Thinkific Plus is essential for education projects of all sizes
April 10, 2025

Thinkific Plus is essential for education projects of all sizes

Jacob Beck | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Thinkific Plus

Thinkific Plus is the tool we use to distribute our free courses around the globe. We needed a solid LMS that could hold up to our audience size while at the same time providing a rich educational experience for our students. Most products made this difficult for us, either because they were too "enterprise," focused on numbers but not quality, or because they were too costly, great for smaller numbers of students. Thinkific Plus allows us to have a great front and back experience for hundreds of thousands of students and is easy enough for all our staff to build quality courses.

Pros

  • Serve large student audiences at reasonable cost
  • Promote quality education towards a variety of learning styles
  • Functional out-of-the-box, but customizable for unique needs

Cons

  • Community interaction for students
  • Common API for all custom functions (currently split between REST and GraphQL)
  • Missing RTL languages
  • With Thinkific Plus, our student body grew by 188,000 students in 2024
It is extremely usable for even moderately technical users. The student experience is fantastic — even our older audience has found it easier to use than other LMSs we've tested. For more experienced software developers, Thinkific Plus gives you all the tools to make the product your own. It's a great experience for developer usability.
Thinkific Plus was better or similar in user accessibility, ability to easily create new content, usability for internal administration, had all the essential features we were looking for plus many additional features, and had the highest satisfaction ratings from our students when we beta tested against other products. It was a no-brainer to go with Thinkific Plus when compared to the competition.

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 Plus is perfectly suited for a wide range of "commercial" education applications. Whether it's internal training or providing content to a wider audience, Thinkific Plus is easy for students and for the course designers to use. However, it is not suited for full academic environments that might need better grade reporting, student status options, or any custom student data outside of basic biographical information.

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