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.
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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.
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. 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 express interest and add yourself to the Branded app waitlist. You can do it directly on your Thinkific site (see instructions below) or by filling our a form here. From there, Thinkific will reach out to set up a call to review your information and provide additional details. 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 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 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.
- The Branded 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. Keep checking this article for more information on the latest releases: Mobile App Recent Updates.
- We're continuously working on improving the 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
You can express your interest in the Branded Mobile App in Settings:
- Go to your Admin Dashboard
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Go to the Mobile App page in the left-side navigation bar
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Select Get Your App. This will prompt you to book a call with the Thinkific team to start your app build.
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.
| 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) |
*Support for more lesson types coming soon!
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.
| 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: Support 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: Customizable Push Notifications* |
| Feature: Privacy Policy and Terms of Use | Feature: Offline support* |
| Feature: Product Search | Feature: Certificates |
| Setting: First name, Last name, Profile picture display | Setting: Password change and Profile Editing |
| Setting: Access to the school support email address | |
| Feature: In-App Purchases (Branded app only) |
*Coming soon!
To learn more, see the following article: Supported General Features.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to manually update my Branded app when Thinkific releases a new feature?
No, all mobile apps will be updated remotely by Thinkific.
Can I create learning products or manage my site using the app?
No, the Branded 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 Branded 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?
The Branded Mobile app has the same requirements as the Thinkific Mobile app. For mobile device operating system requirements, see: OS (Operating System) Requirements for the Thinkific Mobile App.
Can my students access content offline?
No, at the moment, the Thinkific Mobile App does not support the delivery of content offline. You can allow your students to download certain lesson content (videos, PDFs, audio) and they can view it directly on their devices.
We are working hard on bringing the ability to access content offline to the mobile app! Stay tuned for more updates: Mobile App Recent Updates.
For more questions, see: Mobile App: FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions