<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThinkific only allows you to import videos into the cloud library. Even then you cannot import other file types like media, pdf, etc. Because of this, you have to upload content individually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it comes to Course creation Teachable is more facilitated than Thinkific. Even though both the platforms have efficient course creators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nEngagement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n It is very important for an online course to keep the students engaged. To make sure they are following and understanding a topic, you have to test them and assess their engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Communication<\/h4>\n\n\n\n Teachable has a commenting feature<\/strong> attached to every chapter or lecture. Here students can post their doubts, discuss the topic. The discussions are more topic limited yet equally effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThinkific has a discussion thread which you can attach to the course.<\/strong> In it, students can post their doubts, read previous discussions, and connect with fellow students.<\/p>\n\n\n\nQuizzes and Assignments<\/h4>\n\n\n\n A successful online course will test the students of their knowledge. And to do so, both platforms allow you to hold quizzes and accept assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Thinkific additionally allows you to create surveys, polls to get the feedback from the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drip and Lock<\/h4>\n\n\n\n Thinkific and Teachable allow you to send drip emails to the students with little reminders for chapter completion, deadline reminders, etc. They also allow the creators to lock the students’ progress until they have submitted their assignments or if they haven’t completed a lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Completion Certificate<\/h4>\n\n\n\n It is important to send an authentic certificate to students to indicate the course completion. Teachable has three certificate templates for you to choose from. On the other hand, Thinkific uses a third-party service to create its certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nReporting <\/h4>\n\n\n\n In order to analyze student engagement, both platforms have reporting tools. The tool will let you know the completion rate of a course, lessons completed rate, quiz attempt rate, reviews, and average course rating. You can also track new students and returning students, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPayment Processing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Both platforms allow you to accept payments for your courses. But the key is how do they process it and deliver it to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachable has its own payment gateway and custom payment gateways. The Teachable payment gateway processes the fee through their account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They have monthly payouts which mean you will only get paid at the end of each month. If you are located outside the US or Canada, it will take more than 30 to 60 days to process your payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0The custom gateway allows you to accept money through PayPal and Stripe. But it is only available for professional and business plan members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachable also allows you to automatically pay your authors and affiliates for 2% transaction fees.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAnd Teachable takes care of VAT and tax calculation for all students again for a 2% admin fee. It will automatically add the correct VAT amount to the course invoice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinkific on the other hand allows you to accept payment through PayPal and Stripe. The payment is processed and transferred to your account immediately for no transaction fees. But you will have to handle paying your co-authors and affiliates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, Thinkific doesn’t calculate VAT. But you can integrate your account with a third-party service that will automatically calculate VAT, GST, and sales taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSite Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Both Teachable and Thinkific allows you to design your own website for your courses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nTeachable and Thinkific offers you free hosting and SSL for all their paid plans. And they take care of all the backend processes like security, backup, updates, and maintenance. So there is no technical work you have to worry about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThey also give you a free subdomain for your website (yourwebsite.teachable.com or yourwebsite.thinkific.com). You can also white-label your website (yourwebsite.com) with a custom domain if you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On both websites, you can change the website text with your own text and also change the language of the website. This will allow you to teach regional courses too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Website Themes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n Thinkific has a theme library with three elegant website themes. Each theme has multiple styles. These themes and styles can be completely customized with your brand logo, font, and color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition, it gives you access to a power editor. That is you can edit the source codes. Thus you can even import your own theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachable has a monotonous blueprint for all of its courses. The only customization you can do is add your brand name, logo, fonts, and colors for your website. Other than that they have a default layout. However, we must also remember that their site design is very professional and efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Page Builder<\/h4>\n\n\n\n A web page has many elements like the banner, header, footer, buttons, text, images, menu, etc. Both Teachable and Thinkific has a page builder that can add elements to their page. And then drag and drop them on various locations on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachable has a pretty basic Page builder with a few sets of default elements that cannot be customized. And they don’t have basic elements like testimonials, author’s bio, etc. So it is very limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n However, Thinkific has an excellent page builder. There are more than twenty elements you can add to a single page. You can display testimonials, FAQs, and any multimedia in Thinkific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCustomer Support<\/h3>\n\n\n\n If you want a tension free experience, then you have to know that your platform has your back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachable has an efficient email and telephone support that operates on all working days for all their subscribers. In addition to this, they also offer live chat support for their professional and business plan members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They also provide training videos and webinar for all their paid members to help them learn the ropes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinkific has 24*7 email and phone support all week long<\/strong>. They are quick to respond and have good knowledge support. They also have training courses free to all their users.