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Mac User Advice
I am currently thinking of getting a Mac. If you use mac with storyline, can you give me your recent feedback. It seems that a lot of threads are from years ago.
Hi everyone,
I have some great news to share! We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 77, we've included important fixes and new features.
One of the bugs we've fixed is:
- The trigger wizard performs faster on M-series Macs.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help!
Hi Catherine, there is no native Storyline version for Mac out. You can use it with Parallels and a virtual Windows (works quit good so far). Another way - but not really practicable - is with Teamviewer to mirror Storyline from a Win machine.
I am having terrible trouble with running Storyline via Parallels. It is the slowest I have ever experience Storyline and it takes so long to save even the smallest of changes. This isn't everyone's experience but I really am not having a good time with it (using Mac Mini).
I am using the M1, 2020 model 8GB. I am meant to be trading in work to get the latest Macbook 16GB but I am concerned about whether I should get this now considering my experience on the Mini has just been very very slow, to the point of 10 mins to save one edit in a file. Perhaps it's the size of my files as they are large, but I would have expected them to run better than this.
Hi all
We have a possible bug logged where working with triggers can cause lag on an M1 Mac. I will add your voices to the bug report. Here is how we tackle bugs.
We'll return to this discussion as soon as we have news to share!
I also wanted to drop in this article, with more information about working with Articulate 360 on a Mac.
I think all the Mac users gave up on asking for a Mac version of Storyline, which is why you don't see current threads. I know I gave up. I used to be able to use VMWare on the Mac and it worked great. Unfortunately, my company decided that VMWare was no longer available for us and made us start using Windows Virtual Desktop. That's when my troubles started. It's complicated to use and is very slow when trying to build anything in Storyline.
As someone doing due diligence on products to help us move our lesson contents to digital, I'm really surprised this is the case. I'm no zealot, but Macs are huge in the design space, and they're all my team happens to use. This is a solid design product. You'd think Macs would be the first OS they'd develop for. Will most likely have to look elsewhere. It's a shame because 360 looks so nice, but doesn't have the features I need from Storyline.
Hi everyone,
I have some great news to share! We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 77, we've included important fixes and new features.
One of the bugs we've fixed is:
- The trigger wizard performs faster on M-series Macs.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help!
Hi Eric,
I'm going jump on this slightly aging thread to directly ask whether there is a native Mac (apple silicone) version of Storyline in your product roadmap?
Working in the software industry, I appreciate that timings for delivery of roadmap items are subject to change at a whim, but is a Mac version even on the radar? Seems like there's been a lot of people asking for a lot of years.
Paraphrasing what others have stated in the many dated threads, having to license, test, package and deploy an additional piece of software to get Storyline working on their machines adds additional pain and expense to your solution. Rise360 is great but does not have feature parity with Storyline. Perhaps your focus here is to broaden the Rise functionality instead?
I know that even 10 years ago the platform was a significantly smaller opportunity than the windows market, but Macs are increasingly being adopted in the SMB and enterprise spaces, and this trend is not likely to change.
(Insert a non-committal view from a product manager here, Perhaps?)
Hi David!
Thank you for the detailed feedback!
I'm happy to share that our development team is tracking a feature request to allow customers to install and use Storyline 360 natively in a Mac OS environment. I've linked this discussion to the feature report and will provide updates if it makes it onto our Feature Roadmap.
In the meantime, for your reference. Here's a deeper look at how we manage feature requests.
Hi Eric,
I'm going jump on this slightly aging thread to directly ask whether there is a native Mac (apple silicone) version of Storyline in your product roadmap?
Working in the software industry, I appreciate that timings for delivery of roadmap items are subject to change at a whim, but is a Mac version even on the radar? Seems like there's been a lot of people asking for a lot of years.
Paraphrasing what others have stated in the many dated threads, having to license, test, package and deploy an additional piece of software to get Storyline working on their machines adds additional pain and expense to your solution. Rise360 is great but does not have feature parity with Storyline. Perhaps your focus here is to broaden the Rise functionality instead?
I know that even 10 years ago the platform was a significantly smaller opportunity than the windows market, but Macs are increasingly being adopted in the SMB and enterprise spaces, and this trend is not likely to change.
(Insert a non-committal view from a product manager here, Perhaps?)