Scenes

What is Scenes?

Scenes is a white-label community platform, sold by Avalon and pitched as “your whitelabeled Discord”. You get a branded community on web and mobile with channels, forums, group chat, live audio and video stages, a shop for selling access, and roles and permissions. It runs your community under your own name rather than sending members to someone else’s app.

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Who is it for?

Scenes is for coaches and course creators running a community as the product, particularly cohort-based courses and paid memberships where live sessions matter. The $399 floor and the sales-led signup mean it is aimed at established communities rather than someone starting out.

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Pros

• Fully white-labelled on web, with branded mobile apps on higher plans
• Native audio and video stages, live events and RTMP streaming
• Built for cohort-based courses, with forums, resources and group chat alongside the live sessions
• Nine channel types, so a large community can be organised properly
• Shop channel for selling memberships and products, with a lower fee on higher plans
• Free migration from another platform

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Cons

• Pricing starts at $399/month, which is several times the going rate for community platforms
• No self-serve signup, so you cannot try it without talking to sales
• No CRM, no email automation and no landing page builder
• Scenes publishes conflicting prices across its own pages, so confirm the quote in writing
• The public site carries stale content in places, which makes it hard to judge how actively the product is being developed

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Is it worth it?

Scenes makes sense if a fully branded community with real live-event tooling is the whole business, and you have the revenue to justify a $399 floor. The channel range and the native stages are genuinely strong for cohort-based work. Against that, it is expensive next to Circle and Skool, you cannot buy it without a sales call, and the marketing site is inconsistent enough that we would ask direct questions about the roadmap before committing.

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