Pick a presentation tool by the job your slides do. Investor and sales decks need speed and a polished, consistent look, live talks and training need audience participation, and marketing content often needs video or interactive pieces as well as slides. Decide which job matters most, then shortlist two or three tools built for it.
Ask three people what a presentation is for and you'll get three answers: winning an investor or a client, teaching a room something, or keeping a whole company's decks looking the same. Haiku Deck's homepage promises faster, better-looking presentations, and the ten alternatives below each make a version of that promise for a different job. They're listed in no particular order.
Pick your presentation job first
Investor, sales and company decks
Slidebean is aimed squarely at founders, pairing an AI deck creator with an optional design agency for the bigger moments. Pitch is a collaborative platform for teams that build and share decks together. Beautiful.ai focuses on keeping every deck across a company on brand, and SlidesAI turns notes, PDFs or prompts into slides inside the tools you may already use. All four are about getting a good-looking deck out of the door quickly.
Live talks, training and audience participation
Prezi now leans into turning slides you already have into an interactive session with live polls and quizzes. Mentimeter is built around audience participation in meetings, classes and events, and Genially makes animated, clickable content such as infographics, quizzes and even escape rooms. If you present to rooms of people rather than send decks by email, look here first.
Visual content beyond slides
Visme mixes presentations with infographics, designs and video in one workspace. Powtoon focuses on branded video and presentations, with avatars, text-to-speech and translation listed. Emaze covers presentations along with websites, photo albums, eCards and blogs. These suit marketers who make lots of different formats and want one tool for most of them.
Ten Haiku Deck alternatives, alphabetically
A to Z, unranked. Each line is based on the vendor's own description of its product.
Beautiful.ai
Best for: Enterprise teams who need every deck on brand and ready to share across the company, which is the vendor's main promise.
Emaze
Best for: People making more than slides; the vendor lists AI presentations alongside websites, photo albums, eCards and blogs.
Genially
Best for: Educators and marketers building interactive, animated pieces such as infographics, quizzes and escape rooms without code, per the vendor.
Mentimeter
Best for: Speakers who want the room involved, with live polls, quizzes and Q&A for meetings, classes and events, as the vendor describes it.
Pitch
Best for: Teams that build decks together and share the finished work, which is how the vendor describes its collaborative platform.
Powtoon
Best for: Business users turning documents into branded videos and presentations, with avatars, text-to-speech and translation listed by the vendor.
Prezi
Best for: Trainers and educators who want to bring their current slides and add live polls and quizzes the audience joins, according to the vendor.
Slidebean
Best for: Founders preparing to raise, with an AI deck creator plus the option of the vendor's own design agency to help shape the story.
SlidesAI
Best for: Anyone starting from notes, documents or a prompt and working inside Google Slides or PowerPoint, which the vendor says it supports.
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Visme
Best for: Marketers producing presentations, interactive infographics, designs and videos in one workspace, which the vendor pitches as all in one place.
Slide tools at a glance
| Tool | Format | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Beautiful.ai | Presentation platform with AI | Keeping company decks on brand at scale |
| Emaze | AI content creator | Presentations plus sites, albums and eCards |
| Genially | Interactive content tool | Animated, clickable presentations and learning content |
| Mentimeter | Audience interaction | Live polls, quizzes and Q&A during talks |
| Pitch | Collaborative presentations | Teams creating and sharing decks together |
| Powtoon | Video and presentations | Branded explainer videos from documents |
| Prezi | Interactive presentations | Turning existing slides into live sessions |
| Slidebean | Investor deck creator | Founders preparing an investor presentation |
| SlidesAI | AI slide generator | Slides from notes, PDFs or prompts |
| Visme | Visual content suite | Presentations, infographics and video in one place |
Straight advice for deck builders
Don't choose a presentation tool from its template gallery. Every vendor shows its prettiest examples, and none of them shows what happens when your content is messy, your brand colours are fussy and you've got forty minutes before the meeting. Build one real deck you need this week in two or three tools and see which one gets you to something you'd happily send.
Think about who opens the deck after you. If investors and clients read it on their own, sharing and tracking matter. If you present live, audience tools and presenter view matter more. And if your company already lives in Google Slides or PowerPoint, a tool that works inside them may cause less friction than moving everyone. For more options, see my guide to presentation makers and my list of PowerPoint alternatives.
Before you rebuild your decks elsewhere
The thing to test in any replacement is how slides are built and styled, and how decks are shared and tracked once they leave your hands. Tools in this category split by who they're built for and how much you set up yourself. Some generate a whole deck from a prompt and leave you to fix it; others give you a blank canvas with smart layouts that keep things tidy as you go. Neither is wrong, but you'll hate the one that doesn't match how you work.
- Pick one deck you present often and rebuild it in each shortlisted tool, start to finish.
- Set up your fonts, colours and logo once and see whether new slides follow them without fiddling.
- Share the finished deck by link and check what the viewer sees on a phone as well as a laptop.
- See what the tool tells you after sharing: who opened it, and how far they got.
- Export a copy to PDF and to an editable format, so you're never locked in.
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Frequently asked questions
What's the quickest way to make a pitch deck?
Start from your story, not a template: problem, solution, market, traction, team and ask. An AI deck tool can then lay out the slides, but you'll still need to edit the words yourself.
Are AI presentation makers good enough for investor decks?
They're good for a first draft and a clean layout. Investors read the substance, so check every claim and number yourself before you send anything.
Can I track who views my presentation?
Some presentation tools show who opened a shared deck and how far they got. Check the sharing features on each tool before you rely on it for sales or fundraising.
How do I make a presentation interactive?
Add live polls, quizzes or Q&A that people join from their phones, or use clickable, animated slides. Both work well in training sessions and larger meetings.
Can I bring my existing PowerPoint slides into a new tool?
Many tools import PowerPoint or PDF files, but layouts and fonts often shift. Allow time to tidy up the first few decks after importing them.
Should my whole company use the same presentation tool?
It helps keep decks on brand and makes sharing easier. If teams have very different needs, agree on shared templates even if the tools differ.
