Yes.
Many communities use Circle for their:
Circle also offers deeper email and analytics capabilities than Heartbeat.
On top of this, you can work with Circle to build your own branded mobile app.
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Heartbeat gets you started. Circle helps you build a lasting community business
Combine a premium member experience, powerful AI, and the depth to run your entire digital business on one platform. Circle gives you:
Trusted by more than 15 million members across 20,000 communities
Heartbeat promises all-in-one. Circle delivers all-in-one without the tradeoffs.
Communities are switching from Heartbeat to Circle
“We’ve made over $3M on Circle over the last two years. It supported our live cohorts, self-paced courses, virtual summits, a subscription-based membership, and our first in-person summit in LA. This is the power of a true ‘all-in-one’ platform.”
Tiago Forte — Founder, Forte Labs
You're ready for Circle if any of these sound like you
Your brand is premium, but your community experience doesn't feel like it
Email is one of your biggest growth channels, but your platform doesn't support it
Every automation requires another workaround because your workflows and segmentation aren't powerful enough
You're spending too much time reviewing flagged content and managing your community by hand
You know your business is growing, but you can't see what's actually driving it
Build the community experience your members deserve
Give them an experience that reflects your brand, keeps them engaged, and makes your community the place they want to return to.
Features
Modern, intuitive member experience
Forum-style posts with titles and threads
Powerful search and content discovery
Native livestreaming with automatic recordings
Engagement features including gamification
Rich member profiles and directory
Member-facing AI for support and discovery
Single sign-on (SSO)
Grow without outgrowing your platform
Run your entire business from one platform with the automation, analytics, AI, and flexibility to keep growing instead of rebuilding.
Features
Understand and analyze your audience with member segmentation
Revenue, email, event, and webpage analytics
Member analytics with churn risk indicators
AI-powered business insights and recommendations
Multiple space types with access tiers
Flexible monetization including subscriptions and paywalls
Dedicated CSM for monthly or quarterly sessions
Spend more time creating, not managing
Spend less time managing your community and more time growing it. Circle combines email, AI, and automation to handle repetitive work.
Features
Circle AI with 50+ business skills
AI Agents that support members and automate admin work
AI-powered moderation
Advanced workflows with hundreds of triggers and actions
Complete email platform with broadcasts and campaigns
Contact management system (CMS)
Drag-and-drop branded email templates
White-label sending domain
The complete community platform
Circle is the best platform to build, engage, and scale your business — now and in the future.
Circle moves fast, so you can grow even faster
Industry-leading product velocity, support, and customer ratings make Circle the most trusted platform for serious community businesses.
Upgrade from Heartbeat to Circle in three steps
Let our migration team handle the heavy lifting — so you don’t have to.
1
Request your migration
Fill out a quick form to tell us about your setup. We'll take it from there. We’ll migrate your:
2
Approve your custom plan
We’ll create a tailored migration plan based on your needs. You review and approve before we begin.
3
Sit back while we migrate
Our team moves everything over — content, members, settings — fully structured and ready to go live.
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