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Tribe, a powerful alternative to Social Engine

Choose a modern, integrated, and fully customizable community platform. Save budget and resources to better serve your community.

Comparison

What’s the difference between
Tribe and Social Engine?

Social Engine is one of the earliest social network builders that has been around for a decade now and offers services via both hosted and self-hosted solutions.

Read on to explore why Tribe is the leading alternative to Social Engine and a powerful platform to build thriving social networks.

Community platform

Tribe’s community platform is highly modular and allows you to build a customized community website by selecting and showcasing different elements of your community exactly the way you need.

Pluggable widgets

Widgets allow you to deliver highly immersive social experience by seamlessly integrating components of the community inside your product or website. This helps you add community touchpoints across the buyer journey.

Built-in integrations

Tribe offers out-of-the-box integration with 20+ apps ranging from messaging and marketing to analytics and support apps. Moreover, Zapier integration allows you to automate workflows by connecting with thousands of popular third-party SaaS apps.

Pricing

The subscription fee for communities powered by Social Engine starts from $9 per month. Tribe’s entry-level paid plan ($49/month) delivers all of the essential tools for building niche social networks under your custom domain with 10,000 members.

Moderation capability

Tribe helps you efficiently moderate with sophisticated automation tools (e.g., keyword blacklisting and minimum reputation requirements). Your members are also empowered to report any content and member.

Reporting and analytics

Tribe offers comprehensive in-built analytics. Also, all the community activities can be sent to external analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Amplitude for granular reporting of key metrics.

Valuable networks

Tribe provides a safe and secure online space for the members to forge strong connections by following each other and adding value via different types of connections.

Knowledge discovery

With Tribe, you can organize the user-generated content exactly as per your preference and allow contextual discovery of the same (e.g., asking questions and searching) in a seamless manner.

Tribe helped us build a unified community with continuous experience for learners and create a robust communication channel.

Mariah Olson

Head of Community, Schoolhouse

5x

your customer retention


80%

of your customers engaged

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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