LearnBuilder

What LearnBuilder Is

LearnBuilder is a browser-based course authoring tool with its own learning management system built in, made in Basel, Switzerland. It is aimed at L&D teams, training managers, consultants and small businesses that build courses for employee onboarding, compliance, product training, sales training and soft skills, and it also lets a creator sell a course. The site describes it as "A serious authoring tool. AI when you want it, never when you don't." The pitch is speed: "Type a topic or drop in your documents. AI drafts the whole course: quizzes, practice conversations, and a tutor that knows your content. You edit, then publish. Hours, not weeks."

The product is organized around three AI agents. Creator drafts whole lessons, Tutor lives inside the course and answers learner questions from the source material, and Assessment grades open-ended responses against a rubric the author defines. The site adds that the agents see lesson context, so their output holds together across blocks.

Building a Course

The workflow on the homepage has five steps: describe, generate, refine, publish and track. An author types a topic or drops in documents; the Creator agent accepts a PowerPoint file, a PDF or a Notion page as source material and drafts a structured lesson from it, and the site says it can draft 10 to 20 blocks from a single learning outcome. What comes out is a real LearnBuilder course, not a slide-by-slide conversion, and every text, image and block can be changed afterwards. The FAQ says no course-building experience is needed: "If you can write a document, you can build a course here."

Courses are made of blocks. Beyond quizzes, dialogue simulations and the AI tutor, the homepage counts "+ 20 more block types," grouped into content, assessment, games, interactive and media; examples include slideshows, accordions and tabs, graphs, documents, process flows, flashcards, hotspots and drag-drop. Authors can ask AI in plain language to build complex simulations, generate images, video and audio for lessons, and use what the site calls vibe coding: "Describe an interaction in plain words and have it built and embedded for you." An instant preview shows how the course looks on desktop and mobile with no rendering or publishing step, and every block type is responsive and tested on phone, tablet and desktop sizes.

Translation is one click. The site says a course can be translated into 60+ languages, covering blocks, quizzes and feedback, with every sentence editable afterwards, and learners pick their language while the author keeps one course.

Review is built into the editor. Subject matter experts and reviewers leave threaded comments on individual blocks, and the team publishes a new version once the edits are in. Because authoring runs in the browser, the site says it works on Mac, Linux, ChromeOS or an iPad, with no Windows install.

Practice and Assessment

Two features stand out. Dialogue simulations let a team practice difficult conversations with "an AI customer that reacts to what they say," typed or spoken in the browser, and after each run learners see what worked and what to do better; responses are graded against a rubric the author sets. Open answers are graded too: "Multiple choice is easy. LearnBuilder also grades written answers. You set the criteria. The AI reads each answer, scores it, and tells the learner what was good and what was missing." The example on the homepage notes that typos do not cost points.

The AI Tutor answers learner questions mid-course, scoped to that course's content, so learners get unstuck without writing to a support inbox. Authors in turn get aggregate question logs showing where the course is unclear.

Delivery, Tracking and Selling

The homepage's delivery section is headed with the promise that the LMS is already inside. Clicking Share on a course offers five access levels, from "Private - Draft" to "Public on the web." Invitation-only courses take a pasted email list and send each invitee a magic link with an expiry date, and paid courses bill through Stripe at the enrollment step. The comparison tables on the site list Stripe selling with a 0% platform fee. Progress is tracked per learner, per lesson and per block, and learners pick up where they left off mid-video, mid-quiz or mid-dialogue. Learners can be grouped by team, role or course, with courses assigned and progress tracked per group.

Certificates are optional and set per course. The author sets a passing score, and anyone who passes downloads a PDF with their name, course title, date and a verification URL that anyone can open to check the certificate is real. Analytics show course-level completion rate, average score, learners by status and per-lesson completion bars, and a searchable Learners table exports to CSV.

For organizations that already run an LMS, LearnBuilder exports SCORM. The homepage mentions SCORM 1.2 packages, the comparison pages list SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI and cmi5, and courses can also run as LTI 1.3 tools so that an LTI-compliant LMS such as Moodle, Canvas or Blackboard launches them directly. Accessibility checks are built in, with the footer citing WCAG 2.2.

Plans and Pricing

The homepage lists four plans with monthly or yearly billing, yearly at 20% off. Free covers 3 courses and 25 learners with no watermark, and the site describes it as a free account "with no watermarks and full functionality." Starter adds more courses, unlimited learners and an included AI budget. Professional adds custom branding, SCORM export and a bigger AI budget. Business adds your own domain, SSO, API and webhooks, and dedicated support. The comparison pages give the range as €0 to €159 a month and describe Business at €159 a month as covering the whole team, the LMS, white-label, accessibility checks and Stripe monetization. The closing call to action reads "Free forever plan. No card. No AI required," and promises a first lesson in about nine minutes. A live walkthrough is available on request.

What Users Say

Two customer quotes appear on the homepage. Aditya V., a functional training manager in computer software, praises "High-quality content with far lower investment in time and money than in-house designers or external ID agencies." Marzena S., a management consultant, says "The interface is clean, intuitive, and makes it simple to manage and edit lesson content without friction." A sample course on the homepage, built from a 48-page employee handbook PDF, shows the intended use: a customer service lesson with a quiz, a dialogue simulation and the tutor.

Who It Suits

LearnBuilder suits L&D teams and training managers who want one tool for writing, hosting and tracking courses, especially for onboarding, compliance, product and soft skills training where practice conversations and graded written answers matter more than slide polish. Teams without an instructional designer get a first draft from their own documents, and consultants or small businesses can sell a course through Stripe without a separate store. Schools and companies already on Moodle, Canvas or Blackboard can run the courses through LTI or SCORM instead.

The caveats are those of a young, AI-first product. Much of the value rests on the AI agents, so a team should check the drafts against its own standards, and SCORM export and custom branding start on the Professional plan rather than Free. The free plan's limit of 3 courses and 25 learners is enough to build something real and judge the approach before paying.