The Podia alternative
that lets you keep 100%.
Podia makes selling courses and digital downloads feel simple, but its entry plan adds a transaction fee and community is not the focus. Drry puts the community feed at the center, starts genuinely free, and never takes a cut of your member payments.
Drry vs Podia, side by side
| Drry | Podia | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes. 100 members, 5 GB, unlimited courses, and the community feed. No card. | Free trial only, no free plan. |
| Fee on your member payments | 0%. You keep 100%, only Stripe's standard processing fee applies. | A transaction fee on the entry plan; 0% starts on pricier tiers. |
| Courses + community together | Both built in, in one branded space you own. | Courses and downloads first; community is light. |
| Your own brand and domain | Your own address like grace.drry.com on free; you can connect your own domain plus white label (no Drry branding, the site is 100% yours) on paid plans. | Custom domain on paid plans. |
| Knowing who is showing up | See who is showing up, who is drifting away, which content people love, and how many finish each course. Included on Creator ($29/mo). | Sales and email stats. |
| Where pricing starts | Free, then $29/mo (Creator), $99/mo (Growth). | A monthly fee after the trial. |
Details reflect each platform's publicly stated model and can change. Check current terms before deciding.
Why creators pick Drry
- Keep 100% of member payments. Only Stripe's standard processing fee applies, we take nothing on top.
- Payments run through your own Stripe account, so your customers and subscriptions belong to you, not the platform. No payment lock-in.
- A genuinely free tier: 100 members, 5 GB storage, unlimited courses, and the community feed, with no card required.
- Courses, a community feed, members, and payments in one branded space you own.
- Your own address like grace.drry.com out of the box, with custom domain and white label (no Drry branding, the site is 100% yours) on paid tiers.
- Member analytics on the $29 Creator plan: who is showing up, what is landing, and who is quietly drifting away. The kind of insight other platforms save for their priciest plans.
Drry vs Podia, questions
Is Drry a free Podia alternative?
Yes. Drry has a free plan with 100 members, 5 GB, unlimited courses, and the community feed, with no card and no trial countdown.
Does Drry charge a transaction fee like Podia's entry plan?
No. Drry takes 0% of member payments on every plan, including free. Only Stripe's standard processing fee applies.
Does Drry have a real community, not just comments?
Yes. A full community feed with threads, replies, likes, mentions, and member profiles sits alongside your courses in the same branded space.
Try the Drry way, free.
Spin up your branded space in minutes, courses and community together, and keep 100% of what your members pay you.