Keynote for Mac. There’s also a special type of animation, called Magic Move, that allows you to move objects from one slide to a new position on the next slide. Keynote can’t quite match the range of graphs, charts, and diagrams available in Microsoft’s PowerPoint, but it does include a really handy option called ‘interactive charts’. 5 Free (and Way Better) PowerPoint Alternatives. Carolyn Medrano 24 Comments. It is a free Prezi-like (slide-based + canvas-based) presentation software but offline. You don’t need to be connected to internet always to present your work. There are several tutorial video on Youtube.

More has been written about the art of the presentation than could ever be covered here, but one thing that usually accompanies your co-workers' demos are PowerPoint slides. Wasn't always a Microsoft product — it was originally called Presenter and created for Macs. The name was changed for legal reasons in 1987, the same year Microsoft bought the company behind it and created its Graphics Business Unit. Microsoft's version came out with Windows 3.0 in 1990, and the business world has never been the same. The software is such a behemoth, that as of 2012, it held 95 per cent of the presentation software market, according to. Approximately 350 PowerPoint-based presentations are given every second.

Still, many have a love-hate relationship with PowerPoint, in part because some believe presentation slides are a crutch for bad public speakers. Others fault the software's bloat. Many and anything associated with them (to which we say, testify, brother!). Everyone else might be using Apple's elegant and easy software (which is only free with new Macs). Sadly, meetings with presentations (and the need for accompanying slides) remain a reality. If you'd rather stay away from Microsoft, and you don't want to install Microsoft Office, or you just wish there was a cool alternative, well — there are, and plenty of them, in fact. Web-based and installable desktop software alternatives to PowerPoint abound.

Vlc for mac os x 10.6.3. Some are ultra-simplified — which many argue makes them all the better compared to PowerPoint's slew of extras and over-the-top formatting. Some are online-only, so you can access them anywhere as long as you have a high-speed Internet connection. Wonder why your favourite presentation tool or site may be missing? Well, we can tell you that one of our favourites,, is no longer accepting new customers as it tries to integrate more with sales tool ClearSlide.

And we decided not to include sites that are just for sharing presentations like,,, and to focus on tools for creating slides as well as showing them. We also like, but it's more about recording video to play along with a separate slide deck created elsewhere. So, dive right on into the presentation creators and players which follow. None of the software here will make you a better presenter or speaker. But they might just be the right tools you need, and definitely at the right price (free!). Top free presentation software ( Web): Like any good office suite, Google Drive has the three top tools necessary: A word processor, a spreadsheet, and of course, a presentation package that we'll call Presentation even though it doesn't seem to have a specific name.