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Memberful

Who runs Memberful, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest membership software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Patreon

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Memberful

Memberful memberful.com

Sell subscriptions, share content, and connect with your audience, all on your own website or app.

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Memberful tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

9 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
CookieYes
US company
2 tools

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Memberful

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Memberful, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than MemberfulNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Patreon patreon.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon

    Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!

    Compare Patreon with Memberful →
  2. 02
    Ghost ghost.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform

    Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

    Compare Ghost with Memberful →
  3. 03
    Substack substack.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Substack

    Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.

    Compare Substack with Memberful →
  4. 04
    Heartbeat heartbeat.chat English 6 trackers

    Online Community Platform for Creators & Coaches | Heartbeat

    The online community platform for creators and coaches. Run memberships, courses, events and payments in one place you own. 37,000+ communities built.

    Compare Heartbeat with Memberful →
  5. 05
    ko-fi.com Top 10K English

    web patronage service

    Compare ko-fi.com with Memberful →
  6. 06
    Pelcro pelcro.com English 3 trackers

    Subscription Management & Recurring Billing Software | Pelcro

    AI-powered subscription management and recurring billing for publishers, associations, and nonprofits. Payments, paywalls, memberships, accounting.

    Compare Pelcro with Memberful →
  7. 07
    Buy Me a Coffee buymeacoffee.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Buy Me a Coffee

    Buy Me a Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept support and membership from their fans.

    Compare Buy Me a Coffee with Memberful →
  8. 08
    Circle circle.so English 2 trackers

    Circle | The complete community platform

    Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.

    Compare Circle with Memberful →
  9. 09
    Buttondown buttondown.com English No trackers

    Buttondown — Newsletter software for people like you

    Buttondown is the last email platform you'll migrate to. We're focused on your success, not on bleeding you dry.

    Compare Buttondown with Memberful →
  10. 10
    Kajabi kajabi.com

    California-based SaaS technology company that develops a platform for creators and entrepreneurs to create, market and sell digital content

    Compare Kajabi with Memberful →
  11. 11
    Gumroad gumroad.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad

    Start selling what you know, see what sticks, and get paid. Simple and effective.

    Compare Gumroad with Memberful →
  12. 12
    Ning ning.com Top 10K

    online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks

    Compare Ning with Memberful →
  13. 13
    Recurly recurly.com English 3 trackers

    Grow, retain, and recover subscription revenue | Recurly

    Recurly manages plans, billing, failed-payment recovery, and churn reporting in one platform. Trusted by leading brands with high-volume subscriptions.

    Compare Recurly with Memberful →
  14. 14
    Luma luma.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Luma

    Discover and host memorable events effortlessly with Luma. Invite friends, sell tickets, and find great events happening near you.

    Compare Luma with Memberful →
  15. 15
    Hotmart hotmart.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know

    Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.

    Compare Hotmart with Memberful →
  16. 16
    Squarespace squarespace.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace

    Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.

    Compare Squarespace with Memberful →
  17. 17
    Thinkific thinkific.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Online Course Platform to Sell Courses and Communities | Thinkific

    Build and sell online courses and communities with Thinkific, an all-in-one online course platform with a drag-and-drop builder, payments, and LMS tools.

    Compare Thinkific with Memberful →
  18. 18
    REVIEWS.io reviews.io English 3 trackers

    REVIEWS.io - Company & Product Review Collection

    Review collection made simple. Our friendly review platform helps you build trust quickly with our monthly subscription & flexible plans.

    Compare REVIEWS.io with Memberful →
  19. 19
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

    Compare Semrush with Memberful →
  20. 20
    MailerLite mailerlite.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Create Email Marketing Your Audience Will Love - MailerLite

    Digital marketing tools to grow your audience faster and drive revenue smarter. Backed by 24/7 award-winning support. Check it out now!

    Compare MailerLite with Memberful →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Memberful’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Memberful uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Memberful adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 16 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
48 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Memberful’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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