Today’s iPads and smartphones offer plenty of innovative ways to creating and make business presentations. If you are willing to branch out from the customer PowerPoint slides, a world of exciting new apps for your tablet or phone await.
A little experimentation can lead to faster presentation creation and more interesting, effective presentation graphics – plus the mobility and easy of use that today’s mobile devices offer. If you want to break with tradition and start impressing clients and bosses, look into apps like these:
1. Mighty Meeting: Mighty Meeting is a presentation app that helps you quickly share and display your slides whenever you need too. The app includes compatibility with both tablets and smartphones for full presentation control. You can store PDFs and PowerPoints in the cloud and pull them out whenever and wherever you need them, solving many compatibility issues that presentations often suffer from.
If you are working in a team, it lets you share slides and whiteboard drawings with any people through a system designed to be platform compatible. This is also particularly useful when it comes to video conferences. Two levels are available based on how many features you want.
2. Infographics: If you have a lot of statistics to present and want to show them off in the best way possible, look into apps like Apple’s Infographics, which gives you templates to develop easily shareable infographics to explain things. Choose your template and then use Keynote to fill them in with a flowing explanation of numbers and their impact, plus all the visual tricks you could want.
3. SlideRocket: SlideRocket is like an advanced version of SlideShare, an app designed to replace old slideshow creators with an advanced version that allows you to important slides from Google or PowerPoint and develop them in a more flexible web space.
This is a great option for those with more graphic design talents who really want to customize their presentations for the best possible effects. Expects a lot of tools, features, and media integration with YouTube and Flickr. You can also share and collaborate on projects. Both desktop and mobile versions of the software are available.
4. Grafio: Grafio is an app for the fast-paced business world. It is a vector diagramming app, a fancy term for software that makes it easy to map out ideas, create quick diagrams, and develop graphs with data. Its unique, user-friendly features make it easy to whip out presentations within minutes no matter where you are at. If you frequently give presentations at work and have tight deadlines, consider using it.
5. Prezi: In some ways, Prezi is the opposite of Grafio. It is an in-depth presentation designer for the modern world. Instead of slides it uses zoom in/out technology to take viewers on the 3D journey through a beautiful graphical interface. This allows the audience to “discover” text, graphics and stats in flowing, mesmerizing environment. Sound, video, and many other media options are available. Desktop and iPad creators are available, and an iPhone viewer option is also available.
6. MindMeister: MindMeister works best for interactive meetings when you are not only presenting but also asking for ideas and thoughts. Like the website itself, the app version allows you to quickly map out and streamline brainstorming thoughts. You can create idea maps, share them, protect them, and use a variety of tools to encourage free thinking or add media to the best ideas.
7. Presenter Apps: Presenter apps allow you to control presentation slides with your phone. Advanced options include the ability to control sound or respond to specific gestures. Plenty of options exist for all platforms, typically under the name “Presenter” or a variant thereof. You should search for a presenter app designed to work specifically with your presentation software.
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Sara Wells is a tech writer who keeps up with the latest gadget news and writes on behalf of companies such as Protectyourbubble.com iPhone 5s insurance brand.
