Duda vs. Podia

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Duda
Score 8.6 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 7.0 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
8.9
Ratings
10% above category average
Podia
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
Ratings
13% above category average
Podia
-
Ratings
API9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.8
Ratings
13% above category average
Podia
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
Ratings
16% above category average
Podia
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
8.1
Ratings
3% above category average
Product catalog & listings00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Product management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Bulk product upload00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Branding00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile storefront00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Product variations00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Website integration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Visual customization00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
CMS00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
8.0
Ratings
4% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Checkout user experience00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
eCommerce security00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
Promotions & discounts00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
SEO00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Duda
-
Ratings
Podia
8.0
Ratings
0% below category average
Order processing00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Custom functionality00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
DudaPodia
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DudaPodia
Likelihood to Recommend
Duda is great for small to medium sized websites building, where some level of animation is ok and mostly for presenting online information, and its SEO performance is very good then. But for very large or heavily interactive websites it may not be the best choice.
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If you are not techy want to create a course creation type of business then I think its really great. I have used a lot of programs and only a few are complete and Podia is there except for a full fledge blogging platform (you can do a version but it's not quite the same). It's probably the most user friendly email system I have used and the website builder is very user friendly as well. I think if you are a serious blogger and wanting seo traffic to drive to your site, this one thing to watch and consider not as competitive then vs Kajabi.
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Pros
  • Ongoing Education for agencies and users. Anton has done what he does best and turned Duda into a go-to-source for information, ideas, and practical implementation.
  • UX - The ability to create simple yet highly customizable sites.
  • Speed - Sites take much less time to build and maintain, allowing agencies to scale and business owners to spend more time on growing their core revenue channels.
  • Reliability - From technical reliability, reduced down-time to support, Duda is a reliability option.
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  • Emails
  • Course hosting
  • Website creation
  • Website chat
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Cons
  • 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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  • 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
Upon using the builder for the first time, I found Duda to be extremely intuitive and easy to figure out, but also has a high skill-ceiling. After 5 years of building in the drag-and-drop builder, I continue to teach myself new tricks and methods to continually improve my process and design capabilities within the platform. I've built dozens of Duda sites and each one is better than the last.
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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 lets me customize the entire page. With Squarespace, many of the templates were limiting on editing the header and footer. Also in the past, I couldn't change the page title and page header to be different in Squarespace. This was not good for SEO. Wix is good but also a little bulky and glitchy.
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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 has allowed our team to function quicker
  • Duda has allowed us to have more clients
  • Our clients are happier with their sites now
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  • Increased sales by $8000 from January to June (Added 2 more programs quickly and easily)
  • Saved almost a thousand dollars in the first year in costs by switching to Podia
  • Improved customer satisfaction by using 1 site instead of 4
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