Even PowerPoint alternatives like Google Slides 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. The newest crop of online presentation tools also go 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 conversations. We tested more than 20 of the top presentation software solutions out there to bring you the best of the best.
Google Slides for collaborating on presentations. Canva for a free presentation app. Ludus for creative presentations. Prezi for non-linear, conversational presentations. Powtoon for video presentations. Genially for interactive, presenter-less presentations.
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For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. When looking for the best presentation apps, we wanted utility players since 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 we were looking for:. Pre-built templates: The best apps should have attractive, professional-looking templates to build presentations in a hurry. Sharing and collaboration options: More people are working remotely.
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. Already have slides and want a great way to share them instead? Here are the best apps to share presentations. Google Slides —part of the Google Workspace family of apps—is a traditional presentation app designed around collaboration.
It works much like PowerPoint and other presentation apps you've used in the past, only Google Slides runs in your browser, for free.
Select a theme for the slideshow, then add standard slide layouts and insert text, graphics, and slide transitions from the menus. Turn it on, and it'll add a banner with a link to the top of your presentation. People can visit that link to ask questions in a separate window and upvote other people's questions.
Hosts will see incoming questions through a separate tab within the presenter view. Google Slides really shines when it comes to collaboration. Share a link to your presentation, and anyone you want can add details to your slides, write presentation notes, and anything else you want in your presentation.
Add comments, similar to Google Docs, to share feedback. While PowerPoint is the market leader when it comes to presentation software, some people may be unwilling to subscribe to a Microsoft subscription, especially if they don't expect to need to use it very often. However, there are plenty of great alternatives available for free that you can use. While these won't have the same level of features as PowerPoint, they still offer a very competent platform to design the presentation you need.
To make your presentation really shine, consider grabbing a free photo editor too, so your pictures look perfect before you add them to your slides. Try it free for 14 days. 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.
The only major divergence from Microsoft Powerpoint is that you need to add animated paths from one part of the canvas to another. Prezi makes it hard to visualize structured data like financials, which can make it difficult to use in business applications. Canva is perfect for making speedy presentations right in your web browser. It may seem a little limited by comparison to PowerPoint, but as it's browser-based that means cross-platform compatibility.
Additionally, it allows for collaborative work, and Google Slides really works well here. On top of the fact that it integrates with the rest of the Google Workspace apps, not least Google Drive, and you have a contender. Read our full Google Slides review. Zoho Show is another of the many, many tools and apps that Zoho have made available for business use.
It also operates in the cloud so it's accessible to any device with a browser, and it also allows for collaborative work. You can also easily share the link for users to download, or provide a live presentation online. The updated version has a simpler and easier to use interface, and comes with a free version and a paid-for one with expanded features.
Slides comes with a lot of features in an easy to use interface, and involves setting up presentations using drag and drop into an existing grid. It's also internet-based so there's no software to download, and it only requires a browser to use and access. Evernote is normally thought of as just note-taking software, but it does provide the option to create a presentation you can share online or with an audience. In that regard it's a little more limited than the other options in not being dedicated presentation software.
However, as an easy and handy way to pull together a presentation quickly it could serve as a back-up or last-minute option, especially if Evernote is already being commonly used by you. LibreOffice Impress is part of the open-source suite offered as a free alternative to Microsoft Office, and comes with a powerful array of tool and editing options for your presentation, not least working with 3D images. It's supported by a large community, so its easy to find an array of additional templates.
If there is a limitation it's that it's software you download and install rather than web-based, but any presentations created should be easily portable to the web if needed. Adobe Spark does things a bit differently, as rather than just use images its geared toward video as well. This makes for potentially more powerful multimedia presentations, especially as Adobe also have a big selection of photos and images available for its users.
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