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5 Kartra Alternatives for Your Course in 2024

If you’re looking for an alternative to Kartra to build and market your online course, here are 5 great options!

By The Mighty Team

February 17, 2024

4 min read

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    Kartra is an all-in-one course builder and marketing platform. It brings together a set of tools for building sales funnels, campaigns, email marketing, and online courses. It also has a customer relationship management (CRM) software built-in.


    While it has a lot to offer, it has some serious limitations. It doesn't have an app, doesn't really have any community-building features to speak of, and can be confusing to use.


    So, whether you're building your first online business and wondering if Kartra is right for you, or if you're already using Kartra and looking for an alternative, we'll give you some great options to look at.


    For the purpose of this list, we're mixing up Kartra alternatives based on different strengths, from those that replicate a lot of what Kartra does to those that have features Kartra doesn't.


    So here we go. Here are 5 Kartra alternatives to build an online empire with!


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    1. Mighty Networks





    Mighty Networks is a powerful cultural software that lets you bring together content, courses, community, and commerce, all in one place. It's everything you need to run your digital business. And its flexible Spaces come with an intuitive and elegant course-building platform, plus live streaming, live events, discussions, chat, and more!


    Mighty Networks - Graphics - Live Streaming - Miami


    It also comes with a valuable set of community engagement tools, with features like live streaming, built-in events, polls, questionnaires, articles, video, all created around an awesome interactive forum to host discussions your members will love.


    Mighty Networks - Graphics - MC Courses Paired Dark


    On the business side, it lets you handle every element of your course-based business. You can sell memberships to either your community or two individual courses, you can bundle or sell access to subgroups, and all in your currency of choice.


    Mighty Networks also comes with a built-in app that is free with every community and course, which Kartra doesn't have.


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    2. Kajabi


    Kajabi app


    Kajabi is another Kartra alternative that matches a lot of the features of Kartra hit-for-hit.


    Like Kartra, Kajabi has a set of complex marketing functions for getting your business out to your ideal customers. This includes features like customized landing pages, extensive marketing funnels, and lots of opportunities to tweak each of these to generate as many sales of your course as possible.


    Kajabi, unfortunately, has some of the same shortcomings as Kartra. Most importantly, this includes the fact that its community-building options are limited.


    The other downside is that it's expensive, twice as much as some of the other options on this list. However, Kajabi does it come with a good mobile app built-in, which Kartra doesn’t.


    3. Podia


    As an alternative to Kartra, Podia is the no-frills option. It does a lot of the same things. It has a simple course builder that's fairly easy to use. It has an email software built into it that lets you create some automated email sequences. It gives you options for different products you can sell, like digital downloads, coaching sessions, and membership.


    Podia email campaigns


    However, Podia is pretty basic on all fronts. It doesn't have the same, comprehensive features of some of its competitors like Kartra, Kajabi, or Mighty Networks. And like Kartra, it doesn't have a mobile app.


    And while it's a pretty good budget alternative to Kartra, it's no cheaper than Mighty Networks.


    4. Thinkific


    Thinkific is a course platform that gives you many of the same features as Kartra. It has a pretty intuitive and comprehensive course builder with lots of options to customize your course and landing pages for you to sell it with.


    Thinkific- Course Builder


    It also gives you some marketing tools, such as email integration. It comes with different options for course-delivery, including cohort-based courses and asynchronous learning. And it lets you award certificates and credentials. Finally, Thinkific courses can be self-hosted, or can be integrated with WordPress.


    5. Teachable


    The final alternative to Kartra that we'll talk about here is Teachable. Teachable is another well-known online course builder that gives you a platform to hold your course-based business.


    Teachable course image


    Teachable has lots of options for customization, including the ability to build your own landing pages and award certificates. And, like the others on this list, it has versatile asynchronous course-delivery options; you can include text, video, different assessment features, and more. It also has a good affiliate program that you can use to enlist others sell your course for you and share some of the profits


    The downsides to Teachable? No mobile app. No course community. Teachable is missing many of the features that are becoming essential to online course based businesses, and that's why it's last on this list.


    Conclusion– Ready to start building?


    If you've read through these five Kartra alternatives, you can see that each one of them does most of the things Kartra does, and a few of them do more, like mobile apps and communities.


    The platform that brings all of these together is Mighty. From building your own immersive course, easily selling it around the world, selling bundles and memberships, building Spaces, to easily accessing your community and courses via a responsive mobile app for every device, Mighty does it all.


    Mighty Networks - Graphics - Live streaming


    And you don't need to take our word for it. You can try it free, no credit card required.


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