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Katie A.
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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

I love how on brand my community is and it feels like a fun platform and that is part of my brand. I love that when I toggle bt other communities that mine feels like me! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

There are some tech features that I wish Heartbeat had, but they are really good at adding and updating constantly! I am excited to watch it grow from ground up! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

That I have a space to meet and chat with my community and engage with them through prompts! I also love that it's off of social media! It really was the confidence I needed to go ahead and start a community! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Heartbeat Overview

What is Heartbeat?

Heartbeat is the all-in-one platform for community businesses. We bring together all the tools needed to run a profitable, scalable, community business — discussions, chats, courses, documents, event pages, voice channels, analytics, referral program management, and full payments suite — all under your own website.

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Product Description

Heartbeat is the plug-and-play online community builder that helps you create a tailored community space with all the building blocks needed — voice calls, threads, chats, docs, calendars, directories, matchmaking, analytics, integrations and more.


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Year Founded
2020
HQ Location
Sandy Springs, Georgia
Twitter
@HeartbeatChat
422 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
7 employees on LinkedIn®
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Heartbeat is the all-in-one platform for community businesses.


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Stasha K.
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Stasha K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Heartbeat: A Game-Changer for Online Communities"
What I appreciate most about Heartbeat is how responsive the team is to user feedback. They actively listen and implement improvements, which shows...
Jolene U.
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Jolene U.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great Community & Course Platform with Consistent Updates & Support"
Heartbeat offers a lot of great features for creating a community platform. I love having the Heartbeat app, with courses included. Heartbeat liste...
Adrian R.
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Adrian R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Great for creating your own engaging community"
The platform it's very intuitive, reducing friction for users to participate writing threads, asking questions, adding images, etc. versus the grea...
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Stasha K.
SK
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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

What I appreciate most about Heartbeat is how responsive the team is to user feedback. They actively listen and implement improvements, which shows their commitment to enhancing the user experience. Their support is excellent, and they promptly address questions and concerns. The ease of implementation and use is remarkable; I found myself navigating the platform effortlessly right from the start, and when I was in doubt I consulted their large knowledge base on how to use each segment of the community. I found it very helpful. The community organization features allow for manual control over access for individuals or entire groups, making management straightforward and efficient. With all these capabilities, I've found everything I need in Heartbeat, enabling me to concentrate on growing my business without the hassle. I use it every day, and it seamlessly integrates with various tools, offering many choices that suit my workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

My main drawback is that I can create a paid plan in the community only using Stripe, which isn't supported in my country. This creates a barrier to fully utilizing the service and having the paid community. However, despite this limitation, the overall quality and functionality of Heartbeat make it clear that it’s a worthwhile investment, and I’m determined to find I will find a way to overcome this "disadvantage".

Overall Heartbeat is the ultimate choice for those looking to elevate their online communities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Heartbeat effectively solves several problems related to community engagement and course management. It provides a centralized platform for organizing educational content and facilitating community activity, which enhances interaction among users. This seamless integration of courses and community features allows me to create a more dynamic learning environment. As a result, we can foster stronger connections and engagement within the community, ultimately benefiting our business by driving more participation and interest in the educational offerings we provide. We believe in the power of groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jolene U.
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Writer, Coach, Emotional Health Warrior, Soul Care Mentor
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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

Heartbeat offers a lot of great features for creating a community platform. I love having the Heartbeat app, with courses included. Heartbeat listens to their users, provides consistent updates, and continually makes improvements to serve their users.

The townhalls, educational videos, community for Heartbeat community managers, and overall energy from the team is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

Heartbeat is available as an integration option with more and more companies. I can use it in Pabbly, Zapier, and many other solutions.

I would love to see Heartbeat continue direct connections without using Zapier or Pabbly. There are so many options out there, so this is not a negative with Heartbeat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

An app for private communities. Courses in the app. Locked documents, videos, channels, etc. Video and voice rooms for users to use.

Heartbeat provides so much more than just an online community space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adrian R.
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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

The platform it's very intuitive, reducing friction for users to participate writing threads, asking questions, adding images, etc. versus the great majority of community platforms that feels like an old forum-style space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

The overall design (fonts, layout, UI) feels a bit rough in compare to other community platforms with a more cleaner-trendy look.

Also, the mobile (and Mac) app are slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Heartbeat I'm able to gather my audience in a private space and engage with them in ways I couldn't with other marketing tools (online course, email marketing and social media platforms).

I truly believe communities will become the best way to monetize an audience and Heartbeat is very good at helping you with exactly that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

One of the number 1 things I look for in a product is how great the customer experience is and I have never had a better customer experience than with Heartbeat! We had a pretty complex case and our rep, Nick, was patient, communicative, and supported us through every challenge we had. Heartbeat has so many helpful articles; tutorials; and the thing I love most about it for our community is that everything is on ONE place! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

There is a learning curve, which is to be expected but they really do everything to make it as smooth as possible for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to have a slack channel; a hub for call recordings; and had to send communciations and calendar invites through other external platforms. Now we have everything we need in ONE place with Heartbeat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shade O.
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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

Heartbeat is a community platform that continues to innovate in exciting ways! The platform is full-featured - with community, courses, events, audio & video capabilities, documentation, etc. It has almost everything you can think of to run a successful and robust community.

