In this Fotor AI presentation maker review, we will see how you can create presentations with AI.
Imagine you need a presentation on topic X, you prompt “topic X” and within seconds a 20+ slide presentation is ready. It contains text, images, icons and everything else your presentation needs. That’s what Fotor AI claims to deliver.
Of course, we will test it in detail and share with you how good/bad the final output is. Before we start, know that it’s a free AI presentation maker and hence there’s no entry barrier for you.
Let’s get started.
Table of Contents
Pre-designed slides and templates
Fotor AI Slides is the newest feature that Fotor has brought in. Fotor is one of the most popular and feature-rich graphic tools in the industry. Apart from its AI PPT maker, it has tons of other features such as:
- AI image generator
- AI video generator
- AI headshot generator
- Background remover
- Photo Enhancer
- Photo Restoration
- Face swap
- A full graphic designing suite and much more.
Using Fotor AI, you can create presentations for your school, office, business or anything else within seconds. It helps you save research time, energy and yet build data-rich presentations.
Fotor AI has dozens of pre-designed slides and templates. These ensure the colours, layout, fonts, sample texts are pre-filed. Of course all of that can be customised and changed. It simply eliminates the mental hassle required when deciding all of those elements.
You can also “preview” these templates in full before choosing which slide you’ll be using.
My verdict: The pre-designed templates are impressive in terms of “numbers” as well as diversity. As in, I found templates consisting of multiple colours, suitable for multiple industries and so on. My only complaint is that there’s no “industry” filter. You can not choose templates based on your niche/industry and have to manually scroll till you find the template you like.
Create presentations with AI prompts
You can create presentations simply by telling Fotor AI slides what you wish to create. Of course, we will test its powers in this Fotor AI presentation maker review.
I loved the fact that if you’re out of ideas, the Fotor AI also suggests some free titles for your presentation.
In case you don’t need anything specific, this free AI PPT maker also has a “random” button. Clicking on it generates random prompts using AI for your presentation.
To check how good/bad the tool is, I selected a random pre-designed template and entered the following prompt:
“Benefits of reading books”. I deliberately kept the prompt short and vague because this is the best way to test how far and how well the AI understands what we need.
The generation process took about 1 minutes and it gave me 21 slides in total.
The content that the AI generated was pretty impressive as well. It gave me:
- A table of contents page
- Properly placed and complete text information.
- And even Icons, images, charts and other data matching the text.
You can even change the generated text, without having to type a single alphabet! Its “AI Write” feature is what you’d expect any best AI presentation maker to offer.
I can simply select the text I wish to change, and click AI write. The AI then asks me what I’d like to improve. You can choose to:
- Make it more engaging
- More fun
- Make it shorter
- Make it longer
- Or Fix spellings.
Each enhancement costs 1 Fotor AI credit.
This helps you create content from basic phrases and simple ideas. You can simply give it a few words and use the AI to expand the content in seconds.
You can also change the background of your presentations simply by clicking on your slide, clicking the background and then clicking “generate image”.
Point being, Fotor truly uses AI and it isn’t just a “gimmick”.
My verdict: I’m happy with the prompt features so far. The suggestions and random button make things easier. The generated slides are adequate in numbers. The slides include not just text but also images, icons and other such media and then there’s “AI write”. My only complaint was the fonts at times didn’t seem to match with the overall colours, content or other fonts. I’ll rate this feature a 4/5.
Additional assets and editing controls
We have selected templates and entered prompts so far. But, how do we actually make presentations with AI? In this section, we will discuss all the extra elements you can add to your presentation.
Well, this is what the presentation maker looks like once your presentation is generated:
At the very left we have the features/menu options.
Let us review each option in detail:
- Styles: This is basically your overall colour profile. The entire colour profile can be changed in a single click. The colours are then consistent throughout each slide. As of November 2024, there are 30 such styles you can choose from.
- Layouts: You can add bullet lists, images with texts, icons with texts and other such elements instantly and then edit them using this feature.
