E-learning Software List: 14 Useful Programs and Applications For Windows/Mac

List of 14 useful e-learning software for Windows and Mac. Find the best platform to start your first e-learning course right in this article!

Elearning Software is one of the most important factors that determine the success of the your courses. Choosing the right software will save you lots of time and money. Thanks to our careful reviews of the most popular e-learning software and authoring tools we found on the market now, here are our best picks: The list of 14 useful e-learning software and authoring tools for Windows and Mac.

List of 14 E-learning Software For Windows and Mac

1. ActivePresenter 

ActivePresenter is one of the most powerful and affordable e-learning authoring software for Windows and Mac now. It has all the tools you need to design various types of learning course professionally.

In Dember 2017, Atomi Systems released ActivePresenter 7 with lots of enhancement, geared toward responsive elearning courses design. The program offers many more unique features that for creating learning content rapidly at the same reasonable cost – $399 per license.

Download it free here

• Software type: Offline, stand alone, professional and low cost authoring tool.
• System requirements: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (32-bit and 64-bit), macOS 6.1.2OS X 10.10, OS X 10.11, macOS 10.12
• Multiple languages support: Yes
• Course, quiz templates: Yes
• LMS compatibility: Yes (SCORM, xAPI)
• Best used for: Creating responsive elearning courses, slide-based training tutorial videos, product demonstrations, software simulations, interactive presentations and corporate videos.
• Recommended Users: Big, Small & medium organization, professional elearning solution company.
• Listed price: Full license, perpetual price $399 / Non-profit organization and educational price is $149. Free version can be used without any limitation.

2. Adobe Captivate 9

Regardless lots of complaints from Captivate’s users about this new version, Adobe Captivate 2017 edition is still a great choice for responsive elearning design that you want to take a look in 2018.

Captivate 2017 edition provides a smart authoring platform to create responsive eLearning content and transform non-mobile courses to mobile. This is the most productivity and smartest tool for elearning content. More professional and cost-effective than any other tools in the world now.

• Software type: Offline, stand alone, professional.
• System requirements: Windows 7 service pack 1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Mac  OS X v10.11.6; iOS 8.x, 9.x for iPad.
• Multiple languages support: Yes.
• Course, quiz templates: Yes
• LMS compatibility: Yes
• Best used for: Create responsive elearning courses, slide-based training tutorial video, product demonstration, software simulation.
• Recommended Users: Big, Small & medium organization, professional elearning solution company.
• Listed price: Full license price S$1721.36 / Student & teacher edition S$243.43 / Upgrade price: S$704.19, Free trial 30 days.

Learn more about Captivate in this introduction video

 

3. Articulate Storyline 360:

One of the best authoring tool for create responsive courses with expanding set of templates and engaging characters. Articulate Storyline 360 is one of the rare online software for creating professional elearning content.

• Software type: Standalone, offline tool, registered account.
• System requirements: Windows, Mac, Chrome, IE, Safari.
• Multiple languages support: Yes
• Course, quiz templates: Yes
• LMS compatibility: Yes 
• Best used for: Create responsive elearning courses, slide-based training tutorial video, product demonstration, software simulation, interactive presentations, corporate videos.
• Recommended Users: Big, Small & medium organization, professional elearning solution company.
• Listed price: Full license per year $999 for individuals, Full license per year $1299 for team. Free trial 30 days. 

Learn more about Storyline 360 via introduction video

4. Elucidat

Elucidat is one of the most professional HTML5 e-learning authoring software for creating perfect responsive online and mobile e-learning content. It includes all necessary features in elearning software like interactive content and quizzes. In elucidat, Users can produce the course faster, more productivity than other tools.

• Software type: Web-based, Online tool, registered account.
• System requirements: Windows, Mac, Chrome, IE, Safari.
• Multiple languages support: Yes.
• Course, quiz templates: Yes
• LMS compatibility: Yes 
• Best used for: Create responsive elearning courses, slide-based training tutorial video, product demonstration, software simulation, interactive presentations, corporate videos.
• Recommended Users: Big, Small & medium organization, professional elearning solution company.
• Listed price: Full license for 3 Authors at $7500. Free trial 14 days. 

