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How Many Course Authoring Software Products Does G2 Track?

Total Products under this Category: 312

Category Stats (Sep 2026)

  • Average Rating: 4.54/5 (↓0.01 vs Aug 2026) The average rating of products in this category, based on all submitted ratings
  • Top Trending Product: Rapport (+2.22%) - Among all products in this category, Rapport recorded the largest rating increase compared to last month

Last updated: September 01, 2026

How Does G2 Rank Course Authoring Software Products?

Why You Can Trust G2's Software Rankings:

  • 30 Analysts and Data Experts
  • 26,600+ Authentic Reviews
  • 312+ Products
  • Unbiased Rankings

G2's software rankings are built on verified user reviews, rigorous moderation, and a consistent research methodology maintained by a team of analysts and data experts. Each product is measured using the same transparent criteria, with no paid placement or vendor influence. While reviews reflect real user experiences, which can be subjective, they offer valuable insight into how software performs in the hands of professionals. Together, these inputs power the G2 Score, a standardized way to compare tools within every category.

G2 Grid® for Course Authoring Software

G2 Grid® for Course Authoring Software plotting products by satisfaction and market presence

Highlighted products: Articulate 360, Synthesia, iSpring Suite, Paycom, Absorb LMS, D2L Brightspace, Easygenerator, and 360Learning.

Underlying data: [Grid® JSON](https://www.g2.com/categories/course-authoring/grids.json?focus%5B%5D=articulate-360&focus%5B%5D=synthesia&focus%5B%5D=ispring-suite&focus%5B%5D=paycom&focus%5B%5D=absorb-software-absorb-lms&focus%5B%5D=d2l-brightspace&focus%5B%5D=easygenerator&focus%5B%5D=360learning)

SaaS / Online Training Platform

Capability is a fully managed, video-first training and compliance ecosystem built for Environmental Health & Safety and workforce development. Deploy our off-the-shelf video training library, import your own content, or build custom programs—all within one connected platform. More than just training, Capability centralizes incident management, digital forms, file storage, qualifications, and more in a single, easy-to-use system. With transparent pricing, no contracts, fully managed support, and instant deployment, Capability simplifies safety and compliance across construction, manufacturing, healthcare, and beyond—no sales reps required.

Who Is the Company Behind SaaS / Online Training Platform?

Saga

Saga is an AI-powered course creator built for anyone with knowledge to share. Three ways to start: describe the course you need, upload an existing PDF, PowerPoint, or guide, or pick a ready-made template for onboarding, GDPR, compliance, sales training, product knowledge, and more. Saga turns it into a finished, branded course in minutes. Every course includes quizzes, reflection questions, chat scenarios, and knowledge checks, so learners stay active instead of passively scrolling slides. Publish in any of 50+ languages with one click, and every course is automatically branded with your logo and colors. The drag-and-drop editor is built so anyone can use it — if you can write a sentence, you can build a course. No specialist training, no clunky software. A modern, AI-native alternative to Articulate Rise and Easygenerator. Free to start — your first interactive course in under 5 minutes, no credit card required. Built by Cursum.

Who Is the Company Behind Saga?

  • Seller: Cursum
  • Year Founded: 2016
  • HQ Location: Copenhagen, DK
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    12 employees on LinkedIn®

Salt Adaptive

Salt Adaptive is an authoring tool that will help you create, deliver, update and report on your online compliance training on top of your Learning Management System (LMS) capabilities. Salt Adaptive uses a smart and unique system to edit or build your eLearning course content quickly.

Who Is the Company Behind Salt Adaptive?

Seminar Author

Seminar Author is a rapid e-learning tool that enables the creation of professional looking e-learning without the need for programmers.

Who Is the Company Behind Seminar Author?

