Podia and LearnWorlds are both powerful online course platforms that you can use to build your online business.

LearnWorlds focuses primarily on courses, and there are interactive elements you can add to your lessons like SCORM packages and interactive videos. They also have the option to build a white-label mobile app on higher-tiered plans.

Podia has features for building beautiful courses, digital downloads, webinars, and coaching — and everything is already connected to your marketing tools and email. Course creators will love being able to make unlimited free and paid courses with cohorts, dripped content, quizzes, videos, files, coaching, and embeds — and you can bundle your courses with other products on all plans.

To promote your products, you can use Podia to build user-friendly sales funnels, run your email marketing, send newsletters, and enable customer chat support. Your no-code website is customizable, so every page looks and feels like you, and it’s easy to connect a custom domain (even if you’re a website beginner!). You can also add checkout features like coupons, upsells, seat limits, waitlists, and payment plans for any products.

Best of all, your website, landing pages, blog, products, and customer information are all in the same platform, so you don’t have to make tons of tools talk to each other.

Plans and pricing for LearnWorlds vs. Podia

LearnWorlds and Podia both have a 30-day free trial so you can test the features of each platform.

LearnWorlds pricing plans:

• Starter: $29/month ($24/month paid annually) with a $5 fee per course sale. Includes paid courses, coaching, and a 3-page website.

• Pro Trainer: $99/month ($79/month paid annually). Includes unlimited free and paid courses, webinars, live classes, unlimited website pages, subscriptions, and memberships.

• Learning Center: $299/month ($249/month paid annually). This plan includes everything in Pro Trainer plus interactive videos, white-label options, advanced assessments, more course creation tools, and automations.

One thing to note is that LearnWorlds doesn’t let you offer free courses on the Starter plan, and there’s a flat $5 fee per course sale. This isn’t a huge deal for bigger ticket items, but for less expensive offers, $5 is steep. For instance, if you had a $10 e-book, you’d lose 50% of your profits in fees.

With Podia, you pay a percentage-based transaction fee on the Mover plan, and you can remove fees entirely on the Shaker plan.

Podia pricing:

• Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): Mover includes your website builder, blog, and sales pages as well as unlimited digital products, online course creation, coaching functionality, webinars, and third-party code. You also get access to Podia’s friendly customer support.

• Shaker: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($75/month when paid annually): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus your own affiliate program.

Podia plans include all email marketing features (like automations, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, tagging, and campaigns) for up to 100 subscribers. If you like, you can upgrade your Podia Email plan to add more subscribers as your list grows.

If you sign up for a monthly or annual Mover or Shaker plan, Podia includes a free migration service. This means our team will move your products and customers over from another platform (like Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, etc.) for free so you can get started fast.

How could this play out in your business?

Let’s say you have an online course, and you want to promote it through email marketing and blogging. You want to grow your list with a free lead magnet and set up a nice-looking website to manage everything.

With LearnWorlds, you would need to pay $99/month for a Pro Trainer plan in order to create free products (your lead magnet) and build a full website with more than three pages. You would need to use an integration with a third-party email marketing tool and blogging platform as well, which could come at an extra cost.

With Podia, you could do all of this on the $39/month Mover plan (5% transaction fee) or the $89/month Shaker plan (no transaction fees), and you wouldn’t need any additional tools. You can set up unlimited free and paid products, sell courses, set up lead magnets, build a fully customizable website, run your blog, and manage your list with built-in Podia Email.

You can see if Podia is the right fit for you with our 30-day free trial. Take it for a spin today. We can’t wait to see what you make.