About Thinkific

Thinkific is a versatile and comprehensive online course platform designed for entrepreneurs and educators. It excels in offering an array of features for course creation, marketing, and sales. Users can build personalized, branded websites using custom web themes and domains, enhancing their online presence. The platform supports diverse teaching tools including quizzes, assignments, and live lessons, fostering interactive learning experiences. Community engagement is a standout feature, with community spaces and notifications that encourage learner interaction. For on-the-go access, Thinkific provides a mobile app, ensuring courses and communities are accessible anytime, anywhere. Course creators benefit from drip scheduling for content release, and sales tools like bundles, coupons, and cross-selling opportunities. Thinkific sets itself apart with its revenue-friendly model – users control pricing and keep all earnings without hidden fees. The platform offers extensive customization for every touchpoint, from learning products to marketing pages, allowing creators to tailor the user experience fully. Over 100 app integrations, including popular marketing and business tools, extend its functionality. Support for creators is a major emphasis. Thinkific offers a robust support team, a thriving creator community, and a comprehensive knowledge base. These resources ensure creators have the support they need at every step. Thinkific's analytics and reporting provide valuable insights into course performance and student engagement, while reliable cloud hosting guarantees smooth content delivery. Secure payment gateways and customizable learning paths add to the platform's comprehensive appeal. This holistic approach makes Thinkific a top choice for anyone looking to create, market, and monetize their knowledge online.
Thinkific Software - Drag-and-drop course builder
Thinkific Software - Easily create and customize courses to match your brand
Thinkific Software - Manage all your courses from one dashboard, on any device
Thinkific Software - Thinkific Advanced Reporting gives you deeper insights on your business so you can make smart decisions quickly.
Thinkific Software - Create Beautiful Online Course Sites
Thinkific Software - It’s never been easier to make your online course vision a reality. Our app store empowers anyone to create meaningful learning experiences, build community or grow a business, no matter their expertise.
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Thinkific pricing

Thinkific does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Thinkific paid version starts at USD 49.00/month.

Starting Price:
USD 49.00/month
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes

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Thinkific Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.2
Functionality
4.2
Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Support
4.2
5 reviews of 189 View all reviews
Dani
Dani
  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 27/04/2023

The best online course platform for those who are starting out.

Excellent, it has helped us get more clients and earn more money without having to set up a website from scratch.

Pros

The number of options available and the affordable price.

Cons

Poor HTML editor. I hope they can improve this.

Mohamed
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for Free Trial
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
1

4
Reviewed on 21/12/2024

Sell your experience with Thinkific

A super easy platform to launch your online teaching business and sell your expertise though unfamiliar with online learning experiences. Thinkific makes both affordable for entrepreneurs and enjoyable for learners as their varied tools and baffling features range from website builder and email automation to e-book creator and webinar planner; it is a world where you can easily start selling your experience, mainly due to the marketing and affiliate tools too.

Pros

A renowned platform built to deliver online courses, sell digital product and market personal expertise through webinars and conferencing facilities. Its robust features as website builder, landing pages creator and the bunch of add-ons to integrate for third party uses as blog posts, make Thinkific stand away from the crowd. Though a beginner, and in few clicks, you can customize your course, enrol students, create and sell e-books, start conferencing and many other unlimited features at low costs. Uploading data can go up to 2G, which is not found with other rivals.

Cons

Actually, so many users speak about bulk enrolment problems and some outdated features, particularly video players. honestly, I also did not like their support help and updates, everything is just general.

Keenan
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
1
Functionality
2
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
1

1
Reviewed on 12/03/2024

Terrible Experience - DO NOT USE

Absolutely terrible. They bait and switched me to take my initial month's fee. Let me launch my course, then deactivated my course without warning. Had to really look bad in front of my students and wasted a bunch of time and money. DO NOT USE!

Pros

My experience getting onboarded onto the product looked great and was easy. I am getting ready to sell a digital course and Thinkific checked all the boxes.

Setting up a course and landing page was simple enough on the free trial. Eventually, I upgraded to the paid version so that I could offer coupon codes as well.

Cons

I had everything ready to go on my course. All my content was uploaded and the landing page was set. I got ready to offer pre-sales for my course to gauge interest and check my pricing (which is a standard practice in the course world). I sent an email to my mailing list with the link to the course landing page and things started off well. A few people started to pre-order then... after an hour it just stopped.

I started getting emails from people that the link to my course was broken. I tried to login into the site and I could not. Trying to recover my password didn't work. It was as if my site had been deleted with no notice. I tried to chat with support, but was directed to an AI bot that was useless and even though I was a paying customer, the phone support refused to help me because I could not login to my account.

I had to send an email to someone which took several days to respond that apparently my account was suspended for "risk" whatever that means and that I would no longer be able to use the site. They could not explain what that meant and didn't seem to care.

Alternatives Considered

Teachable, Podia and Payhip
Shannon
  • Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 10/01/2025

A Great Place to Start (especially if you're bootstrapping)

Thinkific holds a very special place in my heart. At the time I was bootstrapping my business and the free version allowed me a launch pad.

Pros

This was the first site I used when I first started my coaching business. I was able to create landing pages for my first lead magnets with ease despite not having a clue what I was doing!

Cons

At the time, there were minimal options for designs I liked and I eventually grew out of it.

Alternatives Considered

Coursera for Business and Kajabi

Reasons for Switching to Thinkific

As I was just starting my business at the time I found Thinkific, I was able to do so much on the free version. That, to me, speaks to the culture of a company that knows if you give first - you have a loyal, lifelong customer.
Jacob
  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 16/12/2024

We Love Thinkific!

Excellent. They are very responsive to any issues and have real experts answering the support questions.

Pros

So easy to get started. Adding creator content is simple and the designing aspect is also very intuitive.

Cons

The limitations to customize the course player. There are types of lessons, but other than that you are stuck using their templates.

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