Buyer's guide
How to customise your Thinkific site.
Five ways to go beyond the Site Builder, and six questions to ask before you pick one.
The options
Five ways to do it.
01
The Site Builder on its own
- Good for
- Standard pages from Thinkific's own sections.
- Stops at
- Layouts and styles Thinkific doesn't offer.
02
Apps with ready-made sections
- Good for
- One fixed design, picked from a catalogue.
- Stops at
- Anything outside the catalogue.
03
AI tools that write code to paste
- Good for
- Custom designs, if you're happy pasting code.
- Stops at
- Each change is another paste. Signups need a home.
04
A developer
- Good for
- Anything, built exactly to your spec.
- Stops at
- Every later change waits for them.
05
Brackits
- Good for
- Sections, widgets, lessons and a blog, in your brand.
- Stops at
- Thinkific's own checkout and course player.
What to ask
Six questions that matter.
01
Does it match your brand?
Your fonts, colours and voice, without restyling each piece by hand.
02
Does it update after you change it?
Or do you paste the new version into every page it's on?
03
Can it show your live courses?
A course grid should follow your catalog, not wait for an edit.
04
Who hosts it?
Code you paste needs somewhere to live, and so do its images.
05
Where do signups go?
A form that collects emails needs a place to keep them.
06
What happens if you stop paying?
Check what keeps working on your site, and what you can take with you.
Where Brackits stands
Our answers to the same six.
- Does it match your brand?
- Every design is built from your brand kit, which Brackits can import from your website.
- Does it update after you change it?
- Yes. Republish, and every live section and widget shows the change. Nothing to paste again.
- Can it show your live courses?
- Yes, on Thinkific. Sections read your catalog and the signed-in learner's courses, never their name or email.
- Who hosts it?
- Brackits hosts everything you publish, and the images you upload. Hosting is never metered.
- Where do signups go?
- Every signup and vote lands in your project, ready to export.
- What happens if you stop paying?
- What's on your site keeps working and nothing is deleted. Your blog and signups stay exportable.
Questions
Customising Thinkific.
Can I customise Thinkific without code?
Yes. The Site Builder handles standard pages without code. For custom sections, widgets and lesson activities, Brackits builds them from a description, and you place them without writing code.
How do I add a blog to my Thinkific site?
Put it on a page of your own site. Brackits adds a blog to a Thinkific page, at your own address, on every plan, and can bring your posts across from DropInBlog.
Can I add activities inside a Thinkific lesson?
Yes. Brackits activities, such as knowledge checks and flashcards, go in a Text lesson, where one can hold Complete & continue until the learner finishes it.
Get started
Put your first design on your Thinkific site.
Connect your site, describe what you want, and add a Brackits section in the Site Builder.
Plans from $49 a month. No annual contract.