# Heights Platform

> Course, challenge and community platform with built-in AI tools

Heights Platform is a place to build and sell online courses, challenges, digital products and paid community channels. It includes live lessons, meeting rooms and live streams, email to students, and Heights AI, which drafts courses, emails, quizzes and website pages. No plan takes a transaction fee on sales.

- **Category:** Courses & Communities
- **Made by:** Velora Studios, LLC
- **Website:** https://www.heightsplatform.com
- **Runs on:** Web, macOS, Windows
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Heights Platform is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $19 per month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 30-day free trial, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Challenge | $19 per month for up to 100 students, billed annually ($29 monthly) | 1 challenge course, email to 1,000 contacts, live lessons, certificates, gamification and coupons. No community. No transaction fee. |
| Basic | $39 per month for up to 5,000 students, billed annually ($49 monthly) | Unlimited courses and community channels, digital products, meeting rooms, affiliate program, Zapier, email to 5,000 contacts. |
| Pro | $99 per month for up to 10,000 students, billed annually ($119 monthly) | Custom domain, web page builder, live streaming, no Heights branding, 2 admins, weekly AI coaching, email to 10,000 contacts. |
| Academy | $399 per month for unlimited students, billed annually ($499 monthly) | Email to 100,000 contacts, 25 admins, custom student roles, API access, advanced reporting, a setup consultation and priority support. |

Read from https://www.heightsplatform.com/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Heights Platform before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with annual plans** (Annual discount): Heights Platform's pricing page lists 20% off for annual plans: Challenge $19 a month instead of $29, Basic $39 instead of $49, Pro $99 instead of $119. Source: https://www.heightsplatform.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Courses and challenges:** A lesson builder with drip and unlockable lessons, assignments and quizzes, certificates, badges and points, and unlimited video hosting.
- **Community channels:** Free or paid channels tied to courses, with student projects, member messaging, and free channels published as public, indexable pages.
- **Meeting rooms and live streams:** Live lessons, group calls in meeting rooms from Basic, and live streams in community channels, with 5 to 30 video hours a month by plan.
- **Payments without fees:** One-time, subscription and installment prices through your own Stripe or PayPal account, with coupons, order bumps and cart recovery.
- **Heights AI:** Drafts courses, quizzes, emails and website pages, moderates the community, builds reports, and on Pro coaches you weekly.

## Good for

- Creators starting with a single challenge or small course
- Course sellers who want no platform fee on payments
- Teachers who run live lessons and group calls

## Worth knowing

- Challenge allows 1 course and 100 active students and has no community.
- A custom domain and removing Heights branding need Pro at $99 a month billed annually.
- API access and custom student roles are only in Academy.
- No iOS or Android app is listed: students use a mobile browser or the Mac and Windows desktop apps.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Heights Platform does courses, challenges, community channels and live lessons, takes no fee on sales, and gives you 30 days free with no card. Basic at $39 a month billed yearly is the realistic plan for a course. But your own domain, the page builder and live streams need Pro at $99, and there's no phone app for students.

- **Value for money: C.** Challenge is $19 a month billed yearly but covers 1 challenge course for 100 students. Basic, with unlimited courses and 5,000 students, is $39, and no plan takes a fee on sales, so $2,000 of sales costs $39 a month: the middle of this category.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 30-day trial with no card needed, as long as any in this category.
- **Features: B.** Courses and challenges with quizzes, assignments, certificates and badges, community channels, meeting rooms and live streams, email to students, fee-free checkout and Heights AI. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the job; a custom domain waits for Pro.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. Heights AI drafts courses, quizzes and pages, which helps, but you're still building a school.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, plus Mac and Windows apps, with Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, Kit, ActiveCampaign, Google Analytics and Dropbox. No iPhone or Android app, which an A needs, and the API is only on Academy.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Heights Platform's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among course and community platforms

- Heights Platform's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 8 of the 18 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on features (B, above 10 of 18) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $41 for the category: 2 of the 17 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Heights Platform you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $228 a year.

- You could make: Online courses: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- You could not: Video calls.
- You could not: A members' space with posts, chat and events that people keep coming back to.
- You could not: A real app for macOS and Windows. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal and Zapier among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: People on the other end: coaches. No app builder makes those.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, Kit, ActiveCampaign, Google Analytics, Dropbox

**Tags:** Online courses, Community, Email campaigns, Video calls, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Thinkific](https://toolgpa.com/tools/thinkific): Course, community and membership platform for experts and academies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heights-platform-vs-thinkific)
- [Teachable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/teachable): Online course, coaching and membership platform with its own checkout. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heights-platform-vs-teachable)
- [Podia](https://toolgpa.com/tools/podia): Website, store, courses, community and email for creators in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heights-platform-vs-podia)
- [LearnWorlds](https://toolgpa.com/tools/learnworlds): Online academy builder for course creators and training teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heights-platform-vs-learnworlds)
- [Graphy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/graphy): Course and membership platform with AI agents and branded apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/graphy-vs-heights-platform)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://www.heightsplatform.com/pricing
- https://www.heightsplatform.com/integrations
- https://www.heightsplatform.com/download

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/heights-platform
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).