Kahunas vs TrainerStudio: free plan, branded app, price and support language.
Two coaching platforms, two different models. This page sets them side by side using only what each one publishes itself: its pricing page, its feature pages and, for TrainerStudio, its own Kahunas comparison pages. Every fact is dated and linked where it is used, and the page says who each one suits.
By Markus Evers · Published 12 November 2026
Disclosure: we build Coachway, which competes with both. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Kahunas or TrainerStudio. Facts checked 12 November 2026; a correction can be sent to [email protected]. Our sources.
the short answer
Pick TrainerStudio if you want to start free with up to 3 clients, put your own brand on the client app from the first client, or coach in Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese as well as English. Pick Kahunas if you want its longer feature list and payments through Stripe or PayPal with no commission taken by Kahunas. Its branded app is listed from 200 seats. On the listed numbers TrainerStudio is free to 3 clients and lower at 5 and 15, and the two are close from 30 up, but the currencies differ and TrainerStudio prices by country, so check your own.
Kahunas vs TrainerStudio, side by side.
| Kahunas | TrainerStudio | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No. 14-day trial, card taken at sign-up | Yes: free for up to 3 active clients, no card |
| Pricing model | Per seat (active client or team member), USD 5.00 down to 0.50 a seat, 3-seat minimum | By active clients in set bands, priced by country. Spain and Europe: EUR 19 to 149 |
| Branded client app | From 200 clients: logo and colour on its web app, no store listing | Every plan, including the free one |
| Payments | Stripe or PayPal, 0% commission | Stripe (marked Beta on its pricing page), plus manual logging of cash and bank transfers |
| Nutrition | Nutrition plans on every tier, Recipe Builder from 25 seats, over 1.5 million foods | Meal plans with recipes and macros, Open Food Facts and BEDCA databases, every plan |
| Team members | Take a seat; team seats from 50 seats | No extra charge: you pay for active clients, not seats |
| Wearables | Oura, Whoop, Strava and Ultrahuman listed | No automatic Strava or Garmin sync; athletes log in the app |
| Languages | No interface language list found on its pages | Dashboard in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese |
| Size, self-reported | 15,000+ coaches | 12,000+ coaches |
Sources: kahunas.io/pricing, Kahunas branded app page and Kahunas blog; TrainerStudio pricing and TrainerStudio's Kahunas page. All checked 12 November 2026. Coach counts are what each company says about itself and we have not verified them.
Kahunas vs TrainerStudio price at 3 to 200 clients.
Kahunas moved to per-seat pricing with its Kahunas 2.0 update, and its pricing page says existing coaches keep their current plan, price and features until they choose a seat plan themselves. The figures below are the seat plan. For how a seat is counted and what unlocks at each tier, see our Kahunas 2.0 explainer and our guide to Kahunas per-seat pricing.
TrainerStudio does not price per seat. It sells bands of active clients, and its pricing page says prices follow the cost of living where you coach. The euro plans below are the ones it lists for Spain and Europe on its Kahunas comparison pages.
| Active clients | Kahunas, monthly, USD | TrainerStudio, Spain and Europe, EUR |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 15 (3-seat minimum) | Free |
| 5 | 25 | 19 (up to 5 clients) |
| 15 | 62.50 (billed as 25 seats, as that costs less) | 39 (up to 15 clients) |
| 30 | 75 | 69 (up to 30 clients) |
| 50 | 100 | 99 (up to 50 clients) |
| 100 | 150 | 149 (unlimited clients) |
| 200 | 200 | 149 (unlimited clients) |
Kahunas figures are our arithmetic from its published ladder, monthly billing, US dollars before tax, clients only (each team member adds a seat). Yearly billing takes 20 percent off every seat. TrainerStudio figures are its listed monthly plans. We did not convert currencies, so use your own country's price from each pricing page before you decide.
TrainerStudio's Kahunas pages show Kahunas figures with a review date of 2 June 2026, so for Kahunas numbers use Kahunas's own page. On payments, Kahunas says it takes no commission and you pay Stripe's or PayPal's usual fees. We found no TrainerStudio platform fee stated on the pages we read, so ask before you rely on it.
Which one gives you a branded client app?
