Thinkific Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Thinkific to create online self-paced courses for those that are interested in learning the content I teach. Thinkific helps me by bringing many different tools into a central location. I am able to easily upload my teaching content. The website is intuitive and well laid out. The ability to have a landing page and website created from my course content keeps things efficient. Additionally, Thinkific integrates with Kit, which is my email client, and the payment portal setup has been easy to navigate.

Likelihood to Recommend

I started with Thinkific a few years ago, so the features were limited. They have come a long way with integrating other services directly into the platform. For example, the payment gateway has been set up so you don't need to use Stripe anymore. They have added in AI features and now they have started to do email campaigns directly in the platform.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Thinkific for my courses, digital download lead magnets, and digital workbooks. The business problems I solve are for job seekers, providing out-of-the-box thinking search strategies as well as leveraging AI for building new income streams for the everyday person even if they are not looking to leave their current employer. Thinkific allows me to create amazing landing pages, ability to email and create funnels, and so much more. It's a convenient one stop shop and I love it!

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as our course and resources platforms for teachers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Thinkific is more appropriate, in our organization's opinion, to scenarios in which you already have a navigation process in mind, all of your courses organized somewhere else. It is harder to use it to start from scratch. The user experience part needs to be added by us and there's not enough guidance on how to effectively do that.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it for my online courses.

Likelihood to Recommend

Is very easy to upload the videos and photos in the course. I don't like the photo gallery option in the landing page, it change the photos on a weird size, on my laptop it cut it up too much in horizontal. I don't like that the flow email on Thinkific doesn't have too much design and that the list of flow email doesn't include student who have bought courses already, it just includes the leads.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Thinkific as my education portal for my target audience of trade professionals working in the built environment.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe it's the best education platform for me.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been struggling with starting an online training platform for over six years. :( I am super technology-challenged, and as a one-woman business owner (and I work full-time, as well), I needed an easy-to-learn solution for my training business. And I found it! Super easy, with great how-to instructions and videos, and a quick response to emails. I have also recorded my presentation, and it is just as user-friendly. I feel empowered and able. Thanks Thinkific!

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it is well-suited for companies like mine that offer a variety of courses. Not just one.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Thinkific to host my online painting courses and communities. As a former public school teacher, I found that Thinkific was the most user-friendly and organized to use, both for me and my students. I love the community feature where my students can upload their artworks and give and receive feedback. Their customer service is excellent, and they respond quickly to any questions or concerns you have. I would highly recommend Thinkific to anyone looking to host a course or community.

Likelihood to Recommend

Thinkific is well-suited if you want to host an online course and have a variety of materials, such as videos, PDFs, and assignments. A plus is that you can host a community linked to your course, making it easy to give feedback.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I began creating my online courses on Thinkific 5 years ago and have not regretted it. I started on a different platform but when I wasn't getting the support I needed, I went looking for something else and found Thinkific. Thinkific is easy to use, has great support and publishes training that supports a startup course creator like me. And it seems they are always working on new functionality which is very important and keeps me around, happily.

Likelihood to Recommend

I honestly can't think of a scenario where it wouldn't be appropriate.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Thinkific to provide our nonprofit's courses on the internet; it does a good job of this; however directing users to the website + to buy the courses proves difficult; some users may find the sign-in process to long or difficult; another issue we have is Thinkific charges us a monthly fee which it taxes...even though we are a nonprofit; legally we are tax-exempt; we have been unable to resolve this;

Likelihood to Recommend

I think the course program + questionnaires with it work well; it is getting people to sign up for our courses that is problematic for our non-profit; we could use help with marketing + developing strategies for that;

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Thinkific to teach masterclasses that are combined with a course. It helps me save time by doing group coaching or teaching several people at once. Because I can record the courses, I only have to teach the class once or modify the videos and update the downloadable handouts without starting from scratch. I am also able to offer the same course or masterclass as a recording over and over each year.

Likelihood to Recommend

Thinkific is well suited for helping service oriented customers that I coach on ways to create passive income products. As well as, recording training courses for their employees, sales staff and in some cases providing information for customers. It can be used for training and teaching.

I may be less appropriate for product based businesses.