Gurucan Reviews

Gurucan has taken a completely new approach to how LMS is can and should be done today. They have taken a mobile-first approach which is clearly where the market is headed. They have taken away much of the thinking, planning, building, and headache of rolling out a robust solution for LMS users. They have taken the fundamentals of how a learning platform should work and added in many of the different solutions and features that today's community managers need to keep audiences engaged.

I think some of the design elements could use a little more polish. Needs Zoom integration for webinars that pull in recordings. Needs mobile app for administrators.

At first, I fall in love with this deal, however when I start building my course issue after the other start to show up.
Let's start with what I like about Guru can!

1- First deal on Appsumo that offers LMS with an app for IOS and Andriod
2- Easy to use
3- offers membership and webinars(Beta)
4- very responsive support team (it gives me some hope)

1- Very ugly footer [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] with a link to the app So it's not completely white label
Over 200 votes on the road map to remove it, and finally, it will be removed after 3 weeks! on Feb 25

2- The app has access to a lot of private information that is not necessary for the app functions for example (Mic, Camera, precise location, contact list, phone status, modify system settings) way more than similar apps like Udemy requires. The support team said they will simplify it in the next week but it's still there.

3- It allows you to offer only one payment method PayPal or stripe, what if some of my clients have Paypal others have stipe!

4- The landing page and the course is very slow (8/100) on the google speed test! (simple page with few pic and one video) [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]
The support team also mentioned in the Q&A that they will work on the speed and using CDN.

5- there are small glitches here and there as the company is new, for example, I want to have some parts of the course available for free so people can have a look before they buy. that's not available yet. not easy to add testimonials and manage it, you can't customize the check out like what you do with Teachable and other software.

I like the pricing the most. Compared to most other platforms in the same sector, Gurucan is the most value fo my money.

The only thing is that the setup is not very intuitive. It takes a bit of computer knowledge in order to use. The best part is the support team is quick and responsive.

Mobile-first focus, ability to integrate PabblyConnect to enrol students, relative ease to create offers containing multiple courses.
White-label app possibility (for a price).
If you are a gym/yoga or fitness coach, Gurucan will suit you with repetitions, meal plans, recipes etc.

Poor integrations with video hosting, HTML embedding and operations hit-and-miss at best, team communication hit-and-miss.
App is very hit-and-miss.
Very hard focus on health-and-fitness industry, not seen in their marketing.

1. Provides a one-stop-shop for those looking to create and sell online courses.
2. Mobile first - most learners are on phone/tablets these days so mobile first is a must.
3. Many additional features to a traditional LMS such as webinars and payment processing
4. Cloud based - no installing or updating required.
5. Provides a white-label service.
6. Webhooks to connect with Zapier and then other solutions for specific needs

1. Price for the white-label app is crazy talk compared to the cost of creating an app - should be a one-off payment especially as it is aimed at mobile users and as a white label service.
2. No ability to import LTI, xAPI, SCORM or other existing course content
3. No VAT or tax management - a big issue if you are providing a service to that takes payments
4. Course content creation tools are fairly basic. Add text, images, videos but nothing like what typical e-learning content would require.

- Straight forward user interface.
- Email broadcast.
- Media hosting and decent bandwitth.
- Super features rich (Course Sales, Landing pages, Membership, Email automation,Mobile app,Quizzes, etc.)

- The speed of the site is good but it could improve.
- Layout of the courses.
- Landing page slowness.

I got this software as a lifetime deal, so 'my' value for money is very good.
I have worked with similar systems in the past, and so far this one is pretty nice.

It takes a while to figure it all out, there are some issues that im still not sure how to fix. I feel like its in beta at the moment, but its promising.

GuruCan is very versatile and provide a reliable platform to create and sustain online courses with interactive content. What I enjoyed more was the ease of the process to create course and integration of the overall platform.

The UI feels quiet stiff, therefore I think that it could be more intuitive and responsive.

I love that jt will allow me to create courses in future at an affordable price. I also love that it has a mobile app. In the era of mobile first that's so important. It has guides to take you through setting it up. There are a lot of features included. You can upload just about any kind of media you can think of. As far as a course platform so far it seems really good.

There is a few teething issues. There's a problem with translation but that doesn't affect me directly but people need a certified translator to translate courses. And pdf files seem to be insecure which is a problem I hope gets resolved. There's a few other issues but that's to be expected with any new software I can only hope they sort it out soon.

