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The best presentation software in 2024

These powerpoint alternatives go beyond the basics..

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The latest presentation apps have made it easier than ever to format slides and create professional-looking slideshows without giving off a "this is a template" vibe. Even standard PowerPoint alternatives have updated key features to make it easier than ever to collaborate and create presentations quickly, so you can spend more time prepping for your actual presentation.

If, like me, you've used Google Slides unquestioningly for years, it's a whole new world out there. The newest crop of online presentation tools go way beyond the classic slideshow experience, with new features to keep your audience's attention, streamline the creation process with AI, and turn slide decks into videos and interactive conversations.

I've been testing these apps for the past few years, and this time, I spent several days tinkering with 25 of the top presentation software solutions out there to bring you the best of the best.

The best presentation software

What makes the best presentation app, how we evaluate and test apps.

When looking for the best presentation apps, I wanted utility players. After all, slideshows are used for just about everything, from pitch decks and product launches to class lectures and church sermons. With that in mind, here's what I was looking for:

Pre-built templates. The best presentation tools should have attractive, professional-looking templates to build presentations in a hurry.

Sharing and collaboration options. Whether you plan to share your webinar slides later, or you just want to collaborate with a coworker on a presentation, it should be easy to share files and collaborate in real-time.

Flexibility and customization options. Templates are great, but top presentation apps should enable you to customize just about everything—giving you the flexibility to build exactly what you need.

Affordability. Creating compelling presentations is important, but you shouldn't have to bust your budget to make it happen. With capable free tools on the market, affordability is a top consideration.

Standalone functionality. There's no reason to use multiple tools when one can do it all, so I didn't test any apps that require and work on top of another presentation app like PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Familiar, deck-based interface. For our purposes here, I only tested software that uses slides, with the familiar deck-based editor you expect from a "presentation" tool (versus, for example, a video creation app).

Beyond that, I also looked for presentation apps that brought something unique to the table—features above and beyond what you can get for free from a legacy solution like PowerPoint or Google Slides.

Here's what my testing workflow looked like:

I went through any onboarding or guided tutorials.

I created a new deck, scanning through all available templates, noting how well-designed they were (and which were free versus paid).

I added new slides, deleted slides, edited text and images, and played around with other content types.

I changed presentation design settings, like color schemes and background images.

I reviewed and tested the sharing and collaboration options.

I tested out presenter view (when available).

After my first round of testing, I went back into the top performers to test any unique or niche features, like AI, brand settings, and interactive content. With that, these are the best presentation apps I found—each one really brings something different or radically easy to the table.

The best presentation software at a glance


	A free option	Free plan available; paid plans from $10
	AI-powered design	From $12/month
	Non-linear presentations	Free plan available; paid plans from $7/month
	Video presentations	Limited free plan available; paid plans from $15/month
	Collaboration	Free plan available; from $22/month for 2 users
	Conversational AI features	Free plan available; paid plans from $8/user/month
	Audience engagement	Free plan available; paid plans from $11.99/user/month
	Generative AI features	Limited free plan available; paid plans from $16/user/month

The best free presentation software

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Canva, our pick for the best free presentation app

Canva pros:

Excellent free plan

Tons of amazing templates for all use cases

Feature-rich

Canva cons:

The AI tools aren't groundbreakingly useful

Canva offers one of the most robust free plans of all the presentation apps I tested. The app delays account creation until after you've created your first design, so you can get started building your presentation in seconds. Choose from an almost overwhelming number of beautiful templates (nearly all available for free), including those designed specifically for education or business use cases.

Anyone who's accidentally scrolled too far and been bumped to the next slide will appreciate Canva's editor interface, which eliminates that problem altogether with a smooth scroll that doesn't jump around. Choose from a handful of preset animations to add life to your presentations, or browse the library of audio and video files available to add. And Canva also has a number of options for sharing your presentation, including adding collaborators to your team, sharing directly to social media, and even via QR code.

Present directly from Canva, and let audience members submit their questions via Canva Live. Once you share a link to invite audience members to your presentation, they can send questions for you to answer. As the presenter, you'll see them pop up in your presenter view window, so you can keep the audience engaged and your presentation clear. Alternatively, record a presentation with a talking head bubble—you can even use an AI presenter here—to share remotely.

Canva pricing: Free plan available; paid plans start at $120/year for 1 user and include additional features like Brand Kit, premium templates and stock assets, and additional AI-powered design tools.

The best presentation app for AI-powered design

Beautiful.ai pros:

True AI design

No fussing around with alignment

Still allows for customization

Beautiful.ai cons:

No free plan

If you're like me, editing granular spacing issues is the absolute worst part of building a presentation. Beautiful.ai uses artificial intelligence to take a lot of the hassle and granular design requirements out of the presentation process, so you can focus on the content of a presentation without sacrificing professional design. If I needed to make presentations on a regular basis, this is the app I'd use.

Many apps have recently added AI design features, but Beautiful.ai has been doing it for years—and they've perfected the experience of AI design, ensuring the tool's reign as the most streamlined and user-friendly option for AI design.

The editor is a little different from most presentation apps, but it's still intuitive—and you'll start off with a quick two-minute tutorial. When creating a new slide, scroll through "inspiration slides" to find a layout you like; once you choose, the app will pull the layout and automatically adapt it to match the design of the rest of your presentation.

With 10 themes, several templated slides, over 40 fully-designed templates, and more than 20 different color palettes to choose from, Beautiful.ai strikes a perfect balance between automation and customization.

While Beautiful.ai doesn't offer a free plan, paid plans are reasonably priced and offer sharing and collaboration options that rival collab-focused apps like Google Slides. And speaking of Google, you can connect Beautiful.ai with Google Drive to save all your presentations there.

Note: I re-tested the generative AI feature (called DesignerBot) this year. It's great for adding individual slides to an existing presentation—automatically choosing the best layout and matching the design to the rest of the deck—but as with most other apps, it struggled to pull in relevant images.

Beautiful.ai pricing: Plans start at $12/month for unlimited slides, AI content generation, viewer analytics, and more. Upgrade to a Team plan for $40/user/month to get extra collaboration and workspace features and custom brand controls.

The best presentation app for conversational presentations

Prezi pros:

Doesn't restrict you to standard presentation structure

Lots of customization options

Prezi Video lets you display a presentation right over your webcam video

Prezi cons:

Steep learning curve

Struggling to squeeze information into a basic, linear presentation? Give Prezi a try. Unlike nearly all other presentation apps on the market, Prezi Present doesn't restrict the structure of your presentation to a straight line. The editor focuses on topics and subtopics and allows you to arrange them any way you want, so you can create a more conversational flow of information.

With the structural flexibility, you still get all the same customization features you expect from top presentation software, including fully-editable templates. There's a learning curve if you're unfamiliar with non-linear presentations, but templates offer a great jumping-off point, and Prezi's editor does a good job of making the process more approachable.

Plus, Prezi comes with two other apps: Prezi Design and Prezi Video. Prezi Video helps you take remote presentations to a new level. You can record a video where the presentation elements are displayed right over your webcam feed. Record and save the video to share later, or connect with your video conferencing tool of choice (including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet) to present live.

Prezi's generative AI feature works ok, but it's more useful as a wireframe. When I asked it to create a presentation about the Stanley Cup Playoffs, for example, the resulting content read a lot like a student writing a term paper in the broadest strokes possible to avoid doing any actual research.

The best presentation app for video presentations

Powtoon pros:

Timing automatically changes based on the content on the slide

Can toggle between slideshow and video

Can orient presentation as horizontal, vertical, or square

Powtoon cons:

Limited free plan

Powtoon makes it easy to create engaging videos by orienting the editor around a slide deck. Editing a Powtoon feels just like editing a presentation, but by the time you finish, you have a professional video.

You can edit your slides at any time, and when you hit play, a video plays through your deck—the feel is almost like an animated explainer video. Each slide includes the animations you choose and takes up as much time as is needed based on the content on the slide. Powtoon figures the timing automatically, and you can see in the bottom-right of the editor how much time is used on your current slide versus the total presentation. If you ever want to present as a slide deck, just toggle between Slideshow and Movie.

You'll likely need to subscribe to a paid plan to get the most out of Powtoon—like creating videos longer than three minutes, downloading them as MP4 files, and white-labeling your presentations—but doing so won't break the bank. Plus, you'll unlock tons of templates complete with animations and soundtracks.

One of my favorite Powtoon features is the ability to orient your video: you can choose horizontal orientation (like a normal presentation) or opt for vertical (for mobile) or square (for social media). When your presentation is ready, you can publish straight to YouTube, Wistia, Facebook Ads, and any number of other locations.

The best presentation app for collaborating with your team

Pitch, our pick for the best presentation software for collaborating with your team

Pitch pros:

Google levels of collaboration

Assign slides to specific team members

Excellent generative AI feature

Pitch cons:

User interface is a little different than you're used to

Need to collaborate on presentations with your team? Pitch is a Google Slides alternative that gets the job done. As far as decks go, Pitch includes all the beautifully-designed templates, customizability, and ease of use you expect from a top-notch presentation tool. But the app really shines when you add your team.

The right-hand sidebar is all about project management and collaboration: you can set and update the status of your deck, assign entire presentations or individual slides to team members, plus comment or add notes. Save custom templates to make future presentations even easier and faster.

You can also invite collaborators from outside your company to work with you on individual decks. And if you opt for a paid plan, Pitch introduces workspace roles, shared private folders, and version history.

Pitch also offers one of the most impressive generative AI features on this list. It still struggles to pull in relevant images, but I found the AI-generated written content and design to be top-notch.

The best presentation app for conversational AI

Gamma pros:

Creates fully fleshed-out presentations from a prompt

Conversational chatbot-like experience

Can still manually edit the presentation

Gamma cons:

Not as much granular customization

I tested a lot of apps claiming to use AI to up your presentation game, and Gamma's conversational AI features were head and shoulders above the crowd.

Simply give the app a topic—or upload an outline, notes, or any other document or article—approve the outline, and pick a theme. The app will take it from there and create a fully fleshed-out presentation. It's far from perfect, but Gamma produces a very useful jumping-off point. (Last year, it was by far the best, but this year, other apps are catching up.)

Here's the key: Gamma is much more geared toward the iterative, chatbot experience familiar to ChatGPT users. Click on the Edit with AI button at the top of the right-hand menu to open the chat, and you'll see suggested prompts—or you can type in your own requests for how Gamma should alter the presentation.

Once you've done all you can with prompts, simply close the chat box to manually add the finishing touches. While you do sacrifice some granular customizability in exchange for the AI features, you can still choose your visual theme, change slide layouts, format text, and add any images, videos, or even app and web content.

The best presentation app for audience engagement

Mentimeter, our pick for the best presentation software for audience engagement

Mentimeter pros:

Tons of audience engagement features

Simple for participants to interact

Mentimeter cons:

Less granular customizability

Bit of a learning curve

If you need to engage with an audience during your presentation, Mentimeter makes that easy. The app is designed around interactive elements like quizzes, surveys, Q&As, sliders, and more (even a Miro whiteboard!).

Each of these is included in a number of different, professional-looking templates, so you can build a fully interactive presentation super quickly.

When it's time to present, your audience members can scan the QR code with their phone cameras or type in the URL and access code to participate. There's one code per presentation (so they won't have to do this on every slide), which gives access to each slide as you move through the presentation.

There are two main drawbacks to this one, though. First, there's a bit of a learning curve and less familiar editing interface (but I found it pretty easy to learn with some practice). The other drawback is that you can't get as granular with the visual customization as you can with many other presentation tools.

The best presentation app for generative AI

Tome, our pick for the best presentation software for generative AI

Top-tier generative AI features

Simple, customizable templates

Intuitive doc-style editor

There's definitely a learning curve

Tome is one of the new additions to this list that I'm most excited about. If you're looking for generative AI that just genuinely works , it's definitely worth a look. The editor is a bit more stripped down than most presentation apps but intuitive nonetheless—it's almost a cross between your standard deck editor and a Notion-style doc.

To generate an AI deck, click Generate with AI in the top right, and either write your own prompt or choose from the example prompts that cover a handful of common use cases, like sales enablement and company pitches. Edit or approve the suggested outline, then generate the full presentation.

From there, you can edit each slide as a doc via the right-hand menu—without limits on how much information you can include. During the presentation, you simply size down any slides that take up more than the standard amount of space. It's super simple but somehow feels revolutionary in a presentation app.

What about the old standbys?

You might notice a few major presentation players aren't on this list, including OGs Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, and Google Slides. These apps are perfectly adequate for creating basic presentations, and they're free if you have a Windows or Mac device or a Google account.

I didn't include them on the list because the presentation space has really developed in the last several years, and after testing them out, I found these behemoths haven't kept pace. If they weren't made by Microsoft/Apple/Google, I might not even be mentioning them. They're pretty basic tools, they're behind the curve when it comes to templates (both quantity and design), and they don't offer any uniquely valuable features like robust team collaboration, branding controls, video, and so on.

In any case, if you're reading this, you're probably looking for an alternative that allows you to move away from one of the big 3, and as the presentation platforms featured above show, there's a ton to gain—in terms of features, usability, and more—when you do.

What about PowerPoint and Google Slides add-ons?

While I focused my testing on tools with full feature-sets—those that can serve as your sole presentation tool—there are a ton of add-on tools you can use atop big name tools like PowerPoint and Google Slides.

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15 Popular PowerPoint Alternatives (Full Comparison Guide)

PowerPoint is by far the most popular software for creating and sharing presentations, but it is not the only one!

In this article, we’ll go through the different PowerPoint alternatives you have and the pros and cons of each . Each one of these presentation software options has its own suitable features that will help you create outstanding slides.

In 24Slides, we’re experts at presentations . We know that when talking about slides, PowerPoint is only the tip of the iceberg. That’s why we’ve picked the 15 most popular PowerPoint alternatives that you can use to create outstanding presentations . We’ll go in-depth into each one, covering their price, their options for team collaboration, and if they can be used both online and offline.

Here are the alternative presentation software we’ll go through:

#2. Google Slides

#3. Apple Keynote

#4. Renderforest

#6. Powtoon

#7. Piktochart

#8. Beautiful.ai

#11. Microsoft Sway

#12. DigiDeck

#13. ZohoShow

#15. Haiku Deck

There are so many PowerPoint alternatives that picking one can be a bit tricky. In the end, the best presentation software is the one that fits your needs the most. That’s why we’ve added a ‘best for…’ section at the end of the article.

Hopefully, this will help you decide which PowerPoint alternative is best for your business and more likely to fulfill your goals to keep your audience interested and engaged. Keep reading to the end to find:

- The best free PowerPoint alternative

- The best PowerPoint alternative for enterprises

- The best presentation software for team collaboration

- The best PowerPoint alternative for e-learning and training

- The best PowerPoint alternative for small businesses

Hopefully, this will not only get you a complete overview of the different PowerPoint alternatives you can use, but it will also help you decide which one is the best presentation software for you!

What is the Best PowerPoint Alternative?

Not every PowerPoint alternative is built the same! While some of the presentation software on this list are very similar to Microsoft Office’s options, many have completely different features and work options.

That’s why to figure out which is the best for your business, you’ll need to compare them. In this section, we’ll go through each PowerPoint alternative’s main features, like template options, design elements library, collaboration features, mobile apps, and so on. We’ll also cover

-Presentation software pricing

-Pros and cons of each PowerPoint alternative

-What each presentation design tool is best suited for

When talking about PowerPoint alternatives, Prezi is one of the most popular ones. This presentation software became known for its non-linear layouts and unique take on presentations.

Unlike PowerPoint and many other alternative presentation software we’ll go through in this list, Prezi doesn’t use presentation slides. Instead, it works with a “canvas,” where the presenter can zoom in and out.

This makes Prezi presentations feel more fluid and “free-form” than your typical presentation.

One of the best features of this PowerPoint alternative is that it allows free plans and work online. However, it’s important to note that presentations created through free plans are public and can’t be saved as private , which can be a deal breaker for people working on presentations with sensitive information.

Main features :

Cloud and desktop app access
Images and templates library
Zoom, Google Meets, and Microsoft Team integrations for virtual presentations
Prezi Video puts presenters next to their graphics in real-time
Freemium (up to 5 projects)
Individual prices begin at $9/mo. (billed annually)
Enterprise solutions begin at $15/mo. (billed annually)
Non-linear, unique layouts
SOC2 Security for paid plans
Offline access with the desktop app
Free presentations are public
Steep learning curve
Can cause motion sickness in audiences unfamiliar with it

Best for : Storytelling and conversational-oriented presentations

2. Google Slides

If you’re looking for a quick and easy alternative to PowerPoint, then Google Slides is the one for you.

It has all the basic features you’d find in PowerPoint, with the added bonus of real-time collaboration options. And the best part, you will only need a Google Account to have immediate access to it.

Not only that, PowerPoint presentations are easy to convert to and from Google Slides. This means that you can use the vast array of presentation templates for PowerPoint, which is a huge bonus compared to other presentation software alternatives in this list.

While it offers business plans for higher storage capacity, most users will find the free plan of 15GB is more than enough and offers all the main features for creating presentations.

Real-time collaboration
Cloud-based
Google Workspace complete integration, including Google Meets for virtual presentations

Price : Free!

Completely free with a Google Account
Easy to convert to and from PowerPoint
SOC Certified
Limited animations and transitions compared to PowerPoint, only for traditional presentation slides.

Best for : Team collaboration and traditional presentation slides

3. Apple Keynote

For Mac users, Apple Keynote is this developer’s alternative to PowerPoint. And just like PowerPoint, it allows you to create impactful presentations to bring your ideas to life.

One of its main advantages is its user-friendly interface, which makes it easy and intuitive to use. However, this also means that many features available on other presentation software are not part of Keynote.

Available for all Apple devices
Touch interface available for iPad working
Integrated library of photos, videos, music, and charts
Intuitive and less cluttered workspace, user-friendly interface
Similar customization options as PowerPoint
Not available for non-Mac Users
Limited compatibility when exporting documents to and from PowerPoint

Best for : Mac Users

4. Renderforest

If you’re looking for a PowerPoint alternative to make non-traditional presentations, then you might want to check out Renderforest. This online design platform allows you to create complex videos and slideshows with just a few clicks.

You can use Renderforest to create unique presentations with seamless transitions and animations for a video-like feel.

You can try Renderforest for free but take into account that if you really want to use it as a recurrent tool for your presentations, acquiring a paid plan is a must. This will give you access to the full template catalog and advanced editing tools.

Animation toolkits
Templates and scenes library for easy use
Freemium (up to 500MB)
Lite $9.99/mo. (billed annually)
Pro $15.99/mo (billed annually)
Professional animations with a seamless “video” feel
Easy to use pre-made building blocks
Limited library of resources
Limited customization of templates
Full use requires a paid account

Best for : Video-like, seamless presentations

If you’re looking for a PowerPoint alternative to help you make the most without being a professional designer, check out Visme ! It is a self-appointed all-in-one content creation tool for non-designers.

As such, you can use Visme to create infographics, mockups, social media graphics, and of course, presentations. Visme also allows you to share your content with your team and collaborate with other people.

Graphs, charts, and data widgets
Social Media scheduling integration
Workspace for team collaboration
Font pairs and design toolkits
“Presenter studio” to record yourself
Freemium (up to 100MB)
Personal $12.25/mo. (billed annually)
Enterprise $24.75/mo. (billed annually)
App integrations for Social Media
Easy import and export from PowerPoint
Easy and user-friendly
Most templates are just for premium accounts
Free download in just one format

Best for : Wide range of design tasks

Looking for a unique PowerPoint alternative that gives your presentations that seamless feel? Then Powtoon will help you create eye-catching presentations for your brand!

It’s an excellent option for those looking for animated characters, as you can customize them to fit your audience and brand identity. It also offers a wide library of stock photos, music, and other design elements. Its templates make Powtoon easy to use, even for those with no previous experience.

However, just like other PowerPoint alternatives in this list, if you really want to make the most out of this tool, then a paid plan is a must.

Customizable cartoon characters
Brand identity tool-kits
Convert PowerPoint to video with the Office add-in
ISO Certified Cloud security
Several social media and apps integrations
Freemium (up to 2GB)
Pro starting at $20/mo. (billed annually)
Agency starting at $40/mo. (billed annually)
Dynamic, video-like presentations
Full customization options
Needs a premium account to make the most out of it
Videos made with free plans have Powtoon watermark

Best for : Educational presentations

7. Piktochart

Similarly to Visme, Piktochart is an online design platform for non-designers. You can use it to create all types of graphic content, like cards, brochures, infographics, and of course, presentations.

It offers a wide range of tools to create graphs and charts, making it ideal for reports and data-oriented products. You can also choose to download your presentations in PowerPoint format or present them online directly through the platform.

While some of the advanced brand features are exclusively for paid plans, this PowerPoint alternative’s free plan can be a great pick for those on a budget. Most features are still available for free, and you don’t need to worry about watermarks even without a Pro plan.

Export graphs and charts from Excel and Google Sheets
Cloud-based work
Template library
“Brand Assets” ($) for automatically updating brand guidelines
Team collaboration and project organization in folders
Pro starting at $14/mo. (billed annually)
Smart and customizable charts and maps
Traffic and views tools for all accounts
Download in .ppt format or present online
Color scheme customization only for paid plans

Best for : Infographics and data showcasing

8. Beautiful.ai

Looking for the most efficient way to create presentations? Beautiful.ai is a Powerpoint alternative that uses AI technology to generate professional presentation slides according to your needs automatically.

Its main selling point is to limit the time you spend creating presentations. That’s why it offers a library of smart templates and automatic brand guidelines to make your design experience more efficient.

And, if you’re willing to invest in it, the team plans really offer the most out of Beautiful.ai features.

Brand guidelines for team plans
Wide library of smart templates
DesignerBot
Pro $12/mo. (billed annually)
Team $40/mo. (billed annually)
$45 for single projects
Custom price for enterprise solutions
Great report-oriented templates: charts and data
PowerPoint + Google Slides integration
Lots of customization options
No freemium options
Most features are best for Team Plans and above

Best for : Business reports, low-effort beautiful professional presentations.

On the other hand, are you looking for a powerful design tool? If you’re missing a PowerPoint alternative that focuses on design features, Emaze’s HTML5 editor allows you to customize even the smallest details of your presentations.

Emaze also offers advanced features concerning analytics, so you can track your results and improve conversion rates.

All paid plans include questionnaires, collaboration options, and importing to and from PowerPoint and pdf documents.

