What each week held
Withheld: something was read in 1 week of the last 12. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
What it declares
- Online courses
- Digital downloads
- Community
- Coaching
- Webinars/live events
- Email marketing
- Website builder with blog
- Affiliate marketing (Shaker+)
As the company’s own pages describe it. Forge did not test any of these.
What users raised
- Unannounced rule/pricing changes
- Slow or unhelpful customer support
- Transaction fees on entry plan
- Limited integrations (Google Ads, API tagging)
- Basic/restrictive website customization
- Account lockouts without warning
Themes people raised in public. A complaint is somebody’s opinion, not a measurement of the product.
Everything on record
2 observed claims, and 2 inferences counted apart from them. Newest first; the tag on each row is what kind of claim you are reading.
- COMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
Multiple reviewers separately report weak or slow customer/technical support experiences, including unhelpful chatbots, long response times, and unresolved technical issues.
Support quality is a recurring complaint across independent reviewers, which a competitor could target in positioning around reliability/support.
www.g2.com/products/podia/reviews - COMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
A recurring complaint theme across multiple review platforms (Trustpilot, G2, Capterra) is that Podia changes platform rules, limits, or pricing without adequate notice, causing disruption for existing sellers.
This is a third-plus independent sighting of a 'surprise changes/bait-and-switch' complaint theme, relevant to churn risk and trust positioning against competitors.
www.trustpilot.com/review/podia.com?page=3 - PRICINGINFERENCESep 30, 2026
Baseline: Mover ($49/mo, $42/mo annual) carries a 5% transaction fee; Shaker ($99/mo, $84/mo annual) and Earthquaker ($179/mo, $150/mo annual) charge 0% transaction fees. Shaker adds affiliate marketing, upsells, PayPal and Zapier integrations not available on Mover.
Creators doing meaningful sales volume have strong financial incentive to upgrade past Mover to avoid the 5% cut; this is a key upsell lever.
costbench.com/software/lms/podia/ - PRICINGINFERENCESep 30, 2026
Baseline: Podia now runs three paid plans — Mover, Shaker, Earthquaker — with no permanent free tier, replaced by a 30-day free trial. Multiple independent trackers describe this as a 2026 restructure.
Buyers evaluating Podia must budget from $42-49/mo minimum; the old free plan is gone, raising the entry cost for new creators.
www.ruzuku.com/compare/podia-pricing
A record of what Forge read in public about Podia — its own pages and what people wrote about it. Nothing here is a test of the product, a ranking or a score, and Forge has no relationship with this company.