How does this compare to Skool?
Skool is a good community platform and this is an honest comparison rather than a sales pitch, so it says where Skool is better as well as where we are. The short version: the rooms are similar, the money is not, and the two things Skool has that we do not are a phone app and a place where strangers can find you.
Updated 22 September 2026
The room itself is much the same
Both give you channels you name and reorder, posts with comments and reactions, polls, direct messages, member profiles and pinned posts. Both have a leaderboard and badges, and both let you run something with a start date and a daily task.
If somebody tells you one of these has a dramatically better room than the other, be sceptical. This is not where they differ.
What it costs to charge your members
Skool takes a cut of every payment: 10% and 30c on the $9 plan, or 2.9% and 30c on the $99 plan, rising to 3.9% on anything over $900. Those fees are all in, because Skool processes the money itself.
We take nothing. Payments run through your own Stripe account and land in your own bank. Our platform fee is set to zero on every connected account, which is a fact about how the payment is addressed rather than a discount that could be withdrawn.
Be careful with that comparison though. Zero from us is not zero altogether, because Stripe still take their card fee. The saving is the monthly bill and the platform cut, not every penny.
Open MembershipEmailing your own members
This is the widest gap between the two and it surprises people.
On Skool, emailing your members means writing a post and sending that post, and you can do it once every 72 hours. There are no campaigns, no sequences that run day by day, and no automations that fire when something happens to a member.
Here, emails to your members are included. They are drafted for you, sent by you, and you choose which slice of the room gets them.
Whose address it is, and whose members they are
A Skool community lives at skool.com and pays out to a Stripe Express account that Skool creates. You cannot use a Stripe account you already have, subscription prices are in US dollars, and payouts arrive on a Wednesday.
Here the community sits on your own domain. A .coach or .expert is set up instantly and free for the first year, then $29 a year, or you connect a domain you already own and that stays free. Your members export to a normal CSV whenever you want them.
The part that keeps a room alive
Communities rarely die of bad software. They die because the person who started it goes quiet around week three.
Both platforms leave the posting to you. Here you also get a short morning list of who arrived, who went quiet, who asked something you have answered before and who just had a win, each one with the message already drafted in your voice.
Nothing sends until you press send. There is no publish now button anywhere in it, deliberately.
We have no directory where a stranger can discover your community, and no app in the App Store. If those two are what you are buying, Skool has them and we do not.
And on moving across: your members come over as a CSV, but course content has to be rebuilt, and members who are already paying on Skool cannot be transferred. Their cards sit on Skool's merchant account, so each one has to subscribe again. That is small at twenty five members and it is the whole project at five hundred, which is an argument for moving sooner rather than later.
How do I charge for my community?
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Can I check comments before they go up?
Turn on comment approval and every member comment waits for you. It's a separate switch from the one for posts.
Can I message one member privately, and can members message each other?
Message one member from Community, then Members. Their reply comes back to that screen, not your email. Members messaging each other is a separate setting.
Can I read what members post before it goes up?
Yes — one setting. Off, member posts appear at once. On, nothing appears until you've read it. The waiting ones don't sit in the Feed.