Online course platform: from the first lesson to the certificate
Softbook is an online course platform for creating and hosting courses. You build lessons from video, text, files and quizzes without code, release them on a schedule, review assignments and issue certificates. Students learn in your school on a Softbook subdomain or your own domain, or in the iOS and Android app. Courses and students are unlimited.
- Unlimited students on every plan
- iOS and Android app
- 30 days free
Who the online course platform is for
It's for anyone who sells courses or teaches people online, so find your format below.
Softbook in short
Courses, students and payments in one dashboard. No code and no tech team needed.
No-code courses
You build video, quizzes and assignments into lessons from blocks in the editor.
Payments
Integrations with payment providers. Softbook takes no commission on your sales.
Unlimited
Unlimited courses, lessons and students on every plan.
Fixed price
Pay monthly or yearly. The price doesn't depend on how many students you have.
iOS and Android app
For students and your school team.
Softbook Care 24/7
Help with launching your school and moving it over.
Creation
How to create an online course without code
Build lessons in the editor from ready-made blocks: video, text, files and quizzes, with no code or layout work. If you'd rather not start from a blank page, AI drafts the course outline and the lessons.
- Video from your computer, YouTube or Vimeo, plus audio, text and PDFs
- Modules, lessons and steps inside a lesson
- Quizzes and assignments with voice answers
- Course copying, so the next cohort starts from a finished course
Hosting
Where to host an online course so it looks like yours
In your own school on Softbook, on a platform subdomain or your own domain, with your logo and colors. You build the course website with a sign-up form and checkout in the same dashboard.
- Your own domain or a Softbook subdomain
- Your logo, favicon and colors, and Softbook branding can be removed
- Website builder: home page, course landing page, pricing, reviews, FAQ
- Student interface in 8 languages
Payments
How to accept payments for your course and open access
Connect Stripe or PayPal in your dashboard, and course access opens on its own as soon as the student pays. Students pay on the product page, on your school website or in a Telegram bot, and you set the pace.
- Subscriptions, promo codes and timed discounts
- Lessons all at once, on cohort dates or after a set interval
- Paid by bank transfer? Mark the order paid and access opens
- All orders in one list, with CSV export
Assessment
How to check learning and issue a certificate of completion
With quizzes and assignments, and when a student finishes the course, the certificate appears in their account automatically. Quiz statistics show where students go wrong, so you can fix a lesson in time.
- Interactive questions: build a sentence, match pairs, sort into categories
- Passing score, time limit and retakes
- Voice answers from students and voice comments from teachers
- A certificate with a QR code, verifiable at verify.softbook.app
App
How to keep students going to the end of an online course
Remind them, and notice early who is dropping off. Students get push notifications in the iOS and Android app, and analytics shows who hasn't logged in for a while and the lesson where the course loses people.
- Push notifications: reviewed assignments, messages, classes
- The app is part of the platform and free for students to download
- Group chat, a school feed and comments under lessons
- Badges and points for progress
Migration
How to move your school from another platform
Done for you or on your own: the Softbook team moves your courses, lessons, students and materials, or you do it yourself with instructions from Softbook Care. A done-for-you move needs a deposit that goes toward your plan.
- Courses, lessons, videos, materials and your student list move over
- Students get access by email once they're enrolled in the new school
- Progress from the old platform doesn't carry over
- Softbook Care confirms the exact list and timing before the start
Pricing
How much does an online course platform cost?
A fixed price for your plan that doesn't grow with your school: unlimited students, courses and lessons, and no Softbook commission on sales. When you choose a platform, check whether you will pay for every new student.
- Unlimited students, courses and lessons on every plan
- No Softbook commission on sales, only the payment provider's own fee
- Monthly or annual billing, and annual costs less
- Several schools on one account, each on its own plan
How to start free: 30 days, no card
Sign up and try the platform on your own course.
Create your school
Sign up with no card. Add your school name and logo.
Build a course
Add modules, lessons, videos and quizzes in the editor.
Invite students
Enroll students yourself or connect payments for the course.
Real schools. Real results. Real people.
Founders and creators on what works best for them in Softbook.
"We picked Softbook because we needed one platform for selling courses and managing students. What we value most: video uploads, clear pricing with no surprises, and support that actually listens and acts."
Mike Pritula
Mike Pritula Academy
"The team moved all my lessons over by hand — I have no idea how I would have done it myself. They were careful about it. They keep improving the platform, they listen to what you ask for, and they genuinely look after every client."
