🆚 BuddyBoss vs. Skool

📈 BuddyBoss is four times more popular than Skool.
🌍 BuddyBoss is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

BuddyBoss

Skool

Type

WordPress plugin

Membership management software

About

BuddyBoss is a WordPress plugin that allows you to create your own online community with activity feeds, social groups, private messaging, and powerful admin and moderation tools. It is a fork of the BuddyPress and bbPress plugins.

Skool is an all-in-one online community platform that enables creators, coaches, and educators to build private or public groups, deliver structured courses, and monetize expertise through memberships.

It provides discussion forums, course modules with video and resources, paid subscriptions and one-time purchases, event scheduling, and engagement gamification with points and leaderboards.

Headquarters

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

El Segundo, California, United States

Website

buddyboss.com/platform/ #552,449

skool.com #3,621

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source

Pro$99

Pro & Theme$299

Free version ❌

Hobby$9/month
Transaction fee10%

Pro$99/month
Transaction fee2.9%

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The BuddyBoss WordPress plugin is 4 times more popular than Skool.

Total websites

Market share

Membership Management

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

BuddyBoss is more popular than Skool in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Canada

Netherlands

France

Italy

Spain

Brazil

Awards

⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Membership Management category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Membership Management category.
⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Membership Management category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Australia in the Membership Management category.
⬆️ 119th most popular in the United Kingdom in the WordPress Plugins category.

🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Online Courses category.
⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Online Courses category.
🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Membership Management category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

BuddyBoss is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Skool is more commonly used on Internet services sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Sports

Health

Internet Services

Recreation/Hobbies

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#19,460

#21,988

#34,695

#37,250

#46,912

Name

Rank

#73,195

#107,077

#111,797

#141,569

#141,787