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25 Tools for Creating and Delivering Amazing Presentations

Updated: August 10, 2022

Published: November 10, 2020

If you're in business, you need to know how to create captivating presentations. Whether you're trying to convince your boss to support a new campaign, talking with a prospect to close a deal, or building a new piece of marketing collateral, you need to know how craft a presentation that won't put people to sleep.

The best (and easiest) way to do that? Use the right tools to create and deliver your presentation.

If you're not sure which tools to use, look no further than this blog post. We’ve compiled our list of the top presentation tools for sales and marketing professionals. They’re listed below, in no particular order. But first ...

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Best Presentation Tools

Canva makes design easy -- even for marketers and salespeople who feel like they're design-challenged. The platform gives you a bunch of presentation templates to use right away, and it's very easy to customize them to your organization and presentation objective. Plus, a variety of apps that integrate with Google Drive, Instagram, and YouTube, to name a few.

Pricing : Free; Pro, $12.95/month for up to five people; Enterprise, $30/month per person

Often, being different is what attracts prospects, and Powtoon can help you do that in your presentations. Powtoon’s animation software lets you easily create videos with props, characters, and more -- which can help you differentiate your company when talking with prospects.

Pricing : Pro, $19/month; Pro+ $49/month; Agency, $89/month

3. PowerPoint

For years, PowerPoint has been the standard in presentation software, but it hasn’t remained static. PowerPoint is full of features to make sales and marketing presentations dynamic and engaging. ( Here are just a few ways you can do that .)

Pricing : Business Basic, $5/user/month; Business Standard, $12.50/user/month; Business Premium, $20/user/month

4. Slidesgo

Slidesgo is your creative companion in the world of presentation design. This website specializes in crafting visually stunning Google Slides and PowerPoint templates that breathe life into your ideas, making them shine on any screen. With a wide variety of templates ranging from business and marketing to medicine and education, Slidesgo empowers presenters of all backgrounds to engage, educate, and inspire their audiences.

Pricing: Free plan, $0; Premium, $4.99; Education, $2.99

A PowerPoint add-in, Oomfo helps sales and marketing pros create those oh-so-important interactive charts for presentations. Specialized charts, live charts from multiple files, data from cloud applications, interactive options, one-click conversions -- it’s all possible, and more, with Oomfo.

Pricing: Free

Apple’s Keynote allows users to work between their Mac and iOS devices, as well as with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint. With easy-to-use visual tools, drag and drop functionality, interactive charts, and more, Keynote is a popular choice among sales and marketing professionals.

Pricing : Free

7. SlideModel

SlideModel contains thousands of ready-made and 100% editable presentation templates to help any presenter save time creating engaging and aesthetically pleasing presentations. Their collection of presentation templates covers a variety of business purposes and even gets updated periodically to add new business and education templates. You can find a collection of visually appealing slides on the site including dashboards, creative infographics, editable Maps, funnels, timelines, mindmaps, and presentation slides depending on the need of your presentation. Their slides templates are easy to edit and are compatible with PowerPoint and Google Slides.

Pricing :  Free plan, $0; One-Day Access, $24.50; Annual Unlimited, $199.90/year

8. Beautiful.ai

Create beautiful slides, pitches, and proposals without a team of designers. AI applies design rules in real time, and a library of free photos and icons are at your fingertips.

Pricing : Basic, $0; Pro, $12/month; Team, $38/user/month

9. Haiku Deck

Available for the web or iPad, Haiku Deck has become a favorite of sales and marketing pros. With Haiku Deck, professionals can quickly create presentations that can be "easily projected, shared, posted, embedded on a website or blog, or viewed on any web-enabled device." Though it's another tool that helps you create presentations from scratch, its ease-of-use sets it apart from the rest.

Pricing : Pro, $9.99 - $19.99/month; Premium, $29.99/month

Vyond is an online animation software that allows you to create animated videos for marketing campaigns, sales enablement, or even human resources. Use their library of customizable templates or create your own from scratch.

Pricing : Essential, $229/year; Premium, $649/year; Professional, $999/user/year; Enterprise, contact for pricing

11. Storydoc

With templates for all the most popular business use cases, Storydoc is an interactive presentation maker built to help sales teams and marketing professionals engage more prospects and boost conversion rates. 

You can create amazing and engaging decks where you can embed video and social media content to tell your story the right way. Then, integrate your CRM into Storydoc decks, as well as calendars, sign-up forms, and other solutions that will make your presentation. Additionally, you have access to Storydoc's tracking analytics which shows who viewed your presentation and which components they interacted with the most. 

Pricing :  Free trial 14 days); Starter Plan, $40/month

Busy sales and marketing pros choose emaze because it makes creating amazing presentations quick and easy. The options abound with emaze: Choose a professionally designed template and then create a slideshow, video presentation , or 3D presentation.

Pricing : Business Plan, contact for pricing; Executive Plan, $40/month; Pro Plan, $13/month

13. Camtasia

TechSmith’s Camtasia is an amazing tool that helps you create professional videos. You can record screen movements, import HD video from another source, customize and edit the video, and then share the completed video presentation on practically any device. 

Pricing : Individual, $249.99/user/year; Business $249.99/user/year; Education, $169.99/user/year; Government and Non-Profit, $223.99/user/year

14. SlideShare

SlideShare is a popular choice for sales and marketing professionals looking for a way to share their content publicly. Because it already has a built-in audience, you can easily distribute your presentation out to lots of people -- and those people can embed your SlideShares on websites and blogs, or share them on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

15. SlideDog

Sometimes, sales and marketing professionals need to be able to move between presentation tools, but it’s not always possible because of their technical limitations. SlideDog is the solution, as it enables users to switch between PowerPoint, Prezi, PDF, web pages and others.

Pricing : Free; Pro, $99/year; Pro Event, $49 for one-time payment

16. Presentation Assistant

Presentation Assistant lives up to its name: It assists professionals by enabling them to annotate, zoom, and more during a presentation. Sales and marketing professionals can clarify and emphasize points more clearly to their audience with Presentation Assistant.

Pricing : Presentation Pointer, $29.95; Presentation Screen Master, $29.95

17. authorSTREAM

Sales and marketing pros choose authorSTREAM to make their presentations dynamic and engaging. authorSTREAM allows users to share their PowerPoint presentations publicly or privately, broadcast them, convert them to video, communicate and collaborate about them, and more.

Pricing: Free or paid plans start at $4.20/month

18. Zentation

With Zentation, salespeople and marketers combine video and slides into a simulated live experience. Presentations created with Zentation become webinars, webcasts, and virtual events for prospects and customers -- all great collateral for marketing and sales.

Pricing : Free; Premium, $10 - $45/month; White-Label, contact for pricing

Sales and marketing professionals love Prezi because it is cloud-based. Prezi makes creating, editing, and presenting from your browser, desktop, iPad, or iPhone possible anywhere, any time.

Pricing : Standard, $5/month; Plus, $15/month; Premium, $59/month

20. Brainshark

Sales reps and marketers often choose Brainshark, a cloud-based presentation tool, because it allows them to create and deliver presentations live or on-demand (even using their iPad or iPhone), use on-demand video content, polls, or surveys for increased engagement, and embed presentations in websites and blogs.

Pricing : Contact for pricing

Vcasmo is a unique presentation tool -- it's a multimedia solution that enables users to synchronize a video and slideshow, side by side. Sales and marketing pros love Vcasmo because it supports playback in three forms: browser, mobile, and iPad. 

Pricing : Free; Standard, $10.99/month; Professional, $16.99/month

22. ViewletBuilder

ViewletBuilder is a different presentation tool; it captures critical screen updates and cursor position changes so sales and marketing pros can create presentations detailing how their product or sites work. With a plethora of features, ViewletBuilder allows for editing and enhancing and includes a variety of publishing and sharing options, too.

Pricing : Pro, $399; Enterprise, $599

23. Zoho Show

Zoho Show is a top pick for sales and marketing pros because it lives online, making it possible to create, access, present, and more from anywhere, any time. The simple, intuitive interface and collaboration features are just two of its beloved benefits.

24. AhaSlides

Pricing : Free; Essential, $4.95/month; Pro, $15.95/month; Annual, Monthly & One-time plans available.

Visme is an all-in-one content creation platform with a vast library of professionally designed presentation templates, each tailored to your industry and specific proposal needs. Its beginner-friendly design platform allows you to drag and drop elements into place, use dynamic fields to update all your content in one place instantaneously and integrate your tools like Hubspot or Salesforce, and more to personalize each presentation.

Pricing: Free, Starter: $12.25/month, billed yearly, Pro: $30/month, billed yearly, Visme for Teams & Enterprises.

What are you waiting for? Pick a tool and start creating. Your prospects are waiting.

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in October 2014 and has been updated for freshness and comprehensiveness.

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The best presentation software in 2024

These powerpoint alternatives go beyond the basics..

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

The best free presentation software

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Related reading:

This post was originally published in October 2014 and has since been updated with contributions from Danny Schreiber, Matthew Guay, Andrew Kunesh, and Krystina Martinez. The most recent update was in April 2024.

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The 10 Best Presentation Software for 2023: Complete Guide

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.

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

(Updated December 2022)

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1- SLIDEBEAN PRESENTATION SOFTWARE

Ease of use: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Fantastic!

Customization: ★ ★ ★ ★ - Very Good

Final result: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Fantastic!

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

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.

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'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 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 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!

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 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 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 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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On average a presentation takes up to 20 minutes and experts say we make an impression within the first 30 seconds. That is why it’s important to “dress” our great product/idea with an equally exciting design. Most often, presentations are cooked up by non-designers, which creates a specific need – for powerful presentation software, which can help communicate a message beautifully, effectively, and to suit any user’s skill level. We hand-picked 15 of the best presentation software for 2021 , which will help you create presentations online, share them, while shining in your best light. In the meanwhile, check out some useful ideas tips to spice up your presentations .

A web-based presentation tool, which means you can access your presentations wherever you are, with an internet connection. It is known for its animations, cartoons, and infographics, which help the user to create more interactive presentations and explainer-style videos.

Example by Focusky

Best Features:  Very interactive; you can create a unique to your story by combining different “frames” (slides); create your own animations within the presentation Price:  Free, but heavily subscription-based Learning curve:  Very intuitive, nicely organized by categories, but it would require some time to learn the animation controls Available for:  Online Perfect for: Marketing and education

To summarize, this presentation tool is best for marketers and education, where the creator can get the most out of the cool animation and cartoons available. In the last years, there is an increased interest in Powtoon and RenderForest and we expect that more and more people will use them in 2021. No surprise – if you look at our article about Graphic Design Trends in 2022 , everything is moving towards animation, cool 3D-s, cartoons, and illustrations – and these are all things that this software can offer for your presentation.

