Build Your Own Unacademy-Style Live Learning Platform
Launch your own live learning and test prep platform built to your specifications. Our Unacademy clone runs on educator-led live classes, structured courses, full-length test series, and doubt solving, gated behind a subscription your learners renew every exam cycle. You choose the exams, the educators, and the pricing. You own the source code and every revenue stream from day one.
What Is an Unacademy Clone App?
An Unacademy clone is a live learning platform where educators teach scheduled classes to exam learners, and learners pay a recurring subscription for access to live sessions, recorded replays, test series, and doubt solving. It replicates the model Unacademy proved: serious exam preparation offered through a subscription model, delivered live and organized around specific high-stakes exams rather than a general course catalog.
The distinction matters. A course marketplace like Udemy sells individual recorded courses. A subscription library pays teachers by watch time. An Unacademy clone sells outcomes on a deadline. The learner has an exam date, the platform has a schedule built around it, and the subscription renews as long as the goal is alive.
Your clone solution recreates that system on code you own outright. Most white-label providers rent you the software, keep control of your learner data, and charge fees that grow with your enrollment.
With Xpertz, you receive the complete source code, with full ownership, independent hosting, and the freedom to set your exams, your educator terms, and your subscription pricing without a vendor in the middle.
What the Unacademy Story Can Teach Founders
Unacademy is the most instructive company in edtech right now, and not because everything went right. Read the numbers before you build, because they show exactly where the model earns and exactly where it burns.
- Unacademy raised roughly $880 million and reached a $3.44 billion valuation in August 2021, built on a subscription-based live test-prep model
- In FY22 it lost about $340 million on roughly $160 million of revenue after hiring aggressively and expanding into physical coaching centres
- By 2024 it had cut its test prep cash burn by more than half, and its highest-stakes exam categories turned contribution margin positive
- In January 2026 it announced an exit from company-operated centres entirely, converting them to franchises and returning to an online-first model
- In March 2026, upGrad acquired Unacademy in an all-stock deal, consolidating two of the sector's largest platforms
What's Included in Our Unacademy Clone App
Every feature below ships in the standard build. Not add-ons, not upsells. The base platform your learners and educators get on day one.
Live Class Streaming
Educators teach scheduled live classes with slides, whiteboard, and chat. Live classes are the core product because a fixed schedule is what keeps an exam learner showing up daily.
Recorded Replays
Every live class is automatically available as a replay minutes after it ends. Learners who miss a session can catch up the same day, which protects the course sequence that live teaching depends on.
Structured Courses and Batches
Classes are organized into batches mapped to a specific exam and attempt date. A learner joins the batch for their exam cycle and follows a syllabus plan, not a loose playlist.
Full-Length Test Series
Timed mock tests replicate the real exam pattern, with rank, percentile, and section-level analysis after each attempt. For serious learners, the test series is often the reason they subscribe.
Doubt Solving
Learners post questions by text or photo and get answers from educators or teaching assistants. Fast doubt resolution is the retention feature exam platforms live or die by.
Practice and Question Bank
Topic-wise practice sets with solutions, difficulty levels, and progress tracking. Practice volume between live classes is what converts attendance into scores.
Subscription Management
Tiered recurring plans gate live classes, test series, and doubt solving by level. Free content up top drives signups, and the paid tier sells access to the educators and the schedule.
Educator Profiles and Following
Each educator has a profile with their classes, ratings, and follower count. Learners follow the teachers who work for them, and follow moves with every new batch the educator opens.
Leaderboards and Streaks
Daily streaks, points, and batch leaderboards keep preparation habitual. Exam prep is a months-long grind, and successful platforms make daily attendance feel like a game score.
Notifications and Scheduling
Class reminders, test alerts, and schedule changes by push, email, and SMS. A live platform runs on people showing up at the right time, so the reminder layer is core infrastructure.
Progress Analytics
Learners see attendance, test scores, percentile trends, and weak topics in one dashboard. Visible progress is what justifies the renewal when the subscription comes up.
Mobile Apps and Web
Learners attend classes and take tests on web, iOS, and Android with progress synced. Exam learners study on phones, so mobile is the primary surface, not a port.
Who Builds an Unacademy Clone
This model fits founders selling structured preparation for a defined exam, in any country. Here is who comes to us for this build.
Coaching Institute Owners
You already run a test prep business, online or in classrooms, and want your own platform instead of renting seats on someone else's. Your brand, your learner data, your pricing.
Exam-Niche Founders
You serve one exam deeply, whether that is a bar exam, a medical licensing exam, civil service, or university entrance. A focused platform for one exam converts better than a general catalog ever will.
Regional Market Founders
You target a country or language where the big platforms are weak. Local educators teaching in the local language for local exams is a moat the global players cannot copy quickly.
