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Tribe, A Powerful Disciple Media Alternative

Create modern, integrated, and fully customized online communities with Tribe. Save resources to invest in your community, not on the software.

Comparison

What’s the difference between
Tribe and Disciple Media

Disciple Media offers a PWA (Progressive Web App) and mobile apps for community building. Largely influencers, celebrities, and course creators are building communities with Disciple to connect fans, charge subscriptions, and sell courses. In terms of pricing, the PWA ($55/month) offered by Disciple Media allows you reister 100 members and have 1 admin account. The mobile app pricing starts from $549/month.

Tribe, on the other hand, is designed for businesses looking to build customer communities to offer self-service, peer-to-peer support, feedback collection, and communication related to new updates. The comprehensive API and embeddable widgets empower brands and creators to add social touchpoints inside the web app, mobile app, and website. Of course, communities built with Tribe can function as stand-alone community websites.

The customization capability and modularity of the apps available on the platform allow you to design a site based on the community components you need and seamlessly reflect your branding. In terms of integration with third-party apps, Tribe connects with popular third-party tools and easily merges with business processes. Tribe’s free plan offers support for custom domain and 100 total members. The paid plan starts from $49/month with 10,000 total members, unlimited spaces, and 5 staff seats.

Tribe vs. Disciple Media

Tribe Disciple Media
Pricing
Free plan
Paid plan Starts from $49/mo
(Unlimited spaces, 5 admins, 10,000 members)
Starts from $55/mo
(Unlimited groups, 1 admin, 100 members)
Features
Community platform
Select, organize, and showcase the social components on the community app.
Limited customization
Embeddable widgets
Plug in valuable social elements of the community inside the product or website.
Activity feed
Discussions/forums
Enable members to share content and discuss topics.
Spaces/Groups
Public or Private community
Supports both types of accessibility
Support for rich media
Gamification
Badges, points, and leaderboard system.
Reporting and analytics
In-built dashboard to track key metrics.
Advanced analytics via direct integration
Create granular reports by capturing community activities in Amplitude and Google Analytics.
Direct video upload
Allow members to upload videos and play with native video processor
API
Build custom integrations and automate processes.
Webhooks
Apps
Valuable apps such as SEO boost, virtual coins, and social log-in.
Third-party integrations
20+ integration with popular apps including Zapier.
Limited (no Zapier integration)
SSO
SAML, JWT, OAuth2.0, and Custom SSO.
Custom SSO.
Moderation tools
Automate moderation with minimum reputation requirements and keyword blacklisting.
Livestreaming
Using platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Zoom.
Events
Data ownership
Export content
Export members
Branding
UI customization option
Fully customize the look and select different layouts. Integrate with product or site navigation.
White label solution
Mobile
Mobile app
Mobile responsive and tight integration with messaging apps.
Responsive interface
Payments
Ability to monetize with payment processing
Available via Zapier integration
In-app purchases, premium content and freemium models
Internationalization
Localization
In-built support for 30 languages
Multi-lingual
Allow community members to select their preferred display language

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Comparison

Should you build community with Tribe or Disciple Media?

If launching a straightforward mobile app without engaging with a technical team is critical for you, then Disciple Media could be a good solution.

However, if you are launching a community site to drive customer success and looking to add community touchpoints inside your product (both web and mobile app) or site, Tribe would the right solution.

Modern design
for modern users

Tribe’s design philosophy and engagement tools are inspired by popular social networks which makes it familiar to community members.

Embeddable widgets

Deliver immersive social experience right inside your product, app or website with widgets. Some of the prominent examples can be enabling user discussions under the product listing and showcasing user-generated content when users browse through different features of your product.

Highly engaging apps

Tribe offers some of the most compelling modern apps such as incentivization system via virtual currency that can be used to get desired user action, easy user management, and powerful analytics.

It’s your brand.
Fully customizable.

Tribe is a white-label social network solution. It is designed to adopt your brand and engineered to integrate with your website. You can even add your site header/footer to seamlessly blend it with your site navigation.

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