Every tool you need
to build, price, and
run your business.
71 free, interactive tools built on Jeff Cobb’s 20+ years in the online education business. No signup. No guesswork. Just clear answers, starting with the one decision everything else depends on.
⭐ Start HereNot sure which online course and membership platform to choose?
Answer a few questions about your goals, audience, and budget. Get matched to your best-fit platform across 13+ options in under 2 minutes.
Over more than two decades of consulting with course creators, edupreneurs, and learning businesses of every size, I’ve watched the same patterns play out again and again. People spend weeks researching platforms only to pick the wrong one for their business model. They underprice their courses because they’re guessing at what the market will bear. They launch a membership before they’ve seriously tested whether anyone will pay for it month after month. They also lose hours every week on the client-facing paperwork of running the business — contracts, invoices, proposals, certificates — rebuilding the same document from scratch every time.
I built these tools to short-circuit that process, starting with the one decision that shapes everything after it. If you haven’t picked a platform yet, start with the selection tool above. If you already have, the administrative tools below handle the day-to-day of running client work — proposals, contracts, invoices, certificates, badges, progress reports, and report cards — without needing design skills or a stack of templates that don’t quite fit.
Everything past that covers pricing, platform comparisons, and validating an idea before you build it — plus a growing set of calculators for the financial and marketing side of running the business: fees, margins, commission, valuation, and the metrics that tell you whether your funnel is actually working. All of it reflects what I know from doing this work — not just writing about it.
Free Invoice Generator
Create a professional, client-ready invoice in minutes. Pick your business type, add your logo and brand colors, and download a polished PDF.
Free Project Proposal Generator
Pick your pricing model — flat fee, tiered packages, hourly rate, or monthly retainer — and the layout adjusts to match. Add deliverables, timeline, and a signature block, then download a client-ready PDF.
Free Project Quote Generator
Send a fast, professional quote before committing to a full proposal. Show one fixed total or a price range when scope is still uncertain, branded with your logo and colors.
Free Coaching & Consulting Agreement Generator
Build a coaching or consulting services agreement from guided fields covering scope, fees, cancellation, and confidentiality. Switch between coach and consultant framing, and add extra clauses automatically when your client is an organization.
Free Certificate Generator
Pick from four certificate designs, add your logo, a signature image, and a seal, then fill in the recipient’s details. Download a clean, print-ready PDF in one page.
Free Completion Badge Generator
Create a shareable completion badge sized for LinkedIn, with three design styles, a scannable QR code linking back to you, and an auto-written caption ready to post.
Free Progress Report Generator
Send weekly or monthly client updates with goals, key metrics that calculate their own trend automatically, wins, challenges, and next steps — all in one branded PDF.
Free Student Report Card Generator
Combine a numeric score with real written feedback — skill ratings, strengths, growth areas, and recommended next steps — for students, coaching clients, or trained staff.
Course Platform Comparison Tool
Pick any two platforms and weight the factors that actually matter to you — quiz depth, scalability, WordPress flexibility, pricing, community, email marketing — and get a verdict built around your priorities, not a generic scorecard.
Kajabi vs Thinkific
The most-searched platform comparison. Select what matters to you — funnels, community, pricing, ease of use — and get a verdict based on Jeff’s firsthand use of both.
Podia vs Thinkific
Budget-friendly all-in-one vs. course-focused powerhouse. See how they stack up on pricing, features, and which type of creator each is actually built for.
Skool vs Thinkific
Community-first minimalism vs. full-featured course platform. Find out which one suits you depending on whether you’re building around content or community.
Teachable vs Thinkific
Teachable and Thinkific used to be neck and neck. This breakdown covers where Thinkific has pulled ahead, and the one specific situation where Teachable still makes sense.
Skool vs Whop
Skool builds an engaged learning community around your content. Whop works more like a storefront for selling multiple digital products. A breakdown of which one actually fits your business model.
Kajabi Pricing
Kajabi’s plans run from $89 to $399/month. This breakdown explains what you actually get at each tier, what the real total cost is, and when it’s worth the premium.
Thinkific Pricing
A clear look at Thinkific’s free and paid plans — what’s included, what you’ll actually need to upgrade for, and how the pricing compares as you scale.
LearnWorlds Pricing
LearnWorlds has four plans — including a $1/course Starter fee most people miss. This page covers what each plan is actually worth and who should choose it.
Skool Pricing
Skool has a single flat fee of $99/month. Simple — but this page explains what you get, what’s missing, and whether that flat price actually makes sense for your model.
