WordPress LMS Plugin Comparison

Thrive Apprentice comes with professionally designed templates for all the important pages of your online course:

• School homepage
• Course overview
• Module overview
• Lessons (text, video and audio)
• Sidebars
• Login and registration pages
• Course completion page

Each of these templates are ready to use from the start – you can simply add your course content and you’ll already have a professional and branded online school, but you’re also free to customize them in any way you want to match your audience, content and personality.

LearnDash includes Starter Templates that are specially designed for different niches... digital marketing, yoga, cooking, health coaching etc.

At first, this feels like a great feature for users just getting started creating online courses.

However...

These Starter Templates are not offered by LearnDash, but by 3rd party partners (such as Astra and Kadence). This wouldn’t be an issue with a proper disclaimer and data sharing terms, but none of this is made clear during the template selection process, making it feel like a marketing campaign to promote 3rd party brands to LearnDash users.

Furthermore, it’s not clear who offers support for these templates: LearnDash, or Astra/Kadence?

While LifterLMS is very capable from a technical standpoint, it is very lacking in terms of design and template customization, especially for the average non-techy user.

LifterLMS does not come with ready-made design school, course or lesson templates, instead using your existing WordPress theme. This often causes incompatibility issues, illustrated here where LifterLMS throws up warnings with even the default WordPress theme, Twenty Twenty-Two.

Tutor LMS does not include ready-made templates for your school, courses or lessons.

However... it does come with an optional, free theme called TutorStarter, which is specially designed to show off your Tutor LMS courses in a clean, professional way. As the name suggests, this is more a starting canvas with which to customize later.

Thrive Apprentice includes the Thrive Visual Editor, a powerful what-you-see-is-what-you-publish tool that lets you build the exact layout and content designs your course needs.

Columns, interactive toggles and tabs, buttons, content boxes, icons... they’re all easy to add to your course templates or lesson content without any coding or design skills. This means you can quickly add rich media on specific lessons, or embed a video on your module pages.

The Thrive Visual Editor does a great job of letting you customize your live website, instead of hiding away the finished result under layers of abstraction. Everything you build looks and feels exactly like what your students will see as they navigate through your courses.

LearnDash does not currently feature visual editing.

(You can re-organise your course structure by dragging-and-dropping lessons and modules, but this belongs more in the course creation tools above, and should not be confused with visually editing templates.)

Some visual editing is possible to their premium starter templates, but only if you purchase their more expensive hosted cloud service, NOT their standalone WordPress plugin. So to keep comparisons fair between WordPress LMS plugins, we’ll have to say that the LearnDash plugin does not allow you to easily visually customize your lesson, module, course, or school templates beyond basic branding and content options.

LifterLMS does not support visual editing of school, course or lesson templates.

Tutor LMS does not support visual editing of school, course or lesson templates, without additional, paid 3rd party tools.

Any changes to the actual page templates related to your courses requires custom theme development.

Given the organized structure of online courses, it’s important that LMS plugins offer intuitive navigation tools to help students find their way around the syllabus. One mainstay of this is a course sidebar.

Thrive Apprentice lets you completely customize your sidebar to include teacher information, a progress indicator bar, your course title, interactive toggles for modules and chapters, and links to each lesson... including icons to show students which lessons have been completed!

As with all WordPress widgets, customization is limited by the options allowed by the developer. If you want to change something not offered (e.g. the animation speed of the progress bar), you’ll need to pay for custom development to do so.

LifterLMS lets you customize your sidebar by adding WordPress widgets to either the Course Sidebar or the Lesson Sidebar.

Tutor LMS does not currently support sidebar customization for your course or lessons.

You can make some changes to the filter options that appear in the course grid sidebar, but this is generally limited to toggling them on or off.

This is a feature that really makes Thrive Apprentice stand apart from other LMS plugins...

Conditional Display lets you show entirely different content on the same page to different people, simply based on their status as a visitor, logged-in subscriber or paying customer.

This lets you show the right course or membership offer to the right person at the right time, helping to convert more of your visitors into subscribers, and more of your subscribers into paying customers.

Thrive Apprentice also allows you to show different labels on your courses depending on their status... so customers will see a ‘Not Started Yet’ or ‘In Progress’ button that takes them to the start or most recent uncompleted lesson in a course, while people without access with see a ‘Members Only’ or ‘Buy Now’ button that takes them to a sales page.

