Instead of the complicated and long messages, it become easier that the presentation tool helps you focus on main points of the project’s gist. But which presentation tool fit for your demands? Can you know how to decide the suitable one for your project? Below, there are some tips for choosing an appropriate presentation tool you can discover.
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What is Presentation Software?
“Presentation software is a category of application software that is specifically designed to allow users to create a presentation of ideas by stringing together text, images and audio/video. The presentation tells a story or supports speech or the presentation of information.
Presentation software can be divided into business presentation software and general multimedia authoring software”. (Source: Techopedia)
How to choose the best presentation software?
Each presentation software must include three basic functions:
- Customizing: to edit the presentation gist.
- Importing: to update text, images, video and other content.
- Presenting: to display the content in a nice, formatted way.
Besides, there are some things to consider more:
- The Price Point: is it suitable for your budget?
- User Interface: friendly or not easy-to-use?
- Target objectives: businesses, educators, bloggers or social media managers?
- Flexibility: can be used offline or on any kinds of devices or for team collaboration?
- Privacy: does it have password protection or analytics of your own projects or other additional features?
Choosing the most suitable presentation software aligning with your needs and budget among literally hundreds of softwares sounds dreadful. But don’t worry, we will look at all these factors so you have your best choice.
5 Best Presentation Softwares 2019 Reviews
Here’s the list of top 5 presentation softwares reviewed based on 3 fundamental functions:
> Importing
> Customizing
> Presenting
1. MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
Importing: 2/5
Customizing: 4/5
Presenting: 2/5
There’s no doubt PowerPoint is the best-known and installed products among presentation softwares. Despite having all the tools needed to make an amazing presentation, PowerPoint is still limited in importing format and quite difficult to master and make good use of it.
Website: https://products.office.com/en/powerpoint
2. VISME
Importing: 4/5
Customizing: 4/5
Presenting: 4/5
Being different from PowerPoint, Visme is a web-based slide show making platform. The product has a quite similar interface to PowerPoint, but more user-friendly and well-navigated. Additionally, it is less time-consuming when it comes to customization options to create more dynamic slides.
Website: https://www.visme.co/
3. CANVA
Importing: 3/5
Customizing: 4/5
Presenting: 4/5
Canva, as one of the market leaders, provides a lot of design layouts and templates for creating not only presentations but also infographics, flyers, etc. One of its best features is drop-and-drag interface, which is suitable for both designers and non-designers.
Website: https://www.canva.com/
4. PREZI
Importing: 3/5
Customizing: 4/5
Presenting: 5/5
One of the best things you might read or see people comment about Prezi is its Natural Zooming, which makes the audience simply… hooked. However, Prezi seems not easy to use, because you won’t want people to just enjoy the transition and take nothing of the content.
Website: https://prezi.com/
5. APPLE KEYNOTE
Importing: 3/5
Customizing: 5/5
Presenting: 4/5
Apple has long been praised for their simple but amazing and delicate design. Keynote is one of those products designed that way. Apple’s version of presentation software is fundamentally an improved PowerPoint. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Mac user.
Website: https://www.apple.com/lae/keynote/
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