Community tools can be hard to define as often they are âcommunication toolsâ and the boundaries of what we need vary from community to community.
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 Chat
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| Name | Description |
| Message privately Simple, reliable, private messaging and calling for free*, available all over the world. | |
| SIgnal | Speak Freely. Say hello to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. |
| Telegram | Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed. |
| Rocket.Chat | Keep the workflow going by centralizing all your tools and touchpoints in one platform. Made for team collaboration, DevOps and customer engagement. |
| Geneva Chat | Geneva is the best way to stay connected with all your favorite groups and clubs â itâs more organized than GroupMe, more private than Facebook, and more fun than Slack. |
| Frond | A better way to build community online. |
| Discord | Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text. Talk, chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities. |
| Yap | yap is an ephemeral, real-time chat room with up to six participants. |
| Slack | With all your people, tools and communication in one place, you can work faster and more flexibly than ever before. |
| Mattermost | An open source platform for developer collaboration. Secure, flexible, and integrated with the tools you love. |
| Flock | Your new home for collaboration. One shared space for all your cross-functional work |
| Fleep | Fleep is a professional messenger for companies that value simple digital solutions. |
| Twist | Twist is async messaging for teams burned out by real-time, all-the-time communication and ready for a new way of working together. |
| Spaces | The all new way to Communicate and Collaborate with Colleagues. 10x better than Group Chat. Structured. Organised. Secure. Private. |
| Hiven | Hiven connects you to friends, fans and new exciting communities From private, to public, to monetized groups. |
| Guild | Engage customers and generate leads through high quality groups, networks and communities. |
| Zulip | Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones. |
| Bunches | Start a Bunch and deepen your connection with your fans. True fans mean more than followers. They make a community. |
| Element | Secure communication and collaboration. |
 Live Events
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| Hopin | Create immersive virtual, hybrid, and in-person event experiences for your audience, no matter where they are. |
| Crowdcast | Reach, engage, and grow your community with online events. |
| Airmeet | Say goodbye to dull and boring webinars that provide little value. Host premium webinars and online events that grow revenue and customer loyalty. |
| Butter | Butterâs agenda planner, delightful interactions, and integrated collaboration tools let you run super-engaging workshops, trainings, and meetingsâwithout juggling a million tools. |
| Class for Zoom | Add teaching & learning tools to Zoom. Best-in-class digital live learning with the next generation virtual classroom. |
| HeySummit | HeySummit is the easy to use virtual event platform that helps you grow your audience and monetize your passion. |
| Whereby | Wherebyâs the easiest way to connect over video â with no app or software download required. Connect with anyone, anywhere with zero hassle. |
| Restream | Restream allows you to stream live to 30+ social platforms at once. |
| Mmhmm | Mmhmm makes video calls less boring. Make your presentations stand out with custom effects, backgrounds, and animations. |
| Around | Discover radically unique video calls designed to help hybrid-remote teams create, collaborate and celebrate together. |
| Remotion | Video calls for engineers |
| Bramble | Bramble gives you everything you need to create and customize your own virtual space for every kind of social gathering online. |
| Livestorm | A simple meeting and webinar platform with builtâin tools, to grow and collaborate. |
| Topia | Replace webinars, branded content, and corporate meeting tools with interactive experiences. |
| Remo | Remo is an interactive virtual event platform that empowers you to grow and engage your audience |
| Toucan | Toucan is a platform designed to host virtual social events. |
| Mibo | There is no better place to get together. Break free from the grid with virtual group gatherings that feel real. |
| Gather.Town | Centered around fully customizable spaces, Gather makes spending time with your communities just as easy as real life. |
| Twitch | Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more. |
| Session | The easiest way to host interactive webinars and meetings |
| Run the World | Run The World is a one-stop solution for virtual social gatherings, webinars and conferences that deliver engagement. |
| Kumospace | Say goodbye to unproductive and morale-draining video calls with a virtual office that brings your team together. Get answers and alignment instantly. |
| Zoom | Explore how the Zoom platform seamlessly brings together remote and in-person teams, for work that goes wherever you do. |
