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Richie
Richie is an open-source content management system and education portal platform designed to help institutions create rich online learning websites. The software features an LMS-agnostic architecture, enabling organizations to synchronize course catalogs seamlessly with multiple learning management systems like Open edX or Moodle. With built-in multilingual localization and advanced search capabilities, it simplifies course discovery. The platform empowers educators and content authors to publish and manage educational materials efficiently.
What it does
- Synchronizes course catalogs across multiple LMS instances such as Open edX and Moodle into a unified portal. - Provides an author-first rich editor interface enabling content updates without engineering support. - Delivers advanced faceted search engines with autosuggestion and localization for multilingual learning environments. - Manages granular access rights and moderation workflows structured across organizations, courses, and categories.
Why it works
Pricing model is fully open source under the MIT license, allowing flexible self-hosting and distribution. Positioned as an LMS-agnostic education portal builder that aggregates multiple training environments into one interface. Technical advantage stems from Django CMS and React foundations providing complete frontend customization. Distribution scales through open-source community contributions and modular NPM package extensibility.
Category: Education & Learning
Team Size: 2-10
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As of 2026
Education & Learning
Revenue: 0-$100k ARR
Open education CMS and online learning portal builder.
Overview
Richie is an open-source content management system and education portal platform designed to help institutions create rich online learning websites. The software features an LMS-agnostic architecture, enabling organizations to synchronize course catalogs seamlessly with multiple learning management systems like Open edX or Moodle. With built-in multilingual localization and advanced search capabilities, it simplifies course discovery. The platform empowers educators and content authors to publish and manage educational materials efficiently.
Funding status: Bootstrapped
Revenue source: Open Source / Services
Customer type: B2B
Pricing: Free (Open Source)
Tech stack: Django CMS, Python, React, JavaScript, PostgreSQL
Platform: Web
Integrations: Open edX, Moodle, Django CMS, React, REST APIs
Founder story
Richie was developed as an open-source project to solve the fragmentation of online course distribution. Built using Django CMS and React, the platform enables educational institutions to aggregate learning content seamlessly.
What it does
- - Synchronizes course catalogs across multiple LMS instances such as Open edX and Moodle into a unified portal
- - Provides an author-first rich editor interface enabling content updates without engineering support
- - Delivers advanced faceted search engines with autosuggestion and localization for multilingual learning environments
- - Manages granular access rights and moderation workflows structured across organizations, courses, and categories.
Who it's for
- Educational Institutions
- Online Learning Providers
- Content Authors & Instructors
- EdTech Administrators
Why it works
- Pricing model is fully open source under the MIT license, allowing flexible self-hosting and distribution
- Positioned as an LMS-agnostic education portal builder that aggregates multiple training environments into one interface
- Technical advantage stems from Django CMS and React foundations providing complete frontend customization
- Distribution scales through open-source community contributions and modular NPM package extensibility.
Growth strategies
- Expanding the open- source contributor community across global developer networks
- Enhancing native integrations with additional LMS platforms and learning tools
- Improving out- of-the-box multilingual accessibility and search filtering options
- Targeted adoption among universities and large- scale corporate training programs
Alternatives
Comparison overview
- Richie provides an open-source, LMS-agnostic content management system tailored explicitly for aggregating multi-platform course catalogs, whereas traditional CMS options require heavy custom plugin development for education sync
- Institutions choose Richie for native multi-LMS aggregation and localized course discovery, though general enterprise CMS platforms offer broader non-academic use cases.