Mobile App Recent Updates

Digital Downloads and Coaching & Webinar products are now available in the Thinkific and Branded mobile apps! You learners can now access these products, alongside courses and communities, all on the go.

Now all lesson types are supported within the 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!

Disqus Discussion lessons are not supported on the mobile app, as the integration is no longer available on new Thinkific accounts created after May 2021. When trying to access a Disqus lesson, your learners will have the option to skip the lesson or view it outside of the app.

Our apps now support 25 of our most popular languages. The app locales (buttons and navigation) now support: Chinese - Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish - Mexican, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.

The language setting for the mobile app is determined by the language of the device and applies to the default text only (e.g. buttons, tab names, etc).

The Thinkific and Branded apps now support Custom SSO flow! Your learners can log in to your app using your identity provider. OpenID Connect SSO will continue to be supported.

Please reach out to your Thinkific CSM or our Support team to enable this feature

This feature is exclusive to creators using Branded apps.

Take your audience’s learning journey to new heights! Your users can now expand their skills by purchasing new courses 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 courses.

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.

Direct messaging enables private, real-time communication between learners and educators, as well as peer-to-peer, without the need to post publicly. This unlocks a more personal, high-touch experience that boosts trust, retention, and overall community engagement!

Learn more about it here: Communities: Direct Messaging.

Release date: June 10, 2026

This version contains:

• In-app purchases for Communities, Events, and Digital Downloads (Branded mobile only): Learners can now purchase Communities, Events, and Digital Downloads directly within the app — no more redirecting to the web. Learn more: Sell Products in the Mobile App.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we've been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: June 04, 2026

This version contains:

• Refreshed course curriculum UI: The course curriculum has a fresh, modern look that's more aligned with the new course builder experience.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we've been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: May 27, 2026

This version contains:

• Community feed: You can now see recent posts across all your community spaces in one place, making it easier to stay up to date without visiting each space individually.
• Certificate list page: A new native certificate page lets your learners view all your earned certificates directly within the app.
• PDF lesson downloads: A new download button lets your students save PDF lessons directly from the app, if enabled.
• Performance improvements: Optimizations to app launch queries for faster load times.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we've been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: April 27, 2026

This version contains:

• Community search: You can now search within communities to quickly find posts and content across spaces.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we've been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: March 31, 2026

This version contains:

• Home tab updates: The Home tab now reflects the new Learner Hub experience. The updated home tab now includes the following sections:
  • A video greeting (if added)
  • Recent activity: Courses
  • Recent activity: Community
  • Upcoming events
  • Products available for purchase (Branded mobile only)
  • Latest digital downloads
  • Get help
  • Thinker (if enabled)

Release date: March 12, 2026

This version contains:

• Community updates: We are bringing a lot of functionality to the community experience on mobile. These updates include: the community list screen, the ability to include video attachments, multi-attachment support, members list, members profiles, and post reactions.
• Direct Messaging updates: We are bringing a lot of functionality to the direct messaging experience on mobile. These updates include: reactions in direct messages, the ability to edit direct messages, and the ability to block users.

Release date: February 20, 2026

This version contains:

• Thinker: Thinker, AI Teaching Assistant, is now available on Mobile for qualified customers with access to Thinker. 
• Events tab: Your learners can now see the Coaching & Webinar products and Community Events directly in their mobile app!
• Profile section redesign: The profile section is now updated with new Billing, Certificates, and Notifications screens.

Release date: February 16, 2026

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience

The following features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• Catalog page: The Catalog page replaces the Discovery tab for apps with In-App Purchases. It's designed to help your students find products easily and includes courses, digital downloads, and communities. The page includes search and filter functionality for easier navigation. 

Release date: January 19, 2026

This version contains:

• Digital Downloads: Digital Downloads are now supported on the Mobile app!
• Updated look and feel: Refreshed course cards on the Home page and updated the look of the Library section.

