Best Tools for Community Managers
9 tools worth the money if you work as a community manager, each with what it does, the problem it removes and how it charges.
Community platform that combines discussion and course hosting so creators can build, manage, and monetize paid (or free) online communities in one place.
It’s an all-in-one marketplace and storefront where creators can sell and manage access to digital products (like courses, software, memberships, and paid communities) with built-in payments and delivery.
Tightknit is a community platform built for Slack communities, enabling integration with Slack, companion web forums, SEO‑optimized content, events and gamification.
Mighty Networks empowers creators, educators, and entrepreneurs to build branded communities with courses, events, and memberships, offering native mobile apps for deep engagement.
Memberful is a platform that lets creators sell memberships and subscriptions, making it easy to monetize content and manage their audience.
Podia is an all-in-one platform for creators to build a website, sell digital products like courses, downloads, memberships, and coaching, and run email marketing — all from a single dashboard.
Choosing tools as a community manager
Community Managers keep a community active, welcoming and worth showing up to. The recurring problem is that engagement is manual, and measuring whether it worked is harder still, which is what most of the 9 tools below are built to fix in one way or another.
We list a tool here when it genuinely serves community managers, not because it mentions them on a pricing page. Each entry shows what it does, the problem it removes and how it charges, so you can rule things out quickly. A typical stack ends up covering community platforms, moderation, scheduling and member analytics.
Budgets are a line item inside a marketing or product budget, so the sensible order is to fix the most expensive bottleneck first and add the rest only when it starts hurting. Whatever you pick, judge it against active members and retention after a month of real use.