Graphy
Course platform with 0% fees, DRM, and branded mobile apps.
What is Graphy?
Graphy is an all-in-one course and community platform owned by India's Unacademy, aimed at creators and educators. It lets users build branded online schools with courses, live classes, communities, DRM-protected content, and white-label mobile apps.
Best known for: Creator course platform with DRM and branded mobile apps
Key features
- Course creation and hosting
- Branded mobile apps
- DRM content protection
- Live classes and webinars
- Community and membership tools
- Payments with no platform fees
Who Graphy is best for
- Creators wanting branded mobile apps
- Educators needing content DRM protection
- Sellers avoiding platform fees
Ideal team: Solo creators to mid-size teams wanting white-labeled web and app delivery.
Graphy pricing
Launch
$49/flat / mo
- 0% platform fee
- White-label website
- Unlimited courses
Rise
$149/flat / mo
- Branded iOS & Android apps
- DRM content protection
- Advanced tools
Scale
$399/flat / mo
- Higher limits
- Priority support
- Advanced customization
Costs to watch before you commit
- Native iOS/Android apps are locked to the $149 Rise plan and up
- Lowest prices reflect annual billing
- You build the mobile apps yourself via the no-code builder
Graphy pros and cons
Pros
- 0% transaction fee on every tier, so the platform does not take a cut of what you sell
- Branded mobile apps for iOS and Android are included rather than sold as an enterprise upgrade
- Content DRM and download protection, which matters if piracy is a real risk for your material
- 4.7 from 157 reviews, and the company claims more than 200,000 creators
- Live class minutes are bundled, so cohort teaching does not need a separate video subscription
- 14-day free trial and 25% off annual billing
Cons
- Launch starts at $49 a month, well above the entry price of several competitors
- Live class minutes and marketing emails are metered per month, so heavy cohort teaching pushes you up a tier
- Rise at $149 is three times Launch, and Scale at $399 nearly three times again
- 157 reviews is a modest sample next to Teachable, Thinkific, or Kajabi
- Payment gateway support and regional coverage vary, which matters for non-US sellers
- Smaller ecosystem and community than the established Western course platforms
Graphy review: a closer look
What Graphy is
Graphy is an all-in-one platform for selling online courses and digital products: a white-label website, course hosting, live classes, payments, a CRM, marketing automation, and branded mobile apps under one subscription. It aims at creators and education businesses who want to own the customer relationship rather than sell through a marketplace, and it leans hard on two differentiators, taking no cut of sales and shipping your own app to the app stores.
0% transaction fee is the headline, and it is real
Course platforms have historically taken a percentage of every sale, and at volume that dwarfs the subscription. Graphy charges nothing on top of your payment processor across all three tiers, which changes the arithmetic completely once you are selling meaningfully. A creator turning over $10,000 a month pays $149 on Rise; the same revenue through a platform charging 5% would cost $500 in fees alone, on top of whatever the plan costs. That is the calculation to run before comparing entry prices, because the cheaper-looking option is frequently the more expensive one. Below roughly $2,000 a month in sales the fee difference is small and the subscription dominates, which is where cheaper platforms win.
Branded mobile apps are the second reason to look
Most course platforms give your students a web login, or at best a shared app carrying the vendor's branding alongside every other creator on the platform. Graphy publishes an app under your own name to the App Store and Google Play. For education businesses selling long programs, cohort courses, or anything students return to daily, that is a genuine retention and credibility difference, and buying it separately would cost far more than the subscription. If your students consume content on a laptop in one sitting, it is capacity you will not use and you should weigh the platform on price alone.
What the tiers actually meter
The three plans are $49 Launch, $149 Rise, and $399 Scale, all with unlimited products and learners and no transaction fee. What separates them is metered capacity rather than core features: live class minutes and marketing emails per month, with AI tooling and branding depth increasing as you climb. That is an unusual and reasonably honest structure, since it ties price to usage rather than gating basic functionality. The practical consequence is that a creator selling recorded courses to a large audience can sit on Launch indefinitely, while a smaller operation running weekly live cohorts may need Rise despite lower revenue. Work out your live teaching hours before choosing, because that is the variable that moves you up.
How it compares
Against Teachable and Thinkific, both are better known in Western markets with larger communities and template ecosystems, and both have historically charged transaction fees on lower tiers. Against Kajabi, Kajabi is the closest all-in-one equivalent including marketing, and costs considerably more. Against Podia, Podia is simpler and cheaper for a creator selling a few products without live teaching. Against LearnWorlds, LearnWorlds goes deeper on course interactivity and assessment. Against a Udemy-style marketplace, the trade is that you own the audience and must supply the traffic yourself. The honest summary: Graphy competes on economics and mobile rather than on ecosystem, and it wins when volume is high enough for fees to matter.
Who should use Graphy?
A good fit
Graphy fits creators and education businesses of roughly 1 to 25 who sell courses or digital products at enough volume for transaction fees to matter, and who want their own branded mobile app rather than a shared platform experience. It suits cohort-based and live teaching, where the bundled class minutes remove a separate video bill, and anyone whose material justifies DRM protection.
Look elsewhere if…
Creators selling under roughly $2,000 a month should compare on subscription price, where Podia and Thinkific start cheaper and the fee advantage has not yet caught up. Anyone wanting the largest template ecosystem and community should look at Teachable or Thinkific. Businesses whose students never leave a laptop are paying for mobile apps they will not use. And sellers outside the US should confirm payment gateway support in their region before committing.
The verdict
Graphy is a genuinely competitive course platform whose case rests on economics rather than familiarity. Zero transaction fees across every tier and branded mobile apps included are both real advantages, and at meaningful sales volume they add up to more than the subscription difference against cheaper-looking rivals. Run the fee calculation at your actual monthly revenue before comparing entry prices, because that is where the decision is made. The caution is scale: at low volume the $49 floor is expensive against simpler platforms, and 157 reviews is a thinner track record than the incumbents carry.
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