Podia is a good all-in-one digital product selling platform.

But it may not be for everyone.

While it offers a lot of features, its features lack depth. It's almost like a jack of all trades and master of none.

Look no further! In this blog post, we'll present some of the best alternatives to Podia.

Product	Starting price	Standout feature(s)
Kajabi	$149/mo	Advanced marketing automation with depth to features
Sellfy	$29/mo	Physical products with print-on-demand capabilities
LearnWorlds	$24/mo	Geared towards academic creators
Thinkific	$49/mo	Generous free plan for beginners
Teachable	$29/mo	Advanced course creation features
LearnDash	$369/yr	Flexible and customizable WordPress plugin
Memberful	$29/mo	Platform for creating membership sites

Kajabi – Premium alternative with automation features

Kajabi is a more powerful all-in-one digital selling platform compared to Podia. It comes with online courses, coaching, communities, email marketing, webinars, and website building. All these features have marketing automation built on top.

Despite being an all-in-one platform (like Podia), Kajabi has great depth in its features.

Bottomline: Kajabi's advanced marketing functionalities, superior course compliance, rich email marketing, and extensive customization make it a compelling alternative to Podia for those seeking a more robust platform. The choice between the two will ultimately depend on specific needs and budget, but Kajabi's comprehensive offerings enables you to save a lot of money on buying different apps and worrying about integrations and APIs.

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Sellfy – Best for digital products

Sellfy is a platform for selling digital products, physical products, and subscriptions. It offers more versatility in selling different types of goods, including print-on-demand capabilities.

This is something you can't do with Podia as it lacks inventory management and fulfillment abilities.

Additionally, Sellfy offers many marketing features such as the ability to set up upsells and one-click checkout.

You can also use embeddable buy buttons, which is especially useful if you are using WordPress and integrates with Stripe and PayPal for payment gateways.

Bottomline: Sellfy caters to those who want a platform for selling digital and physical products with versatile selling options, print-on-demand capabilities, and many marketing features. It's a viable alternative to Podia for those who value these features and don't need specialized course creation features.

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LearnWorlds – Academic centric alternative

LearnWorlds is an all-in-one platform designed for course creation and building communities.

The platform comes with a lot of features and customization options, but for me personally, I found its UI and UX seem cluttered and not quite intuitive enough to feature it at the top.

Its course functionality is mainly geared towards academic use cases.

It comes with powerful assessment and quiz features, and also supports SCORM and HTML5 packages to make your course industry compliant.

It also supports community feature. Its community has a classic, old Facebook-like feel to it. In fact, you can add other users as friends, create groups, react to posts, add comments, conduct polls, and more.

In terms of design, it features a drag-and-drop editor, impressive themes, and the ability to create a fully branded website with responsive design.

Here are some of the marketing features that Learnworlds offers:

Additionally, it has integrations Zapier, Zoom, AWeber, ConvertKit, MailChimp, Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics, and more.

The interactive videos, course insights, mobile apps, white labeling, are only available in the highest $249/month plan

LearnWorlds pricing starts at $29/month for the basic plan, which charges an additional $5 for each course sale. The pro trainer plan costs $99/month, while the highest plan costs $299/month and unlocks more features.

Bottomline: LearnWorlds is a great alternative to Podia for creating courses with its powerful features and customization options. It has better community features, powerful marketing features, but is more geared towards academic creator. Personally, for me, UI and UX is everything, but in this case, it looks pretty dated.

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Thinkific – LMS-centric cheap alternative

Thinkific specializes in online course creation and offers a generous free plan that allows you to create up to 3 courses without any transaction fees. It's the go-to option that I can recommend for beginners who want to test the waters without spending a penny.

With Thinkific, you can easily create and sell courses, as well as create multi-level subscriptions with product bundling for effectively selling your membership content.

Its course creation features are almost comparable to Teachable or even Kajabi as it comes with superior assessments feature, quizzes and also course compliance features.

When it comes to page design and customization it offers a range of professional templates. Advanced users can delve into CSS (custom CSS) for more detailed adjustments.

It is not an all-in-one platform. That means it doesn't come with features like email marketing, superior website building, webinars, and even digital product selling features.

But it offers good range of integrations with various products for eCommerce, automation tools, analytics, and email marketing.

In terms of pricing, Thinkific offers a few different options depending on your needs. The lowest plan costs $49/month, while the Pro plan costs $99/month and includes unlimited courses and landing pages.

