Thinkific
thinkific.comSummary
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.
Features11/13
See allMust 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
PricingTiered
See allBasic
- Unlimited Courses
- 1 community
- 5 Digital Downloads
- 5 Coaching & Webinar sessions
- Sales tools
- Abandoned Cart
Start
- 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
- Everything in Start, plus
- 3 communities
- Remove Thinkific branding
- Thinkific Analytics
- Group Orders
Plus
- 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.
