Kahunas vs CoachingPortal: price, payments and branding side by side.

Kahunas vs CoachingPortal: client app, training, nutrition, check-ins, trial.

Everything in the CoachingPortal column is taken from its own pages, checked 12 November 2026. Text in quotation marks is its exact wording. Everything in the Kahunas column is from kahunas.io, its 2.0 post and its help centre, checked the same day.

Sources: kahunas.io/pricing, kahunas.io/blog/kahunas-2-0 (updated 28 October 2026), kahunas.io/features/web-app, coachingportal.io/pricing, exercise builder, nutrition, check-ins and FAQ, all checked 12 November 2026. "Says" means the vendor's own claim, which we have not tested.

Payments and branded app: where Kahunas and CoachingPortal differ most.

Payments. If you sell packages through your coaching software, this is the biggest difference on the page. Kahunas says clients pay through your own Stripe or PayPal account, that it takes no commission, and that you pay only Stripe's or PayPal's usual fees. CoachingPortal says it does not process client payments, has no invoicing or payout feature and takes no cut of what you charge, so you charge clients "however you already do". If you want billing and training in one tool, check that before you commit.

Branded app. Kahunas says its branded app is included from 200 clients and installs from your link, with no App Store or Google Play listing, developer account or store review (branded app page). Below 200 clients your clients use the same app with Kahunas branding. CoachingPortal says branding is on every plan, including Free, as a yourname.coachingportal.io address with your logo, colours and business name, and says plainly that it does not offer a coach-named store listing (white-label page). If you have fewer than 200 clients and want your logo in front of them, CoachingPortal publishes that at every size. If you have 200 or more, both do.

Training and nutrition depth. Both list workout builders, large exercise libraries, meal plans with food databases and barcode scanning. CoachingPortal describes RIR-based autoregulation, an E1RM estimate and suggested weight and rep increases as core to its builder; Kahunas describes a builder with live volume per muscle group and its Crew AI assistants for drafting programs and meal plans for coach approval. Which of those matters depends on how you coach. A free trial on each is the quickest way to find out.

Moving from Kahunas to CoachingPortal, and getting your data out.

On its Kahunas alternative page (checked 12 November 2026), CoachingPortal says there is no importer, and that the way across is to rebuild programs, bulk-invite your clients, run both tools for an overlap and then cancel. Its FAQ says it can advise by email on migration questions. That is its description of the move, not ours, and we have not tested it.

One practical note. CoachingPortal's Kahunas comparison page (marked "Updated April 2026", checked 12 November 2026) quotes Kahunas plans from before the pay-per-seat pricing. For current Kahunas prices, use kahunas.io/pricing.

Getting data out of Kahunas is the other half. Kahunas's help centre describes a per-client data copy as a zip, with a download link that works for 72 hours and no chat messages in it yet, plus a copy of your own account data that its support prepares and emails within one month (data request guide, checked 12 November 2026). On the CoachingPortal side, its trust page says it does not currently offer bulk data export and that coaches keep read access while the account is active.

Moving between any two tools has the same gap: client payment subscriptions do not travel with the data, and they have to be set up again on whichever payment account you use next. For our own steps, see how to switch from Kahunas.

Where Coachway fits next to Kahunas and CoachingPortal, and where it does not.

We build Coachway, so read this section as ours. Here is what it does, from our own list of things we can stand behind.

• Check-ins and chat together. Weight, photos and answers land in one check-in card inside the chat, with the change since the last check-in. Client list, chat, check-in and meal plan sit on one screen.
• Training and food. 1,700+ library exercises with demos, RIR, RPE and tempo per set, meal plans with macros worked out for you, and an AI food log where the client fixes the estimate before anything is logged.
• Payments. Clients pay into your own Stripe account. Coachway takes 2.4% per transaction, plus Stripe's own fees.
• Languages. The client app and coach dashboard come in eight languages, with Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and German reviewed by native-speaking coaches.
• No lock-in. Month to month, cancel any time, and meal plans and workout programs export as PDFs.

Where it does not fit. Coachway costs more than Kahunas and more than CoachingPortal at 10, 25, 50 and 100 clients; our current price is on our pricing page. It has no free plan; the trial takes a card. It has no white-label app: your logo and brand colours go on the progress images you share, not inside the client app. It takes 2.4% on payments, where Kahunas says 0%, and where CoachingPortal says it does not process payments.

If price, a free plan or your own logo in the client app decides it, one of the other two is the better pick. If you want check-ins, chat, programs and meal plans on one screen, payments on your own Stripe and a client app in eight languages, Coachway is worth a trial next to them.