Podia Pricing
Podia dropped its free plan and now runs three tiers — Mover, Shaker, and Earthquaker — from $42 to $179/month, with transaction fees that phase out as you move up. This breakdown covers what’s actually worth paying for.
Teachable Pricing
Teachable dropped its free plan. This breakdown covers the current paid tiers, the fee calculator built into the page, and where the hidden costs actually show up.
Online Course Pricing Calculator
Enter your audience size, transformation delivered, and market positioning. Get a price range grounded in what your course is actually worth — not just competitor benchmarks.
Membership Pricing Calculator
Find the right monthly or annual membership price. Includes churn modeling, a viability score, authority level input, and six-month revenue projections.
Masterclass Pricing Calculator
Built around learner outcome value as the starting point — not just what others charge. Input the transformation you deliver and get three pricing tiers with revenue scenarios.
Coaching Price Calculator
Whether you’re pricing per session or packaging a coaching program, this tool helps you set rates that are sustainable for you and fair for your clients.
Break-Even Calculator
Enter your price, per-sale costs, and fixed costs to find exactly how many sales or clients you need before you’re profitable. Switches between a course/product model and a coaching or consulting model.
Annual vs. Monthly Membership Pricing Calculator
Compare monthly and annual membership pricing side by side using churn and renewal-rate math, not a guessed discount. See blended lifetime value and how much cash each option actually puts in your pocket in year one.
Gross Profit Calculator
Find out what you actually keep per sale after platform fees, payment processing, refunds, and affiliate commissions — for a course, membership, or physical product.
Profit Margin Calculator
Solve for margin, selling price, or maximum cost — three ways to work the same numbers depending on which one you’re actually trying to figure out. Includes a quick markup-to-margin converter.
Markup Calculator
Set a selling price from cost and markup percentage, or work backward to find your markup on an existing price — with keystone pricing quick-picks for physical products, print runs, and merch.
Discount Calculator
See what a percentage-off or dollar-off discount actually costs your margin — not just the sale price — plus the sales volume lift you’d need to break even on the discount.
Stripe Fee Calculator
Work out Stripe’s cut on a sale, or reverse the math to find the charge amount that nets you a specific target amount — with toggles for international cards and currency conversion.
PayPal Fee Calculator
Same forward-and-reverse fee math as the Stripe calculator, built around PayPal’s own rate structure — including the lower micropayments rate for sales under $10.
Sales Tax / VAT Calculator
Add or remove tax from a price across common regions — EU, UK, Canada, Australia, and more — with reference rates and a look at typical registration thresholds for digital sellers.
KDP Royalty Calculator
Calculate your Amazon KDP royalty for an ebook or paperback, including delivery costs and printing costs, before you set your price.
Etsy Fee Calculator
Calculate Etsy’s transaction fee, payment processing fee, and Offsite Ads cost on any sale, so you know your real take-home before you set a price.
Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) Calculator
Find what a customer is worth over time — churn-based for memberships, repeat-purchase based for courses — and see your LTV:CAC ratio if you already know what it costs you to acquire one.
Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Calculator
Break down what you’re really paying per customer across paid ads, affiliates, organic, and email — including your own time if you want a fully-loaded number.
Affiliate Marketing ROI Calculator
Model whether an affiliate program actually pays off — after commission, software cost, and the sales you’d likely have gotten anyway — instead of crediting every affiliate sale as pure upside.
CTR Calculator
Find your click-through rate for an email, ad, YouTube thumbnail, or search listing and see it against typical benchmarks for that specific channel.
Conversion Rate Calculator
See what share of your traffic actually converts for a sales page, webinar, opt-in, or sales call, benchmarked against typical rates for that specific funnel step.
ROI Calculator
Work out the return on any investment — an ad campaign, new software, a certification, a course launch — with simple and annualized modes for comparing spends over different timeframes.
Engagement Rate Calculator
Calculate your engagement rate for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, or YouTube and see how it compares to typical benchmarks by platform.
Commission Calculator
Work out flat-rate or tiered commission for a sales rep or closer, including setter splits — plus a whole-team view for checking a full payroll run at once.
Business Valuation Calculator
Get a rough valuation range for a course, membership, or coaching business using the SDE-multiple method actual online business brokers use — not a generic small-business template.
Hourly Rate Calculator
Find the hourly rate you need to charge based on your income goal and your real billable hours — not your total working hours — for freelance, consulting, or any service-based work.