SimGate™ Experiential Learning Platform

For more than 20 years, Regis has developed custom award-winning experiential learning, powered by scenario-based simulations for some of the largest companies across the globe. Over the years, clients with more sophisticated learning teams wanted to create, edit, administer and deploy simulations on their own, so Regis developed its SimGate™ Experiential Learning Platform to provide an easy-to-use, affordable and scalable solutions. The SimGate™ platform includes three components: SimGate™ Studio provides authoring tools to create and maintain simulations, SimGate™ Dashboard for administration, facilitation, and reporting tools and SimGate™ Portal for learners to experience simulations.

Who Is the Company Behind SimGate™ Experiential Learning Platform?

SimTutor Author

Replicate real-life with truly immersive simulation and scenario-based eLearning.

Who Is the Company Behind SimTutor Author?

  • Seller: SimTutor
  • Year Founded: 2003
  • HQ Location: Atlanta, US
  • Twitter: @simtutor
    47 Twitter followers
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    3 employees on LinkedIn®

Skilitics Interact

Interact is a development tool specializing in designing the structure, strategy and creation of sophisticated learning content.

Who Is the Company Behind Skilitics Interact?

  • Seller: Skilitics
  • HQ Location: Christchurch, NZ
  • Twitter: @skilitics
    591 Twitter followers
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    5 employees on LinkedIn®

Skillcast

Because the cost of compliance failure is far higher than other workplace training, compliance, HR, and L&D leaders must demonstrate that their programmes reduce risk, not simply achieve completion rates. Yet many organisations roll the dice with tick-box training and poorly governed AI-generated content, leaving themselves exposed to costly fines and reputational harm. For over 25 years, Skillcast has been the trusted partner of choice for organisations looking to turn compliance training into a front-line defence. We combine deep compliance expertise, AI-enabled technology and rigorous human oversight to help you: - Manage compliance learning, policies, disclosures, and registers from a single source of truth. - Drive engagement and reduce training fatigue with personalised learning experiences. - Strengthen governance through policy attestation, disclosure workflows, and audit-ready reporting. - Track CPD, training activity, and compliance outcomes with complete visibility. - Give employees instant AI powered compliance answers from trusted company documents teams. - Customise our expert content in minutes using AI with full human oversight. - Deploy out-of-the-box, configurable, or bespoke solutions that fit your organisation. The result is greater engagement, stronger compliance cultures, and increased confidence that your organisation is meeting its regulatory obligations. Trusted by 1,400+ leading organisations - including Tesco, Dr. Martens, Barclays, and Investec - Skillcast provides the expertise, technology, and assurance that only comes from having a specialist compliance partner by your side.

Who Is the Company Behind Skillcast?

Skillsail

Skillsail is a browser-based AI authoring tool for L&D teams, trainers, and course authors. Chat or upload a PDF, PPTX, or DOCX and Skillsail builds an interactive module with slides, quizzes, images, and voiceover. Translate text and narration into 160+ languages, then export SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI, cmi5, or standalone HTML5 into the LMS you already use.

Who Is the Company Behind Skillsail?

Skillsteq

Interactive e-learning and training platform

Who Is the Company Behind Skillsteq?

Slate Builder

Slate Builder is an AI-native eLearning authoring platform built for the way modern teams work. Slate's block-based builder is beginner-friendly, with power-user features like tagging, course-wide search, and Dynamic SCORM for power-users. Manage and create courses directly from Claude, Codex, and other agents using the Slate MCP connector, or convert your Canva presentations into interactive, SCORM-ready courses in minutes with the Slate for Canva app. For teams who prefer writing in plain text, LESSON.md is an open Markdown format for authoring structured courses in any text editor and importing them directly into Slate. Publish to SCORM 1.2/2004, xAPI, cmi5, standalone HTML, or convert courses back to Markdown files. You own your content, no vendor lock-in. Free, Standard, and Pro tiers available.

Who Is the Company Behind Slate Builder?

  • Seller: Slate
  • Year Founded: 2025
  • HQ Location: Remote, CA
  • Twitter: @Slate_eLearning
  • LinkedIn® Page: www.linkedin.com
    1 employees on LinkedIn®
Grace Savides
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Researched and written by Grace Savides
Updated October 3, 2024