Bottomline: Thinkific is a great platform for you to consider if you want to create and sell online courses with ease. With its robust features, integrations, and affordable pricing, Thinkific truly stands out as a top Podia alternative.

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Teachable – Specialist in course creation

Teachable is a popular online course platform that specializes in course creation.

While it is not an all-in-one platform like Podia, Teachable offers superior course creation features such as course compliance mechanisms, support for multiple content types within a lesson, quizzes, and more.

It also comes with student-level analytics and video retention graphs to help you ain for better course completion rates.

Teachable provides a more comprehensive and flexible design experience compared to Podia. With professional templates, advanced coding options ($119/month plan), and various integrations, it offers more control and customization.

Also it comes with advanced marketing features, such as one-click upsells, affiliate marketing, and email marketing, make it a great alternative to Podia.

Teachable offers a free plan that allows you to publish one product, but it comes with a 10% transaction fee. Their basic plan, which costs $39 per month, charges a 5% transaction fee and only supports up to 5 published products.

To waive off the transaction fee and publish up to 50 products, you need to upgrade to their Pro plan that costs $119 per month. However, at that price point, you may be better off with an all-in-one platform like Kajabi or even Podia, which offer more advanced features for a similar price.

Previously, their basic plan supported unlimited products, but they removed this support, leading to backlash from many existing users who were forced to upgrade to their plan for $599 per month.

Bottomline: Teachable is a great option for those looking for superior course creation and advanced marketing features. However, it’s not an all-in-one platform.

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LearnDash – The most flexible WordPress LMS.

LearnDash is a WordPress plugin that is a popular choice among users looking for a flexible and customizable online course creation tool.

The key features of LearnDash are its ability to sell courses, drip-feed content, reward learners, and engage them with badges, points, and certificates.

The platform comes with a lot of 3rd-party add-ons and integration with WordPress plugins that can be used to extend its functionality and integrations. It integrates seamlessly with some of the most popular WordPress products like Astra Theme, MemberPress, EDD (for digital product selling), and Memberium.

Personally, I use LearnDash – along with other plug-ins like CartFlows, WooCommerce, and Elementor – for more design customizations.

However, there may be instances where LearnDash could become slow due to conflicts with other plugins. You know, such situations are not specific to LearnDash but are common with WordPress plugins in general.

Their pricing is based on the number of sites you plan to use the plugin on. The pricing starts from $199/year for a 1 site license. If you want access to 10 sites, including their Propanel access for advanced analytics (student-level reports), it would cost you $229/year.

The purchase is one-time, and you will need to pay for ongoing updates and support.

Bottomline: LearnDash is a great plugin for those looking for a flexible and customizable course creation tool that integrates well with WordPress.

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Memberful

Memberful is a fyully hosted solution for creating membership sites that comes with access groups, conversion-optimized checkouts, analytics, member management and many more features.

If you are looking for a membership platform and the lack of membership features in Podia's beginner plan is preventing you from using it, you may like Memberful.

With any platforms like this, integrations can be quite important.. It integrates with a dozen email marketing and other software including Zapier. It also has API and webhooks functionality. It also comes with a WordPress plugin for easy implementation if you have a WordPress site

When it comes to pricing, it offers almost all the features in its beginner plan for $29 per month. However, if you want additional features such as selling and removing group members, as well as removing the Memberful branding, you will need to go with their $100 per month plan.

Their free and all paid plans (even at $100/month) both come with a transaction fee of 5% and 10% respectively (worser than Teachable).

Bottomline: Memberful is a great Podia alternative if you are looking for memberships feature on a budget. But it doesn’t come with course selling features.

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Verdict

I hope you found some of these Podia alternatives helpful.

To sum it up, you can consider

Here are some suggestions to help you make a decision:

• Consider Kajabi if you are looking for a premium and robust alternative to Podia that offers advanced marketing features, superior course compliance, and rich email marketing. However, keep in mind that Kajabi's starting price of $149/month is higher than Podia's $39/month.
• If you want to sell digital products and basic courses, and need more advanced sales tools like custom storefronts and upselling, consider Sellfy. But it lacks specialized features in course creation.
• If you are comfortable with WordPress-based solutions and want a flexible and customizable plugin for creating online courses, consider LearnDash.

Ultimately, the best alternative to Podia for you will depend on your specific needs and budget.

Consider the features and trade-offs of each platform before making a decision.