Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

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 courses and communities so you can focus on what you do best.

In this article:

About This Feature

How It Works

Important Considerations

Getting Started

Features

Branded-Only Features

Mobile-Only Features

Course Features

Community Features

General Features

Frequently Asked Questions

About This Feature

Branded Mobile fits into your audience’s existing routines, making it easier for them to learn and engage with your content — all on their own schedule. This means higher course completion rates, improved student satisfaction, and more revenue opportunities for your business.

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.

We're continuously working on improving the mobile app solution. Keep checking this article for more information on the latest releases: Mobile App Recent Updates.

How It Works

To start the process of Branded Mobile App enablement, you will need to complete the steps outlined below. You will partner with the Thinkific team to help you build and publish your app.

Once your app is built, approved, and released, all your students need to do is download your app from the Google Play Store or 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.

Some of the features of the Branded Mobile App include:

• Your own Google Play Store and Apple App Store listings
• App with your own brand name, colors, app icon, and loading screen
• Automatic app updates
• In-app purchases
• Easy navigation
• Course overview and all 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 just to get started and get up and running instantly? Check out our Thinkific Mobile App!

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.
• Please review the important considerations when it comes to the Branded Mobile app solution: Branded Mobile: Important Considerations.

Getting Started

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.

You can purchase the Branded Mobile App add-on and get started by following these steps:

1. From your Admin Dashboard, select Channels
2. Select Mobile App
3. Click on Your Branded App tab
4. Select the desired billing option (monthly or annual)
   
5. After selecting a monthly or an annual option, confirm your payment details and review your order
6. Accept Terms of Service and select Purchase

   You will be charged for the Branded Mobile App add-on right away.

7. Once confirmed, you will see the list of required tasks. You need to complete these tasks before our team can start building the app:
   1. Get a D-U-N-S number, if you have not done so already. Request your D-U-N-S number here.
   2. Set up your Apple / Google accounts, if you have not done so already. Follow these instructions to set up your Apple App Store and Google Play Store accounts.
   3. 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
   4. 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
8. (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?
9. Once you complete all of the required steps, click Build My App

Our team will start building your app and will be in touch with further instructions.

Features

The Branded 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:

Branded Mobile-Only Features

The Branded Mobile app comes with unique features that allow you to differentiate your business. These features include:

• Your own Google Play Store and Apple App Store listings: This makes it easy for your audience to discover your branded mobile app while giving you the flexibility and control to personalize your listing to reflect your brand.
• Your own app: App with your own brand name, colors, app icon, and loading screen. Customize your app with your choice of primary colors, text colors, button styles, and more to suit your design preferences.
• 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 new products directly within your mobile app. With Apple and Google Play’s in-app purchase systems, they can easily tap, purchase, and get access to new products. Learn more: Branded Mobile: In-App Purchases.

To learn more, see the following article: Branded Mobile-Only Features.

Mobile-Only Features

Both Branded and Thinkific Mobile Apps offer 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. Students get notified when new activity happens in the communities they are enrolled in.

To learn more, see the following article: Mobile-Only Features.

Course Features

Course features on the 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.

To learn more, see the following article: Supported Course Features.

Community Features

Most of the community features are supported on the 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.

To learn more, see the following article: Support Community Features.

General Features

In addition to Course and Community features, the app supports the general features outlined below.

*Coming soon!
**To see the list of languages that the app is available in, see: Mobile App FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions.

To learn more, see the following article: Supported General Features.

Frequently Asked Questions

For more questions, see: Mobile App: FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions