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Chamilo vs learnr
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Chamilo and learnr — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Chamilo vs learnr: at a glance
What is Chamilo?
Chamilo tags a 3.0 beta while 2.0 is still in release candidate, with no notes explaining the jump.
Chamilo runs two lines in parallel and has just opened a third. The legacy 1.11 branch keeps taking security and bugfix releases — 1.11.40 in June on top of 1.11.38 — while the Symfony/Vue rewrite has been sitting at 2.0 RC3 since April. On 13 August a v3.0.0-beta.1 tag appeared carrying a single line of text and no changelog.
What is learnr?
learnr is in caretaker mode, adding guardrails rather than teaching features
learnr turns R Markdown into interactive tutorials with executable exercises, and its recent releases are thin: a throttle on how fast learners can re-run code, a translation contribution, a dependency removal. The 0.11.5 release before it was the last with real features — configurable continue-button text, a pipe-operator choice, and a fuller quick-restore mode.
Chamilo vs learnr: editorial side-by-side
Chamilo
2.5EDTECH
Chamilo tags a 3.0 beta while 2.0 is still in release candidate, with no notes explaining the jump.
◆ Current state
Chamilo runs two lines in parallel and has just opened a third. The legacy 1.11 branch keeps taking security and bugfix releases — 1.11.40 in June on top of 1.11.38 — while the Symfony/Vue rewrite has been sitting at 2.0 RC3 since April. On 13 August a v3.0.0-beta.1 tag appeared carrying a single line of text and no changelog.
◆ Where it's heading
The rewrite is the whole story, and its pacing has slipped: RC3 landed in April with the substance that would make 2.0 adoptable — LTI, ONLYOFFICE, restored plugins, a security sweep — and nothing has shipped on that line since. A 3.0 beta tag with no notes reads as either a renumbering of the rewrite or a new branch off it; the entries do not say which, and until release notes appear neither reading can be confirmed.
◆ Prediction
The next informative signal is whether 3.0.0-beta.1 gets a changelog or a follow-up beta. Until then the reliable output remains 1.11 security releases, which have arrived roughly quarterly.
learnr
0.0EDTECH
learnr is in caretaker mode, adding guardrails rather than teaching features
◆ Current state
learnr turns R Markdown into interactive tutorials with executable exercises, and its recent releases are thin: a throttle on how fast learners can re-run code, a translation contribution, a dependency removal. The 0.11.5 release before it was the last with real features — configurable continue-button text, a pipe-operator choice, and a fuller quick-restore mode.
◆ Where it's heading
The visible work is about running tutorials safely at scale rather than authoring better ones. Execution throttling defaults to on, and the notes around locale and message translation read as operational advice for people already deploying tutorials. Release gaps of two years sit between the three entries here.
◆ Prediction
The entries are too sparse to support a confident prediction; the honest read is continued maintenance and occasional contributed translations rather than new tutorial capability.
Alternatives to Chamilo and learnr
Other EdTech products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Chamilo or learnr.
Kahoot!
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Thought Industries
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LifterLMS
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ILIAS
Three supported majors, one security fix, patched in lockstep every month.
Schoox
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Recent activity from Chamilo and learnr
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 9h agoChamilov3.0.0-beta.1
- 1mo agoChamiloChamilo 1.11.40: security and bugfix maintenance release
- 4mo agoChamiloStop logging AI base-provider fallback events
- 4mo agoChamiloBump tar dependency 7.5.3 to 7.5.6
- 4mo agoChamiloChamilo 2.0 RC3: LTI provider, ONLYOFFICE, and plugin revival ⚡
- 4mo agoChamiloChamilo 1.11.38 patches critical security flaws, deprecates AICC
- 9mo agolearnrExercise execution throttling added, on by default
- 2y agolearnrNative pipe becomes the exercise default; fuller quick restore
- 4y agolearnrv0.10.5.9000
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Chamilo and learnr?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Chamilo is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Chamilo better than learnr?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Chamilo is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other EdTech products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Chamilo?
Top Chamilo alternatives in EdTech are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Chamilo alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/chamilo for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to learnr?
Top learnr alternatives in EdTech are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "learnr alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/learnr for the full list with editorial commentary on each.