GroupApp

GroupApp brings courses, cohort management, live sessions, and community features into a group learning platform for coaching, training, and certification programs. It suits organizations that want to run those parts of a program together; the main trade-off is that member, channel, and storage caps make the lower plans a poor fit for a large or fast-growing community.

Overview

GroupApp combines structured learning with cohort spaces and ways to meet and communicate. Courses include modules, lessons, scheduled drip releases, workbooks, and completion tracking, while segments can limit which cohorts see particular channels, courses, and events. That separation is useful when several groups are progressing through a program at once.

Scheduled calls, workshops, office hours, and masterminds can be tied to program weeks, with replays attached there. Members can also use discussion channels, direct messages, and group chats they create. Enrollment, subscriptions, payment plans, coupon codes, and standalone content sales give program operators several ways to charge. This is a broad program toolkit, not just a course library or discussion forum.

Key features

Courses, cohorts, and live delivery

Drip schedules and completion tracking support programs that unfold over time; workbooks add a companion resource for lessons. Cohort-based access controls help keep separate groups from crossing into one another’s channels, courses, or events. Live sessions and replays keep calls connected to the program calendar rather than detached from the learning path.

Community and integrations

Discussion channels, direct messages, and member-created group chats cover both group and one-to-one conversation. The integration lineup includes Stripe, HubSpot, Calendly, Wistia, Vimeo, WordPress, Zapier, Mailchimp, Kit, Drip, AWeber, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and Conversion API, and others. This range can connect community operations to payments, marketing, scheduling, and video tools, though the plan limits still determine how much room a program has to grow.

Privacy and payments

GroupApp says it does not keep full payment card numbers on its own servers; payment data is handled by processors such as Stripe under PCI DSS. It can act as processor for creator community member data and is prepared to enter into a data processing agreement upon request. Organizations with formal privacy requirements should assess those arrangements against their own obligations.

Pricing

The Free plan costs $0 per month and allows 100 members, 3 channels, 1 admin, 1GB of file storage, 3 active subscription products, and 2 weekly broadcasts. Its 0% transaction fee is attractive for a small pilot, but the member and channel caps leave little headroom for a growing program.

Build costs $57 per month billed annually ($684 billed yearly), or $65/month billed monthly. It raises capacity to 1,000 members, 20 channels, 2 admins, and 50GB of storage, with 10 landing pages and a 0% transaction fee. This is the practical starting point for a paid program outgrowing the Free caps, though teams remain limited to two admins.

Scale costs $127 per month billed annually ($1,524 billed yearly), or $145/month billed monthly. Its 5,000-member, 50-channel, 5-admin, and 200GB limits give larger programs more room; it also includes 20 active workflows and 5,000 workflow executions. Choose it when Build’s capacity or workflow allowance is insufficient.

Branded App costs $427 per month billed annually ($5,124 billed yearly), or $485/month billed monthly. It allows 20,000 members, unlimited channels and admins, 500GB of storage, and 10,000 workflow executions, and adds a white-labeled iOS and Android app, branded push notifications, app-store publishing, ongoing updates, onboarding, and migration. This is the plan for organizations that specifically need branded mobile apps, not simply a larger community.

All paid plans shown have a 0% transaction fee. GroupApp offers a 14-day trial. The published plan limits make capacity the main pricing consideration, alongside the substantially higher cost of branded apps.

Platforms

GroupApp is available on web, iOS, and Android. Branded iOS and Android apps are specifically included with the Branded App plan.

Who it's for

GroupApp is best suited to coaches, trainers, certification providers, and associations running ongoing programs that combine lessons, cohorts, live sessions, and member discussion. Its segmentation and program-week replays are especially relevant when participants need a structured path with their own group spaces. A small organizer can start free; a larger organization should match its expected membership, channels, storage, and admin needs to the plan caps before committing.

It is less compelling for a creator who only needs a course storefront, or a community that needs broad capacity on a minimal budget: GroupApp’s free tier is capped at 100 members and 3 channels, and the first paid tier starts at $57 per month billed annually.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Courses, cohort access, live sessions, replays, and community tools work as parts of one program, reducing the need to assemble those core functions separately.
• Pro: Multiple payment options, coupon codes, and standalone content sales support different enrollment models.
• Pro: The Branded App plan covers app publishing and ongoing updates as well as the branded mobile apps themselves.
• Con: The Free plan’s 100-member, 3-channel, and 1-admin limits can constrain even a modest program as it expands.
• Con: Build starts at $57 per month billed annually, and its two-admin limit may be restrictive for teams sharing program operations.
• Con: Branded mobile apps require the $427 per month billed annually plan, a substantial step up from Scale.

Alternatives

For a wider comparison, browse Learning Community Platforms.

HuddleSpot is worth considering for a free community with up to 100 members and 5 spaces or channels, plus a basic analytics dashboard; GroupApp is the more program-oriented fit when courses and cohort-linked live sessions matter.

Daisie offers a free Standard subscription with full access during a 7-day trial; compare it if that trial structure suits your evaluation, while GroupApp’s stated trial is 14 days and its focus is group learning programs.

Fora is an alternative community platform.

LearnHouse Boards is an alternative with web, API, and self-hosted availability, including a free plan described as free forever.

Maven is free to use until a student pays, then keeps 10% of each paid enrollment, with instructors keeping 90% minus Stripe fees. It may suit instructors who prefer that payment model; GroupApp offers broader cohort, community, and program-delivery features.

OpenCourse is an open-source alternative with a free plan described as including unlimited members and courses.

Skillspad is another freemium option.

Verdict

Choose GroupApp if you run coaching, training, certification, or association programs that need courses, cohort-specific spaces, live sessions, and community features together. Its strongest case is the connection between structured learning and ongoing group participation. Look elsewhere if you need generous free capacity, a low-cost option for a large community, or branded mobile apps without moving to the $427 per month billed annually plan.