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Improve retention, growth and advocacy with the all-in-one community engagement platform

Designed for all usecases

From open discussion to gated content. Create different groups for all kind of use case, like coaching, mentoring, courses, forums, live classes etc Replaces

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Slack OR Discord OR Forum

Your Community. Your Branding.

Design your community to match your branding. Make it feel like your own product with complete customization & integration, including mobile app

Avoids
Custom development

🔴 Live Sessions

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Immersive Experince

Conduct Live sessions or webinar, get the best audio video quality

Host Event with Live QnA

Invite hosts, moderator & get the best live experience for your commmunity

Share your live recordings

Share or post recording on Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo, or any other platform

"I like to make videos related to code and tech in my free time. I also lead a few tech teams in startups, help in hiring talent for companies. I am also on a part time traveller, with 31 countries checked off so far!"

Hitesh Choudhary

Advisory Board at Pensil

Mobile app for your community

Get complete custom branded app for you community & give your community the experince they deserve.

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From easy integrations to deploy your own front end, we have everything you need to get started. Integrate with our SDKs. Some SDKs may require some additional configuration through your Dev Portal.

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What our clients say

"We use the Pensil platform to interlink all our rural libraries and also to connect city volunteers with students in villages in Rural Lucknow".

Anurag Trivedi

Shaan Foundation

"I love the platform, ❤️❤️. All our students use Pensil for internal communication and academics. It has been awesome working with the Pensil team".

Hetal Mundra

Somaiya Design School

"I run UPSC cohorts on Pensil. It is different from other applications - it is more fun, connects everyone and lets us study together."

Abhijeet Yadav

Perlims Focus Group

"Pensil is super. We were looking to integrate with Circle based out of US but this made us change the game plan."

Karan Mehra

Tyke Invest

"We are building a community for freelancers in the Middle East. Pensil provides a nice little place for us to come together."

Abed Mousley

Tapflow.com

"Love the slick minimalism and easy to use design on the community platform. It has everything one will need."

Jon Henson Grič

CyptoTap

"I like what i see. Pensil has neat sections for different topics and i can make them on my own. Plus in-built video tool is very useful"

Sheri Staffiery

theheartway.org

"I love Pensil, This is great. Good to see world class product coming from India. Keep growing"

Lalit Tyagi

brightdirectories.com

Community Blogs

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WhatsApp Groups : The Worst Platform To Host Your Online Community. Here's Why!

A WhatsApp group text is great for family or friends, but as a Community Platform, it's hard to see how it works.Let's take a deeper look at the problems in hosting your community on a WhatsApp Group.

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Life of a community ops manager

Community operations enable CMs to operate the vehicle and ensure that it stays on the road by making sure all of the gears are the proper size, greased, screwed in correctly, and linked to the proper circuits.

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Community management as career

Transitioning from "in-the-weeds" labour to more high-level, strategic work is a typical issue for community leaders.

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Why Discord Is NOT The Best Tool For Your Community/Online Course

From voice notes and scheduling to managing chats and forums - there are a lot of issues associated with using Discord for community building.

Frequently Asked Question

What is Pensil?

Pensil is a community-based learning and engaging platform. With Pensil, people can come together for shared interests, values, beliefs, or causes. Pensil keeps conversations organized by Groups You can host the discussion, files, and anything you want to share with your audience.

What is Community?

A community is a social unit with commonalities such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area or in virtual space through communication platforms. People can come together for shared interests, values, beliefs, or causes.

How to create a New Group

A Group is a space where you can add multiple sections, depending on what you want to use these sections for.
- Open and Free For Everyone - Anyone with your community URL will be able to see the sections and content inside them.
- Closed and Free For Everyone - Users will be able to Request Access to this group. This Request needs to be approved by the Community Admin.
- Paid Group - Community Admin can decide a price tag for access to the group. Users have to first make payments to access such groups.

How to create a Post Section

A Posts type section is where you can put individual posts and other users can comment or upvote.
- This type of section is most beneficial for:
- Organizing important conversation topics Publishing content you want users to notice.

How to create a Chat Section

A Chat section is designed to enable real-time conversations between the community members.

How to upload PDF and other documents

Uploading any type of document on the Pensil communities is super simple:
- Click on Attachment Select the File you want to upload
- Click on Post button at the top Viola!