SkyPrep LMS vs. Thinkific

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SkyPrep LMS
Score 9.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
SkyPrep is an online training software that allows businesses, and knowledge providers to train, test, and manage their users. The software allows users to upload content any material they already have (such as PDF, Powerpoints, Excel, Word, Videos) and create courses and tests. There are also tools for managing, and tracking the activity, and performance of all your trainees.N/A
Thinkific
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
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
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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details- An Active User is a user that logs in during a monthly billing cycle. Plans must have a minimum of 100, with additional Active Users purchased in bundles of 100.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
SkyPrep LMS
Chose SkyPrep LMS
All in all SkyPrep LMS offers everything you need to get up and running. This platform hits all of the checkboxes for most organizations needs. Pricing is very reasonable. It will not make online training prohibitively expensive, and they offer a number of different plans. The …
Chose SkyPrep LMS
SkyPrep LMS was the most cost-effective solution that had all our desired features and functionality. Each platform has a lot of similarities and for us, ensuring ease of navigation and cost were top priorities. SkyPrep LMS appeared to be the most user-friendly -- the others …
Chose SkyPrep LMS
We had lots of technical issues and glitches in the systems over the past decade. Login instructions were constantly not being received by clients (this issue has pretty much disappeared with SkyPrep LMS) and their customer service could not fix anything from the backend on …
Chose SkyPrep LMS
We evaluated 10-15 other LMS platforms. SkyPrep had the best price to feature ratio, as well as scalability. For a growing company, the price per user will only go down as we grow. Features are all what we were looking for, and the user management is simple.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
We never used Brainshark because it was easier to communicate and have our needs met with SkyPrep LMS, but we do use Brainshark for other organizations, and it never seems as easy for me as SkyPrep LMS.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
  • Quicker to market at a lower price point.
  • Tech support was one of the key reasons we began to look for another platform
  • SkyPrep's tech support is nearly instant whereas Tovuti would take days to get back to me
Chose SkyPrep LMS
Easy to use, easier to navigate. Extremely user friendly for both admins and course participants.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
Far less expensive and provides the same or better ability to manipulate training for Administrators that may not be IT people.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
Compared to all competitors, when I was vetting and choosing an LMS system, SkyPrep LMS had the biggest ROI potential, all the features we identified as needs, and it was the best overall experience in talking with a company.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
We use Skyprep due to the cost and ease of use.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
We looked few other vendors but we liked SkyPrep interface and features more. One of the biggest differentiators is that SkyPrep offers customer success manager to all of their clients.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
Combination of cost, excellent features, ease of use, API allows for our own customization, and their excellent customer service.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
Moodle is more complex than I could handle. Softchalk has a user's troubleshooting manual that would have overwhelmed my customers. ProProfs has a poor sense of design and branding.
Chose SkyPrep LMS
I was brought on board after SkyPrep was selected. However, it is far better than anything other LMS I have used.
Thinkific
Chose Thinkific
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 …
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Squarespace and Intuit Mailchimp
Chose Thinkific
I prefer Thinkific over Kajabi because I found Kajabi to be less organized for teachers to keep track of everything that needed to be uploaded.
Chose Thinkific
Thinkific is the only product like this I have ever used;
Chose Thinkific
I believe that the rates and the over all set up and view are better than both. I also like the separation site. Having your own custom site is so much better for business and being able to create landing pages as well. It’s a great value
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Affordable, efficient and highly effective!
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I’ve used both platforms and found Thinkific to be far more intuitive and flexible than Teachable. The layout of the dashboard feels cleaner and more user-friendly, which makes managing courses a smoother experience. I particularly appreciated the level of control Thinkific …
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I don't have experience with other platforms, therefore my opinion is limited. However, a big reason I went with Thinkific was that an organization I did leadership development for used it to create their own course. I liked the experience and wanted to replicate it for myself. …
Chose Thinkific
We used Academy of Mine before Thinkific - for us it was a horrid expereince - terribly clunky interface, customer support lacking, horrid fornt end experience for learners, even worst backend experience for users.

We evaluted many others, but our priority was conenction with …
Chose Thinkific
Better than Absorb and TalentLMS but, in my opinion, worst than LearnWorlds.
