AhaSlides

RATING:

4.6

(46)

About AhaSlides

AhaSlides is a cloud-based presentation solution designed to help organizations create, edit and manage custom presentations for classrooms, events, conferences, meetings and more. Teams can create presentations with live charts, polls, quizzes, Q&A sessions and other elements. AhaSlides offer customizable presentation themes and templates, gamification, voice support via mobile devices, multilingual translations and other features that let businesses improve audience engagement. AhaSlides is available on monthly, annual and one-time pricing. Support is extended via email, chat and other online measures.

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2022
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AhaSlides Pricing

AhaSlides offers One-time, Monthly, and Annual subscription plan options. AhaSlides is free for up to 7 live participants. Annual plans start at $4.95 per month for the Essential plan, which includes up to 50 live participants, and pricing scales based on number of participants. Educational plans are also available. • Essential (up to 50 live participants): $14.95/month when billed monthly, $4.95/month when billed annually, or $6.95/event for pay-as-you-go. • Plus (up to 200 live participants): $32.95/month when billed monthly, $10.95/month when billed annually, or $16.95/event for pay-as-you-go. • Pro (up to 10,000 live participants): $49.95/month when billed monthly, $15.95/month when billed annually, or $35.95/event for pay-as-you-go.

Starting price: 

$14.95 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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AhaSlides Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for AhaSlides

1 - 5 of 46 Reviews

Marc

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2020

Easy to use, feature rich, interactive presentation software

For a client I wanted to have lots of interaction with the audience (around 150+ people) for a short period of time. With AhaSlides this was very easy, successful and for a good price! After the job was done I just discontinued the subscription ... until the next time I need to do something similar ;-)

PROS

AhaSlides has many templates for different forms of interaction you would like to use in your presentations. Only open questions or only closed yes/no questions would be boring and inapplicable for all interactions. AhaSlides provides many means for all kind of interactions you would like to have. Besides all the features AhaSlides is really smart with data. During development of the presentation you have great options to test it, fill in some dummy data and reset all data just before the actual presentation. Afterwards it is very easy and convenient to export the data from a session and process it offline. Great, awesome tool!

CONS

AhaSlides is a tool for building presentations with online interactions with your viewers. It is not a tool to build 'broadcasting' presentations with.

Reason for choosing AhaSlides

I just needed it for a short period of time and Mentimeter didn't have monthly subscriptions. Afterwards I was happy I moved to AhaSlides 'cause AhaSlides has more templates for interaction than Mentimeter! :-D

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for your sharing! Glad that we were able to help you interact more with your audiences. The reason we created AhaSlides was to encourage more interactions between people, regardless of the physical distance. Cheers!

Replied August 2021

Jeremy

Religious Institutions, 501-1,000 employees

Used less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2020

The best large group game out there

AhaSlides is way more that a game software. However, the ability to host a massive game of 100's or even 1000's of participants is excellent. This is a strong feature that many seek, the ability to engage and interact with your large audience, and to have them interact with you in a meaningful way. AhaSlides deliver on just that.

PROS

AhaSlides was the best program I've used so far for large group activities. We were seeking a live host driven "Jackbox" experience, and AhaSlide made that super easy! I've used Kahoot before, kahoot is clunky, goofy and unprofessional. And I hate Kahoot's stupid song and sound effects. AhaSlides was completely customizable! I said it when I was interacting with your support team, you aren't the cheep alternative to Kahoot. But I'll go one step further, Kahoot is the lower quality, more expensive alternative to AhaSLides.

CONS

On my first use with their software, I had small issue with hardware compatibility on different Mac computers, and our projection system. AhaSlides would not display all the graphics on screen depending on the type of computer and browser we showed it on. We have a state of the art $10,000,000 broadcast facility with up to date video switcher systems. At the end of the day, it appeared that AhaSlides was very inconsistent with the way it displays across different browsers and computers (the most stable environment was a PC running Chrome, the least stable environment was a iMac running Safari) At the end of the day, I am a PC user, but I know that the vast majority of the time when I show up to any venue of any size, that Apple products are going to be used for video. So I need to be ready for any PC or Apple situation I find myself in, and so does AhaSlides. To thrive, your program needs to be airtight across all major platforms. Do not expect all organizations to be able to change platforms and browsers to get AhaSlides to work. Most aren't will to go through that work, and many don't even have that felxibility.

Reason for choosing AhaSlides

See above about making the switch.

Reasons for switching to AhaSlides

I wanted a better, more customizable platform for leading large crowds through fun stage activities. AhaSlides was perfect!! Kahoot is like trying to paint the Mona Lisa with crayons.

Vendor Response

Glad to know that you enjoy our product! The AhaSlides team works very hard to ensure that you, the customer, would have the best experience. Our product also aims towards business professionals such as yourself, so knowing it helps you is great news to us! Regarding the compatibility issue that you mentioned, we are still trying our best to make AhaSlides run smoothly on all platforms. Stay tuned!

Replied May 2020

Joe

Entertainment, 1 employee

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed July 2022

Can get better !

Overall Customer Service is prompt and they respond very well to questions and feedback.

PROS

I was happy with the look and feel of AHA Slides and also how I was able to present on my screen But Functionally I am not very impressed and had to move to MyQuiz.

CONS

When I started using this platform, the biggest issue for me were : 1) NO way to ENFORCE a secured access via Specific Log In (Any one with my slides link were able to join in) 2) The moment I crossed 40 users - the new users were not able to connect to the presentation and were getting the error to reload page. I lost around 5-7 very important customers who got upset due to this. 3) There is NO Option to UNDO any Changes done on the Slides. This is very inconvenient and risky. 4) Import option only brought in the slides as images not as editable text.

Reasons for switching to AhaSlides

Wanted certain features like importing data as editable text, option to "undo", logging in options for users instead of openly letting anyone login.

Laura

Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2020

Great for one-off Slide Share and Trivia Needs

PROS

I liked that I could purchase a one-day use package instead of having to purchase a monthly or yearly subscription like most other software requires (ie. Kahoot!). I do not have a daily or even monthly need for this kind of software, but when I do need it, I am very willing to purchase the one-day option. I also appreciate the education pricing options. The Trivia works very similar to Kahoot!, but Ahaslides seemed easier to use overall.

CONS

I don't think there was anything negative about my experience with Ahaslides for my current needs.

Reasons for switching to AhaSlides

Kahoot! required an annual subscription which I really do not need. The one-time option on Ahaslides was just perfect for my needs.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for the review! The reason we created the one-time plan was so that our customer can have some fun with AhaSlides, while not having to worry about any long-term commitment. We understand that flexibility is very important to many of the users, so we always try to help you to the best of our ability.

Replied June 2020

Elmer

Financial Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2020

Easy

It has helped me a lot in my presentatios and with my team, the most has been happy with the interaction

PROS

I like the interaction with de public, the visual tools

CONS

I can´t copy and paste and image, and a slide

Reason for choosing AhaSlides

Because Ahaslides was the best option for my interactive presentations, is very visual and easy

Vendor Response

We're glad to hear that AhaSlides has helped you a lot with your presentations.. Thanks to customers like you, AhaSlides is improving every day and now you can use copy slides from a presentation to another in AhaSlides. Customers satisfaction is AhaSlides motivation to move forward, so more functions will be added soon. Stay tuned!

Replied August 2021