Skool

A branded social network for one community

Honeycommb brands the whole space as its own social network, starting at $24.99, the opposite bet from Skool's deliberately plain, uncustomizable interface.

Community, courses and memberships

Mighty Networks bundles the same community, courses and memberships as one space, starting at $79 with no free tier at all.

Your community as an app in the app stores

Disciple ships the community as its own branded app in the app stores, starting at $399, for a creator who wants a phone icon rather than a web page.

Community software that looks like yours, not ours

Circle brands the space to look like yours rather than a shared template, starting at $89, for someone who wants their own look where Skool's plainness is deliberate and fixed.

Courses, community and short challenges

Heights Platform adds short challenges as a format alongside courses and community, starting at $19 with no free tier.

A community with courses and events built in

Heartbeat bundles the same community, courses and events behind one membership, starting at $49 with no free tier at all.

Works with Discord

Paid memberships bolted onto a site you own

Memberful at $49 bolts paid membership onto a site you already own, keeping readers on your pages rather than in a platform.

Coaching software priced per active client

CoachAccountable prices per active client instead of a flat community fee, starting at $20, built for one-to-one coaching rather than a group space.

Channels for a community that outgrew a group chat

Slack from $9 with a free tier gives a paid group channels immediately, without the course player or the revenue share.

Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel

DoorFee wraps a sales funnel around a paid Discord server rather than replacing Discord with a new space, with a free tier before a $28 plan.

Works with Discord

Forum software you host yourself

Flarum is forum software you host yourself, free, threads on your own server with no courses or payments attached.