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.
Pricing starting from:
US$49.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Thinkific
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland , China, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, Hong Kong SAR China, Ireland, India, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, United States, South Africa and 18 others
Supported Languages
Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch , English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese and 24 others
Pricing starting from:
US$49.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Thinkific: 88
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- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Thinkific is everything you need to publish online courses. There are different levels , even...
Reviewed on 9/11/2017
It allows a person to publish an online course and customize everything, including the price you...
It allows a person to publish an online course and customize everything, including the price you sell it for. Thinkific has everything you need to be successful. AND they offer lots of webinars and training as you need! I look forward to using it more as I grow my online publishing business!
Pros
I like that it is customizable. I like that Thinkific offers lots of webinars and help with all aspects of publishing online courses. It allows a couple ways to collect money for your courses. They spell out exactly what to do! For a newbie like me, I began setting things up months ago while I was working on my course. As I completed it, I began uploading the lectures and made some changes to my text and landing page and other info. Easy to make it your own. I am happy with how professional it all looks. Now I will get busy with the marketing end and Thinkific can help with info about that too! Customer service is awesome and they reach out frequently to see what they can do to guide you! I highly recommend this solution for getting an online course published. I am at the entry level, but am testing the waters until I need to go further and unlock more features.
Cons
As expected the free version is basic, so in order to get to some of the good stuff, you have to upgrade. Not a big deal really, since I am producing my first course and need to go slowly.
- Industry: Nonprofit Organisation 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 18/3/2021
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: Education Management
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
Customer Service Very Disappointing
Reviewed on 22/10/2019
Very frustrating! Not a customer-friendly service. While they are friendly and say they hope you...
Very frustrating! Not a customer-friendly service. While they are friendly and say they hope you are having a nice day, they do not answer questions (or apparently read email chains).
There is no support for European customers I fed this back to them when I first signed up around 2 years ago and nothing has changed. I have given them all of the feed back given here but they do not take any action.
Waiting at least a day for an answer is totally unacceptable. What makes it even more frustrating is that, after waiting for a reply, they ask for information that was already included in your original email (and then you have to wait another day for a response).
It just seems as though they work at their convenience, not the customer's. And yet they are happy to take the subscriptions when they are not providing an adequate service.
Pros
I was so excited to find this product and thought it would be ideal for my needs
Cons
The software is not user-friendly. I was hoping that it would be more straightforward and my staff have also commented that is it not user-friendly.
There is nobody to call when you have a query and can only email. It takes them a day to get back to you. And we are based in the UK and with the time difference, we have to wait at least a day for an answer. What makes it even more frustrating is that, after waiting for a reply, they ask for information that was already included in your original email (and then you have to wait another day for a response).
I sent a query on Monday asking how to do something and the reply said 'see instructions below' and there were no instructions there. In the same email, they asked me to confirm the email address (which I had emailed them on and they had clearly not tried this). I responded right away and just got an email asking how they could help me! (They clearly had not read the email chain).
It is now 9pm at night on Tuesday and will be at least Wednesday afternoon with the time difference until I may get a reply and actually proceed.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Empowering me to impact more entrepreneurs!
Reviewed on 18/3/2021
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.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Project your career by making your courses known on the net
Reviewed on 23/4/2018
An excellent way to place and sell your courses on the net, making you gain prestige in the online...
An excellent way to place and sell your courses on the net, making you gain prestige in the online educational area.
Pros
A very easy to use application that projects your career as an instructor and educator, you can sell the courses to students or companies, allowing you to take better advantage as it allows you to enlarge your professional profile, showing the courses you have done and who and how many have seen, making you notice in the professional area, it is quite complete and easy to use, with an attractive cost for the market.
Cons
I think they should improve a little the visual and design area, to make it more pleasing to the eye, allowing you to customize more each course and let your imagination fly to catch a larger audience, doing this would improve even more this excellent application.
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: US$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:
Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
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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