To take your training or coaching business online, you need a website, an online course builder, a payment gateway, and several other features that help you run the entire business with ease. And if a solution offers all of this and more in one platform, there can be nothing better. However, what you truly require is a platform that simplifies this journey for you without breaking the bank.
It is no secret that Knorish is often compared with Teachable. And we have always been happy to share how the two are not the same. This is why we have created this post to show you how Knorish is very different from Teachable and even better!
So let’s get down right to it!
There are several features that Knorish already has in place that Teachable is yet to offer. Plus, with Knorish, you can quickly start with either one of our paid plans. Otherwise, if you wish to try the platform out, there’s a 14-day free plan as well. Unlike Teachable, on the 14-day free trial plan, you get to create an amazing website for yourself, build unlimited courses, and automate payment collection for your courses.
In fact, besides the website builder, every user gets a theme library with beautifully designed themes that you can use for your site. Using our simple drag-and-drop functionality, you can then quickly add sections you want from the snippet section that has hundreds of different combinations, then quickly change text, change images or videos and you are all set.
Plus, the course builder is probably one of the easiest course builder tools you have seen. You can add Videos, PDFs, Prezi Presentations, Add assessments, and even conduct Live Online Training Sessions using Knorish! You can set course expiry dates to ensure students finish the courses in the stipulated time, share discount coupons on your courses as well.
THE NEXT BIGGEST DIFFERENCE
Conduct as Unlimited Live sessions as you need. With each Knorish Paid Plan monthly or annual, you get a FREE ZOOM Business Account to conduct live sessions - be it single, multiple or ongoing sessions! With Knorish, you get this zoom license access for free at No EXTRA COST. With Teachable, you need a separate Zoom account for conducting webinars or live sessions or need other expensive webinar solutions.
PLUS, there's more
Knorish helps you grow your online coaching business. With Sales funnels and automation, you can actually build your business to a 6 figure business in just months. Funnels, Automation
Knorish makes it easier for your students to pay for the courses by automating payment collection. You can get paid for the course in Indian Rupees and US Dollars via Razorpay, Instamojo, PhonePe, Paytm, Stripe etc. and offer payment collection via digital wallets, UPI, Debit cards, Credit cards, Net Banking, EMI option for students and more. Something that’s not natively available on Teachable.
To manage students, you get to automate course access post-payment completion, automate emails and notifications, offer preset course curriculum, Conduct endless live sessions, webinars, enable drip content feature, Traffic Analytics, etc.
THE NEXT BIGGEST DIFFERENCE between Knorish and Teachable is that Knorish provides dedicated support for all our customers. You can actually pick up the phone and call us. In fact, our support teams go to the extent of creating the entire website for you so that you can focus on the main thing that is building and selling online courses.
When you sign up for our annual plans, Knorish offers a one-time website design service wherein you can choose a theme from the library, share the content per section, share images/ videos you want to use on your website and our team will design the website for you!
Plus, we are available via Phone, Emails, Chat as well! However, Teachable does not provide dedicated support rather has only email and Ticket support for customers’ queries which are attended to on a first-come-first-served basis.
And this is just the beginning. There are so many other core features available on Knorish that make it super easy for you to take your business online.
Knorish vs. Teachable: Detailed Features Comparison
Support Channels & Security Features
We offer support across channels. Be it email, phone, or chat, and promise constant support for all your questions and queries. Besides an extensive Knowledge base, we also offer regular interventions in the form of weekly webinars and courses that would help you scale your academy faster. Something that is not available with Teachable. Teachable only offers email support and their knowledge base. Beyond that, it’s a DIY platform.
In terms of site security, both Knorish and Teachable offer security features such as SSL Certificates, SSO (Single Sign-on), and secure cloud hosting to ensure your site is safe and secure.
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Knorish |
Teachable |
Chat Support |
Yes |
Only on Select Plans |
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Email Support |
Yes |
Yes |
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Phone support |
Yes |
Only on Select Plans |
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Support Timelines: First Response |
Weekdays: 2 Hours Weekends: 4 Hours |
Days |
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Onboarding Training Sessions |
Yes |
No |
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Additional Support Available |
Onboarding Support, Launch Preparedness Call, and Account Manager for your site. |
No |
Course Payments, Sales & Marketing
Possibly the most important reason for any creator to launch online courses is the sales aspect of it. With the world moving online, selling online courses has now truly become a lucrative business, and rightly so. Knorish has kept this in mind and has several functionalities that address this area.
