# mAuthor Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is mAuthor the right Course Authoring solution for you? Explore 16 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/192051/mAuthor/reviews --- mAuthor 4.6 (16) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/192051/mAuthor/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of mAuthor Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.5 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-16 of 16 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Caroline B. Product Designer & technical team coordinator E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great product" February 9, 2023 5.0 The product is not always easy to use at first sight, but with a little practice is really great to create a wide variety of activities for our students. I work with a publisher in France and we are very happy to works with mAuthor. Pros I really like the variety of activity modules : we do not feel limited in our creativity. The support service is great, always quick to respond and very helpful. Cons Sometimes the ease of use is not there. The editor is a quite heavy product to handle, and not as smooth as i would like it to be. As a designer, I necessarily compare it to design software (like Figma or Sketch) since it uses the same principles of layers and artboards, and it's not that easy to use. Review Source BW Bruce W. Vice President E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Accelerated our Development" September 6, 2019 5.0 We use mAuthor to develop online learning resources to complement our hands-on science kits products, and also to enhance our comprehensive K8 science curricula. We have developers distributed throughout several locations that are use mAuthor and have formed a 'user group' to share best practices, ideas, and expertise. To our company the greatest benefit of using mAuthor is that it allowed us to rapidly accelerate the development of digital learning content, using existing non-technical, science content experts. Pros Easy to use with a wide variety of templates and interaction types already built into the authoring tool. We also appreciate that, for the most part, you can develop the content in mAuthor and it will render responsive content for multiple device configurations. Cons We don't have any significant complaints. I think it would be interesting to make a 'free' version of mAuthor available for a teacher community which would allow educators to create and exchange 'Teacher Created Material' with each other. This ad hoc community of developers could then grow the overall exposure of users to mAuthor, but also can be tapped by commercial publishers as new content developers. Alternatives considered [Adobe Illustrator](https://www.capterra.com/p/227125/Adobe-Illustrator/) Reason for choosing mAuthor We wanted to have a tool that was less cumbersome, easier to use, and could be used by persons strong in subject matter expertise, but not necessary software developers. Review Source tC titouan C. Product manager Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "mAuhtor a powerful tool to achieve great goals " November 24, 2020 4.0 Really good, I get the possibility to increase my overall knowledge of LMS and integration tool. The capacity to modify directly CSS and create specific addon to implement specific behavior on our Template is really nice. The “free” example provided from the documentation give a good newcomer starter pack and the documentation for each module is really nice and complete. We had few issue or specific request that were quickly handle by the mauthor ticket manager. Pros Basically the flexibility and the possibility offer by the product and the transparency of the development done with an easy access to the code details and a really nice documentation. Eventually to update some of the old example from the documentation access could be nice :) Having a direct view of the editor works as a company admin can be very nice too (currrently we have it by a specific request), but to have a simple dashboard who give details of how many time our editor spend in one lesson, one project, one activity or even in preview mode can be very interesting for internal challenging and to be hable to identify easily where our editor have difficulties Cons One of the biggest issue we are facing internally is the capacity to have non-technical user to go on the software to create content, i think it's pretty much the same issue with mInstructor, that is supposed to be the software for the teacher, but except if we have a total "geek" teacher profile most of them are lost. Plus adding a template library to give to our integrator the capacity to pick a page from template from a template divided by categorie will be nice for them. Alternatives considered [Gutenberg Technology](https://www.capterra.com/p/180756/Gutenberg-Technology/) Reason for choosing mAuthor Regarding our list of expectation Learnetic had the most interesting features and was providing a solution regarding most of the critics points we had listed regarding the following topics: Content Activity type Display Flexibility Transparence Open source Offline capacity responsive layout management The capacity to require a temporal free access to discover the software without specific contact need was also a small thing but really appreciate. Even if we had quickly the visibility that the work will be more intense Than other software because of the capacity to create from scratch everything (template, addon …) It gives us the possibility to create a market differentiation regarding our other concurrent. And other criteria that are specific to mCourser, mLibro and the big querry data Switched from [Enabley](https://www.capterra.com/p/138372/enabley/) Too much issues and not enough flexibility with the tool, the new software they had developed when we decided to change wasn't fulfilling any of our expectation. We were lacking transparence regarding the code and the developments. No responsive intergration possible Review Source MC Myron C. President Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Best Authoring for Education" November 24, 2020 5.0 Awesome through many years. Pros The ability to meet all the needs of the educational community Cons The complexity of the feature set requires training time in abundance. Alternatives considered [Adobe Captivate](https://www.capterra.com/p/227148/Adobe-Captivate/) Reason for choosing mAuthor Relevancy of the feature set to the educational market Review Source BM Bogdan M. Learning platform administrator - eucionica.rs Publishing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Overall great and better than all of the other tools, but could use a few upgrades" November 25, 2020 4.0 Pros It offers, by far, most options for customization. For less complex pages it is easy to use (though for work with more complex materials, or customized templates users need to be very careful about how some modules or scripts might affect the whole product). Cons It would be great if more pages could be selected and copied to different lessons. In some cases, when the pages are long, mAuthor needs a few seconds to respond and when changing one measure it affects the other (shortening height of a module shortens its width, but only sometimes). It is very difficult to create responsive pages. Pages need to be created in multiple resolutions to achieve somewhat responsive screens. Review Source Caroline S. Digital Product Developer Consumer Goods Used the software for: 2+ years ### "mAuthor allows you to integrate assets seamlessly" December 18, 2019 5.0 Pros The diverse module offerings and template settings in mAuthor