Learn Why Elucidat here:

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5. Easygenerator – online elearning Authoring tool

Easygenerator is perfect tool for creating responsive elearning course online without coding skills and installation.

• Software type: Web-based, Online tool, registered account.
• System requirements: Windows, Mac, Chrome, IE, Safari.
• Multiple languages support: Yes
• LMS compatibility: Yes (HTML5, SCORM)
• Best used for: Create responsive elearning courses, slide-based training tutorial video, product demonstration, software simulation, interactive presentations, corporate videos.
• Recommended Users: Small & medium organization, professional elearning solution company.
• Listed price: Starter price $319 annually. Plus $539 per year.

Learn how to design elearning course in Easygenerator

7. Raptivity

Raptivity is one of award winning eLearning software with a rich collection of 190+ templates for creating eLearning interactions. It is really simple to create an elearning course without programming required. You are able to try free trial of Raptivity in 14 days. You can easily incorporate with your custom interaction into the above mentioned authoring tools.

See tutorial of Raptivity here

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8. iSpring Suite: 

iSpring Suite is one of the most cost effective elearning authoring tools in the world now. Although it is only a powerpoint add-in with considerable limitations in creating elearning content, it is still a good choice for tutors and students who are familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint. You can transform your PowerPoint slides into presentation-based courses with quizzes and quickly deliver them to learners. iSpring Suite is free try in 14 days as trial.

See how to create elearning content from iSpring here:

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9. Lectora Inspire 17

Lectora Inspire is a product of Trivantis which can help you create elearning content quickly and easily. You can use Lectora to publish to HTML5, SCORM, or AICC. New features in Lectora 17 such as: seamless play, auto-play Media on Mobile, Anchor position or Branch Track Integration make it more and more attractive to users.

See more here:

Pricing plan: *We don’t like this much!

10. Valamis

Valamis is an award-winning, open-source Learning Experience Platform. It is currently being used by corporations, government agencies, universities, and other organizations to facilitate learning and improve performance.

Valamis is used to create private environments with online lessons for instructors and trainers to succeed in their learning goals. Whether your teaching style focuses on formal, informal or social environments, Valamis effectively tracks and stores all learning experiences. The value of collecting these experiences lies on enabling instructors to easily identify learning gaps and quantify improvements.

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Pricing Details

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11. Adapt

Free and easy to use e-learning authoring tool that creates fully responsive, multi-device, HTML5 e-learning content. View demo here.

Pricing: Unknown!

12. eFront

eFront is an eLearning platform eFront comes in a number of editions, from an open-source edition to the latest eFrontPro edition. eFrontPro provides a highly customized eLearning experienceto fit your brand and preferences. Designed from the ground-up to bring consistency through a responsive, mobile-first design, it works seamlessly across desktops, tablets and mobile devices.

See full features here!

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13. eLeaP

e-learning software system is powerful and flexible, yet simple to use and cost effective. eLeaP is designed to deliver the training you need in precisely the form you require. eLeaP’s e-learning software allows you to create your own course content by incorporating the likes of PDF, Microsoft Office, photos, video, audio files or SCORM. Or if you’re schedule doesn’t allow you to do this, send us the files and we’ll create a course for you from scratch!

Pricing detail

eLeaP is simply the best value for your money. We’re a top 20 most affordable LMS. Start creating and managing your own online training and e-learning for only $125/month. There are significant discounts for greater numbers of users. eLeaP can cost as little as $6 per year or 50 cents per month to train a single employee or trainee. According to Bersin & Associates,* “today, the average corporation spends $1,273 per employee per year.” With eLeaP, you SAVE time and money. It’s your training budget….make it last!

14. “ReadyGo’s

ReadyGo WCB e-Learning and m-Learning software features a highly intuitive user interface, fast course generation, powerful template creation/usage, and automatic generation of navigation elements including chapter and course indices.

ReadyGo Web Course Builder has a built in test engine – the most comprehensive test capabilities in the industry – including 16 types of test questions, branching, feedback, SCORM, pooling, and progress control – built into the e-Learning and m-Learning software.

Courses built with ReadyGo WCB work on computers, tablets, and SmartPhones. No programming or technical skills are needed.

Pricing detail: See it here 

Bottom line

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