LearnWorlds vs Teachable: A Definitive Comparison (August 2023)

After playing with LearnWorlds and Teachable for a decent amount of time, I realized that both online course platforms target beginners and advanced creators in different ways.

LearnWorlds offers unlimited products across all plans, making it great for new course creators who want to create multiple courses and see what sticks. It also boasts robust course creation tools that would wow any advanced user.

Meanwhile, Teachable has a lifetime free plan that saves fledgling entrepreneurs from spending money in the early stages of their business and offers coaching and downloadable content for experts looking to diversify.

How’d I come to this conclusion, though? I compared LearnWorlds vs Teachable in the following categories:

1. Pricing and payments
2. Course creation
3. Learning experience
4. Additional products
5. Marketing and analytics

Let’s get into the details, starting with a side-by-side comparison!

Comparison Summary: LearnWorlds vs Teachable

LearnWorlds	Teachable
Price
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 30-day trial. Starter plan is $29/mo, middle plan is $99/mo, and the top plan is $299/mo.	🏆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Free plan. Starter plan is $59/mo, middle plan is $159/mo, and the top plan costs $665/mo.
Payments
🏆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Members pay with Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, PagSeguro, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Afterpay/Clearpay.	⭐⭐⭐⭐ Members pay with popular gateways like PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
Course Creation
🏆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unlimited courses on all plans. Lots of customization options.	⭐⭐⭐⭐ Simple course creation interface. AI course outline builder.
Learning Experience
🏆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interactive assessments and creative rewards. Allows course player customization.	⭐⭐⭐⭐ Multiple choice quizzes and course completion certificates. Enhanced course player.
Additional Products
⭐⭐⭐⭐ One-to-one coaching can be added as a course activity. Built-in community feature for students.	🏆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dedicated coaching services and digital downloads. Community feature via Circle.so integration.
Marketing and Analytics
🏆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Automatic email notifications. Built-in analytics. 25+ third-party integrations for several use cases.	⭐⭐⭐⭐ Automatic email notifications and email composer. Detailed analytics per course. 12 total integrations.
Best for
Beginners looking to experiment with multiple courses. Established creators looking for advanced course building and editing features.	New course creators working with a tight budget. High-ticket course creators looking to offer new products and monetize them separately.
Try free for 30 days (No credit card required)	Try free forever (No credit card required)

What is LearnWorlds?
“Engaging content to your heart’s content” ♥️😌

Created by Panos Siozos, Fanis Despotakis, and George Palegeorgiou in 2014, LearnWorlds is helping many companies and entrepreneurs from numerous countries to create, sell, and market engaging online courses.

LearnWorlds offers advanced course creation features to build professional courses with content in many formats, self-assessments, and quizzes. Creators can easily align their courses with their brand identity using fully-customizable course templates and a no-code website builder. It offers marketing tools to help create irresistible offers to potential students and reporting tools to track progress.

LearnWorlds lets you quickly customize courses with videos, eBooks, texts, quizzes, question banks, assessments, and more…making the lives of creators, entrepreneurs, or educators much simpler.

What is Teachable?
“Simplified knowledge sharing” ✍️💁

Dissatisfied by his teaching experience on Udemy, Ankur Nagpal launched Teachable’s predecessor, Fedora, in 2014.

Teachable gives more autonomy to tutors through brand-ability and individual websites. Although there are fewer tools included, Teachable’s plans cost less, allowing tutors to integrate with their preferred marketing tools. It also simplifies the tutor’s mission with financial management options available through their native payment gateways.

With its free lifetime plan, Teachable is best for new course creators working with a tight budget as well as high-ticket course creators looking to offer new products to a limited audience and monetize them separately.

LearnWorlds vs Teachable: Course Creation

LearnWorlds allows you to create unlimited courses with a wide range of attachment types, while Teachable offers a more organized interface and can auto-generate course outlines

LearnWorlds offers more attachment types while Teachable sticks to a few essential options.

LearnWorlds boasts a wide range of attachment types to enrich your course content. For easy understanding, I’ll group them into three categories:

• Multimedia files like videos, audio, PDFs, and more.
• Over 20 other learning activities like 1:1 coaching, assessments, slideshares, etc., to enhance interactivity and learner engagement.
• Designing and marketing tools like custom codes (adding JS and CSS to your courses) and upsells (adding unique features to persuade customers to pay more for a higher tier course).

However, these options are not grouped in any specific tab, so you have to navigate through different sections of the course builder to find them (1).

Another very useful feature when it comes to course progress management is the drip-feed feature. Your students will be able to access lessons based on your rules.

Teachable, on the other hand, lets you directly add text, videos, audio, and PDF documents from the sidebar to your course. Like LearnWorlds, it also offers a few other options like upsells, referrals, and custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript codes that many creators would find very useful.

Teachable lets you monetize courses, coaching, and digital downloads separately, while LearnWorlds offers them as part of the course curriculum.