TrainerStudio says the branded app is included in every plan, the free one too: you set the name, colour and icon, and clients open it from your own web address, for example a name on trainerstudio.io. It also says clients can open it from a link with no sign-up, or install a native iPhone or Android app, and either way they see your logo, colours and name (trainerstudio.com, checked 12 November 2026).
Kahunas puts the branded app at 200 clients: "Included from 200 clients", per its branded app page, checked 12 November 2026. Your logo and colour go on the client web app, the home screen icon, the login page and the coach portal, with no store listing. At 200 seats the pricing page lists USD 1.00 a seat a month, or USD 0.80 a seat billed yearly, so USD 200 a month, or USD 160 a month on yearly billing. Below 200 seats clients use the standard Kahunas app, which they install from your link.
Languages and support: where TrainerStudio is built for Spanish.
TrainerStudio says its dashboard is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, that its support is fastest in Spanish and that its team is based in Spain (TrainerStudio, checked 12 November 2026).
We found no list of interface languages on the Kahunas pages we read, so check with Kahunas that the language you need is covered. For support, Kahunas's help centre says to create a ticket from Support in your account (help.kahunas.app, checked 12 November 2026), and its pricing page lists priority support from 50 seats (kahunas.io/pricing, checked 12 November 2026).
where trainerstudio fits
TrainerStudio
TrainerStudio says its first 3 clients are free with no time limit and no card, that every feature is in every plan and that price depends only on active clients. It adds team members without a per-seat charge, includes meal plans with recipes and macros, sends WhatsApp reminders and has an AI assistant inside the dashboard. For a coach starting out, that is what TrainerStudio lists.
Check before you switch: TrainerStudio's own page says it is still expanding external integrations, so check anything you depend on. It marks its Stripe payments as Beta and says there is no automatic Strava or Garmin sync.
where kahunas fits
Kahunas
Kahunas lists a long set of tools: AI Crew assistants that draft programs, meal plans and forms for the coach to approve, daily client insights, blood lab extraction from a PDF or photo, wearables including Oura, Whoop and Strava, automations, communities and courses (Kahunas blog, updated 28 October 2026, checked 12 November 2026). It pairs a 1,700+ exercise library with over 1.5 million foods (kahunas.io) and takes payments through Stripe or PayPal with no commission. A coach with a large roster who wants those tools in one place may prefer to stay.
Check before you sign up: Kahunas lists the branded app from 200 seats and recipes and automations from 25 seats. It has no free plan. Its 14-day trial takes a card at sign-up, and its feature pages add a 3-month money-back guarantee.
Which should you choose?
- You are starting out, or have 1 to 3 clients. TrainerStudio. It is free for up to 3 active clients.
- You want your own brand on the client app now. TrainerStudio. It is on every plan. Kahunas offers it from 200 clients.
- You coach in Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. TrainerStudio lists all four for its dashboard.
- You take payments with PayPal, or want 0% commission from the platform. Kahunas. It lists Stripe or PayPal and no commission.
- You want AI assistants, wearables and lab results in one tool. Kahunas lists all three.
- You already run on Kahunas with a settled client base. Staying is a fair answer. Kahunas says existing coaches keep their plan and price, and a move costs you setup time either way.
Where Coachway fits next to Kahunas and TrainerStudio.
We build Coachway, so weigh this section accordingly. Coachway has no free plan and no white-label app: your logo and colours go on the progress images you share, not inside the client app. It is also the higher-priced option here. In the US it is USD 39 a month for your first 5 active clients, then USD 4.99 for each extra, so 10 clients cost USD 63.95. Check our pricing page for your country. Payments run on your own Stripe account and Coachway takes 2.4% per transaction plus Stripe's fees, where Kahunas says it takes none.
What you get for that: one price with no feature tiers, and a coach workspace built around the weekly check-in. Client list, chat, check-in and meal plan sit on one screen, and each check-in is one card with the change since last time. Clients log food by searching about 3.7 million foods, scanning a barcode or using quick add, or send a photo and fix the AI estimate before it logs. Meal plans come from a built-in recipe and ingredient library with macros worked out for you. The exercise library has 1,700+ exercises with demos.
