Presentations that design themselves
4.2/5 (40 reviews)Slidebean is a presentation software that aims on making the process of slide creation an easy and quick thing to do. The application allows users to keep their focus on the content of their slides and not have to worry too much about the design, choosing instead from lots of pre-built templates, colors, fonts and more.
Slidebean is an ideal tool for startups, small businesses, consultants, and academics (teachers/students).
Pros
- simple to use
- ready templates to speed up or inspire your slide design process.
- sharing with the option to lock with a password so you can track who has viewed your slide
- analytic although pretty redundant to me. Maybe someone else will find it useful.
- lately they have added in A.I functionality to spice up your presentation
Cons
Hmm... I have a strange love-hate feeling towards this app. On one hand, it feels simple to use but on the other, I blame it for not having enough flexibility. Once you have chosen a template, there really isn't much room inside for you to play with. So ended up you'll feel like there are a few slides having the layout you like while another few only so so. Because I need to put in a lot of graphic in my presentation, I hope to see more options for showcasing those graphics. The team need to increase their template options to cater for people that have different needs instead of focusing on Startup Pitch Deck only.
Hi David, thanks for your honest review. This is going to help us improve Slidebean.
The quality of the appearance of our pitch decks has improved 200%. And while it's what you say in that pitch that matters most first impressions and apparences count and the fact the agency has won jobs over bigger companies has at least a little to do with this.
Pros
Pitches are a part of daily life for my agency, and although over the years we have tried a number of pitch deck softwares when I found Slidebean I haven't used anything else since. It's hard to pick a best feature. It's not a steep learning curve to begin using it successfully, the design templates are great and the customer service is fantastic. A favorite tool for sure.
Cons
There's nothing to not like here. If you need to present pitch decks and do not maintain a full time design department to do it for you then this is the best tool out there.
Melanie thanks for taking the time to write this review. We are more than happy to know that you found value in Slidebean.
We wish you the best!
It does the thinking for me in terms of design and formatting, and that is where a lot of time was wasted when I created slides. And I don't need to spend extra time learning what a huge range of tools does when it's done for me automatically in the background.
Pros
I've used the classic PowerPoint for many years and I still use that at time for particular reasons when I need hefty presentations rich in facts and figures. But more often than not, I need sleek and breathy slides that showcases tastefully 1 or 3 points per slide. I find Slidebean to do a neat job at separating content from design. Unlike what I was used to previously and that was tons of tools and a huge learning curve, Slidebean's design and formatting is automated and can be tweaked quickly. Since the end result doesn't require perfection, I'm rather grateful with the automation features as I don't have to be too creative myself and I can rather cherry pick the suggestions I'm offered.
Cons
It works for me. No hiccups there. Tweaking and editing just takes getting used to, but I knew what my expectations were when I went in, and they were met.
Edwin thanks for your review, we are glad you found Slidebean useful. We have something new coming in the nexts days. We'll keep you posted.
Pros
Some of the App templates they have are very nice
The animations of graphics are tastefully done and the graphics are fairly good.
Cons
Graphs dont allow you to adjust the range which often leads to a lot of blank space.
No way to adjust the width of text or objects.
Lining up multiple objects on a page is imprecise and the tools they offer to help have a major flaw.
The price for what you get is waayyyyyy too high.
But the cardinal sin is the awful customer service. I accidentally deleted a graphic from the AirBNB slide deck and tried to return it using ctrl z which did not work. I spent a few hours trying to figure it out on my own and eventually put a request out to the "live chat" support. It took them two days to respond and when they did, rather than acknowledge their software is buggy and offer one of several easy fixes I suggested they said "I'm sorry Mike, but as this template was used as a courtesy, there's no way to open up a new one. (confused emoji) If you are interested in upgrading your plan to have access to this and the other templates, I'd be happy to help you out. An automatic prorate would be applied. "
Are you a new user that made a mistake using our flawed software? Well pay us more so you can remake your presentation from scratch! And enjoy our useless emojis!
I think I'll pass and I encourage others to as well
It works great. As you start to use it more, you will fall in love with it.
Pros
- Ease of use
- They have intelligently separated out design from the content. You write your content at one place and Slidebean automagically creates a unique design for you based on that content.
- Present on the web itself.
- Send ppt as a web link which removed the need for a compatible version of ppt on the recipient machine.
Cons
Frankly nothing. They can do with more templates.
Unlimited Presentations
All Business templates
Online Collaboration
Remove Watermarks
Export to PDF
Expedited export to PowerPoint
(fully editable file)
Custom colors and fonts
Slide branding with your logo
Track views with Presentation Insights
Professional presentation reviews
Dedicated Account Manager
Custom presentation branding implemented by our design team
- Unlimited cloud based storage for presentations.
- Users can export their Slidebean presentations to HTML, PPT and PDF.
- Online collaboration offers users the capability of allowing access to any co-worker to view or edit presentations, keeping them in sync automatically.
- Track presentation views with Slidebean's presentation insights, tell how long people spent on a presentation and how many slides they got through.
Below are some frequently asked questions for Slidebean.
Slidebean offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$96,00/year
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Unlimited Presentations
All Business templates
Online Collaboration
Remove Watermarks
Export to PDF
Expedited export to PowerPoint
(fully editable file)
Custom colors and fonts
Slide branding with your logo
Track views with Presentation Insights
Professional presentation reviews
Dedicated Account Manager
Custom presentation branding implemented by our design team
Slidebean offers the following features:
Slidebean has the following typical customers:
Small Business
Slidebean supports the following languages:
English, Spanish
Slidebean has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices Slidebean supports
We do not have any information about what integrations Slidebean has
Slidebean offers the following support options:
FAQs, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
I use Slidebean to prevent the others from using my slide if I email it to them.