allow the seamless integration of original and shared assets for a professional e-Learning product. Cons Most of the modules are set up for intuitive novice use because they don't require a lot of back-end coding. However, there are a few modules where knowing scripting can help optimize the features. Review Source MS Meenal S. VP E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "mAuthor is an excellent tool to create e-learning content. Highly recommended." November 24, 2020 4.0 Overall we are very happy with mAuthor's capabilities to create interactive and good looking content and with Learnetic's support provided to us. Pros A variety of existing modules. Flexible properties for each module. Support team is excellent. Learnetic is able to create new customized courses for our specific needs. Cons There is a bit of a learning curve because the writer must have a little knowledge of scripting. Reason for choosing mAuthor Only mAuthor met our needs for creating variety in our e-learning content. All other tools primarily had the basic modules of multiple choice, True/false, editable gaps etc. mAuthor had graphing modules, ordering and connection modules, fraction modules, image and video modules and so on. Their repository of modules is extensive. Review Source RM Raque M. Digital Manager Publishing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Make standard interactive content " November 27, 2020 4.0 Pros It is really easy to use and you can get professional contents done with it. It is very easy to start with as it doesn't need installation. It allows you to export to standard formats which it is really interesting and necessary. It has a really good documentation and examples to start with. Cons The most difficult for me it is its own semi-code language. But really you don't neet to know it to get good results. Reason for choosing mAuthor The solution had better functionalities and the possibility to import all our previous content to transform it on it. Review Source FR Fady R. React js developer E-Learning Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Text Editor " February 13, 2023 5.0 Pros Its easy for use but it is defecult to use for customization edit special needs Cons This is ab beautiful software and will be the most software will used in 2023 Review Source ME Montserrat E. Layout and Digital Coordinator Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "good product" February 9, 2023 4.0 My overall experience is good. Although it lacks a little support on how to perform the new features. It would be nice explanatory videos or small courses for users. This is what I find missing. And support in languages other than English. In Spanish would be good. Pros the wide variety of modules and activities that can be performed Cons How inaccurate it is when assembling some modules. Reason for choosing mAuthor It seemed to us at the time to be the best option for digital activities. Review Source MM Marcin M. Company Owner Publishing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Excellent product for demanding users" September 10, 2019 5.0 At this stage, mAuthor has become one of the most important tools we use to develop our own educational products, as well as to provide services to our business partners from the publishing world. We shall definitely continue to use mAuthor in the years to come because it adds value to our business. Pros \- huge variety of features, including custom add-on's - reliability in terms of quality and reaction time to rapidly evolving edutech technologies - excellent technical support (human to human) Cons \- the lack of voice recognition, for which there seems be a lot of demand from the market Review Source SS Sofia S. Multimedia content manager Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Powerful digital content creation tool" February 9, 2023 5.0 I am loving creating digital educational resources with mAuthor, combining the different modules to diversify student learning. The documentation and tutorials they provide are also an asset that helps us learn to use it quickly Pros The strengths of this software are the ease of use by people who have little or no knowledge of programming, the great diversity of modules that allow diversifying the tasks proposed to the students, and the consistency between the various modules that allow a fast evolution and learning to work with the tool. Cons There is almost nothing that I am not satisfied with, but maybe if they could enrich the example modules with all the possibilities of interaction with the powerful advanced connector module it would help us more! Review Source JR Jaja R. Web Application Developer Publishing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "MyMauthorReview" November 27, 2020 5.0 VERY LIKELY TO USE! Pros Easy to use because of its template, the support team are also nice and fast to response. Cons Some functions specially in math subject are sometimes an issue. Review Source mK marusa K. managing director Publishing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "100% stable and user friendly" September 10, 2019 5.0 You get really a lot for the price! Pros mAuthor is very easy to use tool for creating e-textbooks. It gives you plenty combinations to create you own and different products. With the same tool you can create completely different products. If you involve designers it is unlimited. Cons One textbook needs to be separated in chapters otherwise it takes you a lot of time. That is not problematic at NatScience textbooks but at Languages when you need to switch from chapter to chapter during the lesson, it is problematic. Reason for choosing mAuthor Because of its stability, good performance and the trust in developing and service team. Review Source TA Tamer A. Project manager Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "mAuthor - empowers you to enrich your content, easily!" November 25, 2020 4.0 We have been using it for over 2 years and found it to be very robust and with the new additions and capabilities to responsiveness in the last major revision, it has take our work to the next level in terms of compatibility and flexibility. We are yet to really fully realize all capabilities on the platform as there is some much that can be done with it but for what we use it for, it has been excellent. Pros I really like the multitude of options and flexibility and capability of the editing environment as well as configuration of the custom activity types. The template customization and approach mean that a high level of consistency is possible for developing large scale enrichment content, which we do all the time. Cons There is a little but of a technical learning curve to overcome to get the greatest value from the editor but once covered, it is possible to deliver almost any concept that can be thought of in terms of interactvity. Review Source NO Nebojsa O. Sales director Publishing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "mAuthor in Serbia" September 6, 2019 4.0 So far it has been a good experience overall and we are looking forward to new options that will be presented in Gdansk in September. Pros My team needed a ready to use solution for development of digital textbooks. So far it has been very easy to use, we like the drag and drop system, that it has a lot of options, it's open for customization and logical to work with. Cons There are some functions that would make day-to-day work in the software easier. Like an option to select multiple pages at once, to work with assets independently (download as package or similar) and alignment options. Also, sometimes lesson export takes a lot of time. Review Source Similar Products Featured