The Simply.Coach alternative

Exantur is a focused, independent European alternative to Simply.Coach for coaches and organizations that want depth on the coaching work itself and EU data residency. It offers structured session notes, native accountability, check-ins, goals, DISC-style and Wheel of Life assessments and a coachee portal, all hosted in the EU under the GDPR. Simply.Coach remains a strong choice for large-scale enterprise and team coaching, so the fit comes down to scale and priorities.

Exantur hosts all data in the EU and focuses on the practice of coaching: structured session notes, native accountability, check-ins, goals, assessments and a coachee portal. It is built by a small independent team rather than positioned primarily at enterprise scale.

That focus shows up in the day-to-day: notes follow a consistent structure, commitments are tracked across sessions rather than within one, and the coachee logs in to their own portal to see goals, check-ins and documents. The depth is in the coaching relationship, not the size of the admin console.

Both are coaching-native platforms rather than repurposed CRMs, and both cover the practice essentials a working coach needs: client records, session management, notes, goals, scheduling and a client-facing space. If your shortlist is these two, you are choosing between two tools that both understand coaching, not between a coaching tool and a generic one.

They also share the assumption that a coach should not be stitching together four separate apps. Where Exantur adds booking with reminders, invoicing through your own Stripe at a 0% platform fee, two-way Google and Outlook sync and DISC-style and Wheel of Life assessments in one place, the aim, as with Simply.Coach, is to keep the whole engagement in a single system.

Simply.Coach is oriented to enterprise and team coaching at scale, with its own compliance certifications. If enterprise procurement and large-team administration are your priority, weigh that honestly.

For a large organization running coaching across many internal or contracted coaches, that maturity is a real advantage, and it would be dishonest to pretend a smaller independent product matches it feature for feature at the top of the enterprise range. The question is whether your program needs that scale of administration or would be better served by depth on the coaching itself.

Choose Exantur if EU data residency, GDPR-by-design, structured searchable notes and depth on the coaching relationship matter most, and you value working with a focused independent team. Choose Simply.Coach if large-scale enterprise administration and its specific compliance certifications are decisive for your buyer. Note that Exantur is not HIPAA-certified and its DISC-style profile is not a certified psychometric, so it is positioned for professional and workplace coaching rather than clinical use.

A concrete test: picture your next twenty client records a year from now. If the thing that will matter is where that data physically lives and how easily you can read a client history back, Exantur is built for that. If it is administering hundreds of coaching relationships under formal enterprise procurement, weigh Simply.Coach seriously.

Moving is low-drama. Export your client list and history, bring your active clients across first, and recreate your programs and note structure in Exantur before migrating paused or concluded clients. Because everything lives on one record per client, you can run both tools in parallel for a fortnight and cut over once your live clients are settled.

Recreating your note structure and programs up front is the step worth not skipping: once your standard is set as a template in Exantur, every migrated and new client starts from it, so the switch is also a chance to tidy how you work rather than carry old inconsistencies across.