Great product
April 25, 2025

Great product

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Thinkific Plus

Overall Satisfaction with Thinkific

Thinkific is our new learning management system. We are using it to publish courses and certifications for our community, and also for internal skill development. We have recently migrated to Thinkific and are liking using it so far. Earlier, we weren't able to give badges to students but this limitation no longer exists, which is nice.

Pros

  • Badges
  • Customizations / APIs
  • Easy to use, intuitive interface

Cons

  • Badges need to be tracked, i.e., analytics need to capture badges
  • No option to limit students taking an exam (quiz) just once - major limitation.
  • Integration with our existing user flows became a challenge during migration.
  • Ability to track free user behavior is a major positive
  • Low code platform, which means I can publish a course without having an engineer or developer involved.
  • No direct integration with Snowflake, which is undesirable.
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.
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 have badges but Thinkific does, which is again good for our community of learners.

Do you think Thinkific delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Thinkific's feature set?

Yes

Did Thinkific live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Thinkific go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Thinkific again?

Yes

Thinkific is well suited to design customize landing pages for courses or certifications. Implementing branding is easy. We are using Thinkific to maintain our course catalog, which is utilized by thousands of students each week.
We're finding that customizing payment flows, for example, based on various permutations and combinations is challenging. There's some rigidity to the system, which makes it difficult to implement access for free users vs. subscribers vs. those who just make a one-time payment to register for a certification.

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