Its freemium plan is an excellent option for trying out all the different features it offers, but take into consideration that presentations created with this plan come with a watermark.

E-learning questionaries
Analytics options
Remote presenting options
HTML5 Editor
Pro $13/mo (billed annually) (30 projects)
Executive $40/mo. (billed annually)
Business $125/mo. (billed annually)
Amazing customization options
Powerful design tools
Advanced analytics
Making the most out of it requires a steep learning curve
Branding tools are available just for Executive plans and above

Best for : Business and professional presentations

Vyond, previously known as GoAnimate, is a PowerPoint alternative that will help you create video-like content for your presentations.

Similarly to Powtoon, Vyong allows you to animate cartoon characters to convey your information in a more dynamic way. It offers 3 visual styles, Contemporary, Business Friendly, and Whiteboard, so you can pick which one fits your brand the best. And even better, you can sync the characters’ lips to match your message, making it look seamless and more professional.

Vyond enterprise-level security makes it a perfect fit for companies that are looking for a reliable and secure option to create videos and presentations on the cloud.

Enterprise level security
Unique, dynamic videos
Animated characters in 3 different styles
Essential $25 /mo. (billed annually) (with logo)
Premium $54/mo. (billed annually)
Professional $92/mo. (billed annually)
Enterprise-level security
Character customization and lipsync
Detailed animation options
All projects are watermarked unless Premium or above
Collaboration options are only available for Professional plans and above

Best for : Online training and learning

11. Microsoft Sway

If you think Microsoft's only option for presentation is PowerPoint, then think twice! Microsoft Sway is great for creating interactive presentations and reports, as it works wonders for content that doesn’t have a live presenter guiding it.

This makes it ideal for creating websites, bulletins, infographics, all overall anything where you‘d need to convey information in a visually appealing way.

And, Sway is completely free for anyone with a Microsoft Account!

However, one big drawback is that its workflow is very different from PowerPoint and other presentation software from this list. If you’re used to this kind of workspace, learning to use Microsoft Sway can feel overwhelming.

Interactive elements
Different visualization options than PowerPoint
Microsoft Office integrations
Steep learning curve - different work model than PowerPoint

Best for : Interactive presentations, bulletins, and infographics

12. DigiDeck

For a PowerPoint alternative that is 100% focused on your sales team’s presentations, then DigiDeck has no match.

It offers advanced analytics so you can track how your clients interact with your content and optimize your results. You can get real-time alerts when your presentations are being viewed so your sales team can use it as a lead opportunity. And it offers integrations with Salesforce and other CRM tools.

And, of course, it also enables you to customize your presentation in order to showcase your information in the most visually appealing way possible.

Since DigiDeck is a product aimed at enterprise-level customers, you must request a demo to understand how DigiDeck can help you and your business. They will give you a custom quote as well as help you develop your perfect enterprise solution.

CRM integrations
Data Analytics + real-time alerts for sales reps

Price : Custom quote

SOC2 Certified
Limited number of users
Need to provide your own photos and graphics to make the most out of the templates

Best for : Sales-oriented design products

13. ZohoShow

Looking for a free alternative to PowerPoint? ZohoShow is a completely free online platform for presentation slides!

Just like Google Slides, ZohoShow is a cloud-based presentation software with a very similar workspace to PowerPoint. Its minimalistic layout and user-friendly interface make it perfect for non-designers.

ZohoShow also offers different apps for you to both work and present on your mobile devices. This makes it perfect to work on a tablet or to present on a Smart TV. It also features a wide array of integrations with other apps, like Google Workspace or Slack!

Mobile app for working and presenting
PowerPoint integration
Chrome extension + mobile apps
Real-time collaboration for teams
Limited animations and transitions

Best for : Presentation slides on a budget

For a versatile PowerPoint alternative that can cover different design needs beyond presentations, Canva is worth checking out.

Canva’s design center allows you to create logos, flyers, banners, cards, and much, much more. Its library offers thousands of templates to pick from and to make your design process more efficient.

While you can use it freely, to truly make the most out of its collaboration and design tools, a paid plan is a must. This will allow you complete access to their resources and make teamwork much easier.

Canva also features mobile apps for both Mac and Android, so you have access to your designs whenever you need them.

Real-time collaboration ($)
Wide library of visual resources and templates
Brand kits ($)
Freemium (limited storage)
Pro $12.99/mo. (billed annually)
Teams $14.99/mo. (billed annually) (for the first 5 people)
Wide array of templates
Easy drag-and-drop interface
Desktop apps: online and offline modes
Best features are limited to premium plans

Best for : Versatile design tasks

15. Haiku Deck

If you’re looking for a user-friendly PowerPoint alternative, Haiku Deck might be the one for you. It allows you to create beautiful presentations with its huge library of photos and design elements.

Its interface is also pretty user-friendly, making it a great option to use for those who are not experienced in presentation design. And all their tools are focused on presentations’ best practices from experts, so you can rest assured that your message is being conveyed in the best way possible.

While Haiku Deck doesn’t offer a Freemium plan, you still have the option to try it out to see if it is the presentation software for you. You can register for the Basic plan to create your first free presentation. Just be aware that you’ll need to register after that and that you’ll not be able to download it.

Main features:

Privacy controls
Custom branding
Analytics (only for Premium)
Cloud-based workspace
Pro $9.99/mo. (billed annually)
Premium $29.99/mo. (billed annually)
Big royalty-free photo library
Easy export and import from PowerPoint and Keynote
Simple and user-friendly
No freemium option
Limited customization options

Best for: Creative presentations for non-designers

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Choosing the Most Suitable PowerPoint Alternative for You

When talking about the best possible alternative to PowerPoint, it all comes down to what you’re looking for. While each of the presentation software we’ve presented in this article has its pros and cons, some might work better than others depending on the use you’re planning to give them.

The best free PowerPoint alternative

If you’re looking for a free presentation software that can do pretty much the same thing as PowerPoint, then Google Slides is definitely the best !

Google Slides workspace is pretty similar to PowerPoint, making it easy to work with for those who are already familiar with this type of software. It also has the added bonus that you only need a free Google account to gain access to it and, of course, full integration with other Google Workspace software.

Some PowerPoint features, like complex animations, for example, might not be available for Google Slides. However, other features like real-time collaboration compensate for it.

Another option for a free PowerPoint alternative is ZohoShow . Its mobile apps will allow you to create and edit your slides on the go with pretty much the same design options as PowerPoint.

The best PowerPoint alternative for enterprises

When talking about PowerPoint alternatives for enterprises, you should look for software that truly elevates your presentations and offers the most with their paid plans.

Beautiful.ai is a great option for enterprises looking for presentation software options . Its AI doesn't only help you design outstanding presentation slides, but its smart tools will help you create more presentations in a more efficient way.

If your focus is sales-oriented content, then you can’t go wrong with DigiDeck . Its advanced analytics and integration with CRM tools make it the perfect option for sales presentations.

The best presentation software for team collaboration

If you need a PowerPoint alternative that will allow different people to work together on a single project, you also have several good options.

Google Slides' real-time collaboration can work wonders for teams that need to go back and forth on the same document. Its free plan allows you to add several different collaborators to your workspace, which is also a plus.

Visme’s collaboration workspace is also worth checking out, as its organization and commentator options can be a huge asset for teams that need to work together on a single document.

The best PowerPoint alternative for e-learning and training

When talking about presentations for e-learning and online training, making them dynamic and didactic is key. That’s why some of the best presentation software alternatives for educational purposes are Powtoon and Vyond.

Powtoon offers a wide array of customization options for its animated characters, making it easy to develop your brand voice and identity. And Vyond’s character lipsync feature will help you make your presentations and video feel more seamless.

If you’re looking for an e-learning PowerPoint alternative, you might also want to check out Emaze . It features options to add questionnaires and exams to your presentations!

The best PowerPoint alternative for small businesses

For small businesses looking for PowerPoint alternatives for their presentations, it might be useful to hire software that also offers them a wide array of design options beyond just slides. That’s why Piktochart or Canva can be great presentation design options for small businesses .

Their both offer a template library that can be used for a whole range of design tasks. And their paid plans feature brand options that will help small businesses create a sense of unity between their different visual channels.

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12 Best Presentation Software for 2024

Written by: Krystle Wong Jan 12, 2024

Whether you’re a student, professional or entrepreneur, having access to the right presentation tools can make all the difference.

When you craft a well-executed presentation , your message becomes more memorable. You’re not just sharing information; you’re weaving a story, painting a picture and leaving a lasting impact on your audience’s minds.

We’re living in the age of information overload, where attention spans are shorter than ever. A good presentation slide takes this into account, breaking down complex information into bite-sized chunks. It guides your audience through a logical flow, allowing them to digest information effortlessly and retain key points without feeling overwhelmed.

To help you stay ahead of the game, I’ve compiled a list of the 12 best software for presentations. These PowerPoint alternatives offer a combination of user-friendly interfaces, stunning visuals, collaboration features and innovative functionalities that will take your presentations to the next level.

Let’s dive in and explore these top presentation software picks!

1. Venngage

Allow me to be a little bit biased here but my top pick is none other than, you guessed it — Venngage! Venngage goes beyond just presentations to focus on data visualization and transforming complex information into visually appealing and engaging visuals.

One of the standout features of Venngage as a presentation software is the extensive library of infographic elements. Gain access to a wide range of pre-designed elements such as icons, charts, maps as well as illustrations to simplify the process of creating data-driven and visually appealing presentations.

You don’t have to be a pro when designing with Venngage. Venngage’s drag-and-drop interface allows you to customize your presentations by simply dragging and dropping elements onto the canvas. You can tweak sizes, colors and layouts with ease, making your presentations visually cohesive and personalized, even if you’re not a design wizard.

Just so you know, some of our features and templates are free to use and some require a small monthly fee. Sign-up is completely free, as is access to Venngage’s online drag-and-drop editor. Here’s how Venngage’s presentation maker can become your secret weapon in the quest for presentation success.

Vast selection of templates

Venngage boasts an extensive library of professionally designed templates, catering to a wide range of industries and presentation purposes. Whether you’re creating a marketing report, educational presentation or business pitch, Venngage’s presentation tool offers templates that provide a solid foundation for your designs.

Save 20+ hours of designing with Venngage’s fully customizable, pre-designed infographic templates. Thes e presentation templates provide a good foundation with well-structured layouts and visually appealing aesthetics.

Data visualization made easy

Venngage simplifies the process of data visualization, making it accessible to users of all backgrounds. With a few clicks, you can transform dull statistics into visually engaging charts and graphs that tell a compelling story.

Seamless real-time in-editor collaboration tools

Venngage brings teamwork to the next level with our seamless collaboration tools designed to foster collaboration across teams, departments and the entire organization. Whether you’re in the same room or across the globe, Venngage enables real-time collaboration that makes working together becomes a breeze.

Consistently brand your designs with smart Autobrand features

Effortlessly infuse your presentation slides with your brand’s colors, fonts and logos with Venngage’s My Brand Kit . Upload your brand assets and create engaging presentations by applying your branding to any template you create on Venngage.

Who is it for

Marketers, designers, educators and businesses that require data-driven and visually appealing presentations.

Key features

Infographic elements, data visualization tools, collaboration options, customizable templates.

Create your first 5 designs with Venngage for free and upgrade to a premium or business plan for $10 USD/month per user and $24 USD/month per user to enjoy premium features. For larger teams who need extra support, controls and security, the enterprise plan starts from $499 USD/month for 10+ seats.

Additionally, there are also plans available for classrooms priced at $99 USD/year for up to 35 students per instructor. Non profit organizations can also apply for a nonprofit discount to any Venngage plan.

2. Microsoft PowerPoint

Source: Screenshot from Microsoft PowerPoint

Even with dozens of presentation software and tools out there, PowerPoint presentations have stood the test of time as one of the best presentation software. In fact, 89% of people still use PowerPoint presentations over competitor services .

Whether you’re a student, teacher, business professional or just a creative soul, PowerPoint’s user-friendly interface allows both beginners and experienced users to create presentations with ease.

PowerPoint delivers captivating and engaging presentations through its advanced animation and transition effects. You can create interactive PowerPoint presentations by captivating your audience and guiding them through your content with seamless transitions and eye-catching animations.

Seamless integration with other Microsoft Office tools is another significant advantage of PowerPoint as a presentation software. As part of the Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint effortlessly integrates with other familiar applications such as Word and Excel. This integration allows you to incorporate charts, graphs and written content from these tools directly into your presentation.

However, collaboration features in PowerPoint can be somewhat limited compared to dedicated collaboration platforms. While you can share and co-edit presentations with others, the collaboration options may not be as robust as those offered by specialized presentation tools.

Suitable for individuals, students, educators and businesses of all sizes.

Customizable templates, multimedia support, extensive slide editing options, robust animations and transitions.

You can subscribe to PowerPoint as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription with various plans tailored for businesses, ranging from $6 to $22 USD/month. Additionally, there is also the option to purchase an unbundled PowerPoint account separately, priced at $159.99 USD.

3. Google Slides

Source: Screenshot from Google Slides

Unlike PowerPoint which requires file sharing and manual syncing for teamwork, Google Slides enables real-time collaboration and easy access from any device with an internet connection.

Google Slides shines in its seamless collaboration capabilities. Multiple users can work on the same presentation simultaneously, enabling real-time editing and fostering efficient teamwork. The integrated commenting feature on Google Slides allows for shared feedback and discussions, enhancing collaboration even further.

Google Slides’ cloud-based storage and auto-saving feature ensures that your work is constantly saved, minimizing the risk of losing progress or important changes. No more panicking over unsaved slides and changes.

But that also means that Google Slides heavily relies on an internet connection for full functionality and access is more limited compared to desktop-based software. Although an offline mode is available, Google Slides has certain limitations and may not provide the same level of functionality as when connected to the internet.

Templates and customization features-wise, Google Slides also have fewer design options compared to other presentation tools. This may limit the level of visual creativity and flexibility for those seeking intricate designs or specialized effects.

Ideal for remote teams, educators, students and anyone looking for easy collaboration and access from any device.

Real-time collaboration, shared commenting, offline mode and built-in sharing options.

Google Slides is accessible to all individuals with a Google account at no cost, providing all users with access to its full range of features. However, for businesses and teams looking for additional organizational capabilities, there are subscription plans available ranging from $6 to $18 USD/month.

4. Keynote (for Mac users)

Source: Screenshot from Keynote

For Apple users, Keynote is a presentation tool designed exclusively for your Apple devices and is available on macOS, iOS and iPadOS. Keynote is known for its sleek and intuitive interface, reflecting Apple’s design aesthetics.

It offers visually appealing templates, animations, and transitions, allowing users to create polished and modern-looking presentations. Keynote users can seamlessly incorporate images, videos, audio files and interactive elements into their presentations. The presentation software also includes a wide range of animations and transitions, enabling smooth and cinematic effects that bring slides to life.

Keynote presentations is known for its seamless integration within the Apple ecosystem. It works effortlessly with other Apple applications, allowing users to combine different elements and data from various sources. Presentations created in Keynote can be easily shared and accessed across Apple devices, ensuring a consistent experience for both the presenter and the audience.

Additionally, Keynote as a presentation software offers collaborative editing capabilities, enabling multiple users to work on the same presentation simultaneously. Users can share their presentations with others, who can then provide feedback, make edits and contribute to the project in real-time.

That said, since Keynote is exclusively designed for Apple devices, it may not be accessible or fully compatible with non-Apple platforms. Hence, sharing presentations created in Keynote with users on different platforms may require exporting or converting the files to a compatible format, which can lead to potential formatting issues or loss of certain features.

Mac users, creatives, professionals, educators and anyone who wants visually stunning presentations.

Elegant templates, advanced multimedia options, cinematic transitions and collaborative editing.

Keynote is available for free on Apple devices, including macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. As it comes pre-installed with these devices, users can access and use Keynote without any additional cost.

Source: Screenshot from Prezi

Known for its distinctive zooming presentation style, Prezi revolutionizes the way you create presentations by offering a visually engaging and non-linear approach.

One of Prezi’s renowned features is its unique zooming and transition effects, allowing presenters to navigate through a virtual canvas seamlessly. This dynamic presentation style enhances engagement by creating a sense of movement and spatial relationship between ideas.

Moreover, Prezi offers cloud-based collaboration, making it easy for multiple users to collaborate on a presentation in real-time. This feature facilitates seamless teamwork, enabling users to collectively develop and refine their presentations regardless of their physical locations.

Prezi presentations also include interactive elements, such as embedded videos, images and hyperlinks. Utilizing these elements would allow presenters to create interactive presentations and engage their audience on a deeper level.

However, Prezi has a steeper learning curve compared to more traditional presentation tools. Users may require some time and practice to become proficient in navigating the canvas, creating smooth transitions and effectively utilizing all of Prezi’s features.

Creative professionals, educators and individuals who want to create visually captivating and non-linear presentations.

Zooming presentation style, interactive elements, cloud-based collaboration and reusable templates.

For individuals & business professionals

Basics: Create and share up to 5 visual projects for free

Standard: Starting at $5 USD/month

Plus: Starting at $12 USD/month

Premium: Starting at $16 USD/month

Teams: Starting at $19 USD/month per user (billed annually)

For Students & Educators

EDU Plus: Starting at $3/month

EDU Pro: Starting at $4/month

EDU Teams: Enquiry required with Prezi sales team

Source: Screenshot from Canva

One of the great things about Canva as a presentation tool is its user-friendly interface, which makes it super easy to use even if you’re not a design pro. You can simply drag and drop elements to create your presentation slides without breaking a sweat.

Canva’s vast collection of pre-designed templates caters to various purposes and occasions. The availability of these templates allows users to jumpstart their design projects with professional-looking layouts, saving valuable time and effort.

For businesses or educational institutions working on group projects or marketing campaigns, Canva also offers collaboration features that enhance teamwork and co-creation. Users can invite team members or clients to collaborate on a design project, enabling real-time feedback and efficient design processes.

While Canva does offer some basic slide transition effects, the range and customization options for transitions may be limited compared to dedicated presentation software like Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote.

Individuals, students, small businesses and startups seeking professional-looking marketing materials and presentations.

Extensive template options, intuitive drag-and-drop interface, ability to share presentations as downloadable files or online links and built-in multimedia support for adding videos , images, and audio to slides.

The free version of Canva provides a wide range of features and resources, with the only limitations being the use of premium resources that can be acquired either through separate purchases or by subscribing to the Canva Pro plan. The Canva Pro plan is available for $12.99 USD per month or $119.99 USD per year.

For collaborative purposes, Canva Teams is available at a price of $14.99 USD per month, with an additional charge of $14.99 USD per month for every team member beyond the initial five.

7. Adobe Express

Source: Screenshot from Adobe Express

As part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, Adobe Express is a presentation software that offers a simplified and user-friendly interface. With its intuitive interface, Adobe Express allows users to create visually stunning presentations with ease. Users can access both design professionals and individuals without extensive design experience.

One of the notable advantages of Adobe Express is its seamless integration with other Adobe products, such as Photoshop and Illustrator. This integration enables users to leverage the power of these industry-standard design tools within their presentations, providing access to advanced design features and a vast library of high-quality assets.

Adobe Express is also great for creating interactive presentations. Its extensive multimedia support, allowing users to incorporate videos, audio files and interactive elements to keep your audience engaged.

That being said, some of its advanced features may require familiarity with other Adobe tools, which can be challenging for beginners who are not already familiar with the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem.

Designers, creative professionals, individuals and businesses seeking professional-grade presentation design.

Professional design options, multimedia support, easy integration with other Adobe products and cloud-based collaboration.

While the free version for Adobe Express includes all the core features, users can gain access to premium templates and features when they upgrade to the Premium subscription for $9.99 USD/month.

For businesses and teams, Adobe provides tailored plans that include additional features like collaboration tools, centralized license management and enterprise-level support. The pricing for these plans depends on the number of licenses and the specific needs of the organization. It’s best to consult with Adobe or their authorized resellers to get accurate pricing information for business plans.

8. Haiku Deck

Source: Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck is all about visual storytelling, offering a simple and minimalist approach to designing presentations. With its clean and minimalist templates, Haiku Deck makes it a breeze to create presentations that focus on eye-catching images.

Haiku Deck is a user-friendly presentation software that offers a straightforward and intuitive interface. It’s designed to be easily accessible on both computers and mobile devices, giving you the flexibility to create quick and practical presentations on the go.

Plus, the presentation tool seamlessly integrates with image search engines, making it a piece of cake to find and add high-quality visuals that enhance the overall look and feel of your presentation.

However,if you’re looking for advanced features like complex animations or interactive elements, you might not find them here. While the clean and minimalist templates are gorgeous, they don’t offer as much flexibility for customization.

Educators, individuals and professionals who appreciate the power of visual storytelling and minimalist design.

Image-focused templates, easy-to-use interface, cloud-based collaboration and seamless image search integration.

Haiku Deck offers a free trial that allows you to experience the software with one presentation. If you decide to upgrade, they have different pricing plans available. Additionally, Haiku Deck also offers special pricing to qualifying nonprofit organizations, students and educators.

The Pro plans are available at $9.99 per month with annual billing or $19.99 per month with monthly billing. For those seeking advanced features, the Premium plans are priced at $29.99 per month.

Source: Screenshot from Ludus

Ludus brings together the best of both worlds by offering the traditional slide deck format along with interactive and multimedia elements that take presentations to a whole new level.

The presentation software is rich in multimedia capabilities, allowing users to seamlessly integrate videos, audio and elements to create interactive presentations that captivate the audience.

Ludus offers unique presentation tools that enable users to incorporate interactive elements like clickable buttons, hover effects and embedded web content, enabling a more dynamic and engaging presentation experience.

This makes Ludus a great choice for designers, creatives, marketing professionals, and anyone who wants to create interactive and visually appealing presentations that leave a lasting impression. Collaboration is another area where Ludus excels. The software offers collaborative editing, allowing multiple users to edit presentations simultaneously.

However, it’s worth mentioning that Ludus has relatively limited templates compared to some other presentation software options. While the customization options are vast, users might find themselves starting from scratch or investing more time in creating the initial design. Additionally, for individuals new to the platform, there might be a learning curve involved in fully harnessing all of Ludus’ features and capabilities.

Designers, creatives, marketing professionals and anyone looking for interactive and visually appealing presentations.

Interactive and multimedia elements, collaborative editing, extensive design customization, real-time comments and feedback.

Ludus offers a starting price of $14.99 USD/month per user for teams consisting of 1-15 members with all features included. For larger teams requiring additional licenses, Ludus encourages reaching out for more information on pricing. It’s worth noting that Ludus provides a 30-day free trial, allowing users to explore the platform and its features before committing to a subscription.

