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# Circle

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> Circle’s all-in-one platform brings together your community, courses, and content in one beautiful, user-friendly tool.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 48 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Circle

1\) All-in-one: &#10;&#10;Your members won’t have to switch between different tools for your community and content anymore. Get everything you need to engage and monetize your community — all in one place, under your brand. Mix and match posts, events, chat, live streams, payments, courses, and more to create the seamless member experience of your dreams.&#10;&#10;2) Highly customizable: &#10;&#10;There isn’t a single ‘right’ way to build a community. That’s why Circle provides all the building blocks and guidance you need to bring your unique community vision to life. Circle's highly customizable spaces empower you to set your community up just as you like it, while your own custom domain plus branding ensures that your brand stands out.&#10;&#10;3) Stay in control: &#10;&#10;Unlike a lot of other community platforms, Circle enables you to own your content, domain, and data. You have full control over the look and feel of your community as well as relationships with your members. Nobody has the power to ban your members, censor discussions, or delete your hard-earned work.&#10;&#10;4) Earn more: &#10;&#10;Circle’s easy monetization empowers your community to grow alongside your business. Using Paywalls, you can decide whether to charge for a single space, a set of spaces, your entire community, or a combination of all of the above. Earn more by offering free trials, discounts, upsells, and subscription options to your members at the right place, at the right time.&#10;&#10;5) Flexible: &#10;&#10;Circle both unifies your community-building tech stack and seamlessly fits into your existing workflow. Choose from thousands of integrations to customize your community, while SSO and API access allow you to connect Circle to your website, app, CRM, or any other valuable web asset. Circle is available on web, iOS, and Android.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 48 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support Software | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: CircleCo

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$49.00
- **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Basic Plan: $49/month —&#10;· Rich member profiles&#10;· Searchable member directory&#10;· Discussions&#10;· Real-time Chat Spaces&#10;· Events&#10;· Private Messaging&#10;· Paid Memberships&#10;· Custom Domain&#10;· Weekly Community Digest&#10;---&#10;Professional Plan: $99/month —&#10;· Everything on the Basic plan plus: &#10;· Unlimited members&#10;· Courses&#10;· Native Live Streams and Rooms&#10;· Brand Colors \&amp; Custom Themes&#10;· White-label Community&#10;· Zapier Integration&#10;· Reporting \&amp; Analytics&#10;· Custom Code Snippets&#10;· Conversion Tracking&#10;---&#10;Enterprise Plan: $399/month —&#10;· Everything on the Professional plan plus:&#10;· Custom SSO &#10;· API access&#10;· Concierge onboarding support &#10;· Dedicated Customer Success Manager \[Annual plan only\]&#10;· Custom Fields&#10;· Priority Customer Support&#10;· Sandbox Community&#10;· Email White-labeling&#10;· Up to 10 admins \&amp; unlimited moderators
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: Brazilian Portuguese, English, Portuguese
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more

## Features

- @mentions
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Billing & Invoicing
- Chat/Messaging
- Client Management
- Commenting/Notes
- Communication Management
- Contact Database
- Content Management System (CMS) Software
- Customizable Branding
- Customizable Fields
- Customizable Templates
- Data Import/Export
- Discussions/Forums
- Document Storage
- Drag & Drop

## Integrations (22 total)

- Airtable
- Auth0
- Bubble
- CodePen
- GitHub
- Google Maps
- Instagram
- Loom
- MemberSpace
- Memberstack
- Outseta
- Slack
- Stripe
- Thinkific
- Twitter/X

... and 7 more integrations

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base Software

## Category

- [Course Authoring Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/861/course-authoring/software)

## Related Categories

- [Course Authoring Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/861/course-authoring/software)
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- [Community Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/585/online-community/software)
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## Alternatives

1. [Slack](https://www.getapp.ca/software/91563/slack) — 4.7/5 (24101 reviews)
2. [Brilliant Directories](https://www.getapp.ca/software/107889/brilliant-directories) — 4.8/5 (803 reviews)
3. [Mighty Networks](https://www.getapp.ca/software/132779/mighty-networks) — 4.6/5 (91 reviews)
4. [Instagram](https://www.getapp.ca/software/107131/instagram) — 4.7/5 (5168 reviews)
5. [Discord](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2052950/discord) — 4.6/5 (535 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Circle Review" — 5.0/5

> **Genesis** | *March 9, 2023* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
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> **Pros**: Navigation is so easy to use and set up. Very product is driven and committed to updating new tools.
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> **Cons**: Real-time chat is a bit slow and sometimes glitches.

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### "The next level of your community" — 5.0/5

> **Marco** | *September 16, 2024* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Circle is a really great and flexible platform\! It allows you to build beautiful communities with extreme simplicity\! It also has many features such as the ability to create memebri areas and private groups, do live streaming directly from the platform, which will take the management and growth of your community to the next level.
> 
> **Cons**: It would be nice to be able to have Circle in multiple languages, this would not only allow for more customer acquisition, but would be really convenient for community members who struggle to speak English.
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> My experience has been great with Circle and I highly recommend it to those who want to create a high-profile community and give exclusivity to their members.

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### "Community first" — 4.0/5

> **Manuel** | *September 11, 2024* | Design | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: Circle is the membership tool that places the most emphasis on community aspects.&#10;&#10;For me, it's the closest thing to social media, just in a private and (if necessary) paid environment.&#10;&#10;Also, the support chatbot is surprisingly helpful. I found a lot of solutions within seconds I otherwise needed to wait hours or days for.
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> **Cons**: The course area needs some more features to be more competitive to other tools. In general, I'd like to have way more customization options, especially for the mobile apps to make it a more on-brand experience.
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> As a freelancer, I've built several Circle communities for my clients, which are mostly content creators who like to have a private community for monetizing their audience and having deeper conversations with their fans.

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### "The best plateform to have a professional community" — 5.0/5

> **Jennifer** | *September 11, 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Professionnal plateform&#10;Can be uses with btob
> 
> **Cons**: Not enough intuitive for administrator&#10;Limited spaces
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> I find the experience really professionnal, like slack

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### "Best Tool For Building Online Communities." — 5.0/5

> **Shamnas** | *October 22, 2024* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The flexibility it offers while creating paywalls, the inbuilt affiliate tracking system, spaces to organise my content, live meeting rooms.
> 
> **Cons**: Landing page builder could have been better.
> 
> Amazing. I just moved from skool to circle and I am loving it.

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