Tanya Mykhalchenko
PPC advertising school
"Before we switched, we tried selling video lessons through Instagram, but without an admin it was impossible. Here I uploaded the courses, set up automatic payments — and the system runs itself. The courses bring in steady income without me being involved every day."
Olga Miller
Director, recruiting school
"We built a big knowledge base for our students on Softbook. No more 'live' sessions with speakers — everything is recorded and laid out in modules with tests and assignments. Our instructional designers can finally breathe."
Alexey Dinar
Personal coach
"Your platform solved a problem I had been struggling with for a long time. I uploaded a few courses, set up automatic payments — and stopped worrying about the technical side. I can see the courses selling and bringing in income every month."
Alla
Massage therapist
"Softbook let us scale our cleaning school into new regions with no extra spend on technology."
Yevhen Sukharev
Founder, Kyiv School of Cleaning
"In two years with Softbook we have built a full agency with an education arm. The platform covers everything we need."
Myroslav Liaskovets
Founder, LeadMarketing
Questions about the online course platform
It's a service where a course is created, hosted and taken, with lessons, quizzes, assignments, access and certificates in one place. In Softbook, sales, a CRM, email campaigns and an iOS and Android app work on the same student base.
Create a course, split it into modules and lessons, and build each lesson from blocks: video, text, audio, files, PDFs and quizzes. If you'd rather not start from a blank page, AI drafts the course outline and the lessons. Details are in the course builder.
Video from your computer or Softbook Cloud, video from YouTube and Vimeo, audio, text, images, files, PDFs with page-by-page viewing, a button, HTML and Wordwall activities. You can split a lesson into steps and require the student to go through each one.
In your own school on Softbook, on a Softbook subdomain or your own domain, with your logo, favicon and colors. Students take the course in a browser or in the iOS and Android app, and you can take payment right on the course landing page.
Softbook has a fixed monthly or annual price that doesn't depend on the number of students. Softbook takes no commission on your sales, and the payment provider keeps only its own processing fee. Current plans are on the pricing page.
Softbook is free for the first 30 days: sign-up needs no card, and in that time you build a course, connect payments and see how everything works. The trial has its own limits, and AI Connector isn't available on it. Later you can still give free courses to your students as a free product that opens after a form.
No, courses, lessons and students are unlimited on every plan, so a new group or another course doesn't change the price. You can run several schools on one account, but each one is billed on its own plan.
No. Lessons come together from blocks with the mouse, the school website is built in the website builder and payments are connected in the dashboard, so a school with a course and payment collection is technically live in 15 minutes. To connect Softbook to your own systems, there are webhooks, HTTP requests in automations and an API.
With a schedule: lessons open on set dates, which suits a cohort launch, or after a set interval in minutes, hours or days following the previous lesson. The schedule is assigned to a group, and you can limit course access to a period from the enrollment date.
Import them from a CSV or TXT list with first name, last name, email and phone. After the import, one action enrolls the whole group in a course or adds an access plan, and new students get into the course on their own after paying or signing up through a link.
Yes, you stream on YouTube or Zoom, and students watch inside the course. For YouTube, pasting the stream link is enough, while a Zoom webinar needs a paid Zoom Webinars add-on on the Zoom side.
Yes, you design the certificate in the builder or start from a template, with the student's name, course title, date, serial number and QR code. The student gets it in their account, and anyone can check at verify.softbook.app that it was issued through Softbook on behalf of your school.
Yes, there's an iOS and Android app that is part of the platform and free to download from the App Store and Google Play. Students watch lessons, take quizzes, answer assignments by voice and chat there, and their progress stays in sync with the web version.
Stripe and PayPal, which you connect in your school dashboard. If a student pays by bank transfer or in cash, mark the order as paid, and access opens the same way as after an online payment.
Yes, payments, access right after payment, subscriptions, promo codes, timed discounts and a CRM work in the same place as the course. You can sell from the product page, your school website or a Telegram bot. The setup is covered on the selling online courses page.
Either the Softbook team moves your courses, lessons, students and materials for a deposit that goes toward your plan, or you do it yourself with instructions from Softbook Care and no deposit. Learning progress doesn't carry over, and students get access by email. See the migration terms.
Mostly in name: both terms describe a system where courses are created and taken. People tend to call it an LMS when the focus is tracking learning, and a course platform when the course is also sold, and Softbook does both. How learning tracking works is shown on the LMS platform page.
Host your course on Softbook
30 days free, no card. Lessons, quizzes, certificates and a student app — on one platform.