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Top 10 Online Community Platforms
1
monday.com
Our score: 9.8
User satisfaction: 99%
An industry-leading collaboration app for on-site and remote work teams. This leverages tools such as Kanban boards, Gantt charts, and workflow automations to help teams handle any type of project. It also seamlessly integrates with third-party apps to ensure easier adoption and extend its capabilities.
READ REVIEW- Pricing: $8
- Devices Supported: Windows, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Web-based
- Pricing Model: Monthly payment, Annual Subscription
- Customer Types: Small Business, Large Enterprises, Medium Business
- Deployment: Cloud Hosted, Open API
2
Wrike
Our score: 9.7
User satisfaction: 99%
A collaboration software with user-friendly navigation and flexible project views for easier project management. It gives you a bird's eye view of your projects to get a better feel of the progress of your efforts. Moreover, its powerful reporting and analytics tools also help you generate accurate reports with actionable insights.
READ REVIEW- Pricing: free
- Devices Supported: Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Web-based
- Pricing Model: Annual Subscription, Quote-based
- Customer Types: Small Business, Large Enterprises, Medium Business, Freelancers
- Deployment: Cloud Hosted, Open API
3
Salesforce Community Cloud
Our score: 9.0
User satisfaction: 100%
Salesforce Community Cloud allows you to make personalized and branded online communities. This highly flexible software connects this community, whether for discussions, help forums, or otherwise, to your Salesforce CRM and integrates an end-to-end customer experience in one platform.
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- Devices Supported: Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Web-based, Windows Mobile
- Pricing Model: Quote-based
- Customer Types: Large Enterprises, Medium Business
- Deployment: Cloud Hosted, Open API
4
Zimbra
Our score: 8.8
User satisfaction: 99%
A software platform that lets you share files and folders securely and communicate with team members. It provides social tools that let users create blogs, microblogs, wikis, and forums. Zimbra also streamlines content creation and editing, with support for media galleries, video embedding, and tagging.
READ REVIEW- Pricing: by quote
- Devices Supported: Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Web-based
- Pricing Model: Free, Monthly payment, One-time payment, Annual Subscription, Quote-based
- Customer Types: Small Business, Large Enterprises, Medium Business, Freelancers
- Deployment: Cloud Hosted, On Premise
5
Vanilla Forums
Our score: 8.7
User satisfaction: 99%
A cloud-based online community tool that enables businesses to create engaging and interactive online forums for their customers and potential clients. Sporting an easy-to-use interface, Vanilla Forums ensures businesses will find a way to boost customer service and enhance audience loyalty to increase their sales.
READ REVIEW- Pricing: $689
- Devices Supported: Web-based
- Pricing Model: Free, Monthly payment, Quote-based
- Customer Types: Large Enterprises, Medium Business
- Deployment: Cloud Hosted, Open API
6
eXo Platform
Our score: 8.6
User satisfaction: N/A
An open-source social networking solution built as a collaboration tool. It features an intuitive UI and a social-media friendly design that lets you view and comment on posts, share docs, create groups, and more. With its tools uniquely integrated around a social layer, eXo generates spontaneous engagement among its users.
READ REVIEW- Pricing: $6
- Devices Supported: Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Web-based
- Pricing Model: Monthly payment, Annual Subscription, Quote-based
- Customer Types: Small Business, Large Enterprises, Medium Business
- Deployment:
7
Workplace by Facebook
Our score: 9.0
User satisfaction: 92%
A private social network for businesses that leverages the interface of the most widely-used social media worldwide. With this, employees can create and join work and project groups, post announcements, share files and data, and organize corporate events.
READ REVIEW- Pricing: free
- Devices Supported: Windows, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Web-based
- Pricing Model: Monthly payment
- Customer Types: Small Business, Large Enterprises, Medium Business, Freelancers
- Deployment: Cloud Hosted
8
Zoho Discussions
Our score: 8.4
User satisfaction: 99%
Zoho Discussions is a tool that helps you to set up your own customer support communities where problems are solved and ideas exchanged. It uses SSO technology for user convenience, 15-language support, extensive rebranding capabilities, and a robust feature set that any modern online community requires.
READ REVIEW- Pricing: $12
- Devices Supported: Mac, Web-based
- Pricing Model: Monthly payment
- Customer Types: Small Business, Large Enterprises
- Deployment:
9
Disciple
Our score: 8.4
User satisfaction: 97%
Disciple is an online community software that helps you build and manage your community, all with no coding required. You can design your community on a desktop or mobile, empower it with social media-like features, and control your communities with a singular Disciple Console.
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- Devices Supported: Windows, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Web-based
- Pricing Model: Quote-based
- Customer Types: Small Business, Large Enterprises, Medium Business, Freelancers
- Deployment: Cloud Hosted, Open API
10
Zoho Connect
Our score: 8.3
User satisfaction: 97%
A social networking software that allows people to connect and share ideas with colleagues. Users can post messages, leave comments, share files, and conduct real-time discussions. It functions as a private social network where members can communicate, collaborate, and exchange ideas with co-workers.
READ REVIEW- Pricing: Free
- Devices Supported: Windows, Android, iPhone/iPad, Mac, Web-based
- Pricing Model: Free, Monthly payment, Annual Subscription
- Customer Types: Small Business, Large Enterprises, Medium Business
- Deployment:
Our Score
FinancesOnline utilizes our proprietary SmartScore™ method to analyze all the services in the Online Community Platforms category in orded to help you get the best possible software. It pays attention to the following metrics: key components, collaboration tools, custom elements, available integrations, intuitiveness, help & support, how secure a software is, support for mobile devices, ratings in media. Currently, monday.com is the leader in this category and our experts are really satisfied with it. After detailed research and analysis it got the best results among its competitors and we strongly suggest that you consider it as one of the solutions for your needs.
9.8
monday.com Features
9.7
Wrike Features
9.0
Salesforce Community Cloud Features
8.8
Zimbra Features
8.7
Vanilla Forums Features
8.6
eXo Platform Features
8.5
Workplace by Facebook Features
8.4
Zoho Discussions Features
8.4
Disciple Features
8.3
Zoho Connect Features
User Satisfaction
A look at overall user satisfaction with the software in our Online Community Platforms category evaluated with our unique algorythm that analyzes user reviews, comments and opinions across a wide range of social media sites in order to help you make an educated buying decision.
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99%
100%
99%
99%
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92%
99%
97%
97%
Pricing
Every vendor in the Online Community Platforms category will have a different set of pricing plans for its app and each plan will include a varied group of features. Below we list the general pricing for the cheapest plan provided for each app. Keep in mind that advanced features may have an extra cost.
$8
free
By quote
by quote
$689
$6
free
$12
By quote
Free
Devices Supported
A summary of what kind of devices and operating systems are supported by all B2B tools in the Online Community Platforms category, including mobile platforms and web-based solutions.
Windows
Linux
Android
iPhone/iPad
Mac
Web-based
Windows Mobile
Pricing Model
Learn what pricing plans are provided by the vendors in the Online Community Platforms category to check which one suits your business needs and expenses best. Note that certain solutions can support free or freemium accounts for you to test first.
Free
Monthly payment
One-time payment
Annual Subscription
Quote-based
Customer Types
A brief look at which kinds of customers a selected B2B software in the Online Community Platforms category provides for, from small businesses and non-profits to big enterprises.
Small Business
Large Enterprises
Medium Business
Freelancers
Deployment
An overview of what types of software deployement are offered by each B2B vendor in the Online Community Platforms category. Even though the majority of modern SaaS solutions are cloud-hosted certain solutions might offer an on-site deployment model too.
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