Sequence/OS vs Mindbody
We make Sequence/OS. This is our honest comparison of which tools may suit your own teaching style the best, including where other tools beat us.
Mindbody is the industry standard for studio booking and business management, and it has the scale to prove it: a consumer app with millions of monthly shoppers, ClassPass ownership and a mature marketing suite. Sequence/OS is a teaching companion with bookings built in. Mindbody is the better pick if new-client discovery and full studio operations are the priority. Sequence/OS is the better pick if you teach your own classes and want planning, teaching and bookings without an enterprise sales process.
Side by side
| Sequence/OS | Mindbody | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $30 a month, $300 a year (£25 / £250 in the UK), stated publicly | Starts at $79 USD a month per location in the US on their own site; higher tiers are priced through a sales call, checked September 2026 |
| Class bookings | Built in: booking pages, payments and a 1% platform fee | Yes, full studio booking with payments |
| Waitlists | Yes, with automatic promotion and paid upgrade offers | Yes |
| Class passes | Three-month rolling passes | Yes, plus contracts and auto-renewing memberships |
| Reminders | 24 hour and 2 hour class reminders | Yes, email and text |
| Attendance | Attended and no-show history per client | Yes, plus check-in |
| Invoicing | Studio and private-work invoicing with PDFs, statuses and due dates | Membership billing rather than standalone studio invoicing |
| Client discovery | No marketplace, your booking page is your front door | Yes, listed on the Mindbody app with 3M+ monthly shoppers |
| Sequence building | Build your own sequences with deep per-pose teaching notes | No class planning tools |
| Hands-free teaching | Yes, Play Mode reads cues and keeps time | No |
Price
Sequence/OS: $30 a month, $300 a year (£25 / £250 in the UK), stated publicly
Mindbody: Starts at $79 USD a month per location in the US on their own site; higher tiers are priced through a sales call, checked September 2026
Class bookings
Sequence/OS: Built in: booking pages, payments and a 1% platform fee
Mindbody: Yes, full studio booking with payments
Waitlists
Sequence/OS: Yes, with automatic promotion and paid upgrade offers
Mindbody: Yes
Class passes
Sequence/OS: Three-month rolling passes
Mindbody: Yes, plus contracts and auto-renewing memberships
Reminders
Sequence/OS: 24 hour and 2 hour class reminders
Mindbody: Yes, email and text
Attendance
Sequence/OS: Attended and no-show history per client
Mindbody: Yes, plus check-in
Invoicing
Sequence/OS: Studio and private-work invoicing with PDFs, statuses and due dates
Mindbody: Membership billing rather than standalone studio invoicing
Client discovery
Sequence/OS: No marketplace, your booking page is your front door
Mindbody: Yes, listed on the Mindbody app with 3M+ monthly shoppers
Sequence building
Sequence/OS: Build your own sequences with deep per-pose teaching notes
Mindbody: No class planning tools
Hands-free teaching
Sequence/OS: Yes, Play Mode reads cues and keeps time
Mindbody: No
Where Mindbody wins
Reach and operations. Listing on the Mindbody app puts you in front of millions of people actively looking for classes, which no standalone booking page can replicate. Its marketing automation, analytics, retail, payroll and multi-location tooling are the deepest in the industry. If you run a studio whose growth depends on being found, that network effect is real.
Where Sequence/OS wins
Mindbody is business software for running a studio. It will not help you build a class, remember how the last one went, or teach hands-free: there is no sequencing and no equivalent of Play Mode. For a solo teacher, its entry price is nearly triple Sequence/OS's before the sales-led upsells begin, and the features yoga teachers actually want often sit behind upgrade calls.
Sequence/OS keeps the whole teaching cycle in one flat-priced tool: build the sequence, plan the week, take bookings with waitlists, rolling passes, reminders and attendance, invoice private work, then teach with the written cue on the pose. No tiers to negotiate, no marketplace commission, and the booking fee is 1% rather than a business relationship.
Bottom line
A studio that needs discovery, marketing and multi-location operations: Mindbody, with budget for it. A teacher who wants the class itself planned, taught and booked in one honest monthly price: Sequence/OS.
Competitor pricing changes often. Where we could not confirm a figure on the company's own site, we say so rather than print a number. Sequence/OS pricing checked August 2026.
See how this sits against the rest of the market in our honest comparison of yoga teaching apps for 2026.