| SpacialChat | Bring people together in your virtual meetings Group video chat for in-person virtual meetings, anywhere, anytime. |
| Skittish | A Playful, Audio-First Space for Virtual Events and Gatherings |
| Shindig | Virtual and hybrid events with work the room video chat networking |
| BigMarker | The #1 Video Platform for Webinars, Summits & Virtual Conferences |
| Run The World | Run The World is a one-stop solution for virtual social gatherings, webinars and conferences that deliver engagement. |
| Mentimeter | Engage your audience & eliminate awkward silences |
 All-in-one
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| Gradual | All Community-Led Experiences In One Place |
| MemberUp | Where creators + brands build extraordinary communities. |
| BackSpace | Online Communities Made simple. |
| Heartbeat | Host conversations, events, content, and more on your own domain |
| Pensil | Launch your own online community in under a minute |
| Union | Create, manage, and optimize your community on one platform |
| Amity | Easily add pre-built social features to your app or website: Chat, Profiles, Forums, Feeds, Video Stories, and more. |
| HoneyCommb | All-in-one platform for independent social networks. Honeycommb is for anyone with a community who wants total ownership & control of their own social network. |
| hivebrite | A powerful online community platform, Hivebrite provides top organizations with all the tools they need to build, manage, and engage their community. |
| Forem | Forem is an open source platform for building modern, independent, and safe communities. |
| Kajabi | Turn what you know best into an online course, coaching program, membership, podcast, and more! |
| Edition | Discussion Forum built for Customer Support |
| Circle | The modern community platform for creators. Bring together your discussions, memberships, and content. |
| Vito | Flexible, private, online spaces with Vito. |
| Habitate | Create a beautifully branded, fully functioning community on your domain. |
| Mighty Networks | Bring your community, courses, memberships, and events together in one place under your brand. |
| Disciple | Bring your people, memberships, and content together in your own fully-branded and private community platform. |
| Panion | Grow, engage, and unite your community in a safe and authentic space. |
| Bettermode | A customizable community platform for businesses. Behind every successful company is the ability to engage and delight customers. |
| Ramen Life | All-in-one community platform to support entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey. |
| Glynk | Glynk is a customer community platform, meticulously crafted by successful community makers. |
| BuddyBoss | We make it easy for you to build on WordPress, the Worldâs #1 open source platform, giving you the flexibility, control and freedom you need, to create a successful online platform. |
| Higher Logic | Engage your entire audience across every stage of their journey with our powerful online community solution, built for you and aligned to your goals. |
| Haaartland | A platform for your togetherness a simple and safe space when you want to bring people together around a common why |
| Hylo | Hylo helps groups and networks build community and a better world, together. |
| Beam | Build and monetize engaged and loyal online communities through the power of gamification. |
| Khoros | Online brand communities for big businesses |
| BuddyPress | Fun & flexible software for online communities, teams, and groups. BuddyPress helps you build any kind of community website using WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more. |
| Skool | Community platform for creators. Part community, part game, part business, part learning. |
| Group.app | Build a learning community around your expertise. |
| Groupsite | Collaboration and Engagement For Growing Communities Affordable. Brandable. Scalable. |
| Guilded | Guilded upgrades your group chat and equips your server with integrated event calendars, forums, and more â 100% free. |
| ZenDesk Gather | Create a space for your customers to connect and collaborate |
| Convosight | All-in-one platform to monetise your community on Facebook, Whatsapp or Reddit |
| Mobilize | Create an engaged, data-driven community that works. |
| Scenes | Everything you need to manage, moderate, and monetize your community in one simple, yet powerful app â with your branding, on your domain. |
| Cabal | Get more out of your investors and advisors Build your network of supporters. |
 Matchmaking
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| Orbiit | Virtual networking, reimagined. Giving you the tools and insights to bring your people together for life-changing conversations. |
| Covalent | Drive engagement, growth, and NPS by connecting your community, one introduction at a time. |
| Meetsy | Create meaningful connections and scale relationship building to foster a sense of belonging. |
| Donut | Connect serendipitously for virtual coffee, peer learning, DEI discussions, and more. |
| Random Coffee | RandomCoffee creates targeted connections between employees at work with a unique matching platform. |
