Gumb vs. Spond

Spond is free and is funded by ads from brand partners and fees per payment. Gumb costs a fixed price per organization and shows no ads. For clubs with several teams, Gumb lists every group in the left navigation, sorts members in the member matrix and sends email and push to specific people, groups or everyone. Members use Gumb for free.

The Spond app and Spond Club are free according to Spond (as of November 6, 2026). Spond is funded by ads from brand partners in the app, fees on payments made through Spond and fundraising. You pay when you collect money through Spond, for example 3.29% + $1.00 per payment in the US, or when you use the club website, $19.95 per month in the US.

Yes. According to the Spond help center, ads from brand partners appear in designated areas of the app and cannot be turned off. The App Store listing for Spond states that it contains ads. Users can decline personalized advertising. Gumb shows no ads in any plan, in the app or the browser.

3.29% plus $1.00 per payment in the US, 2.5% plus £0.20 in the UK and 2.5% plus €0.20 in the eurozone (as of November 6, 2026). By default the club pays the fee; for payment requests it can pass the fee on to members. On $120 in annual dues that is $4.95 per member, or $742.20 a year for 150 members. Gumb has no payment module and charges no fee per payment.

Gumb Pro costs $149 per year or $16 per month for an organization with up to 100 members and 20 groups. Premium with several communities costs more, see the pricing page. The Spond app and Spond Club cost nothing; you pay fees per payment and, optionally, $19.95 per month for the club website in the US (as of November 6, 2026).

Gumb. Every team, department and group in your organization sits in the left navigation, each with its own schedule and its own group leaders. You add members to any number of teams with a checkmark in the member matrix. In Spond Club, according to its help center, departments are for sorting only and are not visible to members, and every club admin manages all groups.

A table with every person in the rows and every community in the columns. A checkmark adds someone to another team, removing it takes them out, and Gumb saves every change instantly. A new season is sorted in minutes. The member matrix is included in every Gumb plan and comes into play as soon as you run several teams as separate communities, so from Premium.

Yes. You create your own event types with colors and default values, your own response options such as "Running late", optionally with a required comment, and assign four roles from owner to member. With several communities in Premium, each department sets its own rules. That is why Gumb also fits choirs, fire departments, churches and businesses.

In Gumb you pick the recipients for email and push: individual people, groups, roles such as all admins, or every member. For an event you can write only to the people who said yes or no. Emails carry attachments and can also go to up to 100 external addresses, and push messages come with up to 8 templates. In Spond, according to its help center, group chats are limited to 100 members and cannot span several groups.

Yes. Gumb is GDPR-compliant and stores data with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Frankfurt, Germany. Gumb AG in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is responsible. Members decide which admins may edit their profile. Spond belongs to Spond AS in Oslo, hosts on AWS in Dublin and Frankfurt according to its own information, and its privacy policy names processors outside the EEA, including in the US.

Yes. Gumb costs from CHF 149 per year in Switzerland, complies with the Swiss Data Protection Act and exports the J+S attendance record as XLSX or CSV with J+S-ready columns for NDS and BASPO. Spond does not mention a J+S export in its sources. Payments via Spond cost 2.5% + CHF 0.20 each in Switzerland.

Yes. Gumb costs from $149 per year, runs on iOS, Android and the web and syncs events with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook, with automatic time zones. Clubs, departments and businesses organize every group in one subscription, and members use Gumb for free.

Spond fits better if you want a free app and ads do not bother you, if you want to collect dues in the app and accept the fee per payment, or if you need your own member profile fields such as number, date or dropdown. Gumb fits better for several teams, departments or groups, for targeted communication by email and push, and for an app without ads.

Both run on iOS, Android and in the browser. Gumb syncs events automatically with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook. In Spond, calendar sync runs through the mobile app, and the season planner is available only in the browser.

If you set it up yourself, your organization is usually ready in about 2 hours: create groups, import events from Excel or as an .ics file and invite members by link or email. During the 2 free months you run both apps side by side. On request, the Gumb team sets everything up for you for a one-time fee.

Yes. You create tasks right on the event: who drives, who brings what and who helps set up. Members sign up themselves, and you see per event who takes what. Tasks on events are included in every Gumb plan.