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# Circle

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> Circle is the AI platform for community, learning, and coaching businesses, all under your own brand.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 48 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Circle

1\. Own your brand and audience. 
Build a dedicated, white-labeled home for your community with full control and ownership, not a space rented inside someone else’s platform.

2. Replace a disjointed tech stack. 
Run community, courses, events, email, and payments in one platform instead of juggling separate tools.

3. Grow recurring revenue. 
Monetize with paid memberships, gated content, and subscriptions, plus one-click in-app purchases on branded mobile apps.

4. Keep members engaged. 
Events, gamification, and push notifications keep your community active, and Circle Plus customers see up to 37% higher engagement and 7x mobile adoption.

5. Scale with AI and automation. 
Circle AI helps build and run your business, while AI agents and workflows handle onboarding, support, and moderation around the clock.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 48 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 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

- **Pricing model**:  (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Run your entire digital business on Circle
Start your free 14-day trial today. No credit card required.

Professional
$89 per month
The essentials to launch and run your digital business.

Includes:
Circle AI — 2,500 credits/mo
Unlimited members
Community
Courses
Live events
Website
Member directory
Rich member profiles
Reporting \& analytics
Payments
Gamification
Custom domain
iOS, Android \& desktop apps
Payments migrations (if eligible)

\*\*\*\*\*

Business
$199 per month
Run on autopilot with workflows, APIs, and our MCP.

Everything in Professional, and:
Workflows
Custom profile fields
Circle APIs \& MCP
Activity scores
Branded email notifications
Standard migration services
Remove Circle branding

\*\*\*\*\*

Scale
$419 per month
Scale your business with AI agents, unlimited workflows, and higher limits.

Everything in Business, and: 

Circle AI — 5,000 credits/mo
AI agents
AI workflows
Unlimited workflows
Webhooks
Custom single sign-on (SSO)
Higher limits

Services:
60 days of Concierge onboarding (annual plans)

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Circle Plus
Custom pricing
Your own branded app, highest limits, and a dedicated partner.

Everything in Scale, and: 

Custom branded mobile apps
Customizable app screens
Branded push notifications
Unlimited admins, moderators \& spaces
Email Hub with 10,000 contacts
Negotiable limits

Services:
90 days of Concierge onboarding
Recurring strategy calls with a dedicated Circle expert
Premium technical support

\*\*\*\*\*

Optional: 
Email Hub
Unify your audience and community with Circle's Email Hub.

Pricing dependent on how many contacts you have. 
First 30 days are free

Send email broadcasts
Capture contacts with forms
Automate marketing workflows
Manage contacts and members
Schedule email campaigns
Track performance with analytics
Create custom contact segments
Personalize emails based on actions
- **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
- **Supported Languages**: Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & 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
- Chat/Messaging
- Commenting/Notes
- Communication Management
- Contact Database
- Content Management
- Customizable Branding
- Customizable Templates
- Data Import/Export
- Discussions/Forums
- Document Storage
- Drag & Drop
- Email Reminders
- Engagement Tracking
- Event Calendar

## Integrations (22 total)

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

... and 7 more integrations

## Support Options

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

## Category

- [Membership Management Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/171/membership-management/software)

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## Reviews

### "Circle Review" — 5.0/5

> **Genesis** | *09 March 2023* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Navigation is so easy to use and set up. Very product is driven and committed to updating new tools.
> 
> **Cons**: Real-time chat is a bit slow and sometimes glitches.

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### "Circle Review" — 5.0/5

> **Mark** | *22 November 2024* | Entertainment | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I found the Circle pretty intuitive and well supported compared to other products I've seen. We can set up a community in a matter of weeks with all the features we want from this platform.
> 
> **Cons**: There is a big price jump from the business edition to the next levels up.
> 
> Overall I was pleased with the product and the features it provided. The support response time was excellent, which aside from that, was a big part of our decision to choose Circle.

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### "Excellent for a lot of use cases but lacking some core features" — 4.0/5

> **Jessa** | *12 January 2023* | Mental Health Care | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Circle was very easy to onboard and integrate. The company is very involved in their own community, and seemed to be extremely engaged with user feedback and activating on it. We've been live for 7 months now and many of the features I was disappointed weren't available have already been pushed live, with more on their roadmap coming in the next several months.
> 
> **Cons**: Out of the box, it's very easy to use but only comes with one template making all Circle communities look very homogenous and restricted in customizations. The analytics dashboard is sorely lack and needs a complete overhaul. Very little access to editing user profiles on the backend. Not great for content organization with lack of content tags or a knowledgebase template to organize FAQs or content libraries.
> 
> Overall I think Circle is a good value for it's cost and is suitable for a lot of folks who have smaller communities or who focus on a membership-based business. They seem very product driven in their approach and committed to delivering new features and improving on a continual basis.

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### "Great tool for online communities" — 5.0/5

> **Mark** | *16 September 2024* | Management Consulting | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I love the community of circle users - on circle - who are there to support and help.
> 
> **Cons**: Users were from facebook so there was a learning curve for them, albeit small, to use circle
> 
> I have found circle to be easy to implement, easy to have multiple layers of membership and a rich environment for interaction

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### "So Happy we went with Circle\!" — 5.0/5

> **Jennifer** | *12 January 2023* | Writing & Editing | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Circle has EXCELLENT support and a community to help you really develop your community and strategy to help your members.  The platform is always innovating and releasing new features and listening to what people would like.  Their customer support will even follow up on requests you made months ago just with suggestions when those ideas are implemented. Plus ongoing weekly training and office hours have helped so much as we worked out how our membership would look.
> 
> **Cons**: There is a LOT to go into building a community, and Circle appreciates that and is there to help.  We would have liked to have launched our community faster but they are doing everything I feel they can to support us through this process and to truly do it right\!
> 
> Overall - I looked at a lot of membership platforms and since have joined many as a member, and I am so happy with circle.  When I get the invite to join another circle community I'm thrilled they are using the platform.

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