The Best Exercise Prescription Software for UK Physiotherapists in 2026

Six exercise prescription platforms compared for UK physiotherapy clinics on published pricing, library size and practice management integrations.

Exercise prescription software turns the exercises chosen in the treatment room into a home programme the patient can follow: filmed demonstrations, sets and reps, reminders, and a record of what was done between appointments. The problem it exists to solve is well documented. In musculoskeletal cohorts, research puts non-adherence to home exercises at between 30% and 50%, and a programme handed over as a printed sheet gives the clinic no way of knowing whether it was followed.

The category is crowded, and much of the comparison content is written for the American market. A UK physiotherapy clinic has narrower questions: what the software costs per practitioner in pounds, how well the library covers its caseload, and whether programmes connect to the practice management system the clinic already runs. The UK market, with 76,920 physiotherapists on the HCPC register as of April 2025, is large enough that every major platform sells into it, yet several publish no UK prices at all.

This guide compares the six exercise prescription platforms UK physiotherapy clinics shortlist most often, on published pricing, exercise libraries and integrations. It then covers the shorter list also worth a look, which platforms connect to which practice management system, and how to run a trial. It sits alongside the guide to practice management software for physiotherapy clinics, which covers the system these tools plug into.

What Exercise Prescription Software Does

Exercise prescription software, also called home exercise programme software or physiotherapy exercise software, is the tool a practitioner uses to build and send a rehabilitation programme. The clinic side holds the exercise library, templates and progress data; the patient side is an app or web link with the videos, the schedule, reminders and a way to log completion, pain and difficulty. Most platforms add education content and outcome measures, and several now include telehealth.

It is a different product from the practice management system, which runs the diary, notes, invoicing and reminders, and from the AI scribes that draft clinical notes. A physiotherapy clinic typically ends up with all three: the practice management system at the centre, the exercise prescription app connected to it, and a scribe inside it. Patient apps are free to download on every platform in this guide; the clinic pays per practitioner.

What Physios Should Check Before Choosing Exercise Prescription Software

The demos look alike: a search box, a filmed exercise, a drag-and-drop programme. Six checks separate the platforms in practice.

• Library coverage and filming quality. Libraries run from about 2,300 exercises on Physiotools' Basic plan to more than 20,000 on Wibbi, but raw volume matters less than coverage of the clinic's actual caseload, and consistent, professionally filmed demonstrations. The free trials are where a principal should search for the twenty exercises the clinic prescribes most.
• The patient's experience. Reminders, offline access, and how much friction sits between the text message and the first video all drive whether programmes get opened. Physitrack's patient app PhysiApp is free for patients, as are the patient sides of every platform here, so the comparison is ease of use, not cost.
• Adherence tracking and outcome measures. Completion logs, pain and difficulty feedback and patient-reported outcome measures are the reason the category exists: they show what happened between appointments. Rehab Guru gates outcome measures to its Pro plan, and Wibbi sells remote monitoring as an add-on, so the comparison needs to happen at tier level, not brand level.
• The practice management connection. A linked platform pulls patient details from the diary and files the programme against the record, which removes a re-typing job per patient. Physitrack lists integrations with most of the systems UK physiotherapy clinics run; the connection tables below cover who links to what.
• Pricing shape. The paid platforms charge per practitioner per month, with published UK prices running from £10 (Rehab Guru Basic) to £18.99 (Physitrack Standard). Two vendors in this guide do not publish comparable prices: Wibbi quotes, and Physiotools lists euros. Free routes exist at both ends: Rehab Guru's free plan covers six active clients, and MoveHealth is free outright.
• Data protection. Programmes attach names, conditions and progress data, so UK GDPR applies in full. The pre-trial questions are the standard ones: a data processing agreement, where the data is hosted, and what happens to patient records when the subscription ends.

The Best Exercise Prescription Software at a Glance

The six platforms below are compared on their published positions, every one read from the vendor's own pages on 3 October 2026.

Physitrack: the Market Default

Physitrack is the platform most physiotherapy clinics meet first, and the one the practice management vendors have mostly already connected to. The UK price is £18.99 per practitioner a month on the Standard plan for teams under 20, with 10% off billed annually, a two week trial, and an enterprise tier by quote above that. The library holds 18,000+ exercises, telehealth is included, and the patient app, PhysiApp, is free for patients to download. Physiotherapy students get full access at no cost, which is why many practitioners arrive in private practice already trained on it.

The structural advantage is reach: the integrations page lists 38 systems, including Cliniko, Nookal, Splose, WriteUpp, Zanda, TM3, Jane, Halaxy, Coreplus and PracSuite. For a clinic on almost any mainstream system, programmes and patient records stay connected. The one notable absence is PPS, so a PPS clinic committed to Physitrack should ask Rushcliff about the route before signing, a point the physiotherapy PMS guide covers from the other side.

Best for: clinics that want the widest PMS coverage, an 18,000+ exercise library and a patient app that costs patients nothing.

