It works on getting customers, not only the app
DoAny researches your market before building, then Annie posts daily, finds prospects and follows up, so a founder without an audience isn’t left to market alone. See what that looks like in DoAny.
Side-by-side comparison
DoAny vs Stencil: a membership app, or a company that finds customers?
Both take 0% of your sales, with Stripe’s fees the same on both, and cost the same for a founder alone. A teammate costs $300 a year more on Stencil. Stencil bills memberships better; DoAny also works on getting customers.
- 0%Either one’s cut of your sales; Stripe’s card fees apply
- $300/yrMore on Stencil for one teammate: Team $50/mo vs DoAny Pro $25/mo
- 1–90 daysFree trials Stencil’s checkout offers; checkout on DoAny sites has none yet
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What your team costs
Enter your own numbers. Every price comes from the pages cited in this article.
For a team of two over 12 months, DoAny Pro costs $300 and Stencil Team $600, so DoAny is $300 cheaper: Pro includes unlimited team members, and Stencil needs Team to invite anyone.
- LowestDoAny Pro$300over 12 monthsPro: $25 a month, unlimited team members
- Stencil Team$600over 12 monthsTeam: $25 package + $25 team fee
| What you pay | DoAny Pro | Stencil Team |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Pro, from $25 a month | Team, from $50 a month |
| Team members | Unlimited team members | Invite your team, flat rate |
| Cut of your sales | 0% | 0%, $5 minimum sale |
| Plan cost, 12 months | $300 | $600 |
- DoAny Free includes 1 team member, so the DoAny column uses Pro, from $25 a month.
- Stencil’s team fee is flat, so Team costs the same however many people you invite. Its pricing page lists 200 credits a month on Team against Pro’s 100; its FAQ and plans guide describe Team as your credit package plus that fee, so 100 credits at $50.
- Both take 0% of your sales, and Stencil’s smallest sale is $5. Stripe’s processing fees apply on both and are left out.
- Plan prices at their smallest size: a bigger credit package costs more on either, and a credit buys different work on each. Both bill monthly.
- Stencil’s pricing page says products with significant traffic, storage or email volume may incur extra usage costs. DoAny’s hosting is included and not metered.
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Prices and fees checked September 25, 2026
How we calculated this
- Two people: DoAny Free includes 1 team member and Pro unlimited team members; inviting anyone on Stencil needs Team.
- DoAny Pro: $25 × 12 = $300.
- Stencil Team: ($25 credit package + $25 team fee) × 12 = $600.
- Difference: $600 − $300 = $300, in DoAny’s favour.
Sources, checked September 25, 2026
- DoAny: Plans, credits, top-ups and hosting FAQ
- DoAny: Terms of Service: no equity, no revenue share, ownership
- DoAny Docs: Connecting a custom domain (Pro)
- Stencil: Pricing, launch bonus and pricing FAQ
- Stencil Docs: Plans and credits
- Stencil Docs: FAQ and glossary: what Stencil costs
- Stencil Docs: Your web address and email
- Stencil Docs: Charge for your app
Side by side
DoAny and Stencil at a glance
Twelve facts that decide the choice. Every Stencil cell links to the Stencil page it comes from.
