Karma Compass vs BoardPro
BoardPro is a board portal for small and medium organizations and nonprofits, priced per board with unlimited users, with AI minutes on its Premium plan, mobile apps and a 30-day free trial. 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 29 October 2026 from the pages linked below. Tell us at support@karmahq.org if something has changed.
| What | Karma Compass | BoardPro |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free is $0. Pro: $99 a month. | From $165 per board a month (Essentials), or $1,650 a year. Premium is $275 and Ultimate $440 per board a month. Unlimited users. |
| Free plan | Yes. 5 meetings a year, unlimited board members and document uploads, voting, RSVPs and quorum tracking. | No generally available free plan is described. Organizations with annual operating expenses below NZD$500,000 can apply for a free-for-life Impact Project subscription, subject to assessment of governance, community impact and willingness to collaborate on PR. |
| Who it is for | Nonprofit boards of any size. | SMEs and nonprofits. Not-for-profits and schools may qualify for up to 40% off. |
| Directors without accounts | Yes. Directors RSVP, vote and open the board packet from links in their email, with no account or password. | No. Access is restricted to invited users with their own logins. |
| 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, on Premium. Upload a meeting transcript and AI Minutes drafts the minutes against your agenda. |
| 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, executive director, secretary or board assistant edits and approves it before it goes to directors. | Yes. BoardPro says AI drafts a best-practice agenda structure from a plain-language meeting description. |
| 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. | Directors logged in to BoardPro vote during the meeting, and directors who are not already logged in are sent to the login page before voting in a Flying Minute. Flying Minutes are delivered by email, with voting after authentication; an automated bylaws check is not described on the pages we read. |
| Board packet | Yes. Once the chair, executive director, secretary or board assistant approves the agenda, each director gets a link to the packet in their email. The PDF can be downloaded. | Yes. The board pack is shared with board members through an encrypted email notice. |
| Scheduled checks (playbooks) | Yes, on Pro. Checks you turn on can prepare an update for the chair, executive director, secretary or board assistant to send, and remind owners before their action items are due. | BoardPro sends scheduled reminders to people who have not yet completed their actions. |
| Integrations | Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom and Slack are included in the Pro plan. | Meeting links from Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet can be added manually. Meeting invitations include .ics files for external calendars; downloaded invitations do not sync with later changes in BoardPro. |
| 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. iPhone, iPad and Android. |
| Trial | Two weeks of Pro for every new organization, then Free. Nothing is deleted and nothing is charged. | 30 days free on every plan, no credit card required. |
Where BoardPro 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. 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.
BoardPro publishes per-board prices in US dollars, with unlimited users: Essentials at $165 a month or $1,650 a year, Premium at $275 or $2,750, and Ultimate at $440 or $4,400. Subcommittees are billed separately, from US$82.50 a month. Not-for-profits and schools may qualify for up to 40% off. Every plan starts with a free 30-day trial, no credit card required.
Questions boards ask
Can we move our board from BoardPro 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.
How much does BoardPro cost compared with Karma Compass?
BoardPro is priced per board with unlimited users, from $165 a month on its Essentials plan when we read its pricing page on 29 October 2026, with up to 40% off for not-for-profits and schools. 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.
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, BoardPro 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.