Google Slides tested vs PowerPoint – Who wins?

PRICE & AFFORDABILITY

You might consider me extremely cruel to start my comparison with price and affordability! However, for many people it is just that simple. You can’t use what you can’t buy (unless you’re stealing paid software). But price and affordability isn’t all about buying the presentation app itself. There are also a number of other considerations, such as what type of hardware can you afford, what devices you own and what options you get when switching between devices and software available at work and at home.

Free Editions of PowerPoint

Unless you are a student affiliated with an educational institute with an Office 365 subscription, or you’re using the free version cloud based version of PowerPoint (PowerPoint Online), there are few legal means of using PowerPoint for free. This is because PowerPoint comes bundled with other Office apps, which adds to the price tag, making it difficult to legally afford for many end users.

Google Slides Vs PowerPoint Online

PowerPoint Online is arguably not as feature rich as Google Slides, making the former more easily usable. Besides, many users are more likely to have a Google account rather than a Microsoft account nowadays, making it more likely that free users will opt for using Google Slides more readily, even if it is just to upload and view a PowerPoint file.

The Winner


Without dwelling much into the nitty gritty details of convoluted Office pricing mechanisms and the type of devices both platforms support, I would like to declare Google Slides the winner when it comes to price and affordability. As mentioned earlier, PowerPoint Online is not nearly as feature rich as Google Slides and PowerPoint via Office desktop apps and Office 365 packages can cost anything between $70 (per year) to more than $200 for a one-time purchase. Though I would like to admit that many end users unfortunately do resort to piracy but that’s a different story.

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