Podia vs Selfany

Podia is an all-in-one platform for creators to build and sell online courses, digital downloads, coaching sessions, and paid communities from a single storefront. Courses support drip-fed lessons, quizzes, and completion certificates, while the built-in community feature offers topic-based discussion spaces, group chats, and both free and paid membership tiers. Podia also includes a website builder with a custom domain and blog, live and in-person event ticketing, and email marketing with automated sequences built around a creator's own audience data. Paid plans run from $42 to $150 per month when billed annually, with lower tiers charging a 5% transaction fee that is removed on the Shaker plan and above; all plans include a 30-day free trial.

Selfany is an all-in-one monetization platform for creators and small businesses, combining course sales, digital products, paid community memberships, event ticketing, booking, and invoicing under one storefront. It supports payments in 135+ currencies with instant payouts, aimed at creators building an audience outside a single home market. Rather than charging a monthly subscription, Selfany takes a small transaction fee per sale, letting creators keep the rest. Its free community layer, Selfany Spaces, lets creators build and run a membership community without a separate tool, alongside link-in-bio pages, an affiliate network, and cloud storage for content delivery.

• Combines courses, downloads, coaching, community, and email marketing in one product
• No coding required to launch a branded storefront
• Higher tiers remove transaction fees entirely
• 30-day free trial with full feature access

• No monthly subscription, pay only a small fee per sale
• Combines courses, digital products, memberships, and ticketing in one tool
• Supports 135+ currencies for global creator audiences
• Selfany Spaces community layer is free to use

• Entry-level Mover plan charges a 5% transaction fee on sales
• Email subscriber limits are fairly low even on paid tiers
• Pricing does not scale down well for very early, pre-revenue creators

• Per-sale transaction fees can add up for high-volume sellers compared to flat subscriptions
• Less established brand recognition than dedicated course or community platforms
• Feature breadth may be more than creators who only need one function need