Memberful vs Uscreen Comparison 2026
Memberful charges $49 a month plus 4.9 percent of everything a member pays, with no cap on subscriber count. Uscreen's Growth plan also starts at $49 a month, but takes no cut of subscription revenue at all, capped at 100 subscribers, and ships native phone and television apps under your own name. Under that cap, Uscreen is the cheaper of the two for pure membership income. Past it, the comparison changes entirely once Uscreen's per-subscriber fee kicks in.
At a glance
- Neither has a free tier.
- Memberful takes 4.9% of what you earn against Uscreen's 10%.
Side by side
Memberful | Uscreen | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $49 | From $49 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
Memberful
Paid memberships bolted onto a site you own
Memberful sells memberships from a site you already run rather than moving your audience to a platform, and it is the tool most WordPress publishers reach for when they start charging. One price covers everything and the money is charged on top as a percentage. Nothing is billed until a first payment comes in, so a launch that never launches costs nothing.
Our note
The 4.9 percent is the number to model, because it is charged on revenue rather than on profit: at $2,000 a month collected it is about double the subscription. Against Ghost, which takes nothing, this wins on flexibility and loses on arithmetic once you are large.
Only on this side
- Covers community platforms
- Covers monetization & payments
Uscreen
A video membership with its own apps
Uscreen is for creators who want subscribers paying for a library rather than viewers watching an ad, and it will ship that library as a phone and television app under your own name. The entry plan takes no cut of a subscription and caps you at a hundred subscribers, so the pricing pushes growth toward the tier with a per-subscriber fee. One-time sales are charged at ten percent on that first plan.
Why people weigh these two
- Uscreen instead of Memberful
- Uscreen at $49 builds a video membership with its own apps, for a catalogue people watch rather than pages they read.
- Memberful instead of Uscreen
- Memberful bolts a paid membership onto a site you already own instead of a dedicated video platform, from $49, no television app but no platform to learn either.
Which one should you pick
Pick Memberful if you expect to grow past 100 paying members and want a flat cut with no ceiling, or if you specifically want subscriptions running on your own site rather than inside branded apps. The 4.9 percent fee applies to every member payment forever, so model that against Uscreen's structure before assuming the identical $49 sticker price makes them equivalent.
Pick Uscreen if your content, fitness, cooking, instruction, suits a phone and television app with your name on it rather than a website page. Growth is $49 a month with no percentage taken from subscriptions at all, as long as you stay under 100 subscribers; past that, Pro at $149 plus $1.99 a subscriber is the tier to compare against Memberful's flat 4.9 percent instead.
Common questions
- Both cost $49 a month. What is actually different?
- The cut taken from subscriptions. Uscreen's Growth plan takes no percentage on membership income at all, only a 10 percent fee on one-time sales, but caps out at 100 subscribers. Memberful takes 4.9 percent of every member payment with no subscriber limit.
- What happens after Uscreen's 100-subscriber cap?
- The plan changes entirely. Pro is $149 a month plus $1.99 per subscriber, which needs to be modeled against Memberful's flat 4.9 percent at your expected size, since the per-subscriber fee adds up fast past a few hundred members.
- Which one ships a branded app?
- Uscreen does, phone and television apps built under your own name, which is its main reason to exist. Memberful has no equivalent; it adds membership billing to a website you already run rather than shipping an app.
- Does either charge for one-time sales as well as subscriptions?
- Uscreen does, a 10 percent fee on one-time sales on the Growth plan, dropping to 5 percent on Pro. Memberful's listing describes its 4.9 percent fee as applying to what members pay generally, without separating one-time sales from recurring membership.
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