About Teachable
Teachable is a commercial platform for creators and businesses that sell courses, coaching, memberships and digital downloads. Users build their products, set up a school site and take payments, while the platform handles the student experience and delivery.
Feature areas include AI features, Teachable Payments with global payment support and automatic tax handling, a site builder, sales and marketing tools, a mobile app, integrations, and analytics and reporting. The vendor also runs an academy, publishes example schools and success stories, and has an enterprise offering.
Teachable is delivered as hosted software with a free start option, a pricing page and a sales contact path. It suits educators, coaches and subject experts who want to teach online without building their own infrastructure.
Key features
- Online course creation and delivery
- Coaching and membership products
- Digital download sales
- Teachable Payments with tax handling
- Site builder for school pages
- Student mobile app
- Analytics and reporting
Good fit for
- →Language and fitness instructors teaching online
- →Coaches selling group programs
- →Businesses offering paid training
- Tags
- online-courses
- coaching
- memberships
- digital-products
- creators
- education
- saas
Teachable: questions and answers
- What is Teachable used for?
- Teachable is an online course and coaching platform for creators, with payments, a site builder, memberships and digital download sales. It is a good fit for language and fitness instructors teaching online, coaches selling group programs, and businesses offering paid training.
- How much does Teachable cost?
- Paid plans for Teachable start at $39 per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
- Is Teachable open source?
- No. Teachable is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Teachable include Frappe Learning, Open edX and Moodle.
- What are some alternatives to Teachable?
- Teachable competes with Thinkific, Kajabi and Podia. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Teachable alternatives.
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AGPL-3.0vs Thinkific★ 3.3k
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AGPL-3.0vs D2L Brightspace★ 8.2k
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Chamilo LMS
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Thinkific
Education & LMS
Online course platform with a website builder and student management
SaaS
Kajabi
E-commerce
Platform for selling online courses, memberships and coaching with built-in marketing
SaaS
Podia
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Storefront for courses, downloads, memberships and webinars
SaaS
Payhip
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Checkout and storefront for selling digital downloads, courses and memberships
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LearnDash
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WordPress learning management system plugin for building and selling courses
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LearnWorlds
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