BodySite vs. SimplePractice: Which Is Better for Your Practice?

SimplePractice and BodySite are both easy-to-use, all-in-one platforms — but they’re built for different practices. SimplePractice is a market leader for solo behavioral-health and therapy practices that bill insurance. BodySite is a practice management and patient engagement software that’s built for wellness, functional medicine, weight, and nutrition practices whose results depend on educating and engaging patients between visits, including therapy support. The clearest way to choose: if you’re a therapist filing insurance claims, SimplePractice fits. If your model is lifestyle change, education, and daily patient engagement and support between the encounters, BodySite fits — with a full patient app and a library of done-for-you content SimplePractice doesn’t offer.

BodySite vs. SimplePractice at a glance

Where SimplePractice is stronger

If you’re a solo therapist or behavioral-health practice, SimplePractice is purpose-built for you and it’s excellent at it: mature insurance claim filing, a huge library of therapy-note and treatment-plan templates, and a polished, easy onboarding. It’s the category leader in behavioral health for good reason. BodySite doesn’t try to compete there — it’s not built for talk-therapy documentation or behavioral-health billing.

Where BodySite is stronger

For wellness, functional, weight, and nutrition practices, BodySite delivers the layer SimplePractice was never designed for. You start with 100+ ready-made care plans and courses, delivered automatically through daily drip emails and in-app lessons, videos, recipes, and exercises. Patients track food by photo or barcode, log body metrics and activity, keep a journal, and follow their plan in a native app they open daily — then message you with photos and attachments, join one-on-one or group telehealth for up to 50, and connect through group chats and discussion forums for accountability between visits. SimplePractice gives clients a portal for scheduling and secure messaging; BodySite does that too, but also gives patients a daily lifestyle-change experience.

Pricing is structured differently, too. Both platforms have a few paid add-ons, and both process card payments through Stripe-style fees — so neither is truly fee-free. The difference is that BodySite’s add-ons are fewer and generally cheaper: ePrescribing is $40/month (versus SimplePractice’s $49/month plus setup), the AI scribe is free for your first 10 notes a month (SimplePractice’s AI note-taker is $35/month), and card processing runs about 2.9% versus SimplePractice’s 3.15%. The bigger structural difference is scale: BodySite is flat, with unlimited clients from $159/month, while SimplePractice charges per clinician — and stacks its add-ons per clinician too, on top of a 2026 price increase — so the real bill climbs with every provider you add.

Both are complete platforms — the common ground

Both are full practice-management systems with scheduling and online booking, charting, billing and payments, intake forms, telehealth, secure messaging, and a client app. Both are genuinely easy to use. The decision is about fit: behavioral-health-and-insurance (SimplePractice) versus wellness-and-engagement (BodySite), and whether you need ready-made patient content and lifestyle tracking out of the box.

Choose SimplePractice if…

• You’re a therapist or behavioral-health provider who bills insurance.
• You need mature claim filing and therapy-note/treatment-plan templates.
• Talk-therapy documentation is the core of your workflow.

Choose BodySite if…

• You run a wellness, functional, weight, or nutrition practice.
• You want 100+ ready-made care plans and a full patient app with lifestyle tracking.
• You want group visits, group chats, and community forums for engagement.
• You want flat pricing with unlimited clients — no per-provider fees, and add-ons that are fewer and cheaper than SimplePractice’s.
• You want unlimited clients on one flat price.

Frequently asked questions

Is BodySite a good SimplePractice alternative?

For wellness, nutrition, functional medicine, and weight-management practices, yes — BodySite adds patient education, lifestyle tracking, a full engagement app, and community features SimplePractice doesn’t offer. Behavioral-health practices that bill insurance are better served by SimplePractice.

Does SimplePractice include patient education content?

No — SimplePractice offers document sharing but no ready-made education library. BodySite includes 100+ care plans and courses at every tier, delivered automatically to patients.

Which has simpler pricing?

Both have paid add-ons and both charge card-processing fees, so neither is fee-free. The real difference is structure and scale. SimplePractice charges per clinician — for the plan, the AI note-taker ($35/mo), ePrescribing ($49/mo + setup), an annual CPT-code licensing fee, and a higher 3.15% processing rate — all multiplied by every provider, and increased again in 2026. BodySite is flat, with unlimited clients ($69–$199), and where it does have add-ons they’re generally cheaper (eRx $40/mo; AI scribe free for the first 10 notes a month; ~2.9% processing). BodySite grows more predictably as you add providers.

Try BodySite free for 30 days — every plan includes the full patient education library, the native patient app, and telehealth. Or watch a demo to see it in action.