Prezi is an online presentation software, which resembles a mind map. In comparison, PowerPoint offers a linear way of presenting, whereas Prezi allows you to better show relationships between different elements of your presentation, show details, zoom in and zoom out and show an overall view of your topic. Compared to PowerPoint is more interactive, but with fewer functionalities and a choice of templates.

Example by PreziBase

Best Features:  Interactive presentations and interesting transitions, zoom in/out details Price:  The very basic features are free, but most of the interesting ones are paid, starting from $3/month and reaching up to $59/month. They offer a free trial. Learning curve:  it requires learning and going through a lot of menus and functionalities, similar to PowerPoint Available for:  Online / Limited use for iOS and Android (only viewing, not creating and editing) Perfect for: teachers, businesses, more experienced designers, and specific presentations needs, but not recommended for newbies

Prezi is best in showing relationships between different parts of your presentations. There are some challenges in editing, and viewing across devices and its best features are paid for. We recommend it for quick, mind-map-like presentations without the need for ultra-special design.

3. RenderForest Presentation Maker

RenderForest is an online presentation tool, which is famous for its explainer style and whiteboard animations. The presentation templates often offer various motion/video backgrounds, which helps to grab your audience’s attention. Currently, the company is working on releasing its Graphic Design Software, which will allow users to create printables and beautiful designs for social media. This shows that RenderForest’s team knows the market well and does its best to cater to its needs!

Example by Renderforest

Best Features:  Video holders with text on shapes, cool transitions Price:  There is a free version, the paid ones start at $20.34 per user/month Learning curve:  Relatively easy to use, the simple interface helps the user Available for:  Online / iOS / Android Perfect for:  Education and business

Although not one of the cheapest solutions, it allows you to create engaging and interactive presentations with lots of cool animations. That makes RenderForest a great choice for more educational and marketing explainer-type videos/presentations.

4. Mentimeter

Mentimeter is a very interesting online presentation software. It allows your audience to engage with your presentation in real-time and you can create polls, ask questions, which are then displayed to your presentation. The answers from the audience remain anonymous so people are even more encouraged to participate.

Example by Mentimeter

Best Features:  Launch live, interactive polls, surveys, quizzes and create things like word clouds in real-time Price:  It has a free version, but the paid plans offer most of the attractive features – the basic plan costs $9.99 per user/month and the more advanced plan is $24.99 per user/month Learning curve:  Easy to use; might need to explain to a less tech-savvy audience how to connect to your presentation Available for:  Online / Android / iOS Perfect for:  Educators, speakers, business and competitions

An excellent choice for educators, speakers, and businesses who want to engage the audience in real-time and display the results immediately. Clean, simple designs, that help you focus on the content.

5. Libre Office Impress

Libre Office is free presentation software, an open-source alternative to PowerPoint. As you can expect from a free product, it offers only the main features of its “big brother”, but it’s a good solution for people used to Microsoft’s productivity suite. The interface is very similar to PowerPoint, which again makes it comfortable to use for a certain audience. Users who need collaboration on presentations, clean interface, and more creative design solutions should steer away from this free presentation software because it will simply not cover their needs.

Example by Theodoros Bousios

Best Features:  Free, compatible with older versions (Windows XP for example) Price:  Free Learning curve:  It will take some time to go through all the options and to get familiar with the interface; Available for:  Windows / macOS / Linux / Android / iOS. Perfect for:  people who want to use a free product and people with older operation systems

To summarize, Libre is free, compatible with older versions, it can cover your basic needs for a presentation, but the options are too many and available templates too little.

6. Zoho Show

Zoho Show is also an online presentation software, which has a very friendly user interface and great collaboration features. There are many functionalities, which help you create a beautiful design, but require some time and design knowledge to get it right. The premade templates are limited and this presentation software needs an internet connection to be able to edit and present.

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Best Features:  Live broadcasting a presentation with live chat and commenting Price:  Zoho Show is free for personal use. For business users, Zoho Show is included in the Zoho Docs enterprise pricing packages – €5 or €8 per user/month Learning curve: Available for:  Online / Android / iOS Perfect for:  non-profits, start-ups, personal use, teachers

To summarize, Zoho offers great collaboration features, but you need a connection to edit and present. It is suitable for quick, non-pretentious presentations, where you need some kind of collaboration.

7. ClearSlide Presenter

ClearSlide is a sales engagement platform, including an online presentation tool. Another online tool – SlideRocket, was acquired by ClearSlide and one of the differences is that ClearSlide is more costly and targeted at larger businesses. It’s a great platform for very specific needs – collaborating between sales and marketing teams, to achieve the company’s goals. It’s clear even by the interface:

Image by ClearSlide

Best Features: Analytics for costumers’ engagement, video conferencing, screen sharing Price:  They offer a free trial and you can see more about the payment plans here. Learning curve:  Clear and simple interface, but it requires some time to get used to the tools Available for:  Online Perfect for: Sales/business, managers (for coaching); not suitable for newbies, teachers, students

To summarize, ClearSide is perfect for presenting sales pitch , graphics, collaborate in larger teams. It is somehow restrictive for a non-designer because the templates are specific.

8. Piktochart

Piktochart allows you to make infographics, presentations, and printables quickly. Primarily known for its easy customizable infographics, Piktochart also has simple presentation templates and the company is constantly trying to update its library.

Example by Piktochart Knowledge Base

Best Features:  Turning data-heavy content into simple visuals; nice transitions between slides Price:  There is a free version and a paid one, starting at $29 per user/month. They offer a free trial. Learning curve:  It requires time to get used to the options available and to navigate through Available for:  Online Perfect for:  Designers, teachers; it does not offer collaboration options, which might be needed by teams, students, etc.

Compared to other online presentation software is a bit costly and we could still ask a bit more from the presentation templates. We’d recommend it to someone who often uses infographics and wants to use a single platform to combine the infographics with a presentation. But why not check our free infographics as well?

Slides is online presentation software, initially aimed at developers and covering their presentation needs. Thus said, it does not offer offline editing, but you can present offline, after exporting your presentation.

Best Features:  It allows you to use your phone as a remote control; Live Present Mode allows you to control what your audience sees; drop in code, iframes, and SVGs with ease. Price:  Free, with paid plans starting at $7.00/month and $14-$18/month for pro and team packages. They offer a free trial. Learning curve:  friendly interface, but too many functions and options, which might overwhelm the average user and beginner Available for: Online Perfect for:  developers, designers, a little bit too specific for newbies

To summarize, it’s a very cool tool, giving you complete design freedom, but that is also why we do not recommend it to teachers, non-designers, or marketers. Developers and design gurus will love it.

Canva is a web-based solution that started with a mission – to make beautiful designed content available to everyone. The whole platform is organized so that a person without any prior design knowledge can easily create graphs, images, and presentations to impress. Although it is not the best tool for data visualization, it scores high in any other category. Needless to say, it has become a popular choice amongst non-designers.

Image by Iconfinder

Best Features:  Plenty of beautiful templates to choose from and Canva school has plenty of tutorials and tips for free. It offers more free functionalities compared to other competitors. Price:  Free, the offer different subscription plans, starting at $9.95 per user/month Learning curve:  Very easy to use, most of the actions can be performed by drag-and-drop Available for:  Online / iOS / Android Perfect for:  newbies, marketers (who need a unified look across all their social media), non-profits, and teachers

Canva is becoming one of the most popular tools amongst non-designers for creating beautiful unified content. You can create entire presentations, flyers, and other materials with a single drag and drop.

11. Slidebean

Slidebean is the go-to online presentation software for last-minute projects, that look original and professional. Slidebean offers clean and easy-to-use templates and keeps track of your audience’s engagement.

Source Slidebean

Best Features:  It allows you to arrange your content with the help of AI, which saves time creating a beautiful layout. You just pick a template, upload content, and let the AI offer you a nice layout. Premade animations, effects, and alignments are automatically applied to your content and create a cohesive look. Price:  Free, paid versions starting from $8/month Learning curve:  very easy to use since everything is made to fit the premade templates Available for:  Windows / Mac / Android / iOS Perfect for:  financial, academic, pitch, marketing, sales; everything quick with a clear structure

To summarize, if you are in a hurry, Slidebean will offer several layouts for your slides and speed up the process of creation. The platform targets primarily sales, marketing, and financial fields, and the available templates reflect that.

12. Google Slides

Google Slides is part of the G Suite business application. Its popularity has increased in the last years since it’s a web-based platform, allowing you to store, edit, and share your presentation, without the need of installing presentation software on your computer. All you need is a Google account and you are good to go.

Image by G Suite Updates blog

Best Features:  It’s free for personal use, and offers great paid features for business – for example, seamless collaboration and commenting on a presentation, converting other presentations to Google Slides. Some other great features are the wide variety of fonts available (GoogleFonts, not need installing), easy embedding, plus it’s super intuitive and easy to use! Price:   It’s free for individual use. For business use, the price starts at $5/user/month and plans of $10 and $25/user/month, for unlimited cloud storage and extra features Learning curve:  Simple interface, but it will require some time to pick up. Similar to PowerPoint, only a bit lighter. Available for:  Windows / Mac / Online Perfect for:  businesses, freelancers, who need a user-friendly app with elementary features; great for collaborating teams, not so perfect for complex designs and tools, required by big enterprises

Perfect for personal use, well synchronized across different devices, similar to PowerPoint. Maybe you are a teacher and you like GoogleSlides because it is free and easy to use? Well, we’ve gathered some awesome FREE GoogleSlides and PowerPoint templates , specially made for education needs.

If you need something along the lines of PowerPoint but need the option for collaboration – a paid plan for GoogleSlides is your go-to choice.

13. Keynote

Keynote is an Apple product, very similar to Google Slides. All you need to do is create an iCloud account (similar to a Google account) and start using Keynote from there. Running Keynote on Windows also requires an internet connection and a modern browser. The latest version can also import and export PowerPoint formats if needed. All this sends Keynote higher in the list regarding the accessibility and shareability of this presentation software.

Image by Envato tuts+

Best Features:  Simplicity of design, great drag and drop functions, polished transitions and animations, easy image editing/cropping; works great with multimedia; design templates with better aesthetic than an average slide deck; Price:  Free for macOS and iOS Learning curve:  Pretty easy to use for Mac users, a bit of learning curve for users, having experience with other software. Available for:  Mac / Windows / Online Perfect for:  businesses, marketers, people with not much of a design experience

Bottom line, if you are a Mac user, you love the sleek design and you are looking for cool aesthetics – Keynote is simple to use and free, why not use it?

14. Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark is a web and mobile-based media creation application, which helps you create social graphics, short videos, and web pages. What is immediately noticeable is the clean, crisp, simple, and modern designs, which focus you on the content. If you are looking for a funky, ornate design – Adobe Spark is not the right pick for you.

