# iSpring Suite review (2026): is it worth $970 a year? > PowerPoint add-in for building courses, quizzes and videos Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. iSpring Suite is an authoring toolkit that runs inside PowerPoint on Windows and turns slides into online courses. It adds quizzes, interactions, role-plays, and screen and camera recording with narration. Courses export to SCORM, xAPI and similar formats for a learning management system. - **Category:** Screen Recording & Video - **Made by:** iSpring - **Website:** https://www.ispringsolutions.com/my/ispring-suite - **Runs on:** Windows - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you are one person, at $970 per author per year, or $1,290 with AI. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, iSpring Suite is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $970 per author / year. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | iSpring Suite | $970 per author / year | Course authoring in PowerPoint with quizzes, interactions, recording and a content library. | | iSpring Suite AI | $1,290 per author / year | Named as the AI edition on the pricing page and listed at a higher price than iSpring Suite. | | iSpring Cloud AI | $720 per author / year | Listed on the pricing page at $720 per author a year; its features are not described there. | Read from https://www.ispringsolutions.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with iSpring Suite before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Educator pricing by quote** (Education): The pricing page offers exclusive educator pricing, plus custom quotes for nonprofits, academic and freelance discounts, on request. Source: https://www.ispringsolutions.com/pricing ## Key features - **PowerPoint to course:** Converts slides into interactive online courses with animations kept, and PDFs and Word files into flipbooks. - **Quizzes:** Builds quizzes from 14 question templates, with reports on learner performance. - **Screen and camera recording:** Records screen, camera or both and adds narration, annotations and animations. - **Interactions and role-plays:** Templates for diagrams, timelines, glossaries and branching role-play scenarios. - **Content library:** More than 134,400 ready-made templates and images, plus a character builder and text-to-speech. - **LMS standards:** Outputs SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI, cmi5 and AICC, and the site says it checked courses in over 150 LMSs. ## Good for - Instructional designers who already build in PowerPoint - Training teams publishing SCORM courses to an LMS - Educators converting existing slides into online lessons ## Worth knowing - The authoring tool needs Windows 10 or 11; finished courses play on Mac, iOS and Android. - Pricing is per author per year, and the page offers quotes for educators and nonprofits. - Subscriptions bought during special offers are not eligible for a refund. - It is a course-authoring tool, not a general video editor. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. iSpring Suite is a PowerPoint add-in for building courses, quizzes and videos. At $970 per author per year it is the dearest card in this batch, the authoring tool runs on Windows only, and it is not a general video editor. - **Value for money: D.** $970 per author per year against about $168 a year for the video category's middle plan, though it is a course tool, not a video editor. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day free trial; the listing does not say whether a card is needed. - **Features: B.** Courses, quizzes and video from PowerPoint cover the course-authoring job. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and you build courses and quizzes yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: D.** The authoring tool needs Windows 10 or 11, though finished courses play on Mac, iOS and Android. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from iSpring's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among screen recording and video tools - iSpring Suite's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 8 of the 133 other screen recording and video tools we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on features (B, above 78 of 133) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $80.83 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $12.25 for the category: 88 of the 88 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 70 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/video ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace iSpring Suite you would be making a video editor. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 120 of the 133 other screen recording and video tools grade higher. It costs $970 a year. - You could not: A video editor. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: Recording the screen with its sound, and somewhere to keep the video. - You could not: A slide editor. - You could not: A real app for Windows. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with PowerPoint **Tags:** Screen recording, Video editing, Presentations, AI features, Text to speech ## Alternatives - [Camtasia](https://toolgpa.com/tools/camtasia): Screen recorder and video editor for tutorials and training videos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/camtasia-vs-ispring-suite) - [ActivePresenter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/activepresenter): Screen recorder, video editor and eLearning authoring tool. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/activepresenter-vs-ispring-suite) - [Vyond](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vyond): Animated and AI avatar video maker for training and business. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ispring-suite-vs-vyond) - [Panopto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/panopto): Enterprise video platform for lecture capture and training. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ispring-suite-vs-panopto) - [Camtasia Snagit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/snagit): Screen capture and recording tool with annotation and step guides. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ispring-suite-vs-snagit) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.ispringsolutions.com/pricing - https://www.ispringsolutions.com/my/ispring-suite - https://www.ispringsolutions.com/system-requirements Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ispring-suite Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).