Beautiful.ai

"Beautiful Slidedeck Requires Less Effort than PowerPoint"

Comments: I started as a free user before they had a pricing model. With the expanded templates, object feature, and other improvements, it is a no brainer to justify the $12-15/month subscription because it will easily save you hours of time on each presentation.

Pros: The templates make it easy to create great looking slides with a touch of animation. I develop 30-40 slides within a few hours with universal styling and by comparison, that would take me 1.5 days in PowerPoint and I'd spend most of that time standardizing the styling since PowerPoint's autosizing makes two slides look vastly different.

Cons: Occasionally, you want to nudge something and the template does not allow for that. This aggravation is minor and it happens much less frequently with the addition of their text boxes and objects feature. I recommend finalizing your content before you start working on an animated order (e.g. bulleted lists) because if you reorder the content, it keeps the same order you originally set.

Alternatives Considered: Prezi

Reasons for Choosing Beautiful.ai: Aggravated by PowerPoints auto-sizing, lack of consistent styling, and trying to develop workarounds to make slides look good.

Switched From: Microsoft PowerPoint

Reasons for Switching to Beautiful.ai: I used Prezi in the past and it is a good alternative to PowerPoint. I prefer Beautiful.ai because of the ease of building a presentation and the subtle animations they developed.

"Easiest and Fastest Way to make Slides for work"

Comments: As a start up founder, time is always on premium and Beautiful.ai helped our team spend less time on making the slides look good and freed us to focus on the content. And now with its advanced sharing and analytics it’s become a very important part of our sales tech stack. Amazing product that is delivering amazing value to us everyday.

Pros: It’s super easy to use and helps you have a professional looking slide deck ready in jiffy. No more tinkering around with formatting and stuff. Finally the freedom to just focus on the content and not formatting. Plus it’s additional features to share and track analytics make it a must have for sales teams.

Cons: A few new features are not so obvious but once you discover them they are super easy to use.

Alternatives Considered: Slidebean

Reasons for Choosing Beautiful.ai: Google Slides used to take too much time.

Switched From: Google Slides

Reasons for Switching to Beautiful.ai: It’s was free at the beginning to try and I just loved the product experience.

"Fast way to make beautiful presentation decks"

Comments: I use Beautiful AI when I want to present some research quickly - I like the charting slides can be done quickly and they look really nice, better than Canva.

Pros: I like they have integrated the endless source of free images to illustrate the presentations and basically cover all possible slide templates you might need. Setting up your deck is nicely fast.

Cons: While presentations can be also exported to PPT, to be later used as background on Zoom presentation, I wish there would be easy way to use Beautiful AI presentation automatically as Zoom background or that Beautiful would have a presenter overlay function when you'd like to record a live presentation.

"Good functionality but not a game changer for presenting"

Comments: I am still trying its features and capabilities, but for the moment I cannot say that I would be creating a presentation with a "made with xyz" logo.

Pros: 1.Its available templates and themes that can offer you a jumpstart
2. Smart editing into the templates - adding elements of the template without having to spend time aligning or copy-paste graphics

Cons: 1. Very limited actions in the trial plan do not let you adopt the app for your presentation.
2. I do not see the pricing offered as competitive vs other available solutions
3. Learning curve and limited trial push you to another solution.

Alternatives Considered: Pitch

Reasons for Switching to Beautiful.ai: It had more templates than Pitch which made me think that it would be a positive.

"Best way to back slide decks"

Comments: I speak at conferences multiple times a month and need slide decks that support my messaging, this tool does that for me. I normally only have a hour or two to take all my content and turn it into a finalized deck and Beautiful.ai delivers.

Pros: I love the fact I can knock out stunning presentations in a matter of minutes that I get compliments for all the time. The process is simple and the designs fit most every situation.

Cons: I have found when trying to have people collaborate on a deck that I am working on complain why I am not just using PowerPoint so I have very little team members who even want to accept the edit invites. I also wish editing colors was easier.

Alternatives Considered: Canva and Google Slides

Reasons for Choosing Beautiful.ai: I have loved PowerPoint but even with the new improvements I would take half a day at least to make a new presentation. In addition OneDrive slide hosting has been hot or miss for me in the wild.

Switched From: Microsoft PowerPoint