Prezi Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

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Alea L.: Hi, my name is Alea. I'm a teacher and I give Prezi a three out of five. For more reviews, click below. Before Prezi, I was using Google Slides and I was using PowerPoints for my own personal presentations for my graduate work and also for my second grade class. But I found them to just be kind of monotonous and boring after a while. So I was looking for something that would be more interesting and just provide more, something a little different visually for my students and also for my audience. I chose Prezi because I had heard of people using it before. I had seen people use it before so I decided to give it a try. I tried it because honestly it was a good deal. It was a free trial. It's good for teachers. I had kind of wouldn't say had a recommendation, but I had heard of it before. It had a good reputation. For integrating Prezi, it was really easy because I could just sign up with different Google accounts. I could use my personal Google account. I could use my school Google account and just sign up that way and it was free. Also, I was able to send it to the people that I needed to send it to as just a presentation. Then I could also play it and then also record it with a voiceover. So I was able to use it in multiple ways. I would recommend using Prezi as a way to make your presentations more interesting. If you're tired of always using Google Slides, if you're tired of always using PowerPoint, I would say that it's not something that you would want to use all the time because visually, I think that it can be almost dizzying. That's one of the reasons why I gave it three out of five, because it's very you zoom in, you zoom out, but it's got a lot of neat features, especially for a teacher. You can use maps, you can use and zoom in and out, you can use a lot of checklists and zoom in and out. It makes it interesting for students. I think that also if you are a college student and you're asked to use it, make different types of presentations, this will definitely be one tool that you can pull out so that you're not always using the same kind of format every single time that you need to present your information. There's some things that I think with Prezi that do make it a little more difficult than using PowerPoint or Google Slides. It takes a little bit longer if you want to add a lot of information, of course you don't want to add too much information to a presentation, but it's not as simple I would say to use as Google Slides where you can just plug the information in. It takes a little bit longer, I think, to create one. So just be prepared to do that. I also think that as a teacher, you would have to maybe use it with older students so that if you were going to have your own students use it, it would have to be older students. So I teach second grade and I think that unless they're more advanced and used to technology, it's not something that would be appropriate for their age level, because it's just a little bit too difficult for them to use. But for older students, I think it would be something that will be different for them and something that you could definitely integrate for yourself as a teacher and for your students to use.

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Tyler S.: My name is Tyler, I'm an associate principal. I would give Prezi a five out of five. For more reviews like this, look below. Prior to using Prezi, I was primarily using Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoints, and it didn't work out for me so well because it was so linear in nature, and it felt rather restrictive in terms of presenting a lot of information in an organized or graphical manner. I chose Prezi because of the flexibility. It really allows individuals to take mind maps, brainstorming slides, almost like a giant whiteboard, and really transform it into a presentation. It also lets the audience or the viewer look at the entire large scale image of what the entire presentation looks like and then drill into individual topics or components of the presentation. I just liked the overall feel of it. It really took it from that white board approach of what we might use in a classroom to really present a bunch of information, and then have the ability to drill down into the important information as needed. I would say overall Prezi was very easy to get started with. It's has an intuitive interface that is pretty straight forward. The tools that Prezi provides you allow you to really edit and create some pretty visually appealing information in very, very little time. My recommendation if you're considering Prezi is to really just dig in and give it a try. In the very beginning, it may feel a bit overwhelming just because it is such a large scale product that allows you to drill into individual content once you're creating it, but once you get the feel for how the animations work, it is a pretty neat tool that will allow you to really add some flexibility to the information that you're presenting.