Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#1

Post by altoz » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:10 PM UTC

I'm doing a lot of teaching and I've been using PowerPoint. I recently saw some people use Prezi and liked what they were able to do to map concepts visually to make them easier to understand. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of the features that made Prezi powerful have been neutered in Prezi Next and isn't able to do a lot of what I'm looking for (no path editing, no infinite canvas, etc). What alternatives are there?

Some requirements for me:

* WYSIWIG editor * Tutorials * Infinite canvas/Path editing

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#2

Post by LarryMade2 » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:15 PM UTC

How about Sozi? its an extension for inkscape - http://sozi.baierouge.fr/

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#3

Post by Numberwang » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:25 PM UTC

reveal.js wins every time.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#4

Post by zeger » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:27 PM UTC

Numberwang wrote: post #3

reveal.js wins every time.

Yep was going to say Reveal.js too. Earlier today someone posted an integration of Jupyter Notebooks with Reveal.js which looks pretty cool. https://github.com/datitran/jupyter2slides

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#5

Post by sridvijay » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:32 PM UTC

I remember seeing this on product hunt a while back and it looks awesome: https://ludus.one/?ref=producthunt

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#6

Post by massaman_yams » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:36 PM UTC

I don't know if this satisfies your infinite canvas requirement, but I've used https://slides.com/ quite a bit. Similar to reveal.js.

edit: as pointed out elsewhere in the thread, "slides.com is a front-end for reveal.js, made by the authors of reveal."

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#7

Post by rnhmjoj » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:39 PM UTC

http://impress.github.io/impress.js

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#8

Post by twiss » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:40 PM UTC

There's Strut, which is WYSIWIG and has path editing: http://strut.io/

I'm running a fork with some very minor improvements at https://www.airbornos.com/demo#open=strut. If you make an account there, they're saved in the cloud.

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#9

Post by josephernest » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:46 PM UTC

BigPicture might be what you're looking for: http://bigpicture.bi/demo

* Infinite canvas

* Infinite zooming

* WYSIWIG

* Demo

* Opensource: https://github.com/josephernest/bigpicture.js

If you zoom on some vegetables here http://bigpicture.bi/Legumes you'll find the recipe :)

Re: Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?

#10

Post by djsumdog » Sat, Oct 28, 2017, 3:49 PM UTC

massaman_yams wrote: post #6

I don't know if this satisfies your infinite canvas requirement, but I've used https://slides.com/ quite a bit. Similar to reveal.js. edit: as pointed out elsewhere in the thread, "slides.com is a front-end for reveal.js, made by the authors of reveal."

Yea it's not as fancy, but I really like reveal.js. I do presentations at Python, Scala and Ruby meetups based on the same project, and I have a reveal.js project set up so I can easily build slides:

https://github.com/bigsense/presentations