# PeepSo review (2026): is the free plan enough? > WordPress social network plugin with a free core and yearly bundles Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. PeepSo is a WordPress plugin that turns your site into a social network with profiles, an activity stream, groups, friends and chat. The free bundle has no time limit; paid Community and Ultimate bundles add white-labeling, email digests, a mobile app and integrations with course and store plugins. - **Category:** Courses & Communities - **Made by:** PeepSo - **Website:** https://peepso.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you don't want to host a site, as it runs only on self-hosted WordPress. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, PeepSo has a free plan, and paid plans start at $149 per year for 1 site. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** PeepSo Free: profiles, activity stream, groups, friends, photos and media and chat, with no time limit and "Powered by PeepSo" shown. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | PeepSo Free | $0 | Social network core with groups, friends, media and chat; shows "Powered by PeepSo". | | Community Bundle | $149 per year for 1 site, shown as $12.42 a month | Adds white-labeling, email digests, social login, invitations, file uploads, pages and user limits; 1 year of updates. | | Ultimate Bundle | $249 per year for 1 site, shown as $20.75 a month | Adds the Mobile App Lite for iOS and Android, stories, achievements, and store, course and event integrations; 24/7 support. | Read from https://peepso.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PeepSo before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Lifetime license option** (Lifetime license): The pricing page has a Lifetime pay-once toggle for the Community and Ultimate bundles; lifetime licenses do not renew. The amounts were not readable in the page text. Source: https://peepso.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Social network core:** Member profiles and an activity stream, with public and private groups, friends, a member directory and photo and media sharing. - **Real-time chat:** Chat is part of the free bundle, with a block theme and a Gecko theme included. - **White-label and growth tools:** The Community bundle removes the "Powered by PeepSo" mark and adds email digests, social login and invitations. - **Mobile app:** The Ultimate bundle includes PeepSo Mobile App Lite for iOS and Android. - **Course and store integrations:** Ultimate links to LearnDash, TutorLMS and MasterStudy LMS for courses, and to WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and others for selling. - **Stories and achievements:** Ephemeral story posts and an achievements system for gamifying a community are part of the Ultimate bundle. ## Good for - WordPress sites that need a social network without a monthly platform fee - Course sites adding a member community next to LearnDash or Tutor LMS - Communities that want a branded mobile app ## Worth knowing - It runs only inside a self-hosted WordPress site; hosting is your job. - The free bundle shows "Powered by PeepSo"; removing it needs the Community bundle. - Site counts (1, 5 or 10) and a Lifetime option change the price; only the 1-site yearly prices were readable. - Renewals are not refundable, and staging sites use a license seat. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. PeepSo adds profiles, groups, chat and a feed to a WordPress site, free with paid bundles from $149 a year. The free version shows a Powered by PeepSo badge, and you host it yourself. - **Value for money: B.** $149 a year for one site is about $12.42 a month, inside the cheapest quarter ($20). The Ultimate bundle is $249 a year. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The free bundle has profiles, an activity stream, groups, friends, media and chat with no time limit. It shows a Powered by PeepSo badge. - **Features: B.** A social network core, chat, white-label tools, a mobile app, and course and store integrations. The listing shows no gap in the core job. - **Ease of use: D.** It needs a self-hosted WordPress site, and no store rating is on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with LearnDash, Tutor LMS, WooCommerce and others on the list. No desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from PeepSo's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among course and community platforms - PeepSo's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 83 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 79 of 98) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $12.42 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $36 for the category: 5 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of PeepSo you could make: online courses and templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 83 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade. It costs $149 a year. - You could make: Online courses and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A members' space with posts, chat and events that people keep coming back to. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, LearnDash, Tutor LMS and MasterStudy LMS among them. - 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 LearnDash, Tutor LMS, MasterStudy LMS, WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, Paid Memberships Pro, myCRED, GiveWP **Tags:** Community, Online courses, Templates ## Alternatives - [BuddyBoss](https://toolgpa.com/tools/buddyboss): Self-hosted WordPress community, course and membership platform. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buddyboss-vs-peepso) - [FluentCommunity](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fluent-community): WordPress community and course plugin, free with paid Pro licenses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fluent-community-vs-peepso) - [Ultimate Member](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ultimate-member): WordPress plugin for member profiles, sign-up and directories. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/peepso-vs-ultimate-member) - [bbPress](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bbpress): Free, open-source forum plugin for WordPress. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bbpress-vs-peepso) - [wpForo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wpforo): WordPress forum plugin with optional paid AI features. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/peepso-vs-wpforo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://peepso.com/pricing/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/peepso Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).