Thrive Apprentice includes many other conditional and dynamic design elements, such as buttons that only allow confirmed graduates to access their course completion page, or download their completion certificates.

LearnDash does not currently offer conditional display features.

LifterLMS does not currently offer conditional display features.

Tutor LMS does not currently offer conditional display features.

Thrive Apprentice lets you customize your online school either in line with, or completely separate from, the rest of your WordPress theme design. This means you can choose a separate online school logo and color scheme if you so desire to let your students know they’re in the right place on your site to learn.

LearnDash creates courses as part of your existing WordPress theme, inheriting your standard header and footer, so does not currently support separate school branding.

LifterLMS creates courses as part of your existing WordPress theme, inheriting your standard header and footer, so does not currently support separate school branding.

Tutor LMS creates courses as part of your existing WordPress theme, inheriting your standard header and footer, so does not currently support separate school branding.

The key to great drip functionality is flexibility... the ability to unlock lessons based on criteria that make sense for your courses, students and business. This is where Thrive Apprentice really shines!

Thrive Apprentice’s Drip feature offers the following content unlock options:

1. Evergreen Repeating - e.g. Unlock content at consistent intervals for each individual student.
2. Schedule Repeating - e.g. Unlock content at consistent intervals after a scheduled start date.
3. Day of the Week or Month - e.g. Unlock a new module every first Monday of the month.
4. Specific Dates - e.g. Unlock a new lesson on the 10th, 17th and 24th of July then skip 1 week for implementation then continue on the 7th of August.
5. Thrive Automator Triggers - e.g. When a tag gets added to a subscriber and a webhook is received from your email marketing service, unlock a new lesson.
6. Thrive Quiz Builder Results - e.g. Only unlock the next course lesson or module if your students get an 80% or higher on a quiz.

These drip unlock conditions can be applied to any lesson in your course, and can be mixed and matched to create a powerful path for your students’ learning.

LearnDash supports dripped lessons based on specific dates, or a number of days after a student enrolls.

LifterLMS supports dripped lessons based on specific dates, or a number of days after a student enrolls.

Tutor LMS includes a Content Drip add-on that allows course creators to unlock lessons, quizzes, and assignments based on certain criteria.

• Unlock lessons on specific dates
• Unlock lessons after a number of days since enrollment
• Unlock lessons after prerequisites are met (lessons, quizzes or assignments)

Sometimes, course creators want a group of students to progress through modules and lessons at the same time based on when they started as a cohort. Traditionally, many LMS plugins have tried to achieve this by forcing you to duplicate entire courses to run in parallel.

Thrive Apprentice achieves cohort learning in a much simpler and flexible way, with Decoupled Drip. Decoupled Drip lets you create as many drip schedules as you like for the same course.

This is a game changing LMS feature for cohort based courses, as you can give different intakes of students access to lessons and modules without negatively affecting anyone else at a different stage in their drip schedule.

LearnDash approaches cohort-based learning differently using their Groups feature.

Groups allow course creators to provide access to any mix of courses and WordPress content, and even assign a group leader to guide the class through the syllabus.

LifterLMS currently requires you to duplicate (clone) an existing course in order to offer cohort-based group courses.

Tutor LMS does include some tools to facilitate cohort-based courses, including:

• Fixed date lesson unlock drip conditions
• Maximum number of students per course
• Student Calendar add-on to show when assignments are due
• Integrations with BuddyPress to offer a student community

So it’s clear that Tutor LMS understands the value of cohort and group learning, and that they’re actively adding features to make it more accessible to course creators.

However... it’s not currently possible to move multiple intakes of students (e.g. June, July, and August class groups) through the same course together unless they all enroll on the same day.

Thrive Apprentice works seamlessly with Thrive Quiz Builder, to securely lock course content until a student proves they understand the earlier material by achieving a specified quiz result.

This could be a score, percentage, or a category result based on their quiz answers. In practical terms, this feature lets you prevent students from accessing advanced content until prerequisite content understanding has been achieved.

When placed at the very end of your course, Thrive Apprentice quizzes also prevent students from marking a course as complete or accessing their completion certificate, until they have passed a final quiz.

