Podia and Zenler (also known as “New Zenler”) are both all-in-one platforms for selling online courses, webinars, coaching, and other digital goods. Both tools have a website builder and blogging functionality so you can reach your audience, and both include built-in email marketing for staying in touch with new followers.

But Podia’s top priority is making all of this easy and intuitive to set up, so you can spend your time focusing on what you do best. Podia’s interface and features are regularly updated to match your needs, and the platform provides a beautiful experience for you and your students.

Here are just a few examples of why you’ll love Podia.

You can set a custom color palette in Podia’s design settings, and those colors will be used throughout your products, landing pages, and email for a cohesive look.

Speaking of cohesion, all Podia accounts come with a media library so you can add your files, videos, images, audio clips, and other media once and use them again and again across your site.

Podia also comes with built-in email marketing tools that can replace platforms like ConvertKit and Mailchimp. Create marketing funnels, offer lead magnets, build automations with entrance and exit triggers, send welcome emails to new subscribers, and send thank you emails after checkout — Podia Email does it all and everything is already connected.

When sending email newsletters, you can choose from Podia’s library of premade templates or design your own template from scratch. You can even use previous emails as a starting point to save time. Podia Email also comes with advanced audience segments and filtering so you can send messages to specific subsets of your audience.

And when you publish a new blog post, you can share it with your email list in just a click. We’ll automatically convert it into a beautiful email that’s ready to send.

For course creators, Podia’s online course platform gets top marks for being easy and fun to use. You can add as many lessons and modules as you like, and courses can contain videos, audio files, images, text, spreadsheets, presentations, quizzes, student comments, embeds, coaching offers, drip content, and any other course content you can dream up.

You can also bundle your online course with digital downloads and other products or add an online community feature with Podia’s Discord integration.

Finally, Podia also includes built-in customer chat messaging. If you enable this, website visitors and customers can send you a chat message with any questions. This is a paid add-on with many other platforms, but it’s included with Podia so you can provide the best learning experience possible.

Pricing for Podia and Zenler

In addition to being a user-friendly platform for building your online business, Podia also has straightforward pricing. Right now, Zenler’s pricing structure is confusing.

Zenler pricing:

To sign up, you need to request an invitation. After you receive your invitation to join, you can choose the Pro plan or the Premium plan. Both plans have the same features, but Premium has a higher monthly email send limit, more team seats, and more custom domains.

• Pro: The Pro plan costs $67/month when you pay monthly, but when you switch to annual billing, the price jumps up to $1270 per year (or $108.53 per month). Then they list a discount which makes the price $647 per year. This works out to $53.91 per month if you pay annually, but the site says you’re saving $623/year.

• Premium: The Premium plan costs $197/month when you pay monthly, but again, when you switch to annual billing the price increases to $5970 per year (which works out to $497.50 per month). It’s unclear why the price is more than double for the same plan when you pay annually, but they’ve added a discount that brings the price back down to $1447 per year (or around $120 per month paid annually).

It’s unclear if Zenler offers a free trial, so you might need to sign up for a paid plan to see how things work behind the scenes.

Podia Pricing:

At Podia, we prefer to keep things simple. Podia has a 30-day free trial with all features so you can test everything out before you pay. After the trial, you can choose from two pricing plans:

• Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): Mover includes your website, blog, and sales pages as well as unlimited digital products, course creation tools, and third-party code. You also get access to Podia’s friendly customer support.

• Shaker: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($75/month when paid annually): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus your own affiliate program.

All Podia plans include all email marketing features (like automations, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, tagging, and campaigns) for up to 100 subscribers. If you like, you can upgrade your Podia Email plan to add more subscribers as your list grows.

If you sign up for an annual Mover or Shaker plan, Podia includes a free migration service. This means our team will move your products and customers over from another platform (like Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, etc.) for free so you can get started fast.

If you’re looking for an all-in-one option where your work can shine, we’d love to have you at Podia. You can try Podia free for 30 days. We can’t wait to see what you make.