Adobe Captivate Reviews 2026: Pros & Cons, Ratings & more – Page 7

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Performance Overview
Overall Rating 92%
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Usefule features like preview and QR codes for easy viewing

Mar 6, 2019

Overall Rating 92%
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What do you like best? The live preview features are really good. By scanning QR codes it lets us see how the project looks on a mobile etc.. Allows preview for VR devices as well.
What do you dislike? The software needs sufficient space and resources to work well. Small systems may not be able to take the workload.
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MCKENZIE B.

Industry : Elearning | Company size : 501-1,000 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : Less than 6 months as User

Has good alignment capabilities for multiple devices..

Mar 6, 2019

Overall Rating 91%
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What do you like best? The fluid boxes seem much more improved and intuitive. With minimal clicks, it can align and distribute objects, Objects relations can be viewed easily and stacked together so it doesn’t misalign.
What do you dislike? There are multiple panels for defining functions and interactions. It’ll be good if there is a single panel to do all these.
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PETERSEN E.

Industry : Information Technology and Services | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : Less than 6 months as User, Member of the procurement team

Well suited for creating simulation, walkthrough courses.

Mar 5, 2019

Overall Rating 89%
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What do you like best? Adobe captivate has excellent screen capture options especially for simulations, walkthroughs etc.. Keyboard activities, movements of mouse, actions performed on the screen, audio on the system, clicks and interactions etc.. can be captured in the recording frame and made responsive for multi devices.
What do you dislike? It is better to use a good screen capture software so frames in between are not lost. These can be imported into Captivate.
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Industry : Information Technology and Services | Company size : 1,001-5,000 | Level : Senior | Focus : Consulting | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Administrator

Powerful tool to create engaging and immersive content.

Mar 5, 2019

Overall Rating 60%
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What do you like best? Captivate allows authors to create complex content. Features like geo location, mobile gesture recognition, virtual reality, responsive content creation using fluid boxes help in creation of immersive content. I like that tool gives enough power to authors to control learning outcome using custom logic and allows authors to view content as consumers of content would see it.
What do you dislike? Tool is not easy to use, and new authors need to invest time to effectively use Captivate. Content creation process has a legacy feel to it and lacks seamless and effortless interfaces provided by some cloud-based tools.
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Amardeep Singh S.

Industry : Elearning | Company size : 1-10 | Level : Owner | Focus : Product Management | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Administrator

Import options are good in Captivate. Saves time..

Mar 5, 2019

Overall Rating 88%
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What do you like best? The import options are quite impressive in Adobe Captivate. Especially with quizzes, questions, answers, marking, and logic, they can all be imported quickly using .csv files. It allows importing from other authoring tools as well. This saves a lot of time and effort.
What do you dislike? User interface can be improved. For new users, navigating and understanding the options can be a bit challenging.
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Industry : Information Technology and Services | Company size : 10,000+ | Level : Manager | Focus : Information Technology | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User

A versatile tool for having demo and simulation based courses.

Mar 5, 2019

Overall Rating 89%
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What do you like best? The Video options are quite smart. Quick good quality recording features are available. It is easy to take Screen and webcam recordings easily with a few clicks and edit options and easy adjust options make the interactive video learning more easy to do.
What do you dislike? Cloud storage is important when dealing with rich media to save space and work. Would be good to have cloud storage options.
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Industry : Semiconductors | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Senior | Focus : Product Management | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User

Cool features. Next level of interactions on 360° media.

Mar 4, 2019

Overall Rating 86%
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What do you like best? The new and enhanced interactive features are done well in Adobe Captivate. Once the 360° images or videos are imported, it allows course creator to add pointers for information, quizzes, audio files or points to navigate through the course. The learning retention is very high when it is interactive and it also helps in demos, walkthroughs and enables action oriented engaged learning.
What do you dislike? Cache can get a bit heavy when using Video resources. Ensure sufficient memory space for the software to work seamlessly.
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Industry : Management Consulting | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Senior | Focus : Consulting | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User

Captivate from Adobe has good Video integration and bookmarking features..

Mar 4, 2019

Overall Rating 83%
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What do you like best? A great addition to Captivate is the interactive capabilities in video based training. It allows linking with youtube videos or own videos and add check points at specific places for knowledge check or information. Bookmark features are available as well for future reference.
What do you dislike? The learning curve is a bit high for Adobe Captivate compared to other authoring tools. The advanced actions are time consuming. It will be good if there are more ready buttons or functions.
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Industry : Elearning | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : Less than 6 months as User

Fluid boxes is a nice feature - the responsive environment boxes makes it easy.

Mar 4, 2019

Overall Rating 85%
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What do you like best? The enhanced fluid boxes auto aligns to devices or browsers, this makes it pretty responsive. You can use the predefined options as well. The UI and UX is neat because it enables auto align and auto adjust.
What do you dislike? The Fluid boxes sometimes need to be defined a little too much. It would help if it were more intuitive and templatized.
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Industry : Elearning | Company size : 201-500 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Member of the deployment/customization team

The new VR and immersive learning features are great !

Mar 4, 2019

Overall Rating 96%
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What do you like best? Its nice to see the Immersive learning capabilities in the new version. Virtual Reality is a great feature that lets us assign hotspots, import 360° media and make the learning interactive.
What do you dislike? One needs to go through help forums and a lot of documentation to find support. It would’ve been good if user support is quick and handy.
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Industry : Elearning | Company size : 11-50 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Education | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Administrator, Member of the procurement team