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| Question | DoAny | Stencil |
|---|---|---|
| What it builds | A web app with accounts, a database, file storage, backend functions, email and Stripe checkout, hosted by DoAny. Sells one-off products, bookings, tickets and subscriptions, with guest checkout. | Its own guide says “Stencil only builds subscription software” (Stencil guide). One-off guest checkout (a ticket, a download) works too, with a $5 minimum sale (Stencil payments guide). |
| Price | Free: $0, no card, 5 credits a day, and it can take real payments. Pro: from $25/month for 100 monthly credits plus 5 a day (DoAny pricing). | Free: $0, no card, 10 credits a day. Pro: from $25/month for 100 monthly credits plus 10 a day (500 during its launch bonus). Payments on every plan (Stencil pricing). |
| Adding a collaborator | Pro ($25): unlimited team members on one credit balance, shared by every company. Free is one person. | Needs Team: from $50/month, your credit package plus a flat $25-a-month team fee (Stencil FAQ). |
| Cut of your sales | 0%. DoAny’s standard Terms rule out equity and revenue share (DoAny Terms). Stripe’s own processing fees still apply, charged to your Stripe account. | 0%. Stripe’s 2.9% + 30¢ per standard US card is the only deduction (Stencil payments guide). |
| Whose Stripe account | Your own Stripe Express account, opened through Stripe Connect. You are the merchant; refunds, disputes and payouts live in its dashboard. Checkout on a DoAny site can’t connect an existing Stripe account yet. | A new account per app that “has no Stripe dashboard of its own”, managed only inside Stencil. It can’t be removed once a payment has settled (Stencil payments guide). |
| Rehearsing checkout | The preview takes Stripe test cards, including a decline card. The live site takes no payments until you go live (DoAny payments docs). | Its guide says there are “no pretend payments, no test cards”. It suggests buying a cheap plan yourself, then refunding it (Stencil payments guide). |
| Subscription extras | Weekly, monthly and yearly plans, with Stripe’s checkout embedded in your own page. The checkout on a DoAny site has no coupons or free trials yet. | Free trials of 1–90 days with reminder emails, coupons, monthly and annual prices, subscriber self-serve plan changes (Feature reference). |
| When credits run out | Work pauses and DoAny tells you. No overage, no automatic recharge. Your site stays live; AI features inside your app pause. Pro top-ups: $15 per 50 credits (Run it solo). | The balance stops at zero and “Nothing is ever charged to your card automatically.” Its plans guide says there’s no one-off top-up (Plans and credits). |
| AI features inside your app | Built in, with no model keys to manage. They use credits from your balance and show in your usage history. | Claude and OpenAI models are included; Stencil holds the accounts and pays for the access (In-app AI). Its plans guide says your running app costs no credits. |
| Getting customers | Researches your market first. One switch turns on SEO & AEO. Annie posts daily, finds prospects and follows up, runs your CRM and answers customers around the clock (DoAny homepage). | “SEO & AEO” on every plan (Stencil pricing); server rendering and page titles by chat (SEO guide). Built-in visitor, funnel and campaign analytics, Meta Pixel tracking (Analytics). |
| Code, data and leaving | Export your code and data anytime, and sync your code to GitHub. Coming in, DoAny imports your existing code and database records, so you don’t start over. | Two-way GitHub sync to a new private repo, plus a JSON export of the whole database (GitHub guide). Its own guide says “The platform machinery isn’t exportable” (Lovable guide). |
| Custom domain | Pro. Connect a domain you own; DoAny shows the DNS records, checks them and renews HTTPS. DoAny doesn’t sell domains. Free sites use yourname.doany.site (DoAny domain docs). | Pro or Team. Buy one in-app by card or connect your own. If you buy through Stencil, Stencil holds the DNS settings (Domain guide). |
Where DoAny is different
Four differences that change the choice
It sells more than subscriptions
Stencil’s own guide says it “only builds subscription software”. One-off guest sales work, but a shop or a bookings business sits outside its focus. Stencil guide DoAny’s checkout handles one-off products, bookings, tickets and credit packs as well as subscriptions.
Payments you can test and see
In DoAny’s preview, a Stripe decline test card shows how the error reads to a customer, and nothing is charged. Stencil has no test mode, so a rehearsal is a real purchase on your own card, and Stripe keeps its processing fee on a refund: about 45¢ on Stencil’s $5 minimum sale. Stripe refunds
Once you sell, DoAny’s Payments panel opens your own Stripe Express dashboard for refunds and disputes; Stencil’s per-app account has no dashboard login, and its refund button returns the most recent payment in full. Stencil payments guide
A teammate costs less to add
DoAny Pro includes unlimited team members for $25 a month. Stencil needs Team, from $50, before you can invite anyone: $25 a month more for a founder with one assistant. Team does bring more credits (200 a month on its pricing page). Stencil pricing
Stencil’s edge
Where Stencil is stronger
These are real advantages, and for a creator selling a membership to an audience they already have, they can settle the choice.
