Visuals, sound or music, text: videos can turn it all into a compelling story. Use this feature to add customer feedback, marketing content, product demos, and more to your presentation.
Level up your slide content and make it come to life with animation. Not only do animated presentation tools add style and a personal touch to your presentation, but they can also help you control how you deliver your information.
Control the pace of your presentation with an animation setting that waits for your mouse click to proceed. Plus, you can finish sections of your presentation with a big slide reveal for maximum drama, if you like. Using a template to design your slides lets you spend more time on content and overall presentation.
But sometimes, those designs can get in the way of creating the exact presentation you want. You need the best of both worlds with intuitive slide templates and wiggle room in design.
Enter: Elements , a better, more powerful, more flexible version of Beautiful. Need more room to add text? An extra chart or table to present your data? How about the ability to move, scale, or customize one of your graphics? When you have more creative control over your slides, you can truly craft a presentation that speaks to your audience. Video, slide animations, and customized designs can pack a lot of punch in your presentation.
Slides with long blocks of text are unappealing to the eye. Sometimes, a well-chosen image will uplift your text and make your information more memorable. Like video, images can make a lasting impression on your audience, sometimes far more than text can.
LibreOffice is a free alternative to Microsoft Office, and it includes a Powerpoint equivalent called Impress with nearly all of the same functionality. 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. On the whole, LibreOffice Impress is about as close as it gets to simply replicating Microsoft Powerpoint for free. Read our full LibreOffice review. 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. 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.
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. All of the tools are displayed in a top ribbon, with your slides shown on the left side of the screen for easy navigation.
However, keep in mind that the software is supported by ads. Michael Graw is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Bellingham, Washington. Haiku Deck is completely free, and your account gives you access to over 35 million images and six presentation themes to choose from additional premium themes and images are available to purchase. The service also has chart and graph building tools built-in you can use to display data.
Those of you who nominated Haiku Deck supported it because it puts all of the tools you need right at your fingertips to create good presentations. If you have no idea how to license images for use in public presentations, or music, or the only tool you've ever used it PowerPoint and you don't want your slideshow to turn out like everyone else's, Haiku Deck is an elegant, easy to use alternative that handles the details for you. It has tons of presentation options, and you have the choice to make your slideshow private, public, or restricted to a few people.
Many of you noted that it's great for people who just want a good looking presentation but don't want to spend all day creating one. You can read more in its nomination thread here.
Prezi isn't just a great online presentation tool, it's one of your favorite PowerPoint alternatives in general. The service made waves when it launched years ago because it gave users the ability to create dynamic, fluid, non-linear presentations with great animations and motion effects that lend an energy to a presentation that you won't get with a static series of one-after-the-other slides. Of course, with its popularity also came some overuse of those features, giving rise to some equally awful presentations that zoom and swoosh all over the screen, overusing motion effects to a dizzying degree.
Even so, it's a highly popular tool that's all-online and free to use for anyone who wants to sign up. It's powerful in its own right, and allows you to visually show how ideas relate to one another instead of just putting one idea after another. It's best used for non-linear presentations, where you may need to go back to old topics, show how multiple topics are connected, and show how details relate to a greater picture. Prezi also allows you to make heavy use of images and multimedia, graphs and charts, and other original details to really make your presentation your own.
Best of all, if you're working on a presentation with others, like for work or a class project, you can have everyone collaborate on the presentation together at the same time. Like we mentioned, Prezi is free but all of your presentations will be visible to the public.
If you need to use it for work, want storage for files, need privacy, want to edit offline, or want more features, there are premium plans and discounts for students and teachers available.
Those of you who nominated and supported Prezi's nomination liked the fact that you can build and edit your presentations on any device with a browser, and that your work syncs immediately with other devices, including mobile devices.
Prezi's library of templates and media lets you find inspiration and use it in your own presentation, too. It's not perfect though—many of you shared your horror stories as well as your praise for the service, but overall, many of you appreciate Prezi's ability to create unique and dynamic presentations that break away from traditional slide decks.
While other online presentation tools take a more dynamic approach and try to depart from the PowerPoint-esque style of presentations, Google Sides embraces it—and that's not a bad thing. If you're already familiar with tools like PowerPoint, want something familiar but simple and easy to use, Google Slides is the tool for you.
In fact, we should mention it was Another of you favorite PowerPoint alternatives. It's come a long way since it was introduced, but it manages to incorporate a professional look and feel along with some interesting and dynamic transitions, images, presentation themes, and other tools that make it fun and refreshing to use.
Like other Google Drive applications, Slides also allows you to collaborate in real time with other users, and everything is stored on the web, in Google Drive, so you can get to it any time, on any computer or device, or send it to anyone who needs to see it.
Slides also makes embedding your own images, charts, graphs, videos, or just about any other type of multimedia relatively easy. Best of all, if you're coming from a PowerPoint world, Slides can open, save, and convert PowerPoint files.
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