CheerHit vs CheerVue: which cheer app fits your club?

CheerHit and CheerVue are both apps for running a cheerleading program, but they solve different problems. CheerVue is software for running a US all-star gym as a business: it collects tuition from families, sells classes, camps and private lessons, and runs tryouts. It is free for gyms with up to 40 active athletes and $50 a month above that. CheerHit runs a club or team's season (roster, schedule, attendance, competitions and polls) with a free mobile app for every athlete, in English and French, and is priced per team.

A word on who wrote this: Vivien Mahé, the founder of CheerHit. Everything said about CheerVue below comes from CheerVue's own website and app store listings, read on 18 October 2026 and linked at the end, so you can check it yourself. Nobody at CheerHit has used CheerVue as a customer.

The short answer

• Choose CheerVue if you run a US all-star gym and want one system that bills families (tuition, autopay, late fees), sells classes and camps, scores tryouts and gives parents a team chat.
• Choose CheerHit if you want to run the season itself: who is on which team, who is coming to practice and why not, competitions and their results, with an app your athletes actually open. It suits clubs outside the US, French-speaking clubs, school and university squads, and clubs that already handle fees another way.

Side by side

What each one costs

The two products charge for different things, so the cheaper one depends on the size of your program.

CheerVue charges per gym. It is free for up to 40 active athletes, with no time limit, and athletes marked inactive don't count. Above 40, CheerVue Unlimited is $50 a month or $420 a year. On both plans, payments that families make through CheerVue carry a 1.25% technology fee, which the gym can absorb, split 50/50 or pass on, on top of card processing at 2.9% + $0.30.

CheerHit charges per team, with no limit on athletes. The first team is full price and each additional team is cheaper. There is no fee on payments, because CheerHit does not collect them. The mobile app is free for athletes, coaches and staff. Every club starts with a 14-day free trial on the Elite plan, with no card required.

Novice is $12 for the first team and $8 for each additional team; Elite is $19 and $12. Prices are also shown in euros and pounds. Annual billing is $120 per year for the first Novice team, or $190 for Elite.

Two things this table does not show. A gym with 40 active athletes or fewer pays nothing for CheerVue's software, which CheerHit cannot match: it has no free plan for clubs. And a gym that collects, say, $10,000 a month in tuition through CheerVue pays $125 a month in technology fees if it absorbs them, which is more than the subscription.

Where CheerVue is stronger

CheerVue covers the money and the front desk, and CheerHit covers none of it:

• Billing families. Tuition schedules, autopay, late fees, failed-card retries, payment plans, crossover billing and payouts to the gym's bank through Stripe.
• Programs. Classes, camps, clinics, open gym and private lessons, sold through a public catalog with waitlists, makeup credits and discounts.
• Tryouts. A Build, Evaluate, Place, Reveal workflow with scoring on an iPad or laptop, video clips, an AI team builder and scheduled placement reveals.
• Communication. Team chat and announcements with read receipts.
• Front desk. A point of sale, a merch store, check-in by iPad kiosk or geofence, multiple locations and signed waivers.
• An AI assistant that reads the gym's data and acts on it for staff and families.

If those are the jobs you need done, CheerVue does them and CheerHit does not.

Where CheerHit is stronger

CheerHit goes deeper on the season itself, and on the athlete as a person:

• The athlete owns their profile. Every athlete has their own account and a CheerHit pass with their positions, level and club history. It exists before they join a club and stays when they leave one. Somebody can belong to several clubs, and to several teams in one club, with one merged calendar.
• Attendance you can act on. Every "can't go" carries a reason, every change to an answer is kept with who made it and when, late changes are flagged, and reminders only go to the people who haven't answered. The attendance report shows the rate, its trend, the reasons behind absences and each team side by side. Athletes see their own attendance record in the app.
• The schedule lands in the phone's own calendar. The iPhone and Android apps write a CheerHit calendar into the phone's calendar app, with alerts. That reaches people who turned notifications off. Computers can subscribe from Apple, Google or Outlook.
• Competitions as a season goal. A countdown, the practices left and who is going, per team, then each team's placement and score once it is over.
• Polls for teams and staff, anonymous if you choose, with a deadline.
• Built for more than one country. English and French throughout, prices in euros, dollars or pounds, and age divisions each club sets for itself rather than a single rulebook.
• Any kind of team. School and university squads and associations use it the same way as All Star gyms.

Which one should you choose?

If your program is a US all-star gym whose biggest headache is collecting money and selling classes, CheerVue is built for that, and it is free while you have 40 active athletes or fewer.

If your headache is knowing who is coming, keeping athletes and coaches on the same schedule, and getting ready for competitions, and you already collect fees some other way, CheerHit is built for that. It is also the one of the two that works in French and in euros or pounds.

You can try CheerHit for 14 days on the Elite plan, without a card, and the mobile app is free to download on iOS and Android.

Sources

CheerVue's details come from these pages, all read on 18 October 2026:

• CheerVue homepage and pricing: cheervue.com
• Features: cheervue.com/features
• Billing: cheervue.com/billing
• FAQ, including prices and the technology fee: cheervue.com/faq
• Communication: cheervue.com/cheer-team-communication-app
• Competition travel: cheervue.com/cheer-competition-travel
• Online store: cheervue.com/cheer-gym-online-store
• App Store listing: apps.apple.com/us/app/cheervue/id6758873083
• Google Play listing: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cheervue.mobileapp

"Not mentioned on its website" means none of the pages above says it. Products change: if something here is out of date, write to us and we will correct it.