🆚 Skool vs. Thinkific

📈 Thinkific is three times more popular than Skool.
🌎 Thinkific is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
🌍 Skool is more popular in Germany, Spain, and Serbia.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Skool

Thinkific

Type

Membership management software

Online course platform

About

Skool is an all-in-one online community platform that enables creators, coaches, and educators to build private or public groups, deliver structured courses, and monetize expertise through memberships.

It provides discussion forums, course modules with video and resources, paid subscriptions and one-time purchases, event scheduling, and engagement gamification with points and leaderboards.

Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their own online courses.

It offers a drag-and-drop course builder, AI-powered tools for course outlines and landing pages, and provides features like quizzes, certificates, and a customizable student dashboard.

Headquarters

El Segundo, California, United States

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Website

skool.com #3,621

thinkific.com #6,086

Pricing

Free version ❌

Hobby $9/month
Transaction fee 10%

Pro $99/month
Transaction fee 2.9%

Free version ✔️ 1 course, 1 community, 1 digital download

Basic $49/month

Start $99/month

Grow $199/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Thinkific online course platform is 3 times more popular than Skool.

Total websites

Market share

Online Courses

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Thinkific is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while Skool is more popular in Germany, Spain, and Serbia.

United States

United Kingdom

Canada

Australia

Germany

Spain

Italy

France

Netherlands

Mexico

Awards

🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Membership Management category.
🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Subscriptions category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Online Courses category.
🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Online Courses category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Online Courses category.
🔥 20th most popular in Canada in the E-Commerce category.
⬆️ 23rd most popular in the United States in the E-Commerce category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Thinkific is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Skool is more commonly used on real estate sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Online Shopping

Sports

Health

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#107,077

#141,569

#141,787

#191,238

#192,752

Name

Rank

#3,576

#7,725

#20,352

#21,306

#24,912