About Microsoft Sway

Microsoft Sway is a presentation software that helps businesses create interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and documentation using the built-in design engine. Administrators can modify images, text alignments, backgrounds, font styles, and grids on a centralized dashboard.

The platform offers a slide transition feature, which enables managers to keep images and text together and build professional designs. Microsoft Sway allows teams to generate multiple color palette options and manage animation levels across images. Supervisors can also utilize images, text, videos, and other multimedia to create professional designs on a unified interface.

Microsoft Sway lets stakeholders apply vertical, horizontal, slideshow, and other layouts to group and display content. Operators can also include photos, visuals, and other multimedia content to build interactive presentations.


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4.2 /5
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Great for quick presentations

Reviewed on 2023/05/12

Pros

Easily create a presentation in no time with the available templates. There is an array of templates with fonts amd pictures ready to go, or you can spend a little more time and customize your presentation.

Cons

It takes a minute to learn how to use sway. A part of that learning is that you are severely limited in customization.

Amr
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Simple & Professional Content Creation Tool

Reviewed on 2022/04/14

Microsoft Sway helps me easily create impressive presentations on the cloud. It saves me time when...

Microsoft Sway helps me easily create impressive presentations on the cloud. It saves me time when I create content like a digital story or a presentation using the Start from a topic feature. It allows me to choose a topic then Sway suggests content and information around it from the internet.

Also, I use it as a learning activity tool for students to empower them to express their thoughts by creating digital content and sharing it on the internet.

Pros

Microsoft Sway is an easy-to-use application for content creation. It has pre-designed layouts and a rich assets library that makes it easy to create engaging content. It doesn't require previous experience in design or content creation software. Also, It's effective for business presentations and students' e-portfolio.

Cons

I find Sway a bit slow when I embed it in web pages using the iframe sharing method. It takes more time to load compared to the entire web page elements.

Reasons for Switching to Microsoft Sway

Microsoft Sway has seamless integration with Microsoft OneDrive, and it suits a variety of needs and use cases like digital story creation, presentation, and e-portfolio.
Brooke
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Sway with me

Reviewed on 2024/12/23

I have gone back to this when I can in my classrooms as it I more colourful, and interactive for...

I have gone back to this when I can in my classrooms as it I more colourful, and interactive for students.

Pros

The interactive nature of the presentations.

Cons

Lots of scrolling to be able to find the say that I am looking for

Faten
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

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Reviewed on 2022/11/03

Pros

Easy add text, images, videosDescent image albums

Cons

I can't edit the design with my own pictures

Turan
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Converting your entire Vision to digital with Sway

Reviewed on 2023/05/04

After I met Sway, I gave up on all simple and visual presentations. I said hello to functional...

After I met Sway, I gave up on all simple and visual presentations. I said hello to functional presentations that are much more active and professional for the eye and purpose. Thanks to its simple and user-friendly interface, it took much less time to use and get used to. we are able to produce much more rational solutions, especially thanks to its transfers and integration with other MS products.

Pros

I would say Microsoft has an alternative to PowerPoint. It has taken it one step further with Sway. A much more lively, effective and homogeneous result was obtained. It can be used to create more effective and visual reports, presentations, communication screens or bulletins. Libraries, templates, plugins in its repository help to reveal more different works. The software structure is simple and has the simplicity of other MS products. As if they will use it for the first time, they will think that they have been using this program for a long time. It can be used in all personal or professional areas.

Cons

A missing or negative feature cannot be written for Sway. But those who have not met or used Sway are not aware of their loss.

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Microsoft Sway FAQs

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Microsoft Sway offers the following pricing plans:

  • Pricing model: Free Version
  • Free Trial: Not Available

It is available for free of cost.

Microsoft Sway has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Microsoft Sway supports the following languages:

Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish

Microsoft Sway supports the following devices:

We do not have any information about what integrations Microsoft Sway has

Microsoft Sway offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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