Rehab Guru: the UK-Built Value Pick

Rehab Guru was built by a former GB athlete who served 19 years in the Royal Air Force as an exercise rehabilitation instructor, and a chartered physiotherapist with NHS, Ministry of Defence and professional sport experience. Its pricing is the most accessible of the paid platforms. The free plan covers full library access for six active clients. Basic is £10 a month for one practitioner licence with the 6,000+ exercise library, custom branding and unlimited clients and programmes, and Pro is £20 with appointments and payments, outcome measures, treatment notes and telehealth added. The trial runs 30 days with no card required, and prescriptions are unlimited on every plan, with no per-prescription fees.

The Pro tier adds appointments, payments and treatment notes in one place, which suits a solo practitioner who wants fewer systems rather than more. Cliniko lists Rehab Guru in its connected-apps directory, and the Enterprise tier adds FHIR and HL7 integration work for bigger estates.

Best for: solo physios and small UK clinics that want to start free and stay under £20 a month.

Rehab My Patient: Advice Sheets at a Low UK Price

Rehab My Patient is the other UK-priced option physiotherapists shortlist. Its pricing runs from £11.42 a month for a single practitioner, £14.42 and up for a clinic with two or more logins, and £20.42 and up for multi-clinic groups, with a 14 day trial and no card required. The library holds 5,500+ exercises alongside its distinguishing feature, a bank of patient advice sheets, so the leaflet explaining a condition travels with the exercises that treat it. Telerehab and unlimited storage are included on all tiers, and clinics above five practitioners agree pricing directly.

It is a simpler product than Physitrack or Wibbi, and deliberately so. For a clinic whose priority is getting well-filmed programmes and readable advice into patients' hands, it carries the lowest published UK price in this guide, and Cliniko lists it in its connected-apps directory.

Best for: UK clinics that want exercises and patient advice sheets together at the lowest published per-practitioner price.

Wibbi (Formerly Physiotec): the Library Heavyweight

Wibbi is the platform many clinics still know by its former name, Physiotec, and it brings the deepest library in this guide. Its range runs to over 20,000 multi-disciplinary exercises, separate professional editions for physical rehabilitation, speech therapy and veterinary work, patient-reported outcomes, and a stated 70+ EMR integrations. Remote monitoring, a custom branded patient app and a continuing education library are sold as add-ons. Its own customer testimonials still write "Physiotec (Wibbi)", so searches and word of mouth under the old name lead to the same product.

The catch for a comparison shopper is that no prices are published; all three editions route to a quote request, so budgeting means a sales conversation. Cliniko lists Wibbi in its connected-apps directory and Nookal carries it in its integrations library, which keeps the big library connected to two of the systems UK physiotherapy clinics run most.

Best for: multi-disciplinary and multi-site clinics that want the largest library and will trade a quote call for it.

Physiotools: the Long-Established Modular Library

Physiotools is one of the longest-running names in exercise prescription, and its model is modular. Online Basic starts from €12.90 a month with a 2,300+ exercise core library, and Online Premium at €49.99 opens the full 21,000+ exercise and education range. Both are annual-subscription rates excluding tax, and the trial runs 14 days. Programmes reach patients through print, email or the PT Momentum app, and one licence can be shared, which suits clinics where part-time practitioners overlap.

The finding a UK buyer should note is the currency: the pricing page lists euros, with no GBP rate shown, so the monthly cost in pounds moves with the exchange rate and is worth confirming at the quote stage. No practice management integrations are named on its pricing pages either, so a clinic that wants programmes filed against patient records should ask that question directly before committing.

Best for: clinics that want a long-established, modular library with licence sharing, and can live with euro billing.

MoveHealth by VALD: the Free Exercise Prescription App

MoveHealth is the free entry in this guide, and the vendor behind it explains why. VALD, the Brisbane-based human-measurement company whose force plates and dynamometers sit in elite sport and private clinics, offers MoveHealth's exercise programming, patient education, outcome measures and objective testing results for free. The library holds 7,000+ exercises and counting, drawn from rehabilitation, Pilates, strength and conditioning and hand therapy, and guided sessions walk the patient through each exercise on their phone.

The trade-offs are the mirror image of the price. No practice management integrations are named on the product page, so programmes live in VALD's ecosystem rather than filing against the clinic's patient records. The product also makes most sense where it joins VALD's measurement hardware, whose hub Cliniko lists in its own directory as VALD Hub. For a clinic that wants a no-cost way to send filmed programmes today, it is the obvious first download.

Best for: clinics that want a free programme builder, and any practice already running VALD measurement equipment.

Also Worth a Look

Three more names turn up on physiotherapy shortlists, each with a reason it sits outside the main six.

• TrackActive Pro is built by a UK-based physiotherapist and technology team, and Physio First members get 25% off subscriptions plus a 30 day trial. Its own website was unreachable when this guide was checked, so current pricing and terms are best confirmed through Physio First.
• SimpleSet appears in Cliniko's exercises directory alongside the platforms above, and is worth a look for Cliniko clinics comparing integration depth.
• Theratrak sits in the same Cliniko directory and skews towards allied health therapy programmes beyond musculoskeletal work.

