Plans and limits
Three tiers, priced per account rather than per app. The important thing to understand first is what is not sold.
What is sold is structure, reach and capacity: the upper navigation bar, extra sidebar drawers and sidebar depth, iOS builds, removal of the “Made with Memberside” splash, more apps and more builds.
| Free | Pro | Unlimited | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 | $49 | $129 |
| Yearly | — | $490 | $1,290 |
| Built for | Your first app | Freelancers and agencies — one app per client | Past five apps |
A year costs ten months. The limits are identical either way: yearly is a billing cycle, not a different tier. Prices are in USD.
Capacity
Section titled “Capacity”| Free | Pro | Unlimited | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Builds per month | 3 | 30 | 100, fair use |
| Template screens | 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Bottom nav tabs | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Top nav tabs | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Upper nav tabs | None | 3 | 3 |
| Sidebar drawers | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Sidebar items per drawer | 8 | 50 | 50 |
| Site Health history | 1 day | 30 days | 90 days |
Builds are counted per account, not per app. Five apps on Pro share thirty builds. Unlimited’s hundred is a fair-use ceiling: builds run one at a time on shared hardware, and it is more than three release builds a day. If you genuinely need more, build packs add to any plan’s allowance.
There are two sidebar figures, and they answer different questions. Sidebar items per drawer caps two things with one number: the top-level rows in a drawer, and the children under any one parent menu. Sidebar drawers caps how many named drawers the app has at all — Free gets the one every app starts with, and paid tiers can add up to nine more, each opened by its own Sidebar Trigger.
Features
Section titled “Features”| Free | Pro | Unlimited | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every feature screen your plugins support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template builder | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom colours, icons, light and dark palettes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Android App Bundle and APK | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Store listing, review notes and readiness audit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iOS builds | — | Yes | Yes |
| Signed IPA and TestFlight delivery | — | Yes | Yes |
| No “Made with Memberside” splash | — | Yes | Yes |
| Launch-screen duration | Locked to 3 seconds | Yours to set | Yours to set |
| Generated store screenshots | — | Yes | Yes |
| Site Health endpoint breakdown and environment log | — | Yes | Yes |
| Site Health alerts | — | Yes | Yes |
| Support | Documentation | Priority |
iOS builds run on Pro and Unlimited. One Build press produces both halves, and the pair counts once against your allowance. iPhone builds are compiled and signed on Mac build servers, which is the cost that keeps them off Free. You need an Apple Developer account of your own, and your signing files stay on your site — see Getting ready for iOS builds and How iOS builds work.
Add-ons included with your plan
Section titled “Add-ons included with your plan”Every paid plan includes an allowance of three add-on services. Free includes none.
| Free | Pro | Unlimited | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Realtime | — | 200 connections, 5 domains | 2,500 connections, 25 domains |
| Push | — | 25,000 notifications a month, 5 domains | 500,000 notifications a month, 25 domains |
| Media CDN | — | 1 GB storage, 3 domains | 1 GB storage, 3 domains |
| Memberside plugin — REST API, Services including Optimizer, API Keys | Free | Free | Free |
Unlimited’s Realtime and Push allowances are the same as the $29 Growth tiers. When a community outgrows what its plan includes, each service has its own paid tiers — see Add-ons and build packs, including the one rule that catches people out: a tier you buy replaces the included allowance, it does not add to it.
Where limits actually bite
Section titled “Where limits actually bite”Some limits are enforced by the API and some are held in the builder. Worth knowing, because they fail differently.
Enforced server-side, refused with a clear message:
- Builds per month, on every build attempt.
- Number of apps, when creating one.
- Template screens, when creating or growing one.
- Sidebar items, when saving a layout that grows past your plan’s figure.
- iOS builds.
- Branding removal and launch-screen duration, decided at build time from the account’s plan.
Held in the builder — the interface will not let you exceed them:
- Bottom and upper nav capacity. Both are layout limits rather than commercial ones: the bottom bar becomes unusable past eight destinations, and the upper bar shares its row with the menu button, your logo and the title.
Sidebar capacity appears in both lists on purpose. The builder stops you before you drop the item, so you see the ceiling rather than hit it; the API checks again on save, because the builder is a courtesy and the plan is the rule.
A layout that is already over your plan’s sidebar figures — because you downgraded — still saves. Only a change that makes a drawer longer, or adds another drawer, is refused; so you can always reorder, rename and remove what you already built.
One consequence worth knowing: the check measures what your app has now, not what it once had. If you delete a drawer your current plan would not let you create, you cannot add it back.
How your plan is decided
Section titled “How your plan is decided”There is no trial. A new account starts on Free, which never expires.
Your plan is decided in this order: a tier assigned by Memberside support, then an active paid subscription, then Free.
Buying a plan
Section titled “Buying a plan”Open Billing and choose the Plans tab. Payment is through PayPal, which also takes credit and debit cards without a PayPal account. See Managing your plan.
When it does not work
Section titled “When it does not work”| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Build limit reached | The month’s allowance is spent | Build allowance, or add a build pack |
| Cannot create a second app | Free allows one | Pro allows five; Unlimited has no cap |
| Cannot create a sixth app | Pro allows five | Unlimited has no cap |
| Upper Nav accepts nothing | Free has no upper nav slots | Pro and Unlimited have three |
| A sidebar drawer stops at 8 items | Free’s sidebar item figure | Pro and Unlimited allow 50 |
| Cannot add a second sidebar drawer | Free has one drawer | Pro and Unlimited allow ten |
| A sixth template screen is refused | Free allows five across all projects | Delete one, or upgrade |
| The branding splash is still there after upgrading | It is decided at build time | Build again |
| Realtime or Push allowance went down after buying a tier | A bought tier replaces the included allowance | Add-ons and build packs |