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Thinkific

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Summary

Thinkific is an online platform that empowers individuals and businesses to create, market, and sell online courses, memberships, digital products, and community access. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for content creation, sales, marketing, and analytics, enabling users to monetize their expertise and build learning communities.

Features
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Must Have

4 of 5

Rich Text Editor

Membership & Monetization

Reader Engagement Metrics

Community Feedback Tools

Distribution & Recommendation Engine

Other

7 of 8

Publication Management

User Profiles & Following

Tags & Topics

Email Newsletter Integration

Mobile App Access

Social Sharing & Embedding

Search & Discovery

Audio Story Playback

Pricing
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Basic

$36.00 monthly
  • Unlimited Courses
  • 1 community
  • 5 Digital Downloads
  • 5 Coaching & Webinar sessions
  • Sales tools
  • Abandoned Cart

Start

$74.00 monthly
Popular
  • Everything in Basic, plus
  • Unlimited Live Lessons
  • Unlimited Memberships
  • Unlimited Digital Downloads
  • Unlimited Coaching & Webinar sessions
  • Edit HTML & CSS
  • Sell Bundles and Add-ons

Grow

$149.00 monthly
  • Everything in Start, plus
  • 3 communities
  • Remove Thinkific branding
  • Thinkific Analytics
  • Group Orders

Plus

Custom
  • Everything Thinkific has to offer
  • Unlimited everything
  • CRM Integrations (Hubspot, Salesforce)
  • Single Sign On (SSO)
  • SCORM Compliant
  • API Access
  • Create Student Learning Paths
  • Dedicated Onboarding and Customer Support
Rationale

Thinkific is a platform for creating and selling online courses, memberships, and digital products, which aligns with the core concept of an online publishing platform. While it focuses more on structured courses than free-form articles, it offers many analogous features. It provides tools for content creation (rich text editor, multimedia support), monetization (memberships, various selling tools), analytics for tracking engagement, and community features. It also supports user profiles, tagging/categorization, email automation, and mobile access. The primary difference is its emphasis on 'courses' and 'learning experiences' rather than general 'stories' or 'articles' and it lacks a direct 'recommendation engine' for content discovery in the same way Medium does for articles.