Which Exercise Prescription Software Works with the Clinic's PMS

For most clinics the practical shortlist starts from the system already running the diary. The table below shows the connections each vendor publishes, as read in October 2026.

Two practical notes. The lists move, so the vendor's live integrations page outranks any roundup, this one included. And an integration is worth testing during the trial, not after signature: "integrates with" can mean anything from one-click patient import to a manual export, and the difference is minutes per patient.

How to Trial Exercise Prescription Software

Every platform in this guide offers a free plan or a trial, so a clinic can run the decision on evidence inside a month.

1. Shortlist by PMS and caseload

Start from two filters: which platforms publish an integration with the clinic's practice management system, and whose library covers the clinic's twenty most-prescribed exercises well. For most physiotherapy clinics that cuts six candidates to two or three.

2. Run the data protection checks before the trial

Ask for the data processing agreement, the hosting locations and what happens to patient data at cancellation, and record the answers. Doing it first means the clinic never has to unwind a platform the practitioners already like.

3. Build real programmes with a handful of patients

Each shortlisted platform gets the same test: the time it takes to build a typical programme, how the programme looks on a patient's own phone, and whether reminders and completion logging work as promised. Patients who volunteer for the trial give the most honest feedback available.

4. Read the adherence numbers at 30 days

The platforms exist to make home exercise visible, so use the visibility: what share of trial patients opened their programme in week three, and what the completion logs show. If the numbers are no better than the printed sheet, the problem is the programme or the onboarding, and both are fixable before the annual bill.

Where Exercise Prescription Stops: the Phones and the Diary

Exercise prescription software covers the clinical follow-through between appointments. The phones, the inbox and the diary are a separate job: the programme cannot answer a booking call or rebook a cancelled follow-up, and those moments decide whether a course of treatment continues at all. That side of the clinic belongs to a different category, the AI receptionist, and the two pair naturally because they work on opposite sides of the appointment.

The Bottom Line

Most UK physiotherapy clinics should start where the free routes are: MoveHealth for a no-cost programme builder, Rehab Guru's free plan for a UK product that grows into £10 to £20 tiers, and the trials at Physitrack and Rehab My Patient. Physitrack remains the default where PMS integration breadth decides, and Rehab My Patient wins on advice sheets at the lowest published UK price. Wibbi earns its quote call where library depth across disciplines matters, and Physiotools suits clinics happy with modular euro pricing. Whichever platform wins the trial, the same two connections make it pay: the practice management system it files into, and a front desk that keeps the diary full.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is exercise prescription software?

Exercise prescription software is the tool a physiotherapist uses to build and send home exercise programmes: filmed demonstrations, sets and reps, reminders and completion tracking, delivered through a patient app or web link. Physitrack, Rehab Guru, Rehab My Patient, Wibbi, Physiotools and MoveHealth are the names UK physiotherapy clinics shortlist most. It sits alongside the practice management system rather than replacing it.

How much does exercise prescription software cost?

Published UK prices run from £10 to £18.99 per practitioner a month: Rehab Guru lists Basic at £10 and Pro at £20, Rehab My Patient starts at £11.42, and Physitrack's Standard plan is £18.99 with 10% off billed annually. Wibbi prices by quote, Physiotools lists euro rates from €12.90 a month, and MoveHealth by VALD is free. Patient apps are free on every platform; the clinic pays per practitioner.

Which exercise prescription software works with Cliniko?

Cliniko's own connected-apps directory lists Physitrack, Rehab Guru, Rehab My Patient, Wibbi, VALD Hub, SimpleSet and Theratrak in its exercises category, so programmes built in any of them can connect to the Cliniko patient record. Physitrack publishes the widest list overall, naming 38 systems including Nookal, Splose, WriteUpp, Zanda, TM3, Jane and Halaxy, with PPS the notable absence.

Is there free exercise prescription software for physios?

MoveHealth by VALD is free outright, with 7,000+ exercises, patient education and outcome measures included. Rehab Guru's free plan covers six active clients with full library access, Physitrack gives physiotherapy students full access at no cost, and every paid platform in this guide runs a 14 to 30 day trial. A clinic can therefore test the category properly before paying anything.

Is Wibbi the same as Physiotec?

Wibbi is the platform formerly known as Physiotec, rebranded, and its own customer testimonials still write "Physiotec (Wibbi)". The product under the new name carries the 20,000+ exercise library, the patient app and the integrations the Physiotec name was known for, with editions for physical rehabilitation, speech therapy and veterinary work.

Does exercise prescription software improve adherence?

Research in musculoskeletal cohorts puts non-adherence to home exercises at between 30% and 50%, and connected tools aim at exactly that gap with reminders, filmed guidance and completion logging. What the software guarantees is visibility rather than adherence itself: the clinic can see who opened a programme and what was logged, which gives the follow-up appointment real information to work with. Clinics should judge a trial on their own 30 day numbers.