Yes — every part is editable. Lesson titles, slide text, narration scripts, bullet points, quiz questions, answer explanations, and lesson order. We strongly recommend reviewing every slide's narration before publishing. Most of what makes a course feel like you, as opposed to a generic AI output, is in those edits.
Not in v1. CourseBud is built around the book-to-course generation path, not as a course hosting migration platform. If you already have a course running elsewhere and it's working, stay there — we're the right tool when you want to build a new course from a book you've written.
Legal
Absolutely. You retain all rights to your book, the generated lessons, the narration scripts, and the course as a whole. CourseBud hosts the course and provides the AI tooling; we claim no ownership of your content and never use it to train public AI models.
Payments
Students pay you directly through your own Stripe or PayPal account — CourseBud takes 0% of course revenue. You connect a payout rail once (Stripe Connect Express onboarding or a PayPal Business email), and after that every paid enrollment routes straight to you, minus the standard Stripe/PayPal processing fee (~2.9% + $0.30 per transaction).
Plans
Each plan has a per-course student cap based on trailing-12-month enrollments (Starter 50 per course, Growth 250 per course, Pro unlimited per course). When a course hits its cap, new enrollments are paused on that course and you'll see a prompt to upgrade. Existing students keep full access. Upgrading is one click and takes effect immediately with prorated billing.
Yes. Cancel from your account settings at any time — your subscription stays active through the end of the current billing period and will not renew. Your course content and student data are preserved for 30 days after cancellation so you can come back if you change your mind or export your student list.
No free trial at the moment, but no long-term commitment either. You can cancel at the end of your first month with no renewal. The $199 setup fee covers the AI conversion work and is non-refundable once the AI pipeline has run, because that's where the real production cost sits. If you cancel before uploading a book, we refund the setup fee.
Students
Yes. Students create a free CourseBud account so we can track their progress lesson-by-lesson, remember which slides they've completed, and save their quiz results. They do not need to pay CourseBud anything — only the course price you set, which goes directly to you.
Technology
Today you choose from a curated set of professional ElevenLabs voices — warm, clear, and well-suited to educational content. Cloning your own voice from a recorded sample is on our roadmap but not yet in v1. If voice-matching to your own recorded voice is a must-have, CourseBud isn't the right fit yet — we'd rather tell you straight than oversell.
Uploads
PDF, EPUB, DOCX, and plain text (TXT). Maximum file size is 50 MB, which comfortably covers books up to about 500 pages. If your manuscript is longer than roughly 150,000 tokens (~300,000 words), the AI pipeline may struggle with full-book context and we will ask you to split it — this is rare in non-fiction.
For a typical 200-page non-fiction book, the full pipeline — parsing, outline generation, slide generation, and quiz generation — runs in about 10 to 20 minutes. You see a live progress page and can step away while it runs. Longer or denser books can take up to 45 minutes.
Books up to roughly 150,000 tokens (around 300,000 words, or most single-volume non-fiction) process cleanly. For longer works — multi-volume textbooks, reference manuals — v1 may either refuse the upload or produce a weaker outline. In those cases we recommend splitting into two courses, which usually reads better anyway.