Example by Cikeys

Best Features:  Beautiful templates, user-friendly interface, step-by-step creation, you can add audio to your slides (narrating) Price:  There is a free version, the paid on starts at $9.79. The best templates, as with the competitors, are paid. They do not offer a free trial. Learning curve:  Easy to use Available for:  Online / iOS / Android Perfect for:  quick presentations, teachers, basic presentations without jamming them with too much cool stuff.

Adobe Spark eliminates the cluster of design options and leads you step-by-step in creating elegant, simple presentations. Ideal for basic presentations, not the best for sales and marketing.

15. PowerPoint

PowerPoint certainly is a “classic” – it’s has been the most popular tool for creating presentations so far. What first started as a component of the Microsoft Office suite, now has improved shareability and accessibility. It can be used on the web (as part of Office on the web), works with Android, and iOS, and there is a Mobile app, as well as presentation software for mac.

Example by Abris DC

Best Features:  Many people are familiar with the software, a wide variety of templates; improved accessibility across platforms; extensive tools and options Price: If you want to enjoy the full features of PowerPoint, you’ll need to subscribe to Microsoft 365 – they have payment plans for personal or business use. The price for personal use starts at $5.99/month or $59.99/year, and business plans start at $12.50 per user/month with an annual commitment. You can find more information here . The mobile applications are completely free to use, of course with some limitations. You can compare the available features across different platforms  here. Learning curve: Due to the variety of options and the complexity of the menus, it might take some time to master all of its features. Something that could take a lot of time is editing the text, arranging the visuals, and picking the right transitions – overall, is time-consuming. Still, the interface remained easy to navigate over time and if you trust your design sense, you can achieve satisfying results. Available for: Windows / Mac / Online Perfect for: business, medical, accounting and students; creating concise presentations; but not so suitable for teachers, educators, start-ups and marketers who want to create more interactive and story-based presentations.

To this date, PowerPoint is keeping the lead as the most popular tool for creating presentations. Some of the downsides are that sometimes it can be time-consuming to come up with a good design and PP doesn’t offer collaboration tools and compared to other platforms. But we have a solution for at least one of your problems – we’ve selected 31 Modern PowerPoint templates to set the right tone for your presentation. 

We made a quick summary for you…

Ok, not that we’ve looked at the 15 best presentation software for 2021, we decided to go one step further and compare them by price and popularity. Let’s have a look first at the new-comers:

As you can see, the leaders from the uprising platforms are Canva and Mentimeter, with relatively low prices and with huge success amongst users . Powtoon, Piktochart, and Renderforest are a bit costly , but they are popular since they offer a lot of animation and interactive elements. Hey, but maybe some of the other tools are right for you? We encourage you to go on their websites, contact their support team, and see what they have to offer.

Then, let’s see how the veterans are ranking:

It’s no surprise that PowerPoint and Google Slides are at the top – people are used to their products, have familiar interfaces, and offer a lot of functionalities at a good price. Although, for quick, unpretentious results, their competitors are a very attractive solution.

Final words

We can conclude that there are many useful tools to help you create beautiful presentations. Some of them are well-known and have been here for a while, while others are uprising… No matter the case, we notice a trend for presentation tools catering not only to the designers’ needs but also to the newbies, marketers, and teachers. That way, enabling everyone to create stunning presentations in no time and share them easily.

We hope this presentation software list shed some light on different options out there and that we helped you evaluate quickly what would work for your situation best.

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Presentation software has evolved since the early days of PowerPoint dominance. There are dozens of online presentation apps and tools, and each promises to be the ultimate key to creating engaging, interactive presentations.

But here’s the catch.

Not every presentation software is the same. Some dazzle with stunning proof of concept templates , unlimited presentations, and seamless integration with tools like Google Slides and Apple Keynote, while others offer the ability to embed video, audio, and even interactive content to keep your audience hooked.

Yet, amid this vast sea of options, finding the best presentation software for your unique needs can be a formidable challenge.

This article dives into the world of presentation tools, sifting through the good, the great, and the game-changing.

Let’s get started.

What Should You Look for in Presentation Tools?

5. genially, 6. microsoft powerpoint, 7. slidecamp, 8. videoscribe, 9. haiku deck, 10. zoho show.

Here are the top features you must look for in your presentation software solutions:

• Multimedia integration: Look for the ability to embed video, audio, and other interactive content to keep the audience engaged
• Variety of templates: A wide range of professionally designed templates can help in creating visually appealing presentations
• Customization options: The best presentation software should allow you to customize slide layouts and presentation design elements to suit your needs
• Cloud-based access: Look for cloud-based presentation software solutions for easy access and collaboration

The 10 Best Presentation Tools to Use in 2024

ClickUp stands out as a versatile tool for crafting engaging and creative presentations. Using ClickUp’s Presentation Templates , users can effortlessly build compelling narratives for any audience. In addition, ClickUp’s Whiteboard is a unique collaborative workspace, allowing users to incorporate images, drawings, flowcharts, and other visual elements into their presentations, fostering creativity and visual impact.

ClickUp AI acts as your AI-powered writing assistant . It can generate clear and engaging copy and save you time on formatting. It can also act as your brainstorming partner, helping you develop engaging and clutter-breaking content for your presentation.   

ClickUp best features

• Create presentations quickly and efficiently with ClickUp’s customizable templates tailored for different presentation styles and purposes
• Use Whiteboards as a dynamic canvas for brainstorming sessions and visual planning
• Generate rich content by leveraging ClickUp AI for brainstorming, writing, and editing

• Generate visually and contextually rich presentation outlines with ClickUp’s advanced AI Presentation Outline Generator 
• Work together seamlessly with your teammates on presentations, share ideas, and provide instant feedback, all within the same platform
• Work smoothly with all your other tools without having to switch between apps, due to ClickUp’s smooth integration with other tools and platforms

ClickUp limitations

• Some users find the interface initially overwhelming due to the numerous features

ClickUp pricing

• Free Forever
• Unlimited : $7/month per user
• Business : $12/month per user
• Enterprise : Contact for pricing
• ClickUp Brain: Available on all paid plans for $5/Workspace member/month

ClickUp ratings and reviews

• G2 : 4.7/5 (2,000+ reviews)
• Capterra : 4.7/5 (2,000+ reviews)

Prezi revolutionizes the world of presentation software by offering a uniquely engaging experience. Because of its non-linear presentation style, Prezi enables creators to move beyond the confines of traditional slide-by-slide formats, like PowerPoint, to make it interactive and captivating to the audiences.

Prezi best features

• Move away from linear to a more fluid presentation path with Prezi’s open canvas 
• Create highly visual and engaging presentations, keeping the audience’s attention with zooming transitions and a spatial journey through content
• Choose from over 100 professionally designed templates to start creating captivating presentations easily
• Enrich your presentations with access to a million+ assets such as images, GIFs, and videos

Prezi limitations

• Relies heavily on a stable internet connection, which might be a limitation in areas with poor connectivity
• Some users report that it can be demanding on computer resources, especially for complex presentations

Prezi pricing

• Plus: $12/month
• Premium : $16/month
• Teams: $20/month per user (billed annually)

Prezi ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.2/5 (5100+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.6/5 (2100+ reviews)

Powtoon is an innovative platform that uses the power of animation and visual storytelling to create impactful presentations. Widely used in various sectors like marketing, training, internal communications, and education, Powtoon stands out for its ability to simplify complex messages into captivating visual narratives.

Powtoon best features

• Choose from a vast array of animated characters and scenarios to make memorable animated presentations 
• Create powerful visual content with ease with its user-friendly presentation design
• Pick from a diverse template library for quick and effective presentation creation
• Customize animations, integrate audio and video, and add personal touches to presentations

Powtoon limitations

• The free plan has limitations in terms of features and access to assets

Powtoon pricing

• Lite plan : $50 per month
• Professional plan: $190 per month
• Business plan : $1500 (billed annually)

Powtoon ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.4 out of 5 (230+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.5 out of 5 (390+ reviews)

Pitch is one of the best presentation software in 2024. It redefines presentation-making by blending efficiency, creativity, and collaboration. It’s not just a great tool for creating slides; it’s a platform that empowers teams to produce stunning presentations that deliver results. Because of its AI-driven approach and dynamic features, Pitch is fast becoming the go-to solution for businesses and individuals.

Pitch best features

• Start with an AI draft to quickly generate a presentation, thus saving time and sparking creativity
• Get access to a rich library with 100 expert-made templates 
• Easily adapt slides to your brand with custom fonts and colors, enhancing the professional look of your presentations
• Enjoy quick text and image additions, elegant animations, and real-time collaboration for seamless editing

Pitch limitations

• Being a cloud-based tool, a stable internet connection is necessary for uninterrupted use

Pitch pricing

• Pro: $20 per month
• Business: $80 per month 

Pitch ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.4 out of 5 (40+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.8/5 (30+ reviews)

Genially is an innovative platform for creating interactive, media-rich presentations and content. It’s designed for anyone looking to engage their audience with clickable, dynamic experiences without needing any coding skills. Genially is particularly noted for its gamification features and wide range of interactive elements, making it a favorite among educators, marketers, and businesses.

Genially best features

• Transform static content into interactive experiences, enhancing audience engagement
• Employ gamification features to boost learning outcomes and audience interest significantly
• Embed audio, video, and interactive data visualizations, providing a rich media experience
• Design presentations easily with an intuitive and user-friendly drag-and-drop editor 
• Easily add interactive elements such as hotspots, pop-up windows, and hover-over labels, enhancing the interactivity of presentations

Genially limitations

• Highly interactive or media-rich presentations might be resource-intensive

Genially pricing

• Pro : $7.49/month billed annually
• Master: $20.82/member/month billed annually
• Team: $70.79 for 5 Master members/month billed annually

Genially ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.6/5 (50+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.5/5 (80+ reviews)

PowerPoint remains a cornerstone in the world of presentation software, continually evolving to meet modern demands. With its 2023 updates, PowerPoint has become a tool with advanced AI capabilities , enhancing how presentations are created and delivered. Known for its reliability and comprehensive feature set, PowerPoint is a go-to choice for professionals and educators.

PowerPoint best features

• Use Copilot to transform Word documents into presentations and generate new slides from prompts or outlines, elevating storytelling
• Insert 3D objects and animations directly into presentations for a more dynamic visual experience
• Use voice, touch, and ink for natural interaction with your presentations, including converting handwritten notes to text
• Get AI-powered coaching for speech practice, offering feedback on pacing, word choice, and more

PowerPoint limitations

• Can be resource-intensive, especially when using advanced features like 3D objects
• More expensive than other tools

PowerPoint pricing

• Microsoft 365 personal: $6.99/month, includes PowerPoint and other Office apps with premium features
• Microsoft 365 family: $9.99/month, same as Personal, but for up to six people and more cloud storage
• The Free version is available with basic functionalities, ideal for casual users
• PowerPoint only (1 year licence) : $159.99

PowerPoint ratings and reviews

• G2 : 4.6 out of 5 (4,100+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.7 out of 5 (20,500+ reviews)

SlideCamp is an innovative solution for sales and marketing teams to manage and create PowerPoint presentations. Offering a centralized platform for storing, sharing, and repurposing presentation slides, it ensures teams can access the most up-to-date and effective content.

