10 Best Academy LMS Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Academy LMS sits at #8 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Academy LMS
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Masteriyo LMS – LMS Course Builder, Quizzes & Certificates
4.8 (180) 5,000+ active installsComplete WordPress LMS plugin. Build & sell online courses with quizzes, certificates, and built-in payments. The all-in-one LMS for course creators.
#6 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 2.5 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 5 days ago.
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LifterLMS
Paid version availableLifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes
4.8 (391) 10,000+ active installsComplete e-learning platform to sell online courses, protect lessons, offer memberships, and quiz students. WP Learning Management System.
#4 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 5 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 14 days ago.
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Sensei LMS – Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning
3.5 (40) 9,000+ active installsCreate beautiful and engaging online courses, lessons, and quizzes.
#5 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 4.5 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses
4.3 (597) 70,000+ active installsA WordPress LMS Plugin to create WordPress Learning Management System. Turn your WordPress to LMS WordPress Website with Courses, Lessons, Quizzes &am …
#2 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 35 times the installs, rated 4.3 against 4.9, last updated 3 days ago.
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Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution
4.4 (588) 100,000+ active installsA complete WordPress LMS plugin to create any eLearning website easily.
#1 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 50 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.9, last updated 17 days ago.
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MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education
4.5 (485) 10,000+ active installsLearning Management System and eLearning plugin for WordPress. Create easily LMS WordPress website, add and sell Courses, Lessons, Quizzes online.
#7 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 5 times the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.9, last updated 3 days ago.
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FluentCommunity – Ultra-Fast High-Performance Social Network, Community, LMS & Online Courses
4.9 (90) 8,000+ active installsGet a fast & all-in-one community plugin. Create unlimited communities, and courses with robust social networking and LMS features.
#9 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 4 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
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LearnPress – Course Wishlist
3.7 (3) 20,000+ active installsLearnPress Wishlist add wishlist feature to your LearnPress course in your site.
#10 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 10 times the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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3.5 (8) 30,000+ active installsGet 35+ Elementor widgets to create an entire eLearning site with Tutor LMS and design custom course pages, course carousels, listings, and more.
#3 in the WordPress.org LMS Plugins ranking. About 15 times the installs, last updated July 22, 2026.
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WP Courses LMS – Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses
4.9 (22) 500+ active installsWP Courses LMS - Create Courses, Lessons, Quizzes, Profiles and more. Online Courses Builder, eLearning Courses, Courses Solution, Education Courses.
Shares the elearning, lms, online courses tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
Academy LMS against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Academy LMS vs Masteriyo LMS2,000+ vs 5,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.8
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Academy LMS vs LifterLMS2,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.8
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Academy LMS vs Sensei LMS2,000+ vs 9,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 3.5
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Academy LMS vs LearnPress2,000+ vs 70,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.3
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Academy LMS vs Tutor LMS2,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.4
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Academy LMS vs MasterStudy LMS WordPress2,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.5
Switching from Academy LMS: common questions
What is the best alternative to Academy LMS?
Masteriyo LMS is the closest match: it shares the LMS Plugins top 10 with Academy LMS and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Academy LMS alternative has the most users?
Tutor LMS, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Academy LMS alternative is rated highest?
FluentCommunity, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 90 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Academy LMS alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Academy LMS score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Academy LMS on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Masteriyo LMS is the closest match to Academy LMS by the data we track, and Tutor LMS has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. MasterStudy LMS WordPress shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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