For brands

Brand community software for brands that would otherwise build their own app

The brief lands the same way every time: we need our own community app, in our own name, in the App Store — and the quote comes back as a mobile team and a roadmap. IRL.OS is the competent alternative to shipping your own community app: white-label, live in weeks, running real events and real memberships.

Members run on it
4,000+
Events hosted & settled
100+
Show-up rate at our own door
94%
Tools it replaces
7+

Your name in the App Store

A genuine App Store and Google Play app with your name, icon, colors and links — no code, no web wrapper. Your icon on the member's home screen, your push notifications, your data.

White-label, not a science project

It's white-label, not custom development: your name, icon, colors and store listing are configuration, the build and submission pipeline is automated, and fixes ship over the air the same day. You get a flagship-quality app without hiring a mobile team. Name, logo and brand color repaint web, emails and app from a settings page, without a developer.

Your money, your data

Ticket and membership payments run on your own Stripe account: revenue lands directly in your bank, never floated through ours. Your data stays yours — members, events and registrations are exportable anytime.

The community around the ticket

Ticketing is one of eight modules and one-off tickets are a valid use. The rest is what a ticket link can't do: QR and geofence check-in at the door, group matching, membership tiers, and marketing automation that triggers off a missed check-in rather than an unopened email.

"Can't I just use…?"

You can. Communities do — until the community part starts to matter.

vs · Eventbrite & Luma

They sell tickets to strangers.

They end at the ticket. IRL.OS sells tickets too. It also runs the community around them (door, matching, memberships, your app, your Stripe, no per-ticket toll).

Eventbrite alternative for communities →

vs · Meetup & Heylo

They rent you an audience.

Your group lives inside their brand, their app, their inbox. IRL.OS puts your app in the App Store — your icon on the member's home screen, your push notifications, your data. When you leave a rented platform, your members stay behind. Here, they were never anyone else's.

vs · Circle & Skool

They're built for the internet.

Forums, courses, cohorts — great for online communities. IRL.OS is built for rooms: doors, tables, no-shows, city chapters, and the awkward magic of strangers actually meeting. The software follows people into real life instead of trying to keep them online.

Community management software for IRL communities →

vs · custom / vibe-coding

White-label, not a science project.

It's white-label, not custom development: your name, icon, colors and store listing are configuration, the build and submission pipeline is automated, and fixes ship over the air the same day. You get a flagship-quality app without hiring a mobile team.

Brand community software — fair questions

Why not just build our own community app?

It's white-label, not custom development: your name, icon, colors and store listing are configuration, the build and submission pipeline is automated, and fixes ship over the air the same day. You get a flagship-quality app without hiring a mobile team.

Do we need our own Stripe account?

Yes — that's deliberate. Payments run on your Stripe account, so payouts go straight to your bank and your revenue never sits with a platform in the middle.

Who owns the member data?

You do. Members, events and registrations are exportable anytime, and your export comes with you if you ever leave.

Can we still run one-off ticketed events?

Yes. Ticketing is one of eight modules and one-off tickets are a valid use — mix ticketed events, free formats and members-only formats in one calendar, each with its own pricing, capacity and access rules.

See it running on your community

Battle-tested by the operators of a 4,000-member community in Munich. We onboard a small founding cohort at a time — white-label setup, data migration and our operators' playbook included.