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Articulate Storyline

Overview

What is Articulate Storyline?

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.

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Intuitively Impressive

10 out of 10
January 03, 2024
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Articulate Storyline is utilized to create operations skills and knowledge training as well as transform current in-person training into …
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$1,398

On Premise

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

A Simple Animation Engine in Articulate Storyline 2

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Kineo Rapid Service for Articulate Storyline

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Add Custom Background Images to HTML Pages in Articulate Storyline

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New Elapsed Time Variables for Articulate Storyline 360

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Articulate Storyline 2 - Overview of new features!

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How to create animated buttons in @Articulate Storyline

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Product Details

What is Articulate Storyline?


Articulate Storyline is software for creating interactive courses. It's designed to be simple enough for beginners, yet powerful enough for experts, enabling users to create virtually any imaginable interaction, in minutes. The vendor further provides that with their new perpetual version of Storyline, users can deliver mobile and accessible courses with enhanced interactivity, faster.

Articulate Storyline Features

  • Supported: Get started building courses right away, without any training. Storyline is so intuitive to use, even beginners ramp up quickly.
  • Supported: Create engaging interactivity, easily. If you can imagine an interaction, you can easily build it with Storyline. Let learners click, hover over, or drag any object to trigger any action. Build engaging interactions in minutes with buttons, sliders, markers, and hotspots. And create dynamic, personalized interactivity with intuitive variables—no programming required.
  • Supported: Build immersive, engaging learner experiences with video and simulations. Record screen activity, add screencasts from Articulate Replay, and import any type of video. To create software simulations simply record your screen once, then edit whenever and however you want.
  • Supported: Assess learners any way you want. Turn objects on your slide into a decision-making activity–or use 25 different question types to create quizzes quickly. You can test throughout your course to get a clear view of performance, and combine results from multiple quizzes for a final score.
  • Supported: Make it easy for every learner to access your content. Storyline supports right-to-left languages and double-byte character sets and includes Section 508 and WCAG support.
  • Supported: Reach learners on virtually any device with HTML5 and Flash publishing options (Storyline 2) and a fully responsive player (Storyline 360 only).
  • Supported: Publish for learning management systems with Tin Can API 1.0, SCORM, and AICC support.

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Articulate Storyline Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

iSpring Learn, Adobe Captivate, and Lectora are common alternatives for Articulate Storyline.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Articulate Storyline are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Bogumił Ucherek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 Storyline. It also seems to have a more active user community.
January 03, 2024

Intuitively Impressive

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 review and comment on specific aspects of the training.
Keith Lillico, M.Ed, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Articulate Storyline offers way more than what you will find in any of its competitors. Aside from the full suite of software that comes with it, it also provides far more features than what you will find from Captivate. Articulate Storyline also receives much more significant updates regularly rather than Adobe where they are consistently minor bug fixes.
Jamie Drahos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 up-to-date with articulate 360.
Daniel Terán | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 templates in comparisons with captive, whose editable or examples are scarce.
Michael Whatley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adobe Captivate is the most robust eLearning development tool available. It is a powerhouse in the industry, but also comes with a steep learning curve. Articulate Storyline isn't nearly as robust but allows for much more rapid development with an adequate level of interactivity, assessment, and graphic design elements. The content library available to Articulate Storyline users is of high-quality allowing any company to enhance their design efforts without needing another third-party content partner.
Matt LeMaire, B.A., M.A. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 only, the ability to implement Storyline and get going was palpable versus the other options. Moreover, the UI in Storyline feels familiar, much like using PowerPoint, which is something that is not quite the same when using the Adobe options, and this has helped with accessibility and comfort for the users of Storyline.
Kyle Trail | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 to developing e-learning in my opinion.
Relton McBurrows | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 PowerPoint imports.
Mark Labbett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Soft Chalk has similar features as Storyline. However, it is more geared towards building out classes. It is a good tool for developing content pages and has neat features such as pop-up windows. However, I do not feel it is as dynamic as Storyline. Soft Chalk is a little more user-friendly and many instructors would benefit from using it. Storyline is much more in-depth when it comes to quizzes, grade and analytic reporting and has more interactive features.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 and use to create dynamic interactive learning modules.
Benjamin Brogdon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 cleaner.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Articulate Storyline is the only authoring tool we have used with our LMS to date. We are seeing different platforms now, as opposed to LMS platforms. And, many of those have their own content. However, we will always need to create/author our own because of the nature of what we do and how we do it. I'm a big fan!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Articulate 360 includes Storyline in a single package, as well as the online review of courses, and other really engaging tools that are all compatible with Storyline. We love Articulate 360 because it takes the best things about Storyline and adds upon them to make a full and comprehensive content authoring package.
Rebecca Mogollón | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 program will require too much knowledge that Articulate bypasses.
Brandon Bakken | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 truly feel Storyline is lacking in is its mobile response capabilities which I hope to be improved over time.
Kristin Broadhead | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 like the ability to publish the course to a Word document for my team to edit.
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