Disclaimer: I'm a paid product tester for AppSumo and received this tool for free to provide a detailed review. My opinions are entirely my own, and my compensation is not tied to the rating or taco score I give.

What I like about EzyCommunity is that it doesn't make the community feel like an extra feature attached to a course platform. The community itself is at the center, with a feed for posts and discussions alongside real-time chat that feels more like Slack or Discord.

From there, you can add courses, events, paid channels, memberships and gamification without sending members through a collection of different tools. I can see that being especially useful for someone running a coaching program, membership or paid community where the course content is only one part of why people joined.

I liked the chat experience during testing. Members can move between community discussions, channels and direct conversations, while points, badges and leaderboards give them another reason to participate. For me this is one of the big differentiators of the platform because getting people to participate reularly is one of the hardest things of running an online community.

Courses are inside the same environment, so someone can go from a lesson to a conversation with the rest of the community without leaving the platform.

Members can also use EzyCommunity through its iOS and Android apps, which is useful for a community where you want people checking in regularly rather than only when they are sitting at a computer. A fully branded app under your own name is available separately.

You can monetize different parts of the community too. Channels and courses can be restricted or paid, and EzyCommunity takes 0% of your sales, outside of the normal payment processor fees. This becomes more valuable as a paid community grows. And most other platforms take a % commission so this is a good value proposition from EzyCommunity.

There were still some unfinished areas when I first tested it. Course certificates were marked as coming soon at the time, but the team completed them and I verified that they had been added.

Email marketing is the one area I would still check before buying if it is important to you. During my original test, the Marketing section was not yet available even though email marketing was advertised as included. The team said it was close to completion. The current pricing still lists monthly marketing email allowances, while another part of the current website continues to describe email campaigns as coming soon, so I would confirm exactly what is available today.

Overall, I think EzyCommunity works particularly well when the course, community and conversation need to feel like one product rather than three separate services stitched together. For a membership where people are there as much for each other as they are for the content, that combination makes all the difference.