A presentation tool that starts with one large canvas

Ask most people to build a presentation and the reflex is a stack of slides, one after another, each replacing the last. Prezi, founded in 2009, went the other way: the whole talk is laid out on a single canvas that zooms. You move into one part of it, then pull back to show the whole, then dive into the next point, and the audience's eye travels with the camera. Because the movement is spatial rather than sequential, the relationship between ideas stays visible instead of being implied by the order of pages. More than a decade on, the platform counts over 170 million users and hundreds of millions of presentations made on it.

AI turns a thought into a draft

Recent versions put artificial intelligence inside that process. Give it a subject and a paragraph of description, or hand it an existing PDF or document, and it produces a complete presentation: outline, layout, colour scheme and images. The outline can be edited before anything is generated, which is the part that matters — sorting out the logic first and only then producing the visuals is how the tool avoids the usual experience of rewriting someone else's structure. Smaller jobs get the same treatment: polishing wording, breaking a dense paragraph into points, turning a passage into a flow diagram. For anyone assembling a proposal against a deadline, a usable first draft arrives in minutes and the remaining time goes into the argument rather than the formatting.

Three tools behind one name

What is sold as one product is really three. Present handles the zooming canvas itself. Video places the presenter inside the frame alongside the material, so a remote walkthrough no longer means sharing a screen and losing your own face; the camera image and the content sit next to each other. Design builds infographics, reports and data visualisations. During a talk, live polls, quizzes and a question feed can be dropped in, and the audience joins by scanning a code with a phone, in the room or far away. Afterwards the material survives as a link, so people who missed it can replay it, and it can be revisited as an audio summary rather than a page-by-page re-read.

Existing decks can move in

The attitude to other formats is open. Presentations made elsewhere — PPT, PDF, word-processor documents, decks produced by other AI tools — import with their layout largely preserved, and once inside they can still carry polls, quizzes and a question feed, so there is no need to rebuild from nothing. Team work supports simultaneous editing and comments, and the enterprise tier adds shared brand templates and permission management so that different people produce presentations in one visual language. What happens after the talk is reported too: how many got each question right, what the audience asked, how they rated the session, all collected into a summary that shows which part landed and which went past people.

Free to start, and where it earns its place

Individuals can register and work at no cost. The free tier covers public presentations and a monthly allowance of AI credits, enough to run the whole flow once. Paid tiers are billed annually and start modestly, unlocking privacy controls, PDF export, offline presenting and unlimited AI use, with a discount for students and teachers. It fits occasions that need to be remembered: a startup pitch, a course, a product launch, a workshop being facilitated. In those settings the spatial narrative does something a page sequence cannot. For a routine report that is dense with figures, a conventional slide tool remains the safer choice. As of September 2026 the platform is still being iterated, and the free tier is a low-risk way to find out whether the format suits you.

The parts that only show up in use

Path navigation turns out to be the quiet advantage. Nothing forces a fixed order: if a question comes from the back of the room, you zoom to that part of the canvas and answer it there, and the sense of a live conversation is stronger than with a page-by-page deck. A finished talk can be exported as a video with narration and sent on, so one preparation serves several audiences. A desktop client allows editing and presenting offline, which matters in a meeting room with unreliable wifi. The asset library is stocked as well — millions of images, icons and short animations, plus AI illustration from a description — so a visual deck no longer means hunting for material elsewhere. Registration takes no card, and running the free tier first is the sensible way to judge it.