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ActivePresenter

All-in-one Authoring Tool, Recorder, & Video Editor with AI

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ActivePresenter - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

ActivePresenter overview

What is ActivePresenter?

ActivePresenter is a video creation and e-learning authoring tool for corporate trainers and educational organizations. It enables users to capture and record desktop screens or webcam footage with keyboard and mouse click captures, edit screencast videos, and enrich them with interactive HTML5 content. It turns video footage into attractive e-learning material. Compatible with Mac and Windows, this on-premises tool enables users to make mobile-friendly content and test it before launch.

Users can also produce in-video tests and surveys using GPS mapping and pinning, spot-the-difference game images, and fill-in-the-blanks puzzles that support single and multiple word input. They can add effects, bullet-point lists, shapes, and transitions to their videos, along with fade in/out, noise reduction, and normalization effects to audio files. They can also customize teaching material with animated text, embed HTML projects, and add animated content to emails and other shared content.

Starting price

249

Alternatives

with better value for money

Pros & Cons

Interactive Content Creation

Training and Learning Curve

Video Quality

Video Editing

Video Creation

ActivePresenter’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

4.7

(67)

ActivePresenter pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

3-4(20)

5(47)

What do users say about ActivePresenter?

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.

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Who uses ActivePresenter?

Based on 67 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Public Relations and Communications

Photography

E-Learning

Broadcast Media

Others

Use cases

Screen Recording

Course Authoring

ActivePresenter's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from ActivePresenter users:

Video editing

4.4

(16)

Audio capture

4.8

(16)

Annotations

4.3

(11)

Multi-Screen recording

4.7

(7)

All ActivePresenter features

Features rating:

4.6

(67)

Annotations

4.3

(11)

API

(0)

Assessment management

4.3

(3)

Audio capture

4.8

(16)

Audio/Video recording

4.5

(2)

Course authoring

4.0

(1)

Course publishing

4.7

(16)

Customizable questions

(0)

Customizable templates

5.0

(2)

Data import/export

4.9

(14)

Drag & drop

5.0

(5)

Gamification

1.0

(1)

Generative ai

(0)

Image editing

(0)

Interactive content

4.8

(12)

Interactive learning

4.9

(14)

Learning management

(0)

Media import

4.7

(13)

Multi-Language

(0)

Multi-Screen recording

4.7

(7)

Progress tracking

5.0

(3)

Question library

(0)

SCORM compliance

(0)

Screen capture

4.8

(21)

Screen recording

4.8

(22)

Storyboarding

5.0

(3)

Surveys & feedback

(0)

Template management

4.0

(1)

Tests/Assessments

4.5

(13)

Video editing

4.4

(16)

ActivePresenter alternatives

ActivePresenter

4.7

(67)

Starting from

249

One-time payment

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.6

Features

4.6

Value for Money

4.7

Customer Support

4.7

Snagit

4.7

(498)

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Starting from

/user

Per year

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.7

Features

4.6

Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

4.4

Microsoft Teams

4.5

(10.9K)

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Starting from

/user

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.4

Features

4.4

Value for Money

4.4

Customer Support

4.2

OBS Studio

4.7

(1K)

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Starting from

Free

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.1

Features

4.6

Value for Money

4.8

Customer Support

4.2

ActivePresenter pricing

Value for money rating:

4.7

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan

Free trial

Subscription

ActivePresenter Standard

249

One-time payment

Features included:

Advanced Audio/Video Effects: Fade In
Advanced Recording Features: Full Motion Recording
Audio/Video Overlays
AVI
Blur
Change Volume
Closed Caption
Cloud Text-to-Speech (Amazon Polly
Commercial Use
Crop
Cursor Path
Excel (Windows Only)
Export to: Adobe PDF
Export to: Mp4
Export to: Powerpoint
Fade Out
Google Voice
Green Screen
HTML
Image
Import Powerpoint
Join
Microsoft Azure)
MKV
Multiple Audio/Video Layers
Noise Reduction
Rich Annotations: Shapes
Slow Down
Smart Annotation
Smart Capture
Speed Up
Themes & Templates
Video Editing: Cut
Webm
WMV
Word
Zoom-N-Pan
AI tools

ActivePresenter Pro

499

Features included:

Conditional & Advanced Actions
Drag & Drop
Fully Responsive Design
Html5 Export
Interactions: Button
Interactivity & Branching: Variables
Javascript API
Keystroke
Mouse Click
Report & Tracking in LMS (SCORM
Text Input
Quiz: 13 types of questions
xAPI

ActivePresenter Pro EDU

249

One-time payment

Features included:

Conditional & Advanced Actions
Drag & Drop
Fully Responsive Design
Html5 Export
Interactions: Button
Interactivity & Branching: Variables
Javascript API
Keystroke
Mouse Click
Report & Tracking in LMS (SCORM
Text Input
Quiz: 13 types of questions
xAPI

User opinions about ActivePresenter price and value

Value for money rating:

4.7

(67)

To see what individual users think of ActivePresenter's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“I created two interactive games for children in preschooler age about basic English and colours, it was very easy to find how to manage the interactivity and also the support was very fast in giving me a solution when I had to create an interactive bookshelf to sell a market products using custom pictures and Paypal method and buttons.”

Angelo G.

director

“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).”

Scott S.

Sr. Manager, Documentation and Learning Solutions