80 → 900paying students
Charlotte SalvanèsUn Autre Atelier
The Circle alternative that feels like one product, not a pile of features.
Circle adds every feature it can. Heartbeat builds features that actually work together, so you and your members feel a community, not a checklist of modules.
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- $27M+ paid to creators
- 37,000+ communities
- 750,000+ members
- 50+ countries
Circle has lots of features. They just don’t fit together like your business needs.
Modules you wire up yourself
Circle ships features like a checklist. You feel it when you’re building and your community is spread across modules that don’t talk to each other.
AI agents start at $419/mo
Circle’s AI agents and AI workflows start on its Scale plan. Pulse builds courses, offers and pages on every Heartbeat plan.
Fewer ways to get paid
No pay-what-you-want, bundled offers, cohort pricing or cancellation flows. On Heartbeat these are options you turn on.
Heartbeat and Circle, side by side
| Heartbeat | Circle | |
|---|---|---|
| Everything built to work together | One integrated system | Separate modules bolted on |
| AI that builds your community | Pulse builds courses, offers, pages | AI agents from $419/mo (Scale) |
| Pay-what-you-want, bundles, cohort pricing | Built in | Not supported |
| Win back members who try to cancel | Cancellation flows (Grow) | Not supported |
| Real-time chat & voice rooms | Every plan | Chat + live rooms |
| Custom CSS & code | Guided, less raw control | Custom CSS & JS snippets |
| Starting price | $49/mo | $89/mo (billed annually) |
| Transaction fee | 5% / 2.5% / 1.25% by plan, plus Stripe | 2% / 1% / 0.5% by plan, plus Stripe |
Everything built to work together
HeartbeatOne integrated system
CircleSeparate modules bolted on
AI that builds your community
HeartbeatPulse builds courses, offers, pages
CircleAI agents from $419/mo (Scale)
Pay-what-you-want, bundles, cohort pricing
HeartbeatBuilt in
CircleNot supported
Win back members who try to cancel
HeartbeatCancellation flows (Grow)
CircleNot supported
Real-time chat & voice rooms
HeartbeatEvery plan
CircleChat + live rooms
Custom CSS & code
HeartbeatGuided, less raw control
CircleCustom CSS & JS snippets
Starting price
Heartbeat$49/mo
Circle$89/mo (billed annually)
Transaction fee
Heartbeat5% / 2.5% / 1.25% by plan, plus Stripe
Circle2% / 1% / 0.5% by plan, plus Stripe
900 paying students, built on accessibility.
Charlotte and Laurent evaluated Circle, Skool, Mighty Networks and Thinkific, then chose Heartbeat. Their courses, weekly live sessions and student-led city meetups now run in one place, for an academy of 900 paying students.
Move your Circle community over this week.
Circle runs on Stripe, so exporting your subscribers is a clean, accurate path here.
Payments
~5 minMove your paying members without losing one. Export your subscribers as a CSV, upload it to Heartbeat, and our subscription importer takes over the billing. About as hard as uploading an email list to a newsletter tool.
Members
~10 minBring your people in with Pulse, our AI co-builder: send sign-up links locked to your invite list, or invite everyone straight from Heartbeat. Passwordless login means no new usernames or passwords: they enter their email, click the link, and they’re in.
Content
~15 minCourses, docs, events, all of it. Export from your old tool in any format (CSV, Markdown, .docx), hand it to Pulse, and tell it to rebuild. Pulse turns your material into real Heartbeat courses and pages for you.
One product, not a pile of features.
Start free · Build fast with AI
- $27M+ paid to creators
- 37,000+ communities
- 750,000+ members
- 50+ countries
1,000 is massive, congrats!! 🙌 I'm at 40 members and grinding. Exactly the motivation I needed today.