The Best Online Course Builder For Turning Expertise Into Income

Build engaging and profitable courses with Thinkific. Our proven platform offers intuitive tools built for creators looking to share their knowledge.

Creating a course has never been easier

Choose the online course platform that doesn’t get in your way. Thinkific is intuitive and user-friendly—with no technical or design experience required.

Course templates

Pick from a wide array of templates designed by experts or start from scratch.

Drag-and-drop course builder

Create, design, and rearrange lessons and chapters with ease to build your courses.

Bulk import your content

Save time and effort—and launch your course even sooner—by importing any existing content all at once.

Build courses for the modern learner

Thinkific gives you the power and flexibility to create a learning experience your students are willing to pay for.

Self-paced, scheduled, and cohort courses

Deliver your exceptional content in whatever way best serves your student's success.

Live lessons and webinars

Connect to your students in real-time through live streaming or using Live Lessons with Zoom.

Recognize and reward

Celebrate your students’ success by automatically sending completion certificates after they finish a course.

Mobile learning app

Drive engagement with your own white-labeled mobile app that gives your audience the freedom to learn when and where it works best for them.

Engaging multimedia lessons

Create a varied and effective learning experience using video, interactive files, and externally hosted content, so the medium matches the material.

Create courses that amaze

Your knowledge is unique. Thinkific gives you the power and flexibility to offer a learning experience your students won’t find anywhere else.

Your course, your way

Let your content shine by choosing the best medium for your message: text, images, videos, downloads, PDFs, audio, and presentations.

Test and track

Measure and rate your student’s progress with assignments, AI-generated quizzes, surveys, and exams.

Keep your content in place

Include websites and embed content already hosted elsewhere online directly within your course.

Thinkific Mobile app

Get rid of any barriers and drive engagement with a mobile app that gives learners the flexibility to consume course content wherever and whenever is most convenient.

Educational App Builder

Courses at their fingertips — at any time

Connect anytime, anywhere with Branded Mobile by Thinkific. Our team of experts will take care of creating and managing a custom mobile app for your online courses and communities - complete with your branding.

Digital Product Payment Gateway

Create amazing courses — and then sell them.

  • As a creator educator, you should be focused on creating, not selling and accounting. We built TCommerce, our custom, in-house payments and selling solution, specifically for creators and education businesses.
  • TCommerce takes the demanding admin and accounting off your plate, while delivering powerful selling tools to drive your bottom line, so you can focus on what matters most to you and your business.
  • Customers who use TCommerce features like Order Bumps, Buy Now, Pay Later payment methods, Gifting, and more, see higher transaction sizes and increased sales overall.
  • Try TCommerce for free today on any Thinkific plan type*, so you can sell more, and spend less time doing it.
    *Available to Thinkific customers in the USA, Canada, and the UK on all plans, with no added cost.

Scale your course to the next level

You’re serious about creating learning products. Thinkific provides the pro-level tools to help you do it right.

Do even more with apps

Improve engagement, boost sales, and customize your learning environment with apps from Thinkific App Store.

Keep your content secure

Protect your valuable content by setting your course to private or hidden—or even disabling text copying.

Harness the power of social

Make it easy for students to share their achievements (while also promoting your course) with built-in social sharing on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

What other creators are saying about Thinkific

“Thinkific let me grow my audience and teach over 250,000 students. Thinkific made the process so easy for me to navigate.”

Mimi GoodwinSew It! Academy

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