SlideCamp best features

• Store all sales and marketing materials in one centralized library, making managing and updating presentations easier
• Facilitate a level playing field for reps by securely sharing presentations and other collateral with the team and ensuring easy access to the latest versions of slides
• Save time by easily finding and reusing content from old decks rather than starting from scratch
• Get insights into presentation performance with reporting and analytics

SlideCamp limitations

• Primarily designed for PowerPoint users, and may therefore not cater to those using other presentation software
• While it offers repurposing of existing slides, customization options may be limited compared to creating slides from scratch

SlideCamp pricing

• Team Plan : $99 per month
• Unlimited Plan : $499 per year

SlideCamp ratings and reviews

• G2 : Not enough reviews
• Capterra: Unavailable

VideoScribe offers a unique approach to presentation-making through animated video creation. It’s a user-friendly animation tool perfect for marketers, educators, and small businesses looking to enhance their communications with captivating animated videos. With an intuitive interface and powerful features, VideoScribe makes it easy for users of all skill levels to create attractive presentations.

VideoScribe best features

• Create impressive animated videos without prior presentation design skills with its user-friendly tools
• Use various animation styles and ‘drawing hands’ to give a unique feel to each video
• Add audio tracks and record voiceovers to complement the visual content
• Share and export videos in multiple formats to suit various platforms and needs

VideoScribe limitations

• Requires a stable internet connection for accessing cloud-based resources and templates

VideoScribe pricing

• Monthly plan : $25.96/month 
• Annual plan: $10.62/month (billed annually)
• Team plans: Customizable options available for teams, with discounts on multiple subscriptions

VideoScribe ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.1/5 (60+ reviews)
• Capterra: 4.2/5 (50+ reviews)

Haiku Deck sets itself apart by focusing on simplicity, clarity, and professional design. It’s the perfect tool for anyone looking to create beautiful presentations easily, whether on the web, iPad, or iPhone. Haiku Deck’s user-friendly interface and vast array of templates make it a popular choice among teachers, marketers, and business professionals.

Haiku Deck best features

• Enjoy a simple, clutter-free interface that can enhance the creative flow
• Employ professional design elements like stylish fonts, layouts, and image filters
• Access thousands of templates for quick and easy creation of visually appealing presentations
• Access over 40 million free Creative Commons images 
• Easily share and access any connected device

Haiku Deck limitations

• May not offer as many options for embedding video or interactive content as other tools

Haiku Deck pricing

• Pro: $19.99/month 
• Premium: $29.99/month (billed annually)

Haiku Deck ratings and reviews

• G2: 4.5/5 (30+ reviews)
• Capterra : 4.3/5 (10+ reviews)

Zoho Show is a collaborative presentation software designed for modern teams. It offers a blend of professional slide design capabilities, team collaboration features, and support and compatibility across devices. Therefore it is an ideal choice for businesses and educators who require flexibility and power in their presentation tools.

Zoho Show best features

• Stay in sync with your team with real-time collaboration, contextual commenting, and instant notifications
• Embed audio and videos, create animations, and use infographics to make data-driven slides more engaging
• Broadcast presentations on smart TVs via smartphones or smartwatches
• Seamlessly import PowerPoint files without any loss of formatting or content

Zoho Show limitations

• Some users might require time to utilize its extensive features fully
• Being primarily cloud-based, it requires a consistent internet connection for optimal functionality
• The abundance of features can be overwhelming for users who prefer a more straightforward tool

Zoho Show pricing

• Professional: Starts at $2.2 per user/month (billed annually)

Zoho Show ratings and reviews:

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14 Best Tools to Create Great Presentations Online

Whether you are a student or a professional, you need to create presentations at some point or another.

Presentations allow you to explain a concept, share an idea, and convince the audience with the right blend of text and supporting graphics.

It’s an invaluable skill that can help you in many ways, such as pitching your product or service to investors, demonstrating your work to your superiors on a new product, or presenting your assignment at college.

Creating a presentation is no more limited to Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides. It’s because modern-age presentation software solutions are available to make presentations engaging and easy to create. They come with useful features and design elements and are super easy to use for everyone.

The software enables people to present their ideas no matter where they are, making their lives easier. This probably explains its growing demand, especially in organizations, to save time and increase productivity . Not to mention, the work-from-home scenario due to the pandemic further accelerated its usage.

Let’s talk more about this tool, and then I’ll introduce you to the best online presentation software for creating beautiful presentations.

What to Look for in An Online Presentation Tool?

Before choosing an online presentation tool, you must look for a few things to ensure you get the right software to suit your needs and get the job done effortlessly.

Easy to use

The presentation tool you choose must be easy to use for all. It must not give a hard time to people and is suitable for everyone with varying technical skills. It’s because you can’t spend hours learning the tool and then invest more hours for creation. This tool aims to make creating a presentation easy and fast without consuming much time.

Therefore, always choose a presentation tool that’s easy to use. Lots of tools nowadays offer free trials, so you can try and decide whether it’s easy to use or not.

Feature-rich

A good presentation tool must be feature-rich to support creating your presentations and making them look attractive. It must offer various formats to present and share content that people would love engaging with.

For this, the presentation software must provide lots of stunning templates, videos/audio capability , images, design elements, and other useful media to include in your content. In addition, it must be easy to import or export to other tools and supports multiple file formats.

Furthermore, the software must offer excellent storage capacity; hence cloud-based software is a good option. It will allow you to work on projects wherever and whenever you want with an internet connection.

Flexibility

The presentation software must offer flexibility to help you create the documents based on your unique requirements. You must be able to customize templates, add or remove elements, and make quick changes the way you want with ease.

Collaboration options

With effective teamwork, you can increase your success rates. This is why collaboration is an essential consideration when choosing a presentation tool. It must offer features such as sharing the presentation to the entire team, managing the presentation, and introducing their feedback in real time. It’s also useful for people working remotely.

Compatibility

Your team members could use different devices and operating systems to work. Hence, the presentation software you choose must be compatible across multiple devices to allow people to view or change the documents.

Budget-friendly

Lastly, choose a presentation tool within your budget. There’s no point investing in software that’s heavily priced and comes with features you don’t require. Strike a good balance between what you need and your budget to decide the best presentation tool for you.

You can also compare different available tools with their offerings and cost to choose the most suitable one. And for this, here is a list of the top 9 presentation tools that you can consider.

Design engaging and powerful slides with Canva’s presentation tool . Whether at school or work, convert your idea into a great design and improve its readability to convey your ideas effectively.

Canva’s presentation software provides hundreds of layouts so that you can get everything you want for your topic.

Select the perfect fonts, colors, and images to explain your idea to your colleagues and friends. It’s easy to get started; just launch Canva in your system and search for presentations to begin creating your design.

Browse presentation templates in different themes and styles and choose from startup decks, education slides, marketing slides, creative presentations, and more.

You can also upload your logos, photos if any, and some elements you want. Plus, you can add slides in whatever numbers you need and use separate animations for each slide in creative ways to make your text and images look incredible and attractive.

Furthermore, you can add music and videos for an engaging presentation. Try out Canva’s different presentation features, such as presenter mode, standard presentation, or video recording. Save the slides as PDF to export them as .pptx files.

Get an online presentation maker – Visme – for creating engaging presentations with ease. It offers more than 900 slide layouts, millions of icons, graphics, images, and dozens of charts to visualize numbers and data.

Designers have built Visme’s online presentation maker for everyone with varying technical skills to help them create better presentations for their viewers or audiences. You will get customizable text blocks, photos, icons, data visualization tools, slides, etc., to quickly build fantastic and creative presentations.

Visme’s presentation editor lets you create perfect slides that complement your ideas. In addition, you can incorporate transitions, pop-ups, third-party content like social media and live websites, interactivity, and animation effects. Visme also gives you the Presenter Studio to record the presentation and share with the viewers.

Moreover, you can record video, audio, and screen and get the option of controlling the camera on/off. This way, you can present the slides at your preferred time and let your audience view them at their convenient time. You can also input your brand colors and fonts to create company content.

Next, Visme will generate a link for your presentation to allow sharing your presentation with anyone, and by accessing the link, they can watch your videos or files. Share simple numbers, statistics, and data in the slides by graphs, widgets, and charts.

Visme is free, but you can buy stock images, illustrations, lines, characters, shapes, icons, etc., to make your presentation more engaging. Also, download the file as editable HTML5 or PowerPoint to keep interactivity intact and animations for offline presentation.

Make beautiful and professional-looking presentations online with Venngage . Welcome this easy-to-use online presentation-making software to your toolkit and unlock all the tools you need to create an attractive presentation.

Venngage helps you communicate with your audience effectively, whether you deliver a virtual presentation or run a class online. With pre-made layouts and customizable templates, you can make your presentation look stunning by adding life to each content.

Venngage’s in-house designers build exciting templates for you so you can have many options to choose from. You can add photos, customize the charts, and change the text easily via the drag-and-drop tool. Additionally, you can incorporate speaker notes as well into the presentations if you need them.

Furthermore, export your online presentation to PDF or PowerPoint and get it offline or present your creativity from Venngage’s presentation software. You will also get an option to upload fonts, brand colors, and company logos and make your presentation perfect.

Get Venngage for FREE at the beginning for five designs. If you want to step up your professional designs, go with $16/user/month.

Design professional slides to collaborate with your colleagues and deliver extraordinary presentations anytime and from anywhere with Zoho Show . It offers contextual and minimalist UI to get relevant options for your task like editing text, animating a slide , and adding a photo without getting into complexities.

From business proposals to startup pitch decks and sales presentations , Zoho provides pre-loaded templates that can cover all your needs. It offers a collaborative workspace to create presentations online in a more productive way with your team members.

You can import PPS, PPSX, PPT, ODP, and PPTX files to work on them without formatting issues. In addition, export files in PPSX, ODP, PDF, HTML, and PPTX format to present or share with anyone.

Interestingly, the tool lets you control the presentation with your smartwatch and mobile phone while broadcasting your creativity on smart TVs.

Entertain your viewers with videos and audio presentations that convey your point quickly. You can use features such as custom slideshows, presenter view, and more to deliver presentations with power. Besides, you can publish your slides online and show your ideas to a broader audience. Sign up and start using the online presentation software for FREE.

