At a glance
| Disciple | Mighty Networks | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Anyone who wants an owned, branded community they run day to day — creators, brands, and organisations | Creators and smaller organisations turning an audience into a paid community and courses |
| Branded mobile app | Standard, on every plan — your own app, in your own name | Members use Mighty's app on entry plans; a white-labelled app is a separate enterprise tier |
| Community engagement | Feed, groups, messaging, events, push notifications | The same core set — feed, groups, messaging, events |
| Courses and content | Course hosting, gated and tiered content, with extensive deep-linking to the tools you already run | Strong built-in course creation — a core part of the offer |
| Support | Hands-on human support as standard — account management, setup, migration | Largely self-serve through product and AI |
| Member revenue | No transaction fee on what you sell | A per-transaction fee, reducing by tier but never reaching zero |
| Pricing shape | Branded app and support included in every tier | Tiered self-serve from the low hundreds per month, helping people grow and then capturing value as they do |
Where each one comes from
Mighty sits in the creator-community bracket — built for a person or brand turning an audience into a paid community, usually with courses alongside. Its closest neighbour is Circle: same model — your community living inside a wider platform, a branded app reserved for a premium tier — and the same creator-from-scratch buyer. The two are close enough that if you've weighed Circle, you've all but weighed Mighty, and the way Disciple differs from one is the way it differs from the other.
Disciple comes from the traditional community space, where the community is the point in itself rather than a layer on top of a course or a funnel. It's built for established creators and organisations — people who already have a community to run, not an audience to build from scratch — with an owned app and human support as standard.
The mobile app
Both platforms give your members a mobile app, and this is the first place the two diverge in a way that matters.
On Mighty Networks, your community is available on iOS and Android from the entry plan onward — but as Mighty's app, with your community living inside it.
On Disciple, a fully branded, white-labelled app is the default rather than the ceiling. Every plan is your own app, in your own name — not your community housed within a wider platform's app. If a white-labelled presence is central to how you want to show up — because you're a large organisation and members expect that professionalism, or a non-profit that needs to read as a credible institution rather than a set of activities — that difference in where the feature sits, and what it costs to reach, is the single most consequential thing on this page.
If a white-labelled app genuinely doesn't matter to you — and for some creators it doesn't, because people trust the individual and will forgive a less bespoke experience — then this difference weighs less, and you're back to feel and features.
Support
Mighty Networks leans, as its bracket tends to, toward solving support and engagement through product and AI — tooling like AI cohosting and member-matching is available across its plans, including the entry tier, and dedicated human strategy support arrives at the top of the range. It's a model built to scale, and it suits operators who want to run largely self-serve.
Disciple treats hands-on human support as a native part of how it works, not an add-on reached at enterprise pricing — account management, help with setup and migration, and support through the life of the community. This reflects the customer it's built for: organisations for whom the community matters enough that they can't afford it to be scrappy, particularly where a CRM integration or important stakeholders are involved.
Which model fits comes down to one question: do you want white-glove help through setup and beyond, or are you comfortable solving problems through product and documentation? Both are legitimate. They match different kinds of operator.
Pricing shape
Compare like with like. The two platforms don't just differ on headline number — they're structured differently, and the structure matters more than the sticker over time.
Mighty Networks runs a tiered self-serve model, with entry plans in the low hundreds per month and higher tiers unlocking more automation, storage, and streaming capacity. This makes it affordable to start and then means you share revenues as you grow — every plan carries a transaction fee on what you sell through the platform — it reduces as you move up the tiers but never reaches zero, so a percentage of your community revenue is an ongoing platform cost that grows as you grow.
Disciple includes the branded app rather than gating it, and takes no per-transaction cut of what you sell. The headline number is higher than a creator entry tier — because the white-labelled app and human support come as standard.