Which choice is right for you? Thinkific or Podia?
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Choosing a course platform can be overwhelming. To help you in your research, we’ve broken down the key differences between the most important features and functionality for you.
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1 Million+
courses published
$1.7 Billion
GMV earned on Thinkific
378 Million+
course enrollments
Thinkific vs. Podia
Top Features | Podia | |
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Get started free | ||
Create courses with any content type | ||
Community Spaces | ||
Email and chat support | Email and Live chat only | |
Live events in communities | ||
Student course reviews | ||
Automated tax collection | ||
App integrations | 90+ in the Thinkific App Store | |
Publish Courses | Need to upgrade to paid plan to publish |
What’s important to course creators?
The right tool can help you build, market, and sell an unforgettable course experience worth paying for. Let’s take a look at some of the differences between Thinkific and Podia.
An easy-to-use course builder is the most important part of any course platform. It should allow you to create an engaging and memorable learning experience for your students.
Podia offers the features necessary to build a standard course. Creators looking for deeper learning tools may quickly run into limitations when it comes to building an engaging learning experience that will keep students coming back.
Thinkific offers a course builder designed for creators. It’s simple and gives creators the ability to build their entire course without a big learning curve. Simply put, we offer a design and build experience that is approachable for everyone, and that will drive student engagement and retention.
A great learning experience is vital to your success as a course creator. It will help your students learn more effectively and make them want to share it with their friends — helping you grow your business.
Podia offers a no-frills learning experience. Students are brought into an experience that is expected out of any online course platform.
Thinkific offers an unmatched suite of functionality that extends beyond what’s capable in most course platforms. These features help turn a student’s experience from educational to extraordinary. Afterwards, your students have the option to leave reviews that you can share publicly; helping more students find your course.
After publishing your course, you need to get it in front of the right audience. Sales and marketing tools enable creators to gain visibility and earn revenue.
Podia provides a number of sales tools needed and a few basic marketing features to help you earn revenue from your course.
Thinkific offers sales and marketing features to enable any course creator to get started. With 90+ integrations in the Thinkific App Store; use the best tools in the business for marketing and email automation, increasing sales, and enhancing the learning experience through gamification. Gain the extensibility and flexibility of apps like ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Shopify, Salesforce, and many more. These apps are created by developers for Thinkific and can be downloaded, installed, and implemented without any coding required for all Thinkific users.
Thinkific also provides access to an expert marketplace where you can hire marketing consultants who are experts on the Thinkific platform to help you launch your course and generate more sales. With Thinkific funnels features, you can seamlessly drive leads, nurture your audience, and streamline your sales.
A course platform is a big investment. Not only do you want a tool that fits your budget, but it should also satisfy your needs now and into the future.
Podia offers four pricing tiers that work well for solopreneurs. The low entry point gives you access to tools that fit those just starting out.
Thinkific offers tiers for businesses from side hustle to enterprise. And with add-on features like a Branded Mobile app ($199/mo) and more, no matter what stage you’re in, you have access to the functionality you need without paying for things you don’t need.
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785 reviews on Trustpilot
211 reviews on G2
Grow with Thinkific
Easy to use
Our user-friendly platform is designed so that the only expertise you need is the one you already have.
Puts you in control
Access deeper learning tools that’ll make your content stand out and fully customize your site however you want.
Deliver the experience you want
Build your unique learning experience that lets you wow your audience and have them telling all their friends about it.
Technology and people you can trust
Get support when you need it, a community of course creators to cheer you along, and a network of partners to bring you to the next level.
Over 800,000 creators have trusted Thinkific for student experiences.
I feel like [Thinkific’s] working to constantly improve my experience and the experience of my students. That’s huge!
Jonathan Levi, SuperHuman Academy
Thinkific delivers a great experience for our students and my team. Their customer support is fantastic. By giving us answers and solutions quickly, I have more time to focus on my students. It gives me my time back.
Latrina Walden, Latrina Walden Exam Solutions
Throughout this entire process, it has been made clear that we were in this together – not only to create mutual success between our two organizations but to have a positive impact on education at a time that we all need it most.
Nabil Zary, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences
When we made the Daily Challenge, we set out to be the world’s best online math course taught in the English language. If I didn’t believe Thinkific was the best online course builder, we wouldn't be here!
Dr. Po-Shen Loh, Daily Challenge
Thinkific is so much easier to use. The design is easy and classy. I haven’t had a single person not be able to find what they’re looking for.
Shelley Paulson, Shelley Paulson Education
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