ThinkiFic vs Mighty Networks: Best Online Course and Membership Site (⚠️Read First)

1. Course Creation

Course creation is about the overall experience in the ease of creating a new course as an online course creator, instructor, coach, or edupreneur.

The course creation process includes all the features you’ll need to create, market and sell courses. With that in mind, here is my experience after trying out on both of the platforms.

ThinkiFic

ThinkiFic course creation offers the most intuitive process, with some of the best UI/UX design, ThinkiFic enables clarity in what you need to click to get to the next step of course creation, I have one of the best user experience when creating a simple online course on the ThinkiFic platform.

Build for both beginner and experienced course creators, you can intuitively add in various advance features and information you’ll need for your online course.

• Course curriculum: Creating your course contents
• Bulk Importer: Quickly import your media for the course
• Course Settings: Course descriptions, URL, instructors, completion certificate, access etc.
• DRIP: Course delivery automation and personalization
• AI Tools: AI logo, name, quiz, course outline generator
• Course pricing: Free, subscription, one-time payment, monthly payment
• After purchase experience: Upsell, thankyou page, launching your buyers right to your product.

ThinkiFic’s minimalistic UI just guides you along your course creation process, prompting you to fill in all the information required to create a professional course. ThinkiFic course builder allows you to fully customize each of your course, and with powerful Apps and integration capabilities, ThinkiFic offer full flexibility to create any types of courses for your online business.

To create a new course, here are the steps for ThinkiFic:

1. Login to your ThinkiFic dashboard and navigate to the left menu.
2. Click “Manage Learning Products” > “Course” > “+ New Course“.
3. Course builder will appear and enter your Curriculum details.
4. Enter your setting and give your course a friendly URL. ie. “Learn About AI for Non-Techies” or “Yoga Masterclass in 30-Days”.
5. Choose if you want to offer your content as DRIP.
6. Price your course accordingly.
7. Set your “After Purchase Flow“.
8. Once done, just click “Publish”.

In additional, you can create a community that is dedicated to each of your courses on ThinkiFic platform, while offering a wide range of advance features for course creators to create their online course making it an amazing platform for course creators to get started.

Mighty Networks

Mighty Networks let you easily create a membership site. Having a very similar UI to Facebook, Mighty Networks comes with the ability to create and sell your online courses.

Designed for membership sites that wants to offer online courses to their community, the course creation process is simple, and you can easily add in various features and information into your course.

• Course Community: Learners of your course can interact with other students.
• Course Materials: Creating your course lessons and add in quizzes for your course.
• Course Details: Course name, descriptions, image, completion certificate, access etc.
• Pricing Plan: Free, subscription, one-time payment.
• Gates: Screening questions, approvals, payments and Web3 Token Gating.

Mighty Networks offers various templates to create different types of online courses for your members. The interface is clean and offers all the basic features to create an online course.

The course creation process for Mighty Networks involves these steps.

1. Click on “Create Space“
2. Choose “Cohort Course“ template
3. Add your “Course Title“, “Tag” and “Visibility“
4. Create your “Course Materials“
5. Use “Mighty CoHost” to help you create course outline
6. Go to your “Course Setting” to change your “Details” such as, “Features”, “Highlights”, “Members”, “Payments”.
7. Add your “Pricing” information.
8. Change your “Availability” information and make it “Live“.

However, the features Mighty Networks offers for the course creation is quite basic when compared to ThinkiFic.

My Choice: ThinkiFic

Both Mighty Networks and ThinkiFic allow you to easily create course outline with the help of AI (ThinkiFic AI Course Outline Generator and Mighty Networks’ Mighty CoHost™️). Both provide easy and seamless course creation experience, allows you to easily customize your course. However there are a few striking difference.

• Mighty Networks course features are relatively basic, focusing mainly on community than on providing online course.
• ThinkiFic offers complete course creation experience with features that is focused on creating the best online course while allowing you to create a community around your online course.

Since we are looking at online courses, ThinkiFic may have an edge in course creation, and I personally prefer how the course creation using ThinkiFic as it offers more flexibility and customizability for the course.

2. Student eLearning Engagement Experience

Student’s learning experience and the level engagement is key to building a successful online course business, and this is especially true for online course platforms and membership sites. Ask yourself questions like, 

• “Does this platform give me the tools that keep my students engage during the online lessons?”
• “Will I be able to build a community with the course creation tools?”

Let’s take a look at how Mighty Networks and Thinkific features compares in keeping your students engaged.

ThinkiFic

ThinkiFic works as the best all-in-one online course platform that offers all the features to create any types of course and build a community around it.

Unlike Mighty Networks, ThinkiFic is “online course first, community building second“.

ThinkiFic doesn’t only offers all the features to create online courses that keep your student engage with it’s activities, creating an absolutely amazing learning experience, ThinkiFic today is also one of the best community builder for membership sites. Here are some feature that it offers:

• Community building: Create a community around your online course.
• Memberships: Creating a membership site that offers high quality online education and engaging activities.
• Learning Content Delivery: Video, audio, text, pdf, downloads, multimedia, presentation and live.
• Assess Your Students: Quiz, survey, assignments and exams.
• Drip Content: Automates and personalized the course content delivery.
• Certifications: Offers certification for students to encourage course completion.
• Products and Service: Live events, live streams, direct 1-click zoom meeting option, 1-on-1 Coaching sessions, digital downloads, online course.
• Unlimited Video and Digital Downloads: Building a library of online courses and resources.
• Mobile App: Free non-branded mobile App (ThinkiFic Mobile) and Branded App (Add-on) options to engage your students.
• Marketing Tools: No-code sales and landing page builder with email and affiliate marketing tools.
• Bundles and coupons: Increase conversion and customer value.

