# LearnPress review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Free WordPress LMS plugin with paid add-ons and a Pro Bundle Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. LearnPress is a WordPress plugin for creating and selling online courses on your own site, from ThimPress. The core and eight add-ons are free; premium add-ons for things like certificates, assignments, content drip and memberships are sold singly or as a Pro Bundle. A hosted LearnPress Cloud option is also promoted. - **Category:** Courses & Communities - **Made by:** ThimPress - **Website:** https://learnpresslms.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you do not run WordPress: it works only on a self-hosted WordPress site. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, LearnPress has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19 per add-on, for 1 site. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Core plugin plus 8 free add-ons, with a lifetime license for 1 site, priority support and updates. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Core plugin and 8 free add-ons for 1 site, with lifetime updates. | | Customize | $19 per add-on, for 1 site | Pick individual premium add-ons; the price shown is the entry price. Includes 12 months of updates and priority support. | | Pro Bundle | $299 for 1 site, 12 months of updates, renews at $209.30 | All premium and free add-ons. Shown as $299 against a crossed-out $710, with no end date given. | Read from https://learnpresslms.com/pricing-plan/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LearnPress before buying. ## Key features - **Course builder:** Build online or offline courses with lessons that mix video, audio, text and images, a reusable lesson bank and attached course materials. - **Quizzes and exams:** Multiple choice, true/false and fill-in-the-blank questions from a reusable question bank, timed quizzes and exams with attempt limits. - **LearnPress AI:** Generates a course title, description and curriculum from a topic, or fills in gaps in a course you have already started. - **Selling courses:** Built-in checkout for guests, manual orders, and external checkout links; WooCommerce, Stripe, Razorpay and Paid Memberships Pro integrations. - **Premium add-ons:** Paid add-ons cover content drip, live courses, certificates, gradebook, assignments and memberships. Content drip is listed at $39. - **Reports and enrollment control:** Reports on engagement, completion and quiz results, and tools to add, remove or pause a student's enrollment. ## Good for - WordPress site owners who want a free LMS to start with - Course sites that add paid features one add-on at a time - Agencies that want a single bundle across client sites ## Worth knowing - It runs only inside a self-hosted WordPress site; hosting and updates are your job. - Content drip, live lessons, certificates and assignments are paid add-ons, not part of the free core. - The Pro Bundle covers 1 site, includes 12 months of updates and renews at $209.30. - The site shows a Black Friday banner of 25% off premium add-ons and themes, with no end date stated. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. LearnPress is a WordPress plugin for building and selling courses, with a free core and eight free add-ons. Content drip, certificates and assignments are paid add-ons, and it runs only on a WordPress site you host. - **Value for money: C.** Add-ons start at $19 each, and the Pro Bundle is $299 a year for 1 site, renewing at $209.30, which is about $24.90 a month in year one against a $20 cheapest quarter. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The core plugin and eight free add-ons are free for 1 site, which one person can run a course on. - **Features: C.** Courses, quizzes, selling and reports are included, but content drip, live courses, certificates, gradebook, assignments and memberships are paid add-ons. - **Ease of use: D.** No rating on record. It only runs inside a self-hosted WordPress site, so hosting and updates are your job. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it connects to WooCommerce, Paid Memberships Pro, Stripe, Razorpay, 2Checkout, WPML and Elementor. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ThimPress's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among course and community platforms - LearnPress's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 45 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 20. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 71 of 98) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** You could make the core of LearnPress for yourself: online courses and templates. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. - You could make: Online courses and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WooCommerce, Paid Memberships Pro and Stripe among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WooCommerce, Paid Memberships Pro, Stripe, Razorpay, 2Checkout, WPML, Elementor **Tags:** Online courses, AI features, Templates ## Alternatives - [Tutor LMS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tutor-lms): WordPress course plugin with a free core and paid Pro licenses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/learnpress-vs-tutor-lms) - [MasterStudy LMS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/masterstudy-lms): WordPress LMS plugin with a free Starter license and paid yearly tiers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/learnpress-vs-masterstudy-lms) - [LearnDash](https://toolgpa.com/tools/learndash): WordPress plugin for building and selling online courses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/learndash-vs-learnpress) - [LifterLMS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lifterlms): WordPress LMS plugin with a free core and paid bundles. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/learnpress-vs-lifterlms) - [Sensei LMS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lms-wordpress-sensei): WordPress course plugin with a free core and a paid Pro tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/learnpress-vs-lms-wordpress-sensei) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://learnpresslms.com/pricing-plan/ - https://learnpresslms.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/learnpress Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).