Zen Planner or Konjo?
What each one is built for
Zen Planner was built first to run a large multi-discipline studio, priced on how many members it has. Konjo was built around a belt ladder and what a student does between classes.
What Konjo is built for
Martial arts schools that teach a curriculum and grade people against it. Belts, requirements, testing, attendance and the money that keeps the doors open, in one system.
One flat monthly price for your location, every feature in it, no plan levels and no per-student fee. We give you the figure on the call, because founding-dojo pricing is open while we launch and we would rather quote you than date-stamp a number on a page.
What Zen Planner is built for
Established gyms and studios that want a large platform priced on active members, with the marketing and website pieces bought alongside it.
Zen Planner is gym and studio management software, part of Daxko, sold to martial arts schools alongside yoga, pilates, dance, gymnastics and functional fitness. It publishes a full price grid banded by how many active members a school has, and sells its website, engagement and branded-app products on top of it.
A published grid, banded on active members and never staff: $99 a month up to 45, then $133, $155, $189, $229, $239, $269 and $289 at 251 and above. On top of that a website at $99, Zen Planner Engage at $249 and a branded app at $39, or bundles from $198 to $538. Third-party reports put it on twelve-month commitments.
Where these numbers come from: Source 8, Source 9, Source 11.
Konjo and Zen Planner, row by row
24 rows, in the order an owner asks them, with a dated source under every claim about Zen Planner.
- Included — the product does this
- Partial — it does part of this
- Not offered — it does not do this
- Not published — its own pages do not answer this row, so we do not score it
How to read the marks. Sources in the Zen Planner column are Zen Planner’s own pages, or a third party where the note says so. Every Konjo cell links to the Konjo page that describes it — our own word, not an outside check. A mark scores what a product does, not what it charges for it: where a feature costs extra, the mark stands and the price is in the note beside it.
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| Feature | Konjo | Zen Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Built for martial arts schools | ✓Belts, curriculum, test requirements and readiness are the product, not a field added to it. Source 3 | |
| A belt ladder for each style | ✓Every style carries its own ladder. A student who trains two arts holds a rank in each, on one profile. Source 3 | ◐Belt and skill tracking, with each student’s rank on their profile. A separate ladder per style is not described. Source 9 |
| Years in market and schools served | NewKonjo is launching with its first schools. There is no customer count to publish. Source 4 | –It publishes no school or gym count. Its footer names Daxko as the company behind it. Source 8 |
| Reviews on independent sites | None yetKonjo has no public reviews yet. When there are enough to be worth reading, they will be linked here. Source 4 | –No rating on its own pages. Source 8 |
| Belt testing workflow | ✓Test events, a roster built from your requirements, results, promotions in bulk, and a certificate. Source 3 | ◐A student’s rank on their profile shows who is next in line for belt testing. No test event, results or bulk promotion workflow is published. Source 10 |
| Curriculum with video, scoped to a rank | ✓What this belt requires, with video, set by your dojo, and nothing from three ranks ahead. Source 6 | ✓Shared curriculum: martial arts techniques with example videos, for the skills a student needs to rank. Source 10 |
| Training journal for the student | ✓A class or a solo session logged in seconds, and kept. Over a year it is the record of how they got to the next belt. Source 6 | ◐Advanced workout tracking is in the package at every price level. That is fitness logging, not a martial arts training journal. Source 8 |
| Practice that repeats what you forget | ✓Flashcards on a spaced schedule for the material a student has to recite at a test. Source 6 | –Not on its martial arts or pricing pages. Source 9 |
| Video coaching with written feedback | ✓A student sends video and gets structured feedback back against the requirement. Source 6 | –Not on its martial arts or pricing pages. Source 9 |
| Instructor tools on the floor | ✓Class mode, attendance, class plans and readiness, in the same app the instructor already carries. Source 6 | |
| Member app included at no extra charge | ✓Included for every student and every instructor. It is the Konjo app, not an app with your dojo’s name on it. It runs in any browser today; iOS is in Apple’s TestFlight beta with the App Store to follow, and Android is in testing. Source 6 | ◐A member app and a staff app are in the package at every price level. The app carrying your school’s own name is a $39-a-month add-on. Source 8 |
| Family accounts | ✓One parent login manages every child, including children too young for an account of their own. Source 6 | ✓One shared family account holds multiple parents and children, with a single sign-up for the family. Source 10 |
| Public dojo page with trial booking | ✓A page at your own address with your schedule and a trial form that files a lead you can work. Source 3 | ✓Its Website product is $99 a month on top of a Studio plan, or bundled with one from $198. Source 8 |
| Email and SMS automations | ◐Email and opt-in text messages to your whole school or a segment of it, with automations, unsubscribe and STOP handled. No AI lead follow-up. Source 3 | ✓Marketing tools and automations are in the package at every price level. Zen Planner Engage, its CRM and engagement product, is $249 a month on top. Source 8 |
| Full website builder | ◐One public dojo page, not a site you can build out. If you already have a website, keep it. Source 3 | ✓Its Website product is $99 a month on top of a Studio plan, and Zen Planner Engage includes one. Source 8 |
| Memberships and billing | ◐Memberships and billing run on Stripe Connect and launch with your dojo. Your dojo’s own Stripe account is connected during Guided Launch, and no school is billing live on it yet. Source 3 | ✓Simplified billing and integrated payment processing are in the package at every price level. Source 8 |
