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Last updated: July 2026

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Mighty Networks logo

Build a different kind of community on a Mighty Network.

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Mighty is where creators, entrepreneurs, and brands build digital communities with cultural software. Be a part of something different #OnMighty.

With Mighty, you can bring your courses, memberships, and offers together in a powerful community under your own brand on iOS, Android, and the web.

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Brilliant Directories logo

All-in-one directory & member management software

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Brilliant Directories is a cloud-based directory software for creating directory websites, with built-in themes, member management, payment processing, and more

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ToucanTech logo

Association management tool to power community engagement

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ToucanTech platforms are purpose built for community managers, providing solutions to everyday data management and engagement challenges. Make community management more connected with a smart system to store data, encourage email, event and content engagement and track activity.

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ThoughtFarmer logo

Where teams + ideas grow.

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ThoughtFarmer is a modern intranet with 240+ features that connects teams, boosts culture, and simplifies communication. It’s easy to set up, simple to use, and comes with a 90-day risk-free guarantee.

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Influitive logo

Customer-Powered Growth

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The Influitive platform helps B2B companies discover, nurture, and mobilize their customers, developers, partners, and employees to shorten sales cycles, amplify marketing, increase retention and drive product innovation.

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Connecteam logo

Enhance employee management with the only all-in-one app

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Connect and manage your employee community with Connecteam’s best-in-class 100% customizable and collaborative environment.

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VeryConnect logo

Membership management software

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All-in-one community software tailored to you. VeryConnect brings together member management, engagement, and self-service. Quality software, friendly support.

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Almabase logo

World's most loved alumni management software.

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Almabase empowers alumni relations and fundraising teams in HigherEd, K12, and nonprofits to enhance engagement, streamline programs, and increase donations. Use data-driven insights to foster meaningful connections and move constituents from engagement to contribution.

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Yumana logo

Innovate at scale.

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The all-in-one innovation management platform to run portfolios, scout startups, manage ecosystems, and accelerate ROI.

Trusted by industry leaders such as L’Oréal, Michelin, Airbus, Safran, and VINCI.

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Bettermode logo

All-in-one community platform for branded communities

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Bettermode is an all-in-one customer community platform that unifies customer engagement tools to create better customer experiences. It is popular for its unmatched level of customization, an app ecosystem, third-party integrations, and premade templates that simplify community building.

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Forumbee logo

Custom community forum creation tool

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Forumbee is a community forum creation tool which enables users to create public, restricted-access, and hidden forums for discussion, Q&As, feedback, and more

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Mentessa logo

We drive know-how exchange in the new world of work.

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Mentessa is the next-generation community platform that connects your organization for know-how exchange and purpose-driven work.

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Forj logo

Community and member management software

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Mobilize is your all-in-one membership management platform. Manage and engage your members from one simple to use place with a member directory, member database, outreach center and event management. It's everything you need to build and manage a thriving community your members will love.

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SelfCommunity logo

SelfCommunity: Your Social. Your Users. Your Data.

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SelfCommunity is a native, no-code, high-performance and scalable cloud Community creation and management platform, which can be integrated into any external digital ecosystem (Website, App, E-commerce) through APIs, Webhooks and Frontend SDKs.

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Alida logo

Customer experience and survey management software

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Alida’s total experience management platform was built with Community at its core to help companies gain access to the right customers, at the right time to fuel faster and more reliable insights that drive successful business outcomes.

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Refresh logo

Employee benefits, wellness and engagement platform

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Our modular, customizable platform highlights and features tools based on each employee's specific situation eliminating clutter, increasing utilization, and providing a better experience. Combining comms tools (scrolling news feeds/text/push/email) with scheduling, eLearning, challenges and more.

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Sengii Connect Online Community logo

Online community solution to grow and retain memberships

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Connect is an online community solution for professional, trade, and member-based associations that assists with enhancing engagement, streamlining committee collaboration, gaining insightful analytics, and integrating with your AMS and CRM systems.

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StellarUp logo

Enable Connection. Share knowledge. Empower Progress

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The StellarUp community-building platform (white-label SaaS) helps you create and maintain a buzzing community through connection and knowledge sharing.

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Crew Platform logo

Collaboration platform for volunteers and non-profits

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Crew Platform is a cloud-based solution designed to help movement leaders manage collaboration with communities comprising of educators, volunteers, and other members. Using custom content visibility, members can upload and share branded content across multiple organizations.

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NodeBB logo

Community solution for businesses of all sizes

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NodeBB is a cloud-based community solution for gaming, hardware, software, entertainment & education sectors, which helps improve customer engagement by providing discussion forums for businesses, letting users interact with multiple teams through video streaming, social media posts & real-time chat

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Howspace logo

Howspace, because how you engage your people matters.

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The Howspace platform is designed to empower organizations to drive growth and sustainable impact through limitless involvement.

We believe that engaged people can transform anything. Our platform enables leaders to involve people in transformation and change.

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Viafoura logo

Community engagement and management software

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Viafoura is a digital experience company that helps brands activate their audiences.

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Participate logo

Social learning platform for educational institutions

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Participate is a social learning platform designed to help educational institutions and organizations create and maintain communities of practice (COPs) using collaboration tools, discussions, direct messaging capabilities, peer-to-peer mentorships, and more. Managers can create self-paced online courses for upskilling employees and academic initiatives.

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iFlyChat logo

Real-time chat SDK & messaging API for web and mobile apps

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iFlyChat is a real-time chat plugin and messaging API which helps small to large businesses manage and streamline in-app communication for community applications. The cloud-based solution comes with customizable, embedded chat rooms where users can engage with specific groups or anonymous visitors.

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Java/React-based SaaS user interaction suite

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yawave is a user interaction suite which can be easily integrated via embed code or plugins. It promotes lead generation, fan engagement, content efficiency, awareness and customer experience.

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