Gnowbe vs. Thinkific

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gnowbe
Score 7.2 out of 10
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Gnowbe headquartered in San Francisco offers their mobile micro-learning application, for adult education.N/A
Thinkific
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Thinkific Plus is a scalable learning platform that’s designed to be easy to use for teams and customers. Thinkific Plus offers enterprise-grade features that scale with the needs of enterprises, and the service includes a people seriously dedicated to helping users to reach their goals.N/A
Pricing
GnowbeThinkific
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GnowbeThinkific
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
GnowbeThinkific
Features
GnowbeThinkific
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Gnowbe
6.4
Ratings
24% below category average
Thinkific
-
Ratings
Course authoring7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Course catalog or library4.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content5.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Assignments4.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance management5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning administration6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Social learning7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Gamification5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
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GnowbeThinkific
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User Ratings
GnowbeThinkific
Likelihood to Recommend
7.2
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8.0
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Usability
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8.0
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User Testimonials
GnowbeThinkific
Likelihood to Recommend
I like to use Gnowbe to spend my free time outside of work. The content can be updated very quickly. I once sent an online test to the people in our institution, and we needed to get the report of this test as soon as possible and meet with the employees. Thanks to Gnowbe, this process happened very quickly. We were also able to have online discussions about the test. This feature has saved us a lot of time.
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Thinkific is well-suited if you want to host an online course and have a variety of materials, such as videos, PDFs, and assignments. A plus is that you can host a community linked to your course, making it easy to give feedback.
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Pros
  • Personalized progress tracking
  • Mobile learning
  • User-friendly
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  • Enables course creators to deliver high quality courses very fast
  • Offers unlimited hosting for videos included in the subscription price
  • Provides an easy to use administration interface that's powerful and accessible
  • Easy to scale subscription tiers on B2C plans, cost effective highly scaleable B2B plans (Thinkific Plus) ideal for companies who want to start a customer education program
  • Amazing support and account management team - great mindset and people in the teams.
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Cons
  • A way to share content you create as well as use others content
  • Leverage more virtual activities
  • Allow free trials
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  • I would add some more blocks for page design to have more options as to what I can do, like a proper gallery where you can open and close images.
  • I would expand the text options within specific blocks, like being able to hit enter inside a text box and having my paragraphs separated if I wanted to.
  • Adding new integrations would be awesome, so you don't have to pass through Zapier. Maybe a ClickFunnels integration?
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Likelihood to Renew
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We will continue to use Thinkific for our company pieces of training. Until we are able to create our own in house portal, this is an excellent source to have a learning management software tool that is easy to use and easy to implement without much technical training to administer
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Usability
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Under Site Builder, when trying to add a new section, so many templates appear; however, preview is not shown, which makes it super difficult and time consuming to identify a template that suits the purpose. Customization of certification designs is a bit difficult too. There are limitations to the type of quiz questions I can create - for example, there's no option to have fill in the blank questions.
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Reliability and Availability
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I've never had any issues with accessing Thinkific but I can see when it has been a problem for others. When I get updates on when they are doing maintenance to their platform I tend to make sure that is not the day I plan to be working on my school so as not to get frustrated
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Performance
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When it comes to the performance of Thinkific for me I find that it's good but could be better. I tend to think that the larger the files and videos you upload on your courses may add to the impact of it's uploading (not sure if that's actually true or not). But overall the performance of Thinkific via my tablet and desktop is very good when I have a fast speed broadband speed
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Support Rating
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I rate Thinkific a ten because of its excellent customer service, ease of use, high-quality product, fair price with excellent ROI, and because they keep making improvements. Using Thinkific solved the problems of piecing together our course with various WordPress plugins, iframes, and payment processing software. It's easy to create a course website for people who can't write code.
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Implementation Rating
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The implementation period took time like it would in earning and using any new tool. It was more about being organised, having better time management processes in place and having people you were able to reach out to if you were every able stuck. The other key ting with the implementation period was giving yourself a realistic time scale to get the job completed.
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Alternatives Considered
I feel that Gnowbe is more interactive and allows users to really track their progress in a fun and engaging way. The badges and certifications you can be awarded helps employees feel like they are achieving something, progressing, and getting lots of experience out of the material and content. Love it!
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I think Thinkific is way better than Udemy. The Udemy platform was not user friendly, they require you submitting for approval before you can even upload a course and have so many restrictions. They never even approved my course, nor did they email me as to why. The support is not there like it is for Thinkific. Also, with Udemy, it feels like you are competing with so many people because they are given other options in comparison to you vs on Thinkific, it truly is your own. You do your own marketing and when people come to your landing page, it is all they see. They can't venture off of it to go to the next person who is on Thinkific. I love Thinkific and tell everyone to get on it. People say to me they want to know my ROI before they decide to invest in it. They want to know that it actually works.
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Scalability
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The opportunities to scale your online course business with Thinkific is endless. They provide a great range of plans with features, integrations and support to suit the needs of any business as different levels. The key here is knowing where to start with the budget you have and then knowing when it's time to scale up and the tools and resources it will require.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive engagement by employees seemed to have increased
  • More willingness to learn due to the mobile learning option
  • Increased knowledge
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  • pre thinkific vs post thinkific launch for sales training, our sales reps are getting their first solo sale on average 0.6 days faster. Before it was 5.7 days on average to sell by themselves, now it is 5.1 days on average accross 1500 sales reps that have completed the training since launching the training in May 2024
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