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Adobe Captivate

Overview

What is Adobe Captivate?

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.

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Pricing

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Subscription

$33.99

On Premise
per month

Student & Teacher Edition

$399

On Premise
one-time fee

Upgrade

$499

On Premise
one-time fee

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

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

Adobe Captivate - Software Simulations and Video Demos

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Create your first video demo with Adobe Captivate (2017 Release)

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Adobe Captivate Animated Text - brief how to and samples

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Adobe Captivate Tutorial - Pan, Zoom, Picture-in-Picture - Captivate Training in Los Angeles

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HOW TO Record Video Demo with Adobe Captivate

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Demo PowerPoint to Captivate Demo

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Features

Learning Management

Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.

9.1
Avg 8.5

eLearning Content

eLearning Content Providers offer off-the-shelf, prebuilt courses and other learning materials such as books and videos in order to enhance training for important job skills.

8.4
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Adobe Captivate?

Adobe Captivate is an elearning authoring and course design tool (or LCMS). It allows users to rapidly author responsive, interactive learning eLearning content, as well as mobile HTML-5 learning content. Users can test courses with the preview LMS feature, and track the performance of learners as they complete quizzes and other tasks. Adobe Captivate includes some prebuilt templates and learning assets, but users also have the option to custom code their own complex learning workflows. Adobe Captivate integrates with SCORM-compliant LMS systems, including Adobe Captivate Prime.

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What is Adobe Captivate?

Adobe Captivate Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Social learning highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Adobe Captivate are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Adobe Captivate Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
March 13, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Captivate
4 years of experience
Well suited for developers who need a short learning curve and if using Adobe's LMS. Not appropriate if LMS is something other than Adobe's LMS.

Best tool on the market for software demonstrations and simulations

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 29, 2024
GN
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Captivate
17 years of experience
It is the best tool on the market for software demonstrations, simulations and/or portions of training videos that contain software demonstrations - basically a hybrid video containing software demonstrations. It's not nearly as well-suited for videos that are more promotional in nature, sales or soft-skills videos or anything that's not procedural or step-by-step.

Captivate is the #1 tool for eLearning- Hands Down

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 06, 2022
CM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Captivate
8 years of experience
Adobe Captivate is well suited for software training. Even though we do not use the software simulation recording feature, we simulate the environment with screenshots and then roundtrip into Photoshop to make edits to a screenshot For example, they added 3 new fields and it affects 25 different slides in the course. I dummy up the 3 new fields in Photoshop, copy the layers with the new fields, flatten and save the screenshot and it's instantly updated in Abode Captivate. I then locate the next slide that needs the same new fields added and round trip into Photoshop and then I just select Paste in Place and flatten and save. The alignment is perfect and the screenshots never leave Adobe Captivate. I had a course that I had to do this to with about 25 slides and it was easy peasy.

Great for Intermediate-Level Instructional Designers!

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 05, 2022
EW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Captivate
1 year of experience
Adobe Captivate is well-suited for scenario-based learning and assessment. For example, you can program text boxes and have the learners complete real problems and input real information, which is very helpful. I also think Adobe Captivate is great with embedding videos. There are several options including slide and event videos, embedded films from YouTube, closed captioning and accessibility, and interactive video and slide overlays.

Adobe Captivate - A challenging experience

Rating: 7 out of 10
October 05, 2022
CH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Captivate
1 year of experience
I would more than likely recommend Adobe Captivate, however, with the caveat that it is a complex program that the average user might not just b be able to pick up and run with. I have prior experience using other programs to build eLearning content, so I was able to figure enough out to get a basic course, but without instruction from other folks, I feel I would have been dead in the water. If someone was NOT creating software simulations, or if it was web-based software (Adobe Captivate seems to do very well capturing actions in a browser), then I would maybe recommend it more.
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