ActivePresenter
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AI-powered eLearning authoring tool
How to Replace ActivePresenterOverview
Features
64 features across 16 categories
AI(9)
Comprehensive AI toolkit for generating learning materials and content
Generate text content quickly with AI for slides, quizzes, or course materials
Automatically generate captions from audio to make content accessible and easier to follow
Remove image backgrounds instantly to create clean, professional-looking visuals
Generate images from text prompts or ideas to create custom visuals for projects
Automatically translate entire projects into multiple languages for global audience reach
Extract text from images instantly for easy editing, searching, or reuse in projects
Convert text in shapes/objects or closed captions to speech using system Text To Speech engines
Quickly translate text content into different languages directly within the project
Accessibility(2)
Add closed captions to provide more information, make audio transcriptions, and support the deaf or hard-of-hearing audience
Add different languages for closed captions, making content more accessible to everyone
Assessment(5)
Allow users to enter the review mode from the report slide to review their answers after completion
Offer a consistent look and feel across feedback layers throughout a course, design each feedback layer with text, images, videos, and more
Import format-compatible questions from GIFT and CSV files, useful when adding a large number of questions at once
Create virtually any kind of assessments or surveys using thirteen different types of questions available within the app
Design professional random quizzes with different colored slide pools and random slides to prevent viewers from remembering and predicting answers
Audio(3)
Apply advanced audio effects to fade audio in and out, remove background noise by AI, and keep the sound level consistent between slides
Automatically lower background audio volume when narration or other sounds play for clearer listening
Apply advanced audio effects to keep the sound level consistent between slides
Course Management(1)
Attach resources to the course to give learners relevant information, related websites, or a printable copy of the slides
Design(10)
Portray real-world and conceptual visuals for projects using three-dimensional objects
Visually illustrate numerical and statistical data or store and display data in rows and columns
Write pixel-perfect equations and formulas for presentations or quizzes on math or any science, with support for copying from Microsoft Office
Automatically align and distribute space for a group of objects to manage layout and spacing consistently and efficiently
Group objects on a slide into one single object to change their properties simultaneously or apply styles to group container
Design fully-responsive, mobile-ready eLearning contents and easily convert regular projects to responsive ones
Choose from dozens of shapes, freeform, and icons to make projects more intuitive
Make polished and high-quality screencast videos and training simulations with various line/fill/text styles and shadow effects
Well-designed themes and templates to quickly create new projects
Attract viewers/learners by applying effects to slides and objects with a wide variety of stunning transition and animation effects
Editing(7)
Edit audio and video without quality loss with supported operations including cut, delete, crop, split, join, change playback speed, change volume, insert freeze-frame, and video proxy
Hide sensitive information in videos or images by blurring moving and static objects, and draw viewers attention to specific regions in videos
Apply filter effects to media to enhance visuals and create a desired style or mood
Inline image editing for common tasks such as blur, crop, remove/change/blur background
Use media tools to edit images and videos, adjusting appearance, size, position, and effects
Use the Main Timeline, Interactive Timelines, and Click Sequence Timeline for flexible project editing
Guide the viewer to different parts of the screen by using Zoom-n-Pan for smoother transitions when changing focused area
Export(6)
Export contents to HTML5 which can run on any modern web browsers and devices including PC, macOS, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
Export slides as images in popular formats for easy sharing or further editing
Export to most popular document formats including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for further editing with Microsoft Office
Export content to PDF format
Support SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and xAPI (Tin Can API), the leading eLearning standards that are compatible with most LMSs
Export projects or slides to MP4, AVI, WMV, WebM, or MKV with adjustable quality
Import/Export(1)
Support importing PowerPoint charts, tables, 3D models, and animations started on click
Integration(1)
Allow embedding HTML resources into courses without any active URL or a line of code
Interactivity(6)
Use visually customizable digital timers and progress bars to count up or down at run time and trigger an action when the time is up
Contain a dropdown menu with a hidden list of options that allows learners to select from
The flexible event-action, condition, and advanced action mechanism allows for adding greater interactions in creating various learning scenarios, educational games, and quizzes
Convert any object into a multi-state object to develop interactive contents easily without using multiple objects or hide and show technique
Allow learners to select a particular value or drag to define a range along the bar
Add extra functionality with variables to label and store information to be referenced and used throughout the project
Preview(1)
Preview the whole project or the currently selected slide in the browser with a single click
Publishing(2)
Thoroughly customize the player with many elegant skins, presets, and handy features
Export to and publish content directly to uPresenter LMS for full interactivity, sharing, and detailed results tracking
Recording(7)
Emulate the cursor movement with flexible cursor path and add more visual to cursor path with highlight and click sound
Record system audio and audio from microphone simultaneously while recording screen, with voice-overs and narration available separately
Capture screen when mouse clicked or key pressed, with each action captured as a slide which explains in detail what the viewer should follow
Record ActivePresenter itself to demonstrate features, workflows, or tutorials directly within the app
Record screen as a full-motion video and embed it in a slide for further editing with annotations, voice-over, zoom-n-pan, closed captions, and animation effects
Automatically generate the description from the action and target application and insert into slide properly for quick tutorial publishing
Record screen and webcam at the same time or record webcam videos separately, all depending on user need
Video(2)
Integrate presentation slides with a talking head or an explainer video, giving learners full control over viewing the author video or not
Integrate live-action footage to enhance video presentations by layering two images/videos together based on chroma range
Pricing
Free Edition
- ✓Screen Recording
- ✓Basic Audio & Video Editing
- ✓eLearning Editing Features
- ✓Export to HTML5
- ✓Export to SCORM
- ✓Export to xAPI
- ✓Non-commercial use only
- ✓Watermark on non-free feature outputs
Standard
- ✓Commercial Use
- ✓Screen Recording
- ✓Basic Audio & Video Editing
- ✓Advanced Audio & Video Effects
- ✓eLearning Editing Features
- ✓AI Tools
- ✓Import from PowerPoint
- ✓Export to Video
- ✓Export to PDF
- ✓Export to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- ✓Export to HTML5
- ✓Export to SCORM 1.2
- ✓Export to SCORM 2004
- ✓Export to xAPI
- ✓Publish to uPresenter LMS
- ✓One year of FREE UPGRADE
- ✓Perpetual license
- ✓Per machine license
- ✓Default number of AI credits included
Pro
- ✓Commercial Use
- ✓Screen Recording
- ✓Basic Audio & Video Editing
- ✓Advanced Audio & Video Effects
- ✓eLearning Editing Features
- ✓AI Tools
- ✓Import from PowerPoint
- ✓Export to Video
- ✓Export to PDF
- ✓Export to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- ✓Export to HTML5
- ✓Export to SCORM 1.2
- ✓Export to SCORM 2004
- ✓Export to xAPI
- ✓Publish to uPresenter LMS
- ✓One year of FREE UPGRADE
- ✓Perpetual license
- ✓Per machine license
- ✓Default number of AI credits included
Pro EDU
- ✓Pro edition features at Educational price
- ✓For students, teachers, staff, educational institutions, and non-profit institutions
- ✓Requires eligibility approval before purchase
- ✓One year of FREE UPGRADE
- ✓Perpetual license
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Integrations
8 known integrations