Deeper subscription billing
Free trials of 1–90 days, with an email when the trial starts and another three days before it ends. Coupons with plan limits, expiry dates and redemption caps, monthly and annual prices with a toggle, subscribers switching plan or period themselves, and pay-first signup where the purchase creates the account. The checkout on the sites DoAny builds has no coupons or free trials at the moment. Stencil features
AI and scheduled jobs inside your app
Stencil pays for the Claude and OpenAI models your app uses, and its plans guide says your running app costs no credits however busy it gets; on DoAny, AI features your customers use draw on your credits. Plans and credits Apps can also run scheduled jobs on a five-minute tick and send up to 1,000 emails a day from your own domain. Stencil automation
Built-in analytics and ad tracking
Every published app gets visitor counts, a funnel from visit to signup to return, and a campaign breakdown from tagged links, with nothing to set up. A Meta Pixel plus a Conversions API token reports signups from your Facebook and Instagram ads. DoAny has no visitor analytics dashboard. Stencil analytics
Connectors for your members
Members can connect Notion, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft 365 tools out of the box. DoAny has no connector marketplace; Annie writes a backend function with your API key instead. Connectors
Release controls
Roll back to an earlier version, publish at a time you pick, and take the app offline without deleting pages, data or drafts. DoAny saves every version but has no one-click rollback. Publishing
A bigger free allowance
10 credits a day with no monthly cap, the first five builds free, and failed builds not charged. DoAny Free gives 5 a day, capped at 30 a month. Credits are different units across products, but the gap is real. Plans and credits
Privacy and notice, in writing
Stencil’s Terms and Privacy Policy say it never trains on your prompts, content or apps, and its agreements prohibit its AI providers from training on your inputs or outputs. Price changes and material Terms changes get 30 days’ notice, and if Stencil ends your account it promises “a way to export your work”. DoAny doesn’t train AI models on your data either; Stencil’s edge is that its promise binds its AI providers by contract. Stencil privacy · Stencil Terms
People, and a launch program
Stencil promises “engineers, designers and operators” who pick up when you need them. Its accelerator takes 10 builders a cohort for 12 weeks, with a $10K launch budget each and no equity taken. DoAny support is email and in-app chat. Stencil homepage · Accelerator
If a course platform, a community tool or a code-first builder fits better than either, our Stencil alternatives shortlist prices Kajabi, Skool, Base44 and Lovable side by side. Every matchup we cover is on the compare page.
Arithmetic on published prices
Stencil pricing vs DoAny: a $12 membership with 200 members
Prices checked September 25, 2026. Stripe’s card fee uses its standard US rate of 2.9% + 30¢ per charge, so each $12 payment costs $0.648. Stripe pricing
$0
Platform cut on $2,400 of monthly sales, on either product.
$129.60
Stripe card fees on 200 charges of $12, on either product.
$300 a year
Saved by a founder with one assistant: DoAny Pro ($25) includes unlimited team members; Stencil’s Team starts at $50.
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| Line item | DoAny | Stencil |
|---|---|---|
| Sales (200 × $12) | $2,400.00 | $2,400.00 |
| Platform cut | $0 (0%) | $0 (0%) |
| Stripe card fees (200 × $0.648) | $129.60 | $129.60 |
| Plan, founder alone on the free address | $0 (Free, on yourname.doany.site) | $0 (Free) |
| Plan, founder alone on your own domain | $25 (Pro) | $25 (Pro) |
| Plan, founder plus one assistant | $25 (Pro, unlimited team members) | $50 (Team minimum) |
| You keep, founder alone on Free | $2,270.40 | $2,270.40 |
| You keep, founder alone on Pro | $2,245.40 | $2,245.40 |
| You keep, with one assistant | $2,245.40 | $2,220.40 |
Stripe’s other fees are left out: international cards, currency conversion, and Stripe Billing’s 0.7% of subscription volume, which Stripe may add on any Stripe-based platform. Both Free plans can sell: DoAny Free can go live and take real card payments, and Stencil’s pricing page lists payments on every plan.
