Adobe Captivate

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📍 United States HQFounded 2004

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Overview

About Adobe Captivate

With Adobe Captivate create beautiful, mobile-ready courses in minutes with the all-new Quick Start Projects, ready-to-go slides and out-of-the-box interactions. Speed up course creation using automated branching and by copying appearance and style of one object and applying it to another. Now you can edit SVGs and convert them to buttons, play overlay videos on clicking a VR hotspot and add multiple overlay slides at any point of your interactive video.

At a glance

Software information

Industries served, licensing and the support Adobe Captivate provides.

Industries

  • Computer-software
  • E-learning
  • Higher-education
  • Hospital-health-care
  • Information-technology-services

Licensing

  • Proprietary
  • Monthly Payment
  • Annual Subscription
  • Free trial

Support

  • Live Chat

Training

  • Help Guides
  • Video Guides
  • Blogs
  • On-Site Training

Knowledge Base

  • Help Guides
  • Video Guides
  • Blogs
  • On-Site Training
Languages (7)
EnglishFrenchGermanJapaneseKoreanPortugueseSpanish

Review analytics

What customers report

5.0
Based on 3 verified reviews
Ease of use5.0
Features & functionality5.0
Customer support5.0
Value for money5.0
Integrations5.0

What users like the most

  • Adobes Captivate programs logic and puzzles into the projects
  • Captivate is SCORM compliant, an applicable standard requirement for eLearning courses in educational institutions
  • New and innovative features like virtual reality improve the overall use with every release

What users like the least

  • It takes a while to load and lags on smaller screens
  • Steep prices, Captivate goes for $399 for the educational tools
  • Complex software. It takes a bit of time to absorb how to navigate the learning curve

What users say

Review Analytics of Adobe Captivate

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5.03 Verified Reviews
Ease of use5.0
Features & functionality5.0
Customer support5.0
Value for money5.0
Integrations5.0
Review Summary
Summarized from 3 verified reviews · Updated September 2026
Adobe Captivate is a feature-rich authoring tool favored by expert users for creating engaging eLearning content. Its strength lies in seamless integration with Adobe applications and PowerPoint, which accelerates course development through storyboarding, advanced transitions, and triggers. Users can import and customize materials to create responsive courses across devices. The platform suits organizations seeking a competitive, comprehensive learning system, though it appears geared toward experienced users rather than beginners.
✦ AI-generated summary. May not reflect every review.
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What reviewers mention most

Travis Lindemoen, Managing Director at Nexus IT GroupVerified Review
Posted on Nov 28, 2022

Adobe Captivate has an ability for users to import and customize materials

Overall rating5.0
Ease of use5.0
Features & functionality5.0
Customer support5.0
Value for money5.0
Integrations5.0

Our organization's Nexus IT Group e-learning program is Adobe Captivate 9, and you can check it out here. The benefits of using this software include the ability for users to import and customize materials from their library to fit YouTube video streaming, web surfing, and games; the ability to tailor courses to respond to some devices and monitor sizes automatically; the ability to support clever relative positioning of items and geo-location; and the ability to help a wide range of quizzes and question kinds with extensive grading and branching, based on test results. The software's disadvantages include an insufficient explanation in the user manual concerning upgrades from version 8 and how to use them and an excessive amount of JavaScript code being generated whenever a single slide is published in Captivate 9.

Sep Niakan, Managing Broker at CondoblackbookVerified Review
Posted on Nov 25, 2022

Adobe Captivate has a competitive eLearning platform and one of the industry’s best Learning systems

Overall rating5.0
Ease of use5.0
Features & functionality5.0
Customer support5.0
Value for money5.0
Integrations5.0

We at Condoblackbook use Captivate. Captivate is one of the most feature-rich tools, especially when its compatibility with other Adobe tools is considered. We like that you can storyboard your courses and employ sophisticated transitions and triggers, resulting in engaging content for any scenario or topic. PowerPoint integration is a required feature for anyone with content in this format, as it expedites course creation.

Bianca Trembley, CEO and Founder at The Best CalgaryVerified Review
Posted on Nov 25, 2022

Adobes Captivate is a fantastic authoring tool for expert users with great functionality

Overall rating5.0
Ease of use5.0
Features & functionality5.0
Customer support5.0
Value for money5.0
Integrations5.0

We The Best Calgary use Captivate. It is one of the most feature-rich tools, especially regarding interoperability with other Adobe applications. We appreciate the ability to storyboard your courses and use advanced transitions and triggers, resulting in engaging content for any scenario or subject. The PowerPoint integration is a must-have feature for anyone with PowerPoint content because it speeds up the course creation process. To sum up, Adobe Captivate has a competitive eLearning platform. When you compare their enormous features with competitors, the Captivate LMS software feature is one of the industry’s best Learning systems.

Capabilities

Adobe Captivate features

The full feature set, grouped by module.

Learning Management System (LMS) Software

  • Academic/Education
  • Blended Learning
  • Dashboard
  • Learner Portal
  • Mobile Learning
  • Personalized Course
  • Reports & Analytics
  • Tests & Assessments
  • User Feedback
  • User Management

E-Learning Software

  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Assessments
  • Asynchronous Learning
  • Blended Learning
  • Certification Management
  • Course Library
  • Curriculum Management
  • Learner Portal
  • Multilingual
  • Reports & Analytics
  • Track Training
  • User Management

Screen Recording Software

  • Area Selection
  • Audio Mixer
  • Export & Social Sharing
  • Game Recording
  • Recording Timer
  • Subtitle Editing
  • Video Capture
  • Video Editing
  • Webcam Recording

Training Software

  • Assessments
  • Blended Learning
  • Certification Management
  • Mobile Learning
  • Reporting & Analysis
  • Track Training
  • Virtual Training

Plans

Adobe Captivate pricing

Free Version
No
Payment Frequency
Monthly Payment, Annual Subscription
Preferred Currency
USD ($)
Free Trial
30 Days

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