Bring your audience together and create a dynamic learning community where they can forge valuable connections, share common goals, and pursue their passions. Foster meaningful relationships and grow your business simultaneously.
What is a Thinkific Community
A Thinkific Community is an online learning environment, created and owned by you, where students can participate in an interactive, communal learning experience, driving student engagement and connection that your students will pay for and stay for.
Thinkific Communities shift learning from a 'one-sided' experience into a collaborative, 'two-way' exchange. Learning communities create a dedicated and supportive space for students to share knowledge, and enable you to own your community and foster relationships while keeping the focus on your brand.
Each community is a gated, dedicated area on your Thinkific site where students and instructors can interact through written posts and comments. You decide how you want communities to work for you; sell, bundle, and bump communities - with or without a course!
Take your community to the next level by utilizing the Thinkific Mobile app! Allow your learners to connect, learn, and share knowledge on the go using a native mobile app. With features like push notifications and activity feeds you can drive higher engagement and keep your content top of mind.
Looking for a mobile app that spotlights your brand with your logo and own App Store listings? Check out our Branded Mobile App solution: Get Started with the Branded Mobile App
Benefits of Thinkific Communities
Thinkific Communities allow you and your audience to connect globally, build trust and loyalty, and collaborate socially. You can build a community around your existing content to add even more value to your online courses, or create a community as a stand-alone, sellable product!
Thinkific Communities allow you to:
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Create your own community
Just like everything you build with Thinkific, your brand is the star, with no outside distractions. Choose key imagery, plus host your communities on your own custom domain, without the noise and distractions of social platforms. You can own a branded, ad-free space for your customers to engage and connect—with your business and with each other. -
Choose how to make communities work for you
Offer communities as a standalone product or as a course add-on. Assign community access by a specific course, bundle, or group, or create a site-wide community to allow any of your students access! -
Allow your students to connect when, where, and how they want
Paired with the Thinkific Mobile app, Communities become an even more powerful tool that allows you and your students to connect with each other on the go, using a native mobile app. With features like push notifications and activity feeds you can drive higher engagement and keep your content top of mind.
What Is the New Community Experience
As of April 23, 2026 all Thinkific customers will be migrated to the new community experience. Learn more here.
Communities have been given a visual refresh and a faster, more modern interface that can is integrated with the Learner Hub (if you have it enabled on your site) or can be used on its own.
The core community functionality has not changed: you and your learners can still post in public and private spaces, and interact with each other and community admins or moderators. The new experience makes community participation easier, clearer, and more engaging.
The new experience introduces the following changes:
- Faster, more intuitive design with a new left-hand navigation that makes it easier to move between communities and spaces.
- A more spacious, polished layout that feels more modern and professional.
- Better content discovery so members can more easily find conversations and updates.
- Simplified branding where Communities now inherit global site branding (logo, fonts, and colors), making it easier to maintain a consistent brand experience.
- Events inside Private Spaces, so you can host more targeted events for the right members in the right place.
- Community home was replaced with Feed.
- The Space description and pinned posts now live inside a Featured Panel. When there are new posts that have been pinned, the Featured Panel will display a notification.
- Course enrolments can be linked to a community space, enhancing the automation of private spaces and their connectivity to courses.
- We heard you: The Link a Course feature available in the previous experience has been brought back into the new community experience.
- Navigation updates: It is now easier to search through your community list by using a dedicated community search bar in the side navigation.
Migrate to the New Community Experience
As of April 23, 2026, all Thinkific customers will automatically move to the new experience. No action is required on your end, and all data will be preserved. This update is designed to make Communities feel cleaner, faster, and easier to navigate for both you and your audience.
We have created ready-to-use copy you can share with your community members, so they know what’s changing, what to expect, and how to get the most out of the new experience.
Here is ready-to-use copy you can share with your community members:
Subject line: You’ll notice a new look in our community
Hi there,
Starting April 23, you’ll see a refreshed community experience designed to make it easier to find your way around, move between Spaces, and stay connected.
The biggest change you’ll notice right away is a new left-hand navigation that makes it simpler to see where you are and jump to what you need.
What to expect when you log in:
- A cleaner, more modern layout
- Simpler navigation between Spaces
- Easier access to conversations and updates
We’re excited for you to explore the new experience!
CTA: [Explore the community]
Thanks,
[Name]
Are Communities Available on My Plan?
Availability of communities depends on your current plan. Review the Thinkific Pricing page to understand how many communities and spaces you can create on your plan.
Get Started with Thinkific Communities
Ready to get started with Thinkific Communities? Start by creating your community. The Thinkific Communities offer a variety of features to help you create a highly engaged community of learners, so make sure to follow the steps below to get the most out of it.
Step 1: Create, Customize, and Organize Your Community
- Create and Set Up Your Thinkific Community: Get started by creating your community, setting up community settings, publishing, and sharing it.
- Organize and Navigate Your Thinkific Community: Understand how to navigate your community and how to organize it with spaces.
- Customize and Manage Your Community Spaces: Shape your community into a space that feels purposeful and easy to navigate.
- Build Your Community Landing Page: Your community landing page allows you to showcase your community and entice potential members to sign up.
Step 2: Provide Access to and Monetize Your Community
- Sell Thinkific Communities: Turn your community into a revenue stream.
- Manage Community Access and Enrollments: Decide who can join the community.
- Get Started with the Thinkific Mobile App: Allow your students to access their learning content, including their communities, on the go, all on their devices using a native app.
Step 3: Manage, Moderate, and Grow Your Community
- Manage Your Community: Set your community up for healthy growth with clear roles and strong moderation.
- Add Community Moderators: Assign moderation capabilities to members of your team and/or alumni, and free up your time to focus your attention on what matters most.
Step 4: Engage with Your Community Members
- Enable Direct Messages: Direct Messages enable private, real-time communication between learners and moderators, as well as peer-to-peer, without the need to post publicly.
- Manage Community Notifications: Keep your members informed and engaged with push, mobile, web app, and activity email notifications.