Put your knowledge business at your audience’s fingertips - elevate your users’ experience, and give them seamless and uninterrupted access to your courses and communities, anytime or anywhere, with the new Thinkific Mobile App!
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About This Feature
The Thinkific Mobile App can help you unlock a new level of success for your business by delivering a mobile learning experience. Provide access to your material in a more flexible, convenient way - without all of the difficult coding and setup involved in creating a custom-coded app.
Connect with your audience and give them total control of when, where, and how they learn. Drive student engagement with courses and learning communities, on the Thinkific mobile app.
With access to courses and communities, and features like push notifications, activity feeds, and more directly in your students' pocket - it’s easy to drive engagement while keeping your content and learning products top of mind.
Some of the mobile features mentioned in this article are currently being built out and tested - this means that there is no guaranteed timeline for when each feature will be released. This article will continue to be updated as new features are released, so keep checking back for the latest news on what is currently available!
How It Works
We’ve designed the Thinkific Mobile App with your users in mind. Once you enable the app on your account, all your students need to do is download the app from Apple App Store (for iOS devices) or Google Play Store (for Android devices).
After downloading and installing the app, your audience can access their learning products, participate in communal learning interactions, and enjoy fast, easy, on-the-go access to materials they need.
Some of the features of the Thinkific Mobile App include:
- Post login branding (your color and logo)
- Easy navigation
- Course overview and core lesson types
- Lesson completion and progress tracking
- Optimized Community content
- Seamless access to Community Spaces and activity feeds
- Posts and comments within Spaces
- Navigation between courses and Communities with the Course - Community connection
- In-app notification center for replies, comments, and @Mentions in Communities
- Drip release notifications to keep students informed when content becomes available
...and more!
To learn more about what features are currently available on the Mobile App, check out the Features section below.
Looking for a mobile app that spotlights your brand with your logo and own App Store listings? Check out our Branded Mobile App solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App.
Before enabling the Mobile App, read through the rest of this article to make sure you have everything you need to be successful!
Important Considerations
- The Thinkific Mobile App is designed to deliver amazing learning experiences to students and does not support course or community administration. Site Owners and Admins (and users with other roles other than Student) will need to use the web version of Thinkific.
- The Thinkific Mobile App does not support in-app purchases, but your audience can access already purchased learning products using the app. In-app purchases are available on Branded Mobile apps: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App
- The Thinkific Mobile App is currently in Beta. This means that some of the mobile features mentioned in this article are currently being built out and tested - there is no guaranteed timeline for when each feature will be released.
- We're continuously working on improving our Mobile App behind the scenes, but if you have feedback about what you'd like to see in the app, we want to know! Please send us a quick email to let us know what functionality would be most valuable to you!
Getting Started
It is easy to get started with the Thinkific Mobile App. All you need to do is to activate the app and share it with your students.
Activate the Thinkific Mobile App
You can activate the Mobile on your site with just one click:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Mobile App
- Scroll to the bottom of the page
- Click Activate now
- Confirm your action by clicking Activate now
And that's it! The Thinkific Mobile app is now enabled and ready to be shared with your audience.
Trying out the app
Before sharing the app with your students, we recommend you download and try the app for yourself. Follow these steps to get started:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
- Select Mobile App
- Under the Unlock mobile learning for your audience now section, find a QR Code and a Dynamic link
- Scan the QR Code with your mobile device or use the Dynamic link on your mobile device
- Download the app from Apple App Store (for iOS) or Google Play Store (for Android)
For mobile device operating system requirements, see: OS (Operating System) Requirements for the Thinkific Mobile App.
- Once downloaded, the app will automatically open your site's screen
Now, you can explore your learning products and see what your course or community looks like.
As a Site Owner or Site Admin, you might see draft courses and communities on your Home Screen. If you want to explore your site from a student perspective, you can create a test student account.
Share the Mobile App with Your Students
See this article for more information on how you can share your app with your audience: How to Share Your Mobile App.
If you have enabled the Thinkific Mobile feature on your site, students can also search for your school manually after downloading the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
Features
The Thinkific Mobile App allows your audience to access many of the features that are available to them via the web as well. See the list of support and unsupported features below.
Mobile-Only Features
The Thinkific Mobile App offers some unique features that are available only on a mobile. These features include:
- Drip Lessons release notifications: Students can now receive notifications on their mobile app letting them know when previously-locked lessons are available!
- Push notifications for community activity: draw students back in and keep engagement high with the new push notifications when new activity happens in communities students are enrolled in.
To learn more, see the following article: Mobile-Only Features.
Course Features
Course features on the Thinkific Mobile App allow your students to access your courses, anytime, anywhere.
The app is considered an additive complement to the web experience. As such, we have prioritized providing end users with lesson types that will allow them to complete learning on the go, and access your content in the most convenient way for them.
Below, you will find a list of what features are currently available on the Mobile App, and what features are not supported at this time.
| Features that are supported for Mobile | Features that are not currently supported |
| Lesson Type: Text | Lesson Type: Multimedia |
| Lesson Type: Video | Lesson Type: Presentation |
| Lesson Type: Audio | Lesson Type: Live |
| Lesson Type: Download | Lesson Type: Assessment Lessons (Quizzes, Surveys, Assignments, Brillium Exams) |
| Lesson Type: PDF | Apps: Any Thinkific App Store apps |
| Setting: Prerequisite Lesson | Feature: On-lesson discussions |
| Setting: Drip Schedule | Setting: Free preview |
| Feature: Default chapter completion message | Setting: Access to the content offline |
| Setting: Course Player appearance (individual course player customizations, ability to hide lesson type and icon) | |
| Setting: Course Player behavior customizations (disabling text copying, social sharing, customizing chapter and course completion messages, disabling chapter completion messages) |
To learn more, see the following article: Supported Course Features.
Community Features
Most of the community features are supported on the Thinkific Mobile App. Below, you will find a list of what features are currently available on the Mobile App, and what features are not supported at this time.
| Features that are supported for Mobile | Features that are not currently supported |
| Feature: Spaces | Feature: Profiles and Member directory |
| Feature: Post Creation | Feature: Live events |
| Feature: Comments and replies | Feature: Posts pinning |
| Feature: Post and comment editing | |
| Feature: Posts and threads following | |
| Feature: Course-Community connection | |
| Feature: Likes | |
| Feature: Mentions | |
| Feature: Community Activity Notifications |
To learn more, see the following article: Supported Community Features.
General Features
In addition to Course and Community features, the app supports the general features outlined below.
| Features that are supported for Mobile | Features that are not currently supported |
| Feature: In-app notifications | Feature: In-App Purchases (This feature is exclusively available to creators using Branded apps) |
| Feature: Privacy Policy and Terms of Use | Feature: Certificates |
| Feature: Product Search | Setting: Profile Editing |
| Setting: First name, Last name, Profile picture display | Setting: Password change |
| Setting: Access to the school support email address |
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To learn more, see the following article: Supported General Features.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I create learning products or manage my site using the app?
No, the Thinkific Mobile App does not support school administration. Site Owners and Admins (and users with other roles other than Student) will need to use the web version of Thinkific.
Does the Thinkific Mobile app work everywhere or are there location limitations?
There are no regional access limitations. We are global, so the Thinkific Mobile app works everywhere Thinkific does.
What are the operating system requirements?
For mobile device operating system requirements, see: OS (Operating System) Requirements for the Thinkific Mobile App.
Can my students access content offline?
No, the Thinkific Mobile App does not support the delivery of the content offline. You can allow your students to download certain lesson content (videos, PDFs, audio) and they can view it directly on their devices.
For more questions, see: Mobile App: FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions