ActivePresenter Reviews

I liked the extensive features you can use and the simplicity of the UI. I created two interactive games and imported my assets without any inconveniences. I exported in HTML5 the final product and it worked fine with any browsers.

I don't know any cons because during the use if I had a problem in a matter of time the support helped me.

So glad to read a review from one of our very first users. Thank you for having accompanied us for so long, and we hope you will continue creating more amazing projects using ActivePresenter. Please feel free to contact us should you encounter any problems again, you know we are always here for users <3. Best regards,

The application has an intuitive slide-based workflow, a robust set of eLearning development tools, multi-modal publishing (demo, tutorial, practice, and test modes) and one-click publishing to HTML5 and/or SCORM formats for ready deployment via LMS (we use it with MOODLE). The few times I have needed support, the team was very responsive and extremely helpful and even on a few occasions created scripts to make the software do what we needed it to do (which were somewhat non-standard use-cases). I have used many eLearning development and deployment platforms (including the 2 heaviest hitters in the industry), but ActivePresenter is hands-down the best value for the money and is most accessible for new team members to ramp up in learning development.

No cons after 5+ years of use creating and publishing dozens of interactive learning resources.

We're so proud and happy to read you review, Scott. Thank you for having been one of our long-term users and I hope you will continue supporting our product as well as unleashing your creativity with more amazing works. Do not hesitate to contact us via our Community or email at support@atomisystems.com should you encounter any issues. Best regards,

It is feasible and freeware if anyone utilising it for personal use, but as we were using it for organisation so it required license. But the feature and ease of use were good of it.

When using for personal use it records with the watermark however that was not considered as an issue.

Thank you for your review, dear. You can try using the eLearning features to create amazing interactive courses, too. I believe the software can "wow" you once you know it can unleash your creativity in different ways! Feel free to contact us at support@atomisystems.com at any time. We are always willing to help! Best regards,

ActivePresenter leaves control to the developer and allows for a great deal of flexibility to realize your projects. User friendly interface makes most things easy to find. Strong JavaScript support and extremely well written documentation. Technical support from developer via community forums is fantastic.

JavaScript coding is a little heavier due to the syntax requirements but a small concession compared to what is possible.

Hi Greg, We're happy that you love our product. I hope you will continue supporting us to develop this product and others more in the future. You can give a try at another product of us, Saola Animate. It is a tool to help you create HTML5 animation and interactive web content. You can also apply JavaScript and coding skills in this tool. We hope to accompany you a long journey further onwards <3

It is just awesome to have this on your system because this is one of the easiest and most intuitive video editing app there. Quick with there updates and narration feature is good too. It is easy on pocket so overall a great win win for you.

some casual crashes happend but that issue could be related to the systems we are using. other than that not anything that I disliked

Thank you Piyush for your feedback. We're happy that the software can help you with your work. Hope that you will still be one of our close customers, and please don't hesitate to contact us at support@atomisystems.com should you encounter any problems or have any concerns. Have a nice day! Customer Support Team

ActivePresenter is one of the best softwares available to screen-record. I tried a few other softwares, but the results I obtained using ActivePresenter was amazing. First of all, the software is really intuitive, and can record in high quality, without any problem. But the amazing thing is I can run it on all my devices, which had some troubles in the past running similar softwares. Simply amazing!

I like everything so far, so I have nothing to report.

Hi Fortunato, Thank you for your positive feedback. We're happy that we can help you with our product. If you encounter any issues while using ActivePresenter, please contact us at support@atomisystems.com and our support is always free and available. Hope we can accompany you further in the future. BR, Quynh Anh from Support Team

ActivePresenter is really easy to use thanks to its user-friendly interface, and the video quality is amazing. I really didn't expect it to have all these fuctions, it's really imprressive.

I would love if the software had more animations to choose from, it feels like a presentation animation and I would love for something more dynamic.

Hi Giuseppina, Thank you so much for your feedback. Our latest version has just updated more interesting animations and transitions, so please feel free to update/ upgrade and experience the software more. Contact us at support@atomisystem.com at any time if you encounter any issues. Love you <3

It has an extense list of options and a clean interface (with a lot of buttons), have a lot of formats, a lot of possibilities of customize your record, your video...

Some of options doesn't seems to be optimized, as when you export your record, it takes too long for finish it. And i think could be better to minimize that too much options in a main interface.

