Mobile App Recent Updates

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.

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: Prerequsite 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.