Kahunas vs Coach Catalyst: price, apps, nutrition and moving in, from each one's own pages.

the arithmetic

What do Kahunas and Coach Catalyst cost at 10, 25, 50 and 100 clients?

Kahunas prices per seat, and one price applies to all your seats. Per kahunas.io/pricing (checked 12 November 2026) a seat is USD 5.00 a month for 3 to 24 seats, 2.50 for 25 to 49, 2.00 for 50 to 99, 1.50 for 100 to 199, 1.00 for 200 to 999 and 0.50 from 1,000, in US dollars before tax. Yearly billing takes 20 percent off. A seat is an active client or a team member who is not archived. Kahunas bills a bigger tier when that costs the same or less. None of the counts below moves up.

Coach Catalyst prices by client band on its pricing page, with a Coach plan and a Coach Pro plan. The page loads its prices with a script, so we moved its client slider to each band in a real browser on 12 November 2026 and read what it showed. Ten clients fall in the "up to 12" band.

Billed monthly, a month

Billed yearly, a total for the year

Sources: kahunas.io/pricing and coachcatalyst.com/pricing, both checked 12 November 2026. Kahunas totals are our arithmetic from its per-seat prices. Coach Catalyst's yearly totals are the ones its slider shows. Each is ten times the monthly price, next to a "2 Months Free!" label on its Yearly button.

Coach Catalyst's own pages do not all agree. Its comparison with Trainerize lists USD 79 a month up to 50 clients and USD 119 up to 100, below what the pricing slider shows (for example USD 104 and 139). We used the slider because it is what the pricing page shows a coach today, and it may change. Confirm your price with Coach Catalyst before you compare.

What the numbers say

• On the slider prices, on monthly billing the order flips with the client count. Coach Catalyst's Coach plan is lower at 10 clients (USD 44 against 50) and at 100 (USD 139 against 150). Kahunas is lower at 25 (USD 62.50 against 84) and at 50 (USD 100 against 104).
• Billed yearly, the same split holds. The plans are not the same size. Coach Catalyst's Coach plan has one coach account and one community. Coach Pro adds unlimited coaches, unlimited communities, Habby AI and priority support. On Kahunas, team members take a seat, and team seats and priority support start at 50 seats.
• Kahunas says existing coaches keep their current plan and price: "You keep your current plan, price and features until you choose a seat plan yourself on Your plan. We never move you." An older plan may not match the ladder above.

what your clients open

Client app and branded app: Kahunas vs Coach Catalyst

Kahunas. Its blog post on the Kahunas 2.0 update says every coach gets a client web app that installs from your link (yourname.kahunas.app) on iPhone, Android and desktop, in three taps, with no app store search (kahunas.io/blog/kahunas-2-0, updated 28 October 2026). Our Kahunas 2.0 explainer covers the update. The branded app is "Included from 200 clients": you upload a logo, pick a colour, and they appear on the client app, the home screen icon, the login page and the coach portal, "with no developers and no store listing" (kahunas.io/features/branded-app, checked 12 November 2026).

Coach Catalyst. Its pricing page lists "Mobile Apps for Client & Coach" and an "On-Demand Client Portal" in the Coach plan, which Coach Pro includes. Its Branded App page says "Elevate your professional image with a custom app that carries only your brand." Its comparison with Trainerize lists "Full white-label available". Its pricing page does not list a branded app in either plan. Its help centre article Get your own branded app says clients download your app from the App Store and Google Play under your app name, you open your own Apple developer account (USD 99 a year) and Google Play account (USD 25 one-time), and once live it costs USD 49 a month on top of your Coach Catalyst membership (checked 12 November 2026).

the daily work

Training, nutrition and check-ins

Training

Kahunas includes the workout builder in every plan, with 1,700+ exercise videos. Per its workouts page, clients log as they train and you see what they lifted against what you set. Coach Catalyst's Workout Builder page describes program templates you apply to new clients and a one-click reschedule when a client is away. Its Trainerize comparison page lists "1300+ exercises, animated videos".

Nutrition

The two take different routes. Kahunas's nutrition page says nutrition is in every plan, with macro targets, meal swaps, over 1.5 million foods and barcode scanning, and you see each day against target. Recipes unlock from 25 seats. Coach Catalyst's Nutrition Tracking page says client data "flows automatically to your dashboard" so you do not invite clients into other tracking apps, and that clients can keep using the tracker they prefer. Its site lists MyFitnessPal, Cronometer and MacrosFirst among its integrations, and a separate Photo Food Journals page describes clients sending photos instead of weighing and measuring. We found no built-in food database or meal plan builder on its pages, so if you write meal plans, ask first.

