Thinkific vs. Teachable
Top Features
Price
Unlimited courses and communities
Enroll unlimited number of students
Create courses with any content type
Learning communities
Administrator accounts
Expert customer support
Live Lessons with Zoom
Student course reviews
Automated tax collection
App integrations
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 Teachable.
Course Creation
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.
Teachable offers the features necessary to build a standard course. Creators have all the basic functionality such as adding videos and creating quizzes. Creators looking for deeper learning tools may quickly run into a ceiling on what’s capable.
Thinkific offers a course builder designed for creators who have the students’ learning experience in mind. Tools to enhance the experience such as Live Lessons with Zoom, assignments, and a built-in presentation creator make it easy to take your course to the next level.
Course Creation
No design or technical experience required
Create courses with any content type
Downloadable
Built-in presentation creator
Assignments
Graded courses
Recurring Live Lessons with Zoom
Embed many types of multimedia content including Storyline, Captivate & More
Learning Experience
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.
Teachable 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 exciting to extraordinary. Afterwards, your students have the option to leave reviews that you can share publicly; helping more students find your course.
Teaching and Student Experience
Easy course navigation
Optimized for all devices
Student progress tracking
Certificates of completion
Learning Communities
Student course reviews
Student social sharing
3rd-party app integrations
Sales and Marketing
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.
Teachable provides a number of sales tools needed and a few basic marketing features to help you earn revenue from your course. Creators should be aware of hefty transaction fees for those in tiers below Teachable Professional.
Thinkific offers sales and marketing features to enable any course creator to get started. With 70+ 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.
Sales
Create free, paid, and time-limited courses
Customizable payment plans and offers
Coupons and promotions
Subscriptions
Bundling
Streamlined checkout
Order Bumps
Built-in payment processor
Transaction fees for paid products
B2B selling options
Marketing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Bulk email students
3rd-party app integrations
Design Customization
Compatible with existing websites
Customizable course landing pages
Support
It’s important to choose a course platform that you can trust. Getting the answers to your questions should be easy and your data should be secure.
Teachable’s support is limited to asynchronous email support. Creators on the Business and Professional tier can take advantage of live chat support and group coaching calls.
Whether you’re looking for a network of experts, a community of peers, or a responsive support team; Thinkific has you covered. In addition, as your business grows and your learning platform becomes mission critical, Thinkific offers more security and support options to ensure your success.
Customer Support
Multiple support options
Private instructor community
Access to experts
Dedicated Customer Success Team
Security
99.9% uptime & 24/7 monitoring
Secure cloud hosting & daily backups
Dedicated
Site Administration
Administrator accounts
Single Sign On (SSO)
Multi-Factor Authentication
Pricing
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.
Teachable offers four pricing tiers that work well for solopreneurs and small businesses.
Thinkific offers tiers for businesses from side hustle to enterprise. No matter what stage you’re in, you have access to the functionality you need without paying for things you don’t need.
Pricing
Free
Core Plan (Thinkific Basic / Teachable Basic)
Grow Plan (Thinkific Pro / Teachable Professional)
$149/mo for Pro + Growth
Scale Plan (Thinkific Premier / Teachable Business)
Expansion (Thinkific Plus)
Thinkific is rated "Excellent" based on 487 reviews on Trustpilot
Teachable is rated "Average" based on 130 reviews on Trustpilot
Grow with Thinkific
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Join more than 50,000 successful Thinkific Course creators and businesses

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.