Uscreen is a good video platform, and its pricing page is a fair description of the plans. What it does not do is show you the monthly bill for a studio of a given size, because the bill depends on three things that are listed separately: the plan, a fee per subscriber, and a percentage of one-time sales. This post puts them together.
Prices below are the regular prices on Uscreen’s public pricing page on 4 November 2026, not the launch discount it shows for the first months. Uscreen removed the fee on one-time sales from its plan cards in October 2026; its help centre still describes a platform fee on one-time purchases, so ask before you sign if you sell programs one at a time.
The three parts of a Uscreen bill
| Plan | Plan price | Per subscriber per month | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49 a month, monthly billing only | none, up to 100 subscribers | no apps |
| Growth | $149 a month, billed annually | $1.99 | unlimited subscribers, storage added as you grow |
| App Essentials | $449 a month, billed annually | $0.99 | your own iOS and Android apps |
On top of this, every plan pays card processing to Stripe or the gateway you connect, usually around 2.9% plus 30 cents per transaction. That part is the same on any platform, including your own website, so it is left out of the comparison below.
What that means for a real studio
Take a teacher charging $20 a month for a video library. Here is the Uscreen bill at three sizes, before card processing:
| Students paying $20/month | Monthly revenue | Growth plan bill | Share of revenue | App Essentials bill | Share of revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $2,000 | $149 + $199 = $348 | 17% | $449 + $99 = $548 | 27% |
| 300 | $6,000 | $149 + $597 = $746 | 12% | $449 + $297 = $746 | 12% |
| 1,000 | $20,000 | $149 + $1,990 = $2,139 | 11% | $449 + $990 = $1,439 | 7% |
The per-subscriber fee is the line that grows with you. At 300 students it is already four times the plan price on Growth. If you sell programs one at a time instead of subscriptions, the per-subscriber fee does not apply, but Uscreen’s platform fee on one-time purchases does, and it behaves the same way: the more you sell, the more you pay.
None of this is hidden. It is simply priced like a platform, where your growth is their growth.
The same studio on a flat price
BOS runs on your own WordPress site, with WooCommerce checkout, and charges a flat monthly price that does not change with the number of students or sales:
| Students paying $20/month | Monthly revenue | BOS Pro ($29, website only) | BOS App ($149, website + your own app) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $2,000 | $29 (1.5%) | $149 (7.5%) |
| 300 | $6,000 | $29 (0.5%) | $149 (2.5%) |
| 1,000 | $20,000 | $29 (0.1%) | $149 (0.7%) |
The App plan has a one-time setup fee of $999 for building and publishing the app under your name, which the Uscreen table above has no equivalent for. Spread over a year it adds about $83 a month; after that it is gone. Card processing is the same on both sides.
Where Uscreen is still the better choice
Honest comparison means saying this part too. Uscreen hosts and streams the video itself, with TV apps for Roku and Apple TV, live streaming, and a marketing suite built in. If your business is a large video catalogue watched on the sofa, with live events, and you want one vendor for all of it, Uscreen earns its price.
BOS is for the teacher whose students practise on the floor with the phone beside them. Video is hosted on Vimeo or YouTube and played behind the purchase; audio lessons play with the screen off; programs are sold one at a time or as subscriptions through WooCommerce; and the app, when you add it, is yours on both stores. The full side-by-side is on the Uscreen comparison page.
Three questions to ask before you choose
- How many students do you expect in two years, and what does each platform cost at that number, not today’s?
- Who owns the student’s account and email address if you leave?
- Does the player keep going when the phone locks, for the part of your teaching that is not watched?
If the answers point to your own website, the free plugin is the place to start. If they point to a hosted video platform, Uscreen is a sound pick, and now you know what the bill looks like.