Academic Presenter Alternatives

Prezi

Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.

Features:

• Non linear presentation
• Drag n drop
• Dynamic content
• Embedded media
• Non linear editor
• Non linear presentation
• Works Offline
• Portable
• Real time collaboration

Microsoft Office Powerpoint

Microsoft PowerPoint, part of the Microsoft Office Suite , enables users to create high-impact, dynamic presentations, while integrating workflow and ways to easily share information. From the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface to the new graphics and formatting capabilities, PowerPoint puts the control in your hands to create great-looking presentations. An online version, https://alternativeto .

LibreOffice - Impress

Impress is a truly outstanding tool for creating effective multimedia presentations. Does linear or non-linear presentations with the included Presenter Console extension. Your presentations can be enhanced with 2D and 3D clip art, special effects and transition styles, animations, and high-impact drawing tools. Saves to Open Document format (.odp) as well as ppt. pptx and pdf. Portable version for Windows available from PortableApps.com: http://portableapps .

Keynote

Easy-to-use graphics tools Cinema-quality animations Get started quickly • Choose from 30 Apple-designed themes to give your presentations a beautiful start • Use the slide navigator to quickly skim through your presentation, add new slides, and reorder slides • Engage your audience with interactive charts and chart animations • See live on-canvas previews as you animate your slides • Use gorgeous preset styles to make your text, tables, shapes, and images look beautiful • Quickly...

Features:

• Customizable
• Live collaboration

Google Slides

Google Slides, part of Google Drive , is an online presentations app that allows you to show off your work in a visual way. Here's what you can do with Google Slides: • Create and edit presentations. • Edit a presentation with friends or coworkers, and share it with others effortlessly. • Import .pptx and .pps files and convert them to Google presentations. • Download your presentations as a PDF, a PPT, or a .txt file.

Features:

• Online collaboration
• Export to PDF
• Session sharing

Reveal.js

Reveal.js is a modern open-source non-linear presentation framework based on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, with cool 3D transition effects, cross-browser support, PDF export, and a WYSIWYG editor. It structures slides "horizontally" like in a classic presentation, but from each slide, the user can "drill down" vertically into children slides. Slides can also link to other slides.

Features:

• Non linear presentation
• MarkDown support
• Portable

Sozi

Sozi is an open-source browser-based presentation software using SVG and JavaScript to play animated presentations. Unlike in most presentation applications, a Sozi document is not organized as a slide show, but rather as a poster where the content of your presentation can be freely laid out. Playing such a presentation consists in a series of translations, zooms and rotations that allow to focus on the elements you want to show.

Features:

• Browser based
• Non linear presentation
• SVG Editors

LinkedIn SlideShare

SlideShare is the best way to share presentations, documents and professional videos. SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. SlideShare is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs. SlideShare features a vibrant professional community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content. Content also spreads virally through blogs and social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter.

impress.js

impress.js is a presentation framework based on the power of CSS3 transforms and transitions in modern browsers and inspired by the idea behind prezi.com - an "infinite canvas" for your presentation. Check out the demo at http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js Emphasis is placed on design as well as content. The documentation warns that "quite decent HTML and CSS skills", as well as design skills are needed to be able to use impress.js effectively.

Features:

• Customizable
• Non linear presentation
• Works Offline

PowToon

PowToon is a presentation software that has themes of animated characters, props and cool transitions, that allows you to drag and drop your way to an animated presentation to present your product or service in an eye-catching and fun way. Now you can make your own product demo clip for free!

Features:

• Animation
• Animations
• Works Offline
• Share Videos
• Upload directly to YouTube
• Video editing
• Video Maker