Today in this post, I am going to review LearnWorlds vs Teachable and help you decide which is best for your needs.
Teachable is the go-to platform when it comes to online courses.
On the other hand, LearnWorlds is more of an all-in-one platform.
It helps you not only with courses, but also with website building, marketing and sales, and has an all-around learning management features.
But which one is the best?
Features | LearnWorlds | Teachable |
Trial | 30-day free trial | 14-day free trial |
Free plan | Not available | Teachable has a limited free plan |
Price | $29/mo | $29/mo |
Transaction fees | $5 Fee Per Course Sale on the lowest plan | 5% transaction fees on its lowest plan |
Community | Yes | No |
Mobile apps | Yes | Only iOS |
Quick decision
👍 What I like about Teachable over LearnWorlds
- User-friendly interface: Teachable’s UI and UX is pretty good compared to that of LearnWorlds, which appears clunky.
- Specialist course creation features: Teachable has features like the ability to see per student completion reports (for better accountability) and also video retention graphs.
- Marketing-friendly tools: Teachable is more marketing friendly with features like upsells and order bumps. Its one-page click checkout functionality is also more optimized for increasing conversions.
- Teachable Pay: Teachable comes with their own payment gateway system called Teachable Pay that helps you with a lot of back office work, enables instant payouts, and also automatically calculates UWAT.
👍 What I like about LearnWorlds over Teachable
- Customizable features: The platform packs a bounty of features like courses, website building, blog, etc. There are more customization options here than Teachable. If you’re a techie, you can use code to make myriad course customizations.
- Less course fees: And, of course, Teachable charges 5% off your transactions for its free plan. LearnWorlds charges a $5 flat fee per course sale at that level.
- Website and branding: LearnWorlds offers a custom website/blog. You can brand it and even secure it with the SSL certificate they’ll gift you. Neat! Contrary, Teachable provides an unbranded site that you may find limited.
- Unlimited courses: LearnWorlds come with an ability for you to host unlimited courses. Whereas Teachable used to have this, it removed it relating to a backlash from many users, they were almost held for ransom.
- Interactive videos: You can make your videos interactive by adding in various elements, overlays, quizzes, transcripts and even call-to-action buttons. But this feature is only available on their highest plan at $299 per month.
- Copyright protection: Unlike Teachable, LearnWorlds copyright-protects tutors’ course concepts and materials from copycats.
- Community tools: You’ll also notice that LearnWorlds has excellent tools for creating online communities.
Upfront verdict
Considering the cluttered UI and UX of LearnWorlds, and also considering the fact that the most exclusive features of LearnWorlds are only available in their highest plan, I would have recommended Teachable.
But Teachable went through an ownership change in 2020. Ever since, there is a lot of confusion regarding its pricing. They made a lot of changes to their pricing, causing people to feel like they are held for ransom to get unlimited pricing. Also, their development roadmap has stalled.
Considering all these things, I can’t recommend either of these platforms.
But according to my experience,Thinkificcould be an option to consider, because it has a balance of both academic-related features found in LearnWorlds and the depth of LMS and marketing-friendly features that Teachable has.
Interface

Teachable’s user interface and experience is quite better, everything feels modern and you easily get hang around the platform.
On the other hand, LearnWorlds user interface appears quite cluttered.
It feels like their UI deserves a bit more love.

For example when you expand any of the main menus all the feature will come in a list (a little bit more padding may help it).

Teachable is quite refined!
Course creation
Now, creating a course in Teachable will take a few clicks and four pages.
Click on the + button next to Products in the sidebar menu. Choose Courses, hit Next, and follow the prompts.

You can upload video lessons right on your course creator.
And, you can add text, quizzes, images, and custom code to the Course Curriculum.

LearnWorlds also lets you add videos, text, quizzes, surveys, SCORM/HTML5 files, ebooks, audio, and PDF files to your course.
Now here comes the good part.
You can add all those types of content to your lessons in the form of interactive video elements.
Better yet, you can use interactive videos to boost student engagement.

Such elements include questions, forms, topics, and buttons.
Nobody wants to follow boring tutors with boring lessons.
And, yes, I did find creating video lessons in LearnWorlds a pleasure, too.
Now, you’ll get unlimited video hosting to start. Then you can choose to host your Wistia or Vimeo videos in there, too.
There are three benefits I noticed inside Teachable over LearnWorlds here.
The ability to:
- Upload course content in bulk
- Create course modules, including adding new sections in existing and future lectures.
- Preview the course as you create it.
Also
You don’t want your students to binge-watch your lessons. They might miss essential lessons.
And that’s where drip-feeding comes in.
In either products, you can schedule lessons by:
- A specific date, or
- Based on when a student enrolls in your course.
Check it out inside Teachable.

Now see it in action inside LearnWorlds here:

If you grant access by the specific date a student signed up, it can mean you’ll help that student to learn at their pace.
They do not have to play catch up to other students who joined earlier—a good thing.
Both platforms have email notifications available. So you can notify your students each time a lesson unlocks. And that’s neat.
Community features
LearnWorlds has a more established community feature.
It offers a built-in Facebook-like community but it’s quite dated.
It feels like almost using Facebook in 2010. It features community discussion forums and also a bit of social networking features like, like comment.
It’s quite dated.
On the other hand, Teachable has recently introduced a community feature where you can organize the discussions by creating multiple topics or tags.
You can create communities and grant access to it for students enrolled in specific courses.
But both of this platform doesn’t come with the flat. Come with flexibility and the depth of features found in other dedicated community building platforms like Skool or Circle.
Design and customization

When it comes to design customization, both LearnWorlds and Teachable offer robust tools, but they differ in approach and flexibility.

LearnWorlds provides a comprehensive Site Builder that allows customization from home and catalog pages to email headers and footers.
You can choose a subdomain or custom domain, and enjoy features like a free SSL certificate and unlimited web hosting.

The platform offers a drag-and-drop page builder with several layout templates, although these may feel limited depending on your needs.

For tech-savvy users, LearnWorlds supports custom code for deeper customization, including white-labeling the platform and mobile app.
Teachable, on the other hand, focuses on simplicity and user experience. It allows customization of welcome, checkout, and thank you pages under the Site section.

You can easily add a homepage background, custom logo, colors, typography, and more.

Teachable also supports custom text for personalized messages and offers a Power Editor for advanced coding options, although this is available only on the business plan.
In summary, LearnWorlds offers more extensive customization options, making it ideal for users who want a high degree of control.
Teachable excels in user-friendliness, offering straightforward tools that are easy to use but still powerful enough for most needs.
Email marketing
Both platforms offer integrated email marketing, primarily for interacting with students, drip-feeding lessons, and sending updates.

Teachable’s system allows sending emails to all users, specific users, or course-specific users. It also includes an autoresponder tool for email sequences, available on all pricing plans.
LearnWorlds also supports email sequences and provides templates for course launch emails.

It includes tools for subscription reminders and affiliate notifications.
For more robust marketing tools, consider integrating with platforms like MailChimp or ConvertKit.
Marketing features
Checkout process

Teachable excels with its streamlined one-click checkout system!
Teachable has an advantage in handling EU VAT. Instructors based in the EU can calculate and remit VAT directly on the platform, unlike LearnWorlds, which requires third-party integrations like Quaderno for VAT handling.
Moreover, Teachable stands out in upselling opportunities. The platform allows embedding thank-you videos combined with discount coupons to encourage new students to purchase additional courses or materials. This capability is not as robust in LearnWorlds.

On the other hand, LearnWorlds requires a two-click process where students must create an account first, which might deter some buyers.
It offers a variety of currencies and payment processing gateways, though it does not support simultaneous payment methods like credit cards and PayPal. This limitation means you have to choose one payment option, potentially excluding some international students.
Additionally, LearnWorlds restricts installment payments and subscription fees to Stripe, whereas Teachable provides more flexibility in payment options.
✅ In summary, Teachable is better for optimizing the checkout experience, increasing sales, and providing upselling opportunities, while LearnWorlds offers more diverse payment gateways but with some limitations.
Affiliate Marketing
Both LearnWorlds and Teachable offer robust affiliate management systems, though they differ slightly in their features and ease of use.