| Intros.ai | Build meaningful connections in your community with Intros |
| LunchClub | We facilitate casual conversations that lead to not-so-casual professional impact. Powered by AI. |
 Audio
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| Twitter Spaces | |
| LinkedIn Live | |
| Clubhouse | Hang out with friends, meet new ones, and talk about anything. |
| Discord | Audio channels |
| Mumble | Open Source, Low Latency, High Quality Voice Chat |
| Rambly | Walk and talk with your friends in a 90âs-style video game |
| Jam | An open source audio space for chatting, brainstorming, debating, jamming, micro-conferences and more. |
| High Fidelity | Power natural conversations that make people feel like theyâre in the room together. |
| CozyRoom | Free peer-to-peer spatial audio environments |
| Agora | Build into your app. Live, interactive voice and video powered by the only global network dedicated to real-time engagement. |
 Analytics & Automation
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| Threado | Get actionable insights, automate your community workflows and activate more members across Slack, Discord, Discourse and other platforms. |
| Savannah | Savannah is a Community Relationship Manager that gives you the insights you need to better manage and grow your community. |
| Peritus | Unified Community Intelligence to Scale Your Developer-First Business |
| Levellr | Build a thriving fan community on Discord or Telegram |
| TalkBase | Talkbase is a Community Operations platform designed for team collaboration, program management and member tracking. |
| Common Room | Common Room helps you deepen relationships, build better products, and grow faster. |
| Spontively | Gain real-time analytics to measure community engagement, growth, and impact across any platform. |
| Waves | Store your Slack communityâs gold in an organized & searchable knowledge base |
 Events Management
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| Bevy | Unlock the power of in-person connection with Community led events |
| Eventbrite | Eventbrite brings people together through live experiences. |
| Meetup | Join a group to meet people, make friends, find support, grow a business, and explore your interests. |
| Localist | Connect Your Community With Virtual Events |
| Luma | Foster meaningful relationships with events, newsletters, and community analytics |
| Partiful | A party page that hypes up your event and makes it easier for guests to get the info they need |
| Sched | Event scheduling software that puts the professional into your event |
| SplashThat | single tool to create, manage, and execute events that grow your business and amplify your brand. |
| SwapCard | Build a community around your brand |
| TicketTailor | Ticket Tailor is a simple, free event ticketing solution for events of all shapes and sizes. |
| TicketTribe | Sell tickets online. With no fees per ticket. |
| Tito | Design-led software for simple management of ticket sales for events. We aim to be a sustainable, ethical business driven by people & principles. |
| Virtually | Virtually is the most powerful attendance tracking tool for Zoom. |
 Productivity
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| Supernormal | Video messaging for teams. |
| Otter | Goodbye manual notes. Hello OtterPilotâą |
| Guru | Guru is a knowledge management solution that  delivers everything you need. |
| Bubbles | Eliminate 38% of meetings with quick back-and-forth videos and smart reminders |
 Membership
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| Substack | A place for independent writing. Start a newsletter. Build your community. Make money from subscriptions. Publishing is free, with no limits. We only make money when you do. |
| Glide | Turn your data into software. |
| Softr | Build custom apps for your business, as easy as lego |
| Pory | Membership Site For Your Community. Turn your data into a membership sitewith access to content and community. |
| Open Collective | Make your community sustainable. Collect and spend money transparently. |
| Ghost | Turn your audience into a business. |
| WooCommerce | A membership solution 100% integrated with your content and products. |
| Buy Me A Coffee | Buy Me a Coffee is a simple, meaningful way to fund your creative work. |
| Gumroad | Gumroad is a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform. |
| Patreon | Creativity powered by membership |
| Memberstack | Authentication & payments for companies who love Webflow, Stripe, & React. |
| Selffy | Easy-to-use eCommerce for creators. Sell merchandise or digital products â all from one place. |
| Squarespace | Everything you need to grow online. |
| Memberful | Best-in-class membership software for independent creators, publishers, educators, podcasters, and more. |
| Memberspace | Add members-only access to any part of your website and accept payments. |
| LaunchPass | Launch a paid chat community in minutes |
| MemberPress | The âAll-In-Oneâ Membership Plugin for WordPress |
| WishList | Quickly Protect Your Content With WishList Member⊠|
| SuperPeer | Superpeer gives you the tools to run your business, and grow your community in a more authentic way. |