10. Slidebean

Source: Screenshot from Slidebean

Slidebean offers a unique approach to slide design by automating the process and simplifying the creation of well-designed presentations. With its automation features, Slidebean streamlines the design process, saving users valuable time and effort.

The highlight of Slidebean is its automated slide design functionality. Using artificial intelligence (AI), the software generates visually appealing slide layouts based on the content provided. Slidebean also offers collaboration options, allowing multiple team members to work on a presentation simultaneously.

Another advantage of Slidebean is its AI-powered content suggestions. The software intelligently analyzes the presentation content and provides helpful suggestions for improving the messaging and overall flow. This feature ensures that users can effectively communicate their ideas and engage their audience.

Unlike Ludus, Slidebean may not cater to users who prefer extensive customization and control over their slide layouts. Certain advanced features are only available in premium plans, which may require an upgrade for those seeking more advanced functionality.

Startups, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and individuals who want to create polished presentations quickly.

Automated design, content suggestions, collaboration tools and pitch deck-specific templates.

The free version offers limited functionalities, but it provides a sufficient opportunity to experience Slidebean’s capabilities and understand its workflow. However, to export your presentation and access advanced features, upgrading to a higher plan is necessary.

The all-access plan is available at $228 USD/year, while additional services such as startup expert consultations and pitch deck and financial model services are available for separate purchase.

11. Beautiful.ai

Source: Screenshot from Beautiful.ai

Beautiful.ai aims to simplify the process of creating visually stunning and professional-looking slides with minimal effort. One of the notable strengths of the presentation software is its collection of smart templates and design suggestions.

Their templates are intelligently designed to provide visually appealing layouts, saving users valuable time and effort in creating presentations. Unlike other types of presentation software, the platform leverages AI-powered technology to offer layout optimization, ensuring that slide elements are positioned optimally for maximum impact.

Beautiful.ai also offers time-saving features that streamline the presentation creation process. The software automatically adjusts the layout and formatting as users add or modify content, eliminating the need for manual adjustments.

As the software provides smart templates and design suggestions, customization options may be somewhat limited. Users may find that certain design elements or layout adjustments are not as flexible as they would like.

Individuals, startups and professionals who want visually impressive presentations without extensive design skills.

Smart templates, automated design suggestions, AI-powered layout optimization and easy slide customization.

Beautiful.ai provides two subscription options for users. The Pro plan is available at a monthly cost of $12 USD /month, while the Team plan is priced at $40 USD/month. Both plans are billed annually. You can also subscribe to the monthly subscription for ad hoc projects and gain access to all pro features for $45 USD/month (billed monthly).

There is a 14-day free trial period that allows users to thoroughly test and explore the features and capabilities of the tool before committing to a subscription.

Source: Screenshot from Pitch

Pitch is a modern video presentation maker that stands out with its collaborative and iterative approach to presentation creation.

One of the key strengths of Pitch lies in its collaborative features. The presentation software provides robust collaboration tools that allow team members to work together in real-time. This makes it easy for users to collaborate on presentation content, provide feedback and make revisions collectively.

Pitch boasts an extensive slide library, offering a wide range of professionally designed templates to choose from. These templates serve as a foundation for creating visually stunning presentations while providing a starting point that saves time and ensures a polished look.

The availability of diverse templates caters to different industries, topics and presentation styles, allowing users to create presentations for their needs.

Seamless integration with project management tools is another advantage of Pitch. The software integrates well with popular project management platforms, enabling users to streamline their workflow by syncing tasks, deadlines and other project-related information with their presentations.

For teams, startups and businesses that value collaboration, feedback and the ability to iterate on their presentations

Collaboration tools, version control, project management integration and template library.

Users can create unlimited presentations and enjoy the starter plan for free or upgrade to Pro for $8 USD/month, billed annually.

There you have it — the top 12 best presentation tools for the year! Whether you value simplicity, collaboration, automation, design versatility or data visualization, these presentation software examples have a solution out there for your future presentations.

Got your mind set on your to-go presentation software? Great! Now it’s time to start creating your slides and ace that presentation.

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Microsoft PowerPoint is a great tool for creating professional-looking slideshows and presentations. However, the home version requires a Microsoft 365 subscription, and the free mobile app locks some features behind the sub as well. Fortunately, there are plenty of free PowerPoint software alternatives out there. Here's a look at some of the best options and how they compare to PowerPoint.

Best Direct PowerPoint Replacement: Google Slides

Very similar to PowerPoint.

Free to use.

Compatible with PowerPoint.

An internet connection is strongly recommended.

Where there's a need for an app, Google seems to have it covered. Google Slides is its PowerPoint equivalent and it's a lot like Microsoft's app. Very simple to use and offering full compatible with the alternative, you can access Google Slides via your browser and easily create custom presentations with audio and your own images, all entirely for free. It also offers great live collaboration features for teamwork purposes.

The only minor downside is you need an internet connection to at least get started but the service does also work offline with presentations syncing once you're back online.

Best for Designers: Prezi

Video editing included.

Can easily make data visualizations.

Stylish user interface.

Free option is pretty basic.

No support.

Presentations viewable by all.

Prezi is a great option for designers who have a vision but aren't technically proficient at achieving it. Its simple drag and drop interface makes it a breeze to organize your presentation just how you want it. Backed up with other Prezi apps that mean you can create videos or more stylish data visualizations than simple graphs, it's ideal for industries that are more visual than others. A series of pre-made templates makes it all the more attractive.

Prezi isn't as free as it seems though. To get the full wealth of features like advanced image editing, offline access, and narration, you'll need to pay a subscription fee.

Best for Quick Results: Zoho Show

A theme for every occasion.

Quick to create something.

Intuitive interface.

Need to be online to use it.

Simple to use yet highly effective is the sweet spot for quick results, and that's certainly the case with Zoho Show. You might need to be online to use it, but it's worth the connection with an intuitive user interface that adapts to what you need to do. You can easily embed videos, tweets, and images into your presentations with some neat transition effects making things more interesting.

Collaboration tools further sweeten the deal with annotation features meaning you can work together well as a team and fast.

Best for Animations: Powtoon

Great animation tools.

Easy to use.

Can export to social media platforms.

Branding applied on free presentations.

Best for Mass Branding: Renderforest

Plenty of options for expanding branding.

300MB cloud storage for free.

Unlimited exports.

Exports can be low in quality.

Content is watermarked.

RenderForest thinks of itself as more than just a PowerPoint alternative. It tackles everything you might need from creating logos to designing promo videos, music visualizations, landing pages, and websites. That's on top of its extensive animations and intro creation. That might sound intimidating but the service keeps things simple, so it won't take you long to mock something up and develop it.

Stick to the free version and there are some restrictions such as branding on your videos, lower quality logos, and so forth, but it's a solid start for an otherwise entirely free service. In particular, if you just need to concoct a quick 3-minute video for a presentation, RenderForest has you covered.

Best for Non-Designers: Visme

Plenty of templates to choose from.

Can set up five projects at once.

Charts and widgets support.

Limited cloud storage.

Visme branding on free plan.

Been asked to make a presentation and you don't know where to start? Visme is perfect for those that aren't well versed with graphics as it offers an extensive template library. The free plan limits your options a little but there are still some decent choices here. In addition, the service provides cool ways to make stats and data look exciting thanks to chart and widget support. It's all done through a simple drag and drop interface too that makes it super simple to add video and embed other content.

Just bear in mind that storage options are a little limited and everything on the free plan will contain Visme branding.

Best for Office Replacement: LibreOffice Impress

Full program rather than browser-based.

Extensive support.

Similar experience to Microsoft Office.

Requires installation.

Not quite as intuitive as alternatives.

LibreOffice is a popular free alternative to Microsoft Office, so it makes sense to use LibreOffice Impress if you want the closest experience to Microsoft's package. Unlike most of the others here, you need to install LibreOffice on your PC or Mac which means it's no good for Chromebooks or moving between different systems. However, in exchange, you get an intuitive experience that makes it simple to create slideshows, whether you're handing them out to a class or conference afterwards, or simply projecting them on screen.

Bear in mind you have to seek out templates yourself though which may be off-putting for the least technically minded user out there.

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Best for Apple Users: Keynote

Simple to use.

Apple Pencil support.

Cloud based as well as app based.

App is only on Apple devices.

Keynote is Apple's direct competitor to Microsoft PowerPoint and it's a great alternative, especially if you're a Mac user. With app support for iOS and Mac, it takes seconds to get started. Alternatively, PC users can use Keynote via the iCloud website and easily work across multiple devices.

One of the best features is the ability to use the Apple Pencil on an iPad to create diagrams or illustrations making it great for skilled artists. As well as that, Apple provides plenty of convenient templates for personal and professional projects.

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The 10 Best Presentation Software for 2023: Complete Guide

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There are literally hundreds of presentation software tools in the market today and keeping track is getting increasingly hard. Most of them have been optimized for a specific purpose or type of user from a wide range of possibilities, and it's very likely that THE ideal tool for you is actually one that you've never heard of.

We've created this best presentation software list to shed some light and to give you a comprehensive presentation software list to ensure you make the right call in the platform you select. This article is the result of several weeks of research and review of 50+ presentation tools currently available on the web.

What is a presentation software?

A presentation software is defined as an application built to display information in the form of a slide show. Any presentation tool must have three fundamental functions:

‍ A text editor: to input the contents of the presentation.
‍ An import function: to insert and manipulate images and other content.
‍A slide-show or presenter mode: that displays the content in a nice, formatted way, sometimes synced in real time with the presenter across devices.

Slide shows often consist of a combination of text, video, images and charts. Their primary function is displaying clear, readable and summarized data to an audience.

Most presentations are shared and presented on a larger screen or through a digital projector. In rare occasions, slide presentations are printed out as a replacement for text documents, but this is a really inefficient way to review data, that Garr Reynolds calls ‘ PresDocs ’ (Garr Reynolds is the author of Presentation Zen, one of the most important go-to reference for successful presentations).

Related Read: What Makes Up the Best Presentation Templates?

What makes a good presentation tool?

The functions and results of presentation programs have evolved significantly in the past decades, since the original launch of ‘Presenter’ (the PowerPoint predecessor) in 1984. In 1987 PowerPoint 1.0 was released for the Macintosh and it started a revolution in the way we prepare and consume content in meetings.

For the purposes of this article we are going to classify all presentation tools using 3 variables that we consider extremely important:

Ease of use: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This rating looks at the learning curve, or time required to learn to use the platform. An easy to use interface is fundamentally important to ensure that users feel confortable working with the platform and doesn’t require complex training to take advantage of its features. This also accounts for the average time it takes to build a presentation.

Customization: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The ability to customize a presentation to the smallest details. This varies depending on the number of advanced features in the platform, like the ability to set different transitions to each slide, the ability to add customized elements or to design/code the final outcome of the slides to the last font size and color code.

Final result: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

This indicator looks at the outcome of a finished presentation, assuming the user is an average person with basic design skills and intermediate knowledge on the tool itself.

Best PowerPoint Alternatives (Death by Power Point)

As we mentioned before, PowerPoint is the most used presentation builder in the market today. It is distributed by Microsoft as part of their Office Suite, which is estimated to have over 500 million users worldwide. Microsoft has also revealed that approximately 35 Million presentations are delivered every single day, that’s a staggering 400 presentations per second.

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But still, PowerPoint’s popularity has decreased significantly in the past few years. Their boring presentation templates, the large learning curve and complexity as well as the terrible slides many users end up making have started the Death to PowerPoint movement.

What presentation software is better than PowerPoint?

For this section, we summarize the top PowerPoint alternatives and examples, that is, presentation tools that work in a fairly similar manner and that provide similar (but significantly better) results. If you are an avid PowerPoint user, then migrating to these platforms should be rather easy for you.

Best 10 presentation software alternative list for 2023

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1- SLIDEBEAN PRESENTATION SOFTWARE

Ease of use: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Fantastic!

Customization: ★ ★ ★ ★ - Very Good

Final result: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Fantastic!

SLIDEBEAN RESENTATION SOFTWARE is first in the list of best presentation software tools

Slidebean is an online presentation tool that uses artificial intelligence to design beautiful slides. Simply add content blocks to your presentation without worrying about formatting. Slidebean’s AI finds the best possible design for every element on your slide. This level of automation allows you to create a professional looking presentation in a fraction of the time it normally takes on PowerPoint.

When comparing it to PowerPoint, Slidebean’s interface is much easier to learn and work with, and it lets you create fantastic looking presentations really fast. The platform is web based and allows you to export to both PowerPoint and PDF format. It also lets you track viewer interactions and activity from people you share your slides with!

Slidebean also has a unique advantage which is a rich gallery of presentation outline templates. These are pre-filled decks that work for numerous purposes, like business proposals, classroom decks, thesis presentations and even startup pitch decks : all you need to do is import them and fill in your content.

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2- apple keynote.

Ease of use: ★ ★ ★ - OK

Customization: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Fantastic!

Final result: ★ ★ ★ ★ - Very Good

APPLE KEYNOTE is second in the list of best presentation software tools

Keynote is what PowerPoint should have been all along. Apple's version of the popular presentation tool has improved significantly in the last few years, and has recently included a cloud version that works on any browser on any computer (as long as you have at least one Apple device).

Keynote is basically an improved PowerPoint, it offers the same approach to creating slides, but offers nice and clean customizable templates, a simple interface and great details like smart guides.

The biggest issue with Keynote is the long learning process that it requires. Similar to Microsoft's tool, you'll need to sit down for a few hours to learn to use the platform, and another larger set of hours to make a professional presentation.

More info about Apple Keynote is available here

Final result: ★ ★ ★ - OK

Visme is a web based platform for building presentations. Their familiar interface is similar to PowerPoint, but they have successfully simplified a complex UI to a nicer and more understandable navigation. Still, you'll need to spend a few hours to get a good grasp of where all the customization options can be found.

VISME is third in the list of best presentation software tools

The platform offers an interesting (but certainly limited) gallery of images, but they succeed at delivering beautiful infographic elements (which they call ‘Charts and Graphs’) that you can use to add some color and make your slides much more dynamic.

You can read more about them here . ‍

4- GOOGLE SLIDES

Customization: ★ ★ - Passable

GOOGLE SLIDES is fourth in the list of best presentation software tools

Google's version of PowerPoint is hosted as part of the Google Apps suite, that you can access from Google Drive or from Google Apps for Work. Sadly, their presentation builder feels like a limited version of PowerPoint, with less features, limited fonts and very little customization options.

Still, Google's platform is available for free, has a lot of integrations and probably one of the best online collaboration systems out there. Checking it out is easy, just visit your Google Drive.

You can find a more detailed review here .

5- FLOWVELLA

Ease of use: ★ ★ - Passable

Customization: ★ ★ ★ - OK

FLOWVELLA is fifth in the listo of best presentation software tools

Flowvella is available on the Mac App Store as a desktop application. It provides a simple interface (certainly cleaner than Microsoft PowerPoint and somewhat similar to Apple Keynote) and some very nice design templates, which set good grounds so you can start building a nice looking set of slides on top of them. This is by far their biggest strength! If you want to start from scratch, however, you might feel a little lost creating something that looks good.

We found, however, that the oversimplified interface makes some basic options hard to find, like changing the color of a shape. Also, while running as a desktop app it still requires an Internet connection to download some elements, which can lead to a slower performance than a 100% desktop tool.

Update: We also read recently that they launched a tvOS app for the new AppleTV, making them, as far as we know, the first presentation tool to leverage the new platform.

You can find more details here .

Customization: ★ ★ ★ -

Pitch is sixth in the list of best presentation software tools

Pitch offers an innovative solution for fast-paced teams looking to quickly create effective, stylish presentations. With a combination of productivity features and design elements, Pitch makes it easy to get professional results—quickly

You can find more information about them here .

Final result: ★ ★ ★ ★ - Very Good!

CANVA is seventh on the list of best presentation software tools

The premise of Canva is an ‘amazingly easy graphic design software'. It lets you create anything from print design to banners and presentations. They provide an easy to use interface with a huge selection of pre-built designs that you can modify to your liking.

These pre-built elements let you quickly draft a nice presentation even if you have no design skills, but it does require you to drag and drop and arrange the content of your slide, which can become time consuming.

Canva has been gaining significant popularity in the last few years, especially after they hired Guy Kawasaki as a Chief Evangelist. Their platform is beautiful, you can find more about them here .

8- HAIKU DECK

Ease of use: ★ ★ ★ ★ - Very Good

HAIKU DECK is eighth in the list of best presentation software tools

Haiku Deck launched as an iPad app in 2011. They made a big bet towards mobile productivity and came up with a solid iPad application that allowed you to create slides in less time than the then-only alternative of Keynote for iOS.

Haiku Deck has a nice set of custom templates that you can use as a guideline for your slides, and their content input system is clear and easy to learn.

Still, we believe their approach that focused on mobile devices could only take them so far and they've since been working on a web version of their platform that works for any computer. As we mentioned, the personal computer continues to be a much more efficient productivity platform.

Slides is ninth on the list of best presentation software tools

'Slides' is a nice website that lets you create and share presentations online. Formerly slides(dot)io and slid(dot)es, they finally settled for slides(dot)com. This startup was founded by Hakim El Hattab and Owen Bossola in Stockholm, Sweden, and it makes use of the reveal.js framework that we mentioned above.

Slides has a nice web interface that encourages you to create a nice and clean presentations, however, it still depends on the user’s ability to manipulate the elements and arrange them in a nice style. Still, their pre-defined formats and their grid system help guide you to a better result.

The platform also allows for custom HTML and CSS coding, which lets experienced users with coding skills, customize their templates even further.

Some more info about them here .

Ease of use: ★ - Bad

PREZI is tenth on the list of best presentation software tools

Prezi has been around for years and they have had a huge head start compared to any other online presentation tool out there. Their unique zoom styling makes it immediately obvious to the audience that they are looking at a Prezi deck.

Prezi has the advantage of allowing you to create really stunning interactive presentations if you know how to leverage their zoomable, infinite canvas. However, this can become a double edge sword if users overuse the feature and come up with a presentation that is literally capable of making people dizzy.

Still, Prezi's biggest weakness is on its ease of use. There's a long learning curve towards dominating their interface and even if you do, you need to be a designer to make a great presentation on the platform.

This is a huge company that is not going away anytime soon. With 50+ million users, they have proven the world wants and needs a PowerPoint alternative, and we have huge respect for them for doing so.

More information about them here .

Which one to pick?

In the world of presentation software, there's a big bunch to pick from. It's kind of like a crowded market with lots of options. And guess what? The best one for you might not even be on your radar.

Our list is here to help you out. We've put together this bunch of presentation software choices after digging into over 50 of them on the internet. We're here to give you the scoop on what's out there, so you can pick the one that suits you best.

Now, remember, presentation software is like your helper to make cool slideshows. These slideshows could be for showing stuff to people, like at school or work. These helpers, or software, should be good at a few things: putting words and pictures on slides, making things look nice, and showing your stuff in a cool way on a screen.

The options we've found have different things they're good at. Some use fancy computer thinking (AI) to make your slides look great without you doing much. Others let you customize your slides a lot, which is nice if you want them to look exactly like you want. And finally, how your slides look when you're done is super important too.

Picking the right presentation tool is a bit like picking the best tool for a job. You wouldn't use a hammer to write a story, right? So, whether you want something easy, something that lets you be creative, or something that gives you good results, our list has got you covered. Your choice will help you make cool presentations that people will remember. Our recommendation is to give Slidebean a try, but is up to you to consider the options. So, pick smart and happy presenting.

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The best free presentation software makes it simple and easy to create presentations as an alternative to subscribing to Microsoft PowerPoint.

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1. Best overall 2. Best for speed 3. Best for functionality 4. Best for collaboration 5. Best user interface 6. FAQs 7. How we test

While PowerPoint is the market leader when it comes to presentation software, some people may be unwilling to subscribe to a Microsoft 365 subscription, especially if they don't expect to need to use it very often.

However, there are plenty of great alternatives to PowerPoint available for free that you can use. While these won't have the same advanced features as PowerPoint, they still offer a very competent platform to design most any presentation that you need.

To help you choose, we've listed below the best free presentation software currently available.

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Prezi turns the traditional approach to presentations on its head. Instead of creating slide after slide, this presentation software gives you a single giant canvas. You can add blocks of text or images, or even create miniature slides. During your presentation, you can seamlessly fly around the canvas and zoom in to look at individual chunks of content.

For how complex Prezi seems, it’s impressively simple to use the platform. The only major divergence from Microsoft PowerPoint is that you need to add animated paths from one part of the canvas to another. The tools for this are fairly straightforward, especially if you’ve ever used an animation or video editing software.

Of course, this type of presentation structure isn’t always ideal. Prezi makes it hard to visualize structured data like financials, which can make it difficult to use in business applications. Some viewers also might not appreciate the fly-around animation style that’s inherent to the presentation software.

Read our full Prezi review .

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Canva is perfect for making speedy presentations right in your web browser. This software offers a handful of free layouts to help you get your slideshow started, and it’s easy to customize the templates to fit your needs. There isn’t a huge variety of content elements to add to your presentation, but Canva makes up for this with a searchable library of more than 1 million images you can use.

Your Canva presentations live online, which makes it extremely easy to collaborate. You can invite colleagues to edit your slideshow (although simultaneous editing is not supported) or seamlessly share your finished presentation. However, beware that Canva can’t import presentations from Microsoft Powerpoint or export finished work to a Powerpoint-editable format.

Read our full Canva review .

3. LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free alternative to Microsoft Office, and it includes a Powerpoint equivalent called Impress with nearly all of the same functionality. The only big difference you’ll find between the two slideshow creation tools is the LibreOffice lacks some modern features like built-in collaboration and integration with Microsoft OneDrive.

However, Impress does have a few advantages of its own. The software can import files from Keynote, the default presentation software on Mac computers. Plus, there are hundreds of free templates that you can download for free. Even better, there’s no limit on what fonts you can use with Impress, so it’s easy to change the look of your presentation from what Powerpoint typically allows.

On the whole, LibreOffice Impress is about as close as it gets to simply replicating Microsoft Powerpoint for free.

Read our full LibreOffice review .

4. Google Slides

Google Slides is part of Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), and it does a nice job of matching a number of PowerPoint’s capabilities. This free presentation software supports embedding videos, creating diagrams, and adding animations to your slides. While the selection of templates is somewhat limited, you can easily import hundreds of additional templates for free or create your own.

