For course creators · Checked 13 October 2026
Teachable vs Ultra LMS
Teachable is a straightforward course storefront, with AI tools for outlines, lessons and quizzes, flexible checkout options, affiliate and author payouts, and student apps for iOS and Android. As a Teachable alternative, Ultra LMS suits creators who want more of the teaching and marketing in one place: a cited AI Tutor and teacher-approved AI grading, plus a built-in CRM, email automations, evergreen webinars and a blog, with payments going to their own Stripe or Razorpay account.
At a glance
Teachable is a good fit for
- Solo creators who want a simple hosted course storefront with built-in checkout
- Creators in Teachable Payments countries who want tax collected and remitted for them
- Course businesses that pay affiliates and co-authors through the platform
Ultra LMS is a good fit for
- Creators who want AI tutoring and AI-drafted grading alongside AI course building
- Creators who'd rather run CRM, email sequences and webinars without extra tools
- Indian creators selling with UPI through their own Razorpay account
Feature by feature
Teachable and Ultra LMS compared
Teachable's column comes from its own website and help centre, checked 13 October 2026; plan names show where a feature depends on the plan.
- Yes
- built in
- Partial
- limited, or on some plans only
- Add-on
- an add-on or third-party integration
- No
- not offered
- Not documented
- not in the sources we checked
| Feature | Teachable | Ultra LMS |
|---|---|---|
| AI course builderAI that drafts a course — outline, lessons, quizzes — from your brief. | YesAI tools on all plans generate outlines, draft lesson text, write quiz questions and create lesson summaries. | YesBrief and reference docs → editable outline → full lessons, quizzes, narration audio, slide decks and the sales page. Runs on your own OpenAI-compatible or Claude key, with a monthly spend cap. |
| AI tutor for learnersAn assistant learners can ask, answering from your course material. | NoNo learner-facing AI assistant; learners see only the AI lesson summaries a creator adds. | YesA tutor per course that answers only from your material with numbered citations, won't do graded work, and replies in the learner's language. |
| AI-assisted gradingAI drafts marks and feedback on submissions for a teacher to review. | NoNo AI grading or AI feedback; multiple-choice quizzes auto-grade when grading is turned on. | YesAI drafts grades and feedback against your rubric for text, PDF, Word, slides and code; a teacher approves, edits or discards each one. |
| Feature | Teachable | Ultra LMS |
|---|---|---|
| Quizzes & assignmentsGraded quizzes, and assignments learners submit for review. | YesMultiple-choice quizzes and open-ended assessments on all plans; no file-upload assignment block is documented. | YesChoice, true/false and short-answer quizzes with pass marks, attempt limits and shuffling; assignments with rubrics and due dates. No timed quizzes or question banks. |
| CertificatesCompletion certificates, ideally verifiable. | PartialCompletion certificates on Growth and above, with templates and automatic or manual issue. | YesTen designs with your fonts, colours and signers; a QR code to a public verification page; revocable. |
| Drip schedulingReleasing modules over time instead of all at once. | YesRelease curriculum sections on a set date or a number of days after enrollment. | YesPer-module drip from a learner's start or a batch's start, timezone-aware, with sequential unlocking and “module opened” emails. |
| Cohorts & batchesGroups that start together, with their own dates and staff. | NoNo dedicated cohort feature; enrollment caps with date-based drip can roughly approximate a cohort launch. | YesBatches with dates, enrolment windows, seat limits, timezone, staff and announcements; online, offline or hybrid; CSV rosters and attendance. |
| SCORM / xAPIImporting packaged e-learning from authoring tools. | NoSCORM and xAPI aren't among Teachable's supported lesson file types. | NoSCORM and xAPI packages are not supported. |
| GamificationPoints, badges and leaderboards. | Not documentedNot covered in the sources we checked. | NoNo points, badges or leaderboards. |
| Feature | Teachable | Ultra LMS |
|---|---|---|
| Live classes & webinarsScheduled live sessions, and recorded webinars that play on a schedule. | Add-onNo native live classes; a Zoom app adds a Zoom block, and YouTube, Vimeo or Twitch streams can be embedded. | PartialLive classes link to Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, YouTube Live and others (no built-in video room), with scheduling, reminders and attendance. Evergreen webinars play natively. |