Hi Ismael. Thank you so much for your suggestion. Definitely look into the possibility to bring it into future versions. Thus, please keep loving and supporting our product. BR,

ActivePresenter offers a wide range of features for screen recording, video editing, and e-learning content creation. It has an intuitive and easy-to-use interface, making it suitable for users of all skill levels. It allows you to record your screen, webcam, and audio simultaneously, giving you the option to create videos with multiple layers of audio and visual content.

I do understand why people like ActivePresenter, but compared to other alternatives, ActivePresenter is quite expensive, and their animation, such as transition, ouch it is ugly, sometimes I feel like using the old windows video editor.

Hi, Thanks for your contributing review. Our latest version has been released with 30 transitions and up to 80 animations to make the slides and videos change smoother. Kindly refer here: https://atomisystems.com/activepresenter/ Hope you will continue loving and supporting ActivePresenter.

One of the biggest advantages of ActivePresenter is that you can record only the selected area of your screen, or to record just one specific window on your machine.It has most of the editing tools, so you can post process your recorded videos, enhance their audio, or even add various effects.

There is only one thing which is not convenient in this software is that once you pressed record, you can't change any recording settings. This is quite annoying when you want to remove your earphones during the recording. The moment you unplug, the software won't record your mic and the sound from laptop speakers. It would be great if I could change those parameters during the recording process.

Hi, Glad to know our product helps you with your work. Feel free to contact with us via our email at support@atomisystems.com if you have any questions or requests.

Brilliant for creating bespoke training modules

Once you get to grips with ActivePresenter there's nothing to dislike.

Hi Tom, Thank you so much for your review and compliment. We hope that you will enjoy your experience with ActivePresenter in many more upcoming versions. Kindly let us know via email at support@atomisystems.com should you have any issues or questions while using our product. Best regards, Customer Support Team

Having used Articlulate, Storyline and ISpring =- i chose this as a bette roption - as it was apersonal expense.

I thought perpetual license was forever and upgrqades would come with it - so I have kept to version 7.

Hi John, Thank you for your review and interest in ActivePresenter. We really appreciate that you have chosen ActivePresenter as the companion to your work. For your information, after one year, major version upgrades will cost 40% of the full price. I believe, in comparison with other software, this is still a reasonable price for you to consider purchasing due to the updates of many more features. Please feel free to contact us via email at support@atomisystems.com if you have any other questions about pricing or the upcoming version, ActivePresenter 9. Best regards, Customer Support Team

I love the inter functionality among the tools that it brings!

I don't like the type of HTML 5 player. You should be able to choose abetter one.

Hi Deni, Thank you so much for your review. We really appreciate your compliment and also the contributing feedback. Please feel free to contact us freely via support@atomisystems.com or the community channel (https://talk.atomisystems.com/) if you encounter any issues while using our product. We're always willing to help. Best regards, Customer Support Team

I use ActivePresenter in two contexts. As a video producer for a major educational company, I produce small how-to videos that need frequent updating. As a mystery writer, I produce "teaser" videos for my books: fewer maintenance cycles but I need more dazzling effects. I've used other video editing suites and course creation tools, including Captivate, Camtasia, and (currently) Premiere Pro. For ease of use and breadth of features, my favorite is ActivePresenter. It is enormously flexible. It can import PowerPoint slides, images, GIFs, and other videos. As you edit, you can separate your video into chunks ("slides") to focus on one piece of animation or editing at a time. It captures video off the screen or from an application *and separates the video track from the audio track*--a huge win in maintenance. You can record multiple audio and video tracks at once. You can record a video without the mouse and layer the mouse in later, another big maintenance win. Once you’ve captured a video, you can export it as a MP4, then add it to another video, then edit it again, then export that video and import it to another video…all without loss of audio or video quality. Editing is nondestructive. AP has a nice library of special effects, including transitions from scene to scene, fades in and out of individual items in the timeline, animation (even without Saola Animate), and opacity. With the course creation module, of course, you’d get many more.

It’s a high-end video edit and there’s a learning curve if you haven’t used a similar product before. If you have, some things work differently but there are no real surprises. Source files for a complex video can be LARGE, up to several hundred MB. Plan your storage accordingly. (Output files are fine.) Neither of these are big issues.