LearnDash course creators can require a ‘passing score’, as a percentage, that students must achieve before a quiz is considered complete.

LifterLMS allows you to require a passing grade on a quiz before the student can mark it as complete.

Tutor LMS allows you to require a passing grade on a quiz before the student can mark it as complete.

Do you want to unlock intro lessons to a course when someone subscribes to your email list?

Or when they click a link inside an email? Or download a lead magnet? Or share a testimonial?

These are the kind of advanced drip unlock conditions that Thrive Apprentice offers when combined with our FREE Thrive Automator plugin.

LearnDash does not currently support advanced drip unlock conditions, such as incoming webhooks from other online tools.

LifterLMS does not currently support advanced drip unlock conditions, such as incoming webhooks from other online tools.

Tutor LMS does not currently support advanced drip unlock conditions, such as incoming webhooks from other online tools.

Thrive Apprentice offers a range of actionable course analytic reports to help you make strategic decisions regarding your course based business.

The Student Progress and Drop Off report shows you exactly which lessons are being skipped, so you can make changes to your syllabus and lessons in order to improve completion rates.

The Popular Courses report shows which of your courses are selling best, so you can understand the real needs of your customers... and build products they actually want!

The Course Engagement report lets you crunch your course enrollment, course completion, lesson completion and lesson comment data.

LearnDash itself does not include any meaningful reporting functionality.

LifterLMS features a course reporting dashboard that provides top-level insights into your courses, including:

• Currently enrolled students
• Current average progress
• Total sales for the period
• New enrollments for the period

However, you can only select preset date range periods (e.g. last week) – you cannot define your own date period.

The current selection of metrics are interesting, but perhaps not as actionable as they could be. What LifterLMS is really missing is a course drop off report to help customers see which lessons are causing problems for student progress.

Tutor LMS offers reporting via its aptly named Reports add-on, which comes with all paid tiers. This provides insights on enrollments, courses, students, instructors, and more.

The Courses report compares total students, lessons, quizzes, and earnings across all your courses... and lets you drill down by individual course, category and date range. Of all the LMS plugins featured in this comparison, this comes the closest to Thrive Apprentice’s powerful course analytics reporting features.

Drilling down to a specific course, you can see sales, refunds, discounts given, and completions.

Other course-related reports include popular courses, last enrolled courses, recent course reviews, and recent student questions about the course.

Drilling down from the course-level reports, you’ll also need insights into how individual students, members and customers are progressing through your syllabus. Thrive Apprentice includes helpful student-level reports to give you a ground-level view of your courses:

The Top Members and Students report highlights your most engaged customers, allowing you to target them later with valuable upsell offers, or ask them to leave a glowing testimonial.

The New Members and Active Members reports let you see who is coming onboard and how engaged they are with your lessons.

The Latest Activity report shows a detailed recent activity feed of who enrolled, started lessons, completed your courses and more.

Student progress reporting is not available inside LearnDash without purchasing their ProPanel add-on for an additional $49/year.

LifterLMS’s student reporting currently offers the following metrics:

• Overall progress, grade, achievements and certificates earned
• Student course progress by lesson and quiz
• Membership access, including for WordPress non-course content
• Individual awards and certificates

Tutor LMS’s student-related reports let you see a top-level view of all your course students and graduates. This includes:

• Unique student ID
• Name
• Username
• Email
• Date of registration
• Courses taken
• Progress

Selecting an individual student shows more information:

• Enrolled courses
• Completed courses
• Reviews
• Quizzes and assignments
• Discussions (if your course supports them)
• Last activity

Access to your student, member and customer data is a critically important part of choosing an LMS plugin... user data, email addresses, course progress, membership status just to name a few. You should be able to view and export data without having to jump through hoops or mess around in your WordPress database tables.

It’s also important to have the tools you need to comply with data and privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

Thrive Apprentice lets you download your course data whenever you want, so you’re building your own business, not someone else’s!

While you can export course and quiz data inside LearnDash, it’s an all-or-nothing feature.

You cannot export data by date range, course, or membership/group – leaving you with a large file of top-level student data.

Course, membership, student and quiz data can be easily exported in LifterLMS using the reporting dashboard.

