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    Thinkific

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AThinkific Plus is a scalable learning platform that’s designed to be easy to use for teams and customers. Thinkific Plus offers enterprise-grade features that scale with the needs of enterprises, and the service includes a people seriously dedicated to helping users to reach their goals.N/A
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    Considered Both Products
    Thinkific
    Chose Thinkific
    I preferred Thinkific's approach.
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    Kajabi costs more than Thinkific because it charges based on the number of products and courses you create, whereas Thinkific doesn't. On Squarespace, there are limitations on how long your course can be, and the cost is not justified by what you get. Podia is the most …
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    It's the simplest, easiest to use - and develop courses in - and it's Canadian!
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    I think Thinkific has better value for money, especially if you are creating courses on your own. Once you get to the point where you need multiple people managing the site, it can get expensive.
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    I think Thinkific is way better than Udemy. The Udemy platform was not user friendly, they require you submitting for approval before you can even upload a course and have so many restrictions. They never even approved my course, nor did they email me as to why. The support is …
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    Chose Thinkific
    They are similar, but they help promote and market better than Thinkific does.
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    I prefer Thinkific over Kajabi because I found Kajabi to be less organized for teachers to keep track of everything that needed to be uploaded.
    Incentivized
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    Thinkific is the only product like this I have ever used;
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    I believe that the rates and the over all set up and view are better than both. I also like the separation site. Having your own custom site is so much better for business and being able to create landing pages as well. It’s a great value
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    Affordable, efficient and highly effective!
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    I’ve used both platforms and found Thinkific to be far more intuitive and flexible than Teachable. The layout of the dashboard feels cleaner and more user-friendly, which makes managing courses a smoother experience. I particularly appreciated the level of control Thinkific …
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    I don't have experience with other platforms, therefore my opinion is limited. However, a big reason I went with Thinkific was that an organization I did leadership development for used it to create their own course. I liked the experience and wanted to replicate it for myself. …
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    We used Academy of Mine before Thinkific - for us it was a horrid expereince - terribly clunky interface, customer support lacking, horrid fornt end experience for learners, even worst backend experience for users.

    We evaluted many others, but our priority was conenction with S…
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    Better than Absorb and TalentLMS but, in my opinion, worst than LearnWorlds.
    Incentivized
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    combination of course, community, landing page, billing, marketing, analytics. reputable, Canadian based, allows SCRM
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    I inherited Thinkific when I stepped into my role. But my colleagues chose Thinkific because it offered a good balance of commerce-ready, user-friendly interface, and tiered pricing plans
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    Thinkific feels much more modern.
    Incentivized
    Chose Thinkific
    We ended up choosing Thinkific over competitors because of the ease of use to initially get started. The pricing and packaging were favorable for our use case and needs, and the customer support was strong as we were initially getting started with a few challenging items such …
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    This review is only for the course building functionality. We moved to Articulate 360 for the course building portion of the program because it's way more feature rich and have been please with it's capabilities. We've yet to investigate other LMS options because we've been so …
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    We used a training platform called Rise. While it was a good platform to build and host courses, it gave us zero room for custom options and or branding. Thinkific allowed us to create our own branded website to house courses, and hide content based on where they are in their …
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    Thinkific is much better than Skilljar, which why we decided to migrate. First, the payment structure is not MAU-based, which is great. AI integration is much better, and I can generate captions for my courses using AI, which wasn't possible with Skilljar. Also, Skilljar didn't …
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    WorkRamp is paid per user and also a platform fee, making it a less financially viable option
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    Chose Thinkific
    I think that Thinkific has a lot of the same features as many other products, except these features are all found in one central location (for the most part) vs having to use several different apps and platforms. While there are some things that other platforms do better, like …
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    Would buy again
    88%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    87%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Thinkific
    Small Businesses
    iSpring Suite
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Articulate 360
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Articulate 360
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Thinkific
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (44 ratings)
    Availability
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.6
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Thinkific
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Thinkific
    I think Thinkific is very well suited if you want more control and not a ton of competition. It is very well suited if you want to create courses because it does an amazing job with providing course outline examples for you to stay organized and so forth. The only thing I would say where the courses might be less appropriate is if someone is expecting it to be like an udemy where people can see a ton of different course creators all in one place with course recommendations. Thinkific is not that type of platform and I LOVE that. On Thinkific, it almost feels like our site is our own ya know. I tried out other platforms and it just felt like you were competing with so many other people and could see other courses. Felt like being on a platter served with others. Thinkific just feels more unique in the sense it feels like when people come to your page, they are only seeing your page.
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    Pros
    Thinkific
    • Enables course creators to deliver high quality courses very fast
    • Offers unlimited hosting for videos included in the subscription price
    • Provides an easy to use administration interface that's powerful and accessible
    • Easy to scale subscription tiers on B2C plans, cost effective highly scaleable B2B plans (Thinkific Plus) ideal for companies who want to start a customer education program
    • Amazing support and account management team - great mindset and people in the teams.
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    Cons
    Thinkific
    • auto formatting of some course building content, does not format well on phone vs desktop
    • filter by group functionality for website based content, it's mostly filter by enrollments
    • the plug and play web building is convenient but really we need a UX/UI designer to build a super good looking website. Plug and play builder works but doesnt look SUPER sharp if done by someone with no dev skills or coding ability
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Thinkific
    I'm very likely to renewal as long as Thinkific stays focused on helping small businesses like myself to stay in the know of new and more effective ways to use digital learning tools to help our students get better success. I will also stay with Thinkific if they do not intend to hike up the prices and keep the different price plans suit all businesses regardless of the size.
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    Usability
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    Under Site Builder, when trying to add a new section, so many templates appear; however, preview is not shown, which makes it super difficult and time consuming to identify a template that suits the purpose. Customization of certification designs is a bit difficult too. There are limitations to the type of quiz questions I can create - for example, there's no option to have fill in the blank questions.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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
    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
    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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    Online Training
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    It was good and easy to understand
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    Implementation Rating
    Thinkific
    I highly recommend utilizing the bulk importer for video content early on, as it saves a massive amount of time during the initial setup phase. Another insight is to set up your custom domain and email integrations (like Mailchimp or HubSpot) at the very beginning of the implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Thinkific
    ClickFunnels is great for funnels, but as of now, it does not do well with e-learning. Maybe they'll change that in ClickFunnels 2.0. But for now, I use Thinkific because I need a place where the students can come into their own dashboard, find all the courses they have purchased on a single place and be able to track their progress.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    Great use easy and simple
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    Scalability
    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
    Thinkific
    • No email marketing makes it more difficult to collect leads.
    • Price can be a barrier at time for small businesses who don't have revenue.
    • Easy to use and helps with my business needs vs platforms like Squarespace.
    • Community building through workshops and webinars Thinkific host.
    • Access to educational resources and mobile app.
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