Mighty Networks

Mighty Networks allows you to create online courses for your membership site, and create online courses specifically for your online community.

Unlike ThinkiFic, Mighty Networks is “community building first, online course second“.

Mighty Networks is better in terms of community engagement as it offers unique features that helps you build a strong community around your brand. Online course wise, it is rather basic in the engagement options that it offers. Here are some feature that it offers:

• Community building and membership: Create a highly engaging community for your platform.
• Unique community features: Direct Messaging, Members Like You, Members Near You
• Learning Content Delivery: Text, downloadable files (pdf, video, audio etc.), videos and embed.
• Assess Your Students: Quiz
• Products and Service: Live events and webinars, 1-on-1 Coaching sessions, online course.
• Video and Digital Downloads: Building a library of digital downloadable products and resources.
• Mobile App: Free non-branded mobile App (Mighty Network App) and Branded App (Only on Mighty Pro Plan) to engage your students.

My Choice Draw: ThinkiFic and Mighty Networks

ThinkiFic and Mighty Networks both engage your students in different ways to help them stay committed to the course and complete your course.

• ThinkiFic if you are looking to create the best learning experience and engage your students within the course as well as in your course community that build trust and offer coaching, live events, and webinars on top of your online course and membership community.
• Mighty Networks if you are looking to engage your students to build a strong community around your brand that encourage your students to take your online course, signup for membership, get coaching, or attend live events while growing your online business.

ThinkiFic and Mighty Networks excel in their own fields. 

Personally, if we are talking about building online courses, I may want to choose ThinkiFic as it can engage your students on a deep level within the online course itself.

Thinkific also offers you the option to create your own personalized branded App for your online business regardless of which paid plans you choose, which give you better flexibility for your business.

3. Pricing Plan, Discount And Free Trials

As business owners, we are very sensitive to numbers. While the price for the platform is definitely important choosing a platform that is more expensive but better overall is often a better choice than a cheaper alternative which is just average.

With that said, let’s take a look at Mighty Networks vs ThinkiFic pricing plans.

• ThinkiFic: Free Plans and Paid Plans
• Mighty Networks: Paid Plans (with Free 14-Days Trial)

ThinkiFic

Thinkific offers a free plan where the platform offers you the ability to create online courses, create a website and community for free at $0 per month.

• Free Plan ($0 per month): Free to join, the free plan offers all basic features of ThinkiFic. Tools like course builder, dedicated community for online courses and “spaces” for your students, customized site, integration with Apps as well as 0% transaction fee for selling courses on ThinkiFic.

ThinkiFic offers the most generous FREE plan amount the top online course platforms, but if you are serious about your business, their paid plans can do much better.

ThinkiFic paid plans offer four different tiers designed for individuals, business and enterprise.

• Basic Plan ($36 per month): Best choice for beginner course creators who just started their online business. Offering features such as; unlimited courses and students, custom domain, affiliate selling, learning community, accelerator program, 0% transaction fee, and optional Branded Mobile (add-on), this plan have everything you’ll need to successfully market and launch your course online and start making money.
• Start Plan ($74 per month): Recommended for growing business who are serious about scaling their business. Offering everything in Start Plan plus: 10 spaces per community, assignments, bundles, membership plans, live lesson, certifications, advance course and website customization options, and ThinkiFic Mobile, you can connect with your students anywhere, anytime.
• Grow Plan ($149 per month): Most popular and highly recommended for fast growing business, looking for automation features that help them scale and growth their platform. Offering everything in “Start Plan” plus; API access, bulk enrollment, bulk student emailer, and white-labeling of your platform, you gain the option for unlimited growth.
• Plus Plan to Contact Sales: Recommended for established business, enterprise looking for a Learning Management System (LMS) solution. Offering unlimited everything, you can create a business with unlimited growth offering training to your company, or building an eLearning marketplace.

Add-Ons:

• Branded Mobile ($199 per month): Custom branded mobile App, a white-labeled App for your online courses and communities.

Mighty Networks

Mighty Networks only offers paid plans, and you can try any of their plans with a 14-Days Free Trial.

Mighty Networks offers three paid pricing plans:

• Community Plan ($33 per month): Perfect for new business owners creating a free or paid membership site that offer native livestreaming and video, direct chat and messaging, events and zoom integration with unlimited host, moderators and members with 3% transaction fee for each transaction.
• Business Plan ($99 per month): Recommended plan for membership site looking to offer online courses. Offering everything in “Community Plan” plus; Unlimited courses and quiz, API integration, and 2% transaction fee.
• Mighty Pro Plan (Schedule a Call): Most popular plan for established brands and business looking to create a community around their brand. Offering everything in “Business Plan” plus; your own branded mobile apps that create immersive member experiences.

Add-Ons:

• Community Design™ Accelerator ($349.99): Mighty Networks community design masterclass that guides you to create a community so well-designed it essentially runs itself and so valuable people will pay to join.