Best Online Community Platforms

Online community platform reviews covering member engagement tools, moderation, SSO and integrations, mobile apps and per-member pricing.

3 products

Circle is a community platform for creators and brands: discussions, chat, courses, events and paid memberships on your own domain, sold flat per community.

Features

Has Threaded discussions
Has Real-time chat channels
Has Private and gated spaces
Has Paid memberships and subscriptions
Has Courses and lessons
Has Events and RSVPs
Has Live streaming and live rooms
Has Member directory
Has Points, badges and leaderboards
Has Moderation queue and content flagging
Has Custom domain for the community
Has Branded mobile apps
Has Embedded member authentication
Has Community automation workflows
Has Weekly email digests
Has Member engagement analytics
Has Community API
Missing Idea voting boards
Has Headless and embeddable components
Missing Self-hosted option

Discourse is an open source discussion forum and community platform, run as managed hosting on Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans or self-hosted for free.

Features

Has Threaded discussions
Has Real-time chat channels
Has Private and gated spaces
Has Paid memberships and subscriptions
Missing Courses and lessons
Has Events and RSVPs
Missing Live streaming and live rooms
Has Member directory
Has Points, badges and leaderboards
Has Moderation queue and content flagging
Has Custom domain for the community
Missing Branded mobile apps
Has Embedded member authentication
Has Community automation workflows
Has Weekly email digests
Has Member engagement analytics
Has Community API
Has Idea voting boards
Has Headless and embeddable components
Has Self-hosted option

Mighty Networks is a hosted community platform for creators selling memberships, courses and events on their own domain, with branded apps on the top tier.

Features

Has Threaded discussions
Has Real-time chat channels
Has Private and gated spaces
Has Paid memberships and subscriptions
Has Courses and lessons
Has Events and RSVPs
Has Live streaming and live rooms
Has Member directory
Has Points, badges and leaderboards
Has Moderation queue and content flagging
Has Custom domain for the community
Has Branded mobile apps
Has Embedded member authentication
Has Community automation workflows
Has Weekly email digests
Has Member engagement analytics
Has Community API
Missing Idea voting boards
Missing Headless and embeddable components
Missing Self-hosted option
0 selected