An Articulate Rise alternative that builds the whole course for you

Rise 360 is a course editor: you, or its AI Assistant, write the lessons block by block, and you design the experience yourself. Claro starts from a topic or your documents and builds the finished course: narrated lessons with animated slides timed to the narration, quizzes, role plays and an AI tutor, ready to export to your LMS.

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Updated 2026-11-02.

The short version

  • Both build a first draft with AI from a prompt or your source material. In Rise you then lay out and polish the blocks. In Claro the draft is the finished, narrated course, and you edit it by asking Claro AI or in the editor.
  • Rise adds AI narration to a block at a time. Claro narrates every lesson and times the animation on each slide to what the narrator is saying.
  • Claro adds an AI tutor that answers questions about the slide the learner is on, and role plays with an AI character who answers out loud. Both run inside your LMS too.
  • Both export SCORM and xAPI. Rise also exports cmi5.
  • Claro Pro is $39 a month and Team is $99 a seat a month. Articulate 360 AI is $1,449 a seat a year for a single designer and $1,749 for L&D teams.

Where Claro is different

  • A subject matter expert can build a course without learning an authoring tool: describe it, or upload a PDF, a Word file or notes, and approve the outline.
  • Lessons are narrated explanations, not pages to scroll. The slides animate in step with the narration, so learners see each idea as they hear it.
  • Practice comes with the lesson: role plays, branching scenarios and open answers graded by AI against a rubric.
  • Translate a course into 70 languages, narration included, as a new copy you can edit.

When Rise is the better choice

  • Your team already works in Articulate 360 and relies on Storyline, Review for stakeholder sign-off, or Reach as its LMS.
  • You want to design every block by hand, with Rise's layouts and interactions.
  • Your LMS needs cmi5.

Trying Claro next to Rise

  1. Take the source of a course you built in Rise: the PDF, the Word file or the notes it came from.
  2. Upload it to Claro and approve the outline. Claro builds the narrated lessons.
  3. Export the course as SCORM or xAPI and upload it to your LMS beside the Rise version.

The first 3 courses are free, so you can compare the two with your own learners before paying.

Questions

Can I import a Rise course into Claro?

Not directly. Upload the material the course was built from, a PDF, a Word file or notes, and Claro builds the course from it. See PDF to course.

Does a Claro course work in my LMS?

Yes. On Pro and Team, export it as SCORM or xAPI. Your LMS gets completion, every quiz answer and the resume point. See SCORM export.

Does Claro need an instructional designer?

No. Claro plans the lessons, the practice and the narration itself. A designer can still steer it, by telling Claro AI what to change or editing the course directly.

How much does it cost?

Free for your first 3 courses. Pro is $39 a month, with SCORM and xAPI export. Team is $99 a seat a month. See pricing.

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