# codelitdev/courselit

Create/Sell courses and digital downloads and publish blogs on your own branded website. An open source alternative to Teachable, Thinkific, Podia and the likes.

Repository: https://github.com/codelitdev/courselit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/courselit
Homepage: https://courselit.app
Language: TypeScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: course, blog, self-hosted, courses, cms, cms-framework, teachable, thinkific, ghost, lms, learning-management-system, open-educational-resources, open-edx, podia, elearning
Last push: 2026-07-22T19:31:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 93, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2590, "days_push": 42, "days_rel": 46, "gap_med": 17, "n_releases_24m": 18}
- flags: no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1260, forks 257 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:09.826723+00:00)

## What it is
CourseLit is an open-source, self-hostable all-in-one platform for building and selling online courses, digital downloads, memberships, and blogs on your own branded website. It positions itself as an open-source alternative to Teachable, Thinkific, and Podia, with a no-code page builder, email marketing, and payment gateway integration.

## Use cases
- sell online courses from my own website
- self-host an alternative to Teachable or Thinkific
- sell digital downloads like ebooks
- publish a blog with SEO on my branded site
- run a paid community for my audience
- send marketing emails to my students
- build an online school without duct-taping tools
- avoid vendor lock-in for my course business

## When to choose
- you want full ownership of your course platform and data with self-hosting
- you need courses, digital downloads, blog, community, and email in one tool
- you're a solo creator or small business priced out of Teachable/Thinkific
- you want an open-source, no-code website builder for selling educational content

## When to avoid
- you need enterprise LMS features like SSO, SCORM, or advanced compliance
- you don't want to manage your own hosting and infrastructure
- you need deep third-party integrations or a large plugin ecosystem
- you require a mature, battle-tested platform with a huge user base

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: self-hosted, web-framework, email, analytics
- domain: education, e-commerce, web-development, self-hosted, cms
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: lms, elearning, course-platform, digital-downloads, teachable-alternative, creator-economy, no-code, blogging, memberships, cms, web-server, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- codelitdev/courselit (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:09.826723+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:04:23.026862+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - homepage: https://courselit.app (fetched 2026-08-29T12:16:48.744686+00:00, sha e1807522efde)
  - site_page: https://docs.courselit.app (fetched 2026-08-29T12:16:48.754336+00:00, sha 6763057ce5cd)
  - site_page: https://docs.courselit.app/getting-started/vision (fetched 2026-08-29T12:16:48.757123+00:00, sha 4ddc84b38ec0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.