LearnWorlds and Kajabi – they’re two of the most popular platforms for creating online courses right now.

I know you’re probably wondering: which one would work better for you?

I’ve spent a lot of time using both platforms, and I’ll walk you through all their features to help you make the right choice.

Let’s start with a quick overview.

Features	LearnWorlds	Kajabi
Free plan available?	No	No
Trial	30-day free trial	30-day free trial
Pricing plans	$29/mo	$89/mo
Communities	Good, but not very intuitive or exciting	Top-notch, as it comes with gamification, leaderboards, and more to keep students engaged.

Overview

LearnWorlds is a course platform built specifically for corporate trainers.

It gives you everything you need – graded results, interactive videos (which is really cool!), and a community space for students to connect.

Plus, it has all the tools you need to sell and market your courses to grow your student base.

Now, Kajabi is different – it’s an all-in-one platform that lets you create many types of digital content.

If you’re a content creator or running an education business, Kajabi is perfect for you. You can create courses, run webinars, offer coaching, host podcasts, and do so much more.

And yes, it comes with powerful marketing tools and detailed analytics to help you succeed.

Feature	LearnWorlds	Kajabi
Course Creation	Robust tools for interactive, engaging courses (e.g., interactive videos, drip-fed content)	Supports courses, memberships, coaching, and bundled products
Website & Design	Customizable templates, branding options (full control may require upgrades)	Extensive design flexibility, website and landing page builder
Marketing & Sales Tools	Memberships, subscriptions, podcasts, ebooks, affiliate marketing	Advanced sales funnels, automated email, coupons, affiliate program
Pricing	Starts at $29/month (Starter), flexible plans, more affordable	Starts at $89/month, all-in-one pricing, higher entry cost
Best For	Educators/trainers needing structured, interactive courses	Entrepreneurs seeking to sell various digital products and need integrated marketing tools

Quick decision

👍 What do I like about LearnWorlds over Kajabi?

• Interactive videos: You can make your videos more engaging by adding interactive elements. But it is an overkill for common course creators unless you are into specialized academic niches.
• Unlimited landing pages and courses: With LearnWorlds, there’s no limit on how many landing pages or courses you can create. Kajabi, on the other hand, puts limits on your products and funnels based on your plan.
• Custom-branded mobile app: Want your own white-label mobile app? With LearnWorlds, you’ll need to pay extra and be on their $299 monthly “Learning Center” plan. Kajabi has mobile apps for all the platforms.
• Copyright protection: LearnWorlds helps protect your content by watermarking your videos and PDFs. This helps stop people from copying your material.
• E-book builder: You can create ebooks and downloadable content right in the platform. But let me be honest – it’s a bit clunky. You’re probably better off using Canva instead.

Want to learn more?

Check out my detailed review of LearnWorlds.

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👍 What do I like about Kajabi over LearnWorlds?

• Comprehensive and all-in-one: Kajabi gives you everything in one place – courses, emails, webinars, community features. You won’t need to juggle multiple tools to get things done.
• Intuitive UI: Everything in Kajabi is easy to find and use. LearnWorlds, in comparison, feels cluttered with too many features.
• Communities: The community features in Kajabi are really strong. You get gamification, leaderboards, badges – lots of ways to keep students engaged.
• Email marketing: When it comes to email marketing, Kajabi is much more powerful than LearnWorlds’ basic lead management. Their email deliverability is also good!
• Automation engine: Think of it like having Zapier built right into Kajabi – you can connect all the features together using their automation tools. As all their features are complete, you actually use this more!

I’ve spent a lot of time using Kajabi.

If you want to learn more, check out my full Kajabi review.

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Upfront bottom line

Looking for an all-in-one platform for your courses, coaching, and digital products?

Kajabi is your best bet.

The community features are excellent, and it really shines when it comes to marketing and automation.

Think of it like ClickFunnels + advanced course-related features.

But here’s about LearnWorlds:

If you’re focused on corporate or academic training, LearnWorlds might be perfect for you.

It has special features built just for training – things like SCORM and HTML5 compliance, copyright protection, graded assignments, and a question bank.

Plus, there are some unique tools like interactive videos.

And one more thing to note – LearnWorlds packs in too many irrelevant features like the E-book builder and other stuff that don’t really add value.

These extras often feel less refined and just make the platform more complicated.

👉 Just keep in mind that some features in LearnWorlds, like those interactive videos, are only available on their highest plan at $299 per month.

User interface

LearnWorlds’ interface feels outdated and hard to use.

There are just too many features crammed into a small space.

Everything is hidden in the sidebar, and the spacing between elements is too tight.

It’s scattered all over the place, so you’ll spend extra time just finding what you need.

Now, let’s talk about Kajabi.

Kajabi gives you a clean, easy-to-understand dashboard.

Need help finding your way around?

Don’t worry – helpful pop-ups will guide you through each step.

Take a look – everything is neat and easy to understand.

Plus, there’s a search feature that makes finding tools super simple.

🏆 Winner: Kajabi. It just feels more polished and professional compared to LearnWorlds’ cluttered interface.

Course builder

LearnWorlds makes adding content pretty straightforward.

You can include images, videos, surveys, text, and PDFs in your lessons.

Want to add quizzes, ebooks, or SCORM/HTML5 files?

You can do that too.

Here’s what I really love – you can make your videos interactive.

You can add text to your videos using LearnWorlds’ iVideo Authoring Mode.

This lets you highlight key points right in the video to make them stick.

You can add images to help explain things.

Or drop in some simple sketches to show your thinking step-by-step.

Adding these visuals is super easy – just upload them wherever you need them in your video.

Let me show you how Kajabi helps you build courses.

Creating your course is simple.

Just break it down into modules, submodules, and lessons. It’s like organizing chapters in a book.

When you’re setting up lessons, you’ve got lots of options.

You can add videos, audio files, and even test your students’ knowledge with assessments.

Want to give your students extra help?

You can add downloadable materials like checklists and worksheets.

These really help students remember what they’ve learned.

🔒 Here’s something really helpful – Kajabi lets you lock content. This means students need to finish one lesson before moving to the next one. It’s a great way to make sure they’re learning everything in the right order.

🏆 Winner: Tie. Though Learnworlds has interactive videos…

Student learning experience

LearnWorlds makes it easy for students to see what they need to do next in their learning journey.

Students get to pick from 5 different looks for their course player, which is nice for personalization.

But here’s the thing – the interface isn’t very user-friendly.

Students might struggle to find what they’re looking for.

😬 The discussion section is placed in the sidebar rather than below videos, making it easy to miss. Plus, the learner’s tab has a 150-student limit and only shows them alphabetically.

Now, Kajabi does things differently – in a good way.

I’ve spent a lot of time using both platforms, and I can tell you firsthand that Kajabi’s interface just makes more sense.

Here’s a simple example:

In Kajabi, you just scroll down the course page to leave comments – super easy.

But with LearnWorlds?

You need an extra click just to get to the comments section.

If you ask me, having the ability to leave is for students to easily live and interact with the comments matters a lot for real good course completion rates.

🏆 Bottom line: Kajabi wins this one. Their course interface is straightforward and just works. LearnWorlds puts the discussion area in a not-so-obvious spot in the sidebar, which isn’t great for engagement.

Course completion certificates

Now, speaking of course completion – offering your students certificates upon them completing the courses can be a real good way to increase the engagement.

This may not matter much in some niches.

But for academic and career-centric niches, this is very important!

Let me break down the two types of certificates LearnWorlds offers:

• Certificate of completion: You get this one after finishing and passing all the activities in your course.
• Certificate of knowledge: This is a bit more advanced – you’ll need to complete the whole course AND pass a final exam to earn it.

Here’s something you should know – Kajabi has completion certificates too.

But honestly?

They’re not as flexible as what LearnWorlds gives you.

The templates in Kajabi are pretty basic – you can give them to students once they finish your course, and that’s about it.

But for most of the people, the basic template that Kajabi offers is more than enough.

I mean, why you need a lot of templates?

If you need them, you have Canva anyways!

🏆 Bottom line: LearnWorlds wins this one, but don’t worry too much about it – it’s not going to make or break your decision.

Design and customization

Want to make your school site look just right?

LearnWorlds gives you a drag-and-drop builder that lets you customize everything.

It offers many templates, but they’re mostly basic designs that serve their purpose without being particularly impressive.

Sure, they’ve added some fancy stuff like parallax scrolling and JavaScript support.

But honestly?

It’s just too much – everything feels slow and messy.

Now Kajabi?

Their templates look clean and professional.

I’ve tried them myself, and they really stand out.

I really like the Momentum and Gamify Lite templates – they’re clean and easy to use!

Plus, you get a simple but powerful visual builder.

It gives you just the right amount of options without being overwhelming.

Want to create different pages for your course site?

You can easily make Thank You pages, 404 error pages, Store pages, and even Blog pages – all in one place.

I really like how simple and organized this page builder is.

It gives you just what you need – no extra stuff to confuse you.

And it has all the right pieces to create pages that actually get people to buy.

But with either of these tools, you don’t get the flexibility of Elementor with WordPress or any dedicated page builders.

🏆 Bottom line: I’ve tested both, and Kajabi wins here. Their design tools are just easier to work with and make more sense. LearnWorlds tries to do too much and ends up being hard to use.

Automation

Let’s talk about automation.

Let me tell you about LearnWorlds’ automation.

They give you 19 ready-to-use templates and over 30 triggers you can customize to handle users and send messages automatically.

With this, you can automatically handle student onboarding…

Enroll them to a bonus course upon them completing a course and whatnot.

Plus, they’ve added a Tag Manager that makes it super easy to add tags at each step – this helps you customize exactly how your automation works.

Now, Kajabi’s automation!

If you want to do platform-wide actions, Kajabi lets you do that with lots of different triggers.

Ask Kajabi is a truly all-in-one platform that comes with a landing page builder, email marketing, courses, and community functionalities. All these features work well in a tightly integrated way.

As you can see above, you can literally create multi-step workflows, thus saving a lot of money on tools like Zapier.

And, there’s more!

Right when you are setting up the offers in the pricing settings, you can set one of automations.

For example, when an offer is purchased, you can add the student a tag, that in turn again triggers an onboarding email sequence for them.

When you combine this automation with email marketing, it becomes super powerful.

🏆 Bottom line: Both platforms can handle automation pretty well, but I’d give Kajabi a slight edge here. Why? Because their automation workflows are more polished and work really well for advanced marketing.

Email marketing

Next, Kajabi’s email marketing.

It’s really comprehensive and comes with everything you need.

You can send broadcast emails and set up email sequences that work so well, you might not even need a separate email marketing tool.

And similar to other professional email marketing tools, you have a load of templates that you can choose from when sending your email newsletters.

And as per my research, the email deliverability rate with Kajabi is real good.

Now with LearnWorlds, it doesn’t come with email marketing functionalities.

But it integrates with the wide range of email marketing software like:

• Mailchimp
• Active Campaign
• AWeber
• Kit
• GetResponse
• Moosend
• MailerLite
• ConstantContact

However, one real good functionality here is when people sign up through LearnWorlds opt-in form, it comes with free lead verification functionality, so that you don’t need to again use separate tools for this.

And here’s the best part.

You can easily see your lead’s whole journey in one place, with all their touchpoints listed out.

🏆 Bottom line: Kajabi clearly wins here. Their email system is one of the best you’ll find in any course platform.

Analytics and reporting

LearnWorlds isn’t great at analytics and reporting.

Sure, it shows you some basic student metrics like:

• User progress
• Exam performances
• Instructors’ revenues
• Student segments
• Product revenues

But, you can’t get a big-picture view of how all your courses and students are doing together.

Here’s where Kajabi really shines – it puts all your important data in one single place.

Let me show you exactly what you can track:

• Net revenue
• Subscription metrics
• Recent activity
• Opt-ins
• Pageviews
• Product progress
• Offers sold
• Affiliate metrics

Kajabi shows you how well each student is progressing.

You can see their progress, engagement, and learning journey step by step.

It’s incredibly satisfying to see real numbers showing how my students are learning and growing through my courses.

Kajabi also gives you heatmaps and retention reports that show exactly what your students like.

This helps you make your content better.

And yes, LearnWorlds has this feature too. But not really deep.

🏆 Bottom line: Kajabi really shines here with all its data. You can see important things like how many people finish your course and how well each student is doing.

Checkout page

Here’s how LearnWorlds does checkout!

You get tons of options in their checkout builder.

You can show or hide any fields you want.

What’s really cool is that they have one-click sales funnels.

This means people can buy stuff and create their account at the same time.

Less clicking = more buying!

Now, Kajabi does things a bit differently.

They keep it super simple with a one-page checkout.

From my experience, it works great – most people tend to complete their purchase because it’s so straightforward.

You can still customize Kajabi’s checkout pages though.

Need to add specific fields?

No problem – you can put in whatever you need.

🏆 Bottom line: Both are good, but I’d pick Kajabi. Their checkout is just smoother and easier to use.

Integrations

Want to connect your favorite apps?

