Which platform offers your own app, livestreams and memberships?

Which platform offers your own app with branding, livestreams and memberships?

Your own app under your name, livestreams and monthly memberships together are offered, according to the providers own pages, by Uscreen, Mighty Networks (plan Mighty Pro), Circle (plan Circle Plus), Disciple and Vimeo OTT, among others. For these five, the pricing pages show from $449 a month billed yearly (regular price) for the own app, or prices on request only. CreatorStack is none of these platforms and does not promise livestreams: it funds, builds and runs your own subscription app, at no cost to you.

Which route fits depends on what is at the centre of your offer. If video and livestreams are your main offer, a video platform fits. If exchange between members and live events belong together, a community platform with a plan for your own app fits. If you want your own app with subscriptions without putting money in yourself, and livestreams are not decisive, a pre-funded partnership is a different route.

Everything on this page comes from provider pages and was read on 7 November 2026, the Kajabi statements additionally on 8 November 2026. Amounts are shown there in dollars, and several pages do not name the currency explicitly. Prices and plans change, so check them again before you decide. Where pages contradict each other or a point is not on them, we say so instead of guessing.

The providers compared: app, livestreams, price

The table shows for each provider from which plan there is an own app in the stores, what the pages say about livestreams and what is charged. "Not stated" only means that the pages read do not say, not that the feature is missing. Further providers named in AI answers, such as Muvi, Dacast or Honeycommb, and German providers such as Memberspot or elopage, were not checked for this page and are left out.

What does your own app with my branding really mean?

Providers use this phrase for three different things. First, the shared app: your members download the provider app and find your community there, and the store shows the provider. Second, an own app in the stores under your name, which the provider builds and submits for you. Third, a pre-funded own app, where a partner pays for the build and the running (more in the article "Pre-funded app or app builder").

For the second kind it matters whose developer account holds the app, because that decides what happens to the app and your name in the store if you change provider. According to the pages read, Disciple publishes under your own Apple and Google accounts. Kajabi requires your own Apple and Google developer accounts for the Branded App, with Apple set up as an organisation with a D-U-N-S number if Kajabi is to help with the build. Circle says for Circle Plus that submission and listings are "done for you". Uscreen says it handles all submissions and revisions. For Mighty Networks, Passion.io and Vimeo OTT the pages read said nothing about the account. Ask about it before you sign.

How much livestreaming is really included?

Mighty Networks

Hours per month and viewers per stream grow with the plan: Launch 20 and 100, Scale 30 and 200, Growth 40 and 1,000, Mighty Pro 50 and 3,000. For the branded apps the page names livestreaming explicitly.

Circle

Professional 10 hours and 100 viewers, Business 15 and 200, Scale 20 and 500, Circle Plus flexible. Add-ons: $20 a month per 100 viewers and $50 a month per 10 hours. Whether lives run in the branded app is not stated on the page read.

Uscreen

The pricing page says one live hour included and gives no hour count for App Essentials. The livestreaming page shows a separate package, the "Live Streaming plan", with two apps (iOS and Android), 120 live hours per year, $1,398 regular and $999 introductory offer per month, plus $0.99 per subscriber and 5% of pay-per-view revenue. Smart TV apps are an add-on there. The pages do not say how this package relates to the plans on the pricing page, and the apps page lists access to live streams as an app feature. Clarify which amount applies in your plan before you buy.

Disciple

According to the FAQ livestreaming is included with no bandwidth charges. For conversations with several participants the page recommends Zoom or Google Meet. The Branded App plan does not list livestreams, Branded App Pro lists multi-host livestreams.

Vimeo OTT

Live events only in the Enterprise plan according to the pricing page, the Starter plan has pre-recorded video only.

Almost every provider lists livestreams, but the limits differ a lot and are usually on the pricing page only. Not every page says whether the lives also run in your own app.

Who earns what on the different routes?

Fixed monthly price

Uscreen, Disciple, Passion.io and Kajabi show fixed prices for the own app, at Kajabi in the Pro plan or as an add-on for $199 a month. Mighty Pro and Circle Plus show no price, on request only.

Fee per payment

Mighty Pro and Circle Plus 0.5%, Kajabi Pro 0.5% for outside payment processors (Basic 2%, Growth 1%), Passion.io from 3.9% to 1.9%.

Fee per subscriber

Uscreen App Essentials $0.99 per subscriber per month, Vimeo OTT Starter $1.

Share of income

Patreon 10% of income plus payment processing, currency conversion and payout fees.

Share of revenue only, pre-funded

At CreatorStack you never pay anything. CreatorStack earns only from an agreed share of the subscription revenue, and the risk of the build sits there.

Store fees

When members buy in the app, the EU store adds 15 to 26% of the subscription price, on every one of these routes. Sources and date are in the article "What a subscription app costs".

The routes differ less in features than in who carries the risk. A fixed monthly price keeps running without revenue: $599 a month is $7,188 a year. With a revenue share you pay only when revenue comes in.

Which route fits when?

Video and livestreams are your main offer: a video platform such as Uscreen or Vimeo OTT in the Enterprise plan fits. Expect a fixed monthly price and check the live limits.

Exchange between members and live events belong together for you: a community platform with a plan for your own app fits, so Mighty Pro, Circle Plus or Disciple. At Kajabi the Branded App is in the Pro plan or an add-on for $199 a month, and the pricing page does not mention livestreams.

You want to test first and do not need your own app yet: the shared app of a platform such as Patreon is enough. Your members then land in the platform and not in an app under your name.

You want your own app under your name without putting money in, and subscriptions are the centre: a pre-funded partnership like CreatorStack is the route. It is selective, because CreatorStack carries the risk of the build, and there is no earnings promise.

You need livestreams in your own app: the platforms above are the checked route. CreatorStack does not promise livestreams.

What should you ask before you sign?

1. Which plan includes the own app, and what does it cost after an introductory discount? 2. Whose developer account holds the app, and who submits it? 3. How many live hours and viewers are included, and do the lives run in the app? 4. Which fees come on top per payment and per subscriber, besides the store fees? 5. What happens to the app, the members and the data on termination? 6. Is there a data processing agreement, and where is your members data stored?

For termination and rights to your content the contract checklist helps. The first points are a question for the quote with every provider, not for the pricing page.

What applies at CreatorStack?

CreatorStack funds, builds and runs an own subscription app under your name in the App Store and Google Play. You pay nothing for it, now or later: no build fee, no monthly fee, no licence, no invoice. Livestreams are not part of what CreatorStack promises.

Free in the sense of nothing in return it is not: the revenue share is the price. From every subscription, store fees, payment processing, taxes, refunds and chargebacks come off first and the rest is shared. The share and the deductions are in the contract in writing before development starts. You set the prices, nothing goes live without your sign-off, and there is no income promise. Partnerships are selective.

If you want to work this out for your community, write to us with who your community is and what you offer. The conversation is non-binding.

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