ActivePresenter vs. ScreenFlow

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ActivePresenter
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$0
ScreenFlow
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Telestream in Nevada City offers ScreenFlow, a video editing and screen recording application for Mac boasting a range of editing tools, graphics and effects, and easy video sharing.N/A
Pricing
ActivePresenterScreenFlow
Editions & Modules
ActivePresenter Standard
$0
ActivePresenter Pro
$0
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ActivePresenterScreenFlow
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
ActivePresenterScreenFlow
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
ActivePresenterScreenFlow
Likelihood to Recommend
Atomi Systems
ActivePresenter is designed for professional trainers, educators or teachers. So, it's best to use it for educational purposes like creating training videos, eLearning lessons, interactive training videos. You can also use it as a tool for content creation like making tutorial videos for YouTube or other social video sharing platforms. Making online courses for local training or selling online is also a great fit of ActivePresenter.
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Telestream
When training others to use a software application, I find this is amazingly helpful to accomplish using screenflow. The application allows me to video what I am doing in the application while explaining it in details. There are other uses of course, one that I found was to capture myself talking through students' research papers/thesis and explain where changes need to be made. Of course, MS Word has the tracking changes option and a professor can go through sentence by sentence - the downfall of this is that students #1 - do not always understand what is being suggested as we all cut back on words when typed out versus spoken. #2 - students do not always read the added comments thoroughly. Viewers watch the video and listen to a voice quicker than reading remarks. The viewing and voice, in my opinion, are the greatest part of the end product provided to viewers. This tool can assist anyone's work that trains others...be it industry or educational fields.
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Pros
Atomi Systems
  • making tutorial videos with screen recording and video editing.
  • Creating interactive eLearning lessons.
  • Creating software simulation
  • Making demo videos for software products
  • Design complete responsive eLearning courses
  • Export eLearning courses into SCORM or xAPI for uploading to an LMS
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Telestream
  • Screenflow easily records your desktop video and/or audio, with functionality that works even across multi-monitor setups.
  • The program has really incredible features for basic cutting and editing of the capture within screenflow once it is done.
  • The program has an impressive amount of options for expecting different formats of video and audio. I'm most impressed by the lossless audio and uncompressed video formats that give the best possible quality for importing into video projects.
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Cons
Atomi Systems
  • it could be more helpful to have built-in library
  • AI features like Auto captions
  • Improve transition effects and video effects
  • more built-in templates for Text
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Telestream
  • Be able to open working projects in other editing software like Premiere. In cases that editors want that flexibility or someone doesn't have access to ScreenFlow but needs to work on projects that use it
  • Only available for Macs. Some of our teachers have PC and prefer to work on that or used to it. Only reason we switched to another screen recording application
  • Files are huge
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Likelihood to Renew
Atomi Systems
No answers on this topic
Telestream
Definitely need it for future recordings
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Usability
Atomi Systems
It's easy to use like MS PowerPoint . The UI looks similar to what I've been using for over decades. I am an old man, and I can use it to create so many different types of content. Great one! No excuse buying the software.
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Telestream
It's simple to set up and use. The editing features are laid out in an easy to understand way making it the perfect go-to tool for a novice video editor and an advanced one. I will use ScreenFlow at times over other bigger tools like Adobe Premiere because it's quicker to make changes to videos.
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Support Rating
Atomi Systems
No answers on this topic
Telestream
It works well and fits into my workflow. The tools are much easier and straightforward to work with. Other video editing tools like Adobe Premier or Final Cut Pro are simply too complicated for this type of task.
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Alternatives Considered
Atomi Systems
It's simply easier to use and has more features than the one in the list. Added to that, the license price of ActivePresenter is so much more affordable than others on the market.
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Telestream
We looked at things like Loom and all those other screen recorders, but Screenflow is just so much more powerful. It can do everything we want it to and more, even things like Chroma Key (green screen), text on video, transitions, all that. It's a pretty great software for making videos.
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Return on Investment
Atomi Systems
  • It's one time purchase license.
  • It's the best desktop app for eLearning in 2025.
  • Pay one time, use forever is a great point of ActivePresenter
  • Their support team is absolutely the most responsive and nice people on earth in my opinion.
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Telestream
  • This is a low cost license, so the output is almost entirely to the upside
  • Years ago, we determined it was essential to have a video representation of our products and services. ScreenFlow has enabled the development of these and many other videos as well as our training programs for employees and clients. All this has been accomplished with a relatively low cost to entry.
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