| Markup on card processing | NoneCard processing is Stripe’s own rate, paid to Stripe. Konjo adds no markup and takes no cut. Source 1 | |
| Price published as a number | On the callThe model is published in full — one flat monthly price for your location, every feature in it, no plan levels. The figure is quoted on the call and put in writing. Source 1 | ✓Eight bands under “Plans & Tiers”, from $99 a month to $289, plus a $99 website, Engage at $249, a branded app at $39 and bundles from $198. Source 8 |
| Try it before you talk to anyone | ✕No free trial and no self-serve signup. What replaces it is a 30-minute demo on a sample dojo set up with ranks like yours. Source 7 | –Not on its martial arts or pricing pages. Source 8 |
| Same price whatever your size | ✓A school of 40 and a school of 400 pay the same. Source 1 | ✕Priced on active members: $99 up to 45, then seven more bands to $289 at 251 and above. Staff and prospects are not counted. Source 8 |
| Contract or minimum term | NoneNo contract and no minimum term. Cancel in the product before your next renewal. Source 1 | 12 monthsTwelve-month commitments are reported (third-party). Source 11 |
| Getting your data back out | ✓Full CSV export while you are a customer, and for 30 days after you leave. No fee. Source 1 | ◐A data export fee of about $750 is reported (third-party). Source 11 |
| Who sets your school up | –Not on its martial arts or pricing pages. Source 8 | |
| How you get help after launch | ◐One person, not a support desk. Email, or write from inside Konjo Studio. The target for a first reply is one business day, and there are scheduled office hours. No phone line, and no plan that gets answered sooner. Source 2 | ◐Two phone numbers, a help center and a contact page. No channels, hours or response times. Source 8 |
Sources
- 1. Konjo — how pricing workshttps://getkonjo.com/pricingRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 2. Konjo — support after your first 90 dayshttps://getkonjo.com/pricing#after-launchRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 3. Konjo Studio — what the owner’s dashboard doeshttps://getkonjo.com/product/studioRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 4. About Konjohttps://getkonjo.com/aboutRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 5. Konjo — how switching workshttps://getkonjo.com/switchRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 6. Konjo — the member app, and where it runs todayhttps://getkonjo.com/product/appRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 7. Konjo — what a demo is, and what happens after you ask for onehttps://getkonjo.com/demoRead Sep 5, 2026.
- 8. Zen Planner — pricing tiershttps://www.zenplanner.com/pricing-tiers/Read Sep 5, 2026.
- 9. Zen Planner — martial arts management softwarehttps://zenplanner.com/martial-arts/Read Sep 5, 2026.
- 10. Zen Planner — martial arts school softwarehttps://zenplanner.com/martial-arts-studio-software/Read Sep 5, 2026.
- 11. Zen Planner review, by a competitor (third-party)https://www.gymdesk.com/blog/zen-planner-reviewRead Sep 5, 2026.
Take any row that matters to your school and we will show you the answer with the product open — including the rows Zen Planner wins.
Where each one is ahead
Both lists are short, and neither one is padded. If something on the left is the thing your dojo runs on, say so on the call and we will tell you straight whether to wait.
Where Zen Planner is ahead
- Its billing is running today. Billing and payment processing are in the Zen Planner package at every price level. Your dojo’s own Stripe account is connected during Guided Launch, and no school is billing live on it yet.
- It has been in the market far longer, and it is part of Daxko, with a help center and a support organization behind it.
- It does belts, families and shared curriculum on its martial arts pages: rank on a profile, one household account, and technique videos for the skills a student needs to rank.
- It sells a website at $99 a month and a branded member app carrying your school’s name at $39. Konjo has neither.
- Zen Planner Engage, at $249 a month, carries marketing automation and a lead funnel that Konjo does not do.
- A small school pays less. At 45 active members or fewer, the whole Studio package is $99 a month.
Where Konjo is ahead
- Your price does not step as the school grows. Zen Planner moves through eight bands on active members alone, from $99 a month to $289.
- One price, not a stack. Zen Planner’s website, engagement product and branded app are $99, $249 and $39 a month on top of whichever band you land in.
- No contract and no minimum term. Zen Planner is reported to ask for twelve months.
- Your data comes out as CSV at no charge, while you are a customer and for 30 days after. Zen Planner is reported to charge about $750 for an export.
- Belts, curriculum, testing and readiness are the product. Zen Planner tracks belts well, and martial arts is one of a dozen markets it sells the same software to.
Moving from Zen Planner
Third-party reports say Zen Planner charges around $750 for a data export, so ask for your data early and read your agreement first. Send us whatever you get and we will work with the shape it arrives in.
What we bring across
Your people and households, and the rank each student holds today on your own ladder. Your memberships and who is on what, your belt ladders and what each rank requires, your programs, your class schedule and your curriculum with its video. Your waiver, your locations, and the first year a new student follows. Nobody arrives in Konjo as a white belt.
What we quote separately: the dated history behind all of it — past promotions, attendance and payments in your old system. Send the exports and we scope it with you before you commit to a date.
Recurring billing is set up again on Stripe, and each family enters a card once. Konjo does not import saved card numbers.
Konjo builds your dojo from those exports, section by section. You read every section and ask for corrections, and nothing goes live until you have approved it.
See both, with your own school in front of you.
Bring your dojo’s ranks, classes and curriculum. We will show you Konjo running with them, and answer any row in the table with the product open.
Three boxes and a tap, and the rest is optional. Galen replies within one business day. The call takes about 30 minutes. It runs on a sample dojo set up with ranks like yours.