Anolla is a fast-rising booking platform with genuinely good AI: automated scheduling, smart waitlists and dynamic pricing, plus a free member app and strong early Capterra reviews. The catch is the pricing model — you pay by the volume of booked classes, workshops and memberships, so a busy month costs more. Class Booking is a flat, published price that doesn't move with your booking volume.
Why studios switch
Studios rarely leave Anolla over one missing feature. The reasons we hear are cumulative: a bill that grows faster than the studio does, a system shaped for operators much bigger than an independent studio, and support that turns slow exactly when bookings are on the line. Class Booking is deliberately built for the studios those trade-offs squeeze hardest.
Anolla is usage-based: you pay for the volume of booked classes, workshops and memberships, per their public pricing (July 2026). That means your software bill rises in your busiest months — exactly when you'd rather it didn't. Class Booking is Basic, Pro or Studio at a fixed monthly price, the same whether you take 200 bookings or 2,000.
A member keeps the same weekly spot in the same class, season after season, with a waitlist behind it. Anolla runs group classes, courses and dynamic pricing, but a reserved-recurring-seat subscription is not documented.
Anolla targets spas, salons, clinics, home services, fitness and freelancers worldwide. That breadth is a strength for some, but it means the class-and-membership core competes for attention with a dozen other verticals. Class Booking is studio-first: classes, seasons, memberships and fixed spots are the product, not one mode among many.
One paid subscription covers several named family members, each with their own profile. A dedicated family membership is not documented for Anolla.
Anolla positions itself as a worldwide platform; where your members' data is hosted is not clearly stated. Class Booking is built in Denmark and hosts all data in the EU — one less international-transfer question in your GDPR paperwork.
Side by side
No spin. Both columns reflect public pricing and published features at the time of writing.
| Class Booking | Anolla | |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed spot (reserved recurring place) | Yes — same spot held every week, with waitlist | Not documented |
| Pricing model | Flat plan (€10 / £8 / $13 / €30 / £20 / $35 / €50 / £40 / $60) | Usage-based — pay per booked class/workshop/membership |
| Cost in a busy month | Same as any other month | Rises with booking volume |
| Starting price | €10 / £8 / $13/month | Usage-based (no flat entry price published) |
| Family membership on one subscription | Yes | Not documented |
| AI scheduling & automation | Built-in admin assistant | Yes — a genuine strength |
| Dynamic pricing | Fixed prices you set | Yes — dynamic pricing |
| Free member app | Branded web app included | Native free app |
| Built for | Yoga, pilates & class studios | Spas, salons, clinics, fitness, freelancers |
| EU GDPR-compliant hosting | Yes — Denmark | Not clearly stated (positions as worldwide) |
| Multi-language UI | EN, DA, DE, SV, NB, ES | Multiple languages |
| Data migration | Done for you | Not documented |
Honest take
We're not the right fit for everyone. Here's when you should stay with Anolla.
Tell us when you want to switch. We export your members, classes, schedules and active subscriptions from Anolla, import them to Class Booking, sit on a video call with you to verify everything looks right, and switch your domain over the weekend. Your customers don't notice.
It depends on your volume. Anolla is usage-based — you pay for the volume of booked classes, workshops and memberships, per their public pricing (July 2026) — so a quiet month can be cheap and a busy month costs more. Class Booking is a flat plan: Basic, Pro or Studio at the same price every month. A busy, growing studio usually pays less, and always knows the number in advance. Compare your typical monthly booking volume against our flat price.
Class Booking has a built-in admin assistant that knows the system and helps with day-to-day tasks. Anolla leans harder into AI for scheduling and, in particular, dynamic pricing that adjusts to demand — that dynamic-pricing engine is a real strength we do not match. If demand-based pricing is central to how you sell classes, weigh that honestly.
Class Booking documents a fixed-spot subscription: a reserved recurring seat in a weekly class with a waitlist behind it. Anolla runs group classes, courses and dynamic pricing, but a reserved-recurring-seat product is not documented. If keeping members in the same weekly place matters — riding schools, kids' classes, seasons — that is a real difference.
Yes. You export your members, class passes and active subscriptions from Anolla, and we import them to Class Booking. Where a subscription cannot be moved 1:1, members re-enter their card once on first login, and we provide an email template you can send the day before. We confirm your exact payment setup on the discovery call.
If AI-driven scheduling and demand-based dynamic pricing are the point, or if your bookings are seasonal enough that usage-based billing beats a flat plan, Anolla is a strong option and we will say so. Class Booking's case is a flat, predictable price as you grow, fixed spots, family memberships and clear EU data residency.
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