Teachable online courses vs Brain Bump
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Teachable online courses
Access your online courses from any Teachable-powered school on your mobile device. Seamlessly sync your progress across devices and learn new skills or hobbies on the go. Enjoy a free learning experience with over 7 million students.
- Access online courses on mobile
- Learn new skills and hobbies
- Sync progress across devices
- Free to use for enrolled students
- Carry courses in your pocket
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Discover the freedom of learning on the move with Teachable’s iOS app. Whether you’re looking to master a skill or pick up a new hobby, join over 7 million students who are already learning through Teachable-powered schools. Access Anytime, Anywhere: Carry your online courses in your pocket. Access all your Teachable-powered school content whenever and wherever you are. Automatic Sync Across Devices: Switch between your iPhone app and web browser effortlessly. Your course progress is seamlessly synced, allowing you to pick up right where you left off. Using the Teachable iOS app is completely free. Once you’re enrolled in a course on a Teachable-powered school, you get full access to the content by downloading the app.
Brain Bump
Access and organize valuable insights from various content creators. Schedule reminders for key information, transforming daily affirmations into actionable advice. Search for specific tips when you need them, offering a streamlined approach to knowledge retention.
- Access content creator tips
- Organize content into sets
- Schedule reminders for information
- Searchable content library
- Actionable advice delivery
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Brain Bump lets you access top tips from authors, podcasters, bloggers and other content creators. You can add sets content (e.g. from a book) to your app and then set when to get a reminder of it. Think of a daily affirmation but with the useful, actionable advice you want. You can also search through the content to find the advice you want, when you want it. It combines the best functionality of flashcard apps and book summary apps, but requires less effort on your part than any of them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brain Bump at 100% against Teachable online courses's 22%. Brain Bump also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). Teachable online courses's advantage is ratings volume (9.4K vs 5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Brain Bump holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Teachable online courses has 9.4K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Teachable online courses's written reviews are positive against 100% of Brain Bump's.
Teachable online courses ships an update fortnightly, Brain Bump monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Teachable online courses | Brain Bump |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9.4K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.4K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Teachable | Cognosco Media LLC |
Customer experience
Teachable online courses
Brain Bump
Bugs and requests
Teachable online courses
Reported bugs
3 issues- Courses not syncing between app and website
- Videos not loading or playing properly
- Inability to log in with valid credentials
Requested features
4 requests- Add iPad native app
- Implement video playback controls (rewind, speed)
- Allow bookmarking progress in videos
- Improve offline mode reliability
Brain Bump
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Teachable online courses
No in-app purchases
Brain Bump
No in-app purchases
Questions
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