Prezi Reviews: 4.2/5 — Solid Choice

We liked the final product well enough. It had a simple-enough interface. It

It was not easy to customize. It looked amateurish in the end. It took a lot of development time and effort to get it where we wanted it

We needed an easy way to present our executive director's state of the union address to the membership. There were over 30,000 of them at large. The benefit was achieved with Prezi in that we found a cheap way to present the information.

I like that Prezi tried something new with presentation software. They were one of the first browser-based presentation programs, which made it nice to access from anywhere.

The motions were difficult to set up. Organization was challenging with big presentations, and sometimes animation could be disorienting for viewers.

I wanted a way to stand out with presentations. It did the job, but not for the right reasons. I ended up simplifying and improving my design and writing skills instead.

We did not find Prezi to be very helpful in creating presentations.

It wasn't very user-friendly for first time users. All of the example Prezis were AMAZING, but we have no way of creating anything even close to that custom. We are thinking a lot of the wonderful presentations used custom coding, which was misleading.

We went back to using powerpoint. Much easier to use and also for our clients to follow.

flashy transitions between slides, templates

preset animation flow, not always consistent with what I want to say

making presentations for clients and students

This software is very easy to learn and effectively conveys information.

The presentation seems a bit childish to me; it lacks professionalism in my opinion.

I need to effectively communicate our programs to potential donors. I decided this wasn't the means to do it.

Unique animation style--easy to upload graphics, etc.

Subscription is supposed to include "training" but customer service reps were slow to answer queries (often taking weeks), LOTS of glitches--they blamed my work machine but that's impossible---had updated Flash, cookies, etc. Not user-friendly, as somebody said--was difficult to format images, often resolution came out blurry and unprofessional

Marketing presentation--none.

The presentations made on Prezi are definitely distinct and memorable. Could be useful if you only need a few short important portions of messages to be shown.

There is a lower ability to focus on content within Prezi. It requires you to make an unnecessarily busy presentation rather than on the material you are actually trying to present. Additionally, it isn't very intuitive to set up. The presentations take what could easily be made in a PowerPoint and make it unbelievably flashy. I think that if you're looking for something informative, PowerPoint is the better way to go.

I am not solving any business problems.

I like that you can access your files online. This makes it easy for collaboration and sharing. Lots of fun designs and animations.

I dislike that it glitches often. I am also not a fan of the format - too confusing and unpractical. The jumping around is unnecessary and unappealing. I would not use it for any kind of formal presentation. The server is often down/will not let us access our presentations, making it very unreliable and risky to use. It is also slow and lags often.

As I said earlier, I would not use this program for anything the slightest bit professional. I think if used very well, it could make a big impact with its presentation, but for the average user, it's a bit obnoxious to try and use.