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Circle

Circle is an all-in-one community platform that lets digital entrepreneurs and brands host discussions, live events, and courses while managing paid memberships, all under their own branding. It combines community spaces, native iOS/Android apps, email marketing, and monetization tools like paywalls and subscriptions, used by creators such as Jay Shetty, Tim Ferriss, and Pat Flynn.

Teachable

Teachable is a platform that lets creators, experts, and businesses build and monetize educational products including online courses, digital downloads, coaching sessions, and memberships from a single dashboard. It handles hosting, payments, and student experience so creators can focus on content.

LearnWorlds

LearnWorlds is an AI-powered learning management system that lets training providers, coaches and companies build, market and sell online courses under their own brand. It combines course creation tools (video, ebooks, assessments, SCORM, certificates) with a website builder offering 50+ industry templates and a built-in commerce engine for selling courses, bundles and subscriptions. Beyond course delivery, LearnWorlds supports live sessions, community and cohort spaces, a mobile app builder, and AI-generated video transcripts and quizzes, alongside 50+ native integrations with tools like Zoom, Stripe, HubSpot and Mailchimp. The platform reports serving over 13,000 learning businesses, ranging from independent course creators to corporate training departments and NGOs.

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.

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.

Selfany

Selfany is an all-in-one monetization platform for creators and small businesses, combining course sales, digital products, paid community memberships, event ticketing, booking, and invoicing under one storefront. It supports payments in 135+ currencies with instant payouts, aimed at creators building an audience outside a single home market. Rather than charging a monthly subscription, Selfany takes a small transaction fee per sale, letting creators keep the rest. Its free community layer, Selfany Spaces, lets creators build and run a membership community without a separate tool, alongside link-in-bio pages, an affiliate network, and cloud storage for content delivery.