Make your audience say “WOW’ to your presentations when you create them via Genially . Whether you want to make infographics, presentation slides, or any other stunning content collaborating with your team or individually, use Genially’s online presentation software.

You can create beautiful business proposals, dossiers, reports, and many more useful marketing designs with Genially. Furthermore, the tool will help you create interactive infographics that can convey your content in a better way. In your presentation, you can also include external links, audio, videos, etc., and transform any image into interactive content.

Capture everyone’s attention in your video play presentation and engage your viewers deeply. Make learning for students easier with interactive learning sessions that ensure success in every environment.

You do not need to be a pro to work with Genially; it makes you become a pro while using the required tools. It also offers easy handling so that you can focus on the work.

Genially is FREE forever with unlimited views, creations, resources, and templates. If you are looking for premium resources and other options, go with $7.49/month. For students, it is again FREE but costs you $1.25/month if you need more benefits.

Biteable helps you create animated video presentations and lets your video speak to your audience on your behalf. Choose from many video presentation templates and customize footage, colors, music, images, text, etc., to make your presentation engaging.

You can easily export your presentations from email, social media, or meetings to this tool. In addition, Biteable makes your work so easy that you can feel super comfortable while creating a unique presentation as it keeps complexities at bay.

Choose templates according to your topic and allow your viewers to understand the content without much explanation. You can make your video presentation visually appealing by browsing the library to add logos, texts, and scenes.

Additionally, you can customize colors that suit your brand and become a pro in attracting audiences. The tool also has features to help you keep your content clear, simple, short, punchy, and sweet.

Upgrade to explore your creativity more at just $19/month. Biteable is FREE forever with unlimited exports, 4 million pics, animations, clips, and a watermark.

Renderforest

Why spend the whole night preparing slides when you have a tool to make it for you within some time. Use Renderforest to take your viewers on a beautiful journey with your attractive and powerful slides.

Explore design elements and presentation slides to find the perfect match for your project. Whether you have a business review requirement or introduce a new fashion brand, Renderforest has templates suitable for you. It provides simple editing tools, thousands of stock photos, and many more.

Breathe life into your presentations by customizing slides as per your design needs. This online presentation maker works in the following easy steps:

• Select presentation templates that are available in the 16:9 aspect ratio that meets your design standards.
• In every presentation, you can add up to 100 slides. It enables you to include as many slides as you want and convey each detail in your presentation.
• Use power editing tools to customize slides with just a few clicks. You can also add images and edit them with the design elements.

Bingo! Your presentation is now ready. Renderforest’s online presentation maker is FREE for up to 300 MB and up to 1-minute videos with a limited number of music tracks, watermarks, and unlimited 360p video exports. And you can share it with your team or your audience. You can also download it as a PDF or JPG file to present offline.

You don’t need to be a designing pro while creating slides; use Beautiful.ai – an expert tool to create your presentations easily. It helps you keep your team ready on branding, make your business look great, and save hours in designing.

Beautiful.ai offers elegant templates, so you have a blueprint according to your design needs for making presentations. This online presentation tool makes it easy to start, design, customize, and finish presentations in no time and impress your audience.

Assign each member with the design needs for separate sections under a single account and sync up all the details at last. Once you sign up, you have millions of modern icons and images. As every slide is unique and creative in its own way, so make it talk to your audience via the right font, logo, and colors with this tool. The animated presentation maker also provides foolproof features to surprise your viewers.

Get everything you need to start your creativity for FREE and get unlimited slides, more than 2 million icons, photos, customized themes, PowerPoint import, and many more. If you need more, go with a paid plan starting at $12/month.

Maglr is a web-based tool that can help you create great and engaging content. The presentation tool can help you in creating great sales presentations.

Leave a lasting impression on the team with a visually engaging presentation.

The tool gives you complete reins over the presentation and lets you run the show.

Some of its key features are:

• Control the main presentation
• Share your presentation with your colleagues
• Present presentation online or offline
• Restrict options for colleagues
• Manage presentation from one spot
• Control accessibility to presentations
• Send push notifications to inform about updates
• Share presentations directly with customers

Microsoft Sway

Microsoft has already provided the world with one of the most used presentation tools, PowerPoint. Microsoft Sway is an improvement on the already perfected recipe of PowerPoint.

The tool can be used to create not only stunning presentations but also newsletters and documentation within minutes.

It boasts of the following features:

• Integration of the device and the web enables you to add media from anywhere
• Smart engine design brings the presentation together beautifully
• Dynamic design looks great on any device and screen
• Connect Sway with Office 365 and OneDrive to gain an even better experience

Powtoon is a tool that can be used for creating videos and presentations. This is a great way to engage your audience and a fun way to present your product to them.

The software isn’t just for businesses looking to market their brand, but also an educational tool used by teachers, and a personal tool to engage family and friends.

• Built for everyone, from start-ups to large businesses
• A different approach to presentations
• Ready-made templates
• Create a presentation within 20 minutes

Everybody relies on using PowerPoint on their computers to create their presentations. If you want your presentation to stand out, you will need a different tool.

Slides will help you create professional-looking presentations in order to set you apart from the crowd.

It is a cloud-based software that ensures you can work on it from anywhere in the world and on any device.

• Created presentations are all devices friendly
• Created presentations are private
• Provides options to share presentations
• Analyze the performance of your presentation
• Uploads videos and animations to your presentation

A good presentation can make all the difference in the life of a professional and it is always helpful to have the right tool for the job.

Prezi is a web-based platform that can be used to create engaging and eye-catching presentations. As it is web-based, the tool can be used anywhere and at any time.

• Creating professional-style presentations
• Creating and customizing using many templates and options
• Collaborating with team members
• Usage over PC or hand-held devices
• Analysing your work after it is created, using Prezi Analytics

A good presentation makes all the difference. Haiku Deck is a great tool that can be used to design an amazing presentation.

The tool is very easy to use and is cloud-based, hence, making it accessible through your PC, iPad, and iPhone.

A free trial version of the software is available to experience the software. If you like the software, you can unlock more features by opting for a monthly subscription, priced at $19.99 per month.

Bonus: 5 Tips to Make Excellent Online Presentations

Having a presentation tool that works smoothly and comes with great features is cool, but you must know how to create presentations that excel. Here are some quick tips for creating presentations online if you are a beginner.

• Drafting the content : Choose a header and use bullet points to explain things in points as nobody is going to read the large chunks of paragraphs. Add content relevant to the subject you will talk about, described in the easiest language possible. You can also provide examples wherever possible and keep your introductions exciting and conclusions promising.
• Add graphics : A long, plain text might look dull. Make your presentation engaging by adding suitable videos, images , and other elements to different slides.
• Keep it simple : Adding graphics is great, but your presentation doesn’t have to be a sketchbook full of colors and design elements. It must be made strategically. Whatever images, videos , and design elements you choose must be subtle and complement the text and are placed well without giving an overwhelming feeling to the viewer.
• Timing : Determining the presentation length is crucial. Don’t make it too short that people assume you haven’t put enough effort or too long that they feel bored and confused. Find a middle ground to convey your content, considering the time.

Conclusion 👩‍💻

Creating presentations has become a lot easier with the introduction of online presentation software. It makes the overall process easier and simpler to create engaging slides with design elements and valuable capabilities. So, choose a presentation tool based on your requirements and budget.

Best free presentation software of 2024

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The best free presentation software makes it simple and easy to create professional presentations without a Microsoft subscription.

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.

Add images to your presentations using the best free photo editor .

Google Workspace : Collaboration + productivity apps There are many different presentation software packages but Google Workspace formerly known as G Suite remains the original cloud office software and one of the best business office suites, offering a huge range of features and functionality that rivals can't match, especially when it comes to presentation software. Try it free for 14 days .

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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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2. 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 .

Best free presentation software for collaboration

3. 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 .

Best free presentation software for speed

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 .

Best free presentation software for user interface

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 Presentation Tools That Will Keep Your Audience Engaged

A great conference presentation requires skill, practice, and the right tools. Use these tools to start giving crowd-pleasing presentations.

The difference between delivering a good presentation and a great presentation at an SEO or digital marketing conference  or another type of event often comes down to which tools you use.

The right tools can help you interact with your audience, keep your listeners interested, and avoid resorting to using boring bullet points on every slide.

To save you some time, here’s a round-up of 13 of the best presentation tools that will help keep your audience engaged.

Tools for Building Your Slides

Prezi is one of the most popular presentation tools on the web. It’s unique because it lets you show your audience a big-picture view of your presentation, then zoom in on individual slides.

Prezi’s strength lies in helping you organize your thoughts while keeping your key message front and center. Your audience will never end up wondering, “What’s the point of all this again?” in the middle of your presentation.

You can try the basic version of Prezi for free. If you want more functionality, they also offer a number of paid options.

If you want your presentation to look gorgeous, but you don’t have the design chops to build it from scratch yourself, Canva might be the perfect tool for you.

With more than 8,000 templates to choose from, as well as tons of fonts and other layout options, Canva lets you customize your presentation any way you want. They also have an impressive library of images, many of which are free.

Canva’s free version gives you 1 GB of storage and lets you add up to 10 team members. For more features and flexibility, you can try out their paid version.

Google Slides

Looking for a simple, straightforward way to build your presentation? Google Slides has you covered.

While Google Slides may not be as aesthetically pleasing as some of the other options on this list, it makes up for that in practicality. It offers plenty of templates to choose from, lets you insert images, charts, and other media with a few clicks, and – best of all – makes it easy for multiple people to access the presentation and work on it together.

Google Slides works on both PC and Mac. It’s free to use.

Keynote is a simple and popular presentation creator for iOS and Mac. It’s quick and intuitive to learn, with plenty of themes and features.

Like Google Slides, Keynote lets you collaborate with other team members, and you can work from any device, from an iPhone to a web browser. You can easily export Keynote presentations as PowerPoint or PDF files. PC users can even use Keynote by logging into iCloud.com.

Keynote is free to use.

Don’t just forget about your presentation after you deliver it. Make it keep working for you by uploading it to SlideShare.

Anyone can view your slides on SlideShare, so it’s a useful way to increase your name recognition and content marketing efforts online without doing any extra work.

SlideShare is free and compatible with Keynote, PowerPoint, PDF, and OpenOffice presentations. You can learn more about how to find success with SlideShare here .

Tools for Making Charts, Graphs & Other Visuals

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If your presentation includes information about your online marketing campaigns or your website’s performance, AgencyAnalytics is a good place to get visual representations of your data.

AgencyAnalytics offers trackers and analytics for just about any kind of data you might want to gather, including your website’s rank, backlinks, social analytics, and PPC analytics. It can also complete a full SEO audit. It turns that information into simple, attractive charts, graphs, and other images that are ideal for including in presentations.

AgencyAnalytics starts at $49/month.

Using PowerPoint to create your presentation? Don’t limit yourself to the built-in charts and graphs PowerPoint provides. Oomfo, a free plug-in for PowerPoint, generates all kinds of interesting and beautiful graphs that aren’t included in PowerPoint, like waterfall and Pareto charts.

Animations are a great way to illustrate points and hold your audience’s attention. With PowToon, it takes only minutes to create beautiful, professional-looking animations to use in your presentations (and anywhere else you want). You don’t need to have any animation experience – PowToon makes it easy by providing templates and scripts.

PowToon offers a free version and a paid version starting at $19.

VideoScribe

Another great animation tool is VideoScribe.

VideoScribe makes whiteboard-style videos, saving you the time, cost, and hassle of hiring an artist yourself. If you want to create a diagram or drawing to illustrate a point in your presentation, VideoScribe might be the right tool for the job.

VideoScribe starts at $12/month.

Timelines make a great addition to presentations. If you want to include a timeline on one of your slides, check out Timeglider, a simple and beautiful timeline creator. It lets you add as many data points as you want, zoom in and out on events, and see how different events overlap with each other.

For individuals, the tool costs $5/month or $50/year.

Tools for Interacting with Your Audience

SlideDog is another useful presentation tool. For starters, it gets rid of the need to make sure all your files are the same type – SlideDog lets you incorporate images, videos, PDFs, PowerPoint files, Prezi files, and more into the same presentation.

It also helps you reach out to your audience. You can poll the audience, ask and answer questions in real time, and request feedback on your presentation. You can even broadcast a live stream of your slides, so people can follow your presentation remotely from their own devices.

The pro version of SlideDog (which includes all the interactive features) starts at $8.33 per month. You can also start with the basic free version that lets you test-drive pro features for 15 minutes at a time.

Slido is another great tool for interacting with your audience. Listeners can ask questions from their own devices, and the audience can vote on the best questions they want you to answer.

People can ask questions anonymously if they want, helping shy audience members feel more confident about speaking up. Slido also lets you poll the audience and share your slides with them in PDF form.

You can try Slido out for free, but to unlock all its features, you’ll need to buy a plan.

Encourage backchannel communication among your audience members by setting up a TodaysMeet room at the start of your presentation.

TodaysMeet is a private chat platform that was created for use in classrooms, but it’s equally useful for presentations. Your audience will stay engaged by talking to each other, and they can ask you questions directly through the room.

TodaysMeet is free to use.

The Takeaway

Giving a great presentation takes skill, practice, and the right tools. Whether you want to upgrade from PowerPoint, try out some new ways of incorporating media into your slides, or interact with your audience more, you’ll find something on this list to help you put together a people-pleasing presentation. Be prepared and use tools to help!

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Never underestimate the power of great communication. It can help you land the job of your dreams, attract investors to back your idea, or elevate your stature within your organization. But while there are plenty of good speakers in the world, you can set yourself apart out by being the person who can deliver something great over and over. Here are a few tips for business professionals who want to move from being good speakers to great ones: be concise (the fewer words, the better); never use bullet points (photos and images paired together are more memorable); don’t underestimate the power of your voice (raise and lower it for emphasis); give your audience something extra (unexpected moments will grab their attention); rehearse (the best speakers are the best because they practice — a lot).

I was sitting across the table from a Silicon Valley CEO who had pioneered a technology that touches many of our lives — the flash memory that stores data on smartphones, digital cameras, and computers. He was a frequent guest on CNBC and had been delivering business presentations for at least 20 years before we met. And yet, the CEO wanted to sharpen his public speaking skills.

• Carmine Gallo is a Harvard University instructor, keynote speaker, and author of 10 books translated into 40 languages. Gallo is the author of The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman  (St. Martin’s Press).

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

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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. 

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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.  

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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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Think of your topic.

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It’s exactly “what it says on the cover”. AIs, or artificial intelligences, are in constant evolution, and they are now able to generate presentations in a short time, based on inputs from the user. This technology allows you to get a satisfactory presentation much faster by doing a big chunk of the work.

Can I customize the presentation generated by the AI?

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Can I add my own images?

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20 Best Update & Project Status Report Templates for PPT (2024)

Working on a big project can be stressful if you've got no idea of how it’s progressing. It’s easy to keep everyone on the same page and updated. Present the status of your project with a project status report PPT format.

Creating a project status report for PPT may sound difficult and time-consuming. But you don’t have to start from scratch. You can find hundreds of modern and easy-to-edit project status report templates online. I'll share some of the best project status report templates for PowerPoint .

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Top 20 Project Status Report Templates for PPT From Envato Elements

How to quickly customize a premium project status template, 8 tips for creating a project status report, top 5 project status report design trends, common powerpoint questions answered (faq).

Take a look at some of the best project status report templates for PPT, all available on Envato Elements:

1. Imfea: Project Status Report Template for PowerPoint  

Looking for a professional and creative project status template for PowerPoint? This template will come in handy. The PowerPoint report template offers:

• 60 unique status update slides
• two color variations
• widescreen resolution
• image placeholders

This project progress report PPT also comes with custom icons and image placeholders.

2. Project Status Report PowerPoint Template  

This project status report template for PowerPoint has a modern design. It’s perfect for a project progress report PPT. The PowerPoint report template comes with many different slides to help you include relevant project details. It offers:

• five color variations for your project update slides
• download link to 800 vector icons

Start working with this project status update presentation PPT! 

3. Project Status Report Template (PPT)  

Project Status is a simple project status report for PPT. It comes with:

• 40 editable project status slides
• 10 color variations
• retina-ready format
• easy editing options

Designed in widescreen resolution to present a perfect project status report PPT, it also comes with custom icons and image placeholders. Likewise, this project status update template for PPT includes plenty of tables, charts, and other infographic elements. Use them to design a beautiful report.

4. Project Status PowerPoint Template  

Choose this project status update template for PPT. It's great if you’re looking for a bold and professional template. You’ll find:

• 20 unique status update slides
• based on master slides

The status report template PPT comes with icons, tables, and charts, plus plenty of infographic elements. 

5. A4 Vertical Project Status Report PowerPoint Template

Stand out with this vertical project status PowerPoint template. It includes many different project update slides. You'll find slides for an agenda, yearly Gantt chart, and task timeline. The template includes:

• five color variations
• 800 custom icons
• various infographic elements

6. Project Review PowerPoint Template

Wondering how to present your project status in PowerPoint? This template comes with modern and minimalist slide designs to make it easy to see the project status. It was designed in standard and widescreen resolutions. With this project update PowerPoint template, you'll get:

• 31 PowerPoint project status slides
• resizable graphics
• free web fonts 
• picture placeholders
• 16:9 widescreen ratio

7. Project Plan: A4 Vertical PowerPoint Template

This PowerPoint report template has a versatile and modern design. Use the template to create status report updates for any type of project. This vertical template comes with:

• dark and white versions
• vector icons

Also, these project status presentation slides are suitable for print. Start working with this original project report PPT template! 

8. Retail Pitch Deck PowerPoint Template

Try this PowerPoint report template if you're in the retail business. Find versatility in your project report design with this template. It comes with modern and professional designs, and it also includes:

• plenty of slide designs to add your content, including a status update slide
• 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio 
• blue, green, orange, salmon, and lavender color themes
• user guide PDF

9. Animated Project Update PowerPoint Template

Looking for an animated project update PowerPoint template? This marketing project status PowerPoint template has everything you need. Create a detailed project status report with awesome infographics. The template comes with:

• 100 unique project update slide designs
• five pre-made color themes
• 3,000+ icon pack
• fully and easily editable

It's perfect for a complete project status report in PowerPoint.

10. Radit Business PowerPoint Template

Here’s a modern PowerPoint template for project status reports. The project status report PPT includes:

• 39 unique project status slides
• 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio
• all graphics are resizable and editable
• documentation file

It also features a stunning design. Still thinking about how to present project progress in PowerPoint? This project status update PPT template is a great way to start.

11. Project Strategy PowerPoint Template

Looking for a more unique project status report in PPT? This PowerPoint report template comes with:

• unique and dark project status slides
• three color themes
• infographic elements

It's a great tool for project managers looking for work efficiency. This also works as a project update presentation sample. 

12. Brila Business PowerPoint Template

Create an original project progress presentation PPT with Brila. This project PowerPoint report template has a creative and colorful design and was designed in widescreen resolution. With this download, you'll get:

• all resizable graphics
• used and recommended free web fonts

Download this easy-to-edit project update presentation.

13. Company Profile PowerPoint Template

Wondering how to present project status in PowerPoint? This project status template also works as a company profile. It's easy to customize and edit. It comes with:

• five color themes (blue, red, green, orange, and grey)
• infographic elements, charts, and tables
• 800 vector icon set

Add your content to this project status update PPT. Insert your own photos in the image placeholders. 

14. Annual Report PowerPoint Template

This PowerPoint report template can easily be used for a project status report in PPT. The project status report PowerPoint has a professional design. It includes:

• different project update slides
• widescreen format
• six color themes
• plenty of infographic elements

Still wondering how to present a project status in PowerPoint? This template is a great place to start.

15. Movea Project Status Report PowerPoint Template

Here’s another great project status PowerPoint template. Create a beautiful status update slide with this template, which comes with editable icons. Also, find image placeholders with this project update template PPT. With your download, you'll get:

• 100 presentation slides in total
• 50 unique and editable presentation slide designs
• two options of color theme variations
• 16:9 HD widescreen slide format (1920 x 1080 pixels)
• image placeholders with slide master

Looking for a sample project report PPT? Start working with this amazing status update presentation. 

16. Rima Business PowerPoint Template

This cool and modern PowerPoint template has all you need. Rima has enough project status presentation slides PPT for you to play. Create a stunning project report with this template. It comes with:

• 39 unique project update slides
• resizable and editable graphics
• free web fonts

The PowerPoint report template also has image placeholders. This is one of the best project status reports in PowerPoint you'll find. 

17. Project Status Report PowerPoint Template

Looking for a project update presentation sample? Here’s another complete project status report PowerPoint template. Use it to create great-looking project reports. The PowerPoint report template comes with:

• 30 unique slides
• light and dark versions
• easy customization options

Wondering how to present a project status in PowerPoint? This template includes charts and infographics to make it happen.

18. Web Design Project Status PowerPoint Template

Are you a web designer working for different clients? Learn how to present your project progress in PowerPoint with this awesome template. Here are some of its features:

• 5 PPTX files
• 5 pre-made color themes

This modern project status template for PPT also works for any type of presentation. It has everything you need for detailed project reports. 

19. Proposal Project Update PowerPoint Template

This is a beautiful project status update PPT PowerPoint template. Use it for different project status reports. It comes with:

• 30 slides for a complete project progress presentation PPT
• widescreen slide format
• fully editable elements

The status update slide comes with image placeholders. This is a great project status update template for PPT.  

