If you need to put together a presentation and want it to look polished and professional there’s no reason to struggle over the process. The following apps are meant to help you put together customized presentations that meet your needs, require no experience in design, and are quick and easy to put together. You’ll find a wide variety of tools and features offered from the basic to the highly professional options.
The best iPad apps for presentations 2020
21 May 2021, by  Cherry Mae Torrevillas
This is a DataAnalysis Spreadsheet app that is a versatile iPad and iPhone app for charting and comparing all types of data that can be formulated as x, y pairs. The program can be easily used by both students and professionals. This is especially useful for quickly analyzing different types of data by fitting a curve, predicting values using a standard curve, and analyzing kinetic data, including enzyme kinetics.
- Data can be entered directly via the keyboard or imported from a text file
- Option to average, baseline correct, and/or normalize the data before plotting and fitting
- Options to customize the graph by altering the axes, axes labels, graph title, and changing the symbol, its size and color
- The data can be fit to a variety of mathematical equations by non-linear regression including simple functions such as linear, 2nd and 3th order polynomials, power, exponential, and log functions
- The data fit can be used as a standard curve to determine the value of unknowns. This analytical procedure is completely automated within DataAnalysis
This is the most complete speech timer for iOS! Speech Timer for presentations is used in talks, speeches, debates, conferences, or whatever needs a polite reminder to remain on time! This presentation app for iPad helps you keep time and displays only what you need to see- large and legible time in a clean and simple interface. Keep it by your side, or let the timekeeper hold it up for you. Friendly reminder chimes let you know that time is running out, without disrupting your presentation.
- Clean and simple interface with friendly chimes
- Up to 3 custom warning times (full version only)
- Timeline shows you where you are in your speech
- Go overtime up to 15 minutes
- Count up and down modes
The Shufflrr Presentation app renders your content when connected to your Shufflrr Slide Library, so you can zoom in and read any file or slide, then share it live or mix it into a new presentation. It turns what was once inactive into active marketing materials. With this good iPad presentation app, you can download and store all file formats, search for files by keywords, switch from one file or slide to another and then add them to a new file without having to download, open, scroll, copy / insert.
- Visualizes files so you can zoom into that one slide, page or image out of thousands
- Drag and drop (or add) slides or complete files to create a new PPTX file.
- Video automatically formats to play as a full screen slide in PowerPoint
- Secure sharing via link
- Broadcast live or present directly from your iPad
- Automatic slide updates across your enterprise
Prezi Viewer is a free app that lets you view and present your prezis wherever, whenever. Traveling to a big pitch or meeting? Why not use the transit time to run through your presentation on your phone or tablet? Once you arrive, connect through Apple TV’s Airplay to present live to your colleagues both online and offline.
Prezi Viewer for iPhone app review
- Enjoy the same smooth rendering you get with your computer
- View any prezi online or shared with you
- Use intuitive touch gestures—pinch to zoom and drag to pan around your canvas
- Present on a large screen using Apple TV’s Airplay
FlowVella is built for the mobile users in mind, with many great features to really make your presentations a success. The touch controls are intuitive and highly responsive, can create presentations with just a few quick touches, offline videos, add PDFs to your presentation, add media, include text, backup or access to Cloud services, share presentations with others, 25 presentation templates and many more cool features. The premium version of this app comes with a monthly or yearly subscription.
FlowVella Presentation app review
- A fantastic mobile presentation app that’s easy to use
- Intuitive and responsive touch controls
- Add media, text, PDFs and more to your presentations
- Free templates, Cloud services, Share presentations with others
- In-app purchases for premium subscription service
No presentation list can be complete without a PowerPoint app. In fact, just the word PowerPoint has become synonymous with the word presentation. This is the official Microsoft iOS version of PowerPoint and it has all of the features that users have grown to love in other versions. Create spectacular presentations, view speaker notes, use a built-in laser pointer, view attachments, add a wide range of content, control presentations with other iDevices and much more. This app does require a Microsoft Office 365 subscription.
Microsoft PowerPoint app review
- The official Microsoft PowerPoint iOS app
- All of the awesome features we’ve grown to love
- Control via another iDevice, Use a laser, View notes
- Create spectacular presentations, Add a wide range of content
- App requires Office 365 subscription
Air Sketch is more than just a standard create and show presentation app. This app is more for users who need to be fluid and improvisational during their presentations. It’s an app that’s perfect for teachers giving lessons or work meetings that require interaction and feedback. Users can edit, write, draw and doodle if they want while using this app, and everything will be displayed like a presentation. It’s fast and simple to use. Open PDF documents, use different drawing tools, set a background image, customizable options, zoom controls, Undo and Redo functions and more.
- Real-time editing and creating of presentations
- A great app for teachers or meetings
- Numerous customizable options, Different writing tools
- Responsive and intuitive touch controls
- Undo and Redo functions, Very easy to use
Create stunning presentations, magazines and reports with Roambi Flow. The developers of this app have made it very easy to build these presentations with data, text, pics, videos and more. It’s also a simple process to publish, share and manage versions of your content. Roambi Flow makes your presentations very interactive and allows you to use Roambi Analytics to really emphasize points. This app really transforms any boring presentation into something that will make an impression on others.
- Create presentations, reports or magazines
- Add media, text, pics, data, analytics and more
- Easy to manage, share and publish your content
- Transforms boring content into interactive presentations
- A great app for work, school, meetings and more
Doceri combines the best of screencasting, desktop control and an interactive whiteboard all into one cool app. Create lessons for the classroom, make that essential presentation for work or create something that will win over that next customer. The projects can be done by hand or users can try out some of the writing and drawing tools. Use another iDevice to control the presentation. There’s a wonderful user community where you can get some help, view tutorials and read case studies. Share your work via social media. The app is free to try, but requires an in-app purchase to remove the watermark.
Doceri Interactive Whiteboard app review
- A screencasting, desktop control, interactive whiteboard app in one
- Presentations can be done by hand or with tools
- User community with tutorials and case studies
- Control a desktop PC or AV system with your iPad
- Free to try, Requires in-app purchase to remove watermark
Haiku Deck really simplifies the process of creating presentations, making it a great option for users of all skill levels. And the best part, these presentations look amazing. Create, edit, view your presentations anywhere and at any time. The app has real-time sync, you can use another iDevice as a remote control, add incredible looking media to your presentations, numerous sharing options, numerous exporting options and more. Haiku Deck just might be the difference between a successful presentation and an unsuccessful one. This app does have a Pro version, which requires a subscription.
Haiku Deck for iPad app review
- Easily and quickly create beautiful presentations
- Create, edit and manage presentations on the go
- Add many different types of content like media files
- Numerous sharing and export options
- In-app purchases for the Pro subscription service
Leave it to Google to create a completely free presentation app for users on all mobile devices. This app allows users to create presentations, edit presentations, share presentations with others, collaborate, use PowerPoint files, work on projects without Internet access, add or rearrange slides very easily, present from your iPad, automatically save projects and more. If you are a fan of Google, and use them for just about every other online venture, then this app is a must have for you.
- A must have app for all diehard Google users
- Automatically save projects as you are working on them
- Create, edit and share presentations, Collaborate with others
- Add or edit PowerPoint files, Easily rearrange slides
- Work on projects without an internet connection