Switch to a WordPress LMS You Actually Control.
LifterLMS gives you everything to create, launch, and scale your courses. On your own site. On your own terms.
For $1, you get a 30-day demo site with every LifterLMS feature unlocked.
No automatic charges when the 30 days end.
Anita van Rooyen 
Matt Medeiros 
Sarah Lorenzen 8.3 million+
Enrollments
12.5 million+
Courses & Lessons Completed
186,900+
Achievements Awarded
310,000+
Certificates Earned
Hear More About LifterLMS Directly From Real Course Builders
Why People Move Away From Other LMS Platforms
Most platforms work fine at the start.
The problems show up later, once your courses, students, and requirements grow.
“I had to keep adding plugins just to get basic features like memberships or certificates.”
Simple setups don’t stay simple. Every new feature means another plugin, another update cycle, another point of failure.
“Selling access became complicated once I needed bundles or subscriptions.”
When payments live outside your LMS, you get extra steps, redirects, and a checkout experience students don’t trust. That costs you enrollments.
“Reporting just really wasn’t enough once I had more than a few courses.”
Once you have real scale, basic reporting breaks down. You can’t manage what you can’t see.
“The cost kept increasing as my audience grew.”
SaaS pricing scales with your success, not theirs. The more students you enroll, the more you pay. That math gets painful fast.
“Checkout started to feel clunky and students dropped off.”
Students who hit a clunky checkout don’t wait around. They leave. That’s revenue you don’t get back.
You Don’t Need More Tools
You Need One System
Most LMS setups end up as a chain of plugins: one for courses, one for payments, one for memberships, one for reporting. Every update introduces risk. Every new feature adds complexity. And the whole thing gets harder to manage, not easier.
LifterLMS was built to avoid that.
Install it once and you get a complete system. Courses, memberships, payments, certificates, reporting, and student dashboards, all working together from day one.
Fewer moving parts. Fewer conflicts. A platform that stays manageable as your business grows.
Full Ownership
Your content, your students, your pricing. No platform can change their terms and upend your business. No marketplace takes a cut.
Predictable Costs
Scale from 10 students to 10,000 without your platform costs following you up. Most SaaS tools punish your growth. LifterLMS doesn’t.
Built for Flexibility
Customize your site, your checkout, your learning experience, your pricing model. Build exactly what your students need.
What you get with LifterLMS: Everything you need to create, launch, and scale your education business.
Multimedia Lessons
Appeal to multiple learning styles with video, audio, text, image-based lessons, and more
Quizzes
Create dynamic multimedia quizzes to reinforce learning or test competency of the material
Course Builder
Easily build online courses from one screen with the intuitive multi-tier drag and drop course builder
Course Cohorts
Allow groups of learning to enroll and progress through a course together with comprehensive cohort reporting
Drip Content
Protect your learner focus and future recurring revenue by making lessons available over time
Payments
Own your platform and revenue with simple conversion-optimized credit card payments
Payment Plans
Boost course sales with a payment plan option so people can spread it out if they need to
Coupons
Increase buying activity through sales, affiliate promotions, discounts, URL coupons, geo-targeting, and more with coupons
Achievement Badges
Make your online course progress addicting with earned achievement badge gamification
Certificates
Offer printable certificates for skills, training, continuing education requirements, and more
Personalized Email
Deliver personalized custom emails based on learner behavior in your learning platform
Social Learning
Unlock the power of a “Facebook-like” community on your site to increase conversation and completion rates
Memberships
Build a traditional membership site where everything is restricted to a membership except the sales page
Content Restrictions
Restrict access to certain courses, pages, blog posts, forums, and more with easy membership lockdown options
Course Tracks
Offer degree programs or certifications on completion of a group of courses taken in any order
Private Coaching
Offer private content, coaching, and conversation unique to each student as an add-on to just training courses
Affiliate Ready
Amplify revenues by making it easy for an army of affiliate marketers to sell for you for a commission
Bulk Sales
Sell your courses in bulk to a business, institution, school, and more with this powerful voucher system
Lesson Downloads
Offer downloadable worksheets, ebooks, PDFs, audios, and other files for offline learning
Student Dashboard
Front end student profiles so learners can track their activity and stay organized
And much, much more…
What Happens When People Switch
The pattern is consistent. People don’t switch because of features. They switch because their platform stopped being a tool and started being a problem.
Anita van Rooyen needed an LMS she could manage herself. Her previous platform was too complex for a solo operator. She switched to LifterLMS and built a cohort-based confidence program adopted by institutions. Over 5,000 enrollments in. Still running it herself. Read the story →
Matt Medeiros didn’t create a course to sell access. He created a free WordPress hosting course with LifterLMS to support a sponsorship-driven business model. Within days of launching, he closed hosting sponsor deals. Read the story →
Sarah Lorenzen spent months testing platforms and kept hitting the same wall: features looked good until the costs scaled up or the limitations showed up. She moved to LifterLMS to own the whole stack and built an education business that generated $300,000 in revenue in 10 months. Read the story →
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From Book Author to Course Creator
“I bought/installed LifterLMS yesterday then spent the day having a blast!
Two years ago I started writing a book, which morphed into wanting to present the material online in a more interactive way. I started my website from scratch in January and installing the LMS was a milestone moment! A milestone moment that turned out to be one joy right after the other!