20. Holi Project Status Template for PPT

Last but not least! Create an amazing project status report PPT with this template. Holi is a simple PowerPoint template with a clean and bold design. It includes:

• 39 unique project status update slides
• drag-and-drop image placeholders
• custom icons

Design a stunning project status report. This is one of the best project status update templates for PPT.

Found your project status report template for PPT? Now you’ll need to customize it to fit your project details. Take a look at how easy it is. Customize a premium project status report template below. 

For this tutorial, I’ll be using Movea: Project Status Report PowerPoint Template. Find it on Envato Elements. This template has a modern and clean design. It comes with 50 editable project status update slides in two color variations. 

Let's get started:

1. Choose Your Slides

To delete unwanted slides, click on the View tab and select Slide Sorter . Then, hold down the Shift key and click on each slide you don’t want to keep. After you've selected all the unnecessary slides, right-click and select Delete slide . Then, switch back to Normal view . 

2. Add Your Content

Add your own content. Double-click on any text area and press Control-A or Command-A to select all the text. Then, paste your own content or type it in. 

3. Customize Fonts

As you’re entering the content, it’s easy to update your fonts at the same time. While the text is highlighted, select a different font from the drop-down menu on the Home tab of the ribbon. 

4. Customize Colors

To change the colors, click on the Design tab and select a different color theme. Or right-click on any colored area and select Format shape . Then, click on Fill > Solid Fill and enter your own color code. 

5. Add Your Own Images 

The last step is to add your own images or photos. Most PowerPoint project status report templates come with image placeholders. It’s easy to do. Click on an image placeholder icon, choose an image from your computer, and click Insert .

Add the necessary project status update slides to your PowerPoint report template. Here are some tips that can help you work with a project report template:  

1. Use Gantt Charts

Gantt charts are an excellent way to illustrate a project schedule in the form of a bar chart. This type of chart is a staple for any project status report. 

2. Talk About Solutions 

Even when these details were laid out before the project was started, talk about how your project is solving problems. This helps connect your audience with the problem and solution again. 

3. Break Your Project Down

Project status reports are about breaking down the components of your project, so turn them into digestible pieces. Consider one slide that contains a road map, section breakdown, or project phases. 

4. Add an Expenses Page

The road map to achieving a particular goal is important, and so is including your expenses. This expense slide can be a simple list of all the expenses that you've accrued.

5. Add Milestones

On a project status report, include all the milestones that you've reached. Add any future milestones that you plan to reach with your project. This is essential for your audience to know what you've done and what you plan to do. 

6. Add a Summary Slide

Be it at the beginning or the end of your presentation, it's a good idea to add a summary slide. This can be where you highlight the essential topic you'll touch on or give a reminder of what you just mentioned. Either way, it can help your audience keep their attention on crucial aspects of your presentation.

7. Provide Helpful Links

A great PowerPoint presentation shares the key points of a specific subject. However, sometimes, project status reports require more information and data. To that end, it's helpful to include links to resources that can help your audience seek more information if they need it. Here's one example of how to do it:

8. Highlight Next Steps

Last but not least, highlight next steps. Knowing the basis of where the project is at is incredibly helpful. However, it's just as (or even more) important to let your audience know what actions you'll be taking to keep the project progressing. Don't forget to highlight the course of action so everyone can be on the same page.

Deliver the most up-to-date designs to your audience in your project status reports. We've collected five of the top design trends in 2024. Use them in your own PowerPoints:

1. Include Multi-Colored Charts

Make the charts more interesting. Use many complementary colors to highlight lines, bars, and tables. Blue, green, and red colors work exceptionally well here. 

2. Add Dimension

Make your design seem more interesting and appear to pop out of the slides. Layer your elements on top of each other. This gives a sense of dimension in your slides that looks visually pleasing. Add solid shapes on your slides as this is one standard design that always looks great.

3. Use Highlight Colors

This can really help give a hierarchy to your slide design. This color can be a highlight color that's used for on the various shapes on your slides. Draw attention to a particular section on the slide, and display the most important information on that slide. 

For more color combinations that work well together, check out this article:

4. Include Various Types of Charts

Get creative with the different types of graphs in project status reports. Use them to highlight specific data for your project in your project status PPT. Pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, timelines, and infographics. All work well in a project status PPT. Only include charts that fit the particular content that you're presenting.

5. Use Icons

Most types of PowerPoint presentations come with icons in their slides. Create a complete project report PPT using icons as visual aids. They also work for a project progress presentation PPT.

Need even more PowerPoint templates? We'll cover even more premium templates that you can download.

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Looking for a different PowerPoint template? Or need more inspiration for your project status report template design? The articles below will be useful:

Microsoft PowerPoint is a complete slideshow application. It's got all the features you could ever want in this type of software. To help you get the most out of PowerPoint for your presentations, we'll cover five frequently asked questions:

1. Can I Print My PowerPoint Presentations?

Absolutely! Need to print out hard copies of your PowerPoint presentations? You can easily do this within the software. But keep in mind that all your animations and videos won't be shown. 

For more information on how you can print your presentations, check out the article below:

2. Can I Customize Templates Easily?

All PowerPoint templates are fully customizable, regardless of what template you use. Templates will help you start with a professional design. Customize every aspect of the design to fit your particular presentation.

Learn how to edit your PowerPoints from the article below:

3. Can You Create Infographics in PowerPoint?

Infographics are a great way to add interest to your presentations, especially in project status reports. They give the viewer something to look at, while providing useful information about your project.

The best way to get started with infographics is with templates. Choose the ones that have them designed and ready to customize. For more templates that feature infographics, check out the article below:

4. How Can I Make My Presentations More Interesting?

PowerPoint presentations can be quite stale, but there are many different ways that you can spice up your slides. Here are some tips to create a captivating presentation:

• declutter your slides
• change up the colors
• use images for interest

Check out this article to find out how you can add interest to your slides:

5. Can I Record a PowerPoint Presentation Via Zoom?

Virtual meetings are a staple for any business in 2024. Don't miss any detail by recording a presentation on Zoom.

To begin a recording of a PowerPoint presentation, move your cursor over the menu bar in Zoom. To record your PowerPoint in Zoom, click Record .

For a more detailed explanation, follow the tutorial below: 

Learn More About Making Great PowerPoint Presentations

Creating great presentations can be tricky. Ready to learn more about making great PowerPoint presentations ? We've got you covered. Check out the tutorials below: 

Where to Find Great Project Status Report Templates

Are you looking for the best project status report templates? Envato Elements should be your first stop. This marketplace offers thousands of top-quality project status report templates for PowerPoint, as well as thousands of design assets.

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Napkin AI is a text-to-visual graphics generator that's great for cleaning up your presentations or spicing up a report.

Napkin AI wants you to stop using so many words in your PowerPoints and Google Slides.

Napkin is a text-to-visual AI tool where you can upload text to a blank doc, or a "napkin," and it will generate a visual representation of your information. Napkin is one of a plethora of AI startups that sprung up as generative AI technology advanced with chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators like Midjourney . It's not a data visualization tool -- you can't upload an Excel database and get bar graphs and pie charts. But you can use Napkin to create graphics for presentations, blog posts, reports and school assignments, among other things.

Napkin officially launched in August, but my colleague and I snagged a preview demo with its founder, Pramod Sharma. Sharma spent a good bit of his career working at Google, specifically on the Docs team, and you can see that influence in the way Napkin looks and functions. Sharma described Napkin as a "visual Google Docs editor," with the goal of users experiencing the "art of making things fun and delightful." Napkin is currently available in English and announced today that it will begin rolling out support for German, French, Japanese and Chinese.

There are a lot of different graphic design and visual creation programs, but giants like Adobe and Canva make up a big part of the market. They're also both investing in AI-powered tools, including image generators like Firefly and Magic Media , with varying degrees of success. I've used and reviewed a lot of AI creative services, and after using Napkin, I do think there's a place for it among these competitors. 

The best thing Napkin has going for it is that it's easy to use and can create graphics quickly. It's great for enhancing a presentation quickly or adding extra flair to a report. Students, small businesses and other creators who don't want to spend the time (or money) using advanced services will benefit from Napkin's bare-bones efficiency.

Here are three of the best ways I found to use Napkin. And if you create an account now while it's still in beta, you'll get more personalization options for free. 

Adding pizazz to presentations

In my testing of Napkin, I had it create graphics to improve presentation slides, break down a complicated topic for an article and brainstorm different visual ideas. Napkin was good for all the above tasks, but it was by far the best for polishing off a presentation. 

A general rule of thumb while creating decks is to have as few words as possible on your slides. This is where Napkin can be helpful. You can upload a chunk of text to Napkin, and it will trim it down and convert it to a visually appealing graphic you can copy and paste onto your slide. 

Generation time is quick, between 10-30 seconds. Napkin does collect and anonymize users' data and interactions with its AI for training purposes, but Sharma confirmed via email that your personal information remains private and your uploaded text isn't used to generate content for other users. As with any AI service, I caution against uploading sensitive information to the site.

I pulled an old presentation from a film class I took in college to test it. My original slide was wordy, with seven long bullet points. Napkin came up with really unique graphics, including a pro-con list I really liked and a more artistic visual that summarized my main point of the slide, which was that Netflix's original movies suck. I recreated the slide with the new graphics to compare, and it's way easier to digest now, rather than having people's eyes glaze over with a big block of text.

The new version (bottom) is much easier to read than the original (top).

I pulled some other slides from presentations, including drier ones explaining different theories of communication and summaries of various novels. Each time, Napkin came back with graphics that not only made my slides more fun but also easier to understand. I did do some editing to make my points clear, but for the limited amount of text I took out of the context of the whole presentation, Napkin held up well. One thing I would've loved is the ability to customize my graphics to match the exact colors of my deck theme, but it was all right for now.

Breaking down complicated topics

If you're not well-versed in graphic design strategy, you might want to take advantage of Napkin as a brainstorming tool. Throughout my testing, I found it to be very creative and versatile, so you can explore a lot of different options based on the same text. To put its creativity to the test, I had Napkin come up with four different graphics to explain the concept of the fediverse, a set of interconnected, decentralized social media platforms built on a set of rules called the ActivityPub protocols. I have a whole article explaining what it is, but I wanted to see what Napkin would come up with to break down a complicated topic. These are some of the top choices.

These are three of the graphics Napkin created. None are quite right.

The first three suggested graphics looked nice, but as someone with an understanding of the material, they're misleading. The first pinwheel graphic correctly identifies several fediverse platforms I list in my text, but incorrectly places the ActivityPub protocols with them; they're what underpin all the platforms. The second graphic pulled a bunch of relevant keywords, but it's not helpful without explaining why they're relevant. The last cycle graphic was interesting because it did pull more implicit information out of my text, but it didn't answer my core question of what is the fediverse.

