Charity Merkwan

We've compiled 21 PowerPoint add-ins (both free and paid) that will help you create engaging slides (and even full-fledged eLearning courses) and get them done easier and faster. Check the apps right now or just bookmark this article to read or reread in the future.

Free PowerPoint Add-Ins

Here are 11 PowerPoint add-ins that will help you get your presentations done with the most satisfying results and without breaking the bank. These include apps for improving presentation design, a plugin for generating a QR Code, a tool for building online courses, and many more.

1. iSpring Free – Convert Your Presentations to HTML5 & SCORM

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2007/2010/2013/2016 (32- and 64-bit editions) for Windows 10/8/7

iSpring Free helps you turn your PowerPoint project into a full-fledged eLearning course. You can convert it into a HTML5 format to post the output on the Internet or publish it to SCORM 1.2 or 2004 to upload it to your learning management system. After conversion, all the transitions, animations, and triggers are kept intact.

Enhance your slides with quizzes and surveys and boost them with YouTube videos and web objects. Courses instantly adapt to any screen and play beautifully on smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

2. Power-User – Quickly Design Beautiful Presentations and Spreadsheets

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2007 or higher

Power-User is a comprehensive add-in that brings various tools to boost your presentations. Get ready-made templates, icons, diagrams, and maps directly in PowerPoint, as well as powerful charts such as Waterfall, Marimekko, Sankey, or Gantt. You can also automate formatting tasks such as changing colors, fonts, charts, or alignment automatically for your entire presentation.

Basic options are free, but you can get more with a premium plan.

3. Pexels – Populate Presentations with Beautiful Photos

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2013 SP1/2016 for Windows, PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, PowerPoint Online

Pexels is a handy add-in to help you find free professional stock photos in one place. Use the Search by Color option and other image filters to find the perfect pictures for your presentation. You can highlight and save your favorite images for fast access.

4. LiveWeb – Insert Live Webpages in Your Presentations

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 97 or later for Windows

LiveWeb adds live webpages right inside your PowerPoint presentation and refreshes these pages in real-time during a slide show. The app allows you to interact with any website as if you're using a browser.

5. PowerPoint Labs – Enhance Your Slides with Visuals

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2010/2013/2016 for Windows

PowerPoint Labs is a time-saving tool that offers several features to make your presentations more eye-catching. For example, the add-in enables you to light up a certain piece of a slide, highlight bullet points and segments of text and background, zoom in on a particular section of a slide, crop a single object out of an image, etc.

6. Office Timeline – Create Schedules, Timelines, and Gantt Charts

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2007 or higher

Office Timeline lets you create professional schedules, timelines, and Gantt charts for project planning or tracking purposes. This tool is perfect for knowledge workers, marketers, IT professionals, and project managers.

The free offline version has 3 templates, and you have to upgrade to use the full library.

7. QR4Office – Generate a QR Code

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2013/2016 for Windows, PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, PowerPoint for iPad

QR4Office is a clean, quick, and easy-to-use QR generator. It allows you to create a QR code and insert it into your presentation. Add a QR Code in your eLearning course to let participants view additional information with rich media and download reference materials. You can also use a QR Code to take a quick poll or collect feedback.

8. Mentimeter – Get Your Audiences Involved with Interactive Polls and Quizzes

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2010/2013/2016 for Windows, PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, PowerPoint Online

Mentimeter allows you to turn training, meetings, workshops, and conferences into interactive experiences. Ask your audience a Multiple Choice question, let them vote with their smartphones, and visualize their opinions in real-time, or host a Quiz competition. Apart from polls and Q&As, you can also add slides, images, gifs, and word clouds to your presentations.

Basic Mantimeter features are available for free. To get advanced options, you may opt for a premium plan.

9. Icons by Noun Project – Illustrate Your Ideas on Slides

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2010/2013/2016 for Windows, PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, PowerPoint Online

With Icons by Noun Project PowerPoint add-in, you can add some fun to your presentation and simplify the information presented. Select from a huge collection of high-quality symbols, choose a color, and edit icon size.

You can get started with free access to 100 of the most frequently used pictograms and, if necessary, unlock the entire collection of more than 1 million icons by choosing a paid pricing plan.

10. Pixton Comic Characters – Engage Your Audiences by Adding Cartoon Characters

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2013 SP1/2016 for Windows, PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, PowerPoint Online

Pixton Comic Characters allows you to use more than 40,000 illustrated characters as pedagogical aids in your presentation. They come in different ages, ethnic groups, and sexes. Once you choose a character, select a clothing style and an appropriate pose. You can also add a speech bubble to your character.

11. ToDo List Pro – Keep Track of PowerPoint Tasks

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2013 SP1/2016 for Windows, PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, PowerPoint Online

ToDo List Pro is an easy-to-use add-in that integrates your task list within PowerPoint. It automatically saves the list with the document. So, the next time you open your presentation, you can see what's left to be done.

Paid PowerPoint Add-Ins

Here you'll find 10 PowerPoint add-ins that have earned customers' trust and are worth investing money in. They include both the entire suites that can make the process of creating presentations and e-courses more pleasant and small apps for enhancing your slides.

