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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
Relatively low learning curve. Reasonable price.

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
I'd say that 2/3s of the functionality is fairly usable (7-8) once you learn the basics, but for new tasks that have just been incorporated or for non-essential, unique activities or functionality, I'd say that Captivate gets a lower score, closer to 3 or 4. have had to be creative and figure these things out, so it's possible but not easy or especially intuitive.

Amazing Software for Training and Learning!

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 29, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adobe Captivate
1 year of experience
i use this software in my organization for lunching new training courses and to create interactive learning modules. These modules were based on various presentations that we wanted to convert from PowerPoint to something more interesting. Needless to say that Adobe Captivate delivered. The software allowed us to record our actions which allowed our end users to follow our directions step-by-step. Similar to other LMS, Adobe Captivate allows users to narrate our lectures and add closed captioning for those who prefer reading directions. i would love to see more multimedia tool being incorporated into the overall suite rather than separate sales.
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