| Community & discussionsPlaces for learners to talk to each other and to staff. | PartialLesson comments with threading and moderation; the standalone Community feature is closed to new schools. | PartialQ&A threads on every lesson with staff replies and moderation, plus reviews and announcements. No community feed, groups or DMs. |
| Feature | Teachable | Ultra LMS |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in CRMOne record per person: leads, learners and buyers, with history. | PartialUser lists with filters and tags and a Leads list from email forms; no sales pipeline or full CRM. | YesEvery learner, lead and buyer is a contact with stage, tags, custom fields, lifetime value, notes, timeline and first-touch UTM source. |
| Email campaigns & automationsNewsletters and automated email sequences. | PartialOne-off emails, automated notifications and abandoned-cart emails; no sequence builder, but integrates with Kit, Mailchimp and others. | YesCampaigns with open, click and revenue reports; visual automations with waits, conditions, A/B splits and ready-made funnels, on your own sending service. |
| Funnels & landing pagesSales pages, lead magnets and the pages around a launch. | PartialSales and thank-you pages, upsells, order bumps and cart recovery; no multi-step funnel builder. | PartialFifteen landing-page starting points, AI sales pages, forms and abandoned-checkout recovery. No order bumps or one-click upsells. |
| Digital productsSelling downloads such as ebooks, templates and audio. | YesDigital downloads sold on their own, as order bumps, in bundles or as lead magnets, plus coaching products. | YesEbooks, templates, audio and video downloads with protected, short-lived links, optional download limits and file versions. |
| Subscriptions & membershipsRecurring billing, trials and membership access. | YesMembership tiers, subscriptions with trials, payment plans and bundles. | YesWeekly, monthly or yearly plans with trials, grace periods and a self-serve billing portal; memberships can include future courses. |
| CouponsDiscount codes and links. | YesSchool-wide or product-specific coupons, single or multi-use, percentage or fixed amount, with expiry dates. | YesPercentage or fixed-amount, scoped and time-boxed, link codes, and personal single-use codes from automations. |
| Affiliate programmePartners who earn commission for referrals. | YesAffiliates can be added to your school, and BackOffice automates their payouts and tax forms on Teachable Payments. | NoNo affiliate programme built in. |
| PaymentsHow you take payments, and whose account the money lands in. | PartialTeachable Payments in listed countries, or your own Stripe account with optional PayPal on any plan. | YesYour own Stripe or Razorpay account — money goes straight to you. Instalments, bundles, offline sales. No PayPal. |
| UPI & Indian paymentsUPI, netbanking and Indian wallets at checkout. | NoIndia isn't a Teachable Payments country, and UPI and Razorpay aren't mentioned in its gateway docs. | YesUPI, cards, netbanking and wallets through your own Razorpay account. |
| Tax invoices (incl. India GST)Invoices with tax lines; India-specific GST invoicing. | PartialTeachable Payments emails a PDF tax invoice and remits VAT/GST on many cross-border sales; domestic Indian sales stay with you. | PartialAutomatic PDF invoices with a tax line you can label (for example GST). Not a full GST tax invoice with GSTIN, HSN or a CGST/SGST split. |
| Feature | Teachable | Ultra LMS |
|---|---|---|
| Website builderDesigning your academy's public site without code. | YesPage Editor 2.0, a drag-and-drop block builder for school and product pages, with theme settings. | YesTwenty-two site templates, ready-made sections, drag-and-drop columns, custom HTML, version history, device preview and SEO settings. |
| Custom domainRunning the academy on your own domain. | PartialCustom domains and subdomains with automatic SSL; Teachable says availability depends on your plan. | YesGuided DNS records, automatic verification and HTTPS, www and root redirects. |
| BlogPublishing articles on your own site. | Add-onNo native blog; Teachable documents an integration with the third-party DropInBlog. | YesCategories, tags, search, RSS, scheduling, structured data and an AI writer. |
| White-label brandingYour brand everywhere, without the platform's. | PartialGrowth and above can turn off most branding; some remains in login and checkout URLs and in the student app. | YesYour brand across the site, emails, invoices, certificates and decks; the “Powered by” badge is off by default. |