Even better, Google Slides supports the collaboration tools users have come to expect from Google. Multiple people can work on a slideshow simultaneously, and there’s a built-in group chat so you can keep track of what everyone is doing. It’s also nice that you can play your presentation in presenter mode, which allows you to preview how it will look to your audience and rehearse timing.

The only downside to Google Slides is that bloated slideshows can experience some loading delays. Also beware that while you can move between Slides and Powerpoint, the conversion often messes with the layout of your slides.

Read our full Google Slides review .

5. WPS Office Free

WPS Office Free is a Microsoft Office look-alike that fully support PowerPoint files without any layout issues during import. The WPS Presentation tool has all of the same capabilities of PowerPoint, including tons of animations, slide transitions, content effects, and video embedding. The selection of included presentation templates is also very impressive for a free software.

One of the best things about this presentation software is that the user interface will feel incredibly familiar if you’re coming from Microsoft. All of the tools are displayed in a top ribbon, with your slides shown on the left side of the screen for easy navigation. It’s simple to display your presentation right from WPS Presentation, which means there’s no unexpected troubleshooting when it’s time to show off your work.

There’s not much to dislike about WPS Presentation. However, keep in mind that the software is supported by ads. Some users find the ads annoying, but they’re not overly in the way.

Read our full WPS Office Free review .

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When deciding which alternative to PowerPoint to download and use, first consider what your actual needs are, as sometimes free platforms may only provide basic options, so if you need to use advanced tools you may find a paid platform is much more worthwhile. Additionally, free and budget software options can sometimes prove limited when it comes to the variety of tools available, while higher-end software can really cater for every need, so do ensure you have a good idea of which features you think you may require.

How we test the best free presentation software

To test for the best free presentation software we first set up an account with the relevant software platform, whether as a download or as an online service. We then tested the service to see how the software could be used for different purposes and in different situations. The aim was to push each software platform to see how useful its basic tools were and also how easy it was to get to grips with any more advanced tools.

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13+ Best Presentation Software to Bid Farewell to PowerPoint

Attention, all presenters, innovators, and knowledge sharers! Brace yourselves, because the era of boring and forgettable presentations is officially over.

We all know that presentations are the beating heart of every business, work endeavor, and educational pursuit. And let’s face it, captivating your audience is an art form that can make or break your success.

Plain slides filled with text and bullet points will no longer do the job! To grab your audience’s attention, you need to shake things up a little.

Luckily, we’ve done the legwork and compiled the ultimate list of the best presentation software in one place to help you make creative and captivating presentations.

No more dull slides. No more snooze-fest presentations.

By the time you’ll have finished reading this article, you’ll have discovered:

The 13 best online presentation tools to upgrade your presentations – their advantages and disadvantages.
How does each software compare to PowerPoint, and what are their unique features?
How to use each software to convert your ideas into strong narratives and keep your audience hooked.

Consider these presentation software gems as your trusty sidekicks, ready to transform your ideas into captivating narratives that will leave your audience begging for more.

So buckle up and join us as we explore each presentation software individually, unveiling the best presentation software for your unique needs. Let’s dive right in!

The Finest Online Presentation Tools to Try Now!

Imagine you have an important project coming up, and you need to create a cool presentation to share your ideas with others within a short amount of time. Instead of just plain slides, you can make your presentation awesome by using some really impressive online presentation tools – tools you may not have heard of before.

These tools make it easy to add pictures and videos and make your slides look super interesting as they take your regular presentation and turn it into something that will make everyone go, “Wow!”

So, let’s check out some of the best presentation software you can try right now to make your presentations stand out!

1. Renderforest

You can use Renderforest’s slideshow video maker online and completely free of charge to create videos, branding, presentations, and graphics.

If you upgrade to the lite version, you can enjoy an early-stage growth boost plan for promotional and explainer videos, powerful presentations, and graphics.

Now, if you choose to have the Pro plan, you can make use of advanced growth tools, the highest quality videos, outstanding designs, and a professional website.

For much larger projects, the Business plan gives you advanced-level solutions for teams and businesses to deliver high-end results for your campaigns.

The presentation software goes beyond the ordinary by providing you with a treasure trove of ready-made presentation templates that cater to every occasion, from personal projects to business endeavors. With just a few clicks, you can unlock a realm of visually stunning designs that are guaranteed to captivate your audience from the very first slide.

Extended Template Library

Whether you’re seeking to dazzle clients, engage students, or simply impress your peers, Renderforest has your back with an extensive library of slideshow video templates . From mesmerizing 3D animations to sleek corporate slideshows and whiteboard animations, the possibilities are limitless.

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Pre-Made Color Palettes

Give yourself a break from doing all the work of finding the perfect font and color palette for your presentation. Renderforest provides you with a large selection of ready-to-use, pre-designed sets that give your presentation a modern and professional look.

All color palettes align with the main design principles, so you can rest assured that your presentation is aligned.

Go to the left-side editor in your presentation template, open the color and font sections and click on your favorite mix.

GIFs, Stickers, Icons, and So Much More

Renderforest presentations are like a magic toolbox for making your presentations extra awesome. With it, you can do way more than just stick to regular pictures and words.

One of the best presentation software out there, Renderforest lets you sprinkle some fun into your slides by adding GIFs, which are short, moving pictures that can make your points pop! Not just that, you can throw in stickers and icons to make things more lively and interesting.

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All of these elements help you show your ideas without even saying a word.

Renderforest gives you all these tools to help you turn your presentation into a masterpiece that everyone will remember!

Premium Images

With Renderforest, you can access a treasure trove of amazing pictures through a royalty-free premium stock images library.

These are high-quality images that you can use in your presentations without worrying about any copyright stuff. It’s like having a secret stash of amazing pictures at your fingertips.

But here’s the exciting part – you can also bring pictures to the party! So, if you have some awesome photos you took on a family trip or nice shots you found on the internet. You can toss them into your presentation as well.

Ultimately, you have your gallery of pictures that makes your presentation uniquely yours. With Renderforest, you’re not just limited to what it provides – you can mix and match to create a presentation that tells your story in your style!

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Prezi is offered in three different subscription tiers, including access to all three main parts of the suite – Prezi Video, Prezi Design, and Prezi Present.

Prezi’s Standard plan costs just $5 per month, the Plus plan costs $15 per month, and the Premium plan costs $19 per month.

The presentation software is built from the ground up to remove as many of the traditional limitations imposed by web applications as possible and enable users to create stunning, rich presentations with minimal effort and design skills.

It doesn’t take long to get used to how Prezi works and where everything is located, including some of the more advanced features of the application.

Its price is quite attractive compared to most of its competition, too, making Prezi a great offer for you in general!

General Overview

Prezi is a feature-rich online presentation suite that aims to enable anyone to create stunning presentations, including those without any in-depth knowledge of design and related practices.

It comes with various advanced tools that can help you do pretty much anything you want with your presentation, and it doesn’t take a lot of time to get used to how everything works.

It’s important to note that Prezi does have some minor flaws in its UI, but those are mostly limited to features that aren’t used that often to begin with.

There are three main tiers to Canva subscriptions. You can use it completely free to design anything, on your own or in collaboration with others, and you can choose from 250,000+ templates.

However, there are a lot of wonderful templates that are labeled as premium, as well as the option to integrate your own Brand Kit, which can only be accessed when you upgrade to the Pro plan at $12.99 USD/month.

Canva for Teams includes all the features of Canva Pro but also allows large teams to collaborate easily and efficiently together, and it is priced at $29.99 USD/month.

The key selling point of Canva is how easy it is to use, even for people with no design background. It offers a range of design options, from social media posts to presentations, all in one place.

You can create professional-looking presentations at the tip of your fingers, especially with the newly released Magic Media™ apps that use AI to help you create consistent imagery.

Instead of wasting precious time scrolling through image libraries,you can try some of the AI image generator apps in the Canva Apps Marketplace. Simply type what you’d like to see, and watch it come to life.

Canva works as a web-based tool, so you don’t have to download it. It offers many ready-to-use templates and design elements like fonts, images, and illustrations.

You can either start from scratch or use these templates to create various designs, including social media graphics, presentations, flyers, and more. It also allows for collaboration, enabling multiple people to work on a project simultaneously.

Once you sign up, you can create designs by selecting a template or starting from scratch. You can then customize your design using the drag-and-drop editor, where you can easily add and adjust text, images, shapes, and other elements.

So, whether you’re one of the many small business owners, marketers, bloggers, or creative freelancers—Canva has something for everyone!

4. Google Slides

There are free trials available. For Personal and Free Business Starter plans, it is priced at $6 USD/month per user, for Business Standard, it is priced at $12 USD/month per user, while for Business Plus, it is priced at $18 USD/month.

Enterprises can contact Google to find out about pricing details for their needs.

Google Slides is very handy if many slideshows are required for certain projects. The presentation software acts as an easier alternative to PowerPoint because you don’t need to download anything in order to use Slides.

It’s as easy as going online and opening the program, while with PowerPoint, you need to download the program to start using it.

Google Slides is a cloud-based office suite that helps create, edit, and collaborate on presentations. It has features like themes and fonts, embedded videos, animations, and transitions.

The presentation software lets users create personalized presentations using ready-to-use templates with custom fonts and styles, color schemes, animations, transitions, and background images. If you’re a larget team, you can also upload files from Google Drive or Dropbox.

5. Microsoft Sway

Microsoft Sway is free to use for anyone with a Microsoft Account (Hotmail, Live, or Outlook.com).

This presentation tool dynamically adapts online to any screen and can be shared or co-edited with a URL.

It is best for people who are too occupied with work to spend time creating presentations, as it literally helps produce interactive reports, newsletters, presentations, and other personal stories in a matter of minutes, thanks to the help of AI.

Sway helps create presentations and other documentation in minutes by adding photos, videos, and other multimedia.

It’s connected to the Microsoft account, so the users can easily add files from OneDrive, or turn their Word or OneNote documents into a dynamic Sway.

6. Beautiful.ai

The Pro plan is for individuals and is priced at $12 USD/month. The Team plan is for team collaborations and starts at $40 USD/month, while the Enterprise plan boasts advanced security, support and control and require you to contact the sales team to get a quote.

Beautiful.ai saves you time and provides everything necessary for making great presentations.

You can use the right colors, font, and logo every time with its foolproof features, and when you sign up, the presentation software unlocks millions of modern images and icons that reflect your own brand guidelines. What else could you ask for?

With the Team Plan, you can also control your brand from one account and scale productivity across all departments of your organization.

Beautiful.ai is an AI presentation maker you can use to visualize your ideas easily. It offers 50+ beautifully designed customizable templates that are enhanced with presentation design best practices to keep your projects professional and clean. Besides, you can find and add stock images and icons from the image library.

7. Keynote (for Mac users)

The software comes free with most Apple devices.

This interactive business presentation software allows you to create engaging and dynamic slides, add charts and graphs to them, edit photos, and add effects to sharpen your project.

Now, you can remove backgrounds from supported images a lot more easily. You can even remove live videos or adjust them accordingly.

The software also lets you know when people join, edit, or comment on your collaborative presentations and lets you get in touch with your team using Messages and FaceTime.

Apple Keynote is the most successful competitor of PowerPoint among other Mac free presentation software solutions.

Access your presentations either online with iCloud, with a mobile app, or download a desktop version for Mac.

8. Haiku Deck

The Edu plan starts at $5 USD/month, Pro at $10 USD/month, and the Volume plan is at $100 USD/month.

Haiku Deck helps you focus on one idea at a time, letting you choose a powerful image from a library of 40M+ royalty-free photos and applying consistent formatting across your presentation in just one click.

All presentations you create with this software are hosted online and allow for easy audio narration recording and the ability to save as videos or export to PowerPoint/Keynote format for offline viewing and editing.

Haiku Deck is labeled as the “Instagram for pitch decks” by Mashable, for a good reason!

Even if you’re not a designer, the software helps you deliver presentations that connect with your listeners, spice up your social media feed, illustrate your blog, promote your product, inspire a movement, and more. It is centered around the best practices that presentation experts are after.

You can quickly design slides that don’t look like PowerPoint, and you can find related pictures to your keywords.

You can even view what other designs people have done on the same topic and use it as inspiration for your own presentation.

9. Slidebean

The Slidebean All-Access Advanced plan for founders starts at $149 USD/year, and this includes features such as pitch deck templates, unlimited fundraising kit, sharing and exporting decks, and tracking presentation views.

There is also the Slidebean Incorporation plan at $649 USD/year, which includes everything in the All-Access Advanced plan but allows businesses to incorporate their company in the US.

Slidebean offers everything you need for a successful creation process – images, icons, fonts, to name a few.

It is very easy to use and has beautiful graphic design elements. Even if you’re not a graphic designer, Slidebean makes your presentations look great.

It also helps you create pitch decks. Through its advanced analytics section, individuals can see which investors viewed their decks and how long they viewed each slide or whether the investor finished the deck, which is very helpful information to have on hand.

Slidebean is an easy-to-use and simple presentation software that provides professional templates to present your ideas with simple styling features.

Its target market includes startups, marketers, and small and medium-sized businesses that are trying to get their powerful ideas across to professional thinkers.

Streamline the process with the help of integrated automation features. Choose the templates depending on your field to simplify the creation even more. You can see insights into how users interact with the slides.

Visme is an all-in-one online presentation maker that offers custom, high-quality templates. Pick a template and customize it according to your needs, or create a presentation from scratch.

The tool offers 50+ charts and other data visualization tools, 120+ custom fonts, stock images, and vector icons. You can add website links, emails, and pop-ups. When your presentation is ready, share it online, embed it on your website, or download it.

11. SlideDog

There are 3 plans available. The first is $19/month per 2 seats, billed monthly, and you can cancel anytime. You also have a yearly plan at $99/month (1st year) per 2 seats, $79 2nd year with a 20% renewal discount. The last option is a lifetime purchase of $299 per 2 seats, where you only pay once and can access it forever.

SlideDog is a presentation software that lets its users create playlists from presentation files and easily switch between them.

The features include real-time sharing, interactive elements, and remote control with various devices to streamline the presentation process.

12. Zoho Show

Zoho Show is completely free for individuals, while larger teams and organizations are billed $2.70 USD/month.

The tool can be used by those who need to tell a story, such as educators, authors, and business owners, helping them create and publish presentations with stunning visuals in a short period.

Choose from a variety of integrated themes designed to fit all kinds of needs. Make your slides more interactive by adding transitions and animation, using charts, tables, images, videos, and more.

Zoho Show is a dedicated online presentation tool, simplistic and easily customizable. From creating and collaborating to broadcasting and publishing, you will surely find solutions to your every need.

The tool is also available on mobile devices. To access your presentations remotely on your smartphone, simply download the app and log in.

It also lets you import your existing PPTX, PPT, ODP, PPSX, and PPS files and edit them without any formatting issues.

Gamma offers three pricing plans. Upon signing up, you get 400 credits to test the Free plan with various features and create a few documents.

The Plus plan starts at $8/month, and you get to gain access to additional features like PDF export.

The Pro plan starts at $16/month, and you receive unlimited AI creation and advanced AI models.

Gamma takes just one prompt and a bit of refining to produce a beautiful presentation.

It uses the chatbot to improve existing slides, and you can incorporate live websites and applications into your presentations. It’s a great way to demonstrate your ideas in real time.

This is an opportunity to monitor how your creations perform and if they have the ability to engage your audience.

Gamma is an AI-powered tool that lets you create impressive and engaging presentations for anyone.

Besides creating your presentations, it also offers a great editing experience where you can improve your work simply by interacting with an AI chatbot.

There is a free trial available. The Personal plan for teams of up to 15 people starts at $14.99 USD/month, and the Enterprise plan for teams of 16 people and over requires you to contact Ludus directly for a quote.

Other than being incredibly easy to use, this tool is very intuitive, and presentations can be customized as you play around with unique fonts, drawings, code, interesting transitions, and much more.

Ludus combines creativity with simplicity. Ludus is more than a presentation tool; it is also a tool for communicating, collaborating, learning, and playing.

The presentation software has many features that designers are already familiar with. You can create anything without limitations, from fonts and graphics to blending modes.

It also allows you to integrate with Unsplash, GIPHY, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc., so you can add anything you want.

Ludus is a tool that allows you to create presentations with unlimited creative possibilities.

This presentation software will solve your problems regarding sharing, compatibility, collaboration, creativity, and more.

It is recommended for everyone to use, especially for creatives and designers. Everyone can use it, too, but it has a bit of a learning curve that is worth the time if you want to use it properly.

This app might be the solution to the problems that our presentation tools have nowadays. It is not restrictive, so you can let your imagination run wild and express your creativity.

This presentation tool is affordable, especially for big teams. With remote work on the rise, Ludus is a great presentation assistant to have nearby.

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And there you have it. The 13+ best presentation software that you should bear in mind if you’re thinking of trying something a little bit different to the software you’re used to hearing about all the time – PowerPoint.

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With a vast library of templates and the ability to add GIFs, stickers, icons, and even your own images, Renderforest empowers users to create visually stunning and uniquely personalized presentations.

Renderforest also provides different pricing plans, including a free option, making it accessible regardless of your need and budget.

So, stop wasting hours of your life trying to create your presentations manually and with predictable designs, and start taking your presentations to the next level with Renderforest, your ultimate presentation companion that goes beyond the ordinary!

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The 11 Best Presentation Software to Use in 2024

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The ability to effectively share ideas, illustrate a concept, and convince an audience is invaluable whether you’re a student or a C-level executive. These days, the presentation software you use to create presentations is just as important as your public-speaking skills.

On top of that, most companies have transitioned to remote work recently due to the current coronavirus situation, and now need to share their stories online through a virtual conference room with their distributed teams and external audience members.

That’s why we’ve come up with a list of some of the best presentation software available right now, so you can choose a compatible and innovative presentation maker that includes the best presentation tools to suit your specific needs.

Choose the best presentation software by weighing the pros and cons

You’ll see some of the most popular presentation apps: from free to paid subscription platforms, and slideshow applications to full-blown visual design presentation software with interactive features and more.

Each presentation software has its pros and cons, so it’s up to you to figure out which suits your needs best; consider the software learning curve, whether your company is made up of Mac users or Windows users and the software compatibility, if you need an enterprise account or free account, etc.

Let’s dive in!

1. Piktochart

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Piktochart is a presentation software that can create a variety of design visuals, from infographics to social media stories.

An area in which Piktochart shines is crafting unique presentations.

On Piktochart, users can choose from a wide range of professionally-designed presentation templates .

These custom templates include everything from monthly marketing reports to employee onboarding templates.

This broad selection of customizable templates is especially useful for those who don’t have much design experience or know-how but need to create a visually stunning unique presentation in a pinch.

Piktochart’s presentation maker also makes it easy to edit presentations and include design elements such as lists, timelines, comparisons, graphs, and different types of charts through drag-and-drop tools.

You can even make visual maps and interactive charts to keep your audience engaged throughout your presentation.

And if your company uses a Piktochart TEAM plan , you can enjoy the platform’s ability to store brand assets , color schemes, and bespoke templates. Here, replicating company-branded visuals is a breeze.

Piktochart comes with a free version but with certain limitations. Active visuals are capped at five per month and published visuals have a Piktochart watermark.

If you want features such as team template collaboration, project sharing, and annotated commenting, you’ll have to get a Team account. To sum it up:

Lots of professionally-designed templates
Good for both design professionals and non-professionals
Easy to store brand assets and bespoke templates for future presentations
Access presentation tools from anywhere via a web browser
Free presentation app version available
Might take some getting used to if you’re used to PowerPoint presentations

2. Microsoft PowerPoint

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Microsoft PowerPoint is often the first presentation software that comes to mind.

Once considered the “O.G.” and best presentation software available, it is still widely used and has a familiar interface—which means most users are comfortable with it.

This presentation app has everything you need to create a presentation: from animated transitions for interactive presentations to pre-installed fonts and graphic elements.

Users can also upload their own fonts, graphics, and images into their finished presentation.

Lastly, it’s available as part of the Microsoft Office software package; and you can work on your presentations via the web and mobile devices, for offline viewing as well as online.

However, PowerPoint is no longer considered the best presentation software, as it has very few templates to choose from, and these tend to fall quite flat compared to modern apps and software.

It’s easy to fall back into boring slideshow PowerPoint files if you don’t know what you’re doing.

And because most people use PowerPoint, you’re likely using the same template as the next guy.

As standalone presentation software, PowerPoint is pricey at US$139.99—and accessible through only one device unless you upgrade your package.

And while PowerPoint is primarily a slideshow application and presentation maker, its strengths are limited to this category.

So if you’re looking for the best presentation software, and bang for your buck for a robust presentation tool, you might want to look elsewhere.

Market leader in slideshow applications to create slides
Widely used and familiar interface for the presentation process
Reliable and usable on most devices as well as being a desktop app
Flat templates
Limitations with its standalone-presentation software price

3. Google Slides

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Google Slides is a slideshow application that is very similar to PowerPoint. But there are three main differences: it’s fully online (while also allowing for offline viewing), collaborative, and free.

The great thing about Google Slides (besides the fact that it’s completely free for anyone with a Google account) is that you can log on via your browser or through its official app.

You can access all Google Slides presentations from any device (mobile, tablet, and desktop), and share them with other people so you can collaborate in real-time.

Google Drive allows all your presentations to live on the cloud, accessible to all marketing and sales teams, with unparalleled ease of use.

And there’s no need to worry about disruptions as all changes are saved as they happen, as long as you have an active internet connection.

Additionally, anyone familiar with PowerPoint will be comfortable using Google’s iteration and likely be delighted by Google Drive and the slide library available.

It’s also a lot simpler, so even those new to presentation-making will find it easy to navigate.

However, some might find Google Slides too simple as it lacks the wealth of features available on PowerPoint.

These include embedding videos from sources other than YouTube, plus adding audio tracks and sound effects, limiting the ability to create unique interactive presentations.

Some users also encounter issues with downloading and exporting to different formats, including PowerPoint.

Some slides may even turn out completely different from the original version.

All in all, Google Slides is a great option for those who are looking for a free application and only need to create simple presentations.

The free plan supports professional presentations
Web-based and collaborative to create presentations
Simple and familiar interface for an online presentation software
Too simple for advanced presentation making
Difficult to export to other formats
Limited templates and customization options for interactive content

You could say Keynote is Apple’s version of PowerPoint. It’s also a slideshow application—but in typical Apple fashion, it comes with a sleek, minimalist interface and is considered one of the best presentation apps on the market.