 Forums
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| Discourse | Civilized discussion for your community |
| Invision Community | Build and grow your community with our scalable and customizable community platform. |
| Reddit is a network of communities where people can dive into their interests, hobbies and passions | |
| Outverse | Redesigning the experience for internet communities â combining forums, custom spaces, video and more. |
| Flarum | Forums made simple. Modern, fast, and free! |
| GitHub Discussions | Ask questions, share ideas, and build connections with each otherâall right next to your code. |
| Lobsters | Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion |
 Education
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| Maven | Online cohort-based courses taught live by experts. |
| Teachable | Build a knowledge business that lasts |
| Disco | Where creators build LIVE learning experiences |
| Podia | Everything you need to sell courses, webinars, downloads, and memberships. Never worry about getting a bunch of different tools to âtalk to each otherâ again. |
 Swag
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| Stickermule | Custom printing that kicks ass. |
| Baudville | Finding the right gift to boost employee engagement is more important than ever |
| Cottonbureau | Find your next favorite t-shirt, tank top, hoodie, fleece, or phone case at Cotton Bureau. |
| Printful | Print-On-Demand with Printful - No Inventory, No Minimums |
| SwagUp | The Swag Platform For The Modern Workplace Create |
| Loop & Tie | Send unique, elevated gifts that help your brand stand out |
| Tremendous | Rewards people love |
| Slingshot | Swag is awesome. Managing it sucks. |
| BHN Rewards | Give your customers options, no matter where they are in the world. |
 Email
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| Substack | With Substack, anyone can start a publication that combines a personal website, blog, and email newsletter or podcast. |
| Ghost | Turn your audience into a business |
| Beehiv | The newsletter platform built for growth · |
| Superhive | The first interactive, community-generated newsletter. |
| Groups.io | Email Groups. Supercharged |
| Get Lowdown | Auto-deliver the best content shared in your community direct to members, guiding them back to engage. |
| LetterLoop | Private group newsletters for friends, families & teams |
 SMS
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| Subtext | Instantly connect with your audience over text. |
| Community | Real conversation starts when you listen âŠSMS Software with Enterprise-grade power and everyday ease of use. |
| Texts | One inbox. All your messages. |
 Slack
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| Dots | Build amazing community experiences on Discord & Slack |
| Waves | Store your Slack communityâs gold in an organized & searchable knowledge base |
| Magik | Everything you need to build your Community on Slack |
| Slack Reporting Tool | A Slack app to help administer workspaces by letting team members report offensive messages |
 Social
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| Facebook Groups | Connect with people who share your interests. |
| From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, | |
| A simple, fun & creative way to capture, edit & share photos, videos & messages | |
| Manage your professional identity. | |
| TikTok | TikTok is a video-sharing app that allows users to create and share short-form videos |
| Reddit is a network of communities | |
| Substack | With Substack, anyone can start a publication |
| Medium | Medium is an open platform where readers find dynamic thinking, and where expert and undiscovered voices can share their writing on any topic. |
| Bluesky | An app (in Beta) and initiative to transition the social web from platforms to protocols for open and decentralized public conversation |
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Engagement
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| HeyTaco | HeyTaco sparks conversations and builds stronger relationships |
| Abot | Simple and Highly Configurable Anonymous Feedback and Polls for Slack |
| VideoAsk | Interact face-to-face with your audience & build stronger business relationships. |
 In App
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| Tribally | Launch in-app social feed with a few lines of code. |
 Knowledgebase
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| Notion | Your wiki, docs, & projects. Together. |
| Slab | Easily create, organize, and discover knowledge for your entire organization |
| Question Base | Question Base uses AI to answer your teamâs questions right inside Slack. |
 Local community
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| Mycoop | Use mycoop to communicate, connect, and collaborate in buildings of all types. |
| Commonplace | Create better places together |
 Comments
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| Comment.io | Embed comments without giving up your privacy. |
| Cactus Comments | Cactus Comments is a federated comment system for the web |
Thanks a lot Rosie!