Nori vs Luma: Luma runs great events. Nori keeps the people who came.
Luma is excellent at event pages, registration and discovery. Its calendars collect your events and send updates to followers. Between events, though, there is no shared space for members: no profiles with a history, no discussions, no marketplace. Nori starts with the same event basics and turns everyone who checks in into a community.
Choose Luma if…
- Getting discovered matters most: Luma's city pages bring new attendees
- You sell paid tickets today
- Your events are one-offs or conferences, not a recurring circle
Choose Nori if…
- The same people come back and should get to know each other
- Members need a place between events, not just a calendar
- You run several chapters under one roof
- You want German, servers in Germany and the option to leave
Feature by feature
| Feature | Nori | Luma |
|---|---|---|
| Event pages and registration | ✓ Email sign-up without a password, ticket on the phone | ✓ Polished event pages and registration |
| Recurring series | ✓ Each date of a series gets its own page and guest list | ± Calendars collect your events; followers hear about new ones |
| Check-in at the door | ✓ One scan at the door; helpers get a door role, not admin rights | ✓ QR check-in; a check-in manager role on Luma Plus |
| After the event | ✓ Morning-after recap with who was there and what comes next | ± Blasts and reminders to guests, no shared space afterwards |
| A community between events | ✓ Discussions, Suche & Biete, member events, groups, wiki, DMs | ✗ Event pages and calendar newsletters, no member spaces |
| Verified members | ✓ Members are verified by checking in at a real event | ✗ Guests are email addresses, not members with a history |
| Local chapters | ✓ Chapter leads run their city; one calendar and member base | ± Calendar admins and cohosts, no chapter structure |
| Paid tickets | ✗ Not yet: free events today, paid tickets are next on the roadmap | ✓ 5% platform fee on the free plan, 0% on Plus at US$59/month |
| Your data | ✓ Export anytime, open source, self-hostable, servers in Germany | ± CSV import and export; a US-based service |
Pick Luma for discovery and paid tickets today. Pick Nori when your events repeat and the people matter more than the page.