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Guides for community operators who care about ownership.
Migration runbooks, platform-fee math, product decisions, and operating lessons from the team building Mobieus.
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Mobieus Certified Professional: prove you know the platform.
The official certification for the platform. Pass a 100-question exam across every product and earn a verifiable Open Badge and certificate.
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Why your community needs a built-in help desk.
Support inside your community, not bolted on. mobieusHelp ties your help desk to mobieusKnow and AI, so answers come fast and good ones turn into self-service.
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Online course assessments that go beyond multiple choice.
11 question types, randomized question pools, Open Badges 3.0 verifiable credentials, and branded auto-issued certificates. Designed from scratch by a university professor with advanced degrees in instructional design.
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6 ways to monetize your online community with mobieus.io.
Courses, gated content, a marketplace, listing fees, instructor rev share, and a credit economy. Six built-in tools. Zero platform fee on the revenue you generate.
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mobieusAI: 75 AI features across every product.
Forums, knowledge base, helpdesk, LMS, marketplace, profiles, admin, community manager. One Anthropic key covers all of it. Per-feature toggles and cost caps.
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mobieusAI is bring-your-own-key.
Your community, your Anthropic key, your bill. Moderation triage, member assistant grounded in your forums and wiki, admin analytics narration.
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Create online courses your members actually finish.
How experts build courses in mobieusLearn without a video team or instructional designer. Optional AI authoring, real learner tracking, your price, your revenue.
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mobieusChat: real-time chat in every Mobieus community.
Rooms with role gates, mentions wired to notifications, reply pills, custom emoji and a dedicated GIF picker, member cosmetics rendered in every bubble. Enabled by default on every tier.
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mobieusCredits: in-community currency, now with a one-tap top up.
Members earn credits by participating and spend them on cosmetics, thread bumps, tips, and gifts. Three Stripe-checkout packs let them top up the wallet in seconds. On every tier.
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The Community Manager that doesnt need a salary.
mobieusCore ships a proactive AI Community Manager covering welcomes, weekly summaries, churn re-engagement, member pair-ups, forum reply drafts, and moderation assist. Human-in-the-loop is structurally enforced, BYOK Anthropic, per-tenant model pick.
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Tenant SEO + analytics: full control over how your community surfaces.
GA4, GTM, Plausible, Fathom, PostHog injection. Google + Bing verification. robots.txt and llms.txt editors. Dynamic sitemap with IndexNow ping. AI bot toggle. All in /admin/branding.
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AI cost control: pick your Claude model per tenant.
Per-tenant Haiku, Sonnet, or Opus selector. 30-day spend dashboard with per-feature breakdown. Per-feature overrides for power users. Cheap AI features stay enabled.
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Events get RSVPs, waitlists, reminders, and recurring schedules.
One-tap RSVPs with capacity and waitlist auto-promotion, 24h + 1h reminder emails, daily/weekly/monthly/yearly recurrence, timezone-aware display, and one-click iCal export.
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Mobile pull-to-refresh, file downloads, and a real PWA.
Pull-to-refresh on every touch device. File downloads finally work on phones. A real PWA with offline support and add-to-homescreen.
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Public API expansion: mobieusMarket, files, moderation, plan gate.
4 new resource families, 8 new event types, plan gating to Pro+, rate-limit knobs in the admin UI. OpenAPI 1.2.0.
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Mobieus ships a public REST API with HMAC-signed webhooks.
Scoped API keys, cursor-paginated events, signed and retried webhooks, secret rotation grace window, and an OpenAPI 3.1 contract.
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AI-powered features for your community, designed not to get in the way.
Long-thread summaries, suggested tags, search synthesis, and one-click explanations of moderator reports. Off by default, your Anthropic key, cached.
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The best platform for paid communities in 2026.
When members pay, the platform decides your margins, ownership, and what you bolt on later. What to look for and the fee model that matters.
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The best Circle alternatives in 2026.
The real cost of Circle is rarely the sticker price. Three reasons people switch and the alternatives that answer each.
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The best Mighty Networks alternatives.
Mighty does community-and-events well, but the transaction fee never hits zero. The alternatives that do, compared.
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What community platforms actually take from your revenue.
Stripe processing is the same everywhere. The platform fee on top is not. What Circle, Skool, and Mighty Networks really cost.
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The best Skool alternatives in 2026.
Three reasons people leave Skool — fee, missing pieces, lock-in — and the alternative that answers each.
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Photo albums with lightbox, reactions, and tagging.
Your community members can now create photo albums, upload images and videos, tag each other, react, and comment. All built in, no third-party embeds.
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mobieusLearn: a full LMS built into your community.
SCORM-compliant courses, unlimited course sales with zero platform fees on course revenue, Stripe Checkout, and a course catalog members browse in-platform.
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mobieusHelp: a real help desk inside your community.
Ticket management, SLAs, automation rules, knowledge base, multi-department routing, email integration, canned responses, and a plugin ecosystem.
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Run your community on your own domain.
Point community.yoursite.com at your Mobieus tenant, prove ownership with two DNS records, and let Mobieus handle TLS. Five minutes to set up.
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Migrate from Circle to Mobieus, with your community intact.
Map Circle spaces to forums, move courses into mobieusLearn, check the fee math, and use a six-step migration runbook.
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Migrate from Skool to Mobieus, without losing your members.
Move the relationship, classroom content, member habits, and community structure without letting the platform tax follow you.
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Migrate from Mighty Networks to Mobieus.
How topics map to threaded forums, what happens to courses and live streams, and where to be careful before launch.
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Use the guides, then build on a platform that does not tax your revenue.
Starter is $19/month, Pro is $99/month, Creator is $199/month, Creator Plus is $599/month, and Mobieus takes zero platform fees on course sales, mobieusMarket, paid forums, and member payments.