Create Eye-Catching Slides using Canva


Easy drag-and-drop editor
3M+ free stock photos and graphics
Design from any device
Download or share designs easily
Creating impressive slides is now a breeze with Canva. Our free alternative to PowerPoint lets you browse hundreds of professionally designed templates, plus high-quality design elements to ensure your presentation makes an impact on your audience.

Say goodbye to boring presentations with the same, tired design over and over. With Canva, the free PowerPoint alternative, you can design visually stunning presentations that hold your audience’s attention until the last slide. Everything you need to become a great visual communicator is at your fingertips—a drag-and-drop editor, an extensive templates collection, a curated design elements library, and a one-click presentation mode.
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Sales presentations, pitch decks, school lectures, and keynote slides should all have different looks and feel. Instead of using a generic PowerPoint template, browse through Canva Presentations’ professionally designed presentation layouts and slide templates(opens in a new tab or window) to match your specific industry and theme.
Whether you’re presenting a project kickoff(opens in a new tab or window), business proposal(opens in a new tab or window), marketing plan, event proposal(opens in a new tab or window) or a new architectural project, we have the perfect design for you. Just pick the template that best fits your needs and use it as your springboard to start designing.
As a PowerPoint alternative, Canva Presentations gives you access to an incredible media library with over a million professional-quality stock photos(opens in a new tab or window), images, and illustrations you can drag and drop on your chosen template.
Canva’s alternative presentation maker also has an intuitive graphs and charts tool to help you elevate your data story. Simply pick Charts on the Elements tab and start creating your own bar, line, pie, doughnut charts, or pictograms(opens in a new tab or window). You can also create circuit diagrams(opens in a new tab or window), organizational charts(opens in a new tab or window), treemaps(opens in a new tab or window), and even mind maps.
With Canva, you can customize your slides with built-in AI tools in our design editor, no learning curve needed. Use Canva AI(opens in a new tab or window) to generate presentation layouts from just a text prompt, or Bulk Create(opens in a new tab or window) to create multiple designs from data on Canva Sheets(opens in a new tab or window).
Our PowerPoint alternative also features Decorate for generating decorations you want to incorporate in your slides, Magic BG for bringing your creative background idea to life, and Translate for translating your presentation to different languages and connecting with international audiences. If you want to engage your audience throughout your presentation, use Magic Animate(opens in a new tab or window) to effortlessly add animations and transitions to your design.
Canva is a completely web-based design platform so you won’t need to download or install any software to get started. And since your designs are saved on the cloud, you can access them anytime from any laptop or desktop.
Want to bring your designs with you on the road? Canva is also available on iOS and Android mobile devices. Just head over to the App Store to get Canva for iPhone and iPad or to Google Play to get Canva for Android for free and start designing on the go.
After completing your presentation, you can easily share it online by clicking the share button and posting it on social media, sending it via email, or embedding it into your blog or website. Alternatively, download and convert your presentation as PNG(opens in a new tab or window), JPEG(opens in a new tab or window), or PDF(opens in a new tab or window) files. Or, you can also convert your slides as PowerPoint or Google Slides presentations.
On Canva, you can go from designer to presenter in a snap, right from the editor. Seamlessly control your slides and view your speaker notes right from your phone with Remote Control Notes. Delight your audience while presenting with Magic Shortcuts. Press the D key for a drumroll or C to cue in the confetti. With Canva Live, you can get real-time feedback, poll your audience, answer viewer questions, and receive emoji reactions.
You also have the ability to pre-record slideshows and pitch decks(opens in a new tab or window) with Canva’s Desktop Screen Recorder. Create talking presentations and make sure that you land every talking point for asynchronous meetings or onboarding presentations.
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Making a presentation without PowerPoint is easy. Many people choose from various presentation software alternatives. Simply use any software or tool that lets you create, edit and arrange slides. One advantage of these tools is the capability to integrate more from your cloud storage services and social media feeds this way.
Compared to PowerPoint, Canva allows for more sophisticated designs without being tricky to use. The ready-made templates, the wide selection of fonts, and the handy drag-and-drop tool make Canva quicker to learn so you can get your presentation up and running faster.
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