Mighty Networks is a top online community platform that has all the tools to help you launch your community and engage your members. And its mobile app really makes it stand out among the competition.
But how can you get the app? How does it work on the members’ end? Does it support any admin features?
This in-depth Mighty Networks app guide will answer all these questions. We’ll also share our firsthand experience with the app and tell you what to expect when using it.
Without further ado, let’s begin!
Mighty Networks’ app is a mobile app that allows end users to access the communities built on the platform. The app works on iOS and Android devices, allowing users to participate in their favorite communities regardless of where they are.
The mobile app allows members to participate in multiple ways:
A streamlined experience across devices is the perfect recipe for increasing community engagement, and Mighty Networks has done a fantastic job of enabling that experience with its app.
However, the platform’s app isn’t just for your members. It also allows you to manage your community.
Using the app, you can do almost everything that you can do on the web version, including creating and managing spaces, scheduling events, creating Mighty courses, adding pricing plans, etc.
The app is available to all Mighty Networks community owners with an active plan, and members can use it for free. The app is enabled for all communities by default, and you don’t have to do anything to enable it.
Now, let’s see what the app looks like and how it works.
Every time you send an API request to your Circle account, you need to validate that request. To do that, you need an API token, which is a code that contains user information.
You can think of it as a password that allows you to connect your Circle account with another service.
And you should approach API tokens as you would your passwords, meaning you shouldn’t give them to an unreliable source since it could expose your account and community members’ information.
To create an API token, head to your account settings by clicking on your community’s name in the top left corner of the screen and then select Settings from the drop-down menu. Next, click the API option under it.
In the upper right section of the screen, you’ll see the option to create a token. Click on the Create Token button, add a name, and that’s it!
Once you click Create, your token will appear in the list of available tokens. You can then copy it and share it with your developer.
Keep in mind that Circle’s API is available only on the Business and Enterprise plans, so if you’re on a lower-tier plan, you’ll have to upgrade it to access this functionality. Read this Circle pricing guide to learn more about the pricing plans.
Besides the free app, Mighty Networks allows you to create a white-label app, which is available only on Mighty Pro.
Feature-wise, a white-labeled community app supports most things the free app does. The difference between these two is mainly the fact that a white-label app belongs to the creators and will be published under the brand’s name.
So, if you want to offer a fully branded experience to your members, you should consider using the app white-labeling option.
Now, let’s discuss how you and your members can get the app.
Your members can find the app by visiting the Android/iOS app store and searching for “Mighty Networks.”
Alternatively, they can use the Text Me the App feature from their accounts to get a text with the app’s download link.
Before they can log into their community, they’ll see two options:
Once they find their community, they can log into their account by entering their email and password. They’ll only have to log in once, and the app will remember their credentials for future use.
However, this is one area where the experience needs to improve. The users have to go through multiple steps to access their accounts and by extension, their communities. Ideally, it should just require them to enter their email address and allow logging in using an OTP or magic link.
The first thing your members will see when they open the app is the feed. They can view all the content in your network and interact with it via comments and likes.
If your settings allow members to add content, they can create new posts, add polls, and ask questions by clicking the pencil icon in the bottom right of the screen.
This will open the post editor, where they create a Quick Post and add text to it.
They can also add images and videos by clicking the Image icon at the bottom of the screen. From here, they’ll have the option to add GIFs and hashtags to their content.
They can also change the post type to a question or poll. They can do that by clicking on Quick Post at the top of the screen and selecting a post type.
Apart from interacting with the content and creating discussion posts, your members can also watch courses in the app. To access a course, they need to open the slide-out (navigation) menu and click on the course space.
Upon selecting the course, they’ll see all Course Material in one tab and Discussion in the other. They can easily navigate through course lessons from here and watch the videos and other content.
The app also allows members to manage their notifications, which they can access by going to the Personal Settings option from the slide-out menu or by clicking on their profile image.
From here, they can go to Notifications and set their preferred notification method (email and push notifications) and the activity they want to be notified about.
This is how the app works for end-users. Now, let’s go through the options available to admins.
As mentioned before, Mighty Networks makes all the admin settings available in the app. That means you can add new spaces and collections, create pricing plans, and change network settings.
Unfortunately, adding a Space on the app isn’t the most straightforward process. There are multiple steps and dozens of settings, and the options can be extremely slow to load.
You can build your entire course in the app, but it will be more cumbersome and slower than doing it in the web app.
As a result, we don’t suggest using the app to set up your Mighty network.
Obviously, you can use it to engage with your members on the go by creating new discussion posts and live streams and responding to comments and mentions.
Performing tasks like these is very simple in the app, so no complaints there.
If your course landing page is built outside Circle, you won’t be able to display your course curriculum without manually replicating it.
However, you can use the platform’s APIs, particularly Course Lessons and Course Sections APIs, to display your Circle course’s curriculum on an external website.
Another excellent use case of Circle’s API is copying members from one space to another. You can use the platform’s Members and Space Members APIs for that.
Another way to achieve the same result (without APIs) is by using Circle Workflows, which lets you perform a bulk action to duplicate space members.
Circle currently doesn’t have a native leaderboard feature. As a workaround, you can export data at the end of the month in a spreadsheet and create a leaderboard outside Circle, which you can then embed into your community.
However, APIs can provide a more robust solution. For example, you can use the Comments and Post Likes APIs to retrieve data for your members’ activity and then use that to create a dynamic leaderboard.
Again, these are just some of the many things you can do with Circle’s APIs. We recommend exploring their official documentation to explore the full range of possibilities.
You should now clearly understand what’s possible with the Circle.so API. There are endless possibilities for what you can do with it, and we hope this article has given you some ideas to get started.
In most cases, you can use the Zapier integration and Circle Workflows to achieve your objectives. However, the APIs offer a powerful alternative for more complex (and custom) tasks.
And even if you don’t need the APIs now, it doesn’t hurt to know what you can do with them in case you ever need them.
If you’re not on Circle yet, you can sign up for a free trial to start using APIs.
Yes, Mighty Networks has an app for Android and iOS mobile device users. This is a free Mighty Networks app, but creators can also get a custom white-label app.
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