The best free presentation software
Canva (Web, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS)
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 has added a number of Ai -powered tools, but I wasn’t super impressed by them yet. The Magic Design tool, for example, isn’t much more useful than the many pre-designed templates already available, while Magic Write is basically just white-labeled ChatGPT. These features will likely improve in time, but for now, you’re better off starting from one of Canva’s many great templates.
With powerpoint Canva integration, you can automate your presentation workflows.
Build automated systems across your apps, like automatically creating
presentations based on form submissions or uploading assets based on
spreadsheet entries. Learn more about how to automate Canva, or get started
with one of these pre-made workflows.
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.