12. iSpring Suite – Turn Your Slides into Engaging eLearning Courses

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019 (32- and 64-bit editions) for Windows 10/8/7

If you use PowerPoint for creating eLearning courses, you can make them more compelling and interactive with iSpring Suite. The toolkit allows you to turn PowerPoint presentations into supercharged interactive courses that will play perfectly on any device.

Here's what you can create with iSpring Suite:

• Online mobile-ready courses. Convert your presentations into interactive online courses in HTML5, SCORM, AICC, Tin Can API, and MP4 formats.
• Professional video training. Create video-based courses with graphics, transitions, annotations, and visual hints, and easily edit videos on the spot.
• Quizzes and surveys. Create interactive quizzes with 14 question templates, including drag-and-drop, hotspot, multiple response, and customize testing rules and design.
• Conversation simulations. Train communication skills in real-life situations using branched dialog simulations with characters.
• Interactions. Present content in a smart way with 14 interactive templates: Timeline, Pyramid, Media cards, Accordion, and more.
• Video lectures. Synchronize an expert video with presentation slides.
• Screencasts and video editing. Quickly make and fine-tune video tutorials and how-tos.
• eBooks. Turn your Word and PDF documents into interactive books with a page flipping effect in a couple of minutes.
• Content library. Build courses faster with tons of ready-made characters, templates, icons, buttons, objects, and locations.
• Bonus: Free mobile app. Courses and quizzes play perfectly on any iOS or Android device, even offline.

Cost: $970/year

Try iSpring Suite →

13. Powerplugs Ultimate Combo – Enhance Presentations with Multimedia Content and Effects

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010/2013/2016/ 2019 for Windows

PowerPlugs Ultimate Combo is a multimedia enhancement suite for PowerPoint. It includes 21 full volumes of presentation-enhancing multimedia content and effects. It also offers over 4 million professionally designed PowerPoint templates, about 100 background videos, 1,900 visually-stunning charts and diagrams, and 75 animated 3D character slides.

Cost: $249

14. ToolsToo – Simplify Creating Large Slide Shows

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2010/2013/2016/2019 (32- and 64-bit editions) for Windows

Tools Too is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to make the process of creating presentations much easier. It adds more than 85 powerful yet easy-to-use productivity tools to the PowerPoint ribbon. These include making rounded corners in multiple shapes, extracting the selected slides to a new presentation, removing unused slide masters and layouts, showing various slide statistics and estimated duration, and others.

Cost: $19.95

15. Maurizio La Cava's Plugin – Get Slides Done Faster

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010/2013/2016/ 2019 for Windows

MLC Add-in is a set of functionalities developed to speed up your tasks in PowerPoint. For example, it has tools for swapping shape positions, making all items the same size, rectifying lines, replicating selected objects to active slides, making all shapes the same color, and more. MLC Add-in also gives you an opportunity to set up your Branding Colors in PowerPoint and have the Corporate Assets at hand.

Cost: 77,97€ / year

16. HTML5Point – Convert Your Presentations to HTML5

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2016/2013/2010/2007/2003/ 2002 for Windows

HTML5Point converts PowerPoint presentations to HTML5 content that can be viewed on iPads, iPhones, and other mobile devices. Fonts, rich media content, and most animations and transitions used in presentations are accurately preserved.

Cost: upon request

17. Speech-Over Professional – Voice-Over for Your Presentations

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019 (32- and 64-bit editions) for Windows

Speech-Over Professional allows you to add voice-over to PowerPoint-based eLearning courses and training videos. You can use microphone recording, ready-made audio-files, and realistic text-to-speech voices. Text-to-speech voices are available in different languages and dialects. Simply select a voice and type in your text.

Cost: $299

18. Quick Animator – Animate Your Presentation with a Single Click

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2007/2010/2013/2016/365 (32- and 64-bit editions) for Windows

Quick Animator is a PowerPoint add-in that helps animate everything on your slides in no time. Choose an animation or transition and apply it to a single slide or all your slides at once with one click. You can also instantly remove all the animations and transitions in your entire presentation.

Cost: $24.95

19. Slide Show Duo – Display Two Slides at Once

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007/2010 (32-bit)/2013 (32-bit)

Slide Show Duo lets you show two consecutive PowerPoint slides on a single display. So, your viewers can retain more information from the previous slide and follow the flow of your presentation.

Cost: $49.95

20. pptXTREME ColorPicker – Easily Pick and Set Colors for Your Presentation

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2007/2010/2013/2016/ (32- and 64-bit editions) for Windows

The ColorPicker PowerPoint add-in allows you to pick colors from anywhere on your screen and automatically set the Fill, Text, Outline, Shadow, and Background colors of selected slides and shapes. Web color string is copied to the clipboard, so you can paste in other tools, for example, Photoshop.

