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

I completely agree with Matthew and the hordes of other Mac users using Articulate. I'm also a longtime Articulate Mac user, although never a community 'hero'. I'm very supportive and love the product. I have also clamored for a Mac version in many community posts. I remember Articulate saying they were working on a Mac version a few years ago, and then Poof! All conversation stopped.

I'm tired of the same, lame rhetoric from Articulate since that moment, that 'there aren't enough Mac users to justify' creating a Mac version. What a ludicrous reason. We buy licenses every year! If you have ANY Mac users, you should be scrambling to keep them happy, as you do the rest of your customer population. Period. Excuse my grumbling, but I've been waiting patiently with no results from Articulate.

Is Articulate incapable of spending money on R&D to make Mac versions a reality? Adobe has found a way to release a Mac version of Captivate for years, as have other L&D tools. Articulate, by contrast, just keeps letting us know they don't care about us. No Mac version, end of story.

Until now hopefully, with the M1 release, which I bought. As Matthew mentioned, the pre-M1 Macs will eventually die out, so we have to have a Mac version if they want to keep us. Right now, they're the only game in town. I am not-so-patiently waiting for that to change.

Parallels is working on an M1-friendly version of their product (release date TBD - sigh). Other than that, there is no bright spot in this M1 scenario. Like many of you, I'm tired of being treated like a second class citizen by Articulate. Will they ever listen to us? Or are we really that irrelevant to them?

Ok thanks for letting me know.
Let’s hope more speedy change is ahead.
Thanks for all the information.

Cheers
Tom

Hi Mathew

I couldn’t agree more with your sentiments.
I’m really trying to develop my skills in this industry and this is a
serious setback for me.

So I’ve been looking at Captivate again but it’s not as well regarding by
industry it seems.

I understand that you can buy a flash drive with the Windows
operating system on it. Would this make it possible to run Articulate on
the Mac? Please see the link:

https://www.dicksmith.com.au/da/buy/intel-compute-stick-with-windows-10-quad-core-atom-x5-and-32gb-ssd-boxstk1aw32sc-intel/?utm

Hi everyone!

I agree with all your comments regarding the mac. It's absolutely absurd that there is no software for the Apple platform. I just signed up to a course on Articulate 360 before discovering this situation and I can't believe I have to go down a PC path. The whole reason I bought a Mac Mini was not to have to do this.

Please guys get onto this ASAP. 

+1 for a native Mac version, especially now the M1 has landed. From reading the numerous comments on here on many different threads it seems absolutely bonkers that a Mac version of SL hasn't been considered or added to the roadmap. Who at Articulate HQ hates Macs?

I'm working with a new company that could transition huge swaths of their training material to Storyline... except that the entire company uses Macs. I'll have to bring out my personal Windows PC to build anything... except why would I when no one else in the company could reliably edit the material when I'm done? Not having a Mac solution has caused Articulate enough lost business at this point- when will that change?

Not having a native Mac option definitely creates a problem for my team. We switched to mac after endless problems with video editing and large graphics on Windows. Parallels is a workaround and not an ideal solution. 

I would just like to reiterate everyone's sentiments on adding a Mac option. I had to recently switch since my PC couldn't handle the graphic workload with videos editing and other Adobe products. I was then shocked to find I couldn't just download articulate on my new computer. Now I'm working with IT to figure out a solution. 

I use Parallels, but it is not at all "really fast and an easy transition" as stated by Ashley in this thread. Before I can work on a Storyline project, I have to save all my files to a USB drive so they're available to me in Windows. I don't have any of my Creative Cloud tools available when I'm working in Windows, so if I need to make a change to a file, then I have to switch back to Mac to work on it there. I can't keep Parallels and Storyline running while also doing tasks on the Mac side of things, because it slows my computer down too much. I have a new iMac--it's not a hardware issue. 

It's also irritating that I have to pay extra (yearly) for Parallels, as well as buying the Windows license. In addition, when I needed to export storyboards to Word (a requirement for a recent project), I had to install a second license of Microsoft Office for my virtual Windows application.

Windows crashes constantly, and as someone else mentioned, there are the frequent, very slow Windows updates. I am beyond frustrated at Articulate's stubborn refusal to hear us Mac users and develop a native app that works well for us.

Hello!

There isn't a native Mac version of Storyline on our roadmap. If our team decides to reroute, we'll make sure to update this thread.