Adobe Captivate is an elearning authoring and course design tool (or LCMS). It supports mobile HTML5 content. Captivate’s users are commonly midsized businesses to enterprises. Adobe Captivate includes some prebuilt assets as well as customizable workflows.
$33.99
per month
Articulate Storyline
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Articulate Storyline is a learning content creation platform. It provides prebuilt and customizable content, along with gamification capabilities. Articulate emphasizes user-friendliness, including mobile accessibility. It is offered on a perpetual license.
Adobe Captivate is a superior solution when it comes to the overall flexibility of the platform, but does require a more advanced skill set to take advantage of the features and functions within. We ultimately selected Articulate Storyline over Adobe Captivate because of the …
Adobe Captivate has more robust functionality than any of its competition. It is truly an all-in-one content creation tool that lets you create everything from the most simple to the most advanced eLearning modules. Moreover, it allows you to have more minute control over every …
Adobe Captivate is a bit harder to learn than Articulate Storyline. Adobe Captivate was already in place when I started at the company, but we were trying to get Articulate Storyline instead. I have heard Adobe Captivate is doing some great stuff with AI and augmented reality, …
My experience with Articulate is very limited and the vast majority of my work has been in Captivate. I would not feel comfortable providing a comparison in this case.
Articulate Storyline has less than impressive graphic editing capabilities, no access to the library, and a quirky button set to feature. Their free trial is very limited access to anything in Storyline 360 assets.
Adobe Captivate is much more powerful than the Articulate products. It can take your training much further. If you can imagine it, you ca create it in Captivate. It also makes it easy to maintain simulations as they are recorded a individual pages making it easy to make a quick …
Articulate currently has some benefits over Captivate in flexibility and responsive design, but I think these are being addressed in the next version of Captivate. Articulate is also more fiddly. Mac support is important to our users, who are majority Mac users.
Adobe Captivate is superior in 360 view courseware development. It's outstanding and a delight to work with. That's about it. Unfortunately, Articulate dominates in everything else.
I use Camtasia for video editing, however, we have Premier Pro and are now learning to use it. Camtasia and Snagit we use for smaller projects. For bigger projects, we use them all.
While Captivate has some awesome niche features for some circumstances, currently it cannot beat the ease of use with Storyline. Whether it's content, variables, quizes, etc. things are just "easier" in Storyline. Even something as simple as triggering an event when the …
Adobe Captivate is perfect for advanced users or users who want to create innovative content. The restrictions are limited to how much/how little a user knows about Adobe Captivate and its features. On this note, beginners may have an easier time getting familiar with and …
It is easier and quicker for me to produce a lesson in Storyline vs. Adobe Captivate. That being said, Adobe Captivate has more options to customize content. It would be nice if Adobe Captivate provided more baseline templates to work with to facilitate quicker lesson production.
Captivate for us is another tool, overall is slower than the competition but it has a version specifically for the Macs we used, it's a very powerful tool that matches the competition apps.
It doesn't. Storyline is far superior in every way, the only reason I gave this is a five is that I know some organizations are still using it due to their size, but against the competition it doesn't stand a chance, I wouldn't recommend this as a buy. I mentioned earlier that …
Articulate Storyline blew Adobe Captivate out of the water. I tried Captivate about two years ago when I was evaluating programs, and it just didn't seem to offer enough creative flexibility. Even today, many courses that I see that are designed with Captivate look the same. …
Articulate is a special product that has many features that differ from LMS and other e-learning tools. Its rich multimedia features and a flexible interface is unique that it can be utilized along with LMS programs and even programs like Adobe Captivate. Essentially it can be …
Articulate Storyline does not have nearly as much of the tools that Adobe Captivate has. However, Captivate leans a great deal on Flash to accomplish its tricks. Storyline is far more intuitive. One of its great benefits over Captivate is that Storyline allows for editable …
Learning Management System Administrator, Training Specialist
Chose Articulate Storyline
Although I like Adobe Captivate and am happy that it is in the market, I do not believe it is as robust and intuitive as developing in Storyline. Additionally, Articulate has bundled Storyline with several other eLearning tools that make it a killer combo.
Articulate Storyline is much easier to use and has a much more modern User Interface and overall User Experience than Adobe Captivate. If someone already has experience using the Adobe products, they can achieve very similiar results in both, but I'd recommend Articulate …
Articulate Storyline is user friendly and integrates many features throughout with other modules in the Articulate Storyline suite that creates a seamless experience as needed. These integrations allow scaling the modules as well as quickly allows subject matter experts to …
Overall I like Articulate Storyline much better and found it easier to use since it replicates many of the office products. It also has some good stock images, characters, and templates that you can use instead of paying for them separately. I also like how it’s always …
Captive is also a powerful software for eLearning, but Articulate has a much faster learning curve, in a couple of weeks the factory team could already design and produce with Articulate.
Another advantage of articulate is that it has a very large repository of resources and …
What it ultimately came down to was that we had familiarity with Storyline from previous work experiences. While I cannot speak to the overall comparison relative to learning curve with Storyline versus the Adobe options, I can say that it would appear that based on experience …
I've used a few other products that are similar to Storyline. Captivate by Adobe is overly complex and frustrating at times, so that's gonna be a "no go" for most users. The addition of these new 360 applications (Rise, Review, etc) makes Articulate the top option when it comes …
Storyline is definitely the most user-friendly option I've identified. The settings and controls are similar to Microsoft products, which makes it super easy to learn, and easy to train new curriculum writers on the software. The actions options are also very easy to navigate …
The learning curve for using Storyline is not nearly as steep as it is with Captivate or Flash. Ultimately, it was not my decision to use Storyline, but I am glad that Storyline is the tool that my leaders chose. The UI in much more intuitive than Lectora, and the code is much …
Captivate has a huge learning curve and is very difficult to use day-to-day. Articulate is very easy to pick up on day 1. Any other kind of animation software would require too much design/programming knowledge that Articulate bypasses. Any other sort of HTML5 or SCORM design …
This software has a steep learning curve and Storyline is miles ahead due to it being a lot like PowerPoint. It even imports PowerPoint presentations with ease. We've selected it for that reason, and with the new update, its large library of different assets. The only thing I …
I use all three for various reasons. I tend to use Storyline when I need an eLearning course where I want to convey long-term learning lessons and want to track progress. The ability to branch off of the main path for users to choose their journey is a great plus! I also really …
Digital Education Designer | Office of Digital Education
Chose Articulate Storyline
AS, in my opinion, is more so for users who want to customized online course development. Articulate 360 takes the pressure of a a "novice" user which enables them to plug and play.
For me, it came down to UX design, and user-friendliness. The other software solutions I would categorize as Storyline competitors either involved too many clicks or actions to accomplish the same goals as Storyline, or their UX was too cumbersome and not as user-friendly as …
Captivate is unforgiving and cumbersome to use. The only reason you'd need Captivate is if you wanted to add some coding scripts to your module. Storyline almost seemed like a dream because it was so easy to use. Not only is it easy to use, but you can work quickly and be very …