How Many Students Do I Need Calculator
Work out how many students, and how large a list, you need to hit a course revenue goal at your price and expected conversion rate.
Course Production Time Estimator
Estimate how many hours of recording and editing it actually takes to produce finished course video, based on your production quality level.
Payment Plan Price Calculator
Find out what to charge per installment on a payment plan so you net the same as your one-time price, once dropout risk is priced in.
Refund Rate Cost Calculator
Turn your refund rate percentage into a real monthly and annual dollar cost, so you can see exactly what refunds take off your revenue.
Course Bundle Discount Calculator
Add up your individual course prices, pick a discount, and get a bundle price plus ready-to-use “save $X” marketing copy.
Cohort Capacity & Pricing Calculator
Work out what to charge per seat for a live cohort course based on your revenue goal, capacity limit, and expected fill rate.
Course Content Mix Calculator
Turn your total lesson count into a recommended split of video, reading, exercises, and quizzes based on your course goal.
Community Post Frequency Calculator
Get a recommended weekly posting cadence for your Skool, Circle, or membership community, without burning out the moderator.
Course Idea Validator
Run your course idea through a structured set of market and audience questions before you build anything. Get a viability score and a clear picture of whether your idea is ready.
Course Revenue Planner
Model your launch revenue based on audience size, conversion rate, and price point. Run multiple scenarios before you commit to a launch strategy.
Newsletter Name Generator
Browse a curated library of newsletter names built for course creators, coaches, and consultants. Filter by niche and style — Authority, Insider, Punchy — and shuffle until one sounds like you.
Online Course Name Generator
Get proven course title formulas — outcome-led, transformation-led, and authority names — filtered by niche and format. A stronger title does real work before anyone opens your syllabus.
Video to MP3 Audio Converter
Turn course videos, webinars, and recordings into clean MP3 audio for podcasts or audio-only lessons. It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you upload ever leaves your device.
Learning Objectives Builder
Built on Jeff’s own CRAFT framework from hundreds of client engagements. Turn a vague course topic into clear, measurable learning objectives you can drop straight into your syllabus.
Reading Time Calculator
Paste in a lesson, blog post, or script and get an accurate “X min read” estimate — plus a separate speaking-pace mode for turning written content into an accurate video or webinar run time.
Andragogy Alignment Checker
Score your course against Knowles’ six andragogy principles and get specific fixes for the ones that need work.
Learning Contract Generator
Generate a complete learning contract in Malcolm Knowles’ own format — goals, resources, evidence, evaluation, and timeline.
Problem-Centered Objective Rewriter
Turn a topic-centered learning objective into a problem-centered one, per Knowles’ andragogy principle, with three ready phrasings.
Prior-Experience Activator Generator
Generate five opening questions that surface a room’s existing experience before you teach, based on Knowles’ andragogy principles.
Andragogy vs Pedagogy Diagnostic
Answer four quick questions to see whether your planned training session leans teacher-centered or learner-centered.
Adult Learner Motivation Profile
Take a short quiz to find whether internal or external motivation drives your learning, with study habits matched to your result.
YouTube Income Calculator
Model ad revenue, memberships, and sponsorships based on your niche, monthly views, and engagement. Goes well beyond simple CPM math to give you a realistic range.
TikTok Income Calculator
Estimate earnings across every revenue stream — Creator Fund, brand deals, affiliate commissions, digital products, and live gifts. Multi-stream, not just one number.
CPM Calculator
Calculate your CPM, cost per 1,000 impressions, to price a sponsorship, evaluate a brand’s offer, or benchmark your ad rate by content type.
RPM Calculator
Calculate your RPM, real revenue per 1,000 views, and see how it compares to typical YouTube RPM ranges by niche.
Are all 71 tools on this page actually free?
Yes. Every tool linked from this page is free to use, with no signup, email gate, or paywall. They’re built to make a specific course-creator decision faster, not to collect leads.
How are the tools organized on this page?
By what you’re trying to do, not by tool type. Platform comparisons and pricing pages if you’re choosing a platform, pricing and profit calculators if you’re setting numbers, marketing and revenue tools for running the business day to day, course creation and content tools for building the course itself, Adult Learning Theory tools for designing around how adults actually learn, and admin tools for the paperwork — contracts, invoices, certificates, reports — that comes with client or cohort work.
Where should I start if I haven’t picked a platform yet?
