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Adobe Captivate Overview

What is Adobe Captivate?

Adobe Captivate offers ease to beginners and speed to professionals for creating everything eLearning, using just one tool. Plug-and-play your content in ready-to-go slides and create beautiful mobile-ready eLearning courses in minutes. Boost your productivity by using out-of-box functionality such as customizable interactions, automated branching, and video overlays. Deliver immersive learning experiences to your learners in virtual reality. Liven up your demos and training videos by making them interactive using informational and knowledge check questions slides as overlays.

Adobe Captivate Details
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Product Description

Adobe Captivate is an author interactive eLearning and mLearning content. Easily create demos in HD, application simulations, and soft skills and compliance training.


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Adobe
Year Founded
1982
HQ Location
San Jose, CA
Twitter
@Adobe
970,010 Twitter followers
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www.linkedin.com
42,285 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ:ADBE
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+1 (888) 649-2990
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$19,410
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Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations — customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences.


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Recent Adobe Captivate Reviews

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Bharath s.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best software for Interactivity in E-Learning work"
Best simuation tool and also interactivity while using this tool i littearly get feel like i am creating a website aswesome work from Adobe Team
Michelle P.
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Michelle P.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Good Product"
I like that it's a good price for my company.
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Craig F.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Usefull but confusing"
It's flexible and relatively powerful once you know what your doing. It's a steep learning curve and not easy to start using if your not used to t...
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BS
Lead Instructional Designer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

Best simuation tool and also interactivity while using this tool i littearly get feel like i am creating a website aswesome work from Adobe Team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

I am not liking the alignment and thsi software is some what tough for use for begainers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

this software UI is too good and but the options are hidden some where i feel that and also they are going to launch cloud based web application to fasten the process with out installing the tool in our PC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

It's flexible and relatively powerful once you know what your doing. It's a steep learning curve and not easy to start using if your not used to this sort of program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

The platform seems very clunky and scattered to a new user. It makes it difficult to know what to do. It doesn't help that there are multiple versions, and each FAQ doesn't always link up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

It was allowing me to create bespoke e-learning modules for the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michelle P.
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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

I like that it's a good price for my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

Some of the fuctions are limiting. I wish that I could do more with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to to take the content that my company wants to teach and make it into a user friendly platform. It's also compatiable with my LMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason W.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

I like the way the courses are built to allow for better learner intergration. You add many features compared to other content development items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

It takes a while to learn and be comfortable with, they do provide training but it is not a simple program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

They are allowing for a cheaper alternative to build simple courses internally. It also makes learning more attractive and engage learners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

I love how specific you can get with the Captivate timeline - how you can either drag and drop the effects' timing or type it in. I also love how many aspects you can group together to make it easy to edit how you want your project to turn out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

The learning curve was big for me when I first started using Captivate, so I utilized several LinkedIn Learning courses to learn the basics of Captivate. Unless you have the time to commit to thoroughly learning this product up-front, you'll probably be frustrated with it while editing your projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's easy to integrate my voice-recorded files from Adobe Audition into Captivate, and Captivate has helped me deliver great, quality training videos for my organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Phil H.
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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

I liked how easy it was to learn how to get started and how powerful it can be once you really get to know it. It has allowed me to create a diverse, engaging set of eLearning for our partners and customers. Novice users can take advantage of an easy to use interface to create actions, while advanced users can execute javascripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

Sometimes the order in which you would like like to do things is not intuitive. There are some things after you work with it for awhile, you feel it should be able to do, but it can't in a direct manor, you need to find a "hack" to do it. The Mac version is a bit glitchy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Adobe Captivate:

NA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

We moved our online learning from vidoe based courses to more interactive, engaging courses. This has helped us ensure users are following through with the training and not just clicking play and walking away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

Ability to create responsive e-learning, which includes Question banks and assessments with full SCORM compliance. I also love the ability to publish content out to Youtube, and the ability to embed vimeo videos. The latest feature I have started to use is the ability to call slides up during a embedded video!. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

Design haven’t changed much over the years. Sometime you just want the ability to create something really simple like a scorm embed of a video, captivate doesn't do this that well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Adobe Captivate:

Ensure you storyboard out what you want to achieve and always save frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to push out great content using an lms and the ability to create question bank quiz’s. The ability to ensure all employees are receiving the exact same training at the point of need and without the expense of pulling them in to a training room for a training session. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tom E.
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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

I have been using Captivate since its conception, along with Corel. At the time, Captivate was the leader and maybe the only app for eLearning development. It was difficult to use, very powerful, loaded with features and certainly did the job.

I must have created over 300 eLearning SCORM and MP4 files over 20 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

I came to dislike Captivate once I began to use other eLearning dev apps. And, as time went along, Adobe never updated or added new features to the app. Still today 2023, we are using a version from 2019.

This factor has lead me to use another app,

I only use Captivate for legacy projects, ones that have Captivate project files as the content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Adobe Captivate is NOT really solving problems; it's creating them. You can only import a PowrPoint or Google Slide deck as images, not as a slide with elements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

Creating lessons on Captivate is a fairly easy process. It hasn't changed much in several years. So the process can be done quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

The interface and voices are out of date with current technology. AI voices have improved dramatically over the last few years and easy integration of newer voices is not apparent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Captivate, I can create and modify courses for learners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aniruddha G.
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What do you like best about Adobe Captivate?

I have tried many tools previously but none of the tools helped me to create the content which were not only interactive but engaging as well. I like the wide variety of interactive elements it provides. The customization it provides also makes the thing feel as if it is mine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Captivate?

While Adobe Captivate offers so many features for creating interactive eLearning content, I feel that its learning curve can be a bit steep, especially for those new to eLearning authoring. Although I previously had experience with it, so it didn't impact me much, but some people around me found it a little hard to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Adobe Captivate solving and how is that benefiting you?

I think Captivate solves the challenge of interactivity by offering simulations and branching scenarios, making learning captivating. I feel its responsive design ensures seamlessness across devices and it also addresses the compatibility issues. Basically, Captivate enhances engagement and accessibility for me and elevates the quality of my courses significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.