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.

Expensive and increasingly buggy Having historically left existing customers in the lurch by switching to a subscription model with no cheap upgrade from previous full versions, this software is now prohibitively EXPENSIVE. Compared to say Adobe CC, it’s off the scale in terms of what you get (or rather don’t get) for your money. However, we held our noses and took the plunge due to requirements of existing clients, but were disappointed to find this software has become increasingly buggy and their fixes create new bugs elsewhere, suggesting that they don’t test properly, particularly regression. It’s becoming embarrassing to use in a professional context when building courses for external clients. Our internal QA/testing costs have ROCKETED as a result so we’re now looking at more robust alternatives.

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.

Appalling Appalling. Slow, clunky, buggy, confusing, expensive. Please world, stop using this terrible software so i cant stop being asked to build courses with it.

SL2 - It's good Using SL2 is a fairly decent process, with some friction points when getting into the nitty gritty of using the software. I do like that you can import translations directly and that makes building courses anew in another language must faster. I do like the versatility of layers, states and triggers. As well there are many valuable templates created by community users that can be gleaned and updated for your own needs. When working with a module that is large, the SL2 file can become unstable and corrupt - which is no fun - and in my experience not recoverable. It does not create a good mobile user experience unless you build a course that is specifically designed for the mobile experience, so that means multiple courses for the same content.