8 iPhone, iPad Apps To Jazz Up Your Presentations
The best presentation apps do more than organize material for group meetings. These eight apps for iPhone and iPad users offer a variety of interactive features and mobile capabilities that can jazz up your next talk in front of your boss and coworkers.
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One of the easiest ways to bring your ideas across to a large group of people is through a slideshow or some other dynamic presentation. However, the trick is to hold your audience's attention -- and with many people suffering from PowerPoint fatigue -- it's a real struggle.
Thankfully, there are a slew of presentation applications on the market that not only help you spice up an otherwise static collection of slides, but also invite audience participation and let you present via mobile platforms and desktop systems.
With the world going full-tilt mobile, InformationWeek has selected the best presentation apps available through Apple's App Store, including Google Slides, which the company updated last week to include new features such as an interactive audience Q&A.
The new Slides Q&A feature lets audience members submit questions from their smartphones, laptops, and tablets -- and then vote on those they most want answered.
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Users can sort the questions based on audience votes and respond to the top ones. In an effort to make the process of presenting more streamlined, users can now present their slides to Hangouts, Chromecast, or AirPlay from their iPhone or iPad after downloading the Slides app.
Aside from Google there are, of course, dozens of options for those who craft presentations on a consistent basis. To help you chose the best one for your needs, InformationWeek looks at eight different apps that can help you present your ideas to the corporate board, or help your department understand your next big idea.
(All images: the Apple App Store)
The recently updated app lets you create, edit, and collaborate with others on presentations from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad. The Q&A feature lets users accept and present questions from your audience, and users can also create new presentations and open recent files from the home screen icon using 3D touch on the iPhone 6s.
(Price: Free)
Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Keynote makes creating an interactive presentation, complete with animated charts and transitions, as simple as touching and tapping -- choose from 30 Apple-designed themes to give the presentation a beautiful start. With iCloud built in, presentations are kept up to date across all devices, too.
(Price: $9.99)
While it might be unfair that Microsoft's presentation app is tagged with the catchall PowerPoint Fatigue diagnosis -- the app still remains the gold standard for corporate presentations. It allows users to integrate images, tables, charts, SmartArt, transitions, and animations. When presenting, users can also view speaker notes and use the built-in laser pointer, pens, or highlighters to get the point across. Fatigue or not, it remains a must-have.
(Price: Free)
Designed to encourage presentation best practices, such as simplified text, high-impact imagery, and clean, consistent formatting, this free app allows users to apply professionally designed fonts and layouts with one tap for a cohesive, polished look. Streamlined list and multi-line text templates offer additional detail without clutter.
(Price: Free)
This mobile-oriented presentation app lets users edit rich interactive, multimedia presentations on the go and allows them to access files from Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Market, Dropbox, Google Drive, Instagram, Facebook, Box, Sky Drive, and even Google Image Search. Users can also view and enjoy other people's work in the FlowVella community.
(Price: Free)
This app lets you view and show all your presentations whenever you want, right from your device. Users can present live to colleagues wherever they have network coverage, or follow along with their presentations from anywhere. The app also lets you connect through Apple TV's Airplay and present on the big screen.
(Price: Free)
This powerful presentation app helps you present PDFs, HTML files, and Web pages on the go, with support for all PowerPoint files. It preserves fonts and images, so there are no unhappy surprises during the presentation. SlideShark also has direct integrations with OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, and other cloud storage providers. It's built for social sharing, too.
(Price: Free)
The app's creation and playing functions help transform traditional presentations into more captivating experiences. There's a feature that lets you skip traditional slide transitions and impress the audience with SlideIdea's Transformations. This feature lets you move between slides with one-of-a-kind navigation tools. You can also annotate ideas on SlideIdea's expansive whiteboard.
(Price: Free)
The app's creation and playing functions help transform traditional presentations into more captivating experiences. There's a feature that lets you skip traditional slide transitions and impress the audience with SlideIdea's Transformations. This feature lets you move between slides with one-of-a-kind navigation tools. You can also annotate ideas on SlideIdea's expansive whiteboard.
(Price: Free)
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