Cost: $19.95

21. PP Timer – Add a Timer to Your Slides

Supported PowerPoint versions: PowerPoint 2013 SP1 or later, PowerPoint 2016 or later for Windows, PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, PowerPoint Online

PP timer is designed for presenters to keep track of the time when speaking. This plugin enables you to insert a timer directly into your presentation. You can choose between an analog or digital timer. When presenting, you can start the timer with a single mouse click.

Cost: $17,99

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If you're not taking advantage of some of these PowerPoint add-ins, you're definitely missing out. Find your favorites and install them to make your presentation even better and development easier.

If you know some other great apps for PowerPoint, please share them in the comments.

This post covers some best free PowerPoint to image converter software and online tools. You can get the output as BMP, JPG, PNG, or some other format image files. Most of these tools support PPTX as well as PPT format presentation files for conversion. Just a few simple steps will convert PowerPoint slides and provide the output images. Let's check these tools.

Convert PowerPoint to Image

We have added 2 freeware and 3 online tools for converting PowerPoint slides to images. These are:

1. ActivePresenter
2. SoftMaker FreeOffice
3. Online2PDF
4. CloudConvert
5. Convertio.

1] ActivePresenter

ActivePresenter is actually a feature-rich video editor, screen recorder, and eLearning authoring software. But it can also help you import a PowerPoint file (PPTX format) and convert PowerPoint slides to JPG or PNG images.

Use this link and download its free edition (for personal and non-commercial use only). Install the software and launch it. It will prompt you to select a theme (light or dark) which you can also change later by accessing the View tab and using the UI Theme menu. After opening its interface, use the Import PowerPoint option using ActivePresenter menu available on the top left corner, and add your PPTX file.

Now, go to the Export menu and then click on the Images option. A small box will open. Select output format, output quality (if JPEG format is selected), optimization level (for PNG format only), and output folder. There are additional options that you can try such as include a cursor path, closed caption, etc. Press the OK button to export PowerPoint slides to the output folder as PNG/JPG images.

2] SoftMaker FreeOffice

SoftMaker FreeOffice is an Office suite and one of the best free alternatives to MS Office. It comes with a spreadsheet maker and editor, presentation maker, TextMaker, etc. It can also help you convert PowerPoint files to images using its Presentations application. The option to export all slides, current slide, or selected slides is also available that makes it more useful. Also, you can select GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, or JPEG as output format.

After installation, open its Presentations application and add a PPT or PPTX format presentation using the File menu. Thumbnails of slides will visible on the left section and the current slide will open on its main interface.

To convert PowerPoint slides to images, access the File menu. After that, click on Export as drop-down menu and select the Pictures option. An Export pictures box will open. In that box, you can select an output format, output folder, and other output options. Finally, use OK button and you will get the output images. If you need a good MS Office alternative that can also convert PowerPoint slides to images, this software is handy.

3] Online2PDF

Online2PDF brings a lot of tools which include PDF to Word conversion, PDF to Excel, protect PDF, rotate, merge PDF, unlock PDF, and more. The feature to convert PPT and PPTX files to images is also there. You can convert PowerPoint to JPG or PNG image files. It supports bulk PowerPoint to image conversion.

Open its homepage and upload PowerPoint files. You can add up to 20 PowerPoint files and the size of those files should not be larger than 150 MB. Also, for JPG or PNG output, only 100 pages can be converted. So, you should make sure your PowerPoint files fit that requirement. If you have unnecessary pages in your PowerPoint files, then you can also set page range using the available option for each input file.

When you have done everything, set output format using convert to menu, and press Convert button. Once the conversion is completed, you can download the zip file that will contain all the output images.

4] CloudConvert

CloudConvert is a file converter service that supports 200+ formats. PPT and PPTX files are also supported for conversion. You can convert PowerPoint to image in PNG, XPS, JPG, or EPS format. It also lets you convert multiple presentation files at once but its free plan is limited to 25 conversations per day.

After opening its homepage, select input format (PPT or PPTX) and output format using the available drop-down options. Or you can simply add presentation files and then select the output format with the help of the output drop-down menu. You can add files from cloud storage services like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc., your PC, or add the URL of an online file. After that, click on the Convert button.

It will upload and convert your files automatically. Finally, it will provide individual download links for output files. You can also download all files together by using the All Files option.

5] Convertio

Convertio is also an online tool that is similar to CloudConvert. It supports 300+ formats including PPTX and PPT. The best part is it supports a lot of formats for output files. You can convert PPTX or PPT to JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, ICO, SVG, JP2, PPM, FAX, PCX, ICO, RGB, XBM, etc. You can add multiple PowerPoint files but only the first two files are converted in the free plan and so on. Also, the size of each individual PowerPoint file is limited to 100 MB which is sufficient in many cases.

This link will open the homepage of this service. Open it and then add input files using any of the four supported platforms: Online file, Dropbox, Google Drive, and desktop.

After adding the files, set their output formats with the help of the drop-down menu available for each individual input file. When it is done, press the Convert button. When the first two files are uploaded and converted, press that Convert button again to convert the next two files. Finally, you can download the entire archive or individual output files using the Download button.

So, these are some good options to convert PowerPoint files to images. Hope this will be helpful.