Practice Better is practice management for nutritionists, dietitians, and health coaches — protocols, food journaling, client programs, telehealth, and the structured follow-up that coaching-led practices run on. Mako is the business platform underneath a service business: booking, payments, memberships, staff pay, retail, and profit reporting. They serve the same practitioner at different layers.
Practice Better: Published. Starter at $35/month, Professional at $69/month, Plus at $99/month, and Team at $155/month. Clear tiers, openly posted, scaling by capability and practitioner count.
Mako: Pulse is free. Basic at $139/month — the complete operational platform with three team members. Team at $249/month — fifteen team members, extra locations at $75/month each, advanced reporting, QuickBooks sync. Enterprise at $999/month. Roughly 20% off annually, no contract.
Practice Better is cheaper across most of its range — $35 to $99 sits well under Mako Basic, and even its Team tier at $155 is only modestly above. If price is the deciding factor for a solo or small coaching practice, that is the honest answer.
Practice Better is built around the client program: assessments, protocols, food journals, check-ins, and the accountability loop that makes coaching work. Nothing in a general business platform replicates that, and if it is how you deliver value, you need it.
Mako is built around the business the coaching sits inside: what each service earns after delivery cost, what staff are owed, what the supplement shelf makes, and whether cash is going the right direction.
For a solo coach, Practice Better plus a payment link may be the entire stack. For a practice with several practitioners, retail, and a physical space, the business layer becomes a separate problem — and running both is a legitimate answer.
Structured programs, assessments and check-ins built for coaching-led practice. Mature and specific.
Client food logs and nutrition tracking integrated with the practitioner's view. Central to this discipline and absent from general platforms.
$35 to $99 is meaningfully cheaper than any full business platform.
Video, document sharing and messaging in one place, which for remote practice is the product.
Profit per service after practitioner pay and consumables, cash-flow forecasting, unit economics, LTV. Practice Better reports sessions and client progress well; it is not built to tell you whether a service line is profitable.
Splits varying by service and seniority, tips, timesheets and payouts — native, and historically accurate against the rate in force on the day.
Supplements and products with stock levels, low-stock alerts, and margin per item — a real revenue line in this field that usually runs on a spreadsheet.
Classes, workshops, memberships and packages alongside one-to-one coaching, on one platform with one customer record.
Pulse compares your client retention against market averages and names who has gone quiet — free, imports from other platforms, and runnable alongside Practice Better today.
Pick Practice Better if:
Pick Mako if:
Run both if: coaching delivery and business operations are both real problems. Practice Better for the client work, Mako for the business behind it — a common and sensible stack.
Your practice is a business. Not a hobby, not a side project, not a calendar with a cash register. It deserves software that treats it accordingly. If your platform cannot tell you whether you are financially healthy, it is not doing its job. And in 2026, you have better options.
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Mako is built for independent practice owners who would rather spend their time on clients than on demo calls. Open the live demo, poke around, and see exactly how booking, payments, and financial intelligence come together in one place.
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