I was wondering how difficult it was going to be (it isn’t!). I’m always amazed when something is made easy! The LifterLMS product is amazing!! Power to the people! Really quite extraordinary to have something so helpful be able to be in the hands of regular folk.
When I first installed it, I (briefly) thought, “Now how do I start?” And then I realized the Setup Wizard had put all the help I needed right in front of me – Chris leading a course to walk me through creating my first course. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. It was the info I needed, just when I needed it.
Thanks for all your help when I emailed you. You helped me to the point of hitting “buy” (you helped me with knowing I should proceed with bbPress forum). Actually, you helped me more than that – you helped me to know that if/when I have questions after I purchase, that there is a real person there to help me. That really helped me to hit “buy.”
Margot Worthy
Author, Teacher
What switching actually involves.
Switching isn’t instant. But it’s more manageable than it looks when you break it into steps.
- Export your existing course content
- Rebuild your course structure in LifterLMS
- Set up payments, memberships, or access plans
- Invite or import your students
- Test everything before going live
Most people approach it this way.
You’re not locked into a migration service or a forced process. You control how and when you move.
You don’t have to migrate everything at once.
One of the biggest concerns is the idea of “moving everything.”
You don’t need to:
- Start with one course.
- Rebuild one product.
- Test your checkout, your student experience, and your reporting.
Once you’re confident, expand from there. This lets you validate your setup before committing fully.
Compare LifterLMS to Your Current Platform
Most platforms look similar on a feature list. The differences show up around plugin dependency, checkout complexity, and what happens when you start to scale. If you’re evaluating options, start here.
LearnPress vs LifterLMS
Reliability, support quality, and full-featured build vs. freemium.
Kajabi vs LifterLMS
Cost at scale, ownership, and what you give up on a closed platform.
Teachable vs LifterLMS
Transaction fees, customization limits, and long-term cost of ownership.
Try LifterLMS for $1.
The fastest way to know if LifterLMS is right for you is to test it yourself:
- Build a course
- Run through the student experience
- See how it works before committing your whole business to it
30 days. Every feature unlocked. No automatic charges. No lock-in.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is LifterLMS?
LifterLMS is a WordPress plugin that lets you create, sell, and manage online courses, memberships, and coaching programs — all from your own WordPress website.
Is LifterLMS free?
Yes. The core LifterLMS plugin is free and available on WordPress.org. You can build courses, create memberships, issue certificates, and drip content at no cost. Paid add-ons and bundles unlock advanced features like payment gateways, advanced quizzes, assignments, and more integrations.
What’s the difference between the free plugin and the paid plans?
The free core plugin gives you unlimited courses, memberships, and students; basic quizzes; certificates and achievements; content drip; and course import/export. Paid plans add payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal), advanced quizzes with manual grading, assignments, PDF certificate downloads, course cohorts, group/seat sales, email marketing integrations, priority support, and more.
What is required to use LifterLMS?
LifterLMS works on any WordPress-powered website. Today, WordPress powers over 43% of all websites. All you need to get started with LifterLMS is a domain name and a web hosting account with WordPress installed.
Do I own my content and data?
Yes. Because LifterLMS runs on your own WordPress site, you own everything — your content, your student data, your design, your brand. There’s no platform lock-in.
How many students can LifterLMS handle?
LifterLMS doesn’t impose student limits — the free core plugin includes unlimited students and teachers. Since it runs on your own WordPress hosting, your capacity depends on your hosting plan. LifterLMS powers sites with large student populations.
Can I sell memberships, not just courses?
Yes. LifterLMS has a full membership system included in the free core plugin. You can bundle courses into memberships, drip content over time, and protect non-course areas of your site with membership access rules.
Will LifterLMS work with any theme?
Yes! LifterLMS works with any well-coded WordPress theme. Or use Sky Pilot, our fully integrated theme for beautiful eLearning experiences. LifterLMS is a plugin, so it’s designed to add functionality, while your theme provides the design.
Can I try LifterLMS and all the add-ons before I buy?
Yes. We offer a 30-day demo site that you can get to try out the core plugin, plus every add-on we offer for just $1. The core plugin is free and open source.
Can I upgrade to a bundle later?
Yes, you can upgrade later and receive prorated credit for the current value of your earlier purchase.
Do you have a setup cost?
Absolutely not. All purchases are annual subscriptions, no contracts, no setup fees, and no hidden gimmicks. Cancel anytime. You can also just start for free.
Why do you offer the 1st year at 50% off?
We want you to be successful with LifterLMS long-term. Our reduced introductory pricing helps lower your initial expenses and reduce your startup costs during the first year as you build out your online learning platform.
Do you offer a lifetime license?
Yes. You can purchase an Infinity Bundle Lifetime plan here. You will get access to updates, support, and future products for life with no future renewal payments.
Will my license renew automatically?
Yes, however, you can cancel your scheduled renewal at any time or update your credit card if it changes to make sure you don’t miss the renewal.
How many sites can I use LifterLMS on?
LifterLMS a la carte add-ons can be used on 1 active website. Universe Bundle customers can use the add-ons on up to 5 active websites. Infinity Bundle customers can use the add-ons on an unlimited number of websites.
What’s your refund policy?
LifterLMS products have a 30-day, 100% money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied for any reason.