Established Educators
You have an audience from YouTube or a classroom and want to own the platform your students pay on, rather than sharing revenue and data with an aggregator.
Upskilling and Certification Businesses
You prepare professionals for certifications like accounting, actuarial, cloud, or compliance exams. Same mechanics, corporate-friendly billing, and cohorts that renew every attempt window.
Investors
You want a launch-ready platform in a model with proven willingness to pay. Exam learners buy outcomes on a deadline, which makes this one of the least discretionary purchases in consumer internet.
Our Unacademy Clone App Development Process
Six stages from first conversation to a platform you own. A written scope document before any work starts.
Discovery and Requirements
We define your target exams, batch structure, subscription tiers, educator payout terms, and streaming scale, and produce a written scope you approve before any work begins.
Planning and Architecture
We design the live streaming pipeline, the test engine, the subscription and payout logic, and the notification layer, sized for your expected concurrent viewers, with milestones mapped before development starts.
UI/UX Design
Your brand applied across the learner app, the educator studio, and the admin panel. You review and approve the full design before development begins.
Development and Integration
We build the platform and integrate streaming, payments, test series, doubt solving, and analytics. You have staging access throughout to review progress.
Testing and QA
Load testing on concurrent live viewers, test engine accuracy, payment flows, and replay generation across web and mobile, plus security checks before anything goes live.
Deployment and Handoff
Full source code delivery, deployment to your server, an admin walkthrough, and six months of free post-launch support starting from handoff.
Revenue Streams in Your Unacademy Clone
An exam platform earns on more than one line. All of the following are built into our Unacademy clone script and configured from your admin panel.
Subscriptions
The core revenue stream is recurring subscriptions that provide access to live classes, test series, and doubt solving. Exam learners renew through their preparation cycle, and pricing by exam and duration is set from the admin panel.
Batch and Course Fees
Sell specific batches or crash courses as one-time purchases alongside subscriptions. Short revision batches near exam dates are consistently the highest-converting product on these platforms.
Test Series Sales
Sell the mock test series standalone to Learners who prepare elsewhere but want ranked practice. It is the cheapest entry product and a proven upgrade path to the full subscription.
Educator Revenue Share
Take a platform share of the revenue each educator's batches generate. Your split is configurable per educator, which is how you recruit proven teachers away from competitors.
Books and Study Material
Sell printed or digital study material, notes, and previous-year solutions in an integrated store. Material sales monetize the free audience that has not subscribed yet.
Sponsorships and Partnerships
Scholarship tests and sponsored batches with institutes or employers put a partner's budget behind your top of funnel. A well-run scholarship test is both marketing and revenue at once.
The Stack Behind an Unacademy Clone Script
We build on standard, well-documented technologies. Any developer can read the code, extend it, and maintain it without a proprietary framework learning curve.
React.js
Node.js
NestJS
PostgreSQL
Redis
WebRTC
HLS streaming
FFmpeg
React Native
Stripe
ElasticSearch
AWS S3
Is an Unacademy Clone App Worth the Investment?
Yes, if you stay focused where the original did not. The subscription test prep engine is the part of Unacademy that reached contribution margin profitability and the part upGrad paid for. The losses came from everything built around it. Three things decide whether your platform works:
- Educator supply: Learners subscribe to teachers, not software. Recruiting two or three educators with real results in your exam niche matters more than any feature, and your revenue share terms are the tool that gets them.
- Exam focus: One exam done completely beats five exams done thinly. Depth in a single exam builds the rank data, the test series quality, and the word of mouth that this category runs on.
- Cost discipline: Unacademy's own numbers show the trap: the model supports lean online delivery and punishes heavy fixed costs. Keep the operation online-first and let the software carry the scale.
A professionally built platform removes the technical failure points. The rest is execution on educators, focus, and cost.
Payment Processing for Your Unacademy Clone
Education platforms have a specific money flow: recurring learner subscriptions in, periodic educator payouts out, and one-time purchases alongside. The build handles all three from day one.
Subscription Billing
Learners pay monthly, quarterly, or per exam cycle through Stripe on web and Apple and Google in-app billing on mobile, with trials, upgrades, and failed payment retries managed from the admin panel.
Educator Payouts
The platform calculates each educator's revenue share per period and processes payouts with full statements, so your teachers see exactly how their earnings were derived.
Regional Payment Methods
For platforms serving markets where cards are not the default, regional gateways and localized checkout are integrated per your target geography, reducing checkout abandonment where it costs the most.
Complete Feature Set for Learners
The learner experience decides attendance, and attendance decides renewals. Here is the full feature set for Learners on your platform.
Join Live Classes
Attend scheduled live sessions with chat and polls, on web or phone, with one tap from the day's schedule.
Watch Replays
Catch up on any missed class the same day, with playback speed control and resume across devices.
