5 Best Free Presentation Software Programs

Many similar features include easy to use slide design and transition effects, tabbed interfaces, spell check, free templates, and much more. You really can create exactly the presentation you want with these free programs.

Using free presentation software to create or edit presentations doesn’t have to mean cutting corners on features or using a clunky interface that doesn’t work the way it should. There are plenty of free presentation software programs have just as much to offer as Microsoft PowerPoint but you won’t have to pay a dime for them.

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WPS Office Presentation

WPS Office is a collection of office tools, one of which is a slideshow maker. It works a lot like MS PowerPoint and other full-featured slideshow makers, meaning there are lots of professional tools at your fingerprints.

There are premade templates you can load from directly inside the program, or you can of course start a blank slideshow. Lots of popular file formats are supported, so you can import PDFs, PPTX, POTX, XML, and even PowerPoint addin files. PDF is also supported when exporting, but regular presentation formats are, too, like Microsoft’s and WPS’ custom formats, plus some video and image file formats.

This program is super smooth, and the overall design and tabbed browsing makes it very modern. It has all the features you’d expect in a great slideshow builder, like transitions, animations, color schemes, Slide Master editor, OCR, and cloud access.

You can use this program as a guest, but if you make a free account, you’ll get cloud storage for your files, free templates, and more.

It works with Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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OpenOffice Impress

What We Like

• Multi monitor support.

• Compatible with all OpenDocument compliant apps.

• Open or save in PowerPoint format.

What We Don’t Like

• Lacks advanced PowerPoint features.

Our Review of OpenOffice Impress

OpenOffice Impress is chock-full of all the features you need to build a great presentation. A simple wizard can walk you through setting up the initial backgrounds, slide design, and transition effects if you’d rather not start with a blank canvas.

There are extra features that include drawing tools, animation, text effects, and multiple monitor support, plus free templates and extensions, as well as automatic spell check and support for macros.

Overall, if you’re looking for a free alternative to PowerPoint, this is the program you should choose. It even supports the popular PPTX and PPS files used in MS PowerPoint.

You can use it on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

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SlideDog

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What We Like

• Integrates multiple files into one presentation.

• Live chat and audience feedback functionality.

• Screen sharing feature.

What We Don’t Like

• Requires monthly subscription.

• Additional software required to view external media formats.

SlideDog is a bit different than these other presentation programs because it’s built for presenting files rather than building and presenting.

It works by creating a playlist of media like video, images, PDFs, and PowerPoint files. The presenter can easily add all of these files to a playlist and then use SlideDog to display it in front of an audience.

SlideDog is a great way to organize a presentation if you want something more than the normal “slide after slide” look, which is how most presentation software work.

Pro features include watermark removal, dual screen mode, and live sharing with polls.

SlideDog supports Windows 7 and later editions.

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SlideDog is free to use but because there’s also a SlideDog Pro version, you don’t have access to features like using your own background image, looping the slideshow, sharing with a live audience, and controlling your presentation from your phone.

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Express Points Presentation Software

What We Like

• Intuitive user interface.

• Easy to import PowerPoint presentations.

What We Don’t Like

• Lacks many features of similar apps.

• Outdated user interface.

• Can’t save or export as a PowerPoint file.

Express Points Presentation Software has nothing near the exhaustive features that the above programs have, but it can still function well as a presentation program, especially if you’ve already tried the above and want a fresh look at a different program.

Options and features are organized nicely in this free presentation program and are easy to access while working. Included are templates, text formatting, primary slides, transitions, image effects, and the ability to add audio.

You can insert audio from a microphone directly into a slide, open Microsoft PowerPoint’s PPTX files, and autosave presentation files as often as every minute. It can export to several video file formats or upload directly to YouTube, Facebook, or Flickr (or save to PDF or a project file).

This program works on Windows (XP and newer) and macOS (10.5 through 10.14).

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Apple Keynote

What We Like

• Many advanced features.

• Compatible with PowerPoint.

• Integrated with Apple iCloud.

• Easy to use.

What We Don’t Like

• Only available for Apple devices.

• Limited toolbar controls.

Apple Keynote is a free presentation software app for iOS and Mac users that allows for easy collaboration so the whole team can easily work together on creating that next presentation.

There are themes, slide transitions, object effects, text effects, and a whole handful of other tools in Apple Keynote.

Apple Keynote supports opening and saving to MS PowerPoint formats (PPTX and PPT). You can also export your Keynote presentation to PDF, a movie file, HTML, and an image file format.

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