Best Coaching Software

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What is the best community platform for coaches?

What we judged it on

These criteria are about your situation, not about product quality. If you disagree with them, the recommendation below does not apply to you, and you should stop reading here rather than trusting it.

  • 1. Active discussion between sessions
  • 2. Membership billing
  • 3. Somewhere people return to without being chased

The pick

Someone else’s product

Skool & Circle

community platform · $49–99/mo

Purpose-built for community and better at it than the community module in any coaching platform, ours included.

Skool & Circle — parts included2 of 11
  • 1SchedulingBuy separately
  • 2Video sessionsBuy separately
  • 3PaymentsBuy separately
  • 4ContractsBuy separately
  • 5ProgrammesBuy separately
  • 6Habits and check-insBuy separately
  • 7CoursesPartial
  • 8CommunityIncluded
  • 9WebsiteBuy separately
  • 10Email marketingBuy separately
  • 11Client appBuy separately

Where this pick falls down

Weak on one-to-one work and structured programmes, so most coaches end up running it alongside something else.

When to buy something else instead

The alternative

Mighty Networks

community platform · $95–215/mo + 1–2% of sales

You want courses and community more tightly bound together.

Mighty Networks — parts included3 of 11
  • 1SchedulingBuy separately
  • 2Video sessionsBuy separately
  • 3PaymentsIncluded
  • 4ContractsBuy separately
  • 5ProgrammesBuy separately
  • 6Habits and check-insBuy separately
  • 7CoursesPartial
  • 8CommunityIncluded
  • 9WebsiteBuy separately
  • 10Email marketingBuy separately
  • 11Client appBuy separately
Compare the two diagrams above. The difference between them is the set of parts you would be buying separately, which is usually a bigger cost than the difference in monthly price.

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