LifterLMS also does an exemplary job in addressing data privacy and GDPR concerns, documenting the Data Export and Erasure Process and sharing everything related to privacy. They also state very clearly that “LifterLMS does not gather any data on visitors to your sites.”

Tutor LMS does not seem to support report data exports.

While reports can be viewed inside the WordPress dashboard, we could not find a way to export the data in CSV or XLS formats.

Unfortunately, this also appears to mean you cannot export a list of students either.

Also, Tutor LMS does not make it clear whether student data is sent to their servers (or 3rd party servers). We would like to see this made very clear, both for the core plugin and any add-ons that are included as part of the paid tiers.

Thrive Apprentice lets you award your students with beautiful, branded completion certificates immediately after completing your course or achieving a certain quiz score using Thrive Quiz Builder. It also comes loaded with professionally designed certificate templates that you can customize in seconds for your course graduates to download.

The certificate templates offer a wide range of styles: fun, vibrant, corporate, exclusive, modern, classic etc. You’re sure to find one that fits your online course and brand.

Of course, you’re welcome to create your own certificate from scratch if you like, but Thrive Apprentice’s ready-to-use templates immediately upgrade your online course value with just a few clicks of template customization.

LearnDash does not include any professionally designed certificate templates.

LifterLMS features an intuitive certificate builder that lets you set the certificate page size, orientation, background color or background image, and of course make changes to the text itself.

The certificate includes dynamic fields for name, completion date and more.

These can then be awarded when a student completes a specific course.

All paid tiers of Tutor LMS include their Certificate Builder add-on which includes a range of professionally designed certificate templates.

The certificate templates look visually impressive, and cover a wide variety of styles: modern, creative, for kids, elegant, colorful, etc.

All Tutor LMS certificate templates are fully customizable.

Thrive Apprentice’s completion certificates are built using the same Visual Editor that powers so many other tools inside Thrive Suite – including Thrive Apprentice. With it, you can quickly add text, images, content boxes, decorations, icons and more. It really is as simple as drag-and-drop.

You’re free to customize your course completion certificates to match your business, students, course and personality, whether you need an elegant portrait, a landscape diploma, or a printable wallet-sized card to quickly prove accreditation.

The core LearnDash plugin requires you to use the standard WordPress editor to create certificates, making it very hard to design anything special.

However, LearnDash does include an optional Certificate Builder plugin that allows you to use the WordPress Gutenberg editor to create certificates. It claims to be “The easiest, most flexible course certificate creation tool available on the market” but after trying to create a few certificates, we were left frustrated and disappointed.

Furthermore, it is currently impossible to preview your certificate design without completing a short test course, making the certificate design process more convoluted than it needs to be.

LifterLMS doesn’t include any additional pre-designed certificate templates with the basic purchase tier. You’ll need to customize the default template yourself.

If you purchase their middle or highest tier, you get access to LifterLMS’s ‘Design Add-ons’ feature which includes certificate backgrounds.

Tutor LMS comes with a Certificate Builder add-on that allows you to build and customize certificates with an impressive visual editor.

The Certificate Builder provides a drag-and-drop interface to add text, shapes, badges, signatures, images, grades, and dynamic data like students’ names, verification IDs and QR codes.

Traditional printed certificates and diplomas usually feature personalized content, such as a student’s name, the completion date and course title. Why should online course completion certificates be any different?

Thrive Apprentice lets you dynamically display your students’ name, course name, completion date, and instructor’s name into your certificate template with zero coding necessary.

This makes certificates more personally relevant to each student, increasing the perceived value of their achievement and your course experience.

LearnDash supports certificate personalization through an impressive array of shortcodes that are automatically replaced with student data.

LifterLMS supports certificate personalization through the use of merge codes; special shortcodes that are automatically replaced with student data.

This allows you to insert these merge codes into the certificate design, through the WordPress Gutenberg editor.

Personalized information can be easily added to Tutor LMS certificates using the Certificate Builder.

Such personalized info includes:

• Student name
• Course name
• Instructor name
• Course completion duration
• Final grade

This is another feature where Thrive Apprentice really shines... each completion certificate can be instantly checked to confirm that the student completed your course and earned their final certificate.