- Unlimited video hosting (+$9/mo for unlimited bandwidth which is very inexpensive)
- Group chats. These can be public or tied to a product (plus upcoming comments for lessons)
- Excellent user management (covering both web and app activity)
- App which allows signing up by Google/Facebook/email. This is great for getting new people signing up for free mini-courses and building the community.
- Paid option for branded app (although using the Gurucan app for your school works great too)
- Push notifications (both for branded app or through the Gurucan app)
- Customizable interface (more options than Teachable/Thinkific etc.)
- Good course building options (again better than most)
- "Articles" section which can be customized for blog posts or extra materials (ex. downloads). Again these can be public or tied to a purchase.
- Decent automation builder for push and email notifications, tagging, etc.
- Good help center (considering that this is a new company)
- Very responsive customer support.

- Poor checkout process (but you can integrate your own cart through Zapier).
- Poor documentation on setting up PayPal as a payment processor. On some other platforms, it's just a two-click process.
- Unclear if Stripe and Paypal can be used simultaneously.
- No customizable grouping/categories for courses. It has filtering which is very obscure and unfriendly. I would like to be able to categorize "my courses", "free courses", "premium courses" etc. Suggestion: This would be possible if we had more than one "courses" option in the sidebar.
- Text is not customizable (ex. titles like "exercises" and phrases like "Available for forever since started" or "you have been expelled" are very inappropriate for my use and I'd like to change them)
- Missing DKIM/SPF for email.

I have been using LearnDash and a shopping cart app to run courses and I'm constantly having issues that are beyond my skill set to fix. Both apps are also far more powerful than I need. Courses are not yet a big income creator for me, but I'm interested in building out that part of my business, but have shied away from it because managing the technology is overwhelming and paying somebody to do it is not currently in my budget. While not as customizable as LearnDash, the ease of use and the ability to do everything I need to do within Gurucan (aside from some of videos staying with Vimeo). I'm so energized to get things switched over and get comfortable with the new platform. Thanks to the team for the great product!!!

Nothin as such I see. Its simply awesome

at 1st glance I love it all. This is exactly what I was needing and have been looking for. Creating memberships, courses that can be sold over and over, webinars (still in beta at the time of this writing) and the app...what is not to love. There are many other features Gurucan provides but these are why I love it so far.
The support team is top notch which seems to be rare these days. Great Job hiring great people Gurucan.

for me, the biggest con is the fact that they do not integrate with Memberpress. Currently I am running my subscription through Memberpress on my WordPress website and will have to transfer everyone to Gurucan once I have the subscription set up in their system. I am not sure how this will go but I already know the Gurucan support team is there to help. They have been awesome thus far

You cannot change the fonts which is not the biggest deal in the world

Awesome features like: - Email broadcast, Webinars, Blog Articles, On Demand Content, Push Notifications, Email Automation, Landing Pages, Integration, Chats, Homework, Quizzes, Coupons, eMail Templates, Stripe and Paypal integration, and more.

Slow loading time in pages and other features. But nothing huge.

Multiple unique features such as built in webinar platform, emails, landing page, memberships and on top of all that - a responsive app for both iOS and Android.

not a cons per se but i believe this is the same with most (if not all) LMS solutions. Although both paypal and stripe are options, we can only connect one with the account and not different gateway options for different countries / students

It automagically pulled in all my content from Kajabi. I have a large catalogue of online learning and there it all was, waiting for me. All I had to do was make any updates and formatting with the super-easy block editor and I was ready to go. Super fast. Super easy. Super intuitive.

I'd love a social/group feature beyond the chat feature. Engagement is so important in community-building and chats can sometimes feel like a wall of text where connection gets lost.

Lots of features in one single product, mobile/app ready. Looks awesome!

I would like to use another typeface, don’t like this one so much and would love to have it in Brazilian Portuguese!

- easy to use
- offers endless configurations of pricing and packages
- very responsive support team
- plenty of features
- great ability to white label!
- offers app as well - sweet!

- it needs more abilities to configure headings
- it needs more settings for the rich text, including more fonts, so people can really go further with their branding and use their branding fonts etc.
- waiting for Webinars to be fully functional + appear on the app - not simply in Beta, as I have tons of these and I'm itching to publish them
- course certificates still in the road map for development