Teachable stands out by offering a range of options beyond courses. It enables you to provide coaching services, including one-to-one learning experiences. It also supports digital downloads, allowing you to offer eBooks, PDFs, audio files, and other downloadable resources.

LearnWorlds goes all in on courses with several controls and customization options. You can tweak everything from SEO, pricing, and course player settings. LearnWorlds also offers one-to-one coaching but it’s only available as an activity within courses — it cannot be monetized separately.

Teachable can auto-generate a course outline for you.

Teachable has a built-in AI feature that can auto-generate an outline for you based on your course title and description. You simply need to enable the option on the course creation page.

While the feature requests a detailed description of your course, I tested it with a simple one-line text and the result was quite impressive. Of course, you’d still have to do some editing to get the outline to match your content, but it’s pretty solid for an experimental feature.

Winner: LearnWorlds allows unlimited courses across all plans and boasts a robust set of attachments and customization options. Teachable offers a simple interface with all the tools you need to create a great course including an AI-powered outline generator.

LearnWorlds vs Teachable: Learning Experience

LearnWorlds prioritizes interactive learning with its assessment rewards, while Teachable takes the regular approach of course completion followed by certification

LearnWorlds has more interactive assessment types. Teachable is limited to multiple-choice quizzes.

LearnWorlds gives you multiple ways to assess students.

Within the assessment builder, you can set graded assessments (exams) with simple multiple-choice questions, multiple-choice questions with multiple answers, short answer questions, and matching and ordering questions. You can also set course compliance rules and request students to complete text, audio, video, or file assignments and answer graded SCORMs (Sharable Content Object Reference Models) for the middle and top plans.

There’s also the option for non-graded self-assessments which students can use to revise particular lessons through writing, audio or video submissions, and get feedback from the tutor.

Meanwhile, creators can collect and store feedback from learners. This interaction also gives course creators an idea of what their students hope to gain from the program so they can improve the course.

Teachable only offers multiple-choice quizzes with single or multiple answers but with there’s a new feature, which helps you quickly create interactive quizzes — AI Quiz Generator. Also, there’s an option for graded quizzes but it’s limited to the middle and top plans.

LearnWorlds has more creative ways to reward students. Teachable offers course completion certificates.

LearnWorlds goes beyond traditional course completion certificates and provides more creative ways to reward students. In addition to assessments and certificates, LearnWorlds incorporates a gamification engine that motivates and incentivizes students, particularly younger audiences, to learn instead of focusing on grades. Great for bettering the student experience!

The primary emphasis in Teachable is to recognize students have completed their courses. Hence, it only offers serially numbered course completion certificates without additional elements. The downside is that the feature is only available in the middle and top plans.

LearnWorlds lets you customize the course video player. Teachable gives everyone the same enhanced video player.

LearnWorlds provides extensive customization options for the course player. You can tweak almost every element of the course player including the title, progress bar, course navigation, and even the back button. Users on the highest Learning Center plan can also offer transcription services in different languages. And the most advanced feature of them all — there are options to make interactive videos.

Teachable has a standard course player for all users. Aside from the basic pause/play commands, the player has a few advanced features like note-taking and picture-in-picture.

LearnWorlds has a built-in community feature, while Teachable integrates with Circle.so.

LearnWorlds allows you to create a student community where your course students can interact, participate in polls, and tag other users to posts. You can even create groups within the community and create some kind of discussion forums.

Teachable doesn’t have a built-in community. However, it offers a button within your dashboard that opens a new browser tab where you can integrate your school with a Circle.so community. Aside from creating a group to connect with your audience, Circle also lets you meet and support fellow creators.

Winner: LearnWorlds has a ton of assessment options including quizzes, matching questions, and SCORMs. It also lets you reward students with certificates and incentivize them with a gamification engine.

LearnWorlds vs Teachable: Marketing and Analytics

LearnWorlds offers more integration options and a detailed analytics dashboard, while Teachable offers an email composer and course-specific analytics

Both have built-in email marketing features but Teachable takes it up a notch with an email composer.

There’s a fair share of marketing tools that LearnWorlds provides: prebuilt forms and widgets, SEO optimization, pop-ups, coupons, bundles, memberships, and more. It also offers robust notification emails for students covering so many scenarios, from when a user signs up for a course to when they’re awarded a certificate. They enabled notifications for admins, affiliates, and so on, as well.

Aside from built-in notification emails, you can integrate other marketing tools like MailChimp, ConvertKit, ConstantContact, MailerLite, and so on.

Teachable offers an extensive eCommerce toolkit for getting visitors closer to the checkout and growing sales: order bumps & upsells, tax handling, affiliate marketing, subscriptions, “Buy Now, Pay Later”, and more. Like LearnWorlds, Teachable also supports automated emails for both students and admins when certain actions are completed or milestones are reached.

You can modify the templates but only if you’re on a paid plan. The main difference from LearnWorlds is Teachable’s email composer for drafting professional emails for scenarios not covered by the default options. However, if you want something more powerful, you can integrate advanced tools like ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, and more.

Both tools limit integrations based on plan but LearnWorlds has more options.

