G2 Vendor Directory

Adobe Captivate vs. SmartBuilder

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAdobe Captivate

by Adobe

SmartBuilder

by SmartBuilder

Overall rating3.95.0
Review count20418
Ease of use7.28.8
Ease of setup8.19.8
Quality of support7.410.0
Meets requirements8.59.7
NPS23.857868100
Small Business26.5%38.9%
Mid-Market30.1%22.2%
Enterprise43.4%38.9%
Total page views61927
Total LLM citations7,03826

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate offers ease to beginners and speed to professionals for creating everything eLearning, using just one tool. Plug-and-play your content in ready-to-go slides and create beautiful mobile-ready eLearning courses in minutes. Boost your productivity by using out-of-box functionality such as customizable interactions, automated branching, and video overlays. Deliver immersive learning experiences to your learners in virtual reality. Liven up your demos and training videos by making them interactive using informational and knowledge check questions slides as overlays.

Pros

  • Interactive Content
  • Tool Quality
  • Setup Ease
  • Content Creation
  • Ease of Use
  • Implementation Ease

SmartBuilder

SmartBuilder is the first and only HTML5 elearning authoring tool to provide the power of programming to instructional designers, trainers, and other non-programmers. This allows users to create branching scenarios, case exercises, games and other serious elearning far faster than before. The software provides wizard-based templates so that beginners can also create content. SmartBuilder runs on Windows and Mac and generates HTML5 content that runs on all major computers and mobile devices.

Pros