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DisciplevsSimplero

Disciple gives community owners branded iOS and Android apps with subscriptions. Simplero runs courses, coaching, email, CRM, and checkout from one login.

How Disciple and Simplero compare

Disciple does the thing most community platforms charge a premium for: every plan includes your own iOS and Android app listed under your name, a synced web version, and no Disciple branding anywhere your members look. Groups, feeds, DMs, events, native video, livestreaming, courses, push notifications to segments, and a customer success manager who helps you through the app store submission. Associations, training providers, nonprofits, and membership brands that want an icon on the member's phone are who it is built for.

Simplero is built for coaches, course creators, and teachers who are tired of paying for a stack of tools that do not talk to each other. Courses with drip schedules, quizzes, and certificates, memberships and communities, email and a CRM that remembers every purchase and lesson, scheduling links, and a checkout with payment plans, upsells, and order bumps all share one contact record, and Simplero takes no transaction fee on sales. Its AI, Simplero Coach, can draft a course, a sales page, and the welcome sequence inside your account. For a coach whose business is a program people pay for and finish, Simplero covers the whole job.

Where they are different

Choose Disciple when your members should open an app with your name on it, and a private community with groups, events, and paid tiers is the whole point.

Choose Simplero when the business is a program: courses, coaching, or a membership people pay for and work through, sold with funnels and affiliates, with an AI that builds inside the account.

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What's on Disciple and Simplero

A check means that capability is available. Disciple and Simplero are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

  • Workspace site
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included
  • Custom domain
    Disciple: Included
    Simplero: Included
  • Theme and fonts
    Disciple: Included
    Simplero: Included

Public content

  • Blog
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included
  • Reader engagement
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included
  • Shop pages
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included

Reach and quality

  • SEO
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included

Audience and email

  • Audience
    Disciple: Included
    Simplero: Included
  • Marketing emails
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included
  • Campaign workflows
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included

Messaging

  • Built-in chat
    Disciple: Included
    Simplero: Included
  • Messaging Center
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included

Commerce

  • Shop payments
    Disciple: Included
    Simplero: Included
  • Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
    Disciple: Not included
    Simplero: Included

Team

  • Admin users
    Disciple: Included
    Simplero: Included

* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Disciple or Simplero, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Disciple or Simplero may add or remove features that are not shown here.

Disciple vs Simplero pricing

Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.

  • Disciple

    Current plans and prices

    See what Disciple charges on their pricing page.

  • Simplero

    Current plans and prices

    See what Simplero charges on their pricing page.

Cardel: An alternative to
Disciple and Simplero

You don't pay until you publish.

Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own.

Common questions

  • Is Cardel an alternative to Disciple or Simplero?

    Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Disciple or Simplero when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Disciple and Simplero are marked.

  • Can I use Cardel with Disciple or Simplero?

    Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Disciple or Simplero for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.

  • How much does Cardel cost compared with Disciple and Simplero?

    You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when your site goes live. Disciple and Simplero set their own prices, so check their pricing pages on this page for current plans.

  • How do I switch from Disciple or Simplero to Cardel?

    Start with Build Your Site, set up your home, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.