I use Active Presenter since one of the earliest version if I remember well about 8 years or more ago. I liked the screen record feature you can use with simplicity. I created two interactive games for children in preschooler age about basic English and colours, it was very easy to find how to manage the interactivity and also the support was very fast in giving me a solution when I had to create an interactive bookshelf to sell a market products using custom pictures and Paypal method and buttons.

I liked the extensive features you can use and the simplicity of the UI. I created two interactive games and imported my assets without any inconveniences. I exported in HTML5 the final product and it worked fine with any browsers.

I don't know any cons because during the use if I had a problem in a matter of time the support helped me.

I have been using Active Presenter for about 6 years now and I can't do my job without it. I don't need a complex or expensive program to create videos, Active Presenter does everything they do. If I have a question, the user forum usually has the answer or I post the question and usually get an answer the next day - that's unbelievable. Plus they stay up to date with their user guide and software updates.

I love how easy and intuitive Active Presenter is. I have used Captivate and other products and they aren't as easy. Plus Active Presenter is a fraction of their costs and has all the tools I need to create video simulations, interactive videos and just plain tutorials. I also like the ability to effortlessly import slides from PowerPoint. Great product and fabulous customer service!

I would like more Animations to choose from to add even more pizzazz, but it has the standard animations that PowerPoint has.

Overall, as long as you are Okay with their animation quality and the price, ActivePresenter is a great choice for users who need a comprehensive and easy-to-use screen recording. It offers a wide range of features and an intuitive interface makes it suitable for all skill levels.

ActivePresenter offers a wide range of features for screen recording, video editing, and e-learning content creation. It has an intuitive and easy-to-use interface, making it suitable for users of all skill levels. It allows you to record your screen, webcam, and audio simultaneously, giving you the option to create videos with multiple layers of audio and visual content.

I do understand why people like ActivePresenter, but compared to other alternatives, ActivePresenter is quite expensive, and their animation, such as transition, ouch it is ugly, sometimes I feel like using the old windows video editor.

I am creating video tutorials for the software that we provide to our customers.

- Screen Recording - Easy Video Editing - Can add narration "Text - to - Speach" with true voices! - Can add music background in the whole video, no mater how many slides - Can make software simulations - Can make quizes and get the results - Ideal for Video Tutorials and creation of pre-recorderd courses.

Not really many things to mention. Maybe the only drawback is that you have free updates for the major version you buy. But honestly... I wouldn't say that this is strange! You buy a software and you can use it for as long as you want... and the company gives you free updates for many years... but only for the version you bought. Fair I guess...

Our team has used ActivePresenter to develop and publish more than 30 eLearning modules with assessments for the past 5+ years.

The application has an intuitive slide-based workflow, a robust set of eLearning development tools, multi-modal publishing (demo, tutorial, practice, and test modes) and one-click publishing to HTML5 and/or SCORM formats for ready deployment via LMS (we use it with MOODLE). The few times I have needed support, the team was very responsive and extremely helpful and even on a few occasions created scripts to make the software do what we needed it to do (which were somewhat non-standard use-cases). I have used many eLearning development and deployment platforms (including the 2 heaviest hitters in the industry), but ActivePresenter is hands-down the best value for the money and is most accessible for new team members to ramp up in learning development.

No cons after 5+ years of use creating and publishing dozens of interactive learning resources.

In my short time using ActivePresenter so far, I have been extremely impressed with the functionality that can be developed using this tool. Where some might prefer a more streamlined experience that caters to the novice - I prefer a blank slate and I appreciate that this authoring tool does a nice job of balancing the experience for both new and veteran users alike.

ActivePresenter leaves control to the developer and allows for a great deal of flexibility to realize your projects. User friendly interface makes most things easy to find. Strong JavaScript support and extremely well written documentation. Technical support from developer via community forums is fantastic.

JavaScript coding is a little heavier due to the syntax requirements but a small concession compared to what is possible.

Overall experience has been great and I really like this. It is easy and gives you so many features.

It is just awesome to have this on your system because this is one of the easiest and most intuitive video editing app there. Quick with there updates and narration feature is good too. It is easy on pocket so overall a great win win for you.

some casual crashes happend but that issue could be related to the systems we are using. other than that not anything that I disliked

ActivePresenter is one of the best softwares available to screen-record. I tried a few other softwares, but the results I obtained using ActivePresenter was amazing. First of all, the software is really intuitive, and can record in high quality, without any problem. But the amazing thing is I can run it on all my devices, which had some troubles in the past running similar softwares. Simply amazing!

I like everything so far, so I have nothing to report.

