Mobile-Only Features

This article outlines the features unique to Thinkific Mobile and Branded Mobile. Refer back to this article for updates as we continue to expand functionality!

Overview

The Thinkific Mobile App and a Branded Mobile App allow your students to easily access their learning products wherever they are, using a native app on their mobile devices. Once your students have downloaded the mobile app and logged in, they will have access to a variety of both Course and Community features.

As our mobile offerings are being built out and improved, we continue to work on features that can help you and your students get the most out of the app. Check out the list of features below to see what unique features are currently supported by the Thinkific Mobile App and a Branded Mobile App.

Mobile App solutions built by Thinkific were designed specifically for your students, which means that any Admin activity will need to be done using the desktop web browser version of Thinkific. We recommend that creators design their products with the desktop (browser) experience in mind, and inform students that the Mobile App is a supplementary tool for students.

Both Branded and Thinkific Mobile Apps offer some unique features that are available only via a mobile app.

Drip Lesson Release Notifications

Your students can now receive notifications on their mobile app letting them know when previously locked lessons are available! This feature can help keep your students engaged with your materials and draw them back to your course whenever new materials are available.

When a new lesson is released via a Drip Schedule, your students will receive a push notification informing them that new lessons are now available. Your students can click on the notification to be brought to the newly released lesson.

If your students are not receiving drip release notifications, they need to ensure that they have enabled the Push Notifications. See more on that here: Communities in the Mobile App (Student Resource).

Push Notifications for Community Activity

Draw students back in and keep engagement high with the new push notifications when new activity happens in communities that students are enrolled in!

In addition to the in-app and web notifications, students can receive push notifications directly to their mobile devices.The push notifications are sent:

When they are added to a community
When an Admin creates a new post
When someone mentions them in a post
When someone comments on their post or a post they are following
When someone replies to their comment or a thread they are following

If your students are not receiving community activity notifications, they need to ensure that the Thinkific Mobile app has permission to send notifications to their mobile device. See more on that here: Communities in the Mobile App (Student Resource).

In-App Notifications for Community Activity

In-app notifications allow your students to keep track of events and activities in their communities and access the feed of all notifications in a single place in the app. The in-app notifications appear:

When they are added to a community
When an Admin creates a new post
When someone mentions them in a post
When someone comments on their post or a post they are following
When someone replies to their comment or a thread they are following

To access notifications, students can select the Notifications tab in the Thinkific Mobile app. The number next to the bell on the Notifications tab will indicate the total number of new (unread) notifications. Unread notifications will have a blue dot next to them. To access the post where a learner was mentioned or to view a comment or a reply on the post they are following, they can click on the notification.

Branded Mobile-Only Features

The Branded Mobile app solution built by Thinkific offers some unique features that are not available with the Thinkific 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 new select 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 (select) 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: Branded Mobile: In-App Purchases.

Important Considerations

We are continuously working on delivering new mobile features. Keep checking this article for more information on the latest releases: Mobile App Recent Updates.
Now all lesson types are supported within the Thinkific mobile app - your students no longer have to navigate to the web to complete courses! Your content will be available in the app for every single lesson type, including Multimedia Lessons, Presentations, Live Lessons, Quizzes, Surveys, Assignments, and Brillium exams! Learn more here: Supported Course Features.

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! Get in contact with us and let us know what functionality would be most valuable to you!