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Podia

Podia is an all-in-one platform for creators to build and sell online courses, digital downloads, coaching sessions, and paid communities from a single storefront. Courses support drip-fed lessons, quizzes, and completion certificates, while the built-in community feature offers topic-based discussion spaces, group chats, and both free and paid membership tiers. Podia also includes a website builder with a custom domain and blog, live and in-person event ticketing, and email marketing with automated sequences built around a creator's own audience data. Paid plans run from $42 to $150 per month when billed annually, with lower tiers charging a 5% transaction fee that is removed on the Shaker plan and above; all plans include a 30-day free trial.

Thinkific

Thinkific is a learning commerce platform that lets entrepreneurs, educators, and companies build and sell online courses without needing separate hosting, video, or payment tools. Its drag-and-drop course builder supports video lessons, quizzes, assignments, certificates, and SCORM content, and pairs with built-in commerce features like hosted checkout, subscriptions, payment plans, and automated tax/VAT handling. Beyond course delivery, Thinkific includes community spaces linked to specific lessons, live Zoom-based coaching, branded iOS/Android apps, and an AI teaching assistant ('Thinker AI') for content creation. A separate Thinkific Plus tier adds enterprise features like SSO, custom user roles, and dedicated support for larger training organizations.

Disco

Disco is a learning platform that lets organizations and creators build and scale branded learning experiences that combine structured courses, cohort-based programs, community features, and AI assistance. Its AI Canvas tool helps build a course quickly, while community features like live events, chat, and gamified leaderboards keep learners engaged.

Mighty Networks

Mighty Networks lets creators and businesses build online communities that combine discussion spaces, structured courses, and live events under one branded platform. It emphasizes member-led participation over passive content consumption, with native iOS and Android apps that the company says drive significantly higher engagement than web alone.

Bettermode

Bettermode (formerly Tribe) is a no-code community platform that lets companies launch branded customer communities for discussions, Q&A, events, and product feedback without engineering resources. Its modular, drag-and-drop builder lets non-technical teams customize layout, spaces, and features, and it's used by companies like IBM, Webflow, and Lenovo for customer engagement and support deflection. The platform includes reputation and gamification systems, AI-powered search and onboarding, and native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Intercom, and Segment for connecting community activity to CRM and support data. Pricing scales from a self-serve Starter plan to custom enterprise contracts with SSO, audit logs, and dedicated support.

Geneva

Geneva is a group-chat and community platform centered on helping people find and organize local groups around shared interests, such as running clubs, book groups, and dinner clubs, in their own city. Each group gets its own space for chat, events, and photo sharing rather than being folded into a single global feed. The app leans toward turning online group chat into real offline meetups, with local and social tags to help people discover nearby groups worth joining. Geneva was acquired by Bumble Inc., which continues to operate it as a standalone community app.