- Uploads: This is your cloud storage on Fotor. You can upload your own logos or any other media here and use it within your presentations.
- Elements: If you wish to add icons, 3D shapes, lines, patterns stickers, brushes, banners or any of those other fun elements, this is where you do it. You can even use the AI image generator to generate your own elements.
- Text: You can of course add your own text. You can use either one of the pre-designed text elements which look more modern and creative or create normal text using the simple pretexts.
There’s also a search-bar using which you can search for specific text themes or styles.
- Photos: Because this is an AI presentation maker, it can “generate” photos for you within the editor. Of course you can also simply search for existing photos and include them in your PPT.
- Background: As is clear, you can edit the background of your individual slides, or entire presentation using this option. You get three options, either use a static colour background, an AI generated background or pick one of the many existing backgrounds. While some backgrounds are free, you may find a few paid background as well.
- Charts: In case you need to make your presentation data-rich, this free AI presentation maker also has pre-designed charts for you. Dozens of different chart designs fit for different purposes are available.
- AI Image Generator: This is simply an AI image generator. You can access the feature either via the “Photos” feature we discussed earlier or via this independent button. In both cases, it allows you to generate and use images in your presentation using AI.
You can prompt whatever you want it to create. Out of ideas? It can even suggest random prompts for you.
You also get to choose the number of images you wish to generate (maximum 4 at a time).
There are dozens of art styles to choose from. Your options include logo, digital art, anime, tattoo and so on.
Each generation costs 4 AI credits. You can use this feature to generate icons, images and literally any other media, free of copyrights and use it within your presentation.
That’s almost everything you can add to your presentation on Fotor.
In this Fotor AI presentation maker review, we have discussed templates, prompts and adding assets so far.
Let’s look at how you can edit individual elements in your presentation and the level of control you get.
Everything in the presentation is drag & drop. Some may argue it’s easier than editing a MS Powerpoint presentation.
Editing Text
You can edit any and all text on the presentation. Once selected, the editor pops up.
You can then change the font, size, colour, formatting (bold/italic/alignment/ spacing/case etc). You can also highlight your text, change transparency, duplicate etc.
Layers
On each slide, Fotor AI slides has a “layers” tab. It lists every single asset on the slide (text, banners, graphic etc.) for easy selection. This ensures even if you’ve hundreds of assets on the screen and the selecting individual assets has become complex, assets can still be selected with ease.
Editing layouts and images
You can click on any box or asset on your presentation to change the layout, icons, images, style etc.
Similarly, you can edit all icons/images on Fotor as well. Either remove/replace them or generate your own using AI.
Editing charts
Another feature that may make Fotor AI one of the Best AI presentation maker is its chart editing capabilities.
You get immense control. Change data, lines, curves, icons and literally everything else. It’s important because I’ve used tools previously that made editing charts almost impossible or very hectic.
My verdict: Overall, I’ll say there’s absolute control with Fotor AI. There’s almost nothing that you can’t edit. The process to edit any asset on screen is equally easy as well and doesn’t require any previous skills or technical knowledge.
Fotor AI Pricing
As previously mentioned, it’s a free AI presentation maker. At least, for 7 days. That’s right. To use Fotor AI Slides (which is the presentation maker feature), you need the Fotor Pro + plan.
It isn’t available on any other plan. This plan offers a 7-day free trial. I believe that’s enough time to try out its features and see if it’s worth your time, don’t you?
Once the trial is over, the Fotor+ plan costs $7.49/month when paid yearly.
Conclusion
Allow me to sum this Fotor AI presentation maker review up. I’ll say Fotor Slides deliver everything I want from a free AI presentation maker. It has pre-designed templates, the AI understands the prompts well, the slides are data-rich and there’s more than impressive ways to customise the presentation.
Considering how even without any customizations most presentations are praise-worthy, I don’t have a lot to complain about.
I”ll recommend you get off this review and go try this AI PPT maker on your own, it’s free.