Coachway fits a coach who cares more about the check-in and nutrition workflow than about a branded app or a free tier. If neither fits, our Kahunas alternatives guide compares the wider field. If you are on Kahunas now and weighing a move to us, how to switch from Kahunas lists the steps and what Kahunas documents about data copies.
leaving kahunas?
We move you to Coachway in one day, free.
Sign up on coachway.io/kahunas/ and the checkout shows 30 days free. Card required, nothing is charged during your free month. Tell us what to move and a person from our team does the migration with you. We tell you what moves before anything changes, and client payment subscriptions are set up again on your own Stripe.
Coachway is not affiliated with or endorsed by Kahunas.
Kahunas vs TrainerStudio, frequently asked.
Is Kahunas or TrainerStudio better for online coaches?
It depends on what you need first. TrainerStudio fits a coach who wants a free start, their own brand on the client app from the first client, or support in Spanish. Kahunas fits a coach who wants its longer feature list and PayPal as well as Stripe. Its branded app is listed from 200 seats. Facts checked 12 November 2026.
How much does Kahunas cost compared with TrainerStudio?
Kahunas bills per seat, where a seat is an active client or a team member, with a 3-seat minimum: USD 5.00 a month per seat 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. TrainerStudio lists its Spain and Europe plans as free up to 3 clients, EUR 19 up to 5, EUR 39 up to 15, EUR 69 up to 30, EUR 99 up to 50 and EUR 149 for unlimited clients, and says prices are set per country. The currencies differ and we did not convert them.
Do Kahunas and TrainerStudio have a free plan?
TrainerStudio does: free for up to 3 active clients, with no time limit and no credit card, according to its pricing page. Kahunas has no free plan. It offers a 14-day free trial, and per its pricing FAQ Stripe takes your card when you sign up and charges nothing until the trial ends. Coachway has no free plan either.
Which one gives me a branded client app?
TrainerStudio says the branded client app, with your logo, colours and name, is included in every plan, the free one too. On Kahunas the branded app is included from 200 clients: your logo and colour on its web app, with no store listing, per its branded app page. Below 200 seats clients use the standard Kahunas app. Coachway has no white-label app: your logo and colours go on the progress images you share, not inside the client app.
Which languages and support do they cover?
TrainerStudio says its dashboard is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, and that its support is fastest in Spanish. We found no list of interface languages on the Kahunas pages we read, so check with Kahunas that the language you need is covered. Coachway's client app and coach dashboard come in eight languages, and Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and German were reviewed by native-speaking coaches.
Can I move my clients from Kahunas to TrainerStudio?
TrainerStudio's Kahunas page says there is no automatic importer: you invite clients by email and rebuild your programs and nutrition plans, and its support can help set that up. Move one client first, run a real week, and keep Kahunas running until the new setup holds.
I am on Kahunas and thinking of switching. How does the move to Coachway work?
Our team does the migration for you, in one day, free. Sign up on coachway.io/kahunas/, where the checkout shows 30 days free and a card is required. Then tell us you are coming from Kahunas so our team can plan the move, with the short form on coachway.io/kahunas/ or the chat in the app. A person on our team replies the same day on weekdays. Before anything changes we tell you what we can move and what we cannot. Client payment subscriptions are never moved: they are set up again on your own Stripe account. For the steps on the Kahunas side, see our guide on how to switch from Kahunas.
disclosure and sources
Coachway is our product, and it competes with both Kahunas and TrainerStudio. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by either. We checked every Kahunas and TrainerStudio fact on this page on 12 November 2026, from each company's own pages:
- kahunas.io/pricing
- kahunas.io/features/branded-app
- kahunas.io/blog/kahunas-2-0 (updated 28 October 2026)
- kahunas.io
- help.kahunas.app
- trainerstudio.com/en/pricing
- trainerstudio.com/en/alternatives/kahunas and trainerstudio.com/en/comparison/trainerstudio-vs-kahunas
- trainerstudio.com/en
The Kahunas costs in the price table are our own arithmetic from its published ladder. Coach counts are self-reported by each company. If Kahunas or TrainerStudio publishes something that changes a fact here, or wants to send a correction or a statement, write to [email protected] and we will update the page and its date.
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