# Passion.io review (2026): is it worth $119 a month, billed yearly?

> Branded mobile app for courses, memberships and community

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Passion.io lets coaches and creators publish their own mobile app that delivers courses, memberships, group communities and direct messages to customers. Plans differ by branding, App Store listing and the number of AI messages included. Every plan includes an AI coach trained on the creator's content. A done-for-you tier is sold through the vendor's team.

- **Category:** Courses & Communities
- **Made by:** Independence284, Inc.
- **Website:** https://passion.io
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want to try it free, as there is no free plan or trial.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Passion.io is a paid product, starting at $119 per month, billed annually ($149 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Launch | $119 per month, billed annually ($149 billed monthly) | Your own app, basic communities and drip content, one-to-one messaging, courses priced up to $10k, email support and 3,000 AI messages. PassionPayments fee 3.9%. |
| Scale | $279 per month, billed annually ($349 billed monthly) | Everything in Launch, plus your own branding, Zapier, advanced communities, DMs and drip content, chat support and 7,500 AI messages. |
| Expand | $599 per month, billed annually ($699 billed monthly) | Everything in Scale, plus an App Store and Google Play listing, Apple and Google Pay, unlimited users, products and videos, offline mode and 20,000 AI messages. |
| Passion Plus | Custom | Price agreed on request. Adds custom analytics, fast content migration, app submission by the vendor, a success manager and 60,000 AI messages. |

Read from https://passion.io/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Passion.io before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page says annual billing saves 20% against paying month to month: Launch $119 instead of $149, Scale $279 instead of $349, Expand $599 instead of $699. Source: https://passion.io/pricing

## Key features

- **Your own app:** Customers get an app for courses, videos and memberships. Your own branding starts on Scale, and a store listing under your name on Expand.
- **Courses and drip content:** Interactive courses with quizzes, progress tracking and timers, released on a schedule; advanced drip content starts on Scale.
- **Communities and messaging:** Group communities, chats and one-to-one messages inside the app; advanced versions from Scale.
- **AI coach:** A context-aware AI coach trained on your content answers members, with monthly Conversational AI messages that rise by plan.
- **In-app payments:** One-off and subscription payments, with a PassionPayments fee that falls from 3.9% on Launch to 1.9% on Passion Plus.
- **Push notifications and offline mode:** Unlimited push notifications and offline mode are listed on Expand.

## Good for

- Coaches who want customers to use a mobile app
- Creators selling memberships, videos and courses in one place
- Teams that want the vendor to handle store submission

## Worth knowing

- There is no free plan or trial listed on the pricing page; the cheapest plan is $119 a month on yearly billing.
- Your own branding needs Scale, and a store listing under your name needs Expand at $599 a month.
- Apple, Google and Stripe processing fees apply on top of the PassionPayments fee, which the page gives as 3.9% on Launch.
- Passion Plus has no published price.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Passion.io builds a branded mobile app for courses, memberships and community, from $119 a month on annual billing. Your own branding needs the $279 plan and a store listing under your name needs $599, and there is no free plan or trial.

- **Value for money: D.** Launch is $119 a month on annual billing, but your own branding needs Scale at $279 and your own store listing needs Expand at $599, in the dearest tenth where courses tools start at $143.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on the pricing page.
- **Features: C.** Your own app, courses with drip content, communities, an AI coach, in-app payments, push notifications and offline mode. Its focus is the app, a smaller job than a full course platform.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Building and branding an app and its store listing is real work.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with 2 integrations on record. No desktop program.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Passion.io's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among course and community platforms

- Passion.io's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 1 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 25 of 98) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $119 a month, against a middle price of $36 for the category: 57 of the 65 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 19 tools score higher and cost less.

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

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Passion.io you would be making a tool that builds and hosts other apps. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 91 of the 98 other course and community platforms grade higher. It costs $1,428 a year.

- You could make: Online courses: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: A tool that builds and hosts other apps.
- You could not: A members' space with posts, chat and events that people keep coming back to.
- You could not: A chatbot builder hooked into the messaging apps.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- 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.

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

## Works with

Zapier, Stripe

**Tags:** Online courses, Community, App builder, AI features, Chatbots

## Alternatives

- [Mighty Networks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mighty-networks): Community platform with courses, livestreams and paid memberships. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mighty-networks-vs-passion-io)
- [Kajabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kajabi): All-in-one platform for selling courses, coaching and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kajabi-vs-passion-io)
- [Thinkific](https://toolgpa.com/tools/thinkific): Course, community and membership platform for experts and academies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/passion-io-vs-thinkific)
- [Heartbeat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heartbeat): Paid community platform with courses, events and member payments. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/heartbeat-vs-passion-io)
- [Circle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/circle): Community platform with courses, events, payments and branded apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/circle-vs-passion-io)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://passion.io/pricing
- https://passion.io/imprint

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/passion-io
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