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CourseLit — an LMS for courses, memberships, and digital products on your own site

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Stars
1,267
Primary language
TypeScript
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 10, 2026

Overview

CourseLit is an open-source LMS and creator platform combining online courses, memberships, digital downloads, blogs, websites, email marketing, and payments, with Docker-based self-hosting support.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Sell courses, memberships, and digital downloads

CourseLit combines course creation with memberships, digital products, pricing, and payment workflows.

Sources: [2][3]

Include the website and email-marketing layer

Site pages, blogs, broadcasts, and email sequences extend the platform beyond course delivery into acquisition and retention workflows.

Sources: [2][3]

For creators moving from hosted course SaaS toward owned infrastructure

It fits businesses that want their education platform on their own brand, domain, and server rather than relying only on Teachable- or Thinkific-style SaaS.

Sources: [2]

Self-hosting requires extra setup for email and media

Docker Compose provides the base deployment, but email delivery and file uploads need additional configuration, including a MediaLit choice for media handling.

Sources: [4]

Official sources

  1. [1]codelitdev/courselit repository(2026-09-20)
  2. [2]CourseLit documentation home(2026-09-20)
  3. [3]CourseLit feature documentation(2026-09-20)
  4. [4]CourseLit self-hosting guide(2026-09-20)
  5. [5]CourseLit AGPL-3.0 license(2026-09-20)
Supplemental curator note

CourseLit targets creators who want courses, sales pages, memberships, blogs, email marketing, and payments in one branded platform. Self-hosting is supported, but email and file uploads require additional setup and media handling can involve MediaLit.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codelitdev/courselit.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd courselit
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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GitHub Topics

  • course
  • blog
  • self-hosted
  • courses
  • cms
  • cms-framework
  • teachable
  • thinkific
  • ghost
  • lms
  • learning-management-system
  • open-educational-resources
Stars
1,267
Forks
257
Watchers
5
Open issues
229
Contributors
5
Primary language
TypeScript
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 10, 2026
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