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Individuals
Buy a single subscription for individuals at €40,11/month and quickly get started with creating eLearning content in minutes.
Teams and Enterprises
Buy Adobe Captivate in volume for teams, small businesses and enterprises. Manage named user licences through a web-based admin console.
Education
Eligible educational institutions can purchase licences of Adobe Captivate at a discounted rate for students and instructors.
Buying programmes
Individual subscription
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Team subscription
Value Incentive Plan (VIP) - teams and enterprise
The Adobe Value Incentive Plan (VIP) is a subscription licensing programme with simple and secure management capabilities, flexible terms and discount levels that increase as you make additional purchases. Qualified members can save even more with VIP Select.
Enterprise licences
An Enterprise Term Licence Agreement (ETLA) is ideal for larger deployments across centralised organisations. Get cloud and desktop offerings and budget predictability over a three-year term, with one annual payment due on the same date each year.
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Version comparison chart
| Features | Adobe Captivate 2019 release |
Adobe Captivate 2017 release |
Adobe Captivate 9 |
| Quick Start Projects/Ready-to-go slides | ✓ | ||
| Immersive learning with VR experiences | ✓ | ||
| 360⁰ learning experiences | ✓ | ||
| Live device preview | ✓ | ||
| Fluid boxes 2.0 (Enhanced) | ✓ | ||
| CSV question import template | ✓ | ||
| PowerPoint to mobile learning | ✓ | ||
| Interactive videos | ✓ | ||
| Automatic chroma key effects | ✓ | ||
| Smart video recording - Webcam + Screen | ✓ | ||
| Automatic device preview | ✓ | ||
| Overlay slides | ✓ | ||
| Fluid boxes | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Adobe Fonts | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Responsive sliders | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Device-specific previews | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Auto-migrate from non-mobile to mobile | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Responsive text support | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Customisable closed captions | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Responsive themes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shared advanced actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Responsive motion effects without programming | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multistate objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Asset store | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Adobe Stock integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interactive slide shows with multistate objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multistate support for drag-and-drop interactions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-product LMS preview | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS device capture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Knowledge check questions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SVG support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Publishing to Adobe Captivate Prime and other LMSs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiscreen responsive eLearning authoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intuitive UI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Best-in-class screen capture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multidevice previews | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Geo-location support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gesture-enabled mobile learning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native support for HTML5 objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MinMax object sizing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Relative smart positioning of objects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Retina display support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Colours and effects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native app publisher~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Popup blocker | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Device-aware eLearning delivery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Best-in-class HTML5 publishing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Themes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enhanced interactions library | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiformat publishing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Responsive drag-and-drop interactions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accessibility support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio-video support and synchronisation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comprehensive quizzing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple question types | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Equation editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Right-to-left language support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Social media engagement | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Roundtripping with Microsoft PowerPoint | ✓ | ✓ | |
| High-definition screencast | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Actors | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customisable smart shapes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pretest and branch-aware quizzing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comprehensive scoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remediation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Professional project templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Master slides | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Object styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text to speech | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rollover slidelet, images and captions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scenario branching | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support for right-clicking in simulations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-text captions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table of contents and aggregator | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text enhancements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pan and zoom support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customisable skins | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Randomised quizzing and question pools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Roundtripping with Adobe CC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
*courses created with Adobe Captivate 8, 9 and 2017 release
~Requires separate purchase of PhoneGap.
**This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services (“Online Services”). Online Services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms of use and Adobe’s online privacy policy (see www.adobe.com/go/terms). Online Services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be discontinued or modified in whole or in part without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.
Prices listed are the Adobe direct store prices in the United States. Reseller prices may vary. Prices do not include tax or delivery and handling.