Solid products, even better community. Articulate does a good job at providing intuitive, easy-to-use eLearning-related software that is great for beginners, but still provides value to those with more advanced skills. While for a time they seemed to be falling a bit behind the competition, they have recently picked-up their game again by providing new modernized offerings and have started moving toward a subscription-based payment model -- I say started because currently it's not nearly as flexible as I'd like it to be, but at least they are moving in the right direction. I think the most powerful aspect of Articulate is the highly engaged user community that they have developed. They do an amazing job of engaging and supporting users in their community, and consistently provide great content and challenges to keep those users learning and developing their skills.

Storyline 2 is a fantastic piece of software needing only a few tweaks I've been using Storyline for over a year and have created some excellent content, it's easy to use and there is tonnes of online support available as well as access to templates and resources. The only things I think it could improve on is the animations and transitions which are nowhere near as slick and smooth as PowerPoint.

One of the worst buggy products I have every used One of the worst buggy products I have ever worked with. Their Storyline software is only available for Windows OS. Within Storyline they have a feature to import powerpoint slide, which 50% will important the images properly and 50% the images in the slides are not imported at all. Any animations in powerpoint slides does not work properly either in Storyline. On top of that it keep on crashing if I copy and paste an image directly in Storyline or record an audio longer than 1 min. Also Storyline doesn't work properly on 4K monitors, and they don't plan to make any improvement for it anytime soon. Their support recommends that we change the resolution of the screen. See for your self on their community portal where some important requested features have been overlooked for 4+ years and no proper response from their teams. Many expressing their frustration on this community posts. Their Rise 360 project which allow you to create more text heavy based course, is PIA to use as well. The experience of editing content (mainly images, videos, and interactivity) is not that good either. Not to mention they are very expensive compared to the quality of the software.

Articulate 360 I left a review about the Articulate suite of goodies about one year ago. Since then, Articulate have moved to the Cloud and introduced new products such as Rise and Review. They have also greatly improved the number and library of templates and characters. Rise and Review are exceptional additions to the Articulate family. My only concern is the pricing strategy. I understand moving to the Cloud with all of the benefits that provides in terms of stability and upgrading applications. But at a projected annual subscription of $999 and no projected facility to pay for individual applications, I wonder whether this might be off-putting for those, like me, who create eLearning for charities and seek no payment and for those who do not use every application this might cause hesitation in commiting to products that could not later be amended. For me, at the moment, the suite of applications and the most exceptional community are benefits that would lead me to persuade she who holds the purse strings that I could not live without them!! But my task would be made much easier if there was a more flexible pricing strategy.

Should be five stars, but ... In almost every respect, Storyline 2 is a great piece of software. It makes it easy to develop compelling interactive e-learning content quickly and easily. It has a wide set of features and the online community is excellent and supportive. I particularly like the fact that it's not just easy to use out of the box, but also has a lot of power under the hood. So why the three stars? Simply put, Storyline 2 is unusable on high DPI monitors. The software ignores the system DPI setting and defaults to a low DPI setting. Which means that everything on the screen – text, icons, graphics – is absolutely tiny. There are workarounds, but the workarounds seriously impact my workflow to the point where I find myself doing more and more work in other tools. I can't wait for the DPI issue to be fixed, but this doesn't seem to be a priority for Articulate, which is a real shame as high DPI monitors are becoming more and more common. If you don't have a high DPI screen, then Storyline 2 is excellent. If you do, it's worth three stars only until the issue is fixed.