The phone question first
Most of this comparison comes down to what happens when a member picks up a phone. Mighty Networks lists native iOS and Android apps for members, and branded apps that a host can publish under their own name through its higher offering. If your members live on their phones and expect a push notification when something happens, that is a serious point in its favour.
Learnomy has no ready-made native app. A Learnomy site is responsive, so lessons, quizzes and the account area work in a mobile browser. There is also a progressive web app module, still in beta, with offline progress sync, which lets a student add the site to their home screen. And the REST API plus an app-connection contract exist for a developer who wants to build a branded app.
We would not tell a creator whose whole pitch is an app to choose Learnomy. We would tell a creator who mostly needs students to finish lessons that a good mobile site is usually enough.
Building the course
In Learnomy Free you add a course, set its price, then arrange sections and lessons in the course builder. Lessons can be video, audio, a PDF, an embed, a download, a scheduled live session or rich text. Quizzes sit between lessons, and a certificate is issued when the student completes the course. Pro adds a front-end course builder, so instructors can build from the site instead of the admin area.
Mighty Networks describes courses as one part of a bundle with community spaces, events and paid memberships. Check mightynetworks.com for how its quizzes, certificates and release rules work today, since its front page does not say.
Events and community
Mighty Networks lists live events and virtual workshops among its core offerings, alongside spaces where members meet and post. Learnomy covers neither. For live moments it has the live-session lesson, which holds a Zoom, Meet or Teams link, a start time and a length. For community it relies on a companion plugin: BuddyNext, from the same family, adds a feed and spaces, and when both are active a Learnomy course can be linked to a community space.
That means two plugins to keep in step instead of one subscription. It also means you can swap the community half later without touching a single course.
What running each asks of you, and the first week
- Mighty Networks: sign up, choose a plan, invite people. Updates and uptime belong to the vendor.
- Learnomy: WordPress hosting, a theme, plugin updates and backups, and someone to answer when something breaks.
- Mighty Networks lists migration help and strategy services through its higher offering.
- Learnomy comes with written documentation, but nobody builds the site for you.
A new Learnomy student arrives at a dashboard with their courses, progress and quiz results. They work through lessons in a full-screen player and take the first quiz, then receive a certificate with its own public page when they finish. There is no feed to browse and no member directory unless you add a community plugin. Some students will want that. Others will be glad of the quiet.
Money and records
Learnomy takes card payments through Stripe and payments through PayPal, with coupons and memberships in Free. Orders go straight to your processor account and we take no share. Instructor commissions are in Free too, and automatic payouts through Stripe Connect are Pro.
Every enrolment, quiz attempt, certificate and order is stored in your own WordPress database. Free exports students and transactions as CSV, and WordPress privacy tools export or erase one person’s data on request. Mighty Networks lists payments and member tools on its own site; ask what you can export before you depend on it.
Who should stay put
Stay on Mighty Networks if native apps, a lively community and events are the heart of the offer, and you would rather not run a site. Its pitch is community, courses and events together, and Learnomy does not try to match that.
Choose Learnomy, or run it beside a community, if the course is the thing you sell and you want the quizzes, verifiable certificates and records on your own server.
Moving a course over
Mighty Networks has no importer into Learnomy. You rebuild lessons by hand, or script a large library through the REST API or WP-CLI.
- Export your member list and note each person’s purchase.
- Build the course shell and a test lesson in Learnomy.
- Re-create lessons and quizzes, then enable the certificate.
- Bulk enrol members by pasted emails or CSV.
- Mark finishers complete, since lesson progress does not travel in a spreadsheet.
- Tell members where the course now lives before you cancel anything.