Global Content Authoring Tools Industry Growth and Trends Forecast to 2031

Summary

A Content Authoring Tool‎, also known as an eLearning content authoring tool, is a software program that enables users to create eLearning courses using text, media, and interactions. The core feature of any authoring tool is the ability to create course content. This includes adding and editing slides, images, text, and video, audio or any other on-screen element.

According to APO Research, The global Content Authoring Tools market was estimated at US$ million in 2025 and is projected to reach a revised size of US$ million by 2031, witnessing a CAGR of xx% during the forecast period 2026-2031.

North American market for Content Authoring Tools is estimated to increase from $ million in 2025 to reach $ million by 2031, at a CAGR of % during the forecast period of 2026 through 2031.

Asia-Pacific market for Content Authoring Tools is estimated to increase from $ million in 2025 to reach $ million by 2031, at a CAGR of % during the forecast period of 2026 through 2031.

Europe market for Content Authoring Tools is estimated to increase from $ million in 2025 to reach $ million by 2031, at a CAGR of % during the forecast period of 2026 through 2031.

The major global companies of Content Authoring Tools include Adobe, Articulate, DominKnow, Trivantis, SAP, TechSmith, iSpring, Elucidat and Brainshark, etc. In 2024, the world's top three vendors accounted for approximately % of the revenue.

Report Scope

This report aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of the global market for Content Authoring Tools, with both quantitative and qualitative analysis, to help readers develop business/growth strategies, assess the market competitive situation, analyze their position in the current marketplace, and make informed business decisions regarding Content Authoring Tools.

The Content Authoring Tools market size, estimations, and forecasts are provided in terms of revenue ($ millions), considering 2024 as the base year, with history and forecast data for the period from 2020 to 2031. This report segments the global Content Authoring Tools market comprehensively. Regional market sizes, concerning products by Type, by Application, and by players, are also provided. For a more in-depth understanding of the market, the report provides profiles of the competitive landscape, key competitors, and their respective market ranks. The report also discusses technological trends and new product developments.

Key Companies & Market Share Insights

In this section, the readers will gain an understanding of the key players competing. This report has studied the key growth strategies, such as innovative trends and developments, intensification of product portfolio, mergers and acquisitions, collaborations, new product innovation, and geographical expansion, undertaken by these participants to maintain their presence. Apart from business strategies, the study includes current developments and key financials. The readers will also get access to the data related to global revenue, gross margin by manufacturers for the period 2020-2025. This all-inclusive report will certainly serve the clients to stay updated and make effective decisions in their businesses.

Content Authoring Tools Segment by Company

Adobe
Articulate
DominKnow
Trivantis
SAP
TechSmith
iSpring
Elucidat
Brainshark
SoftChalk
Knowbly
UDUTU
SmartBuilder
CourseArc
Gomo Leaning
Lectora by Trivantis
dominKnow
Easygenerator
Paradiso Solutions
Composica
Top Hat

Content Authoring Tools Segment by Type

Web-based
On-premises

Content Authoring Tools Segment by Application

Corporate
Education
Others

Content Authoring Tools Segment by Region

North America
United States
Canada
Mexico
Europe
Germany
France
U.K.
Italy
Russia
Spain
Netherlands
Switzerland
Sweden
Poland
Asia-Pacific
China
Japan
South Korea
India
Australia
Taiwan
Southeast Asia
South America
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Colombia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Türkiye
GCC Countries

Key Drivers & Barriers

High-impact rendering factors and drivers have been studied in this report to aid the readers to understand the general development. Moreover, the report includes restraints and challenges that may act as stumbling blocks on the way of the players. This will assist the users to be attentive and make informed decisions related to business. Specialists have also laid their focus on the upcoming business prospects.

Reasons to Buy This Report

1. This report will help the readers to understand the competition within the industries and strategies for the competitive environment to enhance the potential profit. The report also focuses on the competitive landscape of the global Content Authoring Tools market, and introduces in detail the market share, industry ranking, competitor ecosystem, market performance, new product development, operation situation, expansion, and acquisition. etc. of the main players, which helps the readers to identify the main competitors and deeply understand the competition pattern of the market.
2. This report will help stakeholders to understand the global industry status and trends of Content Authoring Tools and provides them with information on key market drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities.
3. This report will help stakeholders to understand competitors better and gain more insights to strengthen their position in their businesses. The competitive landscape section includes the market share and rank (in value), competitor ecosystem, new product development, expansion, and acquisition.
4. This report stays updated with novel technology integration, features, and the latest developments in the market
5. This report helps stakeholders to gain insights into which regions to target globally
6. This report helps stakeholders to gain insights into the end-user perception concerning the adoption of Content Authoring Tools.
7. This report helps stakeholders to identify some of the key players in the market and understand their valuable contribution.

Chapter Outline

Chapter 1: Introduces the report scope of the report, executive summary of global and regional market size and CAGR for the history and forecast period (2020-2025, 2026-2031). It offers a high-level view of the current state of the market and its likely evolution in the short to mid-term, and long term.
Chapter 2: Provides the analysis of various market segments by type, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different market segments.
Chapter 3: Provides the analysis of various market segments by application, covering the market size and development potential of each market segment, to help readers find the blue ocean market in different downstream markets.
Chapter 4: Introduces the market dynamics, latest developments of the market, the driving factors and restrictive factors of the market, the challenges and risks faced by manufacturers in the industry, and the analysis of relevant policies in the industry.
Chapter 5: Detailed analysis of Content Authoring Tools companies' competitive landscape, revenue, market share and ranking, latest development plan, merger, and acquisition information, etc.
Chapter 6: Provides profiles of key players, introducing the basic situation of the main companies in the market in detail, including product introduction, revenue, recent development, etc.
Chapter 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, Middle East & Africa, revenue by country.
Chapter 12: Concluding Insights of the report

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1 Market Overview

1.1 Product Definition
1.2 Global Market Growth Prospects
1.3 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size Overview by Region 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
1.4 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Region (2020-2031)
1.4.1 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Region (2020-2025)
1.4.2 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Region (2026-2031)
1.5 Key Regions Content Authoring Tools Market Size (2020-2031)
1.5.1 North America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (2020-2031)
1.5.2 Europe Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (2020-2031)
1.5.3 Asia-Pacific Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (2020-2031)
1.5.4 South America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (2020-2031)
1.5.5 Middle East & Africa Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (2020-2031)
2 Content Authoring Tools Market by Type

2.1 Type Introduction
2.1.1 Web-based
2.1.2 On-premises
2.2 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Type
2.2.1 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size Overview by Type (2020-2031)
2.2.2 Global Content Authoring Tools Historic Market Size Review by Type (2020-2025)
2.2.3 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size Forecasted by Type (2026-2031)
2.3 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Regions
2.3.1 North America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Type (2020-2025)
2.3.2 Europe Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Type (2020-2025)
2.3.3 Asia-Pacific Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Type (2020-2025)
2.3.4 South America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Type (2020-2025)
2.3.5 Middle East and Africa Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Type (2020-2025)
3 Content Authoring Tools Market by Application

3.1 Type Introduction
3.1.1 Corporate
3.1.2 Education
3.1.3 Others
3.2 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Application
3.2.1 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size Overview by Application (2020-2031)
3.2.2 Global Content Authoring Tools Historic Market Size Review by Application (2020-2025)
3.2.3 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size Forecasted by Application (2026-2031)
3.3 Global Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Regions
3.3.1 North America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Application (2020-2025)
3.3.2 Europe Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Application (2020-2025)
3.3.3 Asia-Pacific Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Application (2020-2025)
3.3.4 South America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Application (2020-2025)
3.3.5 Middle East and Africa Content Authoring Tools Market Size Breakdown by Application (2020-2025)
4 Global Market Dynamics

4.1 Content Authoring Tools Industry Trends
4.2 Content Authoring Tools Industry Drivers
4.3 Content Authoring Tools Industry Opportunities and Challenges
4.4 Content Authoring Tools Industry Restraints
5 Competitive Insights by Company

5.1 Global Top Players by Content Authoring Tools Revenue (2020-2025)
5.2 Global Content Authoring Tools Industry Company Ranking, 2023 VS 2024 VS 2025
5.3 Global Content Authoring Tools Key Company Headquarters & Area Served
5.4 Global Content Authoring Tools Company, Product Type & Application
5.5 Global Content Authoring Tools Company Commercialization Time
5.6 Market Competitive Analysis
5.6.1 Global Content Authoring Tools Market CR5 and HHI
5.6.2 Global Top 5 and 10 Content Authoring Tools Players Market Share by Revenue in 2024
5.6.3 2024 Content Authoring Tools Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3
6 Company Profiles

