🆚 BuddyPress vs. Skool

📈 BuddyPress is much more popular than Skool.
🌍 BuddyPress is more popular in all countries.

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

BuddyPress

Skool

Type

WordPress plugin

Membership management software

About

BuddyPress is an open-source community plugin for WordPress that adds social networking features such as user profiles, groups, activity streams, and notifications.

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

San Francisco, California, United States

El Segundo, California, United States

Website

buddypress.org #269,371

skool.com #3,621

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ❌

Hobby$9/month
Transaction fee10%

Pro$99/month
Transaction fee2.9%

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The BuddyPress WordPress plugin is 11 times more popular than Skool.

Total websites

Market share

Membership Management

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

BuddyPress is more popular than Skool in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Spain

Russia

Italy

Canada

India

Japan

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Membership Management category.
🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Membership Management category.
🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Membership Management category.
🥉 Third most popular in Poland in the Membership Management category.
⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Membership Management 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.

BuddyPress is more popular than Skool in all market segments.

Blogs/Wiki

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Games

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Travel

Internet Services

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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