One Dollar Decks vs Google Slides
Google Slides is free, collaborative and already in your account, and for many jobs that settles it. The thing it does not do is make the deck. Twelve slides of your material still means twelve slides of your evening. $12 buys that evening back.
Google Slides is the free presentation editor almost everyone already has.
Pick Google Slides when…
- It is free, and you already have it
- Live collaboration with anyone who has a Google account
- You want total manual control of every slide
- Simple decks you can knock out in minutes anyway
Pick One Dollar Decks when…
Pick One Dollar Decks when…- The deck is built for you, in one look, from your material
- A designed result rather than a default template
- A document, a PowerPoint or a website turned into slides
- $1 a page, and you can open the result in Slides afterwards
The deck is built for you, in one look, from your materialThe same job, both ways.
A 20-page report needs to become a presentable deck tonight.
In Google Slides
Free. Two or three hours of copying, trimming and aligning.
In One Dollar Decks
$12 or so. Upload it, read the plan, press make.
Side by side.
| What you need | Google Slides | One Dollar Decks |
|---|---|---|
Price | Free | $1 a page |
Who makes the slides | You | We do |
Design | Default templates | One chosen look, applied throughout |
From a long document | Copy and paste, slide by slide | Upload it |
Collaboration | Excellent | No |
Can you edit the result | Obviously | Yes — open the .pptx in Slides |
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Questions people ask.
You are not paying for slides, you are paying to not spend the evening making them. If you enjoy making them, Slides is free and excellent.
Yes. You get a .pptx, which Slides imports.