ActivePresenter is really easy to use thanks to its user-friendly interface, and the video quality is amazing. I really didn't expect it to have all these fuctions, it's really imprressive.

I would love if the software had more animations to choose from, it feels like a presentation animation and I would love for something more dynamic.

i use this tool to create and edit video tutorial

image editing could be also added to have more functions

I use it when I need to screen recording something, and it's amazing! It has a really good quality, and is really easy to use.

Sometimes, if my device has a lot of programs open, taking a lot of RAM space, it freezes and stops working. This can be fixed by starting the device again.

Maintenance of how-to videos is a big issue. With ActivePresenter, we can switch out anything that needs to be edited for a new release, switch in new material quickly, and put out a revised video in less than an hour. With some other video editors, it took a couple of days. We’ve occasionally lost source files for older videos (not necessarily in ActivePresenter). With AP, we simply record the published older video and turn it into an AP source file.

I use ActivePresenter in two contexts. As a video producer for a major educational company, I produce small how-to videos that need frequent updating. As a mystery writer, I produce "teaser" videos for my books: fewer maintenance cycles but I need more dazzling effects. I've used other video editing suites and course creation tools, including Captivate, Camtasia, and (currently) Premiere Pro. For ease of use and breadth of features, my favorite is ActivePresenter. It is enormously flexible. It can import PowerPoint slides, images, GIFs, and other videos. As you edit, you can separate your video into chunks ("slides") to focus on one piece of animation or editing at a time. It captures video off the screen or from an application *and separates the video track from the audio track*--a huge win in maintenance. You can record multiple audio and video tracks at once. You can record a video without the mouse and layer the mouse in later, another big maintenance win. Once you’ve captured a video, you can export it as a MP4, then add it to another video, then edit it again, then export that video and import it to another video…all without loss of audio or video quality. Editing is nondestructive. AP has a nice library of special effects, including transitions from scene to scene, fades in and out of individual items in the timeline, animation (even without Saola Animate), and opacity. With the course creation module, of course, you’d get many more.

It’s a high-end video edit and there’s a learning curve if you haven’t used a similar product before. If you have, some things work differently but there are no real surprises. Source files for a complex video can be LARGE, up to several hundred MB. Plan your storage accordingly. (Output files are fine.) Neither of these are big issues.

For me, ActivePresenter is perfect as an all-in-one elearning authoring package!

I use ActivePresenter now for almost 3 years! I am very proud of showing my presentations to all my colleagues. The interactivity and the user-friendly approach is so great! As a Physics Teacher, after many years, I finally found the ultimate solution to cope with the modern students needs. ActivePresenter makes teaching active, dynamic, `flashing and student-related. All my lessons are `packed in ActivePresenter. I also incorporate the necessary text-to-speech fragments; this makes me feel completely relieved and at ease, because prepared to `cope with the group of `youngsters in the classroom. These moments in front of the classroom are accompanied with e-learning activities. ActivePresenter presentations have full interactive options; students are really enthusiastic to work independently on tasks, modules, interactive quizzes and hard-core-physics-exercises. Here are a few of the many things I like about the software: Easy `basic-down-to-earth PowerPoint-like presentations with automated output; (even here, the possibilities are 100-fold compared to other tools!). Built-in audio/video editing capabilities. Interactive elements are available to guide the audience by an adapted path, fitting the situation or the need of the audience. Various types of questions/quizzes. All the results of the students can easily be stored in an LMS (with SCORM or xAPI support). You can also make an automated link to Google Spreadsheets to follow up the results!

A little bit of learning curve before you can explore all the possibilities of the software. (but after all, there is a very elaborated manual and a supporting help-desk!)

Io adoro questo software! Mi ha aiutato a salvare il mio sito dall'oblio, dopo la morte di Adobe Flash Player, dato che i miei esercizi interattivi erano stati creati tutti in Flash. Ho cercato tanto nel web, ma i prezzi altissimi degli altri software mi avevano bloccato e rattristato. Non sapevo più cosa fare. Poi ho trovato Active Presenter ed è stato la mia salvezza! Un fiore all'occhiello è anche il meraviglioso Team di supporto, penso non ne esistano altri come il loro, sempre presenti e disponibili. Per tutto questo ringrazio di cuore chi ha lavorato e lavora tuttora a questo fantastico progetto.

Active Presenter ha molte funzioni e trovo sia facile da usare, ma quando sorge qualche problema che non comprendo chiedo aiuto al team di supporto che arriva subito in soccorso.

Mi piace tutto, solo mi piacerebbe potesse avere anche la funzionalità di inserire animazioni vettoriali.

