Thinkific vs Teachable

Is Teachable Better than Thinkific? (2023)

You’ve heard of these two platforms in the world of online courses, but is Teachable better than Thinkific? Let’s find out.

Teachable vs Thinkific: The judgement criteria

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    Can you build YOUR brand?

    Teachable is a learning management system that allows you to create courses and sell them online. In addition, teachable lets you create a website that can be connected to your online courses. You can choose any course theme and change the typography, brand color, logo, and background.

    With Thinkific, you can choose your brand color and customize it according to your need. Moreover, you are not required to have the technical know-how as you can personalize without HTML and CSS with Thinkific's default course themes. In addition, Thinkific lets you create your site with both your brand name and Thinkific's own name.

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    Is it scalable?

    Teachable allows you to create unlimited courses. You can repurpose your content and lecture easily to scale faster. Moreover, Teachable offers a bulk upload feature, where you can migrate your student information and courses from another platform. Finally, there is a drag-and-drop builder through which you can easily create websites.

    With Thinkific, you can add unlimited admins, courses, and groups. Moreover, you can send broadcasted emails to selected groups from your user base. In addition, there is an option for running personalized campaigns for a particular group. You can also create many pages apart from your sales page without compromising speed.

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    How much will it cost you?

    Teachable's pricing plan has many tiers, which can get a little complex to understand. If you want to create a full-fledged learning experience for your members, you might have to upgrade your plan to an expensive one. There are four pricing tiers - Free plan, Basic plan at $29/mo, Pro plan at $99/mo, and business plan at $249/mo.

    Whereas Thinkific comes with a free plan in which you can create courses and sell them online. The free plan will have less functionality as you can only upload limited courses. However, you do get unlimited students. There are three pricing tiers - Basic plan at $39/mo, Pro plan at $79/mo, and Premier plan at $399/mo.

Now, a detailed comparison

How does Scenes stack up against Thinkific & Teachable?

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Content
Organize discussions
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Private spaces
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Rich posts
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Your own brand
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Content & resources
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Member directory
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Downloads
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Online courses
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Curriculum builder
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Quizzes Assessments
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Newsletters
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Engagement
Chat rooms
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Virtual Live Classes
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Events & Webinars
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1-1 messaging
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Discussions forums
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Email Notifications
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Push Notifications
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Zoom Integration
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Gamification
Community Coin System
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Coins for Actions
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Spend Coins
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Peer-to-Peer Transactions
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Leaderboards
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Status Badges
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Monetisation
Paid memberships
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Recurring subscriptions
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Gate access
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Stripe Integration
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Customisation
Subcommunities
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Personalized Onboarding
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Whitelabeling
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Custom Domain
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Single sign-on (SSO)
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Advanced analytics
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Unlimited Admins
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Roles & Permissions
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Webhooks
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Whitelabeled Notifications
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3 key differences that make Scenes the perfect Thinkific and Kajabi alternative

Finally, a platform to replace them all

If you think about teaching online as a serious business, you'll find yourself tying together multiple tools (alongside Thinkific and Teachable).

This is hassle-some, both for you as well as your students. With Scenes, do it all in one place.

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Points System

All the most addictive apps and games out there give you points when you take action. Humans are incredibly motivated by gamification.

Scenes has in-built systems for points and leaderboards that give your users a 10x addictive social experience.

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With Scenes, you get...

  • forums
    White labeled mobile & web app
  • calendar
    Schedule and host live classes
  • user profiles
    Split members into cohorts
  • anlaytics
    In-depth analytics
  • gamification
    Points system & rewards
  • chat and messaging
    Group Chat
  • chat
    Direct messaging
  • voice bubbles
    Audio chatrooms

The difference is in our DNA

We're content creators, teachers AND community builders.

And, we know how everything ties together to make a business.

We've been teaching online since 2018. We ran one of the world's largest educational communities from 2019-2021 and scaled to $500,000 revenue by selling cohort-based courses. We kept hopping from one software to another because the experience of actually using all available software is bad.

This led us to build Scenes - an all-in-one platform to run your courses, cohorts, webinars, events, voice chat rooms, etc. - on mobile & web (100% white-labeled).

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Your branded online academy on any device.

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