Best Presentation Software to Get Viewers Hooked (2023)

Marketed as an interactive presentation software powered by no magic at all but Artificial Intelligence, Slidebean does give off a sense of riding on the cutting edge of content creation. You can write an outline for your presentation in their no-code content-brief and editor, and the tool will automatically format your slides, according to a set of predefined best practices.

I took Slidebean for a test drive and was genuinely impressed by how accurate it was at understanding my intentions. Their claim about letting you make a presentation “in minutes instead of hours” stretches it a bit yet it’s true that Slidebean is one of the quickest presentation software tools out there.

Despite the AI-engineered experience you maintain a healthy degree of control: you can have the tool rearrange the slides you don’t like or use fill-in-the-blank templates if you’re in more of a DIY mood.

The only downside lies in the very basics: the slide designs feel a bit dated and somewhat crowded for a piece of presentation software based on the technology of the future. While you’ll be able to create a presentation easily, it might not impress your audience as much as you’d like.

What’s best about it

It takes the tedious away and is very fast. If you’re not in a mood to tinker around with formatting and just want your presentation to “look right,” Slidebean will take care of that.

Who it’s for

According to their website: startups, sales, business, marketing, and academia. Hard not to agree with their list with the only caveat that their decks are probably too flashy for research purposes.

Pricing

Free to play around with, you only pay when you want to export your presentations. Starting at $96 per year for a Starter plan (not much in it), to $228 per year for a Premium plan (a very solid package), to $1,788 per year for a “Founder’s Edition” that comes with full hands-on support, office hours with their experts, and their financial modelling feature. Billed annually.

(50% discount for verified .edu accounts.)