Quick answer
Yes — Rampcheck is a one-time-purchase alternative to Trainual. It costs $29 once, while Trainual runs $99/mo — about $1,188 per year, every year. Self-hosted role checklists, SOP library, hire portal and quizzes — no monthly seat fees. It is for people who want the job done on their own hardware without a renewal date — not for teams that live inside Trainual's ecosystem.
The verdict
Switch to Rampcheck if you are an individual or small team paying Trainual $99/mo for work your own machine can do. Less than two weeks of Trainual pays for Rampcheck, and by year three you have kept over $3,500.
Stay with Trainual if your workflow depends on its integrations, you need enterprise features (SSO, admin controls, SLAs), or your team is large enough that per-seat collaboration tooling is worth the bill. Rampcheck does not try to replicate those.
Head to head
| Rampcheck | Trainual | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 once | $99/mo |
| Role-based onboarding checklists | Yes | Yes |
| SOP / policy library | Yes | Yes |
| New-hire portal + progress | Yes | Yes |
| Quizzes with pass threshold | Yes | Yes |
| Manager verify + overdue alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted, data stays yours | Yes | No |
| Price after year 3 | Still $29 | $3,564+ |
| 5-year cost | $29 | $5,940 |
Where Trainual still wins
- Ecosystem and integrations. Established tools accumulate years of third-party integrations, templates and add-ons. If your workflow is wired into Trainual's ecosystem, switching means rebuilding that plumbing — a real cost.
- Team and enterprise features. Shared workspaces, granular permissions, SSO, audit logs and a vendor to call when something breaks — that is what the higher subscription tiers actually buy, and a pay-once app does not come with it.
- Familiarity and hiring. Trainual is the name people already know. Onboarding a team onto a tool nobody has used before takes time the subscription never charges for.
Where Rampcheck wins
- Price, permanently. $29 once versus $1,188/yr for as long as you use it. There is no renewal, no seat count and no tier gate.
- Checklist templates per role. Multi-step onboarding across day 1 / week 1 / month 1, each step with a due-day offset, assignable to a hire in one click.
- New-hire portal. Every hire gets a private tokenized link with their checklist, progress bar, linked docs and self check-off — no account needed.
- Content library. SOPs and policies as rich HTML docs with optional video links, organized by category and linked from checklist steps.
The math
Less than two weeks of Trainual pays for Rampcheck, and by year three you have kept over $3,500.
- After 1 year: Rampcheck has cost you $29 total — Trainual has cost $1,188.
- After 3 years: Rampcheck is still $29 — the subscription is at $3,564.
- After 5 years: Rampcheck is still $29 — the subscription is at $5,940.
Common questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Rampcheck is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/onboarding-checklist-mvp. The $29 buys the packaged Windows installer and updates; building from source is free.
Where does my onboarding content live?
In a SQLite file on your own server — your playbook stays your playbook, no cloud.
Is this a subscription in disguise?
No. $29 once, no renewal — still $29 in year three while Trainual is past $3,500.
Try Rampcheck — $29, one time
Or get Rampcheck plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.