| Multi-languageTeaching and serving learners in other languages. | YesOne-click translation of student-facing pages, including RTL Arabic, plus subtitle translation into 70+ languages. | PartialContent and AI output in any language, and the AI Tutor answers in the learner's language. The built-in interface is English only. |
| Feature | Teachable | Ultra LMS |
|---|---|---|
| Content protectionMaking your content harder to copy and easier to trace. | PartialHosted video blocks right-click and common downloader plugins, and file downloads can be hidden; no watermarking documented. | YesMoving watermark with the learner's email on video and documents, a protected viewer for PDF/Office files, downloads off by default. A deterrent with traceability, not DRM. |
| Device limitsLimiting how many devices one learner account can use. | NoTeachable's security overview doesn't list device or concurrent-login limits. | YesSet active devices per learner, let learners sign out another device, reset from the admin, and get alerts on likely account sharing. |
| Feature | Teachable | Ultra LMS |
|---|---|---|
| Native mobile appAn iOS/Android app for learners. | YesTeachable-branded iOS and Android student apps on all plans, with offline lessons on iOS; no custom-branded app. | NoNo native app; the academy is fully responsive in mobile browsers. |
| API & webhooksConnecting the academy to your other systems. | PartialPublic API and webhooks on Growth and above; Zapier triggers and actions are also available. | YesREST API, signed webhooks with retries and logs, and embeddable checkout, course cards and lead forms. |
| Team seats (B2B)Selling seats to organisations with a team manager view. | PartialBulk Distribution for organisations and seats is in beta by application; custom admin roles on Growth and above. | NoNo bulk seat purchasing or team-manager dashboards; bulk CSV enrolment and email-domain allowlists are available. |
| Data exportGetting your learners and content out again. | PartialUsers and transactions export to CSV; there's no full-course export, so files download one at a time. | YesFull academy export, CSV exports, and each course as a ZIP or Word document with slides, narration and quizzes. |
The differences
Where Ultra LMS pulls ahead
If you're weighing up a Teachable alternative, these are the differences that matter most — each with what Teachable offers on the same point.
AI across the whole teaching loop
Build a course with the AI course builder, support every learner with a per-course AI Tutor that cites your lessons, and grade with AI drafts a teacher approves — on your own AI key, with a monthly spend cap.
Teachable
AI tutor for learners NoNo learner-facing AI assistant; learners see only the AI lesson summaries a creator adds.AI-assisted grading NoNo AI grading or AI feedback; multiple-choice quizzes auto-grade when grading is turned on.Real batches for cohort-based teaching
Batches with their own dates, enrolment window, seat limit, timezone, staff and announcements — online, offline or hybrid — with CSV rosters and attendance.
Teachable
Cohorts & batches NoNo dedicated cohort feature; enrollment caps with date-based drip can roughly approximate a cohort launch.UPI and Indian payment methods
Through your own Razorpay account, learners pay by UPI, cards, netbanking or wallets.
Teachable
UPI & Indian payments NoIndia isn't a Teachable Payments country, and UPI and Razorpay aren't mentioned in its gateway docs.Device limits against shared logins
Set how many devices each learner may use, see and reset them as an admin, and get alerts when an account looks shared.
Teachable
Device limits NoTeachable's security overview doesn't list device or concurrent-login limits.A CRM that is already connected
Every learner, lead and buyer is a contact with a stage, tags, lifetime value, notes and a full activity timeline — no separate CRM to sync.
Teachable
Built-in CRM PartialUser lists with filters and tags and a Leads list from email forms; no sales pipeline or full CRM.Email campaigns and visual automations
Send campaigns with open, click and revenue reports, and build automations on a canvas — triggers, waits, conditions, A/B splits, coupons and enrolments — from ready-made funnels.
Teachable
Email campaigns & automations PartialOne-off emails, automated notifications and abandoned-cart emails; no sequence builder, but integrates with Kit, Mailchimp and others.
Fair is fair
Where Teachable shines
Teachable is a hosted platform for independent creators to sell courses, coaching, digital downloads and memberships from a branded school site.
