On Facebook, you own nothing
The members are Facebook's. The reach is throttled by an algorithm that decides which of your posts to bury. The rules can change tomorrow. The group can vanish in a moderation sweep with no appeal.
Mobieus · community platform
Own the building. Don't rent the floor.
If your community lives in a Facebook group, you own none of it. Not the members, not the algorithm that buries your posts, not the rules, not the relationship. Mobieus is the platform you actually own. Your domain, your design, your forums, your mobieusMarket, your members, your Stripe. The platform fee on your commerce is zero.
Your domaincommunity.yourbrand.comyour colors, your logo, your rules
mobieusMarketknown members tradingreputation, verified identity, owner moderation
No algorithm taxevery member sees every postchronological forums, your decisions, your reach
Your members, your dataexport anytimemembers, posts, files, listings. Standard formats.
Rent vs own
The honest difference.
Facebook groups, Circle, Skool, and Mighty are all rentals. The terms differ. The structure does not. You are a tenant on someone else's land.
On Circle/Skool/Mighty, you rent the floor
You bring the members, the content, the brand. You pay rent and a transaction tax on every dollar they spend with you. When you leave, the export is partial and your member relationships go cold.
On Mobieus, you own the building
Your domain. Your forums. Your mobieusMarket. Your members. Your Stripe. Your data exports in one click. The platform fee on commerce is zero. We are not a middleman in your payment flow.
Compare
Mobieus vs Facebook groups. Side-by-side.
The cost of a Facebook group is hidden. The cost of a paid platform is on the receipt. This is the full picture.
| What you actually get | Mobieus | Facebook group |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the member relationship | You | |
| Who decides which members see your posts | You (every member sees every post) | Meta’s news-feed algorithm |
| Custom domain + your own branding | ✓ | — |
| Structured forums (categories, threads, search) | ✓ | One reverse-chronological feed |
| mobieusMarket: reputation + owner moderation | ✓ | Meta-run Marketplace you cannot moderate |
| AI Community Manager (mobieusCM) | ✓ | — |
| Help desk built in (mobieusHelp) | ✓ | — |
| Courses + SCORM (mobieusLearn) | ✓ | — |
| Knowledge base (mobieusKnow) | ✓ | — |
| Direct Stripe, 0% platform fee on commerce | ✓ | Cannot sell directly inside the group |
| Your data, one-click export | ✓ | Partial: member contacts stay with Meta |
| Who can shut the community down without appeal | No one but you | Meta, with no human appeal |
Stripe processing (~2.9% + 30¢) applies on Mobieus, same as any platform handling card payments.
Who runs Mobieus
Four kinds of community. One platform.
For communities that trade
Collectors, hobbyists, makers, forums.
Your members trade with each other. Right now that means anonymous strangers on Facebook Marketplace or eBay. On Mobieus they trade with known members of your community.
- mobieusMarket with reputation, verified identity, owner moderation (Pro and up)
- Forums for the conversation that surrounds the trading
- Charge listing fees on Creator and up; transactions settle through the buyer/seller's Stripe
For creators
Paid memberships, courses, mobieusMarket.
You want to keep your audience, your branding, and the full ticket price they pay. You do not want to assemble a stack of four SaaS subscriptions to do it.
- 0% platform fee on course sales, paid forums, member payments
- Direct Stripe, your own domain, no Mobieus branding on your members
- mobieusMarket, courses, files, and community in one login
For organizations
Member networks, associations, internal teams.
You need a real platform with audit logs, SAML/SSO, and an API your engineers can build against. You want one login instead of five vendors and five invoices.
- SAML/SSO and admin audit logs on Sovereign
- Public REST API + webhooks for your existing stack
- Dedicated server option (Sovereign) with no shared tenancy
Sovereign
Dedicated server. SSO. Audit logs.
For organizations with compliance needs or scale that justifies isolation. A dedicated VM with no shared tenancy, SAML/SSO, and an admin audit log on every action.
- Dedicated VM (no shared tenancy)
- SAML/SSO + admin audit logs
- Named support contact + private API rate-limit profile
The suite
The features you need to build a powerful community.
Most operators end up assembling a stack: forum software, marketplace plug-in, help-desk SaaS, LMS subscription, wiki hosting. Mobieus puts them in the same tenant under a single price.
All tiers
mobieusCore
The community engine. Forums, threads, messaging, profiles, friends, feeds, moderation, audit trails, mobile.
See the engine →All tiersmobieusChat
Real-time chat rooms next to your forums. Mentions, replies, GIFs, custom emoji, member cosmetics in every bubble.
See chat →Pro and upmobieusMarket
Listings with reputation, verified identity, and owner moderation. Members trade with members they recognize, not anonymous strangers.