In LearnWorlds, you can configure your affiliate settings under Marketing >> Affiliate Management >> Set Up. This allows you to control various parameters such as:
- Cookie expiration dates
- Commission percentages
- Display of customer information to affiliates
- Payout delays

Moreover, LearnWorlds provides the option for affiliates to self-register, making it easier to onboard new affiliates.
Teachable also offers a comprehensive affiliate management system, accessible under Users.

To begin, you need to activate the Teachable affiliates program.

Once activated, you can navigate to Affiliates >> Add Affiliates and choose between Manual entry or Import CSV.
Teachable’s system allows for a range of flexible settings, including:
- Setting a student as an affiliate
- Course-specific affiliate assignments
- Restricting commissions to specific courses
- Combining coupon and affiliate codes to boost sales
- Customizing payout schedules
- Fetching affiliate links by previewing the affiliate setup page
- Managing cookie expiration dates and payment gateways
Additionally, Teachable offers both instant payment options and a Monthly Payout Gateway schedule. If you need a custom payment gateway, you can create one yourself.
Integrations
Both LearnWorlds and Teachable offer robust integrations to enhance your online course platform, but they approach it differently.
LearnWorlds integrates with a variety of third-party tools, providing extensive options for customization.

Teachable, on the other hand, focuses on simplicity and ease of use.

While it offers fewer integrations compared to LearnWorlds, it covers essential needs like Zapier, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, and Zoom. Also, it has external apps that you can install to integrate with ConvertKit, Aweber, and a couple of different email marketing tools.
But the integrations are quite shallow.
Teachable’s limited email marketing integrations mean you might need to use Zapier to connect other tools.
In summary, while both platforms offer essential integrations, LearnWorlds provides more extensive options ideal for users who need advanced customization.
Teachable excels in simplicity, making it a better fit for users who prefer an easy-to-set-up system but might require Zapier for additional email marketing integrations.
Pricing and support

Teachable’s basic plan starts at $59/mo with 5% transaction fee. It has a restriction of having only up to 5 published products for each product type.
So due to these limitations, many people go with the Pro Plan at $159/mo, which has no transaction fee at 50 published products.
Previously, Teachable had unlimited term courses feature even in their Basic Plan, and they removed it, forcing many people to move out of the platform which is not a good development.

LearnWorlds Starter plan is at $29/mo.
If you need advanced features like funnels, affiliate marketing, and also deep integration with Zapier, you need to go with the Pro Trainer Plan at $99/mo.
If you want to unlock some of the most unique features of LearnWorlds like interactive videos, auto transcripts, advanced assessments, SCORM, and HTML 5, and also remove LearnWorlds branding from the school, then you need to go with their Learning Center Plan that costs $299/mo.
✅ Both LearnWorlds and Teachable offer robust customer support but differ in their approaches.
LearnWorlds provides 24/7 support via live chat, email, and an extensive knowledge base. They also offer personalized onboarding sessions and regularly updated blogs with helpful tips.
While, teachable also offering excellent support, limits live chat to business hours. They provide support via email, a detailed knowledge base, and regular webinars to educate users. Teachable’s support team is known for its quick response times and helpfulness.
Conclusion
When comparing LearnWorlds and Teachable, it’s clear that each platform has unique strengths.
LearnWorlds is a versatile all-in-one platform with features like interactive videos, SCORM support, and extensive customization options. However, its UI/UX is cluttered and poor.
Also, many advanced features are locked behind higher-priced plans, making it more suitable for academic or specialized use cases.
Conversely, Teachable excels in ease of use and user experience. Its streamlined interface, robust marketing tools, and seamless checkout process make it ideal for course creators focused on accessibility and conversion optimization.
However, since its recent ownership change, Teachable has experienced development lag and pricing changes, upsetting many users.
In summary, I can’t recommend any of these platforms. I would have recommended Teachable previously, but their ownership change and the events following that are worrisome. For most people, maybe Thinkific offers the best balance of features.