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn addition both the platforms have private Facebook communities for their users to interact with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMarketing and Sales<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Once you have created your course, you have to do marketing to sell it to the students. You have to find the right audience and call to action to do that. And you need the right tools. Both the platforms offer some tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To make the course available for a lifetime.<\/li> To create subscriptions.<\/li> To generate discounts and coupon codes.<\/li> To offer courses in a bundle.<\/li> To launch email marketing campaigns with the data collected from subscriptions.\u00a0<\/li> To launch affiliate marketing programs.<\/li> To use Google analytics and course tracking.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nIn addition to this Teachable allows you to create and publish blogs<\/strong>. This will help you reach more traffic. Thinkific does not have a blogging feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAlso, the Teachable has one step checkout where you select a course, enter your details, and just pay. But on Thinkific you have a two-step check out. First, you sign up and then you pay for the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSecurity Measures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n An online platform has a lot of sensitive information like payment gateways, student details, course details, etc. These platforms must take required security measures to protect them from cyberattacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachable only deals with payment providers who are PCI level 1 compliant. This allows them to maintain complete payment data security. In addition, they provide a 2048 bit SSL certificate. That will ensure the subscribers that the link is secured to conduct online payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachable will automatically install all security updates and new features regarding cybersecurity. Thus they allow you the complete authority of your data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinkific ensures cybersecurity by providing secure cloud hosting to safely store your data. The platform also provides a built-in SSL certificate to ensure a secure server to store the details. They also automatically update their security software to keep up the security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They back up your content regularly to prevent any data loss. They also monitor the platform 24*7 for any security breach and are always prepared to act swiftly in case of a breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus when it comes to security both platforms offer absolute safety of your data. And Thinkific does offer extra security than Teachable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nPlans and Pricing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n One of the main factors for choosing the right platform is to learn the best value provided at the best price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teachable has three pricing plans:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe basic plan costs around $39\/ month with a transaction fee of 5% for getting payments.\u00a0<\/li> The pro plan costs around $119\/ month with no transaction fees.\u00a0<\/li> The business plan costs around $299\/ month with no transaction fees.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nYou can save up-to 20% if the courses are billed annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinkific has four pricing plans:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThey have a free plan with limited access to their features.\u00a0<\/li> They have a basic plan that costs $39 per month with no transaction fees.<\/li> They have a pro plan that costs $79 per month with amazing tools and no transaction fees.\u00a0<\/li> They have a premier plan that costs $399 per month with tools for large scale growth. This too doesn’t have transaction fees.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nYou can save 20% if the plans are billed annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In comparison, Teachable is a little more expensive than Thinkific when it comes to their basic and pro plans. And Thinkific is more expensive in the business plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nUnique Features<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Here we are going to compare signature features that are unique to Teachable and Thinkific in order to get a better insight into their functionality.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The unique features of Thinkific are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThey have zero transaction fees.<\/li> They have a free plan for users to get the hang of their services.\u00a0<\/li> They have instant payout using payment gateways like PayPal and Stripe.\u00a0<\/li> They allow you to customize and create an attractive website. They even have website themes you can select from.\u00a0<\/li> They allow you to embed their course directly to blogs and social media for promotions.\u00a0<\/li> You can schedule and conduct a live class or webinar with Zoom.\u00a0<\/li> You can add a community with a course for students to interact with each other.<\/li> They have advanced features like polls and surveys.\u00a0<\/li> It offers secure cloud hosting, automatic backups, automatic security updates, SSL certificate for the secure server.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nThe unique features of Teachable are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThey have an easy to navigate interface.\u00a0<\/li> They have a blogging feature that Thinkific does not have.\u00a0<\/li> They have an automatic VAT tax calculation feature.<\/li> They can automatically pay affiliates during payment processing.<\/li> You can directly upload content from cloud storage like Google Drive, DropBox, One drive, etc.\u00a0<\/li> They have live chat support for their premium subscribers.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDrawbacks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n While there are the best features, there are also drawbacks. It is important to get to know the drawbacks and decide what drawbacks you can afford and those you cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The drawbacks of Thinkific are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n