See mobieusMarket →Pro and upmobieusHelp
A real help desk inside the community. Tickets, SLAs, automation rules, knowledge base, canned responses, email integration.
See the help desk →Pro and upmobieusLearn
A full LMS. SCORM, cohorts, certifications, completion tracking. Sell courses on Creator with 0% platform fee.
See the LMS →Pro and upmobieusKnow
A community knowledge base with tiered trust, revision history, and moderated editing.
See the wiki →All tiersmobieusAI
Your Claude-powered teammate. Bring your own Anthropic key and ground every answer in your community’s own knowledge.
See mobieusAI →Pro and upmobieusCM
Your AI community manager. It drafts welcomes, summaries, and replies for your approval. Six draft kinds, always human in the loop.
See the community manager →Pro and upmobieusAPI
REST API for events, users, posts, listings, files, reports, moderation. HMAC-signed webhooks with retry, replay, and rotation.
See the API →The AI Community Manager runs inside mobieusCore, drafts the engagement work (welcomes, weekly summaries, churn re-engagement), and waits for owner approval. Included on Creator and up.
mobieusMarket inside the community
Trading with known members. Not anonymous strangers.
Facebook Marketplace puts you in a stream of strangers. eBay scales by removing identity. mobieusMarket lives inside your community. Buyers and sellers are members you have moderated. Reputation accrues across listings, posts, and time.
Trade reputation
Listings carry the seller's full member history: how many trades, how long a member, how the community rates them. Reputation lives across the whole tenant, not just inside one listing.
Verified identity, not anonymity
Tenant owners decide what verification they require — email, phone, ID, account age. The mobieusMarket surfaces the verification badges next to every listing.
Owner moderation
You moderate your mobieusMarket. You define category rules. You hide, lock, or remove listings. You ban repeat offenders. That power belongs to the owner, not to a faceless platform support team.
Listing fees (Creator)
On Creator and up you can charge per listing or a featured fee, or nothing. Listing fees settle through your Stripe at a 0% Mobieus platform fee. On Pro, mobieusMarket runs without owner listing fees.
Transactions through Stripe
Payments between members run through Stripe, the same way they do everywhere else. Mobieus is not a payment intermediary.
Forums + mobieusMarket together
The conversation that surrounds the trade — research, identification help, condition discussion — happens in the forum next door. The mobieusMarket and the community are the same thing.
Honest disclaimer. Mobieus is not a payment intermediary and does not guarantee, insure, or escrow transactions. The marketplace reduces risk through reputation, verified identity, and owner moderation. Standard Stripe processing applies.
Own what you build
Your community is your community.
Your revenue is your revenue. We run the platform that powers great communities. You keep your members, your content, and your money. Already on another platform? We help you migrate to Mobieus so you finally own what you built.
Data ownership
Your members, content, files, and payments are yours.
Direct Stripe. One-click export. No training on your data. Sovereign means a dedicated VM with no shared tenancy.
SecurityPer-tenant DB isolation. Daily backups. Audit logs.
WAF + ModSecurity in front of every tenant. SSRF + DNS-rebind protection on outbound webhooks. Encryption in transit and at rest.
MigrateBring your community over without losing members.
Playbooks for Facebook groups, self-hosted forums (phpBB, vBulletin, XenForo), and Circle/Skool/Mighty.
Getting started
From signup to first member in 90 seconds.
The trial spins up your tenant in about two minutes. Connect your Stripe, point a custom domain (or start on a *.mobieus.io subdomain), import members, and ship.
- 1Start the trialNo card. Pick a tier. Pick a community name.
- 2Tenant spins upAbout two minutes. Schema, forums, admin user, cron jobs, the works.
- 3Connect Stripe and your domainOAuth into Stripe. DNS gets verified in the admin. We handle TLS.
- 4Invite your membersEmail import, CSV, or share a sign-up link. Bulk-invite up to 5,000 in one batch.
In production
Real operators on real tenants.
The team behind Fort Smith Live and the mobieus.io support community runs Mobieus daily. Public testimonials roll out as customers opt in.
The fee math was the whole reason we left. The bundled help desk and wiki were the reason we stayed.Operator, Pro tier · 2026
We piped post.created into our Slack and report.created into our incident channel. Took an afternoon. Felt like a real platform.Solo developer, Creator Plus tier · 2026
Custom domain, our own brand, our members never see the word "mobieus" unless they look for it. That mattered to our board.Association director, Pro tier · 2026
Own it, don't rent it
Try Mobieus free for 14 days.
No credit card. Bring your own Stripe. Cancel any time. Your data stays yours.