Chose Thinkific
combination of course, community, landing page, billing, marketing, analytics. reputable, Canadian based, allows SCRM
Chose Thinkific
I inherited Thinkific when I stepped into my role. But my colleagues chose Thinkific because it offered a good balance of commerce-ready, user-friendly interface, and tiered pricing plans
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Thinkific feels much more modern.
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We ended up choosing Thinkific over competitors because of the ease of use to initially get started. The pricing and packaging were favorable for our use case and needs, and the customer support was strong as we were initially getting started with a few challenging items such …
Chose Thinkific
This review is only for the course building functionality. We moved to Articulate 360 for the course building portion of the program because it's way more feature rich and have been please with it's capabilities. We've yet to investigate other LMS options because we've been so …
Chose Thinkific
We used a training platform called Rise. While it was a good platform to build and host courses, it gave us zero room for custom options and or branding. Thinkific allowed us to create our own branded website to house courses, and hide content based on where they are in their …
Chose Thinkific
Thinkific is much better than Skilljar, which why we decided to migrate. First, the payment structure is not MAU-based, which is great. AI integration is much better, and I can generate captions for my courses using AI, which wasn't possible with Skilljar. Also, Skilljar didn't …
Chose Thinkific
Workramp is paid per user and also a platform fee, making it a less financially viable option
Chose Thinkific
I think that Thinkific has a lot of the same features as many other products, except these features are all found in one central location (for the most part) vs having to use several different apps and platforms. While there are some things that other platforms do better, like …
Chose Thinkific
Thinkific Plus stands out for its simplicity and intuitive user interface, making it much easier to teach and adopt, especially for non-technical staff or partners. While comparable platforms offer similar features, Thinkific’s ease of use significantly reduces onboarding time …
Chose Thinkific
Thinkific Plus was better or similar in user accessibility, ability to easily create new content, usability for internal administration, had all the essential features we were looking for plus many additional features, and had the highest satisfaction ratings from our students …
Chose Thinkific
We migrated from Teachable to Thinkific because we had multiple issues with the Teachable platform. We had issues with purchases going through correctly and with people getting the content they were supposed to get. We did not have these issues with Teachable. While LearnDash …
Features
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Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
SkyPrep LMS
8.7
Ratings
7% above category average
Thinkific
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Ratings
Course authoring8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Course catalog or library9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Player/Portal8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning content9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile friendly9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Assignments8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance management8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning administration9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Social learning9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Gamification8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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Articulate 360
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Usability
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Performance
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Product Scalability
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8.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
SkyPrep LMS is well-suited to organizations that do not currently utilize an LMS. The support provided from step one through implementation is excellent. SkyPrep LMS not only wants to help make an organization run more efficiently when it comes to upskilling employees and/or clients, they also want to learn from the needs of organizations in order to better serve all of their clients.
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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
  • Building a class is super easy from pre-recorded powerpoints, videos
  • Assessment Building and Quizzes are user friendly
  • The reporting features for both internal and external use by clients is robust, but also controllable
  • Very extensive administrative features can be administered dependent on client/company needs
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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
  • Many of the features in the newly released "Studio" are difficult to understand
  • It would be great if I had more control of what data my dashboard contained
  • Need to streamline their email delivery system and offer fewer but richer features.
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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
I say 9 instead of 10 not because of any lack of confidence in SkyPrep but only because I can't be sure how large or responsive my market -- male-friendly social workers and other helping professionals -- will be to my offerings.
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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
SkyPrep LMS is very user-friendly. The platform isn't overwhelming when you log in (as some can be). Immediately upon logging in, the core features are right there, in an easy-to-access manner. This is really important so that users of all ages and experience feel confident in using. SkyPrep LMS also has customization capabilities so that you can modify your user's experience.
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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
All in all SkyPrep LMS offers everything you need to get up and running. This platform hits all of the checkboxes for most organizations needs. Pricing is very reasonable. It will not make online training prohibitively expensive, and they offer a number of different plans. The file storage is generous to allow creators to upload vast amounts of training material if needed.
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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
  • Previously we had a limited # of clients who paid for access to our LMS. SkyPrep LMS allows us to proudly charge for access to our LMS now. We expect to achieve our ROI in the next 12 - 34 months.
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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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