Mighty vs. Thinkific - which is the best platform for online courses?

If you're in the market for an online community and course platform, well, you're in the right place. We're going to compare two options, Mighty Networks and Thinkific. Whether you're an experienced educator or just starting out, we'll break down the features, costs and overall value of both platforms to help you choose the best one for your needs. As you'll see in this comparison video, there's definitely some overlap when it comes to the feature set of both platforms. One of the biggest differences though is comes down to what Mighty calls People Magic. Everything on Mighty is designed to get your members engaging with each other. This by the way, is super important since Mighty's data from hundreds of thousands of communities reveal that the amount of member to member interactions is the best predictor of success when it comes to communities, courses and memberships. After joining Thinkific, start plan your walkthrough is setup process. Then depending on your choices, you can choose to set up a community or courses. The available features differ depending on which individual product you select. Mighty offers the ability to instantly generate branding and marketing materials for your community in seconds to help you start off one step ahead. You're also automatically set up with a set of starter spaces that you can freely customize. In addition, as you start inviting members, Mighty's built in People Magic AI features begin helping people fill out their profiles so that they can start meeting and connecting with members similar to them. You can even auto generate polls and questions with Mighty's Infinite Question Engine AI feature as data shows that this type of light engagement helps to spark great discussions and keep members engaged. Next, let's talk about how flexible these platforms are, especially as you grow. Lets compare them side by side. Members Both thinkific and Mighty offer a member directory, but only Mighty offers the People Explorer feature for visual exploration and smart introductions to help your members see how others are similar to them and even quickly break the ice. Feed the feed allows members to share content and add likes and comments in a traditional feed format. Mighty also offers a variety of visually rich polls and questions and to help spark engagement and get people interacting. Chat thinkific only offers the ability to create a space that is a feed and not a chat. Mighty lets you create chat spaces for real time communication similar to Slack or Discord Courses. Both services offer the ability to create and sell course content as well as generate course content outlines using AI. However, when creating a new space in thinkific, you have to link your course rather than having the feature appear directly in the same space. This means that you need to create your course using a different interface. With Mighty, your students can connect over course material in one place. But with Thinkific, courses and community feel like two separate things. In their start plan, you can have one administrator, 10 spaces, and unlimited students, courses and events. On Mighty, all of these things are unlimited. You can have unlimited spaces, events administrators as well as students and courses events. Both services offer the ability to create, browse and RSVP to events. Additionally, Mighty has a single event feature to showcase or slow access to a one time offering, as well as a way to live stream directly into the community. Pages. While both Mighty and thinkifications offer the ability to create landing pages, Mighty also offers a page feature that can be added to any space to which hosts can add images, videos, embeds, or even create a full webpage leaderboard Discovery thinkific has badges and ways to gamify course completion. Mighty offers badges as well as a visual discovery feature to spotlight top members in popular content. It's easy to set up new spaces on Mighty and thinkific. However, with thinkific, Spaces can only contain one feature, a feed where you can post. You can link your courses, but it requires a separate step. Mighty allows you to also start simple but then easily add multiple features inside any space when you're ready to grow. Both services let you customize privacy and access settings, as well as charge for access to the entire community or specific areas via one time payments or recurring subscriptions and in different currencies. In terms of accessing your community across devices, both services are accessible on desktop and through native iOS and Android apps. However, with Thinkific, admins can't use the app to manage their community or courses. With Mighty, there's just one app for everything that everyone can use. Finally, let's talk about the cost. For both services, thinkific starts with four pricing plans. When billed annually, there's the basic plan for 36amonth, the start plan for 74 months, and the grow plan for 1.49amonth. Since Thinkific's features are spread across separate products, their plans are organized around limits on spaces and admins, limitations that mighti doesn't have. If you're on the basic plan, you can have five spaces, unlimited courses and students, and one administrator. If you're on the grow plan, it increases to two admins, 20 spaces, and the ability to expand to three communities. Mighty starts with four plans. When billed annually, there's the community plan at $41 a month, the courses plan at $99 a month, and the business plan at $179 a month. The Path the Pro at $360 a month. On Mighty, the plan tiers are based on unlocking different features, more white labeling, and services and strategy. There aren't limits to members, admins or spaces on any plan. You're not being charged based on how much you scale or grow or how many admins you have like you are with Thinkific. It's just a flat fee tier depending on the features and services that you want. Mighty also has the ability to launch your own branded mobile apps on Android and iOS with their mighty Pro plan. Thinkific does offer custom mobile apps, but it doesn't offer branding services. Mighty Pro has hundreds of customers, each with a dedicated community strategist overseeing migrations, launch plans, and ongoing strategy optimization. It's people magic on your own branded apps with an expert team behind you. If you want to learn more about getting started on Mighty, check out this next video.