In the table, Teachable is ahead of Ultra LMS on affiliate programme, multi-language, native mobile app and team seats (B2B).
- AI creation tools on every plan: an outline generator, lesson drafting, a quiz generator and lesson summaries.
- On Teachable Payments, tax is calculated, collected and remitted in many markets, with a PDF invoice per purchase.
- BackOffice automates affiliate and author payouts and collects their tax forms.
- iOS and Android student apps on all plans, with offline lesson downloads on iOS.
- Flexible selling: subscriptions, payment plans, bundles, coupons, order bumps, upsells and abandoned-cart emails.
Decide
Who should choose which
Choose Teachable if…
- you want a simple storefront with AI help drafting outlines, lessons and quizzes
- you sell in a Teachable Payments country and want tax remittance handled for you
- you pay affiliates or co-authors and want those payouts automated
- your students would use a ready-made iOS or Android app
Choose Ultra LMS if…
- you want learners to have an AI Tutor that answers from your course with citations
- you'd like AI to draft grades against your rubric for teachers to approve
- you want a CRM, email automations, evergreen webinars and a blog without extra tools
- you sell in India and want UPI through your own Razorpay account
Moving over
Switching from Teachable
What you can take with you, and how Ultra LMS helps you settle in.
Getting your data out of Teachable
- Teachable has no single export-everything option and no native full-course export.
- Users and transactions export as CSV files, which are emailed to you.
- Videos, PDFs, audio and other files download one at a time from the curriculum editor, and lesson text is copied out by hand.
- Quiz data export isn't covered in Teachable's help centre.
- On a custom gateway, payment and subscription data already sits in your own Stripe or PayPal account.
Settling into Ultra LMS
- Import learners from a CSV, enrol them in bulk, and keep their details in the built-in CRM.
- Rebuild courses quickly: upload your existing documents as references and the AI course builder drafts an outline and lessons for you to edit.
- Onboarding is hands-on — our team sets up your academy, domain and payments with you.
- Your data stays portable: export the whole academy, CSVs, and any course as a ZIP or Word document.
Questions
Teachable vs Ultra LMS: FAQ
Common questions about Teachable, and about moving to Ultra LMS.
Does Teachable have an AI course builder?
Yes. On all plans, Teachable's AI tools can generate a course outline, draft lesson text, write within text blocks, generate quiz questions from lesson text and create lesson summaries.
Can I export my students and course content from Teachable?
You can export users and transactions as CSV files, but there's no native full-course export. Videos and files must be downloaded individually, and text copied out.
Does Teachable support SCORM?
No native SCORM or xAPI support is documented. Supported lesson files are video, images, audio and PDF, and other content can be embedded with custom code.
Can I remove Teachable branding from my school?
On the Growth plan and above you can turn off most Teachable branding. Some remains in login and checkout URLs and the Terms of Use acceptance, and a custom domain is needed to remove teachable.com from your address.
Does Teachable have live classes or webinars?
Not natively. You can add a Zoom block through Teachable's Zoom app or embed a third-party livestream, such as YouTube or Vimeo, in a lesson.
Does Teachable have a community feature?
Teachable's Community feature is in maintenance mode and isn't available to new schools. Lesson comments with moderation and threading remain, and Teachable suggests Discord or Slack for community.
How is Ultra LMS different from Teachable?
Ultra LMS leads on AI across the whole teaching loop, real cohort batches and UPI payments. Teachable is ahead on affiliate programme, multi-language and native mobile app, so weigh those if they matter to you.
Can I move my academy from Teachable to Ultra LMS?
Yes. Bring your learner list as a CSV (the switching notes above cover what Teachable lets you export) and import it into Ultra LMS, then rebuild your courses — the AI course builder can draft from your existing documents. Onboarding is hands-on: our team sets up your academy with you.
Who can use Ultra LMS?
Ultra LMS is invitation-only. Tell us what you teach through “Request an invitation”; if it's a fit, our team opens your academy and helps you set it up.
Last verified 13 October 2026 · Sources
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Teachable details come from its public website, help centre and documentation, checked on 13 October 2026. Features change — check Teachable's own site for the latest. Ultra LMS details describe the product as it is today.
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