Microsoft PowerPoint Alternatives

Microsoft PowerPoint is described as 'Create dynamic presentations with advanced graphics and seamless workflow integration, part of the renowned Microsoft Office Suite' and is a very popular presentation maker in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Linux and iPad apps. The best Microsoft PowerPoint alternative is LibreOffice - Impress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Microsoft PowerPoint are Canva, Prezi, Google Slides and OpenBoard Whiteboard.

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  1. Impress, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a presentation program similar to Microsoft PowerPoint . It does dual screen and linear presentations out of the box, but the free "Presenter Console"...

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  2. Deckset icon
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    Great-looking slides from simple Markdown files. Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  3. AI for Google Slides helps customers create presentations using AI. Install our native add-on to start generating new presentations in minutes.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Google Workspace
     
  4. Formerly known as Adobe Slate and now part of the Adobe Express suite, Spark Page makes it easy for anyone to turn words and images into a beautiful gliding web story. Transform your next newsletter, report, invitation or travel adventure into a...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. SlideMagic icon
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    SlideMagic is a web-based tool to design business presentations. It has a really simple user interface and a large template bank of slides curated by a professional presentation designer. SlideMagic decks can be exported to PDF or PowerPoint. The app is free to use.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. Calligra Stage icon
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    Calligra Stage is an easy to use yet still flexible presentation application. You can easily create presentations containing a rich variety of elements, from graphics to text, from charts to images.

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. Revent Press is an AI-powered presentation tool designed to transform your documents into professional, on-brand presentations in minutes.

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  8. PresentationGPT is essentially ChatGPT for presentations and is powered by the GPT-4 language model. It helps users to effortlessly create high-quality, engaging, and detailed presentations. These presentations can be easily shared, downloaded, and edited using PowerPoint and...

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
     
  9. Slidev icon
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    There are a lot of feature-rich, general-purpose, WYSIWYG slides makers like Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote. They work pretty well for making nice slides with animations, charts, and many other things, while being very intuitive and easy to learn.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
     
  10. Showdown icon
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    Showdown is an easy-to-use tool for quickly creating presentations using Markdown. It's perfect for those times where you need to whip up a presentation within minutes rather than hours, like for a sprint review or presenting your findings on that experiment for your team.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  11. CustomShow connects Sales, Marketing and Design Teams to close more deals.

    Great presentations are the result of teamwork, so we built CustomShow to be the one place where together people can design, build, manage and deliver presentations that make an impact. CustomShow combine.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • iPad
     
  12. Spectacle is a React.js based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax (with the ability to live demo your code!)

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
     
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