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.
General
After the AI finishes converting your book, you review and edit the outline, slides, and quizzes in the Author Studio. When you are satisfied, open the course editor and click Publish — the course goes live and can be listed publicly on CourseBud. You control whether it appears in the course directory or stays accessible only via a direct link.
Each plan sets a per-author course cap: Starter allows 1 AI-converted course, Growth allows 3, and Pro allows up to 10. You can create one trial course on a free account to preview the output before subscribing. Upgrading your plan immediately unlocks additional course slots.
No. Upload your book and CourseBud builds a free preview: a full course outline plus the first 3 lessons with slides and quizzes. You can review and edit those lessons at no cost. Subscribe only when you are ready to unlock the remaining lessons, publish the course, and open enrollment to students.
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.
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
Narration is generated using a professional ElevenLabs voice — warm, clear, and well-suited to educational content. There is currently one default voice; choosing from a curated set of voices is on the roadmap. Cloning your own voice from a recorded sample is planned but not yet in v1.
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.