🆚 BuddyPress vs. 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

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ❌
Hobby
$9/month
Transaction fee 10%
Pro
$99/month
Transaction fee 2.9%

Categories

WordPress Plugins › Rank #108
Membership Management › Rank #7
Membership Management › Rank #15
Online Courses › Rank #5
Subscriptions › Rank #17

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The BuddyPress WordPress plugin is 5 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 in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Skool is more popular in Taiwan.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
France
Russia
Italy
Japan
Canada
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

BuddyPress is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, education and reference, and business, while Skool is more commonly used on Internet services sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Games
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
marqueze.net
#33,975
sfmcompile.club
#41,279
letsjerk.tv
#47,199
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Name
Rank
#120,582
#130,326
#157,998
#165,653
#186,010
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See also

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