Every certificate generates a unique serial number and scannable QR code that opens a certificate validation page on your website. This lets anyone – customers, employers, clients – verify the authenticity of the certificate in seconds.

If your business offers accredited courses, training or assessments, you’ll find Thrive Apprentice certificate verification offers a guaranteed, unhackable solution that typically costs BIG bucks requiring custom coding or enterprise LMS software to attain.

LearnDash certificates do not currently support verification.

LifterLMS certificates do not currently support verification.

Tutor LMS is currently the only other plugin (next to Thrive Apprentice) that offers robust certificate verification features.

Certificates can be verified using a unique public URL to allow potential employers – or anyone else – to check the validity of certificates.

Tutor LMS also offers a scannable QR code element that can be added to certificate designs, allowing anyone with a smartphone to quickly open the verification URL.

Thrive Apprentice doesn’t natively include a quiz or exam module. Instead, it integrates seamlessly with Thrive Quiz Builder, another conversion-focused plugin included inside Thrive Suite.

With both Thrive Apprentice and Thrive Quiz Builder installed on your WordPress website, you’re able to add quizzes to any stage of your online courses: individual lessons, modules, or even a final course exam.

Thrive Quiz Builder lets you build several different types of quizzes for your students:

• Number Score - Display the quiz results as a number, based on the weighting you give each answer.
• Percentage Score - Display the quiz result as a percentage.
• Total of Right/Wrong Answers - Display the quiz result as the total of correct answers.
• Category Result - Display the quiz result as a category (like a personality quiz).
• Survey - A special type of quiz that simply collects information for later review.

Quizzes and exams can feature text and images, and even branching quiz logic, so you can omit entire quiz sections until a certain answer is chosen.

LearnDash supports many different quiz types as part of their online courses. These can be added to any lesson and used to lock progress until completed. This includes multiple choice, sorting, fill in the blanks (cloze) and many more.

LifterLMS supports multiple choice quizzes as part of their online courses. These can be added to any lesson and used to lock progress until completed. You can choose text only, images, or even ask questions based on a video.

Tutor LMS lets you add quizzes anywhere in your course structure – between lessons, after topics (modules), or at the end of a course.

Each quiz offers a good range of options, such as the ability to randomize the question order, award points for answers, limit retries, and even set a time limit.

Tutor LMS also offers 10 different question types – 5 of which are available in the free version of the plugin, while the others are unlocked on paid tiers. This lets you cater to different learning styles and helps keep students engaged.

Matching, Image Matching, and Ordering question types are rarely found in other WordPress LMS plugins, so these are a great addition to the feature set.

Quizzes are a great way to add interactivity and fun to an online course, but they also offer a way to assess your students’ progress through the course.

The combination of Thrive Apprentice’s Drip feature and Thrive Quiz Builder lets you lock lessons and modules until your students can show they meet the required quiz scores to continue. This offers heaps of benefits to your business and your learners, including:

1. Many of your lessons build on earlier concepts, and locking progress behind a quiz score means students can’t race ahead without absorbing fundamental knowledge.
2. There may be important milestones that you need your students to reach, especially with cohort based learning.
3. Unlocking future lessons by passing an exam can give students a feeling of tangible understanding and motivation to continue.
4. You can use quizzes to collect information about your students, such as ways to improve your course and learning materials.
5. Online courses with quizzes, exams and assessments simply feel more ‘high quality’ and premium in value.

LearnDash quiz results can be used to prevent students moving on to the next lesson, marking a course as complete, or accessing their certificate.

You can easily prevent students from progressing in a LifterLMS course until they have achieved a passing quiz score on a previous lesson.

Students can be prevented from continuing a course until they have achieved a passing quiz grade.

Tutor LMS has the added option of setting a required quiz time too, so this could also be used to prevent students from progressing until they can answer questions in the allocated time.

With Thrive Apprentice, you can sell access to your online courses and membership content using the most popular online payment and checkout tools, to provide a seamless experience for visitors to become customers, and customers to become students.

Thrive Apprentice integrates directly with the following payment and eCommerce solutions:

WooCommerce - The most popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress, allowing you to set up an online shop and sell access to your Thrive Apprentice online courses.

