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HelloBox
What it is
HelloBox is a hosted forum and community platform for publishing and discussion, with web and API access. Communities can be public or private, and administrators can approve new members. HelloBox handles hosting, scaling, backups, and SSL; customers can use a custom domain or the free plan’s .hellobox.co address. Members can sign in through Twitter, Google, GitHub, LinkedIn, or email, with email sign-ups verified. The editor offers rich-text, inline, and Markdown modes, image, code, map, and tweet blocks, drafts, and optional post approval. Its writing assistant can extend drafts, clarify wording, summarize threads, or start a draft from a prompt. The platform can post automatically to Twitter, Slack, and Discord, connect analytics, search, and chatbot tools, and send newsletters featuring popular posts. Customers can import subscriber lists or connect an existing newsletter, and can run their own ads while keeping all ad revenue. The free plan has limited features; paid plans start at $5 a month.
For and against
For
- Public or private communities with member approval.
- Supports several sign-in methods, including email.
- Editor includes drafts and multiple content block types.
- Can send newsletters and post to social platforms.
- Customers keep 100% of revenue from their ads.
Against
- Free plan is limited to 50 members and 10K monthly views.
- Starter costs $5 a month.
- Paid memberships and premium content are on the roadmap.
The verdict
HelloBox combines hosted community tools with publishing, newsletters, integrations, and customer-run ads. Check the free-plan limits and the paid tiers’ member and view caps against your needs.
Who it suits
HelloBox suits creators, businesses, course communities, newsletter groups, podcasters, and others who want a hosted space for discussion and publishing. It may also fit groups that need private membership, custom domains, or newsletter and ad options.
Plans and prices
Free
50 members · 10K views/month · .hellobox.co subdomain · limited features
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hellobox.co
Starter
100 members · 50K views/month · custom domain with SSL · all features included
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hellobox.co
Growth
200 members · 200K views/month · custom domain with SSL · all features included
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hellobox.co
Pro
500 members · 500K views/month · custom domain with SSL · all features included
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hellobox.co
Business
2,000 members · 1M views/month · custom domain with SSL · all features included
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hellobox.co
Scale
10,000 members · 2M views/month · custom domain with SSL · all features included
Read 15 Oct 2026 · hellobox.co
On the record
- Advertising
- Customers may place their own advertising and keep all resulting revenue.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- AI
- The writing assistant can continue drafts, rewrite for clarity, summarize threads, and draft from a prompt inside the editor.hellobox.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- AI writing
- The writing assistant can improve clarity, fix grammar, summarize, translate, shorten, expand, change tone and follow custom prompts.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- API
- The homepage shows a JavaScript example using feed.latest() under a getting-started API section.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation depth
- The public pages show an API snippet but do not link to a complete API reference or SDK documentation.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- Members can sign in with Twitter, Google, GitHub, LinkedIn or email, and email registrations are verified.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Capterra listing identity
- Capterra describes its HelloBox listing as an omnichannel website contact widget, which does not match the current hellobox.co community-forum product.capterra.in · read 15 Oct 2026
- Community access
- Communities can be public or private, with administrator approval available for new members.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company project history
- LinkedIn identifies HelloBox as an online community management startup project dating from February 2014.au.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Data and domains
- HelloBox says customers can use their own domain with automatic SSL and export their data anytime.hellobox.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Data portability
- The homepage says customers own their data and can export it at any time.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Discussion organization
- Discussions can be organized with categories and styled tags.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The help center provides guides for content sources, access control, custom domains, design, newsletters, widgets, Search Console, Discord, Slack, X/Twitter and advertising.help.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Hosted operation
- The service says it handles hosting, scaling, backups and SSL without requiring customers to manage servers.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- HelloBox says it handles hosting, scaling, backups, and SSL for customers.hellobox.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include automatic posting to Twitter, Slack and Discord, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and chatbot tools such as Intercom, HubSpot and Drift.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- HelloBox lists creators, course communities, startups, newsletter communities, podcasters, businesses, bloggers, and existing groups as use cases.hellobox.co · read 8 Oct 2026
- Legal jurisdiction
- HelloBox terms state that the agreement is governed by Australian law and that legal actions belong in Sydney, New South Wales courts.hellobox.co · read 15 Oct 2026
