Karma Compass vs Boardable
Boardable is a board portal that nonprofit directors sign in to, with a mobile app, committee workspaces, e-signatures and a per-user price. Karma Compass is for nonprofit boards of any size: the people who run the board work in the workspace, directors act from their email, and agents draft the agenda, minutes and follow-ups for a person to approve.
At a glance
Compiled on 19 October 2026 from the pages linked below. Tell us at support@karmahq.org if something has changed.
| What | Karma Compass | Boardable |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free is $0. Pro: $99 a month. | From $20.99 per user a month (Essentials), billed annually. Professional is $29.99 and Professional+ is $35.99 per user a month. The per-user rate falls as you add users. |
| Free plan | Yes. 5 meetings a year, unlimited board members and document uploads, voting, RSVPs and quorum tracking. | No free plan listed. |
| Who it is for | Nonprofit boards of any size. | Nonprofit boards, priced per user; it also lists associations, healthcare, education and government. Plans differ in storage, guests per meeting and the number of groups. |
| Directors without accounts | Yes. Directors RSVP, vote and open the board packet from links in their email, with no account or password. | Boardable lets you invite guests per meeting. We did not find account-free voting by email link described. Voting is in the app and identity-verified. Each plan allows a number of guests per meeting: 5, 10 or unlimited. |
| AI-drafted minutes | Yes, on Pro, from your notes or a transcript. Free drafts minutes from the attendance, quorum and agenda when a meeting is marked held, without AI. The secretary, or another officer who can adopt minutes, edits and adopts them. | Yes. AI minutes are on the Professional+ plan; the Minutes Maker keeps decisions, actions and history in one place. |
| AI-drafted agendas | Yes, on Pro. Drafted from your board’s record: earlier published agendas, when there are any, and the action items still open; the chair, secretary or executive director edits and approves it before it goes to directors. | Not described on the pages we read. The agenda builder works from templates with time boxes and attachments. |
| Votes by email under bylaws | Yes. It will not draft a vote until what your bylaws say about voting outside a meeting is recorded and cited. Each director’s link is theirs alone, works once and expires when voting closes, or after two weeks if voting runs longer. | Polls and votes run in the app, anonymous or recorded, and voters can be allowed to change their answer. Boardable describes identity-verified polls and voting built into the platform. We did not find a bylaws check or voting by email described. |
| Board packet | Yes. Once the chair, secretary or executive director approves the agenda, each director gets a link to the packet in their email. The PDF can be downloaded. | Yes. A packet is generated from the agenda in one click, on every plan. |
| Scheduled checks (playbooks) | Yes, on Pro. Checks you turn on can prepare an update for the chair or executive director to send, and remind owners before their action items are due. | Boardable’s Task Manager assigns owners and due dates. We did not find scheduled checks of the board’s record described. |
| Integrations | Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom and Slack are included in the Pro plan. | Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, SharePoint and OneDrive on every plan. Slack, Dropbox and Salesforce are shown on the features page. |
| Mobile app | None. Directors act from their email on any device; anyone you invite can also sign in to the workspace in a browser. | Yes. iOS and Android, on every plan. |
| Trial | Two weeks of Pro for every new organization, then Free. Nothing is deleted and nothing is charged. | 14 days, no credit card, with the Professional plan’s features. |
Where Boardable is the better fit
Where Karma Compass is the better fit
Nothing becomes official until someone on your board with the authority to approve it does. The agents prepare the work; your board makes the decisions. See who approves what.
Price
Every new organization starts on Karma Compass Pro, free for two weeks. If you have not upgraded by the end of it you move to the Free plan. Nothing is deleted, and nothing is charged.
Boardable publishes per-user prices: Essentials at $20.99, Professional at $29.99 and Professional+ at $35.99 per user a month, billed annually, with a lower per-user rate as you add users. No free plan is listed; the trial is 14 days with no credit card.
Questions boards ask
Can we move our board from Boardable to Karma Compass?
Moving from another board portal is included in the Karma Compass Pro plan. You can also start without a migration: Karma Compass finds your directors on your website and drafts the roster, and you add your bylaws, your last minutes and the date of your next meeting.
Is Karma Compass cheaper than Boardable?
Karma Compass Free is $0 with 5 meetings a year and unlimited board members, and Karma Compass Pro is $99 a month for the whole board, whatever its size. Boardable is priced per user, from $20.99 per user a month, billed annually, on its Essentials plan when we read its pricing page on 19 October 2026. For a board of ten, that is a different kind of number; check both pages before deciding.
Do our directors need to install anything?
No. Directors RSVP, vote and open the board packet from links in their email, without an account or a password, on whatever device they read email on. Anyone you invite can also sign in to the workspace in a browser.
Does Karma Compass have a mobile app?
No. There is no app to install. Directors act from their email on any device, and anyone you invite can also sign in to the workspace in a browser. If your board wants a native app, Boardable has one and Karma Compass does not.
Are votes by email valid under our bylaws?
Karma Compass will not draft a vote until someone records what your bylaws say about voting outside a meeting, the threshold to pass a motion and whether a vote can be changed, with the passage cited. If your bylaws do not allow voting outside a meeting, it will not draft one. Whether a particular vote meets your state’s rules is a question for your counsel.
What happens to our records if we stop paying?
You move to the Free plan. Nothing is deleted and nothing is charged; meetings you already have stay, and new ones are scheduled within Free’s 5 a year. Documents you uploaded can still be downloaded from your document library, unless downloads were turned off for one, and so can the board packet PDF.