LearnWorlds has 29 integrations across several categories.

They include finance tools like PayPal and Stripe, analytic software like Google Analytics, CRMs like Zendesk, and many others. However, some integrations like Zapier, Zoom, and Webex are only available for users on the Pro Trainer plan or higher.

Teachable’s integrations total about 12, and a good number of them are email marketing tools. Depending on your plan, it has more limitations than LearnWorlds. For example, Zapier actions, Mailerlite, TikTok Pixel, and unlimited AWeber workflows are only available starting from the Pro plan up.

LearnWorlds has a dedicated analytics dashboard. Teachable offers analytics for specific courses.

LearnWorlds offers detailed analytics & reports of your courses, students, exams, and revenue, but restricts some stats to higher plans.

For example, user progress reports are absent on the starter plan while it’s limited to only basic information like course completion and exam results on the middle plan. It’s only with the top plan that you can create advanced custom reports by combining 29 types of queries using “and” & “or” functions.

Teachable doesn’t have a common analytics page showing all your stats. To see reports, you have to navigate to individual courses to see how students and videos are performing. For earnings, you have to go to the sales tab from the left sidebar. This segmented approach makes it difficult to understand how your products are performing at a glance.

Winner: LearnWorlds supports several integrations including SEO, finance, and CRM tools. It also has a detailed analytics dashboard.

LearnWorlds vs Teachable: Pricing and Payments

LearnWorlds offers a 30-day free trial across all plans and has more payment gateways while Teachable offers a free lifetime plan

Teachable offers a limited free plan.

Teachable pricing plans start with a free lifetime plan. However, I wouldn’t call it a free plan since there is a charge of $1 plus 10% of the selling price of your products. There are also several limitations to the free plan.

If you want to see what you’re getting on the higher plans, you can opt for a 14-day free trial of the advanced plan features without a credit card. Surprisingly, there’s no trial for the lower tiers.

LearnWorlds offers a 30-day free trial for all plans.

LearnWorlds pricing, on the other hand, doesn’t start with a free plan. However, it offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required for its bottom, middle, and top plans. Its priced plans start at $29 with a flat $5 fee per course sold. Higher-paid plans are more expensive compared to Teachable but they don’t charge a fee for each sale, making them more affordable as you scale course sales.

LearnWorlds allows you to create unlimited courses, while Teachable limits courses by subscription tier.

LearnWorlds offers unlimited course creation across all plans giving you the freedom to explore various topics and target different audiences without limitations. The only caveat is that you can’t create free courses on the base tier, since the company charges a $5 transaction fee for courses sold on this plan.

On the other hand, Teachable only offers unlimited courses with the top plan and restricts the number of courses on all other plans. It allows you to build one course on the free plan, five on the starter plan, and 50 on the middle plan.

Winner: LearnWorlds plans are relatively cheaper than Teachable. Plus, you get a 30-day free trial for all plans. Teachable’s plans are significantly more expensive but you get a lifetime free version where you can build and host one course, coaching program, or digital download.

LearnWorlds vs Teachable: Pros & Cons

LearnWorlds Pros	LearnWorlds Cons
✅ Unlimited courses	❌ No free plan
✅ Advanced course editor & site builder	❌ Transaction fee on base plan
✅ Complete website with a custom domain, including landing pages	❌ Confusing course editor
✅ Robust marketing tools
✅ In-depth analytics and reporting
✅ Android & iOS Apps, 100% white-label

Teachable Pros	Teachable Cons
✅ Other products aside from courses	❌ Transaction fee on free and base plans
✅ Organized course editor	❌ Limited number of products per plan
✅ Lifetime free plan	❌ Only three payment gateways
✅ AI course outline builder
✅ Robust email marketing capabilities
✅ Built-in analytics and reporting

Final Verdict: LearnWorlds vs Teachable

Both beginners and established creators will love LearnWorlds. High-ticket, diversifying creators will find Teachable more useful.

If you’ve been following, you can probably tell that LearnWorlds and Teachable have very similar features. In fact, they are both great for beginners and advanced users, but in different ways.

After playing around with both tools extensively, I concluded that LearnWorlds is more suited for beginners looking to experiment with many courses and see which one sticks since it offers unlimited products and costs less. It is also suitable for advanced users looking for more customization features, thanks to its robust course editor.

Meanwhile, beginners will benefit from the financial safety of Teachable’s free plan. On the other hand, high-ticket creators looking to diversify their offerings can create new coaching programs and digital products that they can monetize separately.

Use LearnWorlds if:

• You are just starting off and want to experiment with many products.
• You’re looking for an all-in-one course creation platform with as many features as possible.
• You’re thinking of an online school that would include assessing your students in many different ways.

Click here to get started with LearnWorlds with a 30-day free trial!

Use Teachable if:

• You want an organized, easy-to-understand course-building UI to start out your business.
• You want to include products other than courses like exclusive coaching and digital downloads.
• You want a free plan to see if your product sells before going all in.

Click here to get started with Teachable!

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