About Thinkific
Thinkific is an online course platform that is designed for entrepreneurs and trusted by enterprise. Share your knowledge, scale your business and bring your vision to life with the most robust and intuitive course and website builder.
With beautiful themes and pre-structured course templates, Thinkific makes it easy to get going. WIth custom domains, white labelling, and a choice of pre-set styles as well advanced customization settings, its also easy to make the whole experience *yours*. Never compromise on quality or your brand's integrity.
Thinkific offers versatile and powerful course building features to create exactly the type of experience that you want. With unlimited hosting and a range of different lesson types -- video, downloads, surveys, quizzes, live lessons, and more -- you can have complete control. Thinkfiic also plays nicely with others, and offers a long list of integrations with all kinds of software you use to build content and run your business, including: Shopify, Zoom, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Google Analytics, Intercom, Typeform, and more.
Thinkific lets users enroll students and track their progress, with comprehensive reporting and the option for pass/fail assessments, and has full e-commerce functionality. The option to drip release course content ensures that students on monthly subscriptions will have a reason to keep returning to their courses.
Thinkific's user-friendly format is optimized for every platform and device so that students can follow along from anywhere in the world.
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Outstanding course-hosting platform that makes your life easy
Reviewed on 21/01/2021
Overall the experience has been excellent over the past four years. I have to add that the...
Overall the experience has been excellent over the past four years. I have to add that the Thinkific Helpdesk is genuinely helpful, and their response time is lightning fast. They have an option for "how urgent is your issue?" when you submit your help ticket, and if you select "urgent," they actually get back to you very quickly, as in, within a few hours. This is essential when your income comes from your course website and you need help updating or fixing something!
Pros
I love that Thinkific is comprehensive so I get to focus on content creation and student outreach. Thinkific manages the payment portal and moves students smoothly through the course experience. In a lot of ways, it's set-it-and-forget-it, meaning - once you have a course set up the way you want inside Thinkific, students move through it beautifully and all you have to worry about is getting new students!
Cons
My only suggestion for Thinkific would be to provide a few more options for testimonials layouts on the sales/landing pages. I'd like more flexibility and options to showcase or emphasize certain student experiences... but otherwise, I wouldn't change anything.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Thinkific LMS platform. An honest review
Reviewed on 07/05/2022
Thinkific is a great LMS with many inbuilt integrations. Even though most of the integrations are...
Thinkific is a great LMS with many inbuilt integrations. Even though most of the integrations are not free, they help in building a better LMS all round.
Pros
Other than being a good Learning management platform, students could upload video contents and gifs in the communities of a thinkific school. This isn't possible with other LMS I've used. I think this is a great advantage in my opinion as videos drives conversations better.
Cons
If I could upload SCORM/HTML5 contents it'll be a better product for me.
Also, the course builder layouts are not as sleek as I expected in comparison to other products.
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I didn't want to get involved in the technical stuffs involved in building an LMS from scratch. I preferred using a SAAS platform (in this case Thinkific) that would cater for the technical aspects of the platform while I cared about creating contents for my students.- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Good overall with critical limitations for teaching online live
Reviewed on 07/02/2021
Good. They have excellent customer support and they responded to me quickly even during busy times....
Good. They have excellent customer support and they responded to me quickly even during busy times. I actually recommended them for a company that has recorded videos and could benefit from using a modern LMS to share their recorded lessons.
Pros
I think I like the idea of the software. There are alternatives. I think I picked Thinkific first because they have clear description about their software, seemed reputable and seemed like they have good customer service and responsiveness. Their website is nicely responsive for different screen sizes. Although the theme itself is limited, and you are on your own to customize it, I felt that the drag and drop choices for the editor covered everything I need.
Cons
There were critical limitations that I felt decreased the value of the software for my business. The first thing that made me feel uncomfortable is that the website you build for your business through their LMS software would publish to the public immediately as you save the changes. I look thoroughly through the website theme settings, but there was no way to keep the website as "password protected" or "private" before it is published. As a result, I felt I should hold on about sharing important details until I write the entire content of the website, then drag and drop the content for the layout, and then put the content.
After that first issue, I felt less excited. There were other limitations that resulted in me losing interest. I didn't feel like I want to pay to customize my website with HTML and CSS. importing your own website website was not a convenient option.
My courses were live online but their website had no way of sharing the time on the website based on the user local or system time. I would have to pay for their Pro plan and do it myself with javascript. I could look up and learn how to do it, but I didn't want to. I felt like the software was good for only recorded content. The price they were asking for was not convincing anymore. Slowly and slowly I lost interest.
Finally, I saw that they charge a flat fee for each student plus their monthly fee, for any student after the 100th student. I decided not to move forward with them.
Reasons for Switching to Thinkific
I ended up not choosing Thinkific and went with an alternative.- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Thinkific Learning Management System
Reviewed on 18/03/2021
Amazing! I highly recommend the software and the team. For the money, you cannot do any better!
Amazing! I highly recommend the software and the team. For the money, you cannot do any better!
Pros
I love the customer support and training. I was able to launch my program in two hours with no assistance. The Quick Start program is an amazing example of what we should all aspire to in our online training videos. The software is easy to navigate and has some beautiful templates to help jumpstart user progress.
Cons
I was a little limited with the amount and layout of content on the course sales pages. Wish options here were more flexible. Also, the reporting at my subscription level is a little time-consuming requiring exports to Excel to confirm actual totals each time. It's easy enough to work around, however, and I have found customer support to be exceptional at helping me with some of my more creative workarounds.
Reasons for Switching to Thinkific
Capabilities, particular strengths in online learning management, ease of use, price, customer support- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Empowering me to impact more entrepreneurs!
Reviewed on 18/03/2021
Pros
Building the sales page was ridiculously simple. The templates kept the process streamlined and allowed for simple edits as needed.
Love the opportunity to build my course with so many options for various types of learners and delivering content in different ways to keep students engaged.
Cons
In the course management page, I would love the ability to map out the various elements within each section, even if I don’t have the content ready to upload yet (ie, I want a video to go here and a worksheet to go there, but they aren’t complete yet)
Reasons for Switching to Thinkific
User reviews and Black Friday deal! I had to try it out and have been very pleased so far.Thinkific FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Thinkific.Q. What type of pricing plans does Thinkific offer?
Thinkific offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: USD 49.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Free accounts available, with core features only There are 3 subscriptions plans available: Basic - $39 per month (paid annually) or $49 per month (paid monthly) Pro - $79 per month (annually) or $99 or month (monthly) Premier - $399 per month (annually) or $499 per month (monthly)
Q. Who are the typical users of Thinkific?
Thinkific has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Thinkific support?
Thinkific supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Thinkific support mobile devices?
Thinkific supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Thinkific integrate with?
Thinkific integrates with the following applications:
AWeber, Accredible, ActiveCampaign, Brillium Solution, CartStack, Constant Contact 1, ConvertKit, Google Analytics 360, Intercom, Invoicebus, Keap, Lessonspace, Mailchimp, Meta for Business, Mixpanel, PayPal, Poptin, ProveSource, Quaderno, Qualaroo, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Segment, Shopify, Stripe, Sumo, ThingLink, Typeform, Zapier, Zoom Meetings, eWebinar, wizBank
Q. What level of support does Thinkific offer?
Thinkific offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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