Microsoft PowerPoint is the most widely used software for creating visual presentations for school, home and work. Although it is the most common software, it can be quite expensive and it may have more capabilities than is often needed. There are a number of free alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint for creating presentations. What’s more, they often have unique features that are not available in Microsoft PowerPoint. This article focuses on the five best free alternatives to Microsoft PowerPoint. These are as follows.
Powtoon
Powtoon probably ranks as the best alternative for Microsoft PowerPoint in terms of creating and presenting presentations. The best feature of Powtoon is that it provides the user with an unbelievable range of category of presentations. It has made the concept and use of templates, bullet points, slides and files completely obsolete. Powtoon allows the user to create animated stories and explainer videos for presentations. The slides that you will have to prepare are only to manage the content so that, when you view the presentation on screen, it becomes easier to grasp the narrative. It also provides great voice-overs. It will be of unimaginable help when you have parts of your presentation that will play on screen with your previously recorded voice over.
Google Drive
Google applications are also a very good option when you want to find a suitable, alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. If you are already familiar with these Google applications, you may have heard of Google Drive as well. It is software that allows the user to create presentations quickly. It is much less complicated than PowerPoint although the aesthetics are lacking and the templates are too elementary. That said, it is well built and easy to do collaborative work.
280 Slides
280 Slides is the presentation software which has many users, yet is probably most unknown. Once you create a presentation in 280 Slides, you may not notice much difference between it and PowerPoint. But you will instantly appreciate is quite easy to use and creates beautiful slides.
Slide Rocket
Although the full extended version of Slide Rocket is also quite expensive, it does provide a free version with limited features that is sufficient. The slide transitions and animations are unique and look great in a presentation. They tend to more closely resemble Flash rather than PowerPoint. Once nice feature is the ability to integrate the software with Flickr and YouTube.
Prezi
Prezi is the newest software that that provides a real alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint presentation slides. In fact, until now, Prezi is the best known software for creating non linear presentations.
Author Bio : Gautham is a timeline designer and he blogs at Gantt Charts
