Top 6 Online Powerpoint Moguls Compared

Online powerpoint applications are among top productivity tools letting you create, edit and share .ppt (powerpoint) and some other presentation formats online. They’re extremely useful if you

need regular access to presentation files from different locations(for viewing, presenting or editing)
working on collaborative projects, with multiple people working in the same document
or just feel like doing things online

I have listed top 6 web based presentation tools, while all of them share some basic features of desktop powerpoint, there are some key differences…

Tool	Import Export	Audio/Video incl.	Browser plugin	Drawing	Shappes, Charts, etc	Clip Art Animat.	Share	Limit	Collaborate	Free
	Yes	No	Firefox, IE	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	1GB (10 MB/file)	Yes	Yes
	No	No	soon	No	No	No		unlim.	No	Yes
	not yet	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes		5 presentations	No	Yes
	Yes	No	Firefox, IE	No	Yes	No		unlim.	Yes	Yes
	No	Audio only	No	Yes	Yes	Yes		unlim.	No	Yes
	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No		no idea.	No	Yes

My Recommended: ZohoShow or Thinkfree

And finally I want to quickly go over ‘print to PDF’ feature which I think provided by only 2 of the above, however even if the option isn’t there you still can convert presentations to PDF using Adobe Acrobat’s print to PDF feature accessible from browser window (File->Print).

comments welcome

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Kaly

A father of two, neo geek, tech-obsessed male who runs the MakeUseOf Directory. He is also the co-founder of MakeUseOf and been here since makeuseof went live.

http://www.thinkfree.com Jonathan Crow

Aibek,

Thanks for the comparison. One minor correction, ThinkFree Show does have browser plug-ins for Firefox and IE. We also have a plug-in for WordPress and open APIs for developers. You can find out more information at viewer.thinkfree.com.

We also have some really cool integration with Flickr, allowing you to insert images from Flickr’s photo archive, Creative Commons, for publishing files with intelectual property protection, and more.

Thanks,
Jonathan
http://makeuseof.com Aibek

seems like I have missed your plugins somehow,my bet. I have corrected it now
http:://www.spresent.com Sasha

Thanks. Interesting comparison.
Here are the corrections for Spresent.

Spresent.com:
– Import/export: HTML, EMBED, and SWF export (coming soon), PPT import (coming soon)
– Audio/Video: Yes – any MP3 and SWF, including animations, audio, video even applications.
– Browser plug-in: we think “No plugin required” should be an advantage, so any computer can be used.
– Collaborate: in progress

The key difference (not in the table) should be the graphics engine used. A powerful graphics enginge eventually makes all the difference for a presentation graphics.

We use Flash – we just have not seen a better graphics engine for the Web yet.

Thanks,
Sasha
http://makeuseof.com Kaly

Sasha, thanx lots for your detailed correction. I have 2 comments though;
1. by import/export we meant functionality of uploading files from your PC and downloading them from server, and as I remember this option wasn’t there, but glad it’s comming.
2. regarding the graphics engine used, well I agree that’s vital point but the idea here was to introduce these tools to regular folks and not to compare the technology behind each.
Anyways, as I said I am glad you guyz adding more features, I will definitely look into them once I update this post.