Duda vs. Podia

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Duda
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Duda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.
$25
per month
Podia
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Podia in New York offers their ecommerce platform for managing memberships and selling courses online.
$39
per month
Pricing
DudaPodia
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25
per month
Team
$39
per month
Agency
$69
per month
White Label
$199
per month
Custom
Contact Sales
Mover
$39.00
per month
Shaker
$79.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DudaPodia
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
Features
DudaPodia
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
9 Ratings
5% above category average
Podia
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Duda
9.2
8 Ratings
17% above category average
Podia
-
Ratings
API9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.8
9 Ratings
12% above category average
Podia
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness9.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Duda
7.7
9 Ratings
3% above category average
Podia
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy7.49 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management6.88 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management8.37 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
8.1
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Product catalog & listings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Product management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Bulk product upload00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Branding00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Mobile storefront00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Product variations00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Website integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Visual customization00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
CMS00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
8.0
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Checkout user experience00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
8.0
2 Ratings
3% below category average
eCommerce security00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
7.0
2 Ratings
9% below category average
Promotions & discounts00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
SEO00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
8.0
1 Ratings
0% above category average
Order processing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Custom functionality00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
DudaPodia
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(9 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DudaPodia
Likelihood to Recommend
Duda
Duda is great for agencies. There is a good client management area. It's even good for small businesses. They can choose a template and build out their own site. It's easy to customizes a website from a barebones template. There are many customizations in the each widget. The pricing is good for all size businesses. There is no tech headache with updates and backups.
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Podia
In my experience, Podia has been well suited in every way! I am a small company with a couple of independent contractors, and I don't know how to build my own website. I am not very techy. I get lots of compliments on how my website looks! I have had some people support me with setting up my group emails for my email list and setting up automations, and these techy people complained that they needed to do more customization in the email formatting and programming, so I switched to Mailchimp for those needs. Otherwise, I have been very happy with Podia and I am grateful to have a platform that offers so many services/features. It's affordable and user friendly. My clients and students are happy using it, too
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Pros
Duda
  • Very easy to learn and master
  • Builds beautiful, feature rich and easy to maintain cool websites
  • Provides an efficient management platform for agencies
  • Has a very good and responsive support team
  • Is continually expanding features and new add-on partners
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Podia
  • Emails
  • Course hosting
  • Website creation
  • Website chat
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Cons
Duda
  • Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023
  • A more robust app marketplace
  • More custom widgets
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Podia
  • I sometimes wish there was more that I could customize on my website and digital programs
  • I wish their email service (for broadcasts/group emails) had more features and customization
  • I would like to use my brand font
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Usability
Duda
Again, this platform has to be one of the easiest web development sites I have ever used in my life. From creating pages to linking buttons, hiding pages, and more, it makes it so much easier to develop websites for clients, including forms and custom membership login portals. It really is the best.
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Podia
It has a great user interface, it's fast to edit and create courses, to edit and create emails, to find chats, to develop the website. Support has been friendly and I haven't found anything that hasn't worked. It also has basically all the tools you need outside if a complete blog platform
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Alternatives Considered
Duda
I can't speak to why my agency selected Duda, but I can say from personal experience that building a website in Duda is much easier, and backed by better support than any other website builder I've used. Duda allows me, as a web designer, to still create great looking and unique websites. I find that other platforms, while they may provide nice templates, make it very difficult to deviate from the guardrails they put in place. Through the years, even the most basic site that I've built in Duda is significantly better than those built in other platforms
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Podia
Kajabi had lots of features all in one place. I liked their digital course creator program. I liked the ease of their their membership site program/host, too. It had an app for my clients to use. There were some problems with not being able to customize the look of pages, but they allowed coding/programming if you had training, so I sometimes hired someone to do that for me. I couldn't figure out how to use their website builder, so I didn't do much there. When it came down to it, I could use Podia and it was cheaper and easier to use. GoDaddy was my website host for a few years. I did a lot on there. It was my website builder and host and I liked it. It was easy to use. My website looked great. It had more features than Podia with blogging and connecting to social media. I had a storefront but it wasn't great for selling digital products. Back then, it wanted to show my inventory and shipping options, which don't apply for services and digital products. I did a little with my digital courses on there, but in the end, I liked other sites better for this. It didn't work out. Weebly was just a starting point for me when I create my first digital course. I liked how it looked and it was easy to build, but there are better options for this sort of thing now.
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Return on Investment
Duda
  • Much faster project turnaround
  • Easy for non-tech staff to handle some of the work
  • Costs are lower than we were paying for less capabilities before we switched to Duda
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Podia
  • It was the 1st system I used to launch my buisness and we did 100k within 2 yrs
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