This Napkin graphic correctly displays concepts related to the fediverse.

After scrolling a bit, I found a good match. With this graphic, Napkin correctly pulled relevant platforms, contextualized the ActivityPub protocols correctly and highlighted two key facets of the fediverse -- decentralization and open source. This is a great visualization because it gives the reader a good framework of understanding what's important at a glance and can spark interest to read further. While it took a bit of work to get the best graphic -- and I would've edited it before publishing -- I was pretty satisfied with Napkin's ability to read and synthesize the text I gave it. No AI tool is perfect, after all.

Brainstorming image ideas

If you're not quite sure what kind of graphic you want, Napkin is great for brainstorming ideas. I pulled some text -- the most I tested was about 157 words -- from a guide I wrote about how to write the best AI image prompt and fed it to Napkin. I wanted to highlight the three essentials each AI prompt should include, but I didn't care how exactly it did that. Napkin came back with a lot of different ideas, and it was nice to be able to browse through all the options since I wasn't married to a specific design or look. This is the one that immediately caught my eye.

Beyond just highlighting the elements I discussed in my text, Napkin's graphic reinforced my point about how essential these things were by displaying them as columns. Without one, the building falls, and the prompt fails. Any of the visuals Napkin created would've been fine, but this one communicates their importance implicitly. This is a great example of something I've found time and time again while testing AI image services -- humans have to be involved in the design strategy and process, otherwise your results won't resonate with your audience. Napkin, like every other AI service, is just a tool to help get you there. For all of these examples, our creators at CNET could've come up with these graphics and probably improved upon them. But for people without a large creative team or a lot of time to create, or for those just looking to spark some initial ideas, Napkin is a great place to start.

TL;DR: Napkin is promising

It's safe to say that AI art startups like Napkin are in a tough position of having to prove they have something different and useful to offer. In this case, I'm optimistic that Napkin is on track. It's user-friendly and creative enough to provide for amateur creators like me, but it's also a helpful, back-pocket tool for professional creators beginning the design process.

My two biggest wish-list items are more customization options, especially custom colors and fonts, and integrations with other text-process software. I would also love to see Napkin give users the ability to opt out of AI model training entirely, something that I imagine would be desirable for businesses as well as privacy-minded folks.

One of the things that I have found repeatedly with AI creative tools, including Napkin, is how present the human using the service has to be and how these tools can't be used successfully without human-design strategy and decision-making. It doesn't matter if you generate hundreds of different Napkin graphics if you don't know your audience and material well enough to decide which will be the best choice to deliver that information. With that in mind, Napkin is promising, and I'm excited to see it continue to build out new features and functionalities.

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14 Best Presentations On Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning in 2024

• by Jeevan Biswas

For a quick overview of a subject or a breakdown of concepts, SlideShare serves as a go-to platform for many. The recapitulations found in many of the presentations are both concise and informative.

The most popular presentations topics are the ones that have received the most number of likes and have been viewed more than the other presentations in a particular category.

AIM brings you the 14 most popular ppt topics on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning. Deep Learning and everything else in between.

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1) Artificial Intelligence and Law Overview

People who are not aware of what artificial intelligence is will find the topic presented in a very simple manner here.

Along with the explanation of what AI is, the two major approaches towards AI are discussed– logic and rules-based approach, and machine learning approach. Special emphasis on the machine learning approach can be seen in the slides devoted to its detailed examination. The examination goes beyond the rudimentary explanation of what machine learning is and presents examples of proxies that seem like machine learning but are not.

The presentation lists examples of AI in the field of law and identifies some of the limitations of AI technology.

2)  What is Artificial Intelligence – Artificial Intelligence Tutorial For Beginners

For the uninitiated, this presentation offers an ideal rundown of AI. The question of AI being a threat is raised at the very beginning. However, as the presentation progresses, it discusses the basics necessary for understanding AI. The most basic question of what is artificial intelligence is answered.

A brief history of AI and the discussion on recent advances in the field of AI is also found. The various areas where AI currently sees practical application have been listed. Fascinating uses that AI can be put to in the future are also found in the presentation. The two approaches of achieving AI, machine learning and deep learning, is touched upon.

All in all, this presentation serves as a simple introduction to AI.

3) Why Social Media Chat Bots Are the Future of Communication

An exciting application of AI can be found in chatbots. Here, the limitless scope of chatbots is explored. The various milestones reached by leading players  in bot technology such as Facebook, Skype and KIK are enumerated.

The evolution of chatbots and its absorption of more AI in the future is also looked into. E-Commerce is touted as the biggest beneficiary of the advancement in chatbots and that bot technology will owe its rise to services and commerce.

Two tech giants, Facebook and Google, have been pitted against each other based on their ongoing developments in this area and the question of who will emerge as the best is raised.

4) AI and the Future of Work

This presentation talks about the far-fetching applicability of AI and ML,and the perils of that applicability. In order to derive a better understanding of this presentation, it is advisable to first watch the original talk.

During the course of the presentation, many examples of how machines can learn and perform any human task that is repetitive in nature are cited.

Other possibilities suggested include the creation of new unheard jobs for human beings as a result of aggressive use of AI and other allied technologies. Qualities that are characteristic only of human beings, may be the basis on which these jobs will be created is also suggested.

It concludes with a message- Ride the train, don’t jump in front of it.

5) AI and Machine Learning Demystified

In this presentation, Carol Smith establishes that AI cannot replace humans. Smith conveys that AI can serve the purpose of enabling human beings in making better decisions.

The slides talk about how the actions of AI are the result of the human inputs going into its programming. An AI’s bias is not its own, but the human bias with which it has been programmed, is emphasised on.

Other issues such as the need for regulations and other considerations within it that require deliberation are also touched upon. The presentation leaves you with a message – Don’t fear AI, Explore it.

6) Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving Car

Though no descriptive breakdown of topics related to AI is found, the presentation offers interesting numerical insights into many questions. Statistics on three main subjects – artificial intelligence, virtual reality and wearable technology, is provided here.

A variety of questions and the numerical representations of their responses are found under four main categories:

• Will you  purchase a self-driving car when they become available?
• Are you concerned with the rise of Artificial Intelligence?
• Is wearable technology part of your daily life?
• Do you own or intend to purchase a Virtual Reality headset in the next twelve months?

From consumer opinions to overall consensus of countries, the numbers show current trends and the possible trends in the future based on increasing development in the mentioned technologies.

7) Artificial Intelligence

There are many who have been introduced to AI only recently due to the buzz surrounding it and may not be aware of the early developments that led to its current status.

This presentation from 2009 offers a simple yet informative introduction to the rudiments of AI. AI’s history and a timeline of all the significant milestones in AI up to 2009 can be found. The presentation also provides an introduction to AI programming languages such as LISP and PROLOG.

For those who would like to have a crash course on the basics of AI in order to catch up with it current trends, this presentation serves the purpose.

8) Solve for X with AI: a VC view of the Machine Learning & AI landscape

While the concepts of  AI or ML are not spoken about, light is shed on other important aspects of it. The presentation discusses about how many known tech giants such as Google are bolstering their AI capabilities through mergers and acquisitions.

The role of venture capital(VC) in the landscape of AI and machine learning,and the involvement of VC in the firms that were acquired are mentioned.

Another point highlighted is how large companies are moving towards ML and re-configuring themselves around ML, and how it is not a US-centric phenomenon. Key points have been expressed in the form of self-explanatory graphical representations. Rounding off the presentation is the possible direction that ML can take and a few pointers on achieving success in ML.

9) Deep Learning – The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence

This presentation provides a comprehensive insight into deep learning. Beginning with a brief history of AI and introduction to basics of machine learning such as its classification, the focus shifts towards deep learning entirely.

Various kinds of networks such as recurrent neural nets and generative adversarial networks have been discussed at length. Emphasis has been given to important aspects of these networks and other mechanisms such as natural language processing ( NLP ).

Detailed examples of practical applications and the scope of deep learning are found throughout the presentation. However, this presentation may prove difficult for first time learner’s of AI to comprehend.

10) The Future Of Work & The Work Of The Future

The subject of self-learning of robots and machines is explored here. Talking about the fictional Babel fish, it is suggested that the advancements in technology leading to improved learning and translations by machines  made the Babel fish a near-real entity.

New ‘power’ values such as speed, networked governance, collaboration and transparency, among others, have been put forth and juxtaposed against older ones that are not fully technology  driven.

Going against the popular assumption that robots and machines will replace human beings, the presentation proposes that we are on the brink of the largest job creation period in humanity.

11) Asia’s Artificial Intelligence Agenda

This presentation is a briefing paper by the MIT Technological Review and talks about how the global adoption of AI is being sped up by Asian countries. It suggests that Asia will not only benefit greatly from the rise in AI technology, but will also define it.

The data collected for the review has been summarized in the form of simple info-graphics. They are a numerical reflection of the mood surrounding the adoption of AI across different industries and how it could possibly impact human capital.  The review also suggests that while there is awareness about AI in Asia, only a small percentage of companies are investing in it.

Pointers for business leaders in Asia to capitalize on AI is offered in the end along presentation with an info-graphic timeline of the history of AI.

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12) 10 Lessons Learned from Building Machine Learning Systems

While they are two separate presentations, they talk about the same subject- machine learning. The presentations are a summary of the analysis of machine learning adopted by two platforms, Netflix and Quora.

In case of Netflix, emphasis has been given to the choice of the right metric and the type of data used for testing and training. It also emphasises the need to understand the dependence between the data used and the models employed. The advice to optimize only areas that matter is offered.

The second presentation on Quora, talks about teaching machines only what is necessary. It stresses on the need the to focus on feature engineering and being thoughtful about the ML infrastructure. Another point it highlights is the combination of supervised and unsupervised being the key in ML application.

13) Design Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

With 135 slides, this presentation provides an exhaustive insight into the creation of an ethically sound AI. An introduction to the subject of User Experience(UX) design is followed by the rules that have to be considered during the designing process.

The chronological progression of UX, beginning with experience design and ending with intelligence design, and the direction in which this process is headed is also discussed.

Supported by powerful visuals, the presentation touches upon many essential considerations such as nature of intelligence, purpose of existence, awareness of self and the need for which the AI is created.

It raises a pertinent point that while creating AI, human beings are creating something that embodies qualities that they lack.

14) Artificial Intelligence

Made for a school competition in 2009, it provides many examples of cutting-edge applications of AI at the time.

Many of the examples, such as mind controlled prosthetic limbs, Ultra Hal Assistant and Dexter- the robot provide a trip down the AI memory lane where the applications of AI seemed like a page out of a sci-fi novel. It presents a list of areas where AI can assist human beings.

It concludes with  a series of questions, some of which, are still being debated. Such as machines replacing human beings’ and human unemployment due to the use of machines.

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