Here’s a deeper look into the feature differences:
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Knorish |
Teachable |
Payment Collection |
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Collect payments in INR & USD |
Automatic. No inputs required to enable this. |
Not available for INR |
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Collect Payment via PayTm, Razorpay, PhonePe, Instamojo, PayTm, Paypal and Stripe. offer payment collection from digital wallets, UPI, net banking, debit cards, credit cards, etc. |
Yes. Default Options |
Not possible without additional integrations |
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Knorish |
Teachable |
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Marketing & Selling |
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Course expiry/ Time-bound courses/ Limit Course Sales |
Yes |
No |
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Advanced Paid Ads & Digital Marketing Integrations: Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager |
Yes |
Yes |
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Email Marketing & Automation: MailChimp Integration |
Yes |
Yes |
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Discount Coupons |
Advanced, by price or by percentage, by categories, one month or for extended periods. |
Yes |
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Individual Course Sales Pages |
Yes |
Yes |
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Blog |
Yes |
Basic |
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WordPress website connection |
Yes |
Yes |
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Your site as a marketplace of courses |
Yes |
No |
Complete white labeling to highlight your brand |
Yes |
Yes |
Earnings & Transactions
One of the core benefits of using Knorish is that we offer you the ability to collect payments in Indian Rupees. Something that is not available on Teachable. Plus we offer the ability to integrate a host of Payment Gateways that allow you to collect payments directly in your payment gateway accounts.
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Knorish |
Teachable |
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Earnings & Transactions |
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Earnings details in INR |
Yes |
No |
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Set up Auto Payouts |
Yes |
No |
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GST Invoices |
Yes |
No |
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Automatic GST Invoice Generation |
Yes |
No |
Course Creation
Course Creation is easy on both platforms. Both platforms give you the option to create courses with sections and chapters wherein each section can have either one chapter or multiple with a variety of content. Drip functionality is available on Knorish and Teachable, however, that’s where the similarities end.
Differences in Course Creation Features:
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Knorish |
Teachable |
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Prezi Presentations for Course Content |
Yes |
No |
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Content Locking/Drip Content |
Yes |
Yes |
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Live Online Training/Webinar Setup |
Yes |
No |
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Unlimited Zoom Live/Concurrent Sessions |
Yes |
No |
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Graded Assessments: Pass/Fail |
Yes |
Yes |
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Include Hints |
Yes |
No |
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Shuffle Question Order |
Yes |
No |
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Multimedia content: pdf, videos |
Yes |
Yes |
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One-click Course Content Upload |
Yes |
No |
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Easy-to-use course builder tool |
Yes |
No |
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Course Content Options: Videos, Documents, PDFs, Live events, Assessments, Embedded Videos/Prezis |
Yes |
Yes |
Easily move Course Sections/ Chapters |
Yes |
Yes |
Website Design
Knorish offers a wide array of themes available in the theme library that can be used as a base for your website design. Simply change the images, texts, and videos where necessary and your site is ready.
But there’s more. Here are the detailed differences between the two platforms:
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Knorish |
Teachable |
Drag and Drop website builder tool |
Yes |
No |
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Website Theme library |
Yes |
No |
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Beautifully designed themes |
Yes |
No |
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Customizable design |
Yes |
Yes |
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Custom HTML/CSS Code |
Yes |
Yes |
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Preview Mode and Live Changes |
Yes |
No |
Student Experience - A Complete Learning Experience
Knorish offers a wide variety of features to students for that complete learning experience. Resume course on any device, automatic email notifications and email pipelines, mobile responsiveness, and course discussion boards, customer support integration with Freshdesk, and many other such features that allow you to interact with your students more effectively.
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Knorish |
Teachable |
Automatic Email Notifications |
Yes |
Yes |
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Resume course on any device |
Yes |
Yes |
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Mobile responsive websites |
Yes |
Yes |
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Chat/Course discussion boards |
Yes |
No |
Pricing
Knorish is the more affordable and robust option among the two. The three paid plans are available as part of the annual subscription. Plus, the annual plans offer an automatic 20% discount on the monthly subscription prices. The webinar feature is a premium Knorish feature that we have bundled with your paid Knorish account. Even if you have more than one Instructor going live at the same time, our integration allows multiple concurrent live sessions too.
You get unlimited session recordings that can be made available post the session through your Knorish dashboard.
We also have a 14-day free trial plan which allows you to get started on your academy for free and then scale up as your academy grows. So as your business grows you grow with Knorish.
To take a deeper look at the pricing, read more here: Knorish Pricing
All plans have Unlimited video hosting, unlimited site pages, a custom domain with a free SSL certificate, onboarding training sessions, and a pre-integrated payment facility built-in. Additionally, when you sign up for our annual plans, we offer our website design service as well.
Teachable prices start from $39 and go up to $119+ per year. Plus there are high transaction fees on top of the monthly fees.
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Knorish |
Teachable |
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Pricing |
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Annual Pricing |
From $39 to $350 plans Free 14-day trial Plus get a pre-integrated Zoom account with each paid plan. Conduct live sessions, webinars, or meetings. Visit Knorish Pricing on Knorish.com for more details. |
From $39 to $119 & further depending on customizations Free Trial. Just the platform, most other features such as webinars, emails, etc., you have to pay extra by getting other solutions added. |
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Transaction Fees |
None |
Up to 5%, depending on your plan |
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Discounted Pricing Available |
Yes |
Depends |
That’s really it. We truly believe that Knorish truly offers a wide variety of features and support that is not available with Teachable or any other platform for that matter. Additionally, our team is constantly working on releasing new features that help our users scale their academies even further.