The Heartbeat workflows is one of my favorite features! 🎉 This feature allows you to automate things within the Heartbeat platform without having to use external automation tools like Zapier.

Heartbeat is also extremely versatile so you can setup the kind of community you want by turning on/off features that you may not need in your particular setup.

Heartbeat itself is quite intuitive.

The Heartbeat team, in addition to being very accessible, actively listen and respond to feedback.

Their customer support is great! They have monthly Townhalls where the latest features are unveiled and we can offer our feedback and make suggestions LIVE right there during the Townhall. They even give 1-on-1 live support to customers who need it!

Heartbeat is a community platform with much heart! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

Honestly, there's nothing I dislike. The developments can't come fast enough 🙃

For example, I would like some more features added to the event's calendar such as the ability to embed the event Calender in external pages. It's currently on the roadmap and I'm confident the team will get to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Heartbeat provides an online meeting spot for my members. I love scheduling events in the calendar as the Hwartbeat calendar is very robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Olderico C.
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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

Heartbeat is a great tool to manage community, easy to use, great support and a lot of new features every month, there is a lot of videos and documentation that explain how to use it in the right way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

Implementation is not simple, need to study and may be to buy something alredy made or similar, i suggest it because we succesful did it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solved a customers and lead community problems with a solid product and a great support we can implemet new features to offer to our customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

It is hard to pick one thing, to be honest! There are many amazing features on this platform. What I appreciate the most is the tools for communication and automation. This makes it simple to manage a large community of people while still building meaningful relationships with members. I have saved so much time on repetitive tasks and I now have more energy to do the things that I love to do in my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

The one hurdle with using Heartbeat is that it is quite new so people are unfamiliar with the space. This requires a bit more work than a Facebook group to get people to make profiles and engage within the community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

I wanted to build my own app for my company however, that was a huge project that I was not ready for quite yet. Finding Heartbeat allowed me to have everything that I was looking for in a custom-built app for an affordable monthly subscription. This has benefited my company because we are able to have a custom-built online community space without having to build everything from scratch. Furthermore, I am connected with a wonderful network of online community builders by being a member of Heartbeat. I can attend group calls and easily upskill. It is a huge benefit to not have to do all of these community-building parts of my business alone. Community builders also benefit from being in a supportive community! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Susan B.
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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

I love the responsiveness of the team. I like that I can go at my own pace to build my community. I like the look of my community. I find the platform to be more intuitive than others I had investigated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

There is a LOT to learn about building my community. Some of the help topics are hard to find, outdated by new features on the platform or not informative. They do offer a monthly live event for questions so if a help topic isn't helpful, I can always ask. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is providing an online space where invited members can develop relationships. It is providing me an online home for my teaching and writing. It offers me the ability to connect with free members and to a more committed audience as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

⛰ Jordan R.
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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

Having the community, courses, docs, search, DMs, and everything - ALL IN ONE SPOT is a game-changer. I recently switched from my own custom-built course platform, and my students are LOVING this (and so am I, because now I can focus on the community/education, without having to maintain my own software). Heartbeat is AMAZING! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

Mobile app is a bit clunky and not white-labeled, desktop app seems to slow things down (as opposed to just using the web app) but I'm ok with that. Not a huge deal. Login flow has been a bit of a headache (several users email me with issues logging in and/or receiving their magic email) I'd love to be able to tweak a few things on the UX, but again, not big issues. Heartbeat support has been very helpful in resolving the login issues, and much of the time, it's user error.

Overall, I would HIGHLY recommend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

All-in-one online academy! My students are absolutely loving it! The value of using heartbeat as opposed to a course platform + facebook community have been AWESOME. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Heartbeat?

One of the more immediate values realized with Heartbeat is how quickly you can customize the platform to integrate digital information products and a community and be validating and selling sooner than you thought possible! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Heartbeat?

From day one, I've been very impressed with Hearbeat's responsiveness to feedback and active learning from their wide variety of customers' needs and experience levels. The user interface has been a particular development roadmap I've been paying attention to as I've been actively and successfully using the platform. You can clearly see the improvements have been well-informed by a larger solution-focused vision and the feedback from admins, end users, and business owners. They make "work-in-progress" look and feel good! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Heartbeat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Heartbeat is in a sweet spot that no other platform offers: an affordable, simple plan with all the top-level capabilities the most basic of businesses could use and more experienced digital marketers would expect. And, Heartbeat's leadership is visible and actively investing in making the platform and experience better every day -- so much so, that as a customer, you actually feel excited to be part of their future because you can trust they are going to make your future all the more successful using their platform! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.