month or $899 a year, adding calendar, billing, automation and multi-coach pricing. All six prices are here even though quoting the $89.99 tier alone would flatter Dynamos, because leaving tiers out is the trick that makes a comparison untrustworthy.
OnForm is $19.99 a month for Coach Basic, $39.99 for Standard and $59.99 for Pro. The page states a monthly, quarterly and yearly figure per plan: $53.99, $107.99 and $161.99 per quarter, and $199.99, $399.99 and $599.99 per year. It opens on the quarterly toggle, so $53.99 is the first number a visitor sees against Coach Basic. That is a quarterly charge, not a monthly price, which makes it the easiest figure here to misread. There is a 14-day trial with no card, and coached athletes record and share for free.
CoachIQ is $99 a month for Starter Coach, for independent coaches. Facility packages are quoted at demo, and fees and add-ons are extra. The fees earn their own section below.
Dynamos starts at $0 on Free with one analysis a month. Pro is $9 for unlimited analyses up to three athletes, adding the parent dashboard, coach-approved recaps, PDF reports and priority processing. Coach is $49 with a 25-player roster, per-player progress and a batch queue. Academy is $199 with five coach accounts and up to 100 players. Academy+ is custom above that. There is a 14-day trial, billing through Stripe, and no contracts.
Where a competitor is cheaper, it is cheaper. OnForm at $39.99 comes in below Dynamos Coach at $49 and CoachNow PRO at $49.99. At entry, CoachNow at $9.99 sits just above Dynamos Pro at $9, and Dynamos Free sits below both, at $0.
What the fees cost a coach who bills through the platform
Only one of these four states its own percentage fee on top of card processing. CoachIQ charges 1% plus $0.20 per transaction on top of Stripe's 2.9% plus $0.30.
A worked example, with the volume an assumption rather than a measurement: $2,000 a month across 20 payments of $100. Stripe takes $3.20 per payment, so $64. CoachIQ takes $1.20 each, so $24. That is $88 in fees on $2,000, or 4.4%. Add the $99 subscription and the month costs $187 before a payment reaches the coach.
The same $2,000 through Stripe alone carries $64. That gap is the real price of consolidation, worth costing deliberately rather than discovering in month three. Dynamos and OnForm take no share of client payments because neither processes them. On CoachNow's $89.99 tier invoicing runs through Stripe Connect, so Stripe's terms apply, and their page does not say whether CoachNow adds a fee.
Where Dynamos is the wrong choice
Two cases, stated plainly, because a comparison that suits everyone is worth neither reading nor linking to.
If your coaching depends on deep 3D biomechanics, kinematic sequencing or multi-camera work, OnForm is the better tool and this page will not pretend otherwise. Standard gives two angles, Pro four, and the 3D visualizations and kinematic sequence sit in Pro. Dynamos works from a session clip and produces a written recap. It is not a motion capture product.
If you run a facility with payroll, retail, staff scheduling and more than one location, CoachIQ is the better fit and the demo is worth 20 minutes. It has the website, portal, payments, forms, CRM and automations in one system, and facility pricing scales with locations. Dynamos has a five-coach Academy tier and team analytics, but it is not a business operating system. Buying it to run retail would be a mistake.
Dynamos is built for the coach whose problem is the gap between one session and the next. If your problem sits elsewhere, one of the other three is the better purchase.