Boardable and Board Manager are aimed at the same buyer, small nonprofits, and diverge on two things: what the software is for, and how it's priced. Boardable centers the meeting and charges per board member. Board Manager centers the roster and charges a flat rate.
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| Capability | Board Manager | Boardable |
|---|---|---|
| Roster and terms | ||
| Member roster with contact detailsBoardable profiles include role, title, pronouns, contact, and DEI fields. | Yes | Yes |
| Term start and end datesBoardable profiles have no term date field. Admin-defined custom fields can be marked as expiring, but no alerting is documented. | Yes | No |
| Alerts before a term expires | Yes | No |
| Officer positions with their own term dates | Yes | No |
| Meetings and committees | ||
| Agenda builder and board packetsBoardable's core strength. Board Manager stores board documents but does not compile packets. | Partial | Yes |
| AI-assisted minutesBoardable's Minutes Maker requires the Professional+ tier. | No | Yes |
| Secure voting and motion tracking | No | Yes |
| Built-in video conferencingBoardable Video requires Professional+. It is also the most frequent complaint in their reviews. | No | Yes |
| Committees | Yes | Yes |
| Meeting RSVPs and attendance per member | Yes | Yes |
| Native iOS and Android apps | No | Yes |
| Compliance and onboarding | ||
| Conflict of interest signingBoardable Forms handles COI, annual disclosure, and board agreements with e-signature. Requires the Professional tier or above. | Yes | Yes |
| Per-member onboarding checklistsBoardable's own guidance is to build onboarding out of generic tasks with deadlines. | Yes | No |
| Recruitment | ||
| Board candidate pipeline with stagesBoardable's own recruitment guide tells you to assemble this from a committee, tasks, and document storage. | Yes | No |
| Public recommendation form | Yes | No |
| Skills and diversity matrix in the productBoardable has DEI profile fields and a custom data report, but no matrix or gap analysis. | Yes | No |
| Access and cost | ||
| Board members access without creating an accountBoardable's magic links only work for accounts that already exist, and signing up requires a password. Per-meeting Guests need no account but are capped by tier. | Yes | Partial |
| Pricing published publicly | Yes | Yes |
| Cost stays flat as your board growsBoardable charges per user. Board Manager charges per organization. | Yes | No |
| Free plan (not a trial)Boardable offers a 14-day trial with no credit card. | Yes | No |
These are different tools for different situations. Here is when each one is the right answer.
Where a vendor does not publish pricing, we say so rather than guessing at a number.
Published pricing. No demo required, no card to start.
Priced per user, annual billing only. Volume pricing is available, so large boards may pay less per seat than list.
Most boards do this in an afternoon. Nothing is deleted on the other side, so you can keep it open while you check the data.
It depends on headcount, because Boardable charges per user. At list price, a 15-person board on the Essentials tier works out to roughly $3,778 a year. Boardable does offer volume pricing, so larger boards may pay less per seat than list, so you'd need to ask them for a real number. Board Manager is $228 a year regardless of board size.
Not as a built-in field. Boardable member profiles cover role, title, contact, and demographic information, but there's no term start and end date field. Custom data fields can be flagged as expiring, though no automatic reminders are documented.
Partly, and it's worth being precise. Boardable supports magic-link login, but only for accounts that already exist, and creating the account requires setting a password. There's also a Guest mode that needs no account, but it's scoped to a single meeting and capped by tier. Board Manager board members never create an account at all.
Yes. Boardable Forms collects conflict of interest, annual disclosure, and board agreements with e-signature, tied to the right member's profile. It requires the Professional tier or above.
Not as a feature, and Boardable is upfront about this. Their own recruitment guide advises building it from a recruitment committee, task management, and resumes stored in the Document Center. Board Manager has an actual pipeline with stages and a public recommendation form.
Boardable, without question. Agenda building, board packets, voting, AI minutes, and built-in video are all things Board Manager doesn't do. Worth knowing that the built-in video is the single most common complaint in Boardable's own reviews.
The free plan covers boards up to 25 people and is not a trial. Set up your roster, see whether it fits, and switch back if it doesn't.
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