Traffic is the last variable. DoAny’s hosting is included and not metered: keeping the site, database, files and functions online never uses credits. Stencil’s pricing page says products that reach “significant traffic, storage, email volume” may incur extra usage costs, which it will show you first. Stencil pricing
Four places Stencil’s pages disagree
- What credits pay for. The pricing FAQ says they cover “building your product, running it, and powering its AI features”. The plans guide says one thing spends credits: every round of chat.
- Top-ups. The pricing page says “you can top up anytime”. The plans guide says “There’s no one-off top-up”.
- Team credits. The pricing page shows Team at $50 with 200 monthly credits (1,000 during the launch bonus). The Stencil FAQ calls Team your credit package plus a flat $25-a-month fee, and the plans guide says the smallest package is 100 credits at $25.
- Dunning. The pricing page lists “Dunning” on every plan. The payments guide says Stripe retries a failed charge on its own schedule, but access closes at once with no grace period, and Stencil emails neither you nor the subscriber.
Our cost example uses only plan prices, which all of Stencil’s pages agree on, and Stripe’s published card rate.
The reason to pick DoAny
Getting customers: what you’ll see in DoAny
For a founder starting without an audience, this is the work DoAny does on top of the product, in the order you meet it.
Research before you build
Annie researches your idea and your market first, so you learn whether it holds up before anything ships. DoAny homepage
Turn on SEO & AEO
One switch adds per-page titles and descriptions, Open Graph tags, JSON-LD, a sitemap, robots.txt and an llms.txt, and prerenders pages so crawlers read real content. DoAny submits the sitemap to Google Search Console for you. The checklist shows what’s left; “Fix with AI” hands each fix to Annie.
Remake an ad that already works
The Social page shows ads already running in your market. Pick one and Annie remakes it for your brand as a 5–20 second video. Before the paid render, an approval card shows the estimated credit cost: “Start render” or “Request changes”. You download the finished video.
Daily posting, outreach and answers
Annie posts every day in the feeds and communities your buyers already trust, finds prospects and follows up, runs your CRM and answers customers around the clock. New recurring jobs start only after you approve them on a card, and spending stops at the credits you bought. How DoAny gets you found
Stencil server-renders your pages; its SEO guide calls the rest “the handful of things worth doing yourself”. Stencil SEO guide
The flow that matters most here
Taking your first payment: what you’ll see in DoAny
Payments are where the two products differ most, so here is the DoAny flow step by step, then the Stencil fine print. DoAny payments docs
Ask for checkout
Tell Annie what you sell. Before anything changes, an approval card asks “Set up payments” or “Not now”. Stripe asks you for nothing yet.
Annie wires up checkout
Annie adds your products and prices and wires up checkout through DoAny’s backend, with Stripe’s checkout embedded in your own page. You set up no API keys or webhooks, and one-off purchases work as guest checkout, without an account.
Test in the preview
The preview takes Stripe test cards straight away: 4242 4242 4242 4242 succeeds, 4000 0000 0000 0002 is declined and 4000 0025 0000 3155 asks for an extra verification step. Your published site tells shoppers the shop isn’t open yet.
Press Go live
In the Payments panel, choose Go live, pick your country and complete Stripe’s own verification. Sole traders can sell; you don’t need a registered company. Live payments work for businesses in 42 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, the UAE and every EU country.
