Compare Crowdstack With Facebook Groups

Discover why Crowdstack offers so much more control and flexibility than Facebook Groups.

More open login system

Own your data

100% Reach

Premium memberships supported

No censorship

More management tools

Why Choose Crowdstack Over Facebook Groups

Control and Flexibility

Crowdstack gives you total control:

  • You own the data - Unlike with Facebook, you always own all data and set your own rules.
  • 100% Reach - Crowdstack ensures that any content you post to your community gets shared. We never serve any outside content to your community or manipulate how your content is disseminated.
  • No Walled Garden - don't force your members to have and use a Facebook account. Your community members can sign in with an ID from Google, Crowdstack, or Facebook.

Control and Flexibility

Crowdstack gives you total control:

  • You own the data - Unlike with Facebook, you always own all data and set your own rules.
  • 100% Reach - Crowdstack ensures that any content you post to your community gets shared. We never serve any outside content to your community or manipulate how your content is disseminated.
  • No Walled Garden - don't force your members to have and use a Facebook account. Your community members can sign in with an ID from Google, Crowdstack, or Facebook.

Power Features

Crowdstack gives you the following features that are not available on Facebook Groups:

  • Channels - create public, private, or featured channels for targeting your content.
  • Premium Memberships - make money by charging for access to certain channels in your group.
  • Custom Profile Fields - collect all of the information you want, per member.
  • Gamification - Use activity points to encourage participation and recognize/reward active community members.
  • Automation Rules - moderate content or members based on rules you create, trigger recognition when members post the first time, and much more.

Power Features

Crowdstack gives you the following features that are not available on Facebook Groups:

  • Channels - create public, private, or featured channels for targeting your content.
  • Premium Memberships - make money by charging for access to certain channels in your group.
  • Custom Profile Fields - collect all of the information you want, per member.
  • Gamification - Use activity points to encourage participation and recognize/reward active community members.
  • Automation Rules - moderate content or members based on rules you create, trigger recognition when members post the first time, and much more.

Feature Comparison

 
Facebook Group
Crowdstack
Fee Structure Free Free or Flat Rate Premium Plan
Unlimited Usage
Content Moderation
Member Management Tools
Premium Memberships
Custom Profile Fields
Analytics
Gamification
Automation Rules
Channels
Deep Search

Anti-Censorship

We strongly believe that our role is simply to be the infrastructure for your online community. Thus, we will never monitor or censor your members or content. We wrote a blog post about this -- and take it very seriously.
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