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Does Articulate have any plans to make a Mac OS compatible version of Storyline?
Or any other products?
Parallels and a Windows License for that environment also costs a not
insignificant amount of money. This prevents individuals with only Mac
computers from being able to take advantage of the only software that
provides the ability to make deeply interactive courses now that Flash is
no longer an option.Hi, Reading all these comments above, there is not much to add. The Articulate license is very expensive.... but additionally i have to use a PC for the sole purpose of using articulate software. The institute I work for (2500+ employees) recently decided NOT to continue with Articulate. Looking forward to a MAC alternative.
This is an enlightening thread! I am new to the field of instructional design. I just tested Rise with the free trial and was going to test Storyline before buying a subscription only to discover that Storyline doesn't work on Macs . . . Articulate, add me to the long list of customers you've lost because there is no Mac version.
Hello, Still following this thread, and totally share the disappointment in Articulate’s narrow-minded business strategy for Storyline. But I think there is another piece to the puzzle
It would seem that Articulate is banking on Rise becoming the solution for mult-platform use. However their licensing structure poses a serious problem for many organizations who want to own their content and be able to update it in the future. There is still no way to archive your Rise course off-line, in such a way that you could return to it in the future, without maintaining an unbroken continuous license subscription for the whole time. For many nonprofit organizations this is a rather large hurdle at the $1000+ a year price point for the entire Articulate package.
And for freelance consultants like myself, the requirement of maintaining a continuous subscription makes it a really difficult sell to clients, even though the Rise product itself would be suitable for many if not most of their training situations. This subscription policy would appear to be driven purely by short term greed, rather than long-term wisdom and building up respect for their product.
The company I work for has a Mac-only IT infrastructure. Now that they are transitioning to M1 Chip Macs they won't even allow me to install a Windows partition. I am forced to work with Captivate and every time I open it, I would like to pop my eyes out of my head with a spoon. It's just...terrible.
My company doesn't allow me to use this solution because it's considered not InfoSec compliant. :(
I'm actually horrified to see that Storyline is STILL not available for Mac.
Just going to leave this here:
Thanks, Keith. I signed up for the beta. Hope this is better than Storyline.
Thanks Keith. We often help our clients choose platforms and LMS (we have just under 6k employees). I have both personal and an institutional licenses for both Storyline and Captivate. We've been following this new version of Captivate.
Keith you are awesome! I will definitely try Adobe Captivate. It beats paying for parallel and articulate.
Joining my comment to the already long list. I too would really like to see a Mac version of Articulate Storyline developed. I primarily work on my iMac computer, and have kept a PC computer for the sole purpose of operating Articulate Storyline. That, however is about to change. I work at a non-profit organization, and all of our staff are using Mac computers (I'm the only one that has a PC to run Storyline). Now that we have more eLearning developers, we have had to find an alternative because (as much as I LOVE Storyline) no one else can access it. And, yes, I'm aware that it can run on a Mac using Parallels - but, we are a non-profit and can't justify the added expense of several licences for not only Parallels but also the Windows operating system. If that is going to be your response to users, Articulate, perhaps you should start including a free licence for parallels and Windows for Mac users if you don't want to develop a Mac version.
In the meantime, we are switching to Adobe Captivate. Thanks Keith for posting about the upcoming version (hopefully Spring 2022) - Captivate is a great alternative to Storyline, and now with this much more user friendly looking version coming, Articulate may be about to lose a lot of customers to Adobe.
Please please please please make a version of Storyline compatible with Mac! VMWare Fusion drives me bonkers
I work in pro audio, as well as being an ID. Every software company that makes digital audio workstations or plugins that run in them, indeed any of the literally thousands of applications for pro audio make both Mac and Win versions of their software. This software is far, far more complex than Storyline, and these companies are much smaller than Articulate. I have to think that some Mac user kicked sand in Mr. Articulate's face at the beach or something and they hold a grudge. I've known people like that. There's no way that it's too expensive (it's not), or complicated (it's not, of course).