Release date: December 15, 2025

This version contains:

• Updated look and feel: The bottom navigation bar has received a refresh!
• New scrolling content animation: The animation of the scrolling motion has been updated.
• Global header: The header is now visible across all tabs, making it easier for you and your students to access the notification feed and profile settings.

Release date: November 14, 2025

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: October 27, 2025

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

The change from version 1.18 to 2.1 is intentional.

Release date: October 9, 2025

This version contains:

• Direct messaging: Direct messaging in Communities is now available in the Thinkific Mobile app! 
• Notificaiojn feed moved: The notification feed is now in the header and you can access it by clicking on the bell icon next to your profile icon.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: January 14, 2025

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: September 11, 2024

This version contains:

• Full lesson type support: All lesson types are now available on the Thinkific Mobile app! No more switching between the app and the web – whether it’s Multimedia Lessons, Presentations, Live Lessons, Quizzes, Surveys, Assignments, or even Brillium exams, it’s now all in one place.
• SCORM-compliant course support: SCORM courses imported to Thinkific are now supported in the Thinkific Mobile and Branded mobile apps.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: July 3rd, 2024

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• In-App Purchases: bundles: Keep your students' learning momentum going by letting them discover and purchase bundled courses directly within the mobile app! Bundles can now be purchased directly within the app by your learners. Learn more about it here: Branded Mobile: In-App Purchases.

Release date: May 29th, 2024

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: April 17th, 2024

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: March 20th, 2024

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: March 6th, 2024

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: February 22nd, 2024

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• Active Subscriptions Student Menu: Students are now able to see and manage their active subscriptions purchased through in-app purchases within their profile page in the app. Learn more about it here: Branded Mobile: In-App Purchases

Release date: February 6th, 2024

This version contains:

• Improved navigation: We’ve made it easier to navigate through courses within the app, with collapsible chapters and lesson content.
• Improved lesson and course support: We added support for courses with more than 100 lessons. We also added support for unlimited chapters within a course.
• Improved the completion status indicator: Chapter and lesson completion statuses are now properly reflected in the Course Curriculum screen
• Improved load times: We greatly improved load times for course curriculum
   
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

Release date: January 16, 2024

This version contains:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• In-App Purchases: subscriptions: Sell more in-app with subscriptions! Create a recurring revenue stream by offering learning products as a subscription: they can now be purchased directly within the app by your learners. Learn more about it here: Branded Mobile: In-App Purchases.

Release date: November 23, 2023

Get ready! We’ve got some amazing new features lined up on the mobile app:

• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• Support for all lesson types: Now all lesson types are supported within the 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!

Release date: October 30, 2023

This version contains:

• Deeplinks support: You can now link directly to specific locations within the app using improved deeplink support.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience, including the following improvements:
  • Video forwarding: Users can now fast-forward videos even when the 'Video Completion Required' setting is enabled.
  • Translation improvement: We updated Danish translations for improved user experience.
  • Other Bug Fixes

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• In-App Purchases: courses with expiry dates: Sell more in-app with expiring courses! Expiring courses can now be sold in your mobile app: encourage course completion and engagement with a course expiry date, or drive additional revenue by giving your audience extended access to your content through repeat purchases. Learn more about it here: Branded Mobile: In-App Purchases.

Release date: September 20, 2023

Get ready! We’ve got some amazing new features lined up on the mobile app.

• Custom SSO support: The Thinkific and Branded apps now support Custom SSO flow! Your learners can log in to your app using your identity provider. OpenID Connect SSO will continue to be supported.

  Please reach out to your Thinkific CSM or our Support team to enable this feature.

• Multiple Languages: Our apps now support 25 of our most popular languages. The app locales (buttons and navigation) now support: Chinese - Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish - Mexican, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese.
• Support for password protected PDFs in mobile: Students can now access password-protected PDFs within the mobile app.
• System Maintenance ability: The app has clearer messaging around planned system outages so students know when these occur.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• Customisable App Theming: The app can now easily be customized, allowing you to use a custom selection of primary colors, text colors, button styles, and more to suit your design preferences.
• Login screen improvements: The login screen has been improved to better highlight the logo of the app. 
   

