🎉 2025 Year in Review

This year, more than 12 million people chose to spend their time in Circle communities.

As 2025 comes to a close, I’ve been thinking a lot about the special moments happening in our communities every day for those millions of people.

While other platforms are built to keep people scrolling, our communities help people learn new skills, take new directions, and create meaningful change for themselves and others.

Far from mindless engagement, Circle communities are about enabling personal and professional transformations.

It's easy to forget that every transformation is a life changing event. For some, this could be a new career or a business, and for others it's a new lifestyle. Not many in the world get to claim something as good and grand as their vocation, but we do.

We also believe in our heart that making money, impact, and meaning shouldn’t be a trade-off.

We think there’s a way for every creator, entrepreneur, and business to achieve all three, and to stop for nothing less.

Once you’ve truly achieved it, you get to jump out of bed every morning with insatiable passion, purpose, and desire to build something beautiful for the world. Like I do every day!

On that note, I made a short video reflecting on this theme and our most notable releases this year:

(We also put together a beautiful2025 Year in Review page I highly recommend checking out.)

Check out our 2025 Year in Review

As we wrap up the year, I want to share my heartfelt gratitude to every Circle team member and customer for being on this ride with us, and for the incredible effort you put in. You should be super proud.

Circle is in the business of transformation.

Every year, it gets a little less lonely to be building a company with transformation at the core, because people are finally starting to get it. The world needs us now more than ever.

And thanks to reaching profitability this year, Circle will soon be hiring for 50+ roles across the company, with the majority of these in our engineering and design teams, solely focused on making the product better for you. I cannot wait for you to see what we have in store for next year.

Thank you ❤️

See you in 2026!

Your 2025 recap is ready

In addition to Circle’s recap, we built a special 2025 Recap page for your community, too!

In your community, you’ll now see a personalized recap by 5pm EST today that highlights:

• How your community grew over the year
• How members showed up and supported each other
• What you created together, from posts to events to learning moments
• The people who helped shape the community and make it special

You can also generate a branded share card to celebrate your community publicly with your members or a wider audience.

To see your recap, click on the banner at the top of your community. (Only admins in your community will see this, until and unless you choose to share it.)

Now, back to our product recap…

Recap of 2025

We shipped over 200 improvements to Circle this year. Behind all of them was a simple question: How do we better help our builders create transformation?

Everything we built this year falls into three areas: intelligence to help you scale yourself, growth to help you grow your business, and connection to help your members build deeper relationships.

Also see: 2025 Year in Review

1. Intelligence

We focused on helping you spend less time on repetitive work and more time creating value inside your community.

That’s why we launched AI Agents, AI Workflows, and AI Copilot to help streamline moderation, onboarding, support, and operations while staying out of your way.

2. Growth

Picking platforms shouldn’t be your full-time job — building and growing your business is hard enough.

This year, we made Circle the single home for your community and your business with the addition of the Website Builder, Custom App Builder, Visual Email Builder, and Desktop App.

Now, Circle can be the first and last platform you have to choose for your business.

3. Connection

Strong communities are built on real connection, not just content. Connections are often where transformations start.

In 2025, we invested in helping members find and connect with the right people more naturally.

Circle Connect, improved live and video experiences, and voice notes make communities feel more human and less transactional.

A TL;DR of our major releases this year 🤯

• AI Agents
• AI Workflows
• AI Copilot
• AI Summaries
• Desktop App
• Website Builder
• Custom App Builder
• Visual Email Builder
• Push Notifications Builder
• Circle Connect
• Video Player Redesign
• Live Redesign
• Voice Notes

In addition to those major releases, we shipped 200+ minor improvements and design updates.

The team truly gave it their all!

FYI: Circle is now available in more languages

Many of you are building communities with members all over the world, and language is a big part of helping people feel at home.

Circle now supports French, Italian, and Spanish, with Portuguese (Portugal) coming soon. You can use these language settings to better match how your community shows up and how your members experience it.

At the community level, you can set the primary language for your Circle. This controls the default experience for new and existing members.

At the member level, individuals can choose their own language preference, so navigation, prompts, and core product surfaces reflect what feels right to them.

On mobile, Circle will automatically respect a member’s device language, so the app feels familiar and intuitive from the moment they open it.

Learn more about how to set up a default language →

Other updates

“For You” feed (beta): We are experimenting with a personalized home feed that surfaces the most relevant conversations. This should now be available in public beta as option for you to test, as well. Let us know what you think. Learn more here.

Picture-in-Picture for Live Rooms: Keep live video visible while navigating chat, Q&A, or spotlight.

Automated content scanning: AI now scans invitation and broadcast emails for phishing and malicious content.

Search across email broadcasts: Find sent, draft, or scheduled emails instantly by name or subject.

Space recovery and soft deletion: Restore deleted spaces in minutes, with all content and media intact.

Video blocks in the Email Builder (coming soon): Add YouTube, Vimeo, or MP4 videos directly into emails with custom thumbnails.

Website Builder improvements: More flexible drag-and-drop layouts, a clearer editor, and Google Fonts support.

New paywall workflow triggers: Automate coupons, payments, retention, and upsell flows more easily.

Analytics: Compare performance over time with clearer deltas and trend indicators. Learn more here.

iOS improvements

We also shipped a few improvements toCircle’s iOS app:

• Support for accepting and ignoring Connect requests
• Support for French, Spanish, and Italian languages
• An improved profile menu toolbar
• Support for marking chat rooms as read
• Performance, reliability, and UI/UX improvements

Android improvements

Plus, here are some improvements onCircle’s Android andCircle Plus branded apps:

• Support for Connect
• Support for French, Spanish, and Italian languages
• Support for joining a DM via invite links
• Performance, reliability, and UI/UX improvements

🎉 Share your biggest wins of 2025

We want to celebrate you and your community this year! 🥳

Share one win or meaningful moment from 2025 in the #Wins & progress space, big or small. Add a screenshot if you have one and a sentence or two about why it mattered.

🎁 Three lucky participants will win a prize! You can participate until December 22.

Join the celebration

📚 New Circle Academy course: Community Automation

As your community grows, your workload doesn’t have to grow with it.

The new Community Automation course walks you through how to scale with Circle workflows that simplify onboarding, boost engagement, streamline operations, combat churn, and more.

You’ll learn how workflows pair with other key Circle features, and leave with practical ideas you can put into action right away.

Enroll now on Circle Academy