Hi Sarah, Thank you for your detailed review. We're glad that ActivePresenter can satisfy your needs in creating and editing content. If you have any further questions or requests, please feel free to get in touch with us via email at support@atomisystems.com. Hope that you will continue loving and supporting our product. Best regards, Customer Support Team

I love how easy and intuitive Active Presenter is. I have used Captivate and other products and they aren't as easy. Plus Active Presenter is a fraction of their costs and has all the tools I need to create video simulations, interactive videos and just plain tutorials. I also like the ability to effortlessly import slides from PowerPoint. Great product and fabulous customer service!

I would like more Animations to choose from to add even more pizzazz, but it has the standard animations that PowerPoint has.

Hi Liz, Thank you for your sincere review. We're happy that you are enjoying your experience with ActivePresenter. We really appreciate our users' opinions and are trying to improve our product day by day. Therefore, please stay updated on our Community, our Blog, and our YouTube channel so as not to miss important information. Please feel free to get in touch with us should you have any other issues. Best regards, Customer Support Team

- Screen Recording - Easy Video Editing - Can add narration "Text - to - Speach" with true voices! - Can add music background in the whole video, no mater how many slides - Can make software simulations - Can make quizes and get the results - Ideal for Video Tutorials and creation of pre-recorderd courses.

Not really many things to mention. Maybe the only drawback is that you have free updates for the major version you buy. But honestly... I wouldn't say that this is strange! You buy a software and you can use it for as long as you want... and the company gives you free updates for many years... but only for the version you bought. Fair I guess...

Hi Vasileios, Sorry for our late reply and thank you so much for your review. We're happy that ActivePresenter has become your first choice to create videos and record your screen. We hope that you will continue supporting and using our product as we are trying our best to improve its quality in the upcoming versions. Let us know via our email at support@atomisystems.com if you encounter any issues while using the product. Best regards, Customer Support Team

Free, pretty easy to setup and understand, and it even has a built in editor so you don't have to download a third party program to convert it to mp4. It also not only allows you to record your full windows screen but it also allows you to record yourself via webcam, with built in options to upload to twitch and other sites, at the same time so can be great for gamers

The video editor itself can be a little confusing and you have to make sure that you save it after the recording or else you will loose the recording you just performed.

A good free version for evaluation and reasonably priced licenses. Easy to use and works great in HTML5 and SCORM to upload to LMS or other sites. Great customer support via the forum or email.

Hard to use javascript (at least for version 6) as no scripting references are available. This would be helpful as certain action in the interactive part are missing. e.g. a play/resume button - but support is available.

Thank you for your positive review, Michael. Regarding Javascript support, we've made great improvements in the latest ActivePresenter 7 version with well documented Javascript API and an improved built-in editor. We also added support for multi-state object and other interactions. Best Regards, ActivePresenter Team.

ActivePresenter can record video, webcam with audio, system sound and take screenshot in full hd quality. The program also comes with very intuitive interface plus ever-expanding variety of video editing features. It is free and safe to use.

It lacks of video effects that many other video editors offer. Anyway, it's great for me since I seldom add effects to my tutorial video.

I use ActivePresenter now for almost 3 years! I am very proud of showing my presentations to all my colleagues. The interactivity and the user-friendly approach is so great! As a Physics Teacher, after many years, I finally found the ultimate solution to cope with the modern students needs. ActivePresenter makes teaching active, dynamic, `flashing and student-related. All my lessons are `packed in ActivePresenter. I also incorporate the necessary text-to-speech fragments; this makes me feel completely relieved and at ease, because prepared to `cope with the group of `youngsters in the classroom. These moments in front of the classroom are accompanied with e-learning activities. ActivePresenter presentations have full interactive options; students are really enthusiastic to work independently on tasks, modules, interactive quizzes and hard-core-physics-exercises. Here are a few of the many things I like about the software: Easy `basic-down-to-earth PowerPoint-like presentations with automated output; (even here, the possibilities are 100-fold compared to other tools!). Built-in audio/video editing capabilities. Interactive elements are available to guide the audience by an adapted path, fitting the situation or the need of the audience. Various types of questions/quizzes. All the results of the students can easily be stored in an LMS (with SCORM or xAPI support). You can also make an automated link to Google Spreadsheets to follow up the results!

A little bit of learning curve before you can explore all the possibilities of the software. (but after all, there is a very elaborated manual and a supporting help-desk!)

Thank you very much for the review! ActivePresenter has too many features that some first time users may find it a little bit to get started, that's why we're making more and more beginner's tutorials and our support is always there to help.