Start with the Online Course Platform Selection Tool at the top of this page. Answer a few questions about your goals, audience, and budget and it matches you to a best-fit platform across 13+ options in under two minutes, then you can dig into the pricing and comparison pages for whichever ones it surfaces.
Are the calculators based on real data, or just formulas?
Both. The math itself is transparent — CPM, RPM, break-even, lifetime value, and so on — but wherever a tool references a benchmark or typical range, like engagement rate by platform or RPM by content niche, that figure comes from published industry data rather than a guess, and gets refreshed as the underlying data changes.
Do these tools store or share what I enter?
No. Every calculator runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type into a price, revenue, or personal figure gets sent to a server or stored anywhere — close the tab and the numbers are gone.
What are the Adult Learning Theory tools, and are they for creators or learners?
A mix of both. The Andragogy Alignment Checker, Learning Contract Generator, and the objective and prior-experience tools are built for creators designing a course around Malcolm Knowles’ principles. The Adult Learner Motivation Profile is built for individual learners to understand their own drivers. Either way, they’re grounded in the same andragogy framework, not generic learning-styles advice.
Can I request a tool that isn’t here yet?
Yes, reach out through the contact page. This list has grown from an initial handful of pricing calculators to more than 70 tools based mostly on what creators and course businesses have actually asked for.
Built from 20+ years of hands-on experience
Every tool here reflects decisions Jeff Cobb has navigated firsthand — choosing a platform, pricing a course, validating a membership model, estimating creator income, or sending a client the right document at the right time. These aren’t generic templates. They’re built around how the online education business actually works. Learn more about Jeff →
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Learning Revolution Creator Tools page?
The Creator Tools page is a hub of free, interactive tools built by Jeff Cobb for course creators, coaches, and consultants. It covers platform comparisons, pricing calculators, client document generators, and income and validation tools, all in one place.
Are all the tools on this page free?
Yes. Every tool listed on this page is free to use, with no trial period and no paywalled features. You can use each one as many times as you need without ever being asked to pay.
Do I need to create an account to use these tools?
No. None of the tools on this page require a signup, login, or account of any kind. Most run entirely in your browser, so you can start using one immediately by clicking through from this page.
Who built these tools?
Jeff Cobb, founder of Learning Revolution and managing director of Tagoras, built these tools based on more than 20 years of consulting with course creators, coaches, and learning businesses. Each tool reflects criteria and pricing logic drawn from real client work, not generic templates.
How many tools are available and what categories do they cover?
The page currently lists 28 tools across six categories: Platform Finders and Comparisons, Platform Pricing Breakdowns, Pricing Calculators, Business Document Generators, Creator Utilities, and Income and Validation Tools.
What’s the difference between the platform finder tools and the pricing calculators?
Platform finder tools help you choose which course, coaching, or community platform fits your business before you commit to one. Pricing calculators come after that decision, helping you set a defensible price for a course, membership, or coaching offer once you already know where you’re building.
What are the business document generators for?
The business document generators create the client-facing paperwork a coach or consultant sends during a project, invoices, proposals, quotes, certificates, progress reports, and report cards. Each one is branded with your logo and colors and downloads as a PDF.
Is my data stored when I use one of these tools?
No. The interactive tools and generators on this page run in your browser, and the details you enter are never transmitted to or stored on a server. Closing the page clears whatever you typed in.
How often are new tools added to this page?
New tools are added periodically based on the recurring problems Jeff sees course creators, coaches, and consultants run into. The business document generators, including the proposal, quote, certificate, progress report, and report card tools, were all added in the same week in July 2026.
Can I suggest a tool that isn’t listed here?
Yes. Reach out through the Learning Revolution contact page with what you’d find useful. Several of the current tools, including the business document generators, came directly from patterns in what course creators and consultants said they needed.
Do these tools work on mobile?
Yes. Every tool on this page is built to work in a mobile browser, though the document generators and multi-field calculators are easier to fill out on a larger screen simply because there’s more to enter.
Are the pricing breakdown pages kept up to date?
Yes. The Kajabi, Thinkific, LearnWorlds, Skool, Podia, and Teachable pricing pages are reviewed and updated when a platform changes its plans or fees, since outdated pricing information is worse than no information at all.
Which tool should I start with?
Start with the Online Course Platform Finder if you haven’t chosen a platform yet, or the pricing calculator that matches what you’re selling if you already have. If you’re actively running client work, the invoice, proposal, and quote generators are the most commonly used starting points.