Make your brand stand out with a custom mobile app you don’t have to build yourself. With Branded Mobile by Thinkific, we'll build and maintain a white-labeled app for your online learning experience so you can focus on what you do best.
What is a Branded Mobile App?
The Branded Mobile App is a white-labeled mobile solution built and maintained by Thinkific on your behalf. It gives your audience on-the-go access to your courses and communities through an app that reflects your brand identity across every channel.
Unlike the standard Thinkific Mobile App, the Branded Mobile App includes your own Google Play Store and Apple App Store listings, your brand name, colors, app icon, and loading screen, automatic app updates, and support for in-app purchases.
Looking for a mobile option to get up and running quickly? See: Get Started with the Thinkific Mobile App.
To set up your own Branded mobile app, you will partner with the Thinkific team to build and publish it. Once your app is built, approved, and released, your students will be able to download your app from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.
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, all within the app that extends your brand identity across all learning channels.
What Features are Unique to the Branded App?
The Branded App solution offers exclusive features not available on the Thinific mobile app.
Your Own App Store listings
The Branded Mobile app solution allows you to publish your own white-labeled app on your personal Google Play Store and Apple App Store listings. This makes it easy to increase your brand visibility and recognition in the app stores, making it easy for your audience to discover your branded mobile app.
Once the Thinkific team sets you up with your own branded app, you have control of when and how you release your app to your audience, how you position your app, or how you respond to your app reviews.
App With Your Branding
With Branded Mobile by Thinkific, we'll build and maintain a white-labeled app for your online courses and communities so you can focus on what you do best. The Branded Mobile app solution allows you to have the mobile app with your own brand name, colors, app icon, and loading screen.
Make your app instantly recognizable and discoverable with a fully branded, white-labeled mobile solution that reflects — and highlights — your company’s identity across every channel. Customize your app with your choice of primary colors, text colors, button styles, and more to suit your design preferences: Branded Mobile: How Can I Customize My Branded App?
Automatic App Updates
When new app versions are created, they will automatically be submitted for review and pushed live to your app store listings on your behalf - saving you time and getting the latest and greatest app version in your audience’s hands faster than ever.
In-App Purchases
Take your audience’s learning journey to new heights! Your users can now expand their skills by purchasing select products directly within your mobile app. With Apple and Google Play’s in-app purchase systems, students can easily tap, purchase, and get access to their products.
Revenue from in-app purchases will be deposited directly into your bank accounts from the app stores. You can also see all purchases made from within your branded app, by going to the Orders tab of your Thinkific site.
This feature is exclusive to creators using Branded apps. For most Branded apps, in-app purchases will be required for your app to be approved in the app stores.
Learn more about it here: Sell Products in the Mobile App.
Get Started with Your Branded Mobile App
Follow the steps below to prepare your accounts and purchase the Branded Mobile App. Make sure you complete the preparation steps before purchasing, as some steps, like obtaining a D-U-N-S number, can take up to 30 days.
Step 1: Prepare Before Purchasing the Branded Mobile App
Please ensure that you complete the following before purchasing the app:
- Apply to receive a D-U-N-S number. See more: Branded Mobile: Why Do I Need an Apple Organization Account?
- Set up your Apple / Google accounts. Follow these instructions to set up your Apple App Store and Google Play Store accounts.
It can take up to 30 days to receive a D-U-N-S number, which is required for the Apple and Google account setup. Setting up these accounts in advance greatly expedites the app-building process.
Step 2: Purchase the Branded Mobile App Add-On
Once you have received your D-U-N-S number and completed the Apple and Google accounts set up, you can purchase the Branded Mobile App add-on and get started by following these steps:
- From your Admin Dashboard, select Channels
- Select Mobile App
- Click on Your Branded App tab
- Select the desired billing option (monthly or annual)
- After selecting a monthly or an annual option, confirm your payment details and review your order
- Accept Terms of Service and select Purchase
You will be charged for the Branded Mobile App add-on right away.
Step 3: Complete the Required Setup Tasks After Purchasing the Branded Mobile App
Once your add-on purchase is confirmed, you will see the list of required tasks. You need to complete these tasks before our team can start building the app:
- Get a D-U-N-S number: should be completed before purchasing, see Step 1 here.
- Set up your Apple / Google accounts: should be completed before purchasing, see Step 1 here.
- Fill out your information and connect your accounts: fill out your personal and App Store / Play Store listings information by navigating to Channels > Mobile App > Your Branded App > App Information
- Connect your Apple App Store and Google Play Store accounts by navigating to Channels > Mobile App > Your Branded App > Connect and supplying the necessary keys
- (Optional) Customize your app with your choice of primary colors, text colors, button styles, and more to suit your design preferences: Branded Mobile: How can I customize my branded app colors?
- Click Build My App
Our team will start building your app and will be in touch with further instructions.
How to Navigate My Branded Mobile App
Learn more about navigating the Branded Mobile App here: Install and Navigate the Mobile App.
What Can My Students Do Using My Branded Mobile App?
Your Branded Mobile App allows your audience to access most of the features available to them on the web. In the Branded Mobile App, your students can:
- Access their learning content, including courses, digital downloads, and Thinker, AI Teaching Assistant: Share Learning Content on the Mobile App.
- Engage with you and other members via communities, DMs, live events, coaching, or webinars: Engage Students in the Mobile App
- Purchase your learning products: Sell Products in the Mobile App
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The Branded Mobile App Important Considerations
- Please review the important considerations when it comes to the Branded Mobile app solution: Branded Mobile: Important Considerations.
- The Branded Mobile App is designed to deliver amazing learning experiences to students and 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.
- We're continuously working on improving the mobile app, but if you have feedback about what you'd like to see in the app, we want to know! Get in contact with us and let us know what functionality would be most valuable to you!
- Keep checking this article for more information on the latest releases: Mobile App Recent Updates.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Thinkific create my Apple and Google accounts for me when setting a Branded Mobile app?
Because your organization is listed as the app developer (instead of Thinkific), you have to create the Apple and Google accounts. There are also important details that only you can upload and access, like banking and tax information.
Do I need any coding skills to start with the Branded Mobile app?
Not at all. Thinkific will manage app improvements and updates for you.
How do version updates work with the Branded Mobile app?
We automatically update your Branded app for you. We continuously workingo on updating the app and frequently release new versons that have minor performance enhancements, usability improvements, new features, and bug fixes. When we make a major update, we resubmit the app for Apple and Google to review.
What happens if Apple or Google rejects my submission of a Branded Mobile app?
In the unlikely chance of a rejection of your Branded Mobile app, we'll handle the communication with Apple and Google for you.
Can I cancel my Branded Mobile app subscription?
The Branded Mobile app subscription follows the same cancellation process as Thinkific subscription. Learn more here: Cancel Your Thinkific Subscription.
For more questions, see: Mobile App FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions.