Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?
Nayomi Chibana

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Nayomi Chibana

Apr 13, 2023
Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Are you trying to figure out which online presentation tools to use? In this article, we’ll take a closer look at Visme vs. Google Slides.

The main difference between Visme and Google Slides is that Visme allows users to create robust and dynamic presentations with hundreds of templates and millions of design elements, while Google Slides provides basic presentation-building features.

Visme also goes beyond Google Slides in that it offers a wide variety of built-in graphic assets anyone can use to create professional-looking slides.

Lightweight, simple and intuitive, both free online presentation tools also share a few similarities. They offer robust collaboration tools, allowing users to access slide decks from anywhere and easily publish and share presentations on the web.

If you’re still not sure which online presentation app is best for your needs, here are a few more key similarities and differences between Google Slides and Visme.

Whether you're a student, a business professional, or anyone in between, this comparison will help you decide which tool is best for your needs.

 

Table of Contents

Quick Read

  • When it comes to creating engaging visual content for your business or personal projects, Visme and Google Slides are two popular options.
  • Both tools share a few similarities, such as the ability to share files, add animations and interactivity and embed presentations.
  • You’ll also find a wide array of fonts, an intuitive text editor and a presentation canvas for sharing your ideas.
  • Visme has lots of amazing features that set the tool apart from Google Slides, like the comprehensive template library, presenter studio, built-in icon and image library, analytics, animated charts, password protection and more.

Similarities: Google Slides and Visme

1. Share Files

One of the key similarities between the two is the ability to easily publish and share files with others.

 

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

In Google Slides, all you have to do is click on File > Share. You’ll find options to share with others or Publish to Web.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

You can generate a link that anyone can use to view your project online as well as edit and comment on it.

Visme

To publish your presentation to the web or share your file in Visme, you simply click on the Share button at the top right of the screen, add a title and click Share to publish.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

You’ll see a link automatically generated under the Published for Web tab. You can shorten the URL or use as is, then copy the URL and share it with your audience via email.

With this link, anyone can view your project, add comments and reply to threads from anywhere (unless you decide to password-protect it.

Visme also allows you to share your project directly on your social channels, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Slack or schedule it to go out at a certain time or date.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

And that’s not all. If you have a Visme Workspace, you can add team members to it, control permissions and share your projects with them. Team members can view, edit, leave comments, react and respond to comments.

2. Built-In Font Library

Both Visme and Google Slides offer hundreds of free fonts, which can be applied according to the visual theme of your presentation.

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

In Google Slides, these fonts can be found at the top of the screen after clicking on a specific textbox.

Visme

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Similarly, in the Visme editor, you’ll find hundreds of free fonts to use in your projects. After clicking on a textbox, a menu bar will appear where you can select your preferred typeface, font size, color, alignment and more.

3. Text Editor

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Google Slides also allows you to edit the appearance of text by adjusting the space between lines, resizing text boxes, applying a fill color, border color and weight and choosing the type of alignment.

Visme

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Visme allows you to make boring text come alive with its revamped text editor. Beyond applying a specific font or size to individual text elements within a text box, you can:

  • Change text alignment
  • Customize the fill and borders
  • Transform text with a single click
  • Add special effects
  • Change text direction
  • Indent text, bullet and checkboxes
Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

One of the main differences, however, between Visme’s text editor and Google’s is that Visme provides users with pre-designed stylized text boxes and animated text options. To access premade content blocks, click Basics on the left pane, then Header & Text.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

And if you’re struggling to find the perfect combination of fonts or looking for a creative head start, Visme has designed dozens of font pairs to get you started. Click Basics on the left pane and then Font Pairs

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4. Add Animation and Interactivity

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Google Slides offers users a handful of animation effects which can be applied to any object. You simply go to the Insert Menu and choose the Animation option.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Visme

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

While both Google Slides and Visme allow users to animate any object using a handful of different effects, Visme offers more options. Go ahead and click on the object and then Animate.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Users can set and edit all their animation effects on a single or multiple slides. There are also multiple options for animating a single object, making it easier to control the appearance of each object on a specific slide.

Also, both Visme and Google Slides allow users to add hyperlinks to any object and link between slides to create interactive presentations. But Visme lets you add an external link to a website, email address or social media account.

Watch the video below to learn all about Visme’s animation feature.

5. Embed Presentations

Another similarity is that users can embed their final slide deck into any website or blog using an embed code.

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

In Google Slides, you simply select File > Share > “Publish to Web” and choose the Embed tab from the pop-up.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

And then copy the embed code that appears under the Embed tab.

Visme

To generate an embed code in Visme, click on the Share at the top right corner of the editor.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Click on the “Embed” button and then click on the “Publish” button.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Choose the option that best fits your website between Responsive Size and Fixed. Then, copy the code generated by clicking on the “Copy” button.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

 

Differences: Google Slides and Visme

It's time to dig deeper into the Google Slides vs Visme debate. Sit back, relax and let’s show you what sets both tools apart.

1. More Presentation Templates

Both tools have a variety of professionally-designed presentation templates to help users kick things off quickly.

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

In Google Slides, there are about 26 templates organized according to the type of presentation you want to create. You’ll find templates in different categories like Personal, Work and Education.

Visme

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Visme has a comprehensive library of more than 500 presentation templates spanning more than 20 content categories, like:

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

The best part is that our templates are created by experienced graphic designers to give you creative inspiration. But you don’t even need design experience to customize it for your unique needs.

Here’s what one of our users had to say about our presentation tool.

“I like the sheer volume of quality presentation and design templates we get with Visme. Editing the templates is generally straightforward and we can have different people have access to editing them. We can also set different permissions to have some people provide input or approval and others do actual editing. We can collaborate right within the Visme to make our note suggestions as direct as possible.”

 - Spencer B.

Verdict

Visme clearly offers a large number of presentation templates to choose from. So users get to enjoy more variety in terms of pre-designed slides as well as diagrams, charts, graphs, icons, illustrations and other design assets.

2. Presenter Studio

Visme

If you regularly present slides, decks, reports, and pitches, Visme’s Presenter Studio is a must-have. You can easily record presentations for your audience to view at their own pace.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

To access Visme’s presentation recording software, click on the arrow button located next to the “Present” button at the top right corner of the screen. Then, click on the “Open Studio” button to move forward.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Next, modify your Camera and Mic settings and click Ready.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Once in the Presenter Studio, locate the Presentation Notes on the left side of your screen. This can help you manage your speech when giving a presentation. You may alter the form, style, and size of the picture that emerges from your camera using the menu that is shown to the right of the screen. From there, you may also mute or unmute your microphone.

Google Slides

You can’t record presentations within Google Slides.You need to rely on external or third-party video conferencing and screen recording tools like Google Meet, Zoom, Loom and more.

Verdict

Visme is clear out on tops for this category. Whether you’re presenting an investor pitch deck, a sales pitch, a financial report, marketing metrics, or a project report, the presenter studio feature comes in handy. You can pause and restart the video as many times as you like. Simply click a button and start recording.

3. Create Visual Content

Google Slides

Google Slides is part of Google’s full suite of business apps and collaboration tools, which also includes Google Sheets and Google Docs.

However, it’s limited in terms of your ability to create captivating visual content. Apart from presentations, you can’t create infographics, whiteboards, mockups, web graphics, etc.

Visme

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Visme offers users not only the ability to create presentations but also content such as:

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Verdict

Again, Visme comes out on top in this category. The software offers users 10,000+ graphic design templates for different roles and industries, as well as tons of graphic assets. They can be dragged and dropped onto the canvas area to create virtually any type of visual content useful for a wide range of purposes.

4. Built-In Icon Library

Another key difference between both Visme and Google Slides is the array of icons crafted to make your presentation pop.

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Google Slides offers only outlines of basic geometric shapes, arrows and callouts.

Visme

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Visme has over 10,000 high quality vector icons in 20+ categories to spice up any type of presentation. Take advantage of lines and shapes, icons, 3D graphics and animations, characters, illustrations, gestures and special effects to make your presentations pack a punch.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

To access Visme's vector icons, simply click on Graphic and then the Icon tool on the left toolbar.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Verdict

Visme is the winner. The tool’s extensive and searchable icon library provides users with tons of high-quality vector icons in different styles and categories. These can be used to quickly communicate key concepts in your presentations and infographics, as well as easily customized to fit the visual style of your presentation or infographic.

5. Built-In Image Library

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Google Slides doesn’t have a built-in image library. Users can only do these things:

  • Upload from Computer
  • Search the web
  • Upload from Drive, Photos, URL or use their Camera

Visme

Visme offers users a searchable image library with millions of high-quality photos that can be inserted into your presentation without having to leave the interface and open a new tab.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

The best part? With Visme’s AI image generator, you create stunning images, art, 3D objects, icons, and abstracts, amongst other things.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

And if you’ve got some really cool images on your device, Visme has multiple upload options. You can upload from your PC, URL, Camera or directly from your camera. Other upload options include adding images from Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Widen and more.

Verdict

Again, Visme edges out Google Slides for this feature. Users can access more than a million high-resolution photos to spice up their designs. Plus, Visme’s photo editor is powerful yet super intuitive and easy to use. You can crop and frame photos, add text and graphics and use gorgeous filters.

6. Password Protect Files

Google Slides

Meanwhile, Google Slides allows users to turn link sharing off and allow only specific people to access your file, which is not the same as password protecting a file, but, in effect, has the same objective of allowing you to control who can see your project.

To protect your slides, you need to rely on third-party apps on the Google Workspace Marketplace. One of such apps include Password Protect for Google Documents.

Visme

Privacy and security are huge concerns for content creators everywhere. This is why Visme also provides users with the ability to make their projects private or password protect them so that they are only accessible to those you have entrusted with the password.

To do this in Visme, From the Share Online page, click on the Share Privately tab.

Then, from the dropdown menu, set your project to Anyone with the link and choose the type of access you want to grant to people who have the link. You can either allow them to view-only, comment, or edit the project.

Share Files Privately in Visme

If you want to, enter a password that must be required by your audience when accessing the project. Then, copy your private URL and share it with your audience. They will be able to comment on or view your project, depending on the permission setting you’ve selected.

Password protect files in Visme

Verdict

Visme makes it super easy to password not just your presentation but any project type. Who wants the harder way when they can get it with ease.

7. Embed Third-Party Content

Visme

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

One of the most important differences between Visme and Google Slides is the ability to insert third-party content. Visme offers users a tool that can be used to insert interactive content from URL, HTML, iframes such as surveys, polls, quizzes, maps, live feeds, web pages and virtually any third-party content with an embed code.

Watch this video to learn all about adding and embedding external online content in Visme.

Google Slides

Google Slides doesn’t natively support iframes.

Verdict

With the help of the iframe widget, you can essentially incorporate content from any reputable third-party source that provides you with iframe code (for example, Wufoo for forms, SlideShare for slides, Spotify for audio, etc.).

8. Generate Leads

Visme

Another useful feature offered only by Visme is the ability to generate leads with your presentations and slide decks.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

By simply clicking on the Share button > Advanced Settings > Privacy and activating the Requires Registration feature found under the Settings tab, all visitors to your project will be asked to fill out a short form to view the presentation.

In the end, you'll have a list of dates, names, companies, emails and locations you can import to your favorite CRM or newsletter system, such as MailChimp, Constant Contact or Salesforce.

Google Slides

You won’t find this feature in Google slides

Verdict

Visme is the best option here. This feature is a great tool for collecting contact information from your viewers, like their name, email address, and business name.

9. Analytics

Visme

Interested in seeing who’s viewed your project, for how long and from where? Visme also differentiates itself from Google Slides by providing a powerful analytics feature that allows you to see how well your slide deck is engaging your target audience.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

With this feature, you can gauge the effectiveness of each of your projects over any given period of time. To access Visme analytics from your Dashboard, click on the “Data” tab on the left sidebar.

Google Slides

Google Slides doesn’t have this feature.

Verdict

This tool provides insights such as Views, Unique Visits, Activity, Completion and more information such as date/time of view, visitor IP, visitor location, total time spent on the project and source.

Gaining insights and granular details into your content can help you see what’s working and what can be improved. So Visme wins this round.

10. Insert Animated Charts

Google Slides

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

While Google Slides allows you to insert charts and graphs using data from Google Sheets, it does not give you the ability to create animated and interactive charts and graphs.

Visme

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

This can easily be done in Visme by selecting Data > Charts and Graphs. After inserting the graph, click on Actions to start animating your charts.

Here’s how to animate charts in Visme

how to animate charts in Visme

Verdict

Visme is a go-to tool for creating animated charts, which are important for data storytelling. They are an effective way to convey complex information and data to an audience in a visually engaging manner.

These data visualizations can help to highlight trends, patterns, and relationships in data, and can make it easier for viewers to understand and retain the information being presented.

11. Media Manager

Visme

Visme allows you to keep track of and reuse all your past media assets through its new media manager. This allows you to reuse images, icons and GIF files from previous projects.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Simply click on the Photos and then choose the My Library option at the top of the docked panel. You can manage all your previously used media assets from the pop-up that appears, including images, icons and GIF files.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

Google Slides

This tool doesn’t have a repository where you can grab previously used files. Except your files are stored on Google Drive, you’ll have to upload files from your computer every time you make a presentation.

Verdict

Visme triumphs once more.

12. Color Presets and Brand Wizard

Visme

Finally, Visme also makes it easier to create great-looking content in less time by providing users with tons of color combination presets that can be applied to any project, depending on the visual style you have in mind.

Visme vs. Google Slides: What’s the Difference?

From elegant themes to more lively and vibrant palettes, Visme offers beautiful color presets for a variety of preferences and project types.

The AI-powered Brand Design Tools helps you create beautiful branded visual for your presentations in seconds. All you need to do is input your website URL and the tool will pull your logo, brand colors and fonts from your website.

Brand Wizard Visme

Google Slides

Google Slides has fewer color themes compared to Visme. Also, Google Slides doesn't have a brand design tool.

Verdict

Not only does Visme have cool color presets, but you can create custom theme colors for your projects. The brand wizard is perfecting for ensuring your team's presentations stay on brand.

 

The Final Verdict

When it comes to creating visually appealing presentations, choosing the right tool can make all the difference. We’ve shown you all of the similarities and features that set them apart.

In sum, both Visme and Google Slides are great tools for collaborating with team members and increasing productivity by eliminating some of the clunky characteristics of legacy software such as PowerPoint.

However, Visme goes a step beyond Google Slides by also offering a simple drag-and-drop visual content creation tool that can be used to create captivating presentations without the hassle of a steep learning curve.

If you're looking for a tool that transforms the way you create presentations and offers a wide range of multimedia assets, collaboration and customization options, and professional templates, Visme’s presentation software is your best bet.

So, what’s your take on the Google Slides versus Visme comparison? Which best fits your needs at the moment? We would love to hear your comments and feedback. Just drop us a line below in the comments section, and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

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    About the Author

    Nayomi Chibana is a journalist and writer for Visme’s Visual Learning Center. Besides researching trends in visual communication and next-generation storytelling, she’s passionate about data-driven content.