Best Social Network Software

Mighty Networks is an all-in-one platform for building branded online communities that combine discussions, courses, events, and paid memberships in one place. Hosts can organize members into spaces, run live streaming sessions, sell cohort based courses, and reward participation with built in gamification. The platform is used by creators, coaches, and brands who want to own their audience instead of relying on social media feeds.

Plans range from the Launch tier for new communities to Mighty Pro, which adds fully branded native mobile apps and a dedicated migration team. All paid plans include a 14 day free trial and charge a transaction fee on sales that decreases at higher tiers. Scale and above unlock automations, API access, and deeper analytics for growing businesses.

Graphy, built by Unacademy, is an all-in-one platform for creators to sell online courses, digital products and memberships alongside a built in community. It supports self-paced and cohort based learning with video, quizzes and certificates, live classes and webinars without needing a separate Zoom subscription, and community features like chat, forums and a gamified leaderboard to keep learners engaged.

Its official pricing page lists four tiers, Launch, Grow, Rise and Unlimited, billed annually in Indian rupees and priced by transaction fee percentage rather than hard learner caps. Higher tiers add AI sales and support agents, dedicated Android and iOS apps, API and SSO access, and lower per-sale transaction fees. All plans include a 14 day free trial.

Honeycommb is a white-label community platform that lets creators, brands, coaches and membership businesses launch their own branded social network with web, iOS and Android experiences. Owners can publish content, host conversations, organize members into open, gated or premium groups, run events, livestream with real-time chat, and manage everything from a central admin control center.

Honeycommb's official pricing page returned an access error during this research and could not be independently verified, so figures here come from third-party listings that cite a starting price near $24.99 per month for the base community plan and a separate branded mobile app add-on starting around $299 per month. Because these numbers are not confirmed on Honeycommb's own domain, they should be treated as approximate.

Disciple, formerly marketed as Disciple Media, lets creators, coaches and organizations build a fully branded mobile and web community app without writing code. The disciplemedia.com pricing page now redirects to disciple.community, reflecting a rebrand of the product. Members can join groups, message each other, watch livestreams, take courses and unlock premium content, all inside an app listed under the customer's own name in the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Pricing is split into Branded App, Branded App Plus and Branded App Pro tiers, priced monthly but billed annually or quarterly, with an Organisation tier for custom enterprise needs. Higher tiers add unlimited admin seats and groups, API access and multi-host livestreaming. Disciple charges 0% transaction fees on sales across all tiers, though the official pricing page does not list a free trial or free plan.

Hivebrite is a community engagement platform used mainly by alumni networks, associations and membership organizations to manage a branded directory, events, groups and paid memberships in one place. It includes a searchable member directory, event management with RSVP and ticketing, email marketing tools and a fully white-label native mobile app, all customizable without code to match an organization's branding and terminology.

Pricing starts at $895 per month for the Core plan, billed annually, and rises through Flex, Prime and Custom Fit tiers that add group management, autonomous sub-communities and deep customization for larger, more complex organizations. A 1.5% platform commission applies to paid memberships and event tickets on every plan, and there is no published free plan or free trial.

Ning is a website builder for creating a custom social network around a specific interest or community. It offers a drag and drop network builder along with blogs, photo and video sharing, message boards, event calendars and email broadcasts, aimed at giving community organizers a branded space they design and control. Monetization tools such as paid memberships and donations let owners generate revenue directly from their network.

Pricing is organized into four tiers, Starter, Basic, Performance and Ultimate, that scale by member limit and storage, with higher tiers unlocking custom HTML design, custom domain mapping and expanded API access. Every plan includes a 14 day free trial that can be cancelled without charge, and annual billing saves about 20% versus paying monthly.

Discourse is open source forum software used by tech companies and online communities to run long-form discussions alongside real-time chat. It organizes conversations into categories and tags, uses a trust level system to grant experienced members more moderation ability over time, and includes tools like flagging, mute and automatic content filters to help moderators manage large communities. Because it is open source, it can be self-hosted for free on any server that supports Docker.

For teams that prefer managed hosting, Discourse offers a free hosted plan alongside Pro, Business and Enterprise tiers priced by staff seats, storage and monthly page views. Paid plans add custom themes, API access, advanced analytics, automation and AI powered features, with Enterprise adding unlimited staff seats and a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Bettermode, formerly known as Tribe, is an all-in-one customer and community engagement platform built for SaaS companies that want a branded space for support, product feedback and discussion. It combines forums, knowledge hubs, messaging, gamification and analytics, and its Design Studio lets teams compose pages with blocks, layouts, colors and typography without writing code. Communities can be organized into public, private or invite-only spaces with collections and tags to keep content structured as it scales.

Pricing runs from the Starter plan up through Growth and Premium, with higher tiers adding AI search, more integrations, API access, single sign-on and enterprise security certifications like SOC 2 and SAML. All paid plans include a 14 day free trial, though there is no permanent free tier.

BuddyBoss is a WordPress theme and plugin suite for building social communities and online courses on a self-hosted WordPress site. It adds activity feeds, groups, private messaging, member profiles and discussion forums to WordPress, and works alongside popular learning management plugins to deliver courses with student dashboards. Because it runs on the customer's own WordPress installation, community data stays in that customer's own database rather than a third party server.

BuddyBoss is sold as a flat yearly license rather than per member pricing, with a Pro plan for new creators and a Plus plan that adds a full gamification system. A Done For You Bundle includes expert setup and mobile app publishing to the Apple and Google app stores. There is no free plan or free trial, though purchases include a 14 day money back guarantee.

Circle is a community platform that combines discussions, courses, live streams, events and paid memberships into a single branded space. Community owners organize members into spaces for chat, content and events, and can charge for access through subscriptions, one time fees or installment plans in more than 20 currencies. Built in tools include a website builder, member directory, analytics and gamification, positioning it as an alternative to running a community across several disconnected apps.

Pricing starts with the Professional plan and moves up through Business and Circle Plus, with each tier adding automation, API access, AI features and lower transaction fees. All plans include a 14 day free trial and a 30 day money back guarantee, though there is no permanent free plan and email marketing is a separate paid add-on.