I played with a lot of tools in this category - many are free/feature limited with Pro versions ranging from single high cost to subscriptions. Active Presenter was the best combination of features (basic timeline editing, ability to pan and zoom the screen video, various options for exporting, no recurring costs for needed features) I found. In fairness, there is no such think as "simple" video editing. If you don't know what you're doing or don't do it frequently enough to recall all the feature locations, you'll struggle. Active Presenter is not designed for first time/one time use. It's a fairly serious program with a lot of features and options. I appreciate that it gives me the tools and controls to do the things I need without limitations, even at the cost of a learning curve.

It feels like it's designed for more slideshow based output than full video. It's capable of both, but many of the obvious options and toolbar buttons are geared towards something other than integrated video and on-screen action.

Hi Gregory, Thank you very much for your favorable review! We're glad that ActivePresenter provides all the tools that you ever need. It's also a good motivation for us to keep improving the overall UX. Best Regards,

De las pocas aplicaciones que conozco que "no molestan" es decir que (gracias su facilidad de manejo) me permiten concentrarme en la creación de contenidos. La aplicación está llena de detalles que demuestran su orientación a resolver las necesidades de sus usuarios/as. Se nota que cuentan con ellos/as. Es una aplicación poderosa, pero no es complicada porque te permite usar únicamente lo que necesitas en cada momento, olvidándote de todo lo demás. Es una aplicación en constante mejora basada en la escucha atenta a los mensajes de sus usuarios/as.

Trabajando con la versión 9 me resulta muy difícil encontrar alguna desventaja.

Hi Julio, Thank you for having accompanied us for such a long time. We're glad that you have been having great experience with ActivePresenter <3 If you encounter any issues while using our software, we're always here to help. Don't hesitate to send us an email or raise a topic on our User Community: https://talk.atomisystems.com/ Wish you a nice and effective week! Best wishes, Quynh Anh from Support Team

Es un programa bastante útil si necesitas grabar la pantalla de manera algo regular, es rápido de hacer que grabe, fácil, es gratuito y puedes editar con cierta complejidad luego, curva de aprendizaje suave y no lanza errores.

El problema viene cuando renderizas el vídeo, lo exportas... O cuando lo capturas grabando la pantalla. Cuando lo grabo en la pantalla de compañeros de trabajo porque el vídeo lo hacen ellos, a veces si el ordenador no es suficientemente potente, graba como con pocos frames, y al exportarlo lo mismo, por no hablar de lo que puede tardar en renderizarse algo teniendo poco RAM...

Hi Jose, Thank you for all your sharing about our product. We really appreciate feedback like yours in order to troubleshoot issues and improve our software more. Therefore, the next time you encounter any problems while using ActivePresenter, don't hesitate to contact us at support@atomisystems.com. Our support is always free and available to help you with anything. Thank you <3

si tengo que recalcar algo que diferencia ActivePresenter con el resto de herramientas de autor con las que he trabajado es sin duda la atención al cliente y el soporte personalizado que ofrecen. ¡Fue sin duda excepcional!

Por comentar algo negativo, son los pequeños errores que puedes encontrar en situaciones concretas, pero que gracias a la comunidad y al equipo de soporte, poco a poco van solventando con cada actualización.

Hi Lorena, Thank you so much for your sharing. We're glad that you are satisfied with your experience with ActivePresenter. We always put our users and customer experience first. Therefore, we're again very grateful to read your review. Please feel free to contact us if you encounter any other issues in the future. Best regards, Customer Support Team

Active Presenter ha molte funzioni e trovo sia facile da usare, ma quando sorge qualche problema che non comprendo chiedo aiuto al team di supporto che arriva subito in soccorso.

Mi piace tutto, solo mi piacerebbe potesse avere anche la funzionalità di inserire animazioni vettoriali.

Hi Betty, Thank you so much for your review. We're happy that ActivePresenter has become a helpful and powerful tool for you to use. Your compliment is such a huge motivation for us to develop further. We also appreciate your contributing request, and we'll forward your idea to our internal team. In the meantime, you can refer to another product of us, SaoLa Animate, an outstanding tool to create animations & interactive web content (https://atomisystems.com/saola-animate/) Please feel free to contact us via email at support@atomisystems.com or our community (https://talk.atomisystems.com/) if you meet any issues. Best regards, Customer Support Team