Professional e-learning software is expensive, especially the software that has powerful features. However, there is a ridiculous low license price powerful e-learning software exist out there. It has everything you need to create fully responsive, interactive e-learning courses seamlessly. That’s what I come in today.
When it comes to e-learning, people tend to pay more attention to what the software can bring to you such as necessary designing features, simple to use interface, team collaborating, LMS support and so on. They often overlook how much the license price is or what kind of license price the seller offers. That’s the most common mistake you should avoid if you want to guarantee the return of your investment (ROI).
Before deciding to write this article, I’ve made some quick researches to see how much exactly a professional e-learning software license price is. By giving Google a search query “best e-learning software”, I found a nice article on PCMAG ( a software review site). This article was published few years ago and it should be updated with a new version cause I haven’t seen any latest editions of the software they mentioned. For example, Articulate is now focusing on promoting their Articulate 360 and Storyline 3 instead of the older version, Storyline 2. It’s the same story with iSpring Suite and Camtasia Studio. These programs had been updated to iSpring Suit 9 and Camtasia 2018 which I had a chance to test them few months ago. Anyway, this is a good start. At least we’ve got the name to check. That’s not to mention they didn’t include some other famous e-learning software such as Adobe Captivate or ActivePresenter.
Professional e-learning Software License Price Overview In 2018
Adobe Captivate 2019 – $29.99/ month or $1299 perpetual license
Adobe Captivate is one of the most professional e-learning software which comes in at $1299 for lifetime license and $29.99 per month for subscription plan. We don’t dive into the detail of this powerful tool because of timing issue. We’ll get back to you with our careful review of Adobe Captivate 2019 to see what’s new compare to its older version.
Articulate 360 – $999 per user/ annually for individuals and $1299 per user/ annually for team
It’s no doubt to say that Articulate 360 is the most popular software in e-learning industry because of very crowded user community all over the world. It comes in at different packages for individuals (freelancer) or for team (company) as you can see. The price of Articulate 360 is subscription plan only. There is no perpetual license to purchase here.
Articulate Storyline 3 – $1398 perpetual license
As Articulate 360 is the combination of both e-learning authoring tool and content library which you may not use, they also offer a stand-alone authoring tool, Articulate Storyline 3 which comes in with a lifetime license at $1398.
iSpring Suite 9 – $740 perpetual license
iSpring Suite is a cost-effective e-learning solution which is capable of creating fully responsive learning courses in SCORM. The lowest license price of iSpring Suite is $770 lifetime.
EasyGenerator
Cloud based authoring software starts at $429/ year
Gomo Learning Suite
Cloud based software starts at $849 per year for personal and $2490 per year for small team.
Okay! So you have a piece of valuable information about the license price of some popular e-learning software. Here is the deal for you – Professional e-learning software that has ridiculous low license price – ActivePresenter. Take a look at my below video to learn more about this software.
ActivePresenter professional edition is fixed at $399 lifetime license. This price includes
- The latest major version of ActivePresenter and any updates to your purchased version.
- One year of FREE UPGRADE to new major versions.
- Your product key will be sent via email.
- The license is perpetual and the price is one-time cost.
- The software is licensed per machine. Each purchased license can be activated on one machine at a time.
So you want to purchase ActivePresenter now? Don’t do that, please! You should take a deep breath and stay with me! There are more useful information you’ll need to know about this program before making your decision.
It’s not just about the license price!
When choosing an e-learning software, beside license price, you should always consider many other factors such as its usability, ease of use, customer support, feature updates and so on. Buying a software because of its cheap price can be a painful mistake that Can cause you more trouble later. My advise is you download the program, try it yourself, create your own sample course to see if it is suitable for you or not. Then you can take further action. ActivePresenter is available to download and use for free as long as you want.
Here are what you’ll get in the box:
- Advanced recording features: Full Motion Recording, Smart Capture
- Video editing: Cut, Crop, Join, Change Volume, Speed Up, Slow Down
- Multiple Audio/Video Layers
- Rich annotations: Shapes, Image, Zoom-n-Pan, Closed Caption, Cursor Path, Audio/Video Overlays
- Smart Annotation
- Themes & Templates
- Export to: MP4, WebM, MKV, AVI, WMV
- Export to: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Adobe PDF, HTML
- Commercial Use
- Advanced Audio/Video Effects: Fade In, Fade Out, Noise Reduction, Blur, Green Screen
- HTML5 Export
- Fully Responsive Design
- Interactivity & Branching: Variables, Conditional Actions, Javascript API
- Interactions: Button, Mouse Click, Text Input, Drag & Drop, Keystroke
- Quiz: 9 Types of Questions
- Report & Tracking in LMS (SCORM, xAPI)
It’s about a continuously developing software over 10 years!
The first version of ActivePresenter was released in 2003. The software has been developing for more than 10 years by hard work engineers to bring you the current version, ActivePresenter 7. By gathering feedback from the customers, fixing bugs, adding more features, redesign the interface and many thing more, Atomi Systems had transformed a simple screencasting software into one of the most powerful e-learning software we’ve seen!
Is ActivePresenter Perfect?
No, it’s not! Definitely! In this real world, no one is perfect! If some one tell you that their software is perfect, they lies! Because of misinformation or lack of experience and the power of advertisements, many e-learning newbies didn’t recognize that they had been cheated by the sellers who claim that their software is a perfect one.
As a user and a software reviewer, we can easily recognize a bunch of features need to be improved in ActivePresenter such as its user interface can be more elegant, more annotation tools, improve video rendering speed, reduce crashes and so on. That’s life! We got the same issues with other tools too. Luckily, when we send feedback or features requests to Atomi Systems, they response at amazing fast speed and direct to the point. We are always happy with the answers.
This kind of speedy support gained our trust. And that’s the main reason we recommend you to try this software.
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