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As a business owner or entrepreneur, you are likely pulled in a million different directions, so making it easier to select a high-quality learning management system (LMS) that works for you gives you the freedom to focus on what matters most – your business and your customers. 

At Thinkific, we believe that choosing the right learning platform is more about your business than ours, and we don’t know much about you (yet)! So before diving too deep into features we highly recommend booking a call with our solutions team to help us align on the best way to achieve your goals.

With that said, to make life simpler, we’ve built this guide to better highlight the differences between two popular platforms – Thinkific and TalentLMS.   

But first, let’s do a quick refresher on these two platforms.

Thinkific 

Thinkific enables entrepreneurs, speakers, authors, trainers, and companies to create, market, sell and deliver their own online courses. Our mission at Thinkific is no less than to revolutionize the way people learn and earn online by giving them the tools they need to turn their expertise into a sustainable business that impacts both them and their audience. 

As you scale, Thinkific scales with you. Our Thinkific Plus plan gives high-growth, high-volume organizations the flexibility and reliability needed to provide online education the way they want it. Thinkific Plus supports mid-sized companies focused on revenue generation, customer education, partner education, or employee education at scale with a cost-effective alternative to bigger, clunkier, traditional LMS platforms. You can learn more about Thinkific Plus here.

TalentLMS 

TalentLMS markets itself as a super-easy, cloud LMS to train employees, partners and customers. It was designed for people that are looking to get their training online quickly without a lot of customization to support the needs of their audience. The platform comes with pre-made courses covering customer service, sales, and policy and compliance. 

On their homepage, you’ll see this messaging: “The fastest path to better training.”


Thinkific vs TalentLMS and other online course platforms

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Thinkific vs. Teachable: Detailed Comparison

Student Experience

We understand that your students, customers, or employees’ success are vital to your success as a business. That is why Thinkific has been designed specifically with student experience as a core attribute. Our course player, themes, customization options, and student dashboard reflect this. TalentLMS’s platform is built for people that are looking to rapidly deploy training content rather than creating an engaging student experience. Customer reports suggest that TalentLMS’s student interface is outdated and can be difficult to navigate. In contrast, Thinkific goes above and beyond to create a seamless branded student experience.

“This company [Thinkific] cares about its customers and user experience. I find the platform to be very user-friendly and well thought out. They incorporate lots of features to improve the student experience, which I appreciate. There are tons of articles and videos sent to you regularly to help you improve your course and business. Their customer service is also fantastic.” Online Reviewer

eCommerce Capabilities

Thinkific was built for the entrepreneur looking to sell courses online. We ensure that if you’re selling courses as your primary business model, or wanting to do so down the road to compliment your other education programs, that we have an easy to use system with a setup checkout, day of accessible funds and eCommerce integrations. In contrast, TalentLMS is built for training purposes and lacks eCommerce functionality. This is a choice by their platform to focus on internal training and is reflected in their positioning and reviews. 

“We offer some integrations with payment gateways and specific eCommerce features allowing our customers to sell their courses through their TalentLMS portal but it is not our main focus…Using these editors you have more options, but CSS and Javascript knowledge is required. We cannot provide customization services to our customers, according to our policy, but our software support engineers are always available to advise and guide you through.” – TalentLMS CTO’s response to an Online Reviewer

Customization

Entrepreneurs and businesses that are looking to create a scalable online course platform require a higher level of customization to create a unique and seamless student experience. Thinkific supports this need with tons of easy to use features including white-labeling, custom domains, branding options, API access, SSO, and integrations with industry-leading software services. While TalentLMS are quick to say they are ‘easy to customize’, the ease of use stops after email edits, changing fonts and colors, and custom badges. For more “advanced” customizations, CSS or Javascript knowledge is required. 

“User and admin interface are easy to use and very intuitive. I feel like it’s much better than others in terms of UI. It is also very easy to design your curriculum and draft your courses. You can make a sales page with a countdown timer in minutes, which is great to use for quick launches.” – Online Reviewer

Customer Support

Thinkific is consistently applauded for our outstanding customer support. This is because customer support has been institutionalized at Thinkific – every single employee takes regular turns doing support shifts. TalentLMS is also positively reviewed for its customer support and quick response time once customers are onboarded. Due to having a smaller team, their sales support has been reviewed as slow to react. 

 “My experience so far with Thinkific has been remarkable. The help and support plus the service and features they offer worldwide is amazing beyond one’s imagination. I love how their mentors and agents follow up with helping people globally trying to have an online presence. I strongly recommend Thinkific to everyone who wants to develop an online course, book, training tutorial or anything that’s relevant to the learning of a better and brighter helpful future for others.” – Online Reviewer

Summary: Thinkific vs TalentLMS

TalentLMS was built for the busy trainer that is looking to deploy content quickly to their internal team or customers. While their platform is simple to use from an administrator’s side, it is lacking in terms of student experience and customization capabilities. In contrast, Thinkific was built with your students’ success as our top priority. We will support you and your business every step of the way with advanced features, integrations, customizations, and the customer support you need to scale.

TalentLMS vs Thinkific Comparison Table

 

ThinkificTalentLMS
Pricing (Monthly)$99$129
UsersUnlimited100
Single Sign OnYesYes
SSLYesNo
Customer Support
PhoneYesYes
EmailYesYes
Student Experience
Send Personalized automated emails to your studentsYesYes
Student progress reportingYesYes
Assignments, Quizzes, Surveys, ExamsYesYes
Built in Student DiscussionYesYes
Course reviews (social proof)YesNo
Multiple InstructorsYesYes
Storyline, Captivate and moreYesYes
Voice over presentationsYesNo
Completion certificatesYesYes
Marketing & Sales
Free, Paid and SubscriptionYesYes
Stripe, PayPalYesYes
Coupons & PromotionsYesYes
Upsells & BundlesYesYes
GroupsYesYes
Integrations (AWeber, MailChimp, InfusionSoft, etc)YesYes
Advanced Marketing Integrations (ie: Mixpanel, Intercom, Segment.io etc.)YesNo
Affiliate programYesNo
White LabelingYesYes
Features
Drip ContentYesYes
Time-Limited CoursesYesYes
Prerequisite lessons and coursesYesYes
Bulk import course contentYesYes
Bulk Student Import / EnrollmentYesYes
Site Builder – Drag and Drop Page designerYesNo
Themes and Color pickersYesYes
Easily add externally hosted content & appsYesYes
Custom DomainsYesYes
Private / hidden coursesYes
MailChimp IntegrationYesNo
WebhooksYesNo
Landing Page, Sales Page Custom HTML/CSSYesYes
Multiple Course/Site AdminsYesYes
SSL CertificateYesYes
Scorm and Tin CanNoYes
APIYesYes

 

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We hope you’ve found this comparison of Thinkific vs TalentLMS useful. Features and support are constantly changing! This analysis was accurate to the best of our knowledge as of August 2021