There are 30 different themes to choose from, which serve as templates for those who need a quick fix. And it can do most of what PowerPoint can.

Keynote’s main perk is that it’s part of the Apple ecosystem.

That means it has built-in iCloud and Apple Watch support so users can control their presentation from their mobile device or even their wrists with just a click.

This presentation app comes pre-installed on most Mac devices. Otherwise, you can purchase it from the Apple store for just US$9.99 for mobile and US$19.99 for OS X.

The big downside is that Keynote is exclusive to Mac OS.

Non-Apple users can create, upload, and sync their own Keynote presentations through their iCloud Drive, but this presentation app is only truly helpful only for those who use multiple Apple devices.

And if you’re used to working on PowerPoint, you might find Keynote a bit confusing in the beginning, especially when editing presentations.

Sleek, minimalist interface
Free with most Apple devices
No access for PC and Android devices except through iCloud

5. SlideDog

Sliding away from straightforward slideshow applications and other presentation apps, SlideDog is a web-based multimedia presentation tool that lets users combine different types of media to create and edit presentations.

This includes everything from PowerPoint decks to videos and even PDFs that can all be played side by side without any awkward transitions.

It’s also extremely easy to customize a SlideDog presentation.

You just need to upload the files into the SlideDog web browser application, and then drag and drop them according to the order in which you want them to play.

You can control your presentations and playlists from another device, and audience members can view your slideshow on their devices by clicking a link.

SlideDog has a free presentation app version that provides all of the basic features.

However, live sharing and premium support are only available with a Pro account that costs US$99 per year, and not via the free version alone.

While SlideDog is technically considered presentation software, you can’t actually create presentations on it.

You can simply stitch together different pre-made presentations in various formats into what is essentially a playlist.

Lastly, SlideDog supports only Windows devices, so Apple and Linux users can’t use it.

Supports a lot of different media
Provides live-sharing
More dynamic compared to the usual slideshow presentation
Only collates media; doesn’t create them

6. Haiku Deck

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Ever come across presentations with size-eight fonts and blocks of indecipherable paragraphs on each slide?

You can avoid such an unfortunate scenario with Haiku Deck.

HaikuDeck is a web and mobile application that favors images over text.

It works by limiting the number of words users can put on each slide, and allowing them to search for images on their platform related to the slide’s main idea.

This makes it ideal for those who want to simplify their thoughts and let the images do all the talking.

Users have over 40 million royalty-free photos to choose from, plus dozens of simple slide layouts on the platform itself.

While this certainly simplifies the process of creating a visually rich presentation, it can be limiting for those who need to include more information into their slides.

It’s a great option for someone giving a TED Talk, for example.

But for others who need to pass on more facts and figures, having a built-in word limit might be too restrictive.

Simple and easy to use
Access to millions of royalty-free stock images
May be too simple for some
No Android support
Limited features

7. Prezi Business

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Among the other presentation software on this list, Prezi Business might be one of the most unique presentation tools.

Rather than offering a regular slideshow format, Prezi looks more like a 3D interactive mind map where viewers jump dynamically from one idea to the next.

You can zoom in on one “slide” and then zoom out for the next.

Prezi has over 100 templates to choose from and comes with a very simple interface and a drag-and-drop style of editing.

It’s compatible with both Mac and PC desktops as well as smartphones.

It’s also similar to a regular PowerPoint deck in that you can jump back and forth from one “slide” to the next.

And like SlideDog, you can send viewers the link to the presentation as you’re presenting.

Also, up to 10 people can work on a Prezi presentation at the same time, one of its main selling points.

This is great for collaboration, but having so many hands-on deck at once can get messy.

Dynamic and immersive presentations
Highly visual
Easy to use
May not be appropriate for all types of presentations

screenshot of ludus presentation software

In a world of slides and presentations, standing out is the key. Ludus brings the flair of graphic design into the world of presentations.

At its core, Ludus is the bridge between presentation tools and design software. It enables users to infuse their slides with the kind of design elements you’d typically find in advanced design platforms.

Not only can you import assets from design giants like Adobe, but its seamless integration with tools like Unsplash and Giphy makes sourcing visuals a breeze.

It’s a fairly affordable tool for all its features compared to the other paid options in this list, as users pay 12.49 euros monthly (if billed annually).

However, while Ludus’ robust design capabilities can elevate the look of your presentation, those unfamiliar with design tools might find there’s a learning curve.

Merges presentation creation with advanced design tools.
Seamless integration with popular design platforms and visual databases.
Offers a unique edge in presentation aesthetics.
Might be a tad overwhelming for non-designers
Can have a steeper learning curve for those used to more straightforward platforms

9. Slidebean

screenshot of slidebean presentation software

Crafting a compelling presentation demands not only compelling content but also a design that can captivate your audience. Enter Slidebean.

Slidebean offers an intelligent design solution, using AI to transform raw content into professionally styled presentations. This platform streamlines the design process, allowing you to focus on the message rather than fretting over aesthetics.

The basic plan is free and allows you to create a presentation. But if you want to share or download your presentations, as well as unlock the full suite of features, you’ll need to sign up for the All-Access plan priced at $199 per year.

While it provides a quick and efficient method to produce polished slides, it also offers features for sharing, collaboration, and viewer analytics, adding an edge to your presentation strategy.

However, for professionals who prioritize granular design control, the automated design might feel limiting at times.

AI-driven design ensures visually appealing presentations.
Features for collaboration and viewer insights.
Efficient design process reduces time and effort.
Might not offer the detailed design customization some users desire.
Automated choices may not always align with specific branding or style preferences.

10. ClearSlide

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Having great visuals to drive your point home can be the difference between getting a sale across the line or customers walking away. ClearSlide stands out in this area as a presentation tool for businesses laser-focused on boosting their sales and marketing game.

At its core, ClearSlide is all about leveling up business presentations. Whether you’re marketing a new product or tracking client engagement, it’s got tools that cater to every need.

Whether it’s a PowerPoint, a PDF, or something from Google Drive or Dropbox, ClearSlide makes it simple to upload and work with these files.

The unique edge? ClearSlide’s virtual meeting space pops open with just a click. It’s all about seamless, professional presentations without the hassle.

Beyond just slides, the platform dives deep into metrics and analytics, ensuring every presentation is backed by data-driven insights. And the tool is available for $35 per month, which isn’t too pricey for medium-sized businesses.

However, its complexity isn’t for everyone. For some, the variety of features might seem a tad overwhelming, and its focus on metrics might be a bit much for those just wanting a basic presentation tool.

Seamless virtual meetings and presentations
Integrates with popular platforms
Offers insightful analytics for sales and marketing
Might feel complex for some users
Limited transition and design effects
Mobile experience could be better

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Stepping into the world of animation, Vyond, once known as GoAnimate, allows users to turn their narratives into professional animated videos. For those looking to elevate their content without diving deep into animation complexities, Vyond can be the go-to tool.

This platform is more than just drag-and-drop animations. It integrates AI capabilities with Vyond Go, which transforms text prompts into rough-cut videos.

Fancy a quick draft for your upcoming project? This AI assistant is up for the task. And if perfection is your game, take it to Vyond Studio, filled with an array of characters, templates, and backgrounds.

The Essential Plan at $25 per month is suitable for individuals on a budget. However, if you want to export videos at 1080p and above, have collaboration tools, or different export options, you’ll need to sign up for the Professional Plan at $92 per month.

As robust as the tool is, there are still some kinks to iron out. AI voiceovers might still need some tweaks, and detailed color customizations can be a bit tricky, but the tool’s strengths, especially for businesses, are undeniable.

Hassle-free video creation for beginners to experts
Generous library of pre-made assets
AI-powered video and script creation with Vyond Go
AI voiceovers might feel a bit robotic
Some customization limitations for specific props and scenes

The best presentation software is…

…completely up to you!

When it comes to presentation software, the world is your oyster.

Each of these tools either has a free or trial version for you to check out, so you don’t have to commit just yet.

When it’s time to choose, consider the following aspects to find the right presentation software for you:

Ease of use. Is it easy for you to understand or will it require lots of training before you can start creating presentations?
Accessibility. Can you access your presentation software from any device or are you limited to carrying your laptop to every presentation?
Real-time collaboration. Can multiple people work on the same project or do you have to keep downloading and emailing drafts?
Create design tools. Can you create presentations with dynamic design elements or are you stuck with the same kind of slide each time?
Template availability. Is this tool only accessible to a design professional or can anyone create stunning presentations through pre-designed and updated templates?

Piktochart , for example, would be a fantastic presentation software choice among the long list of PowerPoint alternatives for teams looking for a variety of eye-catching designs without requiring much technical know-how. Meanwhile, Microsoft PowerPoint might be the best presentation software for those who are just looking to play it safe.

Hopefully, this best presentation software list sheds some light on the tools at your disposal. Choose wisely!

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Successful pitching requires more than just having good ideas and knowing your facts; it also depends on a well-executed pitch deck. Today’s business sphere demands crafting a strong pitch and also knowing how to present it in various situations.

If you need to present your idea, you’ll need to know not only what data to include but also how to create a visually appealing deck and present it effectively. In this article, we’ll talk about the best presentation apps and tools for those looking for better options than Microsoft PowerPoint.

Additionally, we will see how LeadsBridge can help you automate lead data transfer between your presentation tools and the rest of your marketing stack with real-time integrations.

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A great presentation app should have a range of advanced features to take presentations to the next level. So, before you get started reviewing these tools, know that a great presentation software should:

Allow you to easily customize the design and layout of slides , with different themes, fonts, colors, and graphics.
Support the integration of various multimedia elements and formats, such as images, videos, and audio files. This is to enhance the overall message of the presentation.
Have intuitive navigation and a user-friendly interface so that users can easily create and edit slides without feeling overwhelmed.
Offer seamless sharing and collaboration options , enabling users to share their presentations with others and work together on the same document in real time.
Allow you to embed external content , such as live data and social media feeds.
Allow you to fine-tune your presentations with precision and control, with the ability to adjust the size and position of images, tweak the formatting of text, and add annotations and comments.
Be accessible across multiple devices and platforms to ensure users can create and access their presentations from anywhere, at any time.

All these features combined empower you to effectively communicate your ideas and stories in a clear and engaging way.

Polymer is an AI-powered tool designed specifically for data presentation .

Instead of static PowerPoint slides with graphs and charts, Polymer offers a more powerful way to showcase your data. All you need to do is take a spreadsheet and upload it onto Polymer, and the tool’s AI will transform the spreadsheet into an interactive dashboard.

Makes data beautiful, interactive, and searchable.
Aesthetically professional.
Only takes a few seconds to create a Polymer Site.
Uses AI presentations.
Shareable through a URL.
Free to use and create presentations.
Designed primarily for presenting data and is not ideal for presenting information.
There are also a few limitations, such as 5000 rows of data and a limited number of visualizations.

Visme is one of the best presentation apps and a valid alternative to Prezi and PowerPoint. It is not only suitable for presentations but also for other visual content creation needs. With it, you can create flyers, reports, interactive ebooks, learning resources , survey results, charts, and graphs. Additionally, it comes with a full library of illustrations and characters.

Visme is cloud-based, so you can use it anywhere with an internet-connected computer. This is why 93% of customers using Visme said they are likely to recommend it to other professionals .

Suitable for any skill level with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Has hundreds of different beautiful templates and pre-built presentation slides that enable you to create stunning presentations.
Allows taking your presentation offline or online. All you need is to create an online link for the presentation or download it as an offline HTML5 file.
Suitable for creating infographics, social media graphics, and interactive online content.
Offers advanced graphic design software to make your presentations data-based and informative.
Offers lots of free images you can use in your presentations and infographics.
Significant learning curve because of its robustness.
Difficult to change, clone, and move sections in Visme.
It lacks photo elements on transparent backgrounds.

Prezi is one of the best apps for interactive presentations. It uses a unique User Interface (ZUI) that allows users to zoom in and out of presentations. It allows you to create interesting and engaging visuals quickly, record the presentation, and share it later or go live with your video conferencing tools.

Prezi works with other tools such as Zoom Webinar, GoToWebinar , GoToWebinar simulated live, and Google Meet. Take a look at LeadsBridge’s most popular integrations for Zoom Webinar, GoToWebinar, and GoToWebinar Simulated Live.

If you’d like to look for specific integrations with Zoom Webinar, GoToWebinar, or GoToWebinar Simulated Live, you can easily do so yourself by typing your desired source below.

The zoom feature in Prezi makes it stand out.
Easy interface that allows users to zoom out with a mouse click and zoom in on a specific topic in any part of the presentation.
A non-linear software, implemented using Python and Django technologies; this makes Prezi one of the best-known Django application examples.
It’s cloud-based, so you can access your presentation by logging into your account on an internet-connected computer.
The presentations on Prezi are embeddable on a website or blog.
Complex learning curve.
Not free for businesses.
To use your presentation offline, you need to buy the Prezi desktop, which is rather expensive.
In Prezi, you cannot edit the templates.

Prezi free alternatives

There are apps like Prezi available for free, that you can consider for your presentations.

Canva is one of the free alternatives to Prezi that allows you to create beautiful presentations . Also, you can find Canva deals and discounts on DontPayFull.com

All you need to do is select the images, fonts, and colors to make your presentations pop. It allows users to create presentations in just a few minutes, using ready-made frames, shapes, illustrations, and grids.

Offers hundreds of presentation templates on different topics .
Provides stock library photos you can add to your presentation to enhance its look and feel.
Allows uploading your own photos into Canva to create your presentation.
It lets you make your presentation branded using your company logo , colors, and fonts.
Allows team collaboration by selecting the people to collaborate with, and inviting them to the presentation. They can also leave comments and work on suggestions from the Canva editor.
It is a web-based platform, so you can access your presentation anywhere.
Enables downloading your presentation in PowerPoint format.
Not all the features are available when using the free tier.
Not suitable for advanced presentation designers.

Powtoon is a powerful presentation and video creation tool you can use to create professional presentations and videos, images, characters, or animations.

Powtoon presentation is great for enterprises, education, marketing agencies, and small businesses. If your business falls under any of these sectors, check out these industry-specific automation solutions by LeadsBridge:

Enterprises
Allows team collaboration and sharing of presentations on marketing platforms.
Highly elaborate for teaching and creating storytelling presentations. It offers different selections of school-friendly footage, animations, scenes, characters, fonts, and music to help create presentations that will engage students.
Useful for creating visual marketing for brand awareness and explainer videos to share reports and marketing plans.
The free version of Powtoon has watermarks.
It has limited timing on the animation (set to 1/2 seconds).

Storydoc is an interactive presentation maker , perfect for sales and marketing collateral creation. Because it was designed as a present-day business alternative to PDF presentations or static slides, Storydoc presentations are proven to engage more viewers than conventional presentations with their amazing interface and advanced data visualization options.

Comes with integrations with CRMs and other sales tools that will perfectly include your collateral in your sales process.
Delivers an array of templates for all the most popular business cases – pitch decks, sales decks, one-pagers, business proposals, and many more.
It has complex functionalities and requires specific skill sets to create presentations and use the full extent of the editor’s capabilities.

SlideModel is a platform that gives individuals and businesses ready-made slides and editable templates for their PowerPoint presentations. Designed with an easy-to-use approach, the platform lets you prepare presentations faster and simpler.

The slides can be fully edited on Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, and OpenOffice. Users can readily customize the size, color, and layout of advanced editing objects with no design skills.

Comes with a broad range of templates in various categories for different professional profiles.
Offers completely customizable templates to download and modify according to your business or brand’s requirements.
Allows altering colors and applying special effects.
Offers an impressive collection of graphs, diagrams, and tables, which you can fill and customize to present statistics.
Its free templates lag behind paid options.

If you already have a favorite tool to compose presentations and your main difficulties are related to high-quality visual content for them, Depositphotos is for you. It hosts one of the largest libraries of stock content globally (279 million files!), which includes photos, vectors, static and dynamic graphic templates, videos, and music.

You can even use the library of free content on Depositphotos. This library is updated with on-trend files every week and kept up to expectations by the platform’s content curators.

Comes with an AI-powered search engine that saves you time searching for presentation visual or audio content.
The website has a section with astonishing curated collections on various topics.
Over 5 million new files are added to the platform by the community of Depositphotos contributors on a monthly basis.
All material that becomes available to you is quality tested, making it a reliable source of any type of stock content on any topic.
Offers ready-made design templates , including those for presentations.
Depositphotos is not a presentation app but a reliable source of stock files to design almost any presentation.
It has long started building infrastructure for creatives based on its powerful library. For example, you can use the VistaCreate (available under subscription) to create presentations based on files from Depositphotos.
While 70,000 free files are put together on the free library page, all 279 million files are available to users with paid plans.

Google Slides is something that many people flock toward because we all know Google. If you already use Google Docs and Google Sheets, it makes sense to use Google Slides . It’s free, and easy to use.

You can even open PowerPoint content in Google Slides, so it’s an obvious choice for people looking for the best PowerPoint alternatives. It makes the transition between the two platforms much easier. You can start using it straight away because there’s nothing particularly complicated about the platform’s interface. There are many online resources offering a diverse selection of Google Slides templates to choose from, enabling you to craft captivating presentations quickly and easily.

Extremely easy to jump in and start using Google Slides right away with no particular knowledge.
It offers features similar to the best presentation apps, even compared to the ones you have to pay for.
Many online resources provide free google slides pitch deck templates and presentations.
Needs to be connected to the internet for it to function properly.
A limited number of themes.

There are lots of unique features that Slidebean can offer, and it is regarded as one of the best PowerPoint alternatives out there. The images and GIFs available to use on the platform make it fun to play around with and potentially the best presentation app available.

There are plenty of customization options so you can make your presentation exactly how you want it to be.

Offers flexibility and elaborate modification abilities.
If you have to include data and analytics in your presentation, this could be the best presentation app for you.
Nothing specific.

Keynote is Apple’s very own alternative to PowerPoint and is just about everything you would expect from an Apple product: sleek, sophisticated, and intuitive.

It presents incredibly robust features – such as the ability to create interactive charts, and add reflections and picture frames – making it easy to create presentations with cinematic-like transitions between slides.

Presentations are then stored in the cloud and available on all devices.

Free for all Mac users.
Access to over 100 cinematic effects for text and objects.
Helps create interactive and animated charts.
Allows viewing and editing your presentations directly from your iPad or iPhone.
Enables easy sharing and collaboration with the rest of your team.
Keynote is compatible with PowerPoint, and allows importing and editing PowerPoint files.
Lacks a slide library.
Exclusively accessible only to Apple users.

Slides is a cloud-based presentation app that offers a solid and user-friendly alternative to PowerPoint. Its sleek editor workspace allows you to add background images, use a variety of designs and themes, collaborate easily with others, and customize any of the 10 default slide templates.

You can even take other people’s presentations and use them as a template. Slides is especially suited for startups, students, teachers, and individuals.

Allows editing and accessing presentations from any device.
Helps define your own theme with a custom CSS editor, and add GIFs from Giphy and images from Unsplash to make it more personal.
Offers access to analytics and revision history.
No need for an internet connection to present.
Extremely user-friendly (with beginners’ tutorials).
The paid plans are affordable, starting at $5/month per user, billed annually.
Permits creating only linear presentations.
Limited design options.
Graphs and infographic widgets are not available.

Zoho Show is a cloud-based presentation app to create, edit, and share presentations . You can get started by signing up for a Zoho Show account to create a new presentation or work on an existing one. Then, it lets you add slides, text, images, charts, and other media to customize your content.

Additionally, this presentation software is highly team-oriented; you and your team can also leave comments and feedback on each other’s work, making it easy to collaborate and share ideas.

A cloud-based presentation app allowing you to access your presentations from anywhere, anytime.
It offers customizable themes, layouts, and design elements.
Supports a variety of file formats, including PPT, PPTX, ODP, and PDF.
Multiple users can work on the same presentation at the same time, and changes are automatically saved and synced in real time.
Offers advanced features like animation, transitions, and slide shows.
Available on desktop and mobile devices.
Easy to navigate and use, even for beginners.
It’s free.
May not have as many advanced features as some other presentation apps, such as PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Issues with compatibility when exporting to other apps.
Some of the advanced features and collaboration options are only available in the paid versions.
Needs an internet connection to work.

How to use AI to create a PowerPoint presentation

Using AI to create a PowerPoint presentation involves leveraging tools and technologies that can automate certain aspects of the presentation creation process. Here’s a general guide on how to use AI to create a PowerPoint presentation.

Text generation : Use natural language processing (NLP) models to generate text content for your slides. GPT-3 or similar models can help create coherent and contextually relevant content. OpenAI’s API or other NLP APIs can be integrated for this purpose.
Data analysis : If your presentation involves data, consider using AI tools to analyze and interpret data. Tools like Microsoft Excel have built-in features for data analysis, and you can use Python libraries like Pandas and Matplotlib for more advanced data processing.
Image selection : AI algorithms can assist in selecting relevant and high-quality images for your slides. Tools like Google’s Vision AI or Adobe Stock can help in image recognition and recommendation.
Design assistance : Some tools, like Beautiful.ai, use AI to suggest design layouts and color schemes based on the content you input. They can automate the design process to make your slides visually appealing.
Speech-to-text : Utilize speech-to-text technology to convert spoken words into written text. You can use this for creating speaker notes or captions for your slides. Google’s Speech-to-Text API is an example of a service that can perform this task.
Language translation : If your audience speaks different languages, AI translation services can help you translate your presentation content. Google Translate API is an example of a tool that provides this functionality.
Grammar and spell check : AI-powered proofreading tools like Grammarly or ProWritingAid can assist in ensuring your text is free of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes.
Content outline : Use AI to generate an outline or structure for your presentation based on the key points you want to cover. This can help in organizing your thoughts before creating the actual slides.

Remember that while AI can automate certain aspects of the presentation creation process, it’s essential to review and customize the content to ensure it aligns with your specific needs and audience.

AI presentation tools

Imagine presenting your idea with ease and confidence, aided by the power of artificial intelligence. That’s what AI presentation tools offer – an easy and hassle-free way to create professional-looking presentations that can impress anyone. AI tools for PowerPoint presentation can help you with a wide variety of tasks, from creating stunning visuals and designing engaging layouts to even writing text for your slides.

By utilizing the power of machine learning, these AI presentation tools can adapt to your style and suggest the best design and content options for your presentation. With their advanced features, these tools can save you a lot of time, effort and stress . It’s no wonder that more and more professionals are taking advantage of the benefits offered by AI presentation tools.

Gamma AI presentation app is making waves in the world of presentations and changing the game for presenters everywhere. This cutting-edge technology harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to transform the way people create and deliver presentations .

With the Gamma AI presentation app, you can easily create dynamic, engaging, and professional presentations in minutes, and impress your audience like never before . So, whether you’re a seasoned presenter or just starting out, Gamma AI presentation app can take your presentations to the next level.

Endless possibilities for creating interactive and engaging presentations.
Allows you to analyze your audience’s response to your presentation in real time, giving you the power to adjust your delivery accordingly.
Relying too heavily on the Gamma AI presentation app could lead to a lack of personal connection between presenter and audience.

When it comes to creating top-notch presentations, Presentations.ai is the ultimate tool to have in your arsenal. This innovative platform is designed to help individuals and businesses alike create stunning presentations with ease.

Powered by AI, this platform offers a range of benefits that make it stand out from other presentation tools. For starters, it takes care of all the tedious tasks , such as formatting and design, allowing you to focus on creating quality content. Additionally, it comes loaded with a range of customization options that let you tailor your presentation to your specific needs.

With Presentations.ai, you can create stunning presentations that capture the attention of your audience and leave a lasting impression.

Extensive customization options.
Access to a large library of templates.
Saves time and effort by automating tasks.
Individual creativity is limited by the design suggestions.
The cost of the service is prohibitive.

Beautiful.ai is a smart ai-powered presentation software that visual designers love. It’s free, easy to use, and a great app for creating beautiful presentations. It offers over 50 smart presentation templates that help you create presentations with a few clicks.

Accessible anywhere because it lives in the cloud, so you don’t have to store your presentations on a hard disk or external drive.
Beautiful.ai offers collaborations in the workplace. Team members can send, receive, edit, and view projects at any time.
Uses AI presentation.
Allows you to customize your presentations to your brand. This means you can use your brand’s logo, font, and color schemes.
The app has layout limitations, non-editable export, and a lack of integration.

What is Tome AI? Tome AI Presentation is a revolutionary presentation tool that employs cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to deliver an engaging and memorable experience for users.

Its innovative features include the ability to analyze and optimize presentations in real time, adjust content to suit the audience’s preferences, and provide seamless integration with various devices and platforms.

It’s able to enhance engagement and retention through dynamic and personalized presentations.
Its AI algorithms analyze user behavior and feedback, offering actionable insights that improve presentation delivery and content effectiveness.
It provides a streamlined workflow that saves time, allowing presenters to focus on delivering their message without worrying about the technical aspects of their presentation.
Some users may find the interface and features somewhat daunting at first, requiring some time and effort to master and use effectively.

Despite these drawbacks, Tome AI Presentation offers a powerful and innovative approach to delivering presentations that is sure to revolutionize the field. Its blend of AI technology and user-focused design offers a unique and compelling solution to one of the most common challenges facing presenters today: engaging and retaining their audience’s attention.

Smart Slides is a new presentation software that has been making a buzz in the market. This powerful tool is packed with a vast array of features that are carefully designed to streamline the creation and delivery of presentations.

The software has a user-friendly interface, making it easy to navigate, even for beginners .

It allows users to collaborate and share presentations with colleagues, clients, or partners in real time from anywhere in the world. This increases productivity and saves time and resources that are typically spent on meetings.
It allows users to embed videos, images, and audio files, making the presentations more engaging and interesting.
It comes with a wide range of customizable templates that help users create compelling slides in no time.
It is relatively expensive compared to other presentation software on the market.
It requires a stable internet connection to operate effectively.

Nevertheless, Smart Slides is a reliable and efficient presentation software for anyone who wants to take their presentations to the next level. Whether you are a student, professional, or business owner, Smart Slides is a tool worth considering.

Decktopus AI is a presentation software tool designed to streamline the creation of professional presentations . Utilizing artificial intelligence, Decktopus simplifies the design process by providing templates, design suggestions, and automated content structuring. It aims to make it easier for users to create visually appealing and effective presentations quickly.

The user-friendly interface makes it accessible for individuals with varying levels of technical skill.
The AI features help in auto-formatting and suggesting design elements, which can save time and enhance the presentation’s visual appeal.
It offers a wide range of templates that can be customized to fit different presentation needs, ensuring versatility.
It can integrate with other tools and platforms, facilitating the import and export of content.
The automation features significantly reduce the time required to create professional presentations.
While AI suggestions can be helpful, they may limit the user’s creative control over the design aspects.
Heavy reliance on templates might result in less unique presentations if not customized sufficiently.
The cost of subscription might be a barrier for some users, especially those who need it infrequently.
Despite its user-friendly interface, there might still be a learning curve for users unfamiliar with presentation software.
The AI might not always perfectly understand the context, leading to less relevant suggestions or automated content.

SlidesAI is an AI-powered tool designed to enhance the creation and design of presentation slides. It leverages artificial intelligence to automate and optimize the slide creation process, making it easier for users to produce professional-quality presentations efficiently.

SlidesAI integrates with popular presentation platforms like Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint, providing users with smart content suggestions, design enhancements, and layout optimizations.

It automates many aspects of slide creation, significantly reducing the time needed to produce presentations.
It has an intuitive interface that is easy to navigate, even for users with minimal design experience.
It offers intelligent content suggestions and layout improvements, enhancing the overall quality of the presentation.
It ensures design consistency throughout the presentation, maintaining a professional look and feel.
It seamlessly integrates with popular presentation tools like Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing for easy adoption and use within existing workflows.
While the AI provides design suggestions, it may limit creative freedom, leading to less personalized presentations.
Users may become overly reliant on AI suggestions, potentially overlooking their own creativity and input.
Access to full features might require a subscription, which could be a deterrent for some users.
Initial setup and familiarization with AI features may take some time for new users.
The AI might not always perfectly interpret the context or intent behind the content, leading to less relevant suggestions.

Before diving head first into assembling your slides, there are a series of creative best practices and presentation ideas that will help you get started without PowerPoint. Here are a few of them:

We remember 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear, 30% of what we see, 50% of what we listen to, and look at 70% of what we say and 90% of what we do. So, if you really want to be unforgettable, you have to make your audience take action .
Data and statistics can help you build trust and credibility, sure, but emotional communication is what will really ensure engagement.
Rely on videos, gifs, interactive infographics, external content, and interactivity with pop-up windows to give movement and dynamism to your slides.
It has been demonstrated that our brain lights up like a Christmas tree when we’re listening to stories. Leverage this in your presentation by using more storytelling .
It’s ok to be creative, but when it comes to fonts, it’s better to pick an elegant, simple, and readable font. Avoid handwritten or script typefaces and go for something that everybody can read without getting a headache.
Remember: One slide, one idea, one sentence . Avoid long paragraphs and texts with small fonts because if your audience is focused on reading, they won’t be able to listen to what you’re saying.
Fantasy and textured backgrounds are cool, but they’re also the greatest enemies of easy reading. Instead, go for white or solid color backgrounds .
Apply the 5x7x7 rule . Titles shall be no longer than 5 words. Paragraphs shall not use more than 7 lines. Lines shall not be constituted by more than 7 words.
Numbered lists are more likely to catch your audience’s attention than regular bullet points.
You are the number 1 visual element of your presentation.

When you have all this figured out, you can go ahead and start drafting your presentation!

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Published on March 22, 2024

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Presentation software is a powerful tool in the workplace. It’s especially true for PowerPoint, the most popular presentation software. It helps freshen up lectures, organize information in an easily deliverable way, and is generally accessible to most people. There are a lot of options as well. You can find presentation software on computers and smartphones.

Additionally, some tools make each platform easier. We have a bit of everything on this list. Here are the best PowerPoint apps and tools for Android.

The best PowerPoint apps and tools:

Andropen office, google home, google slides, microsoft powerpoint.

Remote desktop apps

Unified Remote

Price: Free / $12.99

AndrOpen Office is likely the best bet for Linux users. It fully supports OpenOffice file formats and includes Writer, Calc, and Impress. Impress is the presentation software. It can also read PowerPoint files as well. In terms of PowerPoint apps, it does pretty well. You can create a slideshow, add graphics, add text, and the basic stuff like that. The free version is more usable than the first free version of most paid software. The app also works perfectly with niche functions like Samsung DeX. It’s not quite as powerful as Microsoft PowerPoint, but it’s close enough for most people.

Price: Free / $2.99 per item

Clicker works a lot like ASUS Remote Link. It lets you connect to your computer and use your phone as a presentation clicker. It also seems to work on Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android. That should cover just about everybody. In any case, the workflow for this one is pretty obvious. You create your PowerPoint on your computer, where you have full access to all of the tools. Then, you use this app to present the PowerPoint at your meeting. There is also remote trackpad functionality, Samsung S-Pen support, and space to keep notes for your speech. There aren’t many presentation clicker apps like this one, so it’s nice to see that at least one is really good.

Price: Free

Google Home is an out-of-the-box idea. You use it with a Chromecast to mirror your phone screen to a display. You can then use your phone to present your PowerPoint. This lets you work on your PowerPoint either on desktop or mobile. You must put the project on your mobile phone, use Google Home to mirror it, and begin your presentation. Chromecasts are small, easy to carry, and very easy to use. It lets you use the presentation space’s existing resources without carting in some extra equipment. Plus, the app is free.

Google Slides is the presentation app from the Google Drive office suite. It’s largely considered the top or at least second-best option in terms of PowerPoint apps. You can mess with your presentation on your phone or desktop via the web. Plus, Google Drive has live collaboration tools and many other features. Your presentation is stored in the cloud, so you can access and download it whenever you want. Plus, it can read, edit, and save PowerPoint files for excellent cross-product functionality. It’s also, far and away, the best free option available. That makes it great for students without access to a Microsoft Office account.

Price: Free / $9.99 per month

Microsoft PowerPoint is the top one or two PowerPoint apps in the world. It’s so good that people refer to presentation apps as PowerPoint apps. The mobile version is more functional than its desktop equivalent, even if the desktop variant is more powerful. On top of the usual presentation features, the app also includes a Presenter Coach function to help you prepare for your speech. Luckily, Microsoft has adapted nicely to the times. You can start fresh or edit existing PowerPoint presentations that you started on your computer. The full functionality is available with an Office 365 subscription. The good news is the subscription unlocks both the desktop and mobile versions of PowerPoint with just a single subscription. You also get Microsoft OneDrive space to store and transport your PowerPoints.

Remote Desktop apps

Price: Free / Varies

Microsoft Remote Desktop screenshot 2021

Remote desktop apps are a slightly archaic but very functional method of presenting stuff. These apps let you connect directly to your desktop computer, mirroring everything on your mobile phone. There are usually tools to let you navigate around. Thus, you can connect to your computer and give a presentation straight from your phone without moving any files. You can also use these to work on your PowerPoints straight from your computer, so you don’t lose any functionality by being on a smartphone or tablet. We have Microsoft Remote Desktop linked since it covers most use cases, but others are available, too.

Price: Free / $1.99 per item

Unified Remote is another app that lets you control your computer remotely. It works a lot like the ASUS Remote Link. You connect to your computer and can use the app to navigate the UI, as a mouse and keyboard, and there is a built-in presentation setup. This one is different because it has dedicated “remotes” for many specific apps, like Google Chrome, Spotify, Winamp, and, you guessed it, Microsoft PowerPoint. Downloads are available for Windows, Mac, Linux (Debian and RPM distros), Raspberry Pi (ARMv6 and MIPS), and others. That makes it suitable for just about everybody.

Price: Free / $3.99 per month / $29.99 per year

WPS Office is just one of many alternative office apps that double as PowerPoint apps. WPS Office has a writer, spreadsheet, and presentation function. The presentation function lets you read and edit PowerPoint files, so it’s a good start there. The app includes various layouts, animations, transitions, and other effects. Additionally, it lets you draw on slides or use a built-in digital laser pointer during your presentation, which is a nice little feature. WPS Office is free to use if you don’t mind the occasional annoying advertisement.

Zoho Show is one of the few reasonably good standalone PowerPoint apps. It’s not connected to an entire office suite, and it’s not a clicker or a remote desktop app. It’s an app dedicated to making presentations. It includes a bunch of stuff, including various types of charts, over 100 shapes, different formatting options, filters, animations, and other stuff. There are also templates to help you get started. It’s not quite as powerful as some competitors. At the time of this writing, the developers are still working on incorporating stuff like music into the app. However, this is an excellent alternative to Google Slides if you need a quick, free option.

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Ok great. Can everyone see this? Today, I’ll be presenting about the best free presentation software for 2022.

We’ve all been there: struggling to put together the perfect slides for a really important meeting or school project. Bringing a visual aid to the table is necessary to keep your audience engaged.

But finding the right place to build your presentation is challenging. Are there templates? Are there customization tools? How much is this going to cost me?

You can use presentation software to create interactive slide decks to elevate your message. Presentation software allows users to build dynamic slides , stay brand consistent, and utilize other forms of media like images and videos. These presentations can be made even more interactive when integrated with audience response systems to construct live polls and quizzes and video conferencing software to make everything digitally seamless.

Free trials and free basic plans make upgrading your presentations a little easier on the bank. You can start building virtual presentations, adding immersive elements like animations and live participation tools, and collecting audience analytics – without spending a dime.

What are the best free presentation software solutions for 2022?

DocSend
Powtoon
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Best free presentation solutions

Whether you're creating an instructional onboarding deck or showing off your latest metrics in a team meeting, there is a free presentation solution to fit your needs and wants.

The list below contains real user reviews from the best presentation software category. It’s important to note that in the context of this list, vendors that offer a free trial are also considered to be free .

To be included in this category, a software must:

Provide tools for building presentation slides
Offer slide templates and themes
Utilize unique slide animations and transitions
Allow for users to embed text, audio, images, and videos within the presentation

*This data was pulled from G2 on April 4, 2022. Some reviews may have been edited for clarity.

DocSend by Dropbox helps companies create and maintain presentations and other important documents. DocSend’s free trial allows users to increase file security, share content within their organization, and track link analytics.

What users like:

"DocSend is simply a better way to share content with prospective clients, from documents and presentations to video clips and proposals. Prospective clients like the organized access to relevant content. It's quickly become a critical resource for us.”

What users dislike:

“Once you erase a version, you lose all the insights on it. It would be better to have a deposit of everyone reviewing the deck or document and improved version management.”

2. Renderforest

Renderforest is an all-in-one platform that brings presentations to life with graphics, videos, and animations. A free Renderforest plan allows for unlimited mockups, access to over 200,000 stock videos, and free subdomains.

“Renderforest is one of the best online video software for any of my video projects. Whether it’s an animation, intro project, corporate presentation, or slideshow, Renderforest gives you user-friendly templates that are customizable, and the final product is very professionally done. Since using this platform, the amount of commendation that my projects have received is overwhelming.”

- Renderforest Review , Sherdon F.

“I would like to see more templates and more flexibility in Renderforest.”

Powtoon is a visual communication platform that allows users to animate their presentations. Powtoon offers access to hundreds of presentation templates, brand-consistent slides, and shareable folders with paid options and a free plan.

“The best thing about Powtoon is the user interface. It’s super intuitive and the professionally designed template library is feature-rich with scenes, characters, props, background music, and much more.”

- Powtoon Review , Zuber A.

“The free properties are unique but very limited. It would be great if they added more.”

4. Beautiful.ai

Beautiful.ai has smart templates to make presentation building a breeze. The Beautiful.ai paid plan options include onboarding guides, collaborative workspaces, viewer analytics, and more. Their free trial lets users get a taste of everything they offer.

“Beautiful.ai makes creating presentations easy. Just finished your slide and want to add another point? Not a problem: you can easily add a bullet or object or chart, and the whole slide magically moves around and realigns for you.”

- Beautiful.ai Review , Anne-Marie M.

“There’s a small learning curve when getting started on the platform. Because the design is automated, some people have trouble with the minor limitations around customization. Be patient and explore the platform in its entirety. Eventually, you'll see that the limitations are extremely helpful in creating congruency and professionalism in your presentations.”

emaze gives users the tools they need to automate the digital presentation building process. The emaze free basic plan includes unlimited PowerPoint importation, widgets, embedding, graphs, contact lists, audience analytics, and more.

“I love the ease of use with emaze, with an added professional look with extra flair. Every template is different, and there are templates for every topic you can think of. The ease of use and editing helps from year to year when I update the same topic.”

- emaze Review , Dianna W.

“I wish there were more templates available for those who are not as creative as others. In addition, when presenting, I wish the bar at the bottom would disappear so that people can’t see how much of the presentation is left.”

RELAYTO is a document experience platform for creating immersive presentations. RELAYTO has sharing, embedding, converting, and auto-generating tools. Qualified users can enjoy these features for free.

“My experience with RELAYTO has been truly eye-opening. The ability to add depth and dimension to presentations truly elevates our status in the eyes of prospects and clients as a company that brings professionalism and real value to them. We know how great our solutions and client services are, yet using other platforms doesn't do the job of conveying that to the client as RELAYTO does.”

- RELAYTO Review , Mike R.

“I have only ever designed for print, so there's a bit of a learning curve, but their support is top-notch. You can book a consultation with an expert on how you want to use the platform. Once over that curve, the results are remarkable.”

Vyond elevates presentations with video. With Vyond, presenters can utilize video animations, character creation, and social media sharing capabilities. Users can sign up for a free trial to see if Vyond is the right fit.

“Vyond is really easy to learn, making it a great tool for our onboarding team members to learn and use right away. There is a low barrier for entry for new users, so we can rely on Vyond as a useful and result-oriented tool that our new team members can start using right away.”

- Vyond Review , Samantha L.

“The objects available in the Vyond library are not fully customizable, plus the library is small. You may not always be able to find what you’re looking for. Adding a feature in which users can customize those objects would be a solution to this.”

Knovio is a smart platform for creating on-demand videos and presentations. It offers tools for adding video and audio narration to presentation slides, sharing content collections, and analyzing viewer engagement. The free lite version of Knovio lets users test drive some of these features.

“Knovio has come quite a long way since I first used it. I love how responsive the company has been to improvement suggestions. I also love that you can edit your recording and replace slides.”

“The analytics are powerful; however, I feel creating custom reports could be improved.”

- Knovio Review , Tim D.

9. Mentimeter

Mentimeter is an audience engagement platform with tools to build interactive presentations, compile data from live polls, and collect insights about user participation. The Mentimeter free plan offers unlimited audiences and presentations.

“Any presentation created with Mentimeter looks professional and presentable. Mentimeter takes care of the design aspect for you. It's straightforward and extremely easy to use. It's also flexible - I've used Mentimeter for live surveys, quizzes, and training. They've got excellent customer support, too. ”

- Mentimeter Review , Haley S.

“At times, Mentimeter can feel a bit overly simplistic or repetitive. Most Mentimeter presentations tend to look very similar, and the engagement tools are limited to a degree.”

10. Personify Presenter

Personify Presenter is an online platform for integrating audio and video into presentations. It offers tools for recording, live editing, file uploading, and writing for seamless presenting. A 30-day free trial lets users give Presenter a try.

“It’s one of the best presenter tools for business presentations. It consists of preset themes and fonts. It also has a library of images and GIFs which can be added to the slides. The notes function only displays to the presenter of the slides which helps them recall the content if necessary.”

- Personify Presenter Review , Kumar A.

“It doesn't recognize boundaries too well, and the video resolution is a little low compared to HD.”

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If you’ve been given the task of putting together a presentation, then you want to knock it out of the park and impress both your superiors and subordinates. You might be a phenomenal communicator and a cerebral strategist, but only personal skills are not enough. You also need a presentation tool that will help you design, present, and share your efforts effectively.

With heaps over heaps of presentation tools to choose from, it can be very difficult to land on the one that suits your needs and desires. Well, we are here to help you with that. We will introduce you to some of the most popular and efficient presentation apps available in the market beyond the familiar presence of PowerPoint.

In this article we are going to look at the presentation apps features, its price, whether it offers any free trial or not, its pros and cons, and finally present you with a well-rounded list of tools and PowerPoint Alternatives to choose from. The list is expansive, but don’t worry we will leave with some of our recommendations alluding to the best from the best.

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Presentation Software Overview

Faqs for presentation apps, list of online presentation tools, #1) doratoon-video maker, #3) slidebean, #5) haiku deck, #7) google slides, #8) apple keynote, #10) zoho show, #11) custom show, was this helpful, recommended reading.

Presentation software enables users to create presentations with the aid of differing slides, text, graphics, images, and audio among other things. In short, it allows users to create professional sound and creative templates for their otherwise ordinary business presentations.

Pro Tip: Here are some factors to consider before choosing your desired presentation app or software.

It should have a vast design library containing a variety of templates, images, and other media.
It should be conveniently shareable across other media and platforms with other colleagues and users.
It should be simple enough for most users to use and operate.
It should fit well within your budget without compromising on quality.
It should be compatible with multiple devices.

Despite its obvious short backs, PowerPoint remains a major player in presentation software games, with over 86 % of market share as of 2019.

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Q #1) How does presentation software work?

Answer: Different presentation software has a different appeal and way of functioning. They are loaded with their unique feature and can satisfy users on a variety of different levels. Most software works by selecting a template, adding text and images, editing text, inserting graphics, and adding slides in multiple templates if necessary.

Q #2) What are the benefits of Presentation Software?

Answer: A presentation software allows users to create robust and professionally sound presentations without much effort. A good app will allow its users to be flexible in their approach while editing a slide. It allows them to be creative by offering a plethora of graphics and images and helps create content that is visually arresting while being informative at the same time.

Q #3) Why should I pay for a Presentation Software when there are free options available?

Answer: It’s entirely your choice to use free presentation tools like PowerPoint to make your presentations. However, most paid apps come with the set of advanced features that are missing from free tools. Paid software gives you access to more premium graphics, images, and other audio-visual content that can substantially increase the quality of your presentation.

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Comparison of Best Presentation Software

Best For	Deployment	Platform	Free Trial	Ratings	Fees
Creating Engaging Presentations with AI-Powered Text to Speech Features.	Web Based, Cloud	Windows, Mac	Lifetime	5/5	Available for Free $5/Month $19/Month
Creating presentations, infographics, social media graphics	Cloud Hosted	Windows, iPhone, iPad, Mac	None	4.5/5	: $99/month starts from $14/month – $75/month
Making presentation powered by AI	Web Based, SaaS, Cloud	Windows, Linux, Mac, Web Based	None	5/5	Free Version $8-$19/month
Creating animation and dynamic video presentations	Web Based, Cloud, SaaS	Windows, iPhone, iPad, Mac	14 Days	4/5	$39/month-$89/month
Creating presentations on Apple iOS devices exclusively.	iOS and SaaS, Cloud, Web Based	iOS and Mac exclusive	7 days	5/5	Free version, $5 – $100/month
Creation of conversational presentations for all platforms In-House SEO	Cloud Hosted	Windows, iPhone, iPad, Mac	14 Days	4.5/5	Free Version available, $5/month – $59/month

Review of Best Presentation Software

Best for creating engaging presentations using motion graphics.

Trial: Lifetime

Are you tired of using the same old presentation software and looking for something new and exciting?

Look no further than Doratoon. Whether you are a teacher looking to engage your students or a business owner looking to make a pitch, it has the tools to create dynamic and eye-catching presentations.

With an unlimited number of features and a template library to choose from, Doratoon has something for everyone.

Its easy-to-use interface makes animation a breeze, even for those who are new to the software. Plus, you can customize the features to fit your specific needs and create interesting presentations in the fields of education, marketing, business, and so on.

Massive Library of Presentation Templates
Stock Free Images & Videos
AI-Based Text to Speech
Animated Characters & Props
Some of the advanced templates offered by Doratoon are unavailable with the Basic plan.

Verdict: Doratoon is a powerful tool for creating interactive presentations for all relevant requirements. It is easy to use and doesn’t take much time to master. The free Basic Plan is a great way to get started, especially if you are a beginner. Overall, Doratoon is a good choice for those looking to add interactive elements to their presentations or videos.

Price: Free Basic Plan, Paid Plan starts from $5/month to $19/month.

Best for creating presentations, infographics, social media graphics, etc.

Trial: No free trial available.

Visme is a cloud-based presentation tool that allows both designers and non-designers to create presentations that are creative and visually absorbing. It comes with its vast library of stock images, photography, vector icons, fonts, and color themes. It helps users create beautiful slideshows with the help of pre-designed templates and themes.

What sets Visme apart from others on this list are the various interactive options it lays at your disposal. This includes hyperlinked elements, embed video, and audio upload with recording features.

Drag and Drop editor
Built-in library of icons, images, fonts, etc.
Animation and transition options
Brand kit feature to save your brand elements
Organize your work and collaborate with other team members
It can be complex for first-time users due to its vast amount of designs and slide layouts.

Verdict: Although this software seems complex for the first time, it is a great tool to create interactive content for your site. Its features are vast and it offers its users a free basic plan to allow them to explore the software. It is worth a try.

Price: Free Basic plan, Paid plan starts from $14/month – $75/month

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Best for creating presentations powered by artificial intelligence.

Trial: None

Slidebean is a web-based software that harnesses the power of AI to create visually engaging slides. If offers an easy user interface and convenient customization options. As it is cloud-based software, users can use it from any location and from any machine in the world.

Users can also easily export the slides from Slidebean into PPT or PDF format. It offers users a huge gallery of templates, designs, color palettes, fonts, and images. Slidebean also comes with tracking functionality and insights that allow users to track the reach of their content.

A rich gallery of templates, images, fonts, etc.
Sample decks
Convenient integration with websites
Can face stability issues with web browsers

Verdict: Slidebean is a wonder when it comes to presentation software. It has an intuitive AI-powered system that makes the task of making presentations 10 times easier. With a new revised affordable price, this software is worth every penny you spend.

Price : Free Basic version, $8-$19/month

Website: Slidebean

Best for creating animation and dynamic video presentations.

Trial: 14-day free trial.

Videos are known to be way more appealing and engaging than text. Likewise, Vyond is the perfect candidate to be on this list. It helps users create powerful and dynamic video presentations that can lighten up an otherwise dull business meeting. It provides users with the tools they need to create interactive media without any technical knowledge.

It allows you to create character-driven stories and visualize data to engage and inform your audience. Its novel animation features are motivational enough for you to invest in this software. Vyond can also help in creating GIFs that can be used to add some humor to your presentation.

Offers three different video styles with an array of stock characters, props, and more at your disposal.
It helps in animating and creating characters within minutes to tell a compelling story.
It allows multiple people to edit simultaneously.
Drag and drop editing.
Creates short clips and GIFs.
You can take a while to get used to the software.
The sound over videos can sometimes be shoddy.
Need to rely on your creativity.

Verdict: Vyond comes with all the features you would now have come to expect from a presentation software. Some customers have complained about its complexity and high premium price. However, its ability to create short video clips and GIFs gives it a special appeal.

Price: $39/month-$89/month

Website: Vyond

Best for creating presentations on Apple iOS devices exclusively.

Trial: 7 Day free trial.

This Apple-exclusive software helps users create beautiful and engaging presentations that can do wonders for your career. With a huge gallery of templates, designs, and fonts to choose from, Haiku Deck is fairly simple to use.

This software is hosted on the clouds and can save files automatically. It also allows users to download presentations in PPT format and also facilitate video presentations with audio narration. Apart from royalty-free images, you will also find graphs and charts to add that aesthetic charm to your presentation.

Huge gallery of images, templates, and fonts
Highly customizable
Simple easy to use layout
Design friendly tools
The free version has only limited features.
Not suitable for Windows and Android.

Verdict: Haiku Deck lays a huge gallery of fonts, images, templates at the disposal of its users. It is very simple to use but is only available for iOS devices. No other software has as vast a gallery of royalty-free images as Haiku Deck

Price : Free version, Premium – $5/month – $100/month.

Website : Haiku Deck

Best for the creation of conversational presentations for all platforms.

Trial : 14 Day free trial

Prezi launched itself in the market as a more creative alternative to the existing PowerPoint, and in many ways, it has held to its claims. It is more suited to users who want to create an organic and conversational presentation without breaking a sweat.

Prezi allows users to import PowerPoint presentations and transform them into their own little Prezi presentations. The content is imported without any hassle. The tool also offers analytics, so users can now analyze the performance of their published presentations.

Native Desktop Apps to provide online editing.
Easy user interface
Engaging design
Complete control of the size, shape, image, and font of presentation.
Essential features are only available with the most expensive plan.
The web-based and desktop app does not support internet explorer.

Verdict: Prezi is easy to use and can help users create mind-blowing presentations with the help of its huge gallery of templates, designs, and fonts. Although expensive, its amazing UI and expansive features are worth it.

Price : Free version, Premium – $5 – $59

Website: Prezi

Best For online cloud-based collaboration, creation, and editing of presentations.

Trial: 14 Day free trial

Google Slides offers excellent and convenient flexibility to its users who want to create engaging presentations. It is loaded with impressive features, themes, fonts, animations, and embedded videos. It allows multiple people to collaborate on the same video from a variety of different locations.

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Although it is cloud-based, it offers offline editing and presenting as well. Users can download slide presentations in PPTX formats. For extra convenience, it provides users with chat, comment, and review features to facilitate real-time collaboration.

Cloud-Based
No additional software required
Multi-Browser support
Free Google Slides templates
Real-time collaboration on presentations
Users might face formatting issues while opening slides in PPTX and other formats.
Offline editing is only available on chrome browsers

Verdict: Google slides is widely popular, accessible, and free to use. It is great for students and novice users who want to try something other than PowerPoint, yet still, keep things simple.

Price: Free Presentation Software for G-mail and Google account users. Premium plan @ $6/month

Website: Google Slides

Best for creating presentations for Apple product users like Mac and iPhone devices.

Apple’s Keynote comes preinstalled in its Mac and iPhone devices. It has an intuitive interface that helps users create visually arresting and informative presentations without breaking a sweat. It offers live collaboration with multiple users through its chat feature. Keynote presentations can be controlled remotely through mobile devices like iPhone, iPod, and iPad.

Comparatively, it also has a better transition and animation effects than most free presentation tools. Moreover, you can also use Apple pencil to create drawings on the tools with the help of your iPad. Apple’s Keynote offers real-time collaborative file editing to its users.

Presenter tools like ‘Voice-over Narration’.
A plethora of Slide Designs, icons, and animation graphics
Enables Powerpoint support
Cloud-based version to be accessible from any device in any location.
Cloud-based versions only accessible through the iCloud account.
Constant glitches while converting the file to PPT.

Verdict: Keynote is to Apple is similar to what PowerPoint is to Microsoft. It has all the features you would need to create a visually appealing presentation. However, it is only exclusive to Apple devices.

Price: Free Presentation Software for Apple product users.

Website: Apple’s Keynote

Best for cloud-based presentation management.

Slides is a software that offers users a platform to create beautiful presentations with the help of a very simple user interface and effortless collaboration. It facilitates cloud-based presentation management with great flexibility and convenience.

Slides can easily help users import PDF’s to be processed into slides presentations. It allows users to publish their presentations online so other users can have access to it too. It uses the power of two browser windows to provide features like a presentation view.

Moreover, slides also present users with the opportunity to broadcast their presentations live to remote audiences and also edit their presentation live while their online eyes watching. It also offers offline presentation as the file can be downloaded on PDF file, HTML, CSS, and JS bundle.

Easily accessible
Advanced features
Facilitated efficient collaboration
Functions run smoothly only with high-speed internet.
PDF and PowerPoint conversion may be shoddy.

Verdict: With its offer of live presentation broadcasting, Slides is a favorite of many employees working in managerial roles. It is also quite cheap, however, it does need high-speed internet to function smoothly.

Price: $7 – $18/month

Website: Slides

Best for creation, collaboration, and broadcast of published presentations.

Trial: None

Zoho Show is a web-based software that enables users to create, collaborate, broadcast, and publish presentations instantly from your web browser. Its best feature is its ability to be both highly flexible and customizable.

It facilitates direct integration of presentation with an existing website through an iFrame code snippet. It offers users the opportunity to publish their presentations internally for the entire organization or the general public.

It has an array of modern and sleek designs, templates, and fonts to choose from. You can also share presentations with non-Zoho users with its expirable URL sharing feature. It also has a dedicated IOS and Android applications to create presentations on smartphones and tablets. You can also live-stream your presentation online via Android TV, Apple TV, or Chromecast.

Dedicated application for Android and Apple
Seamless collaboration
Dedicated chrome extension
Facilitates PowerPoint import
A limited number of pre-designed templates.
Slow internet speed can lead to frequent page crashes.

Verdict: Zoho Show offers an affordable plan that facilitates the creation, sharing, and broadcasting of visually engaging presentation that seamlessly integrates across multiple platforms and browsers. However, a limited number of templates will be something that sticks out like a sore thumb for those who expect more.

Price: Free personal plan. $5 -$8/month– premium plan.

Website: Zoho Show

Best for Sales and Marketing teams to create design-focused presentations.

Custom Show is a robust design-focused presentation tool that is solely focused on meeting the demands of the marketing and sales teams. Marketing and sales professionals can create beautiful presentations using the tool.

It also seamlessly integrates with tools like SalesForce to allow users to track the progress of their presentation. The presentation created on Custom Show can be shared by multiple people at the same time. Users can also add music, videos, and other brand assets to their presentations while using Custom Show.

Highly engaging content creation
Easy access to Presentation online
Controls brand look
No search function within the library.
Speed can get affected if large size files are involved.

Verdict: This software is a boon for sales and marketing professionals, thanks to a simple UI and a system that allows them to track the performance of their presentation online. It is also great for personalized branding.

Price: Free version available, subscribers have to send an email to their team and they will revert with the quote for the premium version.

Website: Custom Show

#12) AhaSlides

Best for creating presentations that facilitate live interaction from your audience. Pricing: Trial – None. Free plan available.

AhaSlides is on a mission to make presentations less boring. It focuses on the power of interactivity between the presenter and the audience to create wonderfully exciting and engaging presentations for use at work, school or any social event.

Users get access to an ever-growing list of slide types, including multiple-choice polls, scale ratings, brainstorming sessions, and even fun quizzes and games, to create an interactive presentation.

The audience joins the presentation via their phones and can interact with each slide as the presenter presents it in front of them, making for a more involved, more invigorating experience for everyone.

18 slide types and growing.
Template library
Data export
Import from Google Slides and PowerPoint.
Audience-paced presentations for surveys and homework.
Free plan limits the audience to a maximum of 7 participants.
Lacks an in-built function to test a presentation before presenting.

Verdict: AhaSlides is a simple and super easy-to-use tool for anyone who wants to create more excitement in their audience. The free plan is quite generous, especially in comparison with other interactive presentation tools out there, and its wealth of features help you create a truly engaging dialogue with your audience within minutes.

Price: Free plan available. Paid plans range from $1.95 p/mo for an educational plan, up to $49.95 p/mo for large events. One-time plans are also available from $2.95.

Presentation Software has evolved and can offer so much more than the days of creating simple PPT presentations. Managers and employees want to impress their colleagues and cement their position in the company they work for. The above-mentioned presentation tools can do the trick for you.

We have spent hours going through the intricate details of every software on this list. Their features, pros, cons, and their compatibility across browsers and platforms were all considered before shortlisting them. Only the most popular and best-reviewed PowerPoint alternatives were chosen to grace our list.

Now, if you are looking for an app that is affordable and easy to use, then we recommend you go for Google Slides.

If you consider yourself a pro in creating the presentation and want to create more compelling slides than we suggest you use Prezi or the AI-powered Slidebean. If you are Apple loyalist, then Apple’s Keynote and Haiku Deck’s exclusive features will be enough to satisfy your requirements.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 People-friendly format Pop-ups and embeds condense more material into fewer slides so you can break information down into digestible chunks. 

🎮 Gamification Games, quizzes and puzzles make information more memorable and enable you to gather feedback and check understanding.

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Genially in a nutshell

How do I make a presentation interactive and how does Genially work? Find the answers to all of your slide-related questions here!

What’s an interactive presentation?

Interactive slides contain clickable hotspots, links, buttons, and animations that are activated at the touch of a button. Instead of reading or watching passively, your audience can actively interact with the content.

Genially’s interaction presentation software allows you to combine text, photos, video clips, audio and other content in one deck. It’s a great way to condense more information into fewer slides.

If you’re a teacher, you can share multiple materials in one single learning resource. Students can create their own projects using digital media and online maps. For business or training, try embedding spreadsheet data, PDFs, and online content directly in your slides.

An interactive slide deck is more user-friendly than a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or Google Slides document. That’s because you can break information down into chunks with pop-ups, labels, voiceovers and annotated infographics.

The other benefit of interactive content is increased engagement. It’s easier to keep your audience’s attention when they’re actively participating. Try Genially’s presentation software and free slideshow maker to see how it’s better than other presentation websites. You won’t go back to standard presentation apps!

How do you make a clickable slide?

The best way to make slides clickable is to use Genially’s free interactive presentation program. Design your slide then apply an interaction. In a couple of clicks, you can add popup windows, hyperlinks, close-up images, games, animations, multimedia and other content.

Choose from the library of hotspot buttons and icons to show people what to click on. Go to Presenter View to get a preview and see how your content will appear to your audience.

How do I create presentations that look professional?

You’ve got a deadline looming and you’re staring at the screen with a blank presentation. We’ve all been there! Starting a presentation design from scratch is tricky, especially if you’re short on time.

Genially’s free online presentation maker has over 2000 ready-to-use templates for professional slide presentations, photos slideshows, and more. Each slide design has been created by our team of top graphic designers. No need to worry about fonts, centering images, or designing a matching color scheme. It’s all done for you.

Start by browsing our layouts and themes for education, business and then customize with your own text and images.

How do I share or download my slides?

Because Genially is a cloud based presentation software, you can simply share the link to your slides. Like other online presentation tools, there are no files to download or store on your computer. Everything is saved online.

When you publish your slide deck, it gets its own unique url, just like a website. Share the link with others to let them explore the content in their own time. If you’re presenting live, just click the Present button.

You can also embed your presentation on your website, company wiki, or social media. Genially is compatible with WordPress, Moodle, Google Classroom, and other platforms. If you use an LMS, you can also download your interactive design slides in SCORM format.

For slideshow videos and slideshows with music, share online or download as an MP4 video. Check out our free slideshow templates for ideas.

Can I make a free presentation in Genially?

You bet! Genially is an easy-to-use slide maker, with a free version and paid plans. The free plan allows you to create unlimited slides with interactions and animations. Subscribe to one of our paid plans for more advanced features.

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What is the best app to use for creating professional slides for presentations?

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The best app for creating professional slides for presentations is PowerPoint. With its user-friendly interface, extensive range of design templates, and powerful editing features, PowerPoint allows users to create visually appealing and impactful slides. Additionally, PowerPoint offers seamless integration with other Microsoft Office applications, making it a versatile and efficient tool for presentation design.

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Library of Customizable Templates

Visme has hundreds of video presentation templates and thousands of animated presentation slides. There are three main styles — simple, creative and modern.

In the presentation section, there are three presentation themes — simple, creative and modern. Each style has hundreds of slides to choose from, with options by purpose, layout and function. Furthermore, there are thousands of templates for different industries with a number of beautiful slides.

There are also special animated templates to help you make creative video presentations with professional animations and effects.

Visme templates—for video and other content types—have a long list of benefits for your business content creation. Here are some of our favorites features in the Visme template editor:

Dynamic fields: When creating lots of repurposed content or many versions of the same project, dynamic fields will save you tons of time and effort. They update information throughout your projects quickly.
Shortcuts: Designing visual content takes time. We’ve incorporated features into the editor that save you precious minutes. With the shortcut feature , you can access all the basic design options and search for what you need just by clicking on the forward slash /.
Draw Freehand: Can’t find the ideal shape or line? Draw it freehand ! Do you want to annotate easily while presenting? Use the freehand drawing tool and add personality to your Visme content.
AI-generated graphics: Add AI-generated backgrounds, graphics and shapes to your videos. Use the prompt window to create unique design elements for your content.
AI Image Edit Tools: Enhance and refine your visuals effortlessly with Visme's AI image edit tools . Unblur and upscale blurry or small images, remove or add objects or seamlessly remove backgrounds from your images. Elevate the quality of your graphics with ease and add a professional touch to your presentations.
AI Writer: Tired of spending hours crafting content? Visme's AI writer has you covered. It helps you quickly generate texts for your slides, simplify complex ideas or concepts, maintain a cohesive and uniform tone throughout your presentation, proofread your content and more.

Video Capabilities

Video creation with Visme is easy and intuitive. We don’t believe in reinventing the wheel. Instead, we create solutions that you recognize but are more effective than you think. Our video editor is a great example with a smart undo and redo feature.

These are the video features you’ll get to know and love in no time:

Video editing timeline: Easily edit slide transitions, the order of animated objects in each slide, the duration of the individual or grouped animated objects in each slide, add or record narration and other audio, as well as adjust the timing of all of these elements.
Trim videos: Trim the beginning and end sections of a video in your slide by dragging the yellow bar in the timeline.
Video settings: Choose how an added or uploaded video plays inside the project. The options are loop, mute, autoplay and show control bar.
Video uploads: Depending on your subscription plan, you can upload your own videos to add to a video project. Please always ensure you have the right license for each video you upload.
Adding video with a URL or from a video provider: Easily add videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia and more. Either use the app integration or add the video URL.
Animated characters and graphics: Add interactive visuals with Visme’s exclusive animated elements; you won’t find them anywhere else. Control their basic features like color and movement repetition.
Animation controls : Add creative animations to any elements on the slide and adjust them to fit your timeline. Choose animation effects like bounce and zoom.
Video creation on mobile: You can create and download videos with the Visme iOS app. All the projects on your computer are available in the app on your phone.

Vast Library of Visuals & Video

The visuals that are available in Visme are numerous and varied. And they’re always available for your video presentations.

Video Presentation Software - Screenshot of 3D icons in Visme

Create videos for social media with 3D visuals animated characters, put together report videos with animated data widgets, or design explainer videos with your own footage, photos and voice overs .

Visme has a large gallery with millions of images and hundreds of hand-selected video clips. You can use these as both backgrounds or elements in your video composition. Make your images look better with frames and interesting shape cutouts.

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You can also embed third-party content from other apps into your Visme video presentations.

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Data Visualization

Visme has a ton of data visualization capabilities. From data widgets to charts and graphs that can visualize up to 50 columns of data. All charts and graphs are automatically animated and you can also edit the way they enter and exit the slides.

Visualizing data is one of the best features in the Visme editor. You can make any type of data look amazing by simply importing an Excel sheet, or you can create a report dashboard with live data from Google Sheets.

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Instant Branding

Video presentations in Visme can be branded easily.

The Visme Brand Wizard uses AI to generate a vast collection of branded templates, including videos. Teams can also create branded templates from scratch using the workspace Brand Kit and assign them to colleagues for review .

With a team plan, all the users can create content while staying on brand no matter what format they use apart from video presentations.

Audio Capabilities

Add audio to your video presentation from the Visme audio library. There are a huge repository songs you can use or upload your own clips. Additionally, you can record a voiceover straight into the software.

Trim the audio length for each individual clip using the audio editing timeline. Adjust it to the video using the video timeline. Add a background clip to play across all slides and customize when it starts, fades or stops.

With Visme's Presenter Studio, you can even record your entire presentation ahead of time and share it with your audience via a shareable link. This is a great way to give asynchronous presentations, feedback, sales pitches, etc., especially if you’re working across time zones.

Length Limit

Videos can be a few minutes long but with upcoming updates, there will be a longer length limit.

Video Output Options

Your video presentation can be embedded on a website , or downloaded as an MP4 or GIF file to share offline. Here are some video output essentials you need to know about Visme:

Apart from downloading to your PC, you can also send the video directly to your Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Hubspot accounts.

Your video continues to render even if you close your browser. Keep an eye out for an email letting you know that your video is ready for download.

Your video presentations can also be shared with a public or private Visme link without the need to download them. They also can be sent directly to social media.

Easily share to Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Twitter and email right within the Visme editor to enhance your content marketing efforts.

When you share a video as a link or embed it into a site or digital document, you can get analytics about who has opened and viewed your content. Hardly any other video presentation app has this feature. That’s why Visme is better at helping you create content with a purpose.

Finally, videos made with Visme can also be exported in SCORM and xAPI formats. You can easily create engaging corporate video presentations or virtual courses. Help your learning and development team create better e-learning content with Visme.

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Your video presentations can also be shared with a public or private link, plus they can be sent directly to social media. Easily share to Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Twitter and email directly.

Share video presentations with a public or private link or embed your presentation to receive analytics about who has opened and viewed your content. Hardly any other video presentation tools have this feature. That’s why Visme is better at helping you create content with a purpose.

