Getting Started
What is CourseLit?
CourseLit is an all-in-one suite for building, selling, and marketing your digital products, such as courses, memberships and digital downloads.
CourseLit was born out of frustration with the exorbitant costs and limitations of traditional course builders and LMS platforms like Teachable, Thinkific, and Podia. That’s why we offer all essential features—course creation, memberships, website, analytics, email marketing and payment gateways—in a single Pro Plan priced under $20/month, empowering solo creators like marketing coaches and small businesses like digital agencies with 1-50 employees to scale without financial strain or costly upgrades.
Plus, CourseLit is fully open-source and self-hostable, letting you host your educational empire at zero license cost—only server expenses of $5–$20/month on AWS or DigitalOcean. Our up-to-date documentation and vibrant community (via Discord and GitHub) make this process a breeze, ensuring you own your platform and destiny, free from vendor lock-in.
Why did we create it?
We are building the “WordPress of course and membership platforms”.
Discover our vision for creating CourseLit and learn why we set out to build a unique platform, despite the many options already available.
Features
CourseLit has everything you’d ever need to successfully run your online teaching business, including course creation, memberships, website, analytics, email marketing, and payment gateways—all bundled to power your growth.
See all the features here.
Try CourseLit
Visit courselit.app to use the cloud-hosted version. Sign up for a free account to get a 14-day trial period to experience the platform without any restrictions. No credit card required.
Self Hosting
CourseLit is an open-source LMS and can be hosted on a server where you control everything. If data ownership is at the center of your business, self-hosting CourseLit is the way to go.
Follow our guide for full, step-by-step instructions for hosting CourseLit on your server.
Join Our Community
Join our Discord channel to get help, request features, or just hang out with an awesome community of creators.
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