Thrivecart - A premium hosted checkout service that has a number of features designed to help you build optimized checkout pages. It has multiple payment options including one time purchases, subscriptions, and free trials. It also handles digital sales tax on your behalf. (Note: ThriveCart is not built by Thrive Themes.)

SendOwl - An e-commerce platform that you can use to sell digital products directly from your website. The platform uses payment gateways (e.g. PayPal, Stripe), and delivers your digital products to the buyers, once the purchase has been completed.

LearnDash offers the following payment tool integrations to sell your online courses:

• Stripe
• PayPal
• WooCommerce (using a separate payment gateway)
• Thrivecart
• 2Checkout
• Razorpay
• SamCart

All paid tiers of LifterLMS include add-ons for the following payment tools:

• Stripe
• PayPal
• Authorize.net
• WooCommerce (using a separate payment gateway)

If you want to use other payment tools like Thrivecart, you’ll need to use their Zapier integration to pass along events and data.

Tutor LMS supports the following payment tools:

• Paymattic
• WooCommerce (using a separate payment gateway)
• Other checkout tools and subscription services like Easy Digital Downloads, Restrict Content Pro, and Paid Membership Pro

Thrive Apprentice integrates with most email marketing services as it

• Mailchimp
• ActiveCampaign
• Drip
• ConvertKit
• GetResponse
• Zoho Campaigns
• MailerLite
• ... and many, MANY more.

It does this in conjunction with the FREE plugin Thrive Automator, which powers the APIs and webhooks that all these services use to communicate.

This makes it easy to set up integrations that actually make sense for your business and students... things like ‘add an email tag when a student finishes a module’ or ‘start an email sequence when someone enrolls in a course’.

Be sure to explore all the supported email marketing services for Thrive Automator.

Natively, LearnDash does not integrate with any email marketing tool.

Starting at their $360/year tier, LifterLMS includes add-ons for Mailchimp and ConvertKit.

Both of these add-ons cost an additional $120/year each if you use their $149/year or free tier.

Natively, Tutor LMS does not integrate with any email marketing tool.

Thrive Apprentice is available in 2 ways:

The LearnDash WordPress plugin currently costs from $199 to $799 per year, depending on the number of websites you want to install it on.

However, this is a little misleading...

If you want access to anything but the most basic course and student reporting, you’ll also need to purchase their ProPanel add-on for an additional $49 per year for 1 website. This rises to an additional $99 per year for 10 websites. Alternatively, you can use a 3rd party reporting add-on like 24/7 Teach for an additional $79.99 per year.

LearnDash’s add-on directory also recommends premium tools (from Real Big Plugins) for integrating with Mailchimp or ConvertKit, both an additional $29 per year.

If you need professional or customizable course templates, that’ll cost you an alternative $299 per year as part of the LearnDash cloud... however, this is the hosted version of LearnDash, and not their WordPress LMS plugin.

LifterLMS currently costs from $180 to $1,200 per year, depending on the number of websites and features you need.

Their lowest price of $180 per year includes the basic LifterLMS plugin and a few add-ons (Stripe, PayPal, WooCommerce etc.).

If you want more add-ons (e.g. Mailchimp, ConvertKit), or certificate background designs, you’ll need to pay $360 per year.

If you want the ability to save certificates as PDFs, need access to their advanced quiz features, group purchases, or live support, then you’ll need to pay $1,200 per year for their Infinity Bundle tier.

It’s worth mentioning that the basic LifterLMS plugin can be downloaded for free, but it will not integrate with any basic checkout tool or payment gateway without additional add-ons – the PayPal, Stripe and WooCommerce add-ons are each $120 per year, and even the ability to print PDF certificates is $240 per year!

Tutor LMS offers 4 pricing tiers: free, $199, $399, and $799 per year.

All paid plans differ only in number of site licenses. Each plan gives you dripped lessons, a front-end course builder, the ability to list multiple instructors, completion certificates, better quizzes, reporting, the ability to sell courses, and a whole collection of add-ons (e.g. WooCommerce subscriptions, Paid Memberships Pro). They also offer priority email support, which isn’t available on the free option.

Tutor LMS does offer a free option, but it only includes the basic WordPress LMS plugin and a light version of their quiz module, which doesn’t offer a fair comparison with Thrive Apprentice. The free version feels more like dipping your toe in the Tutor LMS course building water because it does not allow you sell access to your courses, making it unsuitable for building a course-based online business.

The licensing terms for Thrive Apprentice are very simple.

If you buy Thrive Apprentice as a standalone WordPress plugin, you can install it on 1 website.

If you buy Thrive Apprentice as part of Thrive Suite, you can install it on 5 websites.

LearnDash lets you install their LMS plugin on the following number of sites:

• $199/year Tier: 1 website
• $399/year Tier: 10 websites
• $799/year Tier: Unlimited websites

LearnDash lets you install their LMS plugin on the following number of sites:

• $149/year Tier: 1 website
• $360/year Tier: 5 websites
• $1,200/year Tier: Unlimited websites

You can create an unlimited number of courses on any tier.

Tutor LMS’s premium tiers let you install their LMS plugin on the following number of sites:

• $199/year Tier: 1 website
• $399/year Tier: 10 websites
• $799/year: Unlimited websites

You can create an unlimited number of courses on any tier.

Regardless of how you purchase Thrive Apprentice, you’ll have access to unlimited 24/7 premium support as long as you remain an active customer. Our dedicated support team will help you with any technical or use case questions, even going so far as to access your site (with your permission of course) to really understand what you’re trying to achieve.

You can also get help from our community of users in the Facebook Community & Support group. You’ll often find other users can advise on ways to achieve similar results and get you back on track ASAP.

You’ll also get access to unlimited product updates, including new features, improvements and additional design templates. We’re constantly releasing new updates to Thrive Apprentice, so it continues to grow in value and functionality through time.

LearnDash maintains a high quality knowledge base of FAQs and common troubleshooting tips. It’s easy to use and supported with helpful cross-links to related articles. This is a great resource for customers looking for self-help.

As a premium user, you can also submit a ticket to their support team.

LifterLMS’s business model relies on turning their free WordPress plugin users into paying customers, so their support options are a little more split between the two.

Free users can seek help in the LifterLMS community forums, as well as search the knowledge base which is full of helpful screenshots and tutorial videos. Things can get a little technical however, often requiring changing PHP code snippets.

Tutor LMS offers priority email support for all its paid tiers, and even non-priority support for free users.

They also have an active Facebook group for asking questions, as well as a plugin support page on WordPress.org.

Thrive Apprentice comes with many ways to learn how to use the software, build your skills, and achieve more results for your business, including:

• Thrive University - A growing collection of exclusive video courses and tutorials.
• Thrive Themes Official Facebook Group - Meet other Thrive Apprentice users, ask your questions and share ideas.
• Thrive Themes Blog - Regular posts, guides, product updates and more.
• Thrive Themes YouTube Channel - Helpful video tutorials and tips.
• The Thrive Apprentice Knowledge Base - A huge collection of step-by-step feature guides and use cases.
• Thrive Themes Tutorial YouTube Channel - Learn how to use individual Thrive Apprentice features with these quick video tutorials

LearnDash currently offers the following learning resources:

• LearnDash LMS Tips & Tricks Facebook group - Community advice from other LearnDash users.
• LearnDash YouTube channel - Useful, if sparsely uploaded, videos to help you achieve certain goals.
• The LearnDash blog - More general marketing focused posts, rather than how to use the LifterLMS plugin in new and interesting ways.
• LearnDash Webinars - Regular webinars and on-demand replays. This is a great resource for people who are ready to do more with their online courses.

LifterLMS currently offers the following learning resources:

• Knowledge Base - We mentioned this in the support section, but it deserves to be mentioned again here as a learning resource.
• The LifterLMS Blog - This has the potential to be a good learning resource, but it’s currently used only for feature update announcements and formulaic posts.
• The LifterLMS Podcast - With over 300+ episodes, the podcast offers interviews, discussions and marketing insights.
• Community Events - Webinars, workshops and training.
• The LifterLMS YouTube channel - Case studies, tutorials and more.

Tutor LMS offers the following learning resources:

• The Themeum blog - Featuring blog posts and updates on all their plugins, such as Tutor LMS.
• Tutor LMS Documentation - An easy to navigate encyclopedia of all Tutor LMS’s features and options.
• The Temeum YouTube channel - Lots of Tutor LMS videos to help you achieve results.