6.1 Adobe
6.1.1 Adobe Comapny Information
6.1.2 Adobe Business Overview
6.1.3 Adobe Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.1.4 Adobe Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.1.5 Adobe Recent Developments
6.2 Articulate
6.2.1 Articulate Comapny Information
6.2.2 Articulate Business Overview
6.2.3 Articulate Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.2.4 Articulate Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.2.5 Articulate Recent Developments
6.3 DominKnow
6.3.1 DominKnow Comapny Information
6.3.2 DominKnow Business Overview
6.3.3 DominKnow Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.3.4 DominKnow Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.3.5 DominKnow Recent Developments
6.4 Trivantis
6.4.1 Trivantis Comapny Information
6.4.2 Trivantis Business Overview
6.4.3 Trivantis Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.4.4 Trivantis Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.4.5 Trivantis Recent Developments
6.5 SAP
6.5.1 SAP Comapny Information
6.5.2 SAP Business Overview
6.5.3 SAP Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.5.4 SAP Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.5.5 SAP Recent Developments
6.6 TechSmith
6.6.1 TechSmith Comapny Information
6.6.2 TechSmith Business Overview
6.6.3 TechSmith Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.6.4 TechSmith Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.6.5 TechSmith Recent Developments
6.7 iSpring
6.7.1 iSpring Comapny Information
6.7.2 iSpring Business Overview
6.7.3 iSpring Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.7.4 iSpring Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.7.5 iSpring Recent Developments
6.8 Elucidat
6.8.1 Elucidat Comapny Information
6.8.2 Elucidat Business Overview
6.8.3 Elucidat Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.8.4 Elucidat Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.8.5 Elucidat Recent Developments
6.9 Brainshark
6.9.1 Brainshark Comapny Information
6.9.2 Brainshark Business Overview
6.9.3 Brainshark Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.9.4 Brainshark Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.9.5 Brainshark Recent Developments
6.10 SoftChalk
6.10.1 SoftChalk Comapny Information
6.10.2 SoftChalk Business Overview
6.10.3 SoftChalk Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.10.4 SoftChalk Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.10.5 SoftChalk Recent Developments
6.11 Knowbly
6.11.1 Knowbly Comapny Information
6.11.2 Knowbly Business Overview
6.11.3 Knowbly Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.11.4 Knowbly Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.11.5 Knowbly Recent Developments
6.12 UDUTU
6.12.1 UDUTU Comapny Information
6.12.2 UDUTU Business Overview
6.12.3 UDUTU Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.12.4 UDUTU Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.12.5 UDUTU Recent Developments
6.13 SmartBuilder
6.13.1 SmartBuilder Comapny Information
6.13.2 SmartBuilder Business Overview
6.13.3 SmartBuilder Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.13.4 SmartBuilder Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.13.5 SmartBuilder Recent Developments
6.14 CourseArc
6.14.1 CourseArc Comapny Information
6.14.2 CourseArc Business Overview
6.14.3 CourseArc Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.14.4 CourseArc Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.14.5 CourseArc Recent Developments
6.15 Gomo Leaning
6.15.1 Gomo Leaning Comapny Information
6.15.2 Gomo Leaning Business Overview
6.15.3 Gomo Leaning Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.15.4 Gomo Leaning Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.15.5 Gomo Leaning Recent Developments
6.16 Lectora by Trivantis
6.16.1 Lectora by Trivantis Comapny Information
6.16.2 Lectora by Trivantis Business Overview
6.16.3 Lectora by Trivantis Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.16.4 Lectora by Trivantis Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.16.5 Lectora by Trivantis Recent Developments
6.17 dominKnow
6.17.1 dominKnow Comapny Information
6.17.2 dominKnow Business Overview
6.17.3 dominKnow Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.17.4 dominKnow Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.17.5 dominKnow Recent Developments
6.18 Easygenerator
6.18.1 Easygenerator Comapny Information
6.18.2 Easygenerator Business Overview
6.18.3 Easygenerator Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.18.4 Easygenerator Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.18.5 Easygenerator Recent Developments
6.19 Paradiso Solutions
6.19.1 Paradiso Solutions Comapny Information
6.19.2 Paradiso Solutions Business Overview
6.19.3 Paradiso Solutions Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.19.4 Paradiso Solutions Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.19.5 Paradiso Solutions Recent Developments
6.20 Composica
6.20.1 Composica Comapny Information
6.20.2 Composica Business Overview
6.20.3 Composica Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.20.4 Composica Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.20.5 Composica Recent Developments
6.21 Top Hat
6.21.1 Top Hat Comapny Information
6.21.2 Top Hat Business Overview
6.21.3 Top Hat Content Authoring Tools Revenue, Global Share and Gross Margin (2020-2025)
6.21.4 Top Hat Content Authoring Tools Product Portfolio
6.21.5 Top Hat Recent Developments
7 North America

7.1 North America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (CAGR) by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
7.2 North America Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Country (2020-2025)
7.3 North America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Forecast by Country (2026-2031)
8 Europe

8.1 Europe Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (CAGR) by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
8.2 Europe Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Country (2020-2025)
8.3 Europe Content Authoring Tools Market Size Forecast by Country (2026-2031)
9 Asia-Pacific

9.1 Asia-Pacific Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (CAGR) by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
9.2 Asia-Pacific Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Country (2020-2025)
9.3 Asia-Pacific Content Authoring Tools Market Size Forecast by Country (2026-2031)
10 South America

10.1 South America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (CAGR) by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
10.2 South America Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Country (2020-2025)
10.3 South America Content Authoring Tools Market Size Forecast by Country (2026-2031)
11 Middle East & Africa

11.1 Middle East & Africa Content Authoring Tools Market Size Growth Rate (CAGR) by Country: 2020 VS 2024 VS 2031
11.2 Middle East & Africa Content Authoring Tools Market Size by Country (2020-2025)
11.3 Middle East & Africa Content Authoring Tools Market Size Forecast by Country (2026-2031)
12 Concluding Insights
13 Appendix

13.1 Reasons for Doing This Study
13.2 Research Methodology
13.3 Research Process
13.4 Authors List of This Report
13.5 Data Source
13.5.1 Secondary Sources
13.5.2 Primary Sources

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