Acorn Reviews
Learning Management Systems (LMS)Acorn is the AI-powered skills and development platform that maps the skills each role needs, shows where people stand today, and builds development plans that close the gaps.
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Built for HR, talent, and L&D leaders in complex, mixed-workforce organizations. Acorn shows where skills sit across the workforce, closes gaps with targeted development, and gives managers a shared way to grow their people, from frontline to executive.
Acorn Reviews 2026: Pros & Cons, Ratings & more
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Performance Overview
Overall Rating
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The AI features save us time when working with content
Jul 23, 2026
What do you like best?
I like how Acorn is incorporating AI into the learning workflow. It helps reduce some of the manual work involved in organizing content and connecting learning with relevant skills and capabilities. For a small L&D team, those time savings add up.
What do you dislike?
We still review AI-generated suggestions rather than accepting everything automatically. Our internal terminology can be quite specific, so occasionally things need adjusting.
A good platform for onboarding and ongoing development
Apr 12, 2026
What do you like best?
We originally focused on onboarding but gradually expanded Acorn into professional development as well. New employees have a clear training structure while existing employees can continue developing skills instead of only logging in once a year for compliance courses.
What do you dislike?
Our biggest challenge was organizing all of our existing content during implementation. Once we established a good structure, administration became much easier.
Acorn LMS is much more than a place to store courses
Apr 12, 2026
What do you like best?
What I like about Acorn is that it connects learning with actual capability development. We can organize training around the skills people need for their roles instead of simply assigning courses and tracking completion.
What do you dislike?
There is quite a lot to configure when you're first setting everything up. Having a clear idea of your learning structure beforehand definitely helps.
Reporting gives our team managers useful visibility
Apr 10, 2026
What do you like best?
Our managers have a much better view of what their teams are learning and where development gaps exist. We're spending less time manually putting together spreadsheets just to answer basic questions about training activity.
What do you dislike?
Some of the more detailed reports take a little time to understand. I'd like more flexibility for creating certain custom views.
Easy for our employees to navigate without our L&D team's involvement
Mar 24, 2026
What do you like best?
The learner experience is simple and doesn't require much explanation. Employees can see what they've been assigned, find additional training and pick up where they left off without constantly asking our L&D team for help.
What do you dislike?
I'd have liked a little more flexibility over how certain parts of the learner dashboard are displayed.
Good for tracking employee tracking + compliance. If you need multiple tenancies, get it!
Nov 21, 2021
What do you like best?
It’s neat and clean, very easy to use. You can have different branding and content. It really makes it easy for admins to customize anything you like for maximum impact. If you want to track employee training and compliance, it’s legit. It’s also good that you can use it to store forms/templates or any other employee shared information you might need handy.
What do you dislike?
Well, even though I like it a lot, some times, loading course content is a bit clunky. I think it has to do with how the system is structured. It would be better if it was a step-by-step process, rather than us having to mess with the settings. Let’s hope in future updates they won’t leave room for errors for whoever is setting it up.
Intuitive platform for online learning. Easy to setup and work with.
Jul 11, 2021
What do you like best?
I like how intuitive this platform is! It was a piece of cake to set it up and even easier to use. It’s very cool that you can easily customize branding. We had no problem match it to our existing style guide. Acorn fits seamlessly into our entire ecosystem!
What do you dislike?
None! Very happy with the platform. It suits our organization completely. It would be great if they allowed start up pricing… It’s certainly much more than a compliance tick box.
Couldn't be happier with the user experience! Brilliant LMS features, reporting, and support.
Jun 7, 2021
What do you like best?
What’s not to like? It does everything you want an LMS to do, and then some. Get everything done with fewer clicks and easy reporting. Other LMS providers I’ve talked to are all words just to sell but their platform is lacking major features. On the contraty, the Acorn team brings an exemplary platform. We’ve gained a lot from using their multi-tenancy functionality.
What do you dislike?
Even thought their platform is very intuitive, I can’t say the same about their catalogues. Nothing major to note though as a disadvantage. If you’re in the staffing industry it’s a good choice.
An easy to use tool and with a clean interface. We’re very pleased with our LMS choice.
Apr 4, 2021
What do you like best?
Overall a fantastic product! Acorn has helped us to significantly cut down on administration activities. It’s great that it can automatically do so much for us! If you need a tool to navigate learners and administrators it’s a good solution. One of Acorns’s massive advantages is its integration with other systems. I like how clean it is and that it gives a fresh look to online learning. There are many great features you can use.
What do you dislike?
Nothing much to say here. Their support is good, always there when we need them. What I would like, is to be able to customize some sections. like fonts and colors of text. But besides that it has all that we need.
Fantastic product, fantastic team, fantastic people
Jan 23, 2021
What do you like best?
What I like best about Acorn LMS is that right from the initail set up, we were able to add our training programs and commence people immediately. It’s an easy to use system, and at the end of the day that’s all an admin really needs. Plus, it’s also very simple for learners. I love how it can handle large volumes of interactions with no issues at all. You can literally have hundreds of students at various stages of training and it works perfectly!
What do you dislike?
I’ve discovered that sometimes the same student was enrolled in other training packages that were not chosen by me, while I was the only one doing the student enrollments.
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