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December 10, 2025
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The new captivate (13) needs a better name... This is has been a developer managers nightmare.

  • December 10, 2025
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I just want to let Adobe know that by not making a more distinguished name for the new captivate they have made my last 6 months an onboarding a nightmare.

It's been 6 months of me training dozens of instructional designers and multimedia developers the difference between the two pieces of software.

I'm regularly told I don't know what I'm doing because when people "google it" or use "chat gpt" and it tells them they can do things that I've told them they cant... Then I have to explain the results they are getting are for captivate classic, not the new captivate... 

6 months of this...

Adobe... why do you hate your userbase this much? 

Yes, I've seen Adobe claim it will eventually have all the same features as classic... When? Show me. Give me SOMETHING, to tell to the other people in my company. 

Honestly as soon as this project is done, my goal is to never touch captivate again. I'm primarily a storyline developer (13 years) but I did use captivate classic for 4 years (version 9-11) and didn't hate it... But the new captivate has made my job needlessly difficult; and I have lost alot of respect for adobe. 

      Correct answer alex_0877

      The best name for it is "use something else" - they have lost the plot with the responsive Captivate. It used to at least be competitive with Storyline, now it just does less, what it does do is bad and limited. I mean, they still haven't figured out Auto-Save in 2025. 

      I always thought Adobe never gave Captivate any thought since they bought it from Macromedia. They just kept it alive, functional and then with this responsive update, they phoned it in totally. Half-hearted attempted at making paginated yet-slide-based responsive elearning... its like the worst of both worlds. 

      I was forced to use Captivate 13 at current job and it's been an eye-opening experience, after using Articulate, DominKnow etc. You start to miss all the basic quality of life stuff from other, better tools. 

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      alex_0877Correct answer
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      December 17, 2025

      The best name for it is "use something else" - they have lost the plot with the responsive Captivate. It used to at least be competitive with Storyline, now it just does less, what it does do is bad and limited. I mean, they still haven't figured out Auto-Save in 2025. 

      I always thought Adobe never gave Captivate any thought since they bought it from Macromedia. They just kept it alive, functional and then with this responsive update, they phoned it in totally. Half-hearted attempted at making paginated yet-slide-based responsive elearning... its like the worst of both worlds. 

      I was forced to use Captivate 13 at current job and it's been an eye-opening experience, after using Articulate, DominKnow etc. You start to miss all the basic quality of life stuff from other, better tools. 

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