Follow a Batch Plan
See the full syllabus schedule for their exam batch, with what is next always one screen away.
Take Mock Tests
Sit full-length timed tests in the real exam pattern and get rank, percentile, and section analysis.
Practice by Topic
Work through question banks by topic and difficulty, with solutions and accuracy tracking.
Ask Doubts
Post a question by text or photo and get an educator or assistant answer inside the app.
Follow Educators
Follow the teachers who work for them and get notified when a new batch or class opens.
Track Progress
See attendance, scores, percentile trends, and weak topics in one dashboard.
Keep a Streak
Build daily study streaks and compete on batch leaderboards that make showing up habitual.
Manage Their Plan
Upgrade, renew, or switch subscription tiers from one account screen without contacting support.
Complete Feature Set for Educators
Educators fill the schedule your learners pay for. Give them professional tools and transparent earnings, and proven teachers bring their followings to your platform.
Teach Live
Run live classes with slides, whiteboard, screen share, and moderated chat from a browser-based studio.
Build Batches
Create a batch mapped to an exam and date, with a syllabus plan and class schedule learners can follow.
Upload Courses
Publish recorded lessons and notes alongside live teaching, reusing material across batches.
Create Tests
Build mock tests and practice sets from the question bank, with automatic evaluation and analysis.
Answer Doubts
Respond to learner questions from a single queue, with photo answers and canned solutions.
Grow a Following
Build a follower base that gets notified of every new batch, compounding enrollment over time.
See Class Analytics
Track attendance, watch time, test performance, and drop-off per class and per batch.
Track Earnings
See revenue share, payout history, and the statement behind every payment in one dashboard.
Schedule Everything
Manage the teaching calendar with conflicts flagged and reminders sent to enrolled learners.
Co-Teach with Assistants
Add teaching assistants for doubt queues and chat moderation on large batches.
Complete Feature Set for Admin
The admin dashboard is how you run the platform without developer involvement. Every core operation, including the split engine and content protection, is covered from one panel.
Manage Exams and Batches
Create exam categories, approve batches, and control the catalog structure learners browse.
Configure Subscriptions
Set tiers, pricing, trial windows, and what each plan unlocks, per exam and per market.
Manage Educators
Verify educators, set revenue share terms per teacher, and track who drives enrollment and retention.
Run Payouts
Process educator payouts each cycle with full statements and an audit trail behind every payment.
Oversee the Test Engine
Manage the question bank, approve test series, and monitor result and rank calculation.
Moderate Content
Review flagged classes, doubts, and chat, keeping sessions safe and on-brand at scale.
Send Campaigns
Push announcements, class reminders, and offers by segment, batch, or inactivity window.
Track Platform Analytics
See subscribers, attendance, watch time, churn, and revenue by exam in real time.
Control Pages and SEO
Edit landing pages, exam pages, and metadata from the admin panel to grow organic signups.
Set Access and Roles
Give staff scoped admin roles for content, support, and finance without sharing one login.
Advanced AI Capabilities for Your Unacademy Clone
These are optional add-ons, not part of the standard MVP build. We layer them in once your platform is live and generate the learner data they need.
AI Doubt Assistant
Answers routine learner questions instantly from your own course material, with educator review for anything it cannot resolve. Cuts doubt queue load where volume is highest.
AI Test Generation
Assemble practice tests from your question bank by topic, difficulty, and each learner's weak areas, keeping the practice supply ahead of learner demand.
AI Study Planner
Builds a personal day-by-day plan from the learner's exam date, batch schedule, and test results, and adjusts it when they fall behind.
AI Performance Prediction
Projects a learner's likely score band from test history and flags at-risk learners before they churn, so your team can intervene during the subscription, not after.
AI Class Notes
Generates structured notes and summaries from each live class recording, published with the replay minutes after the session ends.
AI Transcription and Search
Transcribes every class and makes the full archive searchable, so a learner can jump to the exact minute a topic was taught.
Why Choose Xpertz for
Unacademy Clone App Development
Here is what separates our Unacademy clone development service from other companies in this space.
Full Source Code Delivery
You receive the complete codebase at the end of the project. Host it anywhere, modify anything, and hand it to any development team in the future. No vendor lock-in after delivery.
Six Months of Free Support
Post-launch bugs and questions are covered at no extra charge for six months. You get answers and fixes, not a separate support invoice.
Live Streaming Experience
Live classes at scale are the hard part of this build. Streaming, replays, and concurrent load are systems we have shipped, not features we merely promise.
Competitive Pricing
We operate lean. No large overhead, no layers of account management. The savings show up directly in your project quote compared to larger dev shops.
Free Server Installation
We deploy the platform to your server at no additional cost. You do not need a separate technical team to get from build to live.
No Hidden Fees
The quote you receive covers the full project scope. No surprise charges for assumed features or for deployment and launch support.