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Pricing tiers in Visme are monthly and annual. The annual option has a great discount in comparison to the monthly and is as follows:

Basic: Free
Starter: $12.25 / month
Pro: $24.75 / month
Teams/Enterprise: Upon request

Who is Visme For

Visme is for the busy professional who wants to create stunning visual content but doesn’t have the time or desire to spend hours perfecting the design. With thousands of templates and millions of design assets, Visme makes it quick and easy to create content that will wow your audience.

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Making a video presentation with Lumen5 is a bit different from the other software we mention here.

The original idea with Lumen5 when it started was to import the URL of a blog post and the AI software created a video for you. A few years after inception Lumen5 is now a stronger software with more features to support their original idea.

Lumen5 is a cloud-based video presentation software.

The Interface

The Lumen5 interface is simple and easy to grasp. There are two very similar interfaces, one that has a content tab for when you upload a blog post or long text and the interface to use with templates. The only difference is the content tab.

Text layouts have limited customizations for placement and animation. All animations are automatic but can be personalized to some extent.

Video proportions can be changed into all social media sizes easily and all the content rearranges itself automatically. There are no undo-redo controls.

Available Templates

The Lumen5 software offers a number of templates to start with. There aren’t a ton of options, but enough to get you started. Every template has various size versions so the complete template gallery looks bigger than it really is.

Available Visuals

The visuals available in Lumen5 consist of stock images and video clips. Depending on your subscription level, you can access up to 330M stock photos from Getty and Shutterstock. You can upload images, video and audio from the desktop or straight from your phone.

There are no data visualization capabilities in Lumen5.

All paid plans have branding options like fonts, music and a branded outro.

There are many music audio clips available in the software and you can upload your own audio clips too. Users can also add their own voiceover to their presentation.

Lumen5 videos cannot be any longer than 10 minutes, regardless of your plan.

Video Output

All videos are downloaded as MP4, in horizontal, vertical or square formats. They can be embedded or shared to Facebook.

The quality of the video depends on your subscription plan.

Apart from their free plan, Lumen5 has four paid plans. Pricing is as follows:

Basic: $19/month
Starter: $59/month
Professional: $149
Enterprise: Upon request

Who is Lumen5 For

Lumen5 is perfect for content creators that want to create videos from their blog posts. Also for those who post a lot of content on Facebook, the integration is quite seamless.

This video presentation software is also for people who don’t want to be fussing with too many tools and want things done fast.

Biteable markets their video creation software as a marketing video maker. Nevertheless, the horizontal format on Biteable also works well as a video presentation.

Biteable is a cloud-based video presentation software.

video presentation software - biteable interface

Using the Biteable 3.0 editor is easy and straightforward. The tools for editing fonts are simple with the ability to change the font, size and color. The animation of the text is done per slide so you can’t animate one piece of text one way and another in a different way.

The video editor is separated into text, footage and music tracks. You can edit the footage by trimming.

There are no undo and redo controls.

video presentation software - biteable template library

Biteable offers hundreds of pre-designed video templates to start with. Additionally, from inside the editor, you can access a library of video slides. We’re big fans of the claymation explainer animated slides.

The image and footage library has thousands of ready to use photos and clips. Most are from Unsplash —the same photo library you already get access to with Visme .

There are no data visualization tools available in Biteable.

Easily add a watermark, upload fonts and use hex codes for colors. However, there isn’t a set Brand Kit.

The Biteable software offers stock audio and you can upload your own.

Biteable has a maximum video length limit of 10 minutes.

Videos can be shared online or downloaded as Mp4 HD and full HD. Both are available on paid plans.

The free plan only lets you create videos. In order to download, you’ll have to upgrade to one of the plans. Their pricing is as follows:

Pro: $49/month
Teams: $99/month

video presentation software - biteable pricing

Who is Biteable For

Biteable is for content creators that work mostly with social media.

The Animaker video presentation software has lots of tools and resources to make complex videos of any type. Choose between animated videos and live-action videos.

The video editing controls are more elaborate than on other programs and the character animation options are extensive.

video presentation software - animaker interface

Animaker has two interface options, a full and a lite version. The full version has all the tools on hand to create scenes, animated character options, frame editing and more.

The lite version is a simplified editor window for users who don’t need to have all the tools available at all times. Switching from one to the other is easy.

There are no undo-redo options.

video presentation software - animaker templates

Animaker has millions of templates in both animation and live-action formats. Before starting a video creation, select from the template sizes.

Once inside the editor, all the other templates in the same size are also available through the magic box tab.

There are millions of images and video clips, shapes, icons, designed text layouts, plus animated video clips, customizable characters and animated scene effects.

There are no data visualization tools available.

The software has a simple brand kit in the user dashboard. Animaker brand kits include an animated character, and an intro/outro set. Assets are available in the editor.

Videos can have music or voice-overs recorded with the user’s computer microphone. The media library has many audio files to choose from, organized by category and style. Audio files can also be uploaded.

Free plans can create videos up to 2 minutes in length. Some paid plans can create videos of up to 30 minutes.

Finished videos can be downloaded as MP4 in varying qualities. Shapes can be horizontal, vertical or square. GIFs can be downloaded at a limit of 30 seconds. Videos can also be shared directly to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Additionally, videos can be downloaded for specific social outlets like Slack and Flickr. The software suggests optimization for each channel.

The free plan lets you download as many videos as you want—but with a watermark. Some other options are available in the free plan but are limited. The Starter and Pro plans have a limited amount of downloads with an extra price for additional downloads.

Plan pricing is as follows:

Basic: $12.5/month
Starter: $25/month
Pro: $39/month

Who is Animaker For

Animaker is for any kind of content creator. Highly geared at creators looking for explainer videos but now expanded to more options. The learning curve is not very high but it still needs some getting used to, especially in the timeline editor tools.

Powtoon has long been a favorite for creating video presentations, especially explainer videos. Their animated and whiteboard explainers have been around for a while.

Now the software has a lot more creative options for making video presentations in five main styles with lots of templates in each.

The main size is horizontal presentation but you can also switch to square and vertical.

Powtoon is a cloud-based video presentation software.

video presentation software - Powtoon interface

The editor interface on Powtoon has two options. Editor and Creator. When you choose a template, the editor interface opens on Edit, with options to customize the content in the template.

By switching to Create, then many more options show up and you can add lots of things to a video presentation.

video presentation software - Powtoon templates

Powtoon has thousands of templates in five categories; modern edge, whiteboard, cartoon, infographic and real. All the templates are available before starting a project and also once inside the editor.

You can also import PowerPoint presentations as a beta feature.

The visuals available are varied and extensive. There are thousands of different animated characters, which is what Powtoon is known for. Additionally, there are icons, shapes, design elements, images and video clips.

There are charts but they are not editable. Apart from those, there are no data visualization tools available.

There is no practical brand kit available but since the editing options are extensive, videos can be branded to some extent. The ability to upload fonts is only available in the highest subscription.

Also, resell right and white label rights are available in the Agency Plan.

Corporate and Enterprise plans have a brand toolkit. These plans are upon request.

Users can record voice-overs or music directly into the software. The music upload feature has an integration with Fiverr to hire a professional music creator. Additionally, there are hundreds of tracks to choose from right inside the app.

The maximum video length on Powtoon is 30 minutes.

Videos can be downloaded, published to social channels, or shared directly. Downloads can be MP4, PPT or PDF.

Publishing goes straight to Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Slideshare, Wistia and Hubspot. Shares go to Twitter, email and Linkedin. There is also an embed option.

video presentation software - Powtoon pricing

Annual pricing for the annual plans are as follows:

Lite: $15/month
Professional: $40/month
Business: $125/month

Who is Powtoon For

Powtoon is for anyone interested in creating elaborate video presentations for all sorts of purposes. The free and low tier options are fine for social media marketers, while the higher tiers are good for corporate or education longer type video presentations.

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The classic PowerPoint software, and powerful Google Slide alternative , can also be used as a video presentation software.

Any presentation created with PowerPoint can be saved as a video in MP4 or MOV file. You simply create a presentation how you would normally, add animations and audio, then export or save as an MP4 or MOV file.

Don’t forget that you can also import a PPTX presentation to Visme and add all of our visual features to make an even better video presentation.

video presentation software - powerpoint interface

The PowerPoint interface has a toolbar on top just like all Microsoft software. There are many options for creating video presentations, from animated titles, images and graphics to creative transitions between slides.

The slides are organized on the left hand tab and slide templates are added easily with different layouts to choose from.

You can use any of the classic templates that PowerPoint has to offer to create a video presentation. Additionally you can use any PowerPoint template from sites online or specialized PowerPoint slide creators.

You can also start a video presentation quickly with the help of QuickStarter. Simply add a topic to start with a PowerPoint outline and start your presentation from there.

There are plenty of standard visuals in PowerPoint for video presentations. You can select shapes, images, animation effects for text and other visual elements like tables, graphs and 3D models.

There is also a section called smart design that offers premade templates of visuals like flowcharts, cycles and other types of layouts.

PowerPoint has a variety of charts and graphs for your video presentations. Data can be imported from Excel or entered manually.

Create branded video presentations by selecting color palettes, using your brand fonts and adding your logo. Branded templates can be saved for future use to stay on brand.

Import any audio files from your computer to your video presentation. PowerPoint doesn’t offer an audio library inside the program. You can also record voice overs straight into the platform.

There is no real limit to how long a video presentation made with PowerPoint can be. GIFs don’t have a length limit either. But for optimization purposes they shouldn’t really be longer than 30 seconds.

Video presentations can be downloaded as MP4 or MOV files. There are no sharing capabilities to social media or email. If you aren’t fully happy with your video presentation, save it as a PPTX file and upload it to Visme to finish off with better tools.

PowerPoint can be purchased on its own for a one-time fee of $159.99, or users can choose to sign up for the full Microsoft 365 subscription starting at $6.99/month.

Keynote is the Apple version of PowerPoint. It comes included with all Apple computers and is relatively easy to use. The tools are not as varied as PowerPoint but it’s still pretty useful.

The highest pro to Keynote is that it’s free with all Mac computers. Apart from that it’s just a simple video presentation maker.

The Keynote interface is simple and no-frills. The tools are organized in small tabs that don’t take up too much space on the dashboard and editor. Slides are listed on the left, tools are on top and settings are on the right.

Undo and redo options are controlled with keyboard shortcuts ctrl+Z and ctrl+Y.

video presentation software - keynote templates

Keynote has a number of available templates to start designing. There haven’t been any new ones added to the program lately. You can import any templates from third party sites like Envato.

The only available visuals in Keynote are icons and charts. Images and videos can be uploaded from your computer easily but there aren’t any available inside the software. The visuals that are available in the software can all be animated

Keynote offers a number of charts and graphs in three different styles, flat, 3D and interactive. Input the data in a sheet inside the program manually.

Branded video presentations are created easily by using a brand’s color palette but Keynote will only let you use Apple fonts.

Upload audio clips are uploaded into a video presentation directly for your computer. There are no available audio files inside the program. You can record a voiceover with your microphone.

There is no length limit to download video presentations. You can also download animated GIFs.

You can download video presentations from Keynote as mp4 or animated GIFs. They can’t be shared to social media straight from the program.

Keynote is free with all Mac computers. Windows users can get Keynote with an Apple iCloud account.

Who is Keynote For

Anyone can use Keynote, especially since it’s free. Even if it doesn’t have the greatest of features, it can create any sort of simple video presentations for any industry. Keynote is a great choice for students who always need to create presentations for class .

Vyond is the new name for GoAnimate, a recognized video presentation software. The new rebrand has also come along with a new look and more features. Vyond video presentations are all about the characters and the number of ways they can be customized is pretty extensive.

Apart from that, all other features are pretty standard, there are backgrounds and sets for the characters to interact in.

Vyond is a cloud-based video presentation software.

video presentation software - vyond interface

The Vyond editor is called Vyond Studio. The tools are all hiding behind a menu of tabs so the editor is generally empty of clutter for easy editing. Tutorial bubbles help when you’re new so you can get used to all the tools and where they are.

The bottom of the screen is taken up by an extendable timeline editor that lists scenes, frames and all objects in order of animated settings.

There are undo and redo controls.

video presentation software - vyond templates

All the templates in Vyond are separated into three categories: contemporary, business-friendly and whiteboard animation. There are no complete templates to start with.

When you choose one, the Vyond Studio opens up with one starting scene and all the continuing slides are created with different backgrounds, props and characters.

The main visuals in the Vyond Studio are the characters, props and backgrounds. The characters are highly customizable, to the point of face angle and animated actions.

There are hundreds of props that can be arranged with the characters and backgrounds to create infinite combinations.

All the visuals can be animated with different movements and styles. All these animations are controlled in the bottom bar to a granular level. Additionally, you can add camera movements.

There are some customizable charts that can be added to the Vyond video presentation. Data can be entered into the editor and the charts can be color-coded. The available charts are pie charts, line charts and percentages.

Vyond doesn’t offer a brand kit but colors can be customized with hex numbers . In high pricing tiers, companies can create a unique character and import fonts.

The best aspect of audio in Vyond is that voice overs are synced to the character’s mouth movements. Apart from that, you can add background music.

Videos can be downloaded as videos of GIFs but only with paid subscriptions. Higher subscriptions offer higher quality video output. Videos are only available in horizontal format.

video presentation software - vyond pricing

Annual Pricing is as follows:

Essential: $25/month
Premium: $54/month
Professional: $92/month

Who is Vyond For

The video presentations made with Vyond are good for people that need to create explainer videos in one place and like to have complete control over the animations. The learning curve for the animations can be a bit high so the people creating it need to know what they’re doing.

Wideo is an easy-to-use video presentation software. The tools are just what you need to create a video presentation fast. What’s surprising about Wideo is the granular control of the animations and transitions.

Wideo is a cloud-based video presentation software.

video presentation software - wideo interface

The Wideo editor interface is clean looking and with plenty of space to work in. The bottom section is the timeline editor which controls one scene at a time. There are options to preview one scene or the entire video.

On the left is the toolbar for adding elements to the scenes and the right bar is the controls for adding and organizing scenes.

Wideo has undo and redo controls.

video presentation software - wideo templates

Before starting a video presentation with Wideo you have the choice of around a hundred templates. Every template is available as landscape, square or vertical. You can still add more slides inside the template you chose.

The elements available in Wideo are backgrounds, images, videos, text effects and animated text scenes.

There are no data visualization options in Wideo.

There aren’t any specific branding tools apart from being able to choose the right colors. You can have white label rights on the higher plans.

You can add music audio files from the Wideo library or upload your own.

The video length limit depends on the subscription plan, from one minute to ten minutes to 30 minutes.

Videos can be downloaded as horizontal, square, or vertical orientation as mp.4. They can also be uploaded to YouTube or shared to Twitter or Facebook. They can also be embedded.

There are three plans for Wideo. The subscriptions are as follows:

Pro +: $79/month

video presentation software - wideo pricing

Who is Wideo For

The Wideo video presentation software is great for content creators that need to make videos or social media posts, ads and simple explainers.

Promo (formerly known as Slidely) is a cloud-based visual content creation program that offers video presentation slide designs. You can create videos with a horizontal format that can work as presentations.

They don’t call their creations video presentations but rather video ads and marketing videos . This makes sense since the available text area is limited and there are nonexistent data visualization capabilities.

video presentation software - Promo interface

The Promo editing interface is simple and to the point. They’ve set up a simple video editor with clips and tracks to separately edit the text, visuals and audio The controls are simple but effective.

video presentation software - Promo templates

Promo has over 2M pre-designed templates to choose from in a variety of categories. The first time you log in, an onboarding wizard takes you through the choices to show you the templates that suit your needs.

All the templates are easy to customize but have limited capabilities when it comes to text length. You can only add 100 characters to each text block.

That being said, all the text options are nice but can’t be changed too much apart from the font and color and alignment.

The Promo video presentation maker has millions of stock images and video clips from Getty Images and Shutterstock. Upload your own images or short .mp4 videos. Uploaded videos can be trimmed to fit the overall composition.

There are no data visualization tools in Promo.

In paid plans, you can upload a watermark logo, use hex colors and upload fonts. There is no set Brand Kit, but in higher tiers, videos are white-labeled so that companies can apply their branding.

The program offers some song tracks. You can upload your own songs and recordings.

The longest video you can make with Promo is five minutes.

Videos in all pricing plans are downloaded as mp.4 in HD. Higher plans offer Full HD. The available sizes are square, horizontal, vertical and banner.

The Free plan only lets you create videos, not download any. To be able to actually download or share videos, you need to get a subscription.

The pricing options are as follows:

Basic: $29/month
Standard: $59/month
Pro: $199/month

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Who is Slidely For

Promo by Slidely is for content creators that need to make simple but eye-catching video presentations. These videos are best suited for social media.

11 Premiere Rush

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Premiere Rush is more of a video editing software than a video presentation software but it still works for the same purpose. Especially if the presentation needs detailed video editing.

This software is part of the Adobe Cloud and is like an easy version of Adobe Premiere, one of the best video editors in the industry. You’ll need footage to create a video presentation with Premiere Rush. It can be images or video clips.

Premiere Rush has a desktop and mobile app, they communicate with each other. These are both downloadable programs.

video presentation software - Adobe Premiere Rush interface

The Premiere Rush interface is like a classic video editing software. The timeline and tracks are at the bottom of the screen, the media is organized on the left and the tools are on the right. All the video editing tools are on the bottom left of the menu.

Premiere Rush might need a bit of getting used to and another tool to work with alongside it. Visme is a great option where you can create a perfect video presentation and then import it to Premiere Rush to make longer and more elaborate videos.

Both desktop and mobile versions have undo-redo controls.

There aren’t any templates to choose from when starting a project, but there are motion graphics title templates that can be added to a video in the editor. The same applies to creative transition templates between clips.

Apart from titles and transitions, the software has all the editing features you need for a professional video.

There are no data visualization integrations in Premiere Rush but you can import any media from another software as long as it’s an image or a video clip.

When it comes to branding, you can apply any font in your computer to the titles you use. But titles can’t be customized, they come as they are.

You can upload any audio or voice over you’d like to add. There are no available clips in the software.

There is no limit to how long your video can be, but keep in mind that the more resources you add to a timeline, the heavier its file will be.

Videos are downloaded as MP4. They can also be shared directly to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Behance.

Premiere Rush and Premiere Pro are two tools within the Adobe Creative Cloud. You can get both for $20.99/month, or get access to the full creative suite for $54.99/month.

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Who is Premiere Rush For

This video presentation software is good for content creators that want to create content on the go. Premiere Rush is not your regular presentation software so it’s more for a different kind of presentation.

It’s more about the footage than the info, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t create presentations.

12 FlexClip

FlexClip is a web-based video maker that allows users to create professional-quality videos for various purposes such as business, education, personal, and more.

One of the most useful tools on FlexClip is the AI text-to-speech feature. This feature allows users to add voice overs to their videos without the need for expensive equipment or professional voice actors.

The FlexClip interface is user-friendly and intuitive, making it easy for beginners to create high-quality videos. The editor features drag-and-drop functionality, a timeline, and a variety of editing tools, such as text overlays, transitions, and filters.

FlexClip offers a wide selection of templates for different video types, including social media videos, business videos, and personal videos. These 5000+ templates are customizable and can be used as a starting point for creating a video.

The FlexClip library includes millions of stock photos, videos, and music tracks that users can use in their videos. Users can also upload their own media files to use in their videos.

Currently, there are no tools for visualizing data.

Users can add their own logos, watermarks, and brand colors to their videos to create a cohesive brand identity.

FlexClip offers a wide selection of music tracks and sound effects that users can use in their videos. Users can also upload their own audio files or record voiceovers directly within the editor.

The length of the videos permitted is determined by the subscription plan, ranging from one minute to an unrestricted video duration.

FlexClip videos can be downloaded in MP4 format in resolutions ranging from 480p to 1080p. Videos can also be shared directly to social media platforms or embedded on websites.

FlexClip offers a free plan with limited features, as well as two paid plans:

Plus: $9.99/month

Business: $19.99/month

Who is FlexClip For

FlexClip's user-friendly interface and extensive library of templates, stock footage, and music make it an ideal choice for individuals, small businesses, and marketers who want to create video presentations that stand out. With FlexClip, users can easily customize their videos by adding their own logos, images, and text, without having to learn complex video editing software.

The AI text-to-speech and auto subtitle features take video editing to the next level by making it more accessible and efficient for creators of all levels.

Q. What Is a Video Presentation?

A video presentation is a dynamic and engaging method of delivering information to an audience. It involves using moving visuals and sound to explain concepts, promote ideas or convey messages.

Unlike traditional text-based presentations, it uses graphics, animations, voiceover, music and video clips to create an interactive and engaging experience.

Q. How Do You Make a Presentation Video?

Making a video presentation involves several steps. Initially, you should clearly define your topic and objectives, then create a storyboard or script detailing what you plan to say and show. Use this as a guide when filming or recording the video.

Choose a reliable video editing software from the list we provided in this article. These tools will help combine your visuals, add audio or voiceover, include transition effects and arrange the video clips in a logical sequence.

Remember to review thoroughly and edit where necessary. Once you're satisfied with your video presentation, export it into an appropriate format that suits your distribution channel.

Q. Why Make a Video Presentation?

Video presentations are especially effective for capturing and retaining the audience's attention. They make complex topics more digestible by breaking information into chunks, accompanied by appropriate visuals.

Also, you can access them remotely, reaching a wider, potentially global audience. Video presentations can effectively communicate emotions, making your message more persuasive and impactful.

Q. What Should Be Included in a Video Presentation?

A successful video presentation should always be thoughtful, engaging and impactful. Here are some of the critical components of a good video presentation:

Clear Objective: Outline your core message from the start. It sets the course of your entire presentation.
Engaging Script: Craft a script that's clear, concise and appealing to your audience.
Relevant Visuals: Use relatable images, graphics or videos to support your message and help your content attract viewers.
Quality Audio: Ensure your audio (voiceover, dialogue, or music) is clear. Poor-quality audio can ruin the viewing experience.
Smooth Transitions: Connections between segments or slides should be logical and seamless to avoid disrupting the flow.
Call to Action: Include a call to action to guide your audience to their next step, like visiting your site, attending an event or buying a product.

Create Your Own Video Presentation With Visme’s Video Presentation Software

As you can see, there are many options to help you create a video presentation . But none of them have the quantity and quality of tools that Visme has.

Other tools have more animated characters but no data visualizations. Others have 3D visuals but no audio files or brand kits. Only Visme has it all, making it the perfect tool for anyone.

Visme is both a video presentation creation tool and video presenter software. No need to download videos or even share them when you have to present them in a Zoom meeting. Simply present directly from Visme and show the best version of your content.

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