What is HiveLearn?

HiveLearn fits anyone whose product is a combination of teaching and belonging: a coach running group programs, a course creator who wants students to talk to each other, a professional association running certification, a fitness or language community with live sessions, or a bootcamp that needs quizzes, assignments and a gradebook.

It is less suited to a community that is only real-time chat, a creator who mainly needs an email marketing suite and sales funnels, or a business that needs the platform to carry its own brand with no visible trace of HiveLearn. More on those limits below.

Community: a home feed, threaded discussions with categories, pinning and best answers, reactions, @mentions, direct messages, a members directory and map, a resources library, and per-community colors and logo. Communities can be public, with a landing page and a listing in the directory at hivelearn.app/discover, or closed, with join requests and invite links.

Courses: a one-screen course builder with modules and lessons from video, text, PDF or Google Drive; drip scheduling; free preview lessons; quizzes with six question types, graded on the server so the answer key never reaches the learner's browser before they submit; question banks; quiz import and export in JSON, CSV, GIFT and QTI; assignments with instructor review; a gradebook; bundles; multi-course learning tracks; and PDF certificates with a public verification page.

Events and payments: an events calendar with RSVPs, waitlists, paid tickets, QR check-in at the door, reminders, calendar sync and live streaming through Zoom. Payments run on Stripe Checkout, and Stripe Connect pays creators out to their own Stripe account. You can sell monthly or annual memberships, individual courses, bundles and event tickets.

Engagement and admin: points, 12 levels, leaderboards and badges; member tags, notes, segments and health scores; e-signature documents and an agreements gate; moderation tools; broadcast email; analytics and reports.

HiveLearn can draft a course from a file you upload: a PDF, Word document, text or Markdown file, or an audio or video recording. It produces an outline, lessons and quizzes inside the normal course builder, flags anything that needs a human check, and will not publish an empty course. You review and edit before anything goes live.

Starter includes one free AI course. Growth includes 2 credits a month, Pro 5, Scale 15 and Enterprise 50. Text-only and intro-video courses cost 1 credit; hybrid chapter video courses, available on Growth and above, cost 5.

Starter is $0 a month with a 6% revenue share and no cap, so there is no monthly fee until you monetize. Growth is $39 a month with 4%, rev share capped at $2,000/month. Pro is $99 a month with 2%, capped at $3,000/month. Scale is $249 a month with 1%, capped at $4,000/month. Enterprise is $499 a month with 0.25%, capped at $5,000/month.

Annual billing saves 17%. Growth, Pro and Scale come with a 14-day free trial, no credit card; Enterprise has a 30-day trial. Stripe processing (2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) is always charged on top and is never bundled into the headline rate. Starter and Growth have member limits; see the pricing page for details.

It is not a way to run the platform entirely under your own brand. Your community gets its own colors and logo, but it lives at a HiveLearn address, you cannot point your own domain name at it today, and HiveLearn branding remains visible.

It is not a replacement for Stripe, Zoom, Slack, Discord, Telegram or Google Calendar. It integrates with them: Stripe handles payments, Zoom powers live streams, Google Calendar receives event sync, and new posts, courses and events can auto-post to Slack, Discord and Telegram channels on every plan. If your members love their Discord server, keep it.

On phones, HiveLearn works in any mobile browser and can be installed to the home screen. It is not a full email marketing and funnel suite either; it has broadcast email and UTM tracking, but creators who live in email automation usually keep a dedicated tool.

Each of those platforms has a real strength. Skool is famously simple and its gamification is excellent, but it has no native quizzes, certificates or RSVP events. Circle has a polished member experience and mature admin tools, with basic quizzes and no native verifiable certificate. Kajabi has a full marketing suite of email, funnels and pages, with a lighter community.

HiveLearn's bet is depth on the learning side (server-graded quizzes, question banks, assignments, gradebook, verifiable certificates, learning tracks) combined with community and events, and a revenue share that stops at a monthly cap on paid plans. If you mainly need simplicity, polish or email marketing, one of the others may suit you better.

No. Several unrelated businesses use names that include "Hive" or "Learn". HiveLearn, the learning community platform at hivelearn.app, is not affiliated with any of them. If what you are reading about is not a community, course and events platform at hivelearn.app, it is a different company.

HiveLearn has a public REST API, documented at hivelearn.app/api-docs, and an MCP server at mcp.hivelearn.app with 96 tools, so AI assistants such as Claude can list members, create courses and events, and start AI course generation on your behalf. A stdio package, hivelearn-mcp, is on npm for desktop clients.

A "Switch to HiveLearn" wizard imports exports from Skool, Circle, Kajabi, Mighty Networks and Patreon, or any CSV. It classifies the files, maps columns with AI, re-hosts media, and can send imported members a reactivation email. Concierge migration, where the team does the move with you, is included on Pro and above.

The one-line summary: HiveLearn is for people who teach a community, want the courses and the conversation in the same place, and would rather pay a capped share than an open-ended one.