Articulate 360 Reviews & Product Details

The sheer versatility of the entire suite is what makes Articulate 360 indispensable for instructional design workflow. Rise 360 is a go-to for rapid responsive content development. It allows us to roll out clean, modern, mobile-friendly modules in a fraction of the time, which is crucial when working on fast-paced higher education courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it's an overall outstanding platform, there are a few areas for improvement. macOS compatibility: Storyline 360 runs natively only on Windows, requiring Mac users on a team to rely on virtual machines like Parallels. A native Mac version for Storyline would be a game changer. Rise 360 formatting constraints: Rise, fantastic for deep custom styling or visual layouts, can feel restrictive compared to custom web or Storyline builds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Text to speech is really amazing, and specially new api Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't insert 2 or 3 quiz question on same slide Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a very intuitive and easy-to-use tool, with many available features, which makes the experience very practical and complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't anything significant about the tool that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Articulate 360 stands out for its efficiency in e-learning development. The Storyline 360 UI, familiar to PowerPoint users, combined with drag-and-drop functionality and layered timeline, allows for creating complex interactivities without programming. In Rise 360, block-based construction ensures responsive and visually appealing courses for any device in minutes.

Integrations streamline the workflow. Review 360 centralizes client and expert feedback within the course itself, eliminating endless email exchanges. The Content Library 360, directly integrated into editing, saves hours searching for images, icons, and characters.

Performance is solid, generating lightweight, stable, and fast-loading SCORM and xAPI packages in any LMS.

Support is enriched by the E-Learning Heroes community, a huge differentiator for resolving doubts and downloading templates. AI resources accelerate content drafting, create tests, and generate guide narrations with text-to-speech in realistic neural voices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High cost and pricing in dollars: The annual subscription charged in foreign currency represents a high investment, without the option of installment payments or flexible monthly plans, impacting the budget of freelancers and small businesses.

Design rigidity and customization limitation: While Rise 360 restricts creation by limiting the structure to predefined blocks, Storyline 360 requires a long and complex learning curve to build highly customized or advanced layouts.

Limitations in media processing and languages: Courses with many visual elements or animations can generate heavy files and slow down publication, while text-to-speech resources in Portuguese still sound a bit robotic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use Articulate 360 for creating corporate trainings and courses. I appreciate that it helps me standardize visual elements and offers SCORM-like automations. It's great for easily sharing trainings for review and provides all sorts of visual elements to create content by myself, without needing a graphical design or development team. I like the way Rise trainings look and feel, and how fast and easily I can build them. Storyline offers in-depth personalization tools that I find particularly useful. I feel like Storyline is only limited by my creativity and my ability to understand the tools at hand. With the new AI features, creating feels easier than ever. The initial setup of Articulate 360 was very easy, with no problems at all.

Articulate 360 integrates well with any LMS and provides an easy reviewing experience for Stakeholders, without the need of logging in or creating an account to proofread material before launch.

Performance-wise, I've never seen Rise going offline or giving me a hard time to work well and fastly enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't dislike anything. Maybe some generative AI tools could get a little more up to speed with the market, like the image generation and, sometimes, the text generation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The creative freedom that Articulate offers for instructional content creation allows complex structures to be transformed into well-defined sections, making difficult concepts simplified with the aim of teaching more clearly. It's easy to learn, build, and engage to go beyond the basics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel there are some annoying limitations regarding graphic design freedom. For example, the "image & text" block seems simple in theory, but sometimes you spend a lot of time trying to fit the block correctly because there are limitations in proportions, text dimensions, etc. I think the knowledge checks and quizzes are also very outdated and could present something new to engage users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use it a lot in program environment simulations. The various possibilities for setting up a simulation help a lot in the creation process and make development more fluid. An unexpected benefit was discovering that Rise also acts as a simulator; before, I only used Storyline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although it works smoothly most of the time, I think Storyline still falls short in performance and ends up relying heavily on the equipment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an Instructional Designer of 17 years I like most Articulate Rise, because it is very helpful with keeping content organized as well as turnover courses that have a short turn around. I like the new “Custom Blocks” and the continuing features that are being added like the Interactivity features and the avatar videos. And I like the LMS integration. The LMS feature alone is a plus because I used to have to upload and replace the course in Sumtotal but now it just connects and updates. LOVE IT!!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downside of Articulate 360 is that Rise is for simple design and Storyline is for more complex, adding different variables and triggers. I would like to get some of that complexity of triggers and variables the way they are used in Storyline in Rise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As an Instructional Designer of 17 years I like most Articulate Rise, because it is very helpful with keeping content organized as well as turnover courses that have a short turn around. I like the new “Custom Blocks” and the continuing features that are being added like the Interactivity features and the avatar videos. And I like the LMS integration. The LMS feature alone is a plus because I used to have to upload and replace the course in Sumtotal but now it just connects and updates. LOVE IT!!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downside of Articulate 360 is that Rise is for simple design and Storyline is for more complex, adding different variables and triggers. I would like to get some of that complexity of triggers and variables the way they are used in Storyline in Rise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Articulate 360 for 7 years now, and it's a great course creation software. Storyline has so much functionality you can do almost anything you can dream of, and Rise allows me to create courses quickly while also having great variation and customization with the Storyline block, Custom block, and Code block. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think some useful features are still missing, and there are some features that have been requested by the community for many years that have still not been implemented. I also think there are some issues with encouraging that courses be made almost entirely by AI so I'm not sure I like the direction the company is now going. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.