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Creating impressive slides is now a breeze with Canva. Our free alternative to PowerPoint lets you browse hundreds of professionally designed templates, plus high-quality design elements to ensure your presentation makes an impact on your audience.

Create better slides with Canva, the PowerPoint alternative

Say goodbye to boring presentations with the same, tired design over and over. With Canva, the free PowerPoint alternative, you can design visually stunning presentations that hold your audience’s attention until the last slide. Everything you need to become a great visual communicator is at your fingertips—a drag-and-drop editor, an extensive templates collection, a curated design elements library, and a one-click presentation mode.

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Customizable templates for any needs

Sales presentations, pitch decks, school lectures, and keynote slides should all have different looks and feel. Instead of using a generic PowerPoint template, browse through Canva Presentations’ professionally designed presentation layouts and slide templates(opens in a new tab or window) to match your specific industry and theme.

Whether you’re presenting a project kickoff(opens in a new tab or window), business proposal(opens in a new tab or window), marketing plan, event proposal(opens in a new tab or window) or a new architectural project, we have the perfect design for you. Just pick the template that best fits your needs and use it as your springboard to start designing.

Rich visual elements library all in one place

As a PowerPoint alternative, Canva Presentations gives you access to an incredible media library with over a million professional-quality stock photos(opens in a new tab or window), images, and illustrations you can drag and drop on your chosen template.

Canva’s alternative presentation maker also has an intuitive graphs and charts tool to help you elevate your data story. Simply pick Charts on the Elements tab and start creating your own bar, line, pie, doughnut charts, or pictograms(opens in a new tab or window). You can also create circuit diagrams(opens in a new tab or window), organizational charts(opens in a new tab or window), treemaps(opens in a new tab or window), and even mind maps.

Nothing to download or install

Canva is a completely web-based design platform so you won’t need to download or install any software to get started. And since your designs are saved on the cloud, you can access them anytime from any laptop or desktop.

Want to bring your designs with you on the road? Canva is also available on iOS and Android mobile devices. Just head over to the App Store to get Canva for iPhone and iPad or to Google Play to get Canva for Android for free and start designing on the go.

Publish and share your presentation anywhere

After completing your presentation, you can easily share it online by clicking the share button and posting it on social media, sending it via email, or embedding it into your blog or website. Alternatively, download and convert your presentation as PNG(opens in a new tab or window), JPEG(opens in a new tab or window), or PDF(opens in a new tab or window) files. Or, you can also convert your slides as PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations.

Present your slides with confidence

On Canva, you can go from designer to presenter in a snap, right from the editor. Seamlessly control your slides and view your speaker notes right from your phone with Remote Control Notes. Delight your audience while presenting with Magic Shortcuts. Press the D key for a drumroll or C to cue in the confetti. With Canva Live, you can get real-time feedback, poll your audience, answer viewer questions, and receive emoji reactions.

You also have the ability to pre-record slideshows and pitch decks(opens in a new tab or window) with Canva’s Desktop Screen Recorder. Create talking presentations and make sure that you land every talking point for asynchronous meetings or onboarding presentations.

FAQ

Making a presentation without PowerPoint is easy. Many people choose from various presentation software alternatives. Simply use any software or tool that lets you create, edit and arrange slides. One advantage of these tools is the capability to integrate more from your cloud storage services and social media feeds this way.

One of the many free PowerPoint alternatives available is Canva Presentations. Our alternative lets you take advantage of a drag-and-drop editor, intuitive design tools, vast collection of editable templates, and rich media library to create visually stunning presentations for free.

Compared to PowerPoint, Canva allows for more sophisticated designs without being tricky to use. The ready-made templates, the wide selection of fonts, and the handy drag-and-drop tool make Canva quicker to learn so you can get your presentation up and running faster.

To convert your Canva presentation to PowerPoint, select the three dots on the upper right corner of the editor screen. Next, select ‘Microsoft PowerPoint.’ Your presentation will automatically be converted into a .PPTX file.

The easiest way to import Canva to Google Slides is to click on the three dots on the top right corner of the editor screen, beside the Present button. Then, click ‘See all’ and select the ‘Google Drive’ icon. If it’s your first time converting a presentation to Google Slides, you will be asked to link your Google account. Follow the instructions and choose the drive folder where you want to save your presentation. A confirmation message will appear once your Canva presentation is fully uploaded.

Your presentation is first saved as a .PPTX file on your Google Drive account. Open the file, go to the File menu and select “Save as Google Slides” to edit on Google Slides.

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