Gnowbe vs. Thinkific

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gnowbe
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Gnowbe headquartered in San Francisco offers their mobile micro-learning application, for adult education.N/A
Thinkific
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Thinkific headquartered in Vancouver provides their system for online course and content creators to distribute their lessons to unlimited students, featuring content schedule distribution, some marketing features, certifications, as well as quizzes and surveys.
$0
per month
Pricing
GnowbeThinkific
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Start
$99.00
per month
Grow
$199.00
per month
Expand
$399.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GnowbeThinkific
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThinkific customers save 25% when they subscribe on an annual basis.
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Community Pulse
GnowbeThinkific
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
GnowbeThinkific
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Gnowbe
6.5
2 Ratings
23% below category average
Thinkific
-
Ratings
Course authoring7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Course catalog or library5.22 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal5.92 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content5.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications8.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Assignments4.72 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance management5.92 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning administration6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Social learning7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Gamification5.92 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning5.92 Ratings00 Ratings
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GnowbeThinkific
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User Ratings
GnowbeThinkific
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
(2 ratings)
8.8
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
GnowbeThinkific
Likelihood to Recommend
Gnowbe
Gnowbe is well suited for many situations. Some examples include when employees are being onboarding and / or off boarded. It is also great for sales enablement and allowing sales people to learn and sharpen their skills. I love how it offers personalized progress tracking. That helps employees see what they are learning and grasping versus what they still need assistance on
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Thinkific
Thinkific is well suited for users who who want to make an impact teaching online, whether that's to B2C with independent course creators, or B2B where you're training clients, partners and internal staff for a company (which is how we deployed the Thinkific Plus plan). Deployment or migration is easy and the speed and ease of course creation and publication is second to none. It's probably the easiest LMS to administer whilst still providing a powerful suite of tools that give you the insight you need to grow your course business.Thinkific is ideal for creating a customer education program for your business, automating onboarding of client training and training partners too. The range of plans Thinkific offer equally make it ideal for smaller personal course creators too.
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Pros
Gnowbe
  • Personalized progress tracking
  • Mobile learning
  • User-friendly
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Thinkific
  • The price for the basic tier is very good compared to other platforms and what you get in it.
  • The look and feel of the site is simply beautiful, even if I'm allowed to customize to certain extent, they maintain things very neat.
  • Allowing to upload videos directly to the platform is a lifesaver.
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Cons
Gnowbe
  • A way to share content you create as well as use others content
  • Leverage more virtual activities
  • Allow free trials
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Thinkific
  • Although it has some great third-part integrations it would be great if it offered more such as links with email service providers such as Mailerlite
  • Assignment feature to be available on the lower tier plans
  • Improve the file size uploads for images and videos
  • Provide a lot more themes
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Likelihood to Renew
Gnowbe
No answers on this topic
Thinkific
We will continue to use Thinkific for our company pieces of training. Until we are able to create our own in house portal, this is an excellent source to have a learning management software tool that is easy to use and easy to implement without much technical training to administer
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Usability
Gnowbe
No answers on this topic
Thinkific
I've used other learning management systems over the last 5 years and believe Thinkific is easily one of the ones that make getting started with zero tech skills or know-how easy peasy. Everything is laid out very well in how to set up your online school, create your courses and market and sell your courses. They provide a lot of great videos tutorials and offer a useful webinar series to help you understand how to market your courses like a pro
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Reliability and Availability
Gnowbe
No answers on this topic
Thinkific
I've never had any issues with accessing Thinkific but I can see when it has been a problem for others. When I get updates on when they are doing maintenance to their platform I tend to make sure that is not the day I plan to be working on my school so as not to get frustrated
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Performance
Gnowbe
No answers on this topic
Thinkific
When it comes to the performance of Thinkific for me I find that it's good but could be better. I tend to think that the larger the files and videos you upload on your courses may add to the impact of it's uploading (not sure if that's actually true or not). But overall the performance of Thinkific via my tablet and desktop is very good when I have a fast speed broadband speed
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Support Rating
Gnowbe
No answers on this topic
Thinkific
I rate Thinkific a ten because of its excellent customer service, ease of use, high-quality product, fair price with excellent ROI, and because they keep making improvements. Using Thinkific solved the problems of piecing together our course with various WordPress plugins, iframes, and payment processing software. It's easy to create a course website for people who can't write code.
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Implementation Rating
Gnowbe
No answers on this topic
Thinkific
The implementation period took time like it would in earning and using any new tool. It was more about being organised, having better time management processes in place and having people you were able to reach out to if you were every able stuck. The other key ting with the implementation period was giving yourself a realistic time scale to get the job completed.
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Alternatives Considered
Gnowbe
We used Microsoft Teams for a while; Gnowbe is far superior. First of all, the mobile application is much more useful. With Gnowbe, online exams have been made much faster and easier. Very good support is provided for content creation. There are options for system integration, and it's pretty easy. I can say that Gnowbe is user-friendly. It has many features that can be useful, such as learning about daily routines, applying standard processes, and communicating a leader's priorities.
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Thinkific
Overall, if I had the choice, Thinkific would be one of the tools in using an online course for instructors and private institutions. The higher-tiered plan is a bit steep for contractor instructors who may need to pay for it themselves to show the course would be a good course for the school to create. The free 3-course is helpful without the bells and whistles. The free program offers you to create three courses and keep all the profit from selling your courses minus a small transaction fee that won't break the break.
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Scalability
Gnowbe
No answers on this topic
Thinkific
The opportunities to scale your online course business with Thinkific is endless. They provide a great range of plans with features, integrations and support to suit the needs of any business as different levels. The key here is knowing where to start with the budget you have and then knowing when it's time to scale up and the tools and resources it will require.
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Return on Investment
Gnowbe
  • Positive engagement by employees seemed to have increased
  • More willingness to learn due to the mobile learning option
  • Increased knowledge
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Thinkific
  • Ability to attract leads with a FREE membership library option
  • Ability to quickly and easily deliver course content without much of a learning curve for course creators
  • If you need affiliates to help sell your product, even though they advertise that they have the option for affiliates, if you want to do it right you must use an additional integration for affiliate software.
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