Lms vs Moodle
Lms and Moodle are both learning management software. Lms is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 3.4k GitHub stars. Moodle is open source under GPL-3.0, with 7.6k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Lms when
- You run ERPNext or Frappe and want staff or customer training in the same system.
- Pick Moodle when
- A school, university or company needs a self-hosted LMS with a large ecosystem of plugins and hosting partners.
Side by side
A learning management system on the Frappe framework for creating courses, batches, quizzes, assignments and certificates.
The widely used open-source learning management system for courses, quizzes, assignments, grading and reporting, with thousands of plugins.
Requires the Frappe stack and has fewer integrations than Moodle.
Upgrades and plugin compatibility take ongoing admin effort, and the interface feels heavy compared with newer tools.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server and cloud service (both)
Python, Frappe, Vue and TypeScript
PHP, JavaScript, PostgreSQL and MySQL
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
3.4k GitHub stars
7.6k GitHub stars
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v2.68.0.
Established: started 17 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.