Es un programa bastante útil si necesitas grabar la pantalla de manera algo regular, es rápido de hacer que grabe, fácil, es gratuito y puedes editar con cierta complejidad luego, curva de aprendizaje suave y no lanza errores.

El problema viene cuando renderizas el vídeo, lo exportas... O cuando lo capturas grabando la pantalla. Cuando lo grabo en la pantalla de compañeros de trabajo porque el vídeo lo hacen ellos, a veces si el ordenador no es suficientemente potente, graba como con pocos frames, y al exportarlo lo mismo, por no hablar de lo que puede tardar en renderizarse algo teniendo poco RAM...

It is generally a good tool. When you start using it. And you may feel unusual with its type of tools, but pretty soon, you learn it.

I love the inter functionality among the tools that it brings!

I don't like the type of HTML 5 player. You should be able to choose abetter one.

Estoy muy satisfecha con la herramienta, ya que te da libertad para personalizar totalmente a tu gusto y necesidades una experiencia de aprendizaje e-learning.

si tengo que recalcar algo que diferencia ActivePresenter con el resto de herramientas de autor con las que he trabajado es sin duda la atención al cliente y el soporte personalizado que ofrecen. ¡Fue sin duda excepcional!

Por comentar algo negativo, son los pequeños errores que puedes encontrar en situaciones concretas, pero que gracias a la comunidad y al equipo de soporte, poco a poco van solventando con cada actualización.

Productive developing of eLearning material, notably SCORM and good customer support

A good free version for evaluation and reasonably priced licenses. Easy to use and works great in HTML5 and SCORM to upload to LMS or other sites. Great customer support via the forum or email.

Hard to use javascript (at least for version 6) as no scripting references are available. This would be helpful as certain action in the interactive part are missing. e.g. a play/resume button - but support is available.

It is feasible and freeware if anyone utilising it for personal use, but as we were using it for organisation so it required license. But the feature and ease of use were good of it.

When using for personal use it records with the watermark however that was not considered as an issue.

My students benefit - as I can build splendid presetnations and imnpoirt extra MP4s to provide a comprehensive output.

Having used Articlulate, Storyline and ISpring =- i chose this as a bette roption - as it was apersonal expense.

I thought perpetual license was forever and upgrqades would come with it - so I have kept to version 7.

Excellent

Brilliant for creating bespoke training modules

Once you get to grips with ActivePresenter there's nothing to dislike.

ActivePresenter is one of the best freeware tools for screen recordings. I use it quite often for demo purposes and some light video editing.

One of the biggest advantages of ActivePresenter is that you can record only the selected area of your screen, or to record just one specific window on your machine.It has most of the editing tools, so you can post process your recorded videos, enhance their audio, or even add various effects.

There is only one thing which is not convenient in this software is that once you pressed record, you can't change any recording settings. This is quite annoying when you want to remove your earphones during the recording. The moment you unplug, the software won't record your mic and the sound from laptop speakers. It would be great if I could change those parameters during the recording process.

Ability to record on screen actions and combine that with recorded video, still and audio clips to create a single merged video output.

I played with a lot of tools in this category - many are free/feature limited with Pro versions ranging from single high cost to subscriptions. Active Presenter was the best combination of features (basic timeline editing, ability to pan and zoom the screen video, various options for exporting, no recurring costs for needed features) I found. In fairness, there is no such think as "simple" video editing. If you don't know what you're doing or don't do it frequently enough to recall all the feature locations, you'll struggle. Active Presenter is not designed for first time/one time use. It's a fairly serious program with a lot of features and options. I appreciate that it gives me the tools and controls to do the things I need without limitations, even at the cost of a learning curve.

It feels like it's designed for more slideshow based output than full video. It's capable of both, but many of the obvious options and toolbar buttons are geared towards something other than integrated video and on-screen action.

ActivePresenter can record video, webcam with audio, system sound and take screenshot in full hd quality. The program also comes with very intuitive interface plus ever-expanding variety of video editing features. It is free and safe to use.

It lacks of video effects that many other video editors offer. Anyway, it's great for me since I seldom add effects to my tutorial video.

I use this program to record myself when I am testing out websites and have to show bugs and my replication steps to get to the bugs.

Free, pretty easy to setup and understand, and it even has a built in editor so you don't have to download a third party program to convert it to mp4. It also not only allows you to record your full windows screen but it also allows you to record yourself via webcam, with built in options to upload to twitch and other sites, at the same time so can be great for gamers

The video editor itself can be a little confusing and you have to make sure that you save it after the recording or else you will loose the recording you just performed.