LearnWorlds works with pretty much everything you need – email tools, analytics, customer service stuff, CRM systems, and tools to help you grow.

You can take payments through Stripe, PayPal, and even sell your courses right from your Shopify store.

That’s really convenient!

They also work with Quaderno to handle all those tricky tax calculations, which is super helpful if you’re selling in the EU and need to deal with VAT.

Now, Kajabi.

They only connect with about 10 other tools – things like Google Analytics, Zapier, and Calendly.

But here’s the thing – you probably won’t need many other tools with Kajabi.

Why?

Because they’ve built so much right into their platform.

It’s like having everything under one roof, with automation layer on top.

🏆 Bottom line: LearnWorlds gives you more ways to connect with other tools, but Kajabi has already packed most of what you need right into their platform.

Community

I’ve tried LearnWorlds’ community feature, and to be honest, it’s a bit hard to find.

They’ve tucked it away under something called “Learning Apps,” which isn’t where most people would look for it.

Using the community feature, you can create multiple spaces and sections to organize all your relevant discussions

But I have to say, using it feels a bit clunky and could definitely be smoother.

Let me tell you about Kajabi’s community features.

It’s really well-designed and easy to use.

The best part?

They’ve added some great engagement tools like points and badges since they bought Vibely.

These features make learning more fun and keep students coming back.

When your students log in to the community, they’ll see three simple tabs: Feeds, Challenges, and Meetups.

I’ve used these tabs myself, and they’re super straightforward:

• Feed: This is where everyone can talk and share ideas. You know feed.
• Challenges: Here’s where it gets interesting – students can earn points and badges, join live meetups, and track their progress. All this came from their Vibely purchase!
• Meetups: Want to bring your community closer? This is where you can plan and schedule get-togethers

You can also set up different groups with different access levels – pretty handy if you want to create special spaces for certain members.

🏆 Bottom line: Kajabi just does community better. The design is cleaner and the features are more useful. It has gamification built-in.

Mobile apps

Both Kajabi and LearnWorlds give you apps for iOS and Android.

LearnWorlds lets you create your own branded iOS and Android apps – and don’t worry, you won’t need any coding skills.

You’ll just need to pay an extra monthly fee.

Want to use your own domain name?

You can do that too.

But remember, you’ll need to be on their Learning Center plan ($299/month) to get these features.

Now, Kajabi does things differently.

They have their own Kajabi-branded app that works like a course marketplace.

Your students can easily access their courses.

And they can even sign up for new ones right from the app.

But here’s the thing – if you’re a course creator, you might find the app a bit limited.

Because, it doesn’t have many creator-focused features.

🏆 Bottom line: If you’re a course creator who wants your own branded app, LearnWorlds is the way to go. But if you’re looking at it from a student’s perspective, Kajabi’s app is better because it has nice community features and a smoother course interface.

Pricing plans

Here’s what you’ll pay:

LearnWorlds starts at just $29/mo, which is pretty affordable.

It’s cheaper to start with.

But, you’ll need their highest plan at $299/mo to get the really good stuff like branded mobile apps and interactive videos.

Kajabi, on the other hand, begins at $89/mo – that’s quite a bit more expensive.

They give you lots of features right from the start.

But they limit how many products and funnels you can create.

For example, even though you’re paying $149/mo for Kajabi’s Basic Plan, you can only create 3 products and 3 sales funnels.

And get this – even their most expensive plan only lets you create up to 100 products.

In summary, LearnWorlds is cheaper to start with, but you’ll need to pay more to get all the good features.

The worst thing is that all the most unique features of LearnWorlds (interactive videos, branded mobile apps, course compliance tools) are on their highest plan at $299 per month.

On the other hand, Kajabi costs more money upfront, but you get a complete package.

🏆 Bottom line: Yes, LearnWorlds is more budget-friendly, but remember – you’ll need their highest plan to get those cool interactive video features.

Conclusion

If you’re running an online business and need everything in one place, go with Kajabi.

I’ve used it myself, and here’s why it’s good:

It gives you a premium experience with really solid course creation tools. Also it has great community features (including fun stuff like gamification) – perfect if you’re a coach.

Plus, it has better marketing tools and a smart automation system that connects everything together.

Now, LearnWorlds also has some great features, but the interface isn’t very smooth to use.

But, it does shine in specific areas.

It’s really good at things like interactive videos and course compliance.

This makes it a better choice if you’re running something more academic or institutional stuff.