Does Articulate have any plans to make a Mac OS compatible version of Storyline?

I agree with you Lilian. They may not lose enough potential customers to warrant Mac development, but I assume they've done their research in that area and not due to shortsightedness for growth opportunities. They do essentially lose people like me, because I use it when I have to (using Parallels) but generally don't recommend it to other Mac users who ask. It only gets a quick mention b/c while Parallels runs it acceptably, there is a small handicap in that it may not run reliably when using some of the more integrative features of Parallels. I'd rather have native or equal quality web-based tools.

Totally agree with Lilian and Neal. It's ridiculous that I can't use Storyline natively on my Mac without Parallels or VMWare. I have purchasing power with my next job and I won't be recommending Articulate because of this. I will move in the direction of the Adapt Framework, Smartbuilder or Dominknow because I can collaborate with team members that are using Windows AND Mac. 

Look at what your competition is doing. Lectora, Dominknow, Adapt, Elucidat, Smartbuilder. ALL of these tools run on Macs!

Another vote for a native MAC option! 

It wouldn’t bother me to use parallels and a VM but the truth is the amount of updates on windows and the time they take are beyond annoying!! Takes hours from my work time even when set to automatic. I also vote for a Mac version of Articulate. Please? Included are the security measures you have to take using windows. Frustrating and I love the product, so I do it but would seriously like to see a poll on how many of your clients would like a native version of Articulate?

If we can't get a MAC version, at the very least, you can surely develop a Powerpoint plugin that either works online or for MAC. It doesn't have to be the full robustness, but the asset library, various screen capture modes such as "demo", and additional interactive instructional design elements are huge. 

The user experience is so frustrating. You should offer at the very least a RISE only pay option. It is hard to justify to a company that we are going to be able to leverage 20% of the tool unless we either buying a 1-2K PC for each team member, on top of their mac; or pay for some hack job workaround. 

I truly have never had to purchase some much additional software and services to run a suite of products. 

Please consider providing a MAC version. My very large company, with a huge requirement for elearning is moving a lot of design and development to the MAC.

iPads are a lot better for education for many reasons. iBooks Author is starting to take off with Apple classroom and so we will move to MACs very soon. If Articulate storyline doesn't support the MAC we will jump ship and be forced to use your competitors programs. 

Hope you can understand times are changing in the classroom and I feel you should provide the flexibility to the Apple platform.

Regards Adam

Hi Adam,

Viewing courses on a Mac and/or iPad is supported as you can see in our documentation here.

The information that Ashley shared above, is specific to the course author.

Viewing courses on MAC is not the issue BUILDING is. You are sadly limiting people's ability to use the platform that they want and causing them an additional fee and pain of running vm ware or parallels. My mac was never the same after installing parallels and windows with its continuous updates....please stop being so stubborn and keep up with the competition. 

IBM has went to MACs.  You know, small company of 500,000 employees.  Recently, I tried to get a group on Articulate and it all fell through when they realized that on top of the license, they had to add the cost of Fusion and Windows.  A few tried the trial license, but had so much trouble getting it all setup that they went back to other products that do far less, but were far easier on the budget and time spent setting it all up.  Not sure what the cost would be to do this, but I know a development group based in Kansas that is far cheaper than off-shoring development.  Just something to consider!

Hi Patricia, thanks for the info, I am truly amazed they haven't ported it to the Mac. It doesn't make sense not to, I would love to talk to those who make these decisions, that they may regret. 

Regards Adam