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Does Articulate have any plans to make a Mac OS compatible version of Storyline?
Or any other products?
Awesome, happy to hear that Ryan!
Hi Lilian,
I myself also use a Mac, but I've found that working in Parallels or VMWare allows me to run a Windows environment and work in Storyline. It's really fast and an easy transition between the two. I can understand if that's not ideal for your setup, but it hopefully provides an alternative to booting up that old PC machine when it's not collecting dust on your desk.
- AmyHadererCommunity Member
Right... but those softwares add another additional cost to the whole package.
- RyanSchwartzCommunity Member
I recently switched to a Mac with Parallels and it is working out perfectly for the most part. It's a learning curve using Windows through a Mac and some minor issues using shortcuts but overall I've been pretty satisfied.
- KiranMengle-13bCommunity Member
Hi Ryan could you please explain your experience using Articulate 360 in MacBook. I mean minor isuues and all as i am plannig to switch on mac and i am mainly working on Articulate storyline 360. It will be easy to identify those issues.
- RyanSchwartzCommunity Member
Kiran, It has been very good overall. I hate that my company has to pay for a subscription, but that's the best we can do without a Mac version of Articulate. The biggest issues I have has to do with pixel size. When you are extending your screen to another monitor, it's very hard to manage the aspect ratio (you have to play around with the display settings a lot) and the size of the app itself. I stopped using my laptop screen because of it and strictly use a second very large monitor.
Another issue is the keyboard shortcuts are different on PCs, and many of them do not work in Storyline using a Mac in Parallels.
The other issue I was having was that Storyline would save an instance of a project every time I would save it (in a location very hard to find in the Windows folder structure), which was crushing my hard drive and filling up my entire 1 TB space. I found it in a "Storyline Cache" folder, but still have to continually delete these instances.
Hi Lilian,
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- AdamWellsCommunity Member
Hi Leslie
The problem is not the viewing, it is the design and development, or as Susan Jones quite rightly says the 'building'.
I agree with Susan below, you need to keep up with the ever changing training technology world. I am not a great lover of Apple, but their iPad and apple classroom setup is gaining a lot of pace. In adult further education, industry and military training centers they are moving to this type of setup method, because it is easy to setup, control and design and develop for. I have been in the military and industry training for many years and I'm sure many will back me here when I say that things are starting to move in Apples direction.
I have written directly to Articulate help about support for the iMac, but I again ask you to do the same. We want to keep using your product, it is good with great support. All it needs is being ported to the Mac, not a quick thing I know but why risk losing all this business because once we move to another platform I'm sorry to say we will not be back.
I look forward to your reply.
Kindest Regards Adam
Hey Alli,
I understand where you're coming from and appreciate the feedback. Right now, we don't have plans to develop a web-based version of desktop tools like Storyline 360 or Studio 360.
If there's anything we can do to help you get Storyline 360 up and running on a virtual machine on your Mac, we're here for you. Reach out to us anytime right here.
- JasmineTaylor-8Community Member
As a creator and Mac user, it is very disheartening that Articulate STILL refuses to recognize that creators, designers, and developers overwhelmingly use Macs. Parallels can cause issues because of Windows. There's no way my company is going for installing it onto a Mac. I work for a university (i.e. a hub of learning). It makes the software unusable. This is a shame.
- EricHarris-547bCommunity Member
Are there any plans to develop a web-based version of Storyline?
- CustomDevCommunity Member
Hi All,
It seem they want save money and not willing to develop macOS version But as part of business service people not happy about only to use Windows version.
Articulate team should launch as soon then build macOS version.
Thanks
CD
- KristinRowbothaCommunity Member
I'd add another reason for needing a mac version is so that your users can have a similar experience as you when demo-ing. I am creating a screencast, but I want to use Replay, not Peek. Peek really doesn't do anything more than Quicktime, which is automatically added to a mac.
If I have to use Parallels for a screencast, then the actions I take will be what is needed for a PC. Whereas 95% of my company has a mac, so it is going to look completely different for them.
In the SaaS world, almost everyone has a mac. It's really time to build out this product.
- NicoleAnglinCommunity Member
That is our issue here too. You cannot record anything in a Mac-specific environment and it looks different to someone that doesn't use Windows. We have programs that we need to train on that run in Mac and windows and we need to create training for the Mac users, not just the Windows users.