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# Alva Courses, our full review (reviews, installation, pricing)
- URL: https://www.inside-app.com/alva-courses-review/
- Published: 2026-07-16T12:58:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-07T08:43:40.000Z
- Author: Inside App
- Tags: Courses

[Discover Alva Courses](https://apps.shopify.com/alva-courses?ref=inside-app.com)

### What is Alva Courses?

Alva Courses lets merchants build rich courses (video, image, quiz, PDF) with no technical skill required, with a built-in comment system for learning communities and automatic certificates on completion. It carries the **Built for Shopify** badge and shows a perfect 5.0/5 rating, but on only 13 reviews, making it the newest and least-tested app in this batch. It's developed by Alva Apps Ltd, based in London, UK, and launched in November 2024.

### How does the app work on a Shopify store?

Merchants build courses with a dedicated lesson editor, deliver content instantly via a customizable email and directly on the checkout page, and keep customers inside the store's own ecosystem rather than redirecting them elsewhere. Built-in comments let students discuss directly under each lesson. The app covers 35 languages, the broadest coverage in this entire list, and connects to Loom, YouTube and PDF/EPUB/MS Office formats.

### Why choose Alva Courses over another online course app?

Built-in comments under each lesson is a genuine differentiator, called out by one review as missing from many competing apps, useful for creating a real sense of learning community. The 35-language coverage far exceeds every other app in this list. With only 13 reviews and a late-2024 launch, the track record is still very limited compared to apps like Tevello or Courses Plus, worth checking directly in hands-on testing before relying on it for a large course catalog; several reviews do highlight very hands-on personal support from the developer (Tom) during migration and setup.

### What are the 3 main features of the app?

1. **Built-in comments under each lesson**, for a learning community.
2. **Instant delivery via email and the checkout page**.
3. **35-language coverage**, the broadest in this list.

[Discover Alva Courses](https://apps.shopify.com/alva-courses?ref=inside-app.com)

## Pros and Cons

Pros 

+14-day free trial on both plans, longer than the 7 days most competitors offer

+Very affordable entry plan, starting at $9.99/month with unlimited courses and members

+Automatic certificates awarded on course completion

+Available in 34 languages, including French

+Delivers courses instantly by email and directly at checkout

Cons 

–No free plan, entry price starts at $9.99/month

–Base plan limits video uploads to 1GB and 10 minutes max via Shopify hosting

–Unlimited video hosting via Alva Video only available on the Pro plan

## Works With

Checkout

Customer Accounts

Shopify Admin

YouTube

## Languages

English

Spanish

French

Italian

Dutch

Portuguese (Brazil)

Japanese

German

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Filipino

Finnish

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Korean

Norwegian (Bokmål)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Polish

Portuguese (Portugal)

Romanian

Russian

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

[Discover Alva Courses](https://apps.shopify.com/alva-courses?ref=inside-app.com)

For any request for changes, partnership proposals, or other questions, contact us at: [contact@inside-app.com](mailto:contact@inside-app.com)