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Presentation software are tools that help sales teams create and deliver visually appealing presentations to their prospects. The top software offer slide deck templates and customization tools plus upgrades to access advanced features such as multimedia imports and interactive tools to keep prospects engaged throughout the presentation. To help you choose the one for you, we've compiled the top presentation software, including what they’re best suited for.
Here are the top six presentation software options:
If you're specifically looking to create free presentations, check out our guide to the best free presentation software. There, you'll find the top no-cost options plus their use cases, features, and available upgrades.
To determine the best software to create professional-looking sales presentations, we created four criteria comprised of weighted subcriteria. Then, we assigned scores and summed each of the subcriteria and criteria scores to give each software option an overall score out of five. We added the six highest-scoring options to our list and assigned each of them a primary use case. Take a look at our evaluation criteria below:
Note: All per-user prices are based on an annual commitment unless otherwise noted.
While all software on our list are solid options, we found Visme to be the best overall presentation software, which also won in both the core features and advanced features categories. Below, check out how each top option fared in terms of pricing, features, and expert score, and learn more about their primary use cases.
Offers a wide range of core and advanced features plus pre-built, customizable presentation templates.
Price Range: Free to $24.75+ per user, per month
Visme is presentation software for creating content ranging from slide decks to social media graphics to videos. Its expansive library of templates, multimedia, graphs, and educational resources simplify the design process for you. Visme's Free and Personal plans offer many of the features you'll need to create basic presentations — upgrade to Business or Enterprise for premium features such as collaboration, analytics, and a brand kit for the entire team to use.
While Visme offers robust features and a free plan, all presentations created with the free plan include the Visme logo. For other web-based software options that give a mix of good core features and flexibility plus a solid free plan, check out Google Slides and PowerPoint.
Unique presentation plaform that lets you create engaging, non-linear, zoom-in-and-out presentations.
Price Range: $15 to $59+ per user, per month (14-day free trial)
Prezi is a presentation tool that offers a unique take on presenting via their zoom reveal function in which information is presented in a non-linear way. This allows you to adapt to your audience and "zoom in" to each topic according to the flow of conversation, without having to flip through slides to reveal relevant info. All Business plans come with Prezi Design, Present, and Video so you can create presentations and appear alongside your graphics as you speak.
If creating interactive, visually appealing presentations is important to you but so is free software, check out Visme instead. Its robust template library and ability to add links to slides for an interactive, non-linear presentation make it a good alternative to Prezi's paid annual plan.
Widely-used presentation software with solid core features plus AI-based slide design and spoken presentation coaching.
Price Range: Free to $159.99 one-time fee (30-day free trial)
PowerPoint is still one of the most widely used presentation software, largely due to its familiarity and easy-to-use features. In 2021, Microsoft revealed the included Speaker Coach feature, which uses AI to listen to your spoken presentation and help you find a good pace and avoid reading your slides or using filler words. PowerPoint comes standard with a Microsoft 365 subscription, or it can be purchased as standalone software or used free on the web.
PowerPoint's AI slide design and speaker coaching are highly useful for sellers that want to get the entire presentation just right, but the software is often criticized for being clunkier than many newer options. To use a more modern tool that also offers AI design, look into Slidebean.
Great free option for those looking to create simple presentations and use real-time team collaboration.
Price Range: Free for 1 user
Google Slides is an app within the Google Workspace ecosystem that allows you to create professionally designed presentations and infographics for free. With Slides, you can choose from a range of templates, import video or polls, create GIFs, and easily publish presentations to the web. Because it’s a cloud-based service, you can even collaborate and edit with your team in real time. For these reasons, Google Slides is rated our top free presentation software.
Google Slides is a simple free and collaborative presentation software, but it doesn't come with many templates to start from. For a wide selection of deck templates, check out Zoho Show, which is also free, collaborative, and easy to use.
Solid presentation option offering professional-looking deck templates and AI-enabled slide arrangement.
Price Range: Free to $19 per user, per month
Slidebean is an intuitive presentation design platform geared toward startups creating a pitch deck for investors but also useful for established businesses. With its AI-powered editing tool, create an outline and add content, then have the design editor automatically arrange slides for you in various ways until you're happy with the result. Slidebean's user-friendly interface, professional templates, and AI edits help you easily design effective presentations.
Slidebean's AI helps design attractive slides in the best order, but that's the extent of the AI tool. To take this tech a step further, read about PowerPoint, which offers AI design plus AI coaching that will listen to your spoken presentation and help you improve it.
Build free presentations with your team, then broadcast the finished product to a large group and keep them engaged.
Price Range: Free for 1 user
Zoho Show is free presentation software with intuitive creation and powerful delivery features. Start with their 100+ templates of sales presentations, business proposals, and more, then finish your deck with your team in real time. Export and save the slides to a Zoho CRM contact record or broadcast them in presenter mode so all attendees see the slides and can chat questions while you also see presenter notes and choose certain questions for discussion.
Zoho Show is great if you'd like to create and deliver presentations only on your browser, but it offers no flexibility to work offline. To make and give presentations on your browser or desktop, check out PowerPoint's free browser version and upgraded app, also offering presenter mode.
When deciding which presentation sales software is right for you and your business, consider your budget, how many users will require access and how many presentations you expect to create, and what kind of experience you want your audience to have. With that information and this list, individuals and sales teams of any size or budget can choose the right platform that allows them to create dynamic, engaging presentations to use for lead nurturing.
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