Release date: August 2, 2023

This version contains:

• Collapsable chapters: Course chapters are now collapsable, making it quicker and easier to navigate to specific content without having to scroll past lots of lessons.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.
   

Release date: July 24, 2023

Get ready! We’ve got some amazing new features lined up on the mobile app.

• Search: Students can now search for courses, making it easier than ever to find the specific content they are looking for.
• Categories: Students can filter by one or multiple categories, to help narrow down their search for courses.
• Multiple Languages: Spanish, German, and Swedish language support has been added to the mobile app, meaning students with languages in those locales will see those languages automatically.
• Improved bottom navigation: The app navigation and architecture have been improved, and communities made more prominent and useful.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.
  • Empty state improvement: more informative empty if a user is not enrolled in any products.
  • French translations improved
  • Community loading speeds improved
  • App loading times reduced

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• In-App purchase improvements: add a product, refunds, and search for courses: You can now add products for sale for in-app purchases using the product IDs in the Mobile settings section of your Thinkific site. Additionally, refunds are now supported via the App Store and the Play store, making it easier to manage student enrollments and cancellations. Learn more about it here: Branded Mobile: In-App Purchases.
• Automatic branded 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.
   

Release date: June 28, 2023

Get ready! We’ve got some amazing new features lined up on the mobile app

• Downloadable Content for Enhanced Learning: Downloadable content can now accompany video lessons, allowing you to download and later access course materials even when you’re offline
• Course Thumbnails Now Take Center Stage: Get a glimpse of what you can expect from courses in-app with full-size course thumbnail imagery.
• Bug fixes & Other Improvements: As always, we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing your user experience.
  • Video lesson support: Videos in landscape mode and full screen now work as expected. Additionally, videos will now play on more Android devices.
  • Course prerequisite progress: Prerequisite lessons now count towards your progress and will automatically update the course completion progress bar.
  • Additional upload formats are now supported in Communities: Users on Android devices can now upload more image types to their mobile communities.

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• Enable your students to continue their learning with in-app purchases: Take your audience’s learning journey to new heights! Your users can now expand their skills by purchasing new courses 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 courses.
  Simply set up course IDs within your Thinkific account and copy those directly into Apple or Google, set your price and your course is ready to sell!
  This feature is exclusive to creators using Branded apps. If you’re interested in setting this up for your mobile app, reach out to your CSM and they will be happy to connect you with a member of the Thinkific mobile team.
• Collect payments for purchases instantly: Revenue from in-app purchases will deposit 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.

Release date: May 11, 2023

Get ready to take your mobile app experience to the next level with these exciting new features and enhancements!

• Liking posts within a Community: You can now express your appreciation for posts by giving them a 'like' - spread the love and support for your learners!
• Easily find your school: We’ve made some great improvements to the app's search function, making it easier and quicker for your audience to find their school or organization.
• Fresh design enhancements: We've given the app's welcome screen a stylish rebrand, complete with beautiful animations that are sure to delight the eyes.
• Bug Fixes and Other Improvements: As always, we've been hard at work fixing bugs and enhancing the user experience.
• Notifications: Say goodbye to pesky bugs like persistent notification errors and timeouts when querying courses with more than 40 lessons.
• UI improvements: We've also made some UI improvements, such as better course card sizing and a fix for the video player's fullscreen button.

The below features are unique to Branded mobile apps. See this article to learn more about the Branded mobile solution: Maximize Your Brand Potential With the Branded Mobile App

• Make sharing easy with deep links: Want to share a specific section of a course or a community space with your audience? With deep links, you can now copy and share links that will automatically bring your peers to a specific location within the mobile app.
• Account deletion: Your users can now delete their accounts from within your mobile app by accessing the profile page.