Run it from your own Stripe dashboard
Orders and payouts show in DoAny’s Payments panel; refunds and disputes are handled in your Stripe Express dashboard, opened from that panel. Stripe pays out to your bank on its normal schedule. DoAny never holds your money and adds no delay.
Stencil’s payment fine print
- Once a single order has settled or a subscription has billed, the payment account can’t be removed, “not even from our side”.
- Buyers always see prices in US dollars; multi-currency pricing is “Considering” on the roadmap. Both products take live payments from businesses in 42 countries, but not the same ones (DoAny’s includes the UAE; Stencil’s doesn’t).
- The draft preview runs on your live data, so sign-ups and orders made there by anyone you share it with are real.
Source: Stencil’s payments guide and publishing guide. For selling on DoAny end to end, read how to sell online.
Switching notes
Moving from Stencil to DoAny, in order
Stencil documents no way to move live subscriptions, so plan the move around your members, not your code. Stencil payments guide
Export your data first
In Stencil, Project settings → Build → Data exports the whole database as a JSON archive, sent to you as a link; one export runs at a time. Copy CSV grabs selected rows. If GitHub sync is on, your source is already in a private repository. Stencil data export The code and data go to Annie in step 2. The export, plus the Subscribers tab in Stencil’s payments panel, which lists every subscription, is your member list for step 4: you need each member’s email and renewal date.
Import your code and data into DoAny
Hand Annie the code and database records you exported; DoAny imports them, so you don’t start over. Stencil’s pricing FAQ says “Export everything — code, database, customer list”, but its Lovable guide says “The platform machinery isn’t exportable”, and a full Git-repo download is “Considering” on its roadmap. That machinery moves separately: on DoAny, sign-in, email and checkout run on DoAny’s own backend, members sign in again on your DoAny site, and live subscriptions follow in step 4. Pricing FAQ · Stencil vs Lovable guide · Roadmap
Recreate prices and test checkout
Set up the same prices (weekly, monthly or yearly; checkout on a DoAny site has no trials or coupons yet) and run Stripe’s test cards in the preview until checkout, access and the success page behave. Then press Go live in the Payments panel; the Free plan can take real payments too.
Move members without paying twice
- Plan on members re-subscribing: Stencil’s payment account has no Stripe dashboard, and its docs describe no way to move subscriptions.
- Give each member a switch date equal to their Stencil renewal date, and cancel their Stencil subscription “At period end” in the Subscribers tab so it doesn’t renew.
- Send the new sign-up link a few days before that date, so nobody pays for the same weeks twice and nobody forgets to re-enter a card.
- Don’t switch off Enable payments early: that opens every paywalled page (Cancel and paywall rules).
Move the domain
If you connected a domain you own, change its DNS records to the ones DoAny’s Domains panel shows (Pro). If you bought it through Stencil, Stencil holds its DNS settings and documents no transfer-out steps, so ask Stencil support before you start. Who holds the DNS · DoAny domains
Take the Stencil app offline
Once the last paid period ends, take the app offline from its settings; Stencil keeps pages, data and drafts. A payment account that has taken money can only be severed through Stencil support. Taking an app offline · Removing the payment account
Common questions
DoAny vs Stencil FAQ
How much does Stencil cost?
Stencil Free is $0 with 10 credits a day. Pro starts at $25 a month for 100 monthly credits (500 during its launch bonus). Team, which you need to invite collaborators, starts at $50 a month. Billing is monthly, and its plans guide says there’s no one-off top-up. DoAny Free is $0 and can go live and take real card payments, with 0% of your sales (Stripe’s fees apply). DoAny Pro is also $25, with your own domain, unlimited team members and top-ups at $15 per 50 credits.
Does DoAny or Stencil take a cut of my sales?
No. Both take 0% of your sales. On Stencil, Stripe’s processing fee (2.9% + 30¢ on a standard US card, per Stencil’s payments guide) is the only deduction, and the smallest sale is $5. On DoAny, payments land in your own Stripe account and Stripe charges its usual fees there, the same as if you had set Stripe up yourself. DoAny adds nothing on top.
Can I test checkout without paying real money?
On DoAny, yes. The editor preview takes Stripe test cards before you give Stripe any details: 4242 4242 4242 4242 succeeds and 4000 0000 0000 0002 is declined. On Stencil, no. Its payments guide says there are no test cards and suggests putting a cheap plan behind the paywall, buying it yourself, then refunding it.
Does DoAny ask before every action?
No, it asks before the big calls. Turning on payments, paid video renders, new recurring tasks, connecting an outside account, saving an automation and adding code packages each wait on an approval card, and typing “yes” in chat doesn’t count. Spending can’t go past the credits you bought: when they run out, work pauses and nothing is charged to your card.
Can I take my app with me if I leave?
Yes. DoAny lets you export your code and data anytime and sync your code to GitHub. Stencil gives you two-way GitHub sync to a new private repository, a JSON export of the whole database and CSV copies of rows; its own guide says the platform machinery isn’t exportable. Stencil documents no way to move live subscriptions, so plan on members signing up again on the new checkout. Moving to DoAny, hand Annie the exported code and records; DoAny imports them.
Which one is cheaper?
Alone, they cost the same: both Free plans cost $0 and can take real payments, both paid plans start at $25 a month (the plan for your own domain), and both take 0% of your sales. Stripe’s processing fees apply on both. With a teammate, DoAny is cheaper: Pro at $25 includes unlimited team members, while Stencil needs Team from $50, a $300-a-year difference. Stencil’s free plan gives more raw credits (10 a day against 5), and its docs say in-app AI costs no credits.
Source record
Sources and method
We read each page below on September 25, 2026. DoAny facts come from our own product and public pages. We found no independent reviews of HelloStencil to weigh; it is a young product (its accelerator’s first cohort began June 8, 2026). The cost example is arithmetic on published prices, not a billing test.
- DoAny: Homepage and FAQ: research first, growth work, exportofficial product, checked September 25, 2026
- DoAny: Plans, credits, top-ups and hosting FAQofficial product, checked September 25, 2026
- DoAny: Terms of Service: no equity, no revenue share, ownershipofficial terms, checked September 25, 2026
- DoAny: Run it solo: approval cards and the credit hard stopofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- DoAny Docs: Setting up Stripe: test cards and going liveofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- DoAny Docs: Connecting a custom domain (Pro)official help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil: Homepage: human team behind the productofficial product, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil: Pricing, launch bonus and pricing FAQofficial product, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Plans and creditsofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: FAQ and glossary: what Stencil costsofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Charge for your appofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Feature reference: payments and monetizationofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Publish your appofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Your web address and emailofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: SEO and discoveryofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Let it work by itself: email, schedules, in-app AIofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: See who’s visiting: built-in analytics and ad trackingofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Connect the tools you useofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Your business data: CSV copy and JSON exportofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil Docs: Keep your code on GitHubofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil: Stencil vs Lovable guide (updated July 21, 2026)official product, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil: Public roadmapofficial product, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil: Terms of Service (updated July 21, 2026)official terms, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil: Privacy Policy (updated July 21, 2026)official terms, checked September 25, 2026
- Stencil: Stencil Accelerator, Cohort 01official product, checked September 25, 2026
- Stripe: US pricing: 2.9% + 30¢ per card, 0.7% for Stripe Billingofficial product, checked September 25, 2026
- Stripe Docs: Refund and cancel paymentsofficial help, checked September 25, 2026
Put the evidence to work
Build your first version free, and test checkout before you give Stripe any details
The Free plan is $0 with no card: 5 credits a day, research on your idea and market, and a first version live on its own yourname.doany.site address the same day. Add checkout, run Stripe’s test cards in the preview, then press Go live and take real payments on Free. Move to Pro at $25 a month when you want a custom domain, top-ups or a teammate.