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Teachable

EDTECH
Velocity5.0

Teachable's release cadence is bug-fix maintenance, not new direction.

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◆Current state
Teachable's recent releases are almost entirely defect work: enrollment-and-bundle deduplication, graded-quiz scoring correction, subscription payment matching, PayPal mixed-cart handling, post-purchase upsell editability, drip content settings positioning. The one consistent forward motion is mobile feature parity — the latest iOS and Android builds finally bring dashboard links and the hero banner to the apps, and a prior release shipped iOS 26 compatibility plus content refresh fixes. No new pricing, AI, or commerce surface has appeared in the tracked stream.
◆Where it's heading
Teachable looks to be in stabilization mode. The defect mix touches almost every core flow — checkout, subscriptions, quizzes, exports — which suggests the team is paying down accumulated quality debt rather than expanding the product surface. Mobile is the only area showing additive work, and even there it's catching up to web rather than introducing capabilities web doesn't have.
◆Prediction
If the bug-fix cadence continues uninterrupted for another month, expect a larger release tied to a strategic theme — likely either AI-assisted course authoring or analytics — to land afterward. Until then, no spark moves are likely; the team is signaling reliability, not ambition.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Mobile gets dashboard links and hero banner

    Android 2.4.0 and iOS 3.8.4 finally bring student dashboard links and the hero banner — previously web-only — to mobile, alongside a stack of iOS PDF and offline reliability fixes. The clearest example of the mobile-parity push.

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  2. 6d ago

    Fix: limited-time enrollments, subscription status, post-purchase upsells

    Three commerce defects fixed in a single release: limited-time enrollments now expire cleanly, subscription payments mark correctly, and duplicated courses no longer freeze their post-purchase upsells. Important to ship, but no new capability.

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  3. 16d ago

    Fix: Accurate, deduplicated course records in admin

    Students enrolled both individually and via a bundle no longer generate duplicate rows in the admin enrollments list. Quiet data-quality fix.

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  4. 16d ago

    Fix: Graded quizzes now record correct scores

    Graded quizzes with instant feedback disabled now record correct scores. Embarrassing bug to ship a fix for, but the fix is the news.

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  5. 16d ago

    Fix: Bundles now display correctly

    Bundles now reliably appear on the product catalog page regardless of how their member courses are listed. Catalog defect resolved.

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  6. 26d ago

    Platform fixes: offline mode, PayPal carts, order-bump tax

    Grab-bag platform release: app offline content loads correctly, PayPal checkout blocks unsupported mixed carts, subscription payments use the right card, and order-bump tax math is fixed. Pure hygiene, no new capability.

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