The 13 Best Presentation Apps in 2018

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Google Slides

Google Slides really shines when it comes to collaboration. Share a link to your presentation, and anyone you want can add details to your slides, write presentation notes, and anything else you want in your presentation. Add comments, similar to Google Docs, to share feedback. You can track changes with Google Slides' detailed revision log, so you don't have to worry about a coworker messing with that chart you painstakingly created. It's one of the best ways to collaborate on a presentation.

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2

Zoho Show

Next time you need to give a presentation, don't panic. Outline the things you'll talk about, write your lecture notes, and pull together resources. Then check this roundup again for the best app for your presentation. Perhaps you'll want to include a poll, and will go with Slides. Maybe the notes are enough, and Evernote or Deckset is the best option. You might need more design work, making Sway, Canva, and Slidebeam better options. Or if you need to present online, Keynote or Zoho Show might be your pick.

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3

Slides

Google Slides really shines when it comes to collaboration. Share a link to your presentation, and anyone you want can add details to your slides, write presentation notes, and anything else you want in your presentation. Add comments, similar to Google Docs, to share feedback. You can track changes with Google Slides' detailed revision log, so you don't have to worry about a coworker messing with that chart you painstakingly created. It's one of the best ways to collaborate on a presentation.

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4

Prezi

Tired of standard slideshows? Prezi is anything but that. It's more like a mindmap, with a large canvas that contains your entire presentation. You can have large graphics that connect everything—perhaps a galaxy, city map, ocean ecosystem, or detailed graph—with your points and graphics nested inside. The presentation starts zoomed out to give the big picture, then Prezi will zoom in to focus on the details as you go through your presentation, zooming out and back into a different point as you move on (which you can see in Prezi's presentation templates.

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5

Microsoft Sway

We're device-agnostic here, but if you prefer a presentation app for focusing on your content over design, Microsoft Sway is a good choice. The only reason it didn't make our list is that it won't play animated GIFs. But we get it—some folks have a severe allergy to anything made by Apple. Sway is free with an Office 365 account.

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6

Canva

Canva is built around its included stock images, backgrounds, and specially formatted text boxes and page layouts that help you make polished, image-focused slides. Graphs are easy to customize, too, with premade layouts where you can add labels and numbers in a table to tweak the graph for your data. Search for any item you need then drag it into your slide or document, then click on that item to tweak its options from the menu in the top of the page. You can then share the presentation publically or present it right from Canva.

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Presentations don't have to be individual slides you click through one at a time. They could be animated video—and Adobe Spark makes that as simple as building a PowerPoint. Designed to build graphics, web pages, and video stories, it's the latter tool that's a handy way to make a presentation, especially if you want one that runs itself.

8

Swipe.to

Already have things you want to put into your presentation—a PDF report, YouTube or Vimeo video, image, GIF, or a text outline? Swipe can turn those into a presentation in seconds. Drag your files into the editor and Swipe will add each to their own slide. Add a Markdown-formatted text file—or add a new Markdown slide manually and type in your text—for a quick way to turn your lecture notes into slides. It's not as customizable as other presentation apps, but Swipe makes it so fast to turn existing files into a presentation, it's worth the simplicity.

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9

Slidebean

You have two options to build your presentation: either pick a template to start building, or start by writing an outline of your presentation. If you start with an outline, you'll select your theme after the fact, and Slidebean will create a presentation for you, complete with formatting. In our testing, the slideshow they created for us was pretty on-point to what we would have wanted to make. Use any of the pre-existing color palettes, or if color isn't your thing, Slidebean will generate a color palette from a URL.

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10

Deckset

Next time you need to give a presentation, don't panic. Outline the things you'll talk about, write your lecture notes, and pull together resources. Then check this roundup again for the best app for your presentation. Perhaps you'll want to include a poll, and will go with Slides. Maybe the notes are enough, and Evernote or Deckset is the best option. You might need more design work, making Sway, Canva, and Slidebeam better options. Or if you need to present online, Keynote or Zoho Show might be your pick.

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11

Keynote

Keynote's best known for its smooth animations, with enough customization options that you could mock up a new app in Keynote and make it almost feel like you're actually using the app, instead of looking at a demo in a presentation. When you're ready to present, you can use an iPhone to remote control your presentation from your Mac, or present online for free with Keynote Live's presentation streaming.

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12

Microsoft PowerPoint

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 PowerPoint alternatives like Keynote have updated key features to make it easier than ever to collaborate and create presentations quickly, so you can spend more time prepping for your actual presentation. The newest crop of online presentation tools also go beyond the classic slideshow experience, with new features to keep your audience's attention.

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13

iCloud

You can use it online at iCloud.com to make presentations in Keynote even on a PC. Or, move your Keynote to iCloud to share with others to view or edit. You can also save presentations to a PowerPoint file if needed.

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