Check-ins and habits

Kahunas's check-ins page says every answer lands in one inbox next to the client's last check-in, and you reply in the same place. Coach Catalyst's Forms page says you set a form up once and receive data weekly, monthly or at custom intervals. On habits, its Habit Coaching page describes yes or no habit tracking, and the Coach plan lists a habit and task tracker, 30+ done-for-you challenges and over 1000 modifiable lessons. Kahunas lists habit tracking in its first tier. All checked 12 November 2026.

money in, money out

Payments and the free trial

Payments. Kahunas says clients pay through your own Stripe or PayPal account, that it takes 0% commission, and that Stripe or PayPal charge their usual fees. It lists 17 currencies (kahunas.io/features/payments, checked 12 November 2026). Coach Catalyst's Payments page describes turning programs into products clients can buy "with just a few clicks", a sales page template, and instant program access after payment. Its pricing page says there is no fee for your clients to join. Its help centre article Getting Started with Payments connects your Stripe account and says "The fees in Coach Catalyst to use the Stripe integration are 3.99% + $.30" (checked 12 November 2026). It does not say whether Stripe's own fee is inside that figure, so ask before you move your billing.

Trial and refunds. Coach Catalyst says "Start your free 14-day trial. Full access to all features and no credit card required." and "We have a 30-day money back guarantee" (coachcatalyst.com/pricing, checked 12 November 2026). Kahunas also gives 14 days. Its pricing FAQ says Stripe takes your card when you sign up and charges nothing until the trial ends. A founder line on the same page offers a refund within 3 months.

if you are leaving kahunas

What each says about moving in

Coach Catalyst's help centre (How to Add Clients, checked 12 November 2026) says you can add clients one at a time, upload several from a CSV file with first name, last name, email address, country code and phone number, or add them through payments, its CRM or Zapier. Its pages describe no service that moves programs, check-in history or logs from another platform. What it can do with your existing programs and history is a question for them, and its pages do not say it cannot. Get the answer in writing.

What you can take out of Kahunas is documented in its help centre (checked 12 November 2026). For each client you can log a data request, confirm their identity and generate a zip data copy with their profile, check-ins, form answers, workout and nutrition logs, measurements, goals, payment records and uploaded photos. Kahunas emails the download link to the client, and it works for 72 hours. Chat messages are not in it yet. For your own account data, Kahunas support prepares a copy and emails download links within one month. We found no self-serve full account export.

On Kahunas your clients' payment subscriptions sit in your own Stripe or PayPal account, so ask any new vendor how they get set up there. Our guide on how to switch from Kahunas covers the steps.

our product, honestly

Where Coachway fits, and where it does not

We build Coachway, so read this section as ours.

Where Coachway may fit

• Nutrition-led coaching. A meal planner with 1,100+ recipes and 3,900+ ingredients, macros worked out as you build. The recipe library is metric, so it suits coaches outside the US best. Clients log food by searching about 3.7 million foods, scanning a barcode or quick adding. An AI food log turns a photo or typed meal into an estimate that the client corrects and confirms before it logs.
• Check-ins in the chat. A check-in arrives as one card in the client's thread with weight, change since the last check-in, photos and answers. You mark it reviewed there.
• Training. 1,700+ library exercises with demos, plus your own with an upload or a YouTube link.
• Languages. The client app and coach dashboard come in eight languages, and each client picks their own.
• One plan, no feature tiers. Every feature is included and the price follows your active clients, month to month.
• Payments on your own Stripe. Coachway never holds your money and takes 2.4% per transaction, plus Stripe's fees.

Where it does not

• Price. Coachway has no free plan, and it is not the low-price option. Kahunas costs less per client, and states 0% commission where we take 2.4% per transaction. Our price depends on your currency, so check the Coachway pricing page and do the sum against the tables above.
• No white-label app. Your logo and brand colours go on the progress images you share, not inside the client app. If a branded app is a must, look at Kahunas from 200 clients or Coach Catalyst's paid branded app.
• Habit coaching. If your coaching is mostly yes or no habits and lessons, Coach Catalyst's habit tools, 30+ done-for-you challenges and over 1000 lessons are built for that. Coachway is built around training, nutrition and check-ins, not habit courses.
• Subscriptions do not move. Client payment subscriptions are set up again on your own Stripe. We tell you what can move before anything changes.

If you want a wider view than these three, our guide to Kahunas alternatives compares the field.