FlowVella Presentation App App Reviews

Great app that even novices can use to create beautiful and compelling interactive presentations. Actually I would think of them as being more information products than old style “presentations”. If you’re looking to create an interactive presentation your viewers can click through on their own, this is a great app for it. Really well done application. Things I love - Linking screens to hyperllinks, other screens etc. - In application image editing- specifically cropping. LOVE this. - Really easy to use- slides creation is intuitive and easy - Copying from other applications into the screens is very clean. Works great. - Sharing across any platform. Couple suggestions that would make it eaisier to use- - Text arrows to increase or decrease the size of fonts eaisly. - A way to create bullets in text within the application.

I’ve used Flowboard for iPad for over a year now and it was amazing. It was the answer to presentations on the iPad. With this app, it continues that trend. So far it has been extremely easy to use, and allows me to create beautiful presentations in no time. The developers listen to features customers want and fix bugs very quickly. Over all I’ve found the entire experience to really help me to create better presentations while adding the ease of being able to choose which device I can write it on and even change things quickly before I present. This is an app which educators, students, businesses, and even people looking to create family albums in an original way should buy. No doubt about it.

This app is very responsive, clean and on its way to being a good but still needs work. The developers left out small details that should be intuitive by nature e.g. right click rename story board (or even better, shortcut), first time I tried to rename via the toolbar it crashed. Needs work...

I use keynote and powerpoint a lot - I’d say I’m an expert in both. However, they don’t quite have everything I want in a presentation app. Flowboard gives me the best bits of both the former mentioned apps plus some awesome tidbits extra. Well worth the money and frankly, I’d have paid the full price for what I get with this software. In the very early days there were some bugs and I’d just email the flowboard team and then a few days later they’d issue a new install. Pretty awesome response, even from a growing company. I hope microsoft buys them out and incorporates their awesomeness into powerpoint.

Dont buy this i just bought this and im already having troubles with it. If your trying to find something more like powerpoint , i wouldnt suggest this. If any one knows a better app i can buy thats more like powerpoint i wish to know it:)

I have used previously Flowboard, now Flowvella for tour books with retailers looking for new locations. The app works great in placing demographic material and site specific material in an easy to use iPad app. The first tour saved me $130 on color printing cost for one tour book. A great presentation app for real estate.

FlowVella (formerly known and loved as Flowboard) is such a breath of fresh air! Creating presentations on either a Mac or iPad is such a joy. Pick an existing template to modify or create your own easily from either iPad or Mac. Once created keep a copy on the FlowVella server or, with a Premium Account, control who has access to your Flows. The FlowVellas I have created thus far for my clients have been very well received and are easily deployed. The app is/has quickly earned a spot in my repertoire of presentation “go to” tools. Looking forward to their future builds and feature sets. Thank you Brent and the whole FlowVella Team!!

Overall some great themes and fonts, polished and easy to use UI. FlowVella could be much better with further improvements: Photo editing doesn’t exist Resizing pictures into circle and other shapes impossible (you have to edit it into a circle prior to inserting it) Inserting various shapes is complicated and unusable in many cases, e.g. inserting an arrow at a 45 degree angle is impossible Allow preloading themes, imagine if you don’t have internet access Media management seems to have a couple bugs

This app seems to be an interesting idea and looks to have potential, but unless you have a screaming fast Internet connection, it is just flat out S-L-O-W to the point of being non-functional. My Internet connection is a modest speed, which makes this program pretty much unusable as it takes so long to do anything and some things never do load. It might be worth a look if they fix this but, until then, unlees you have a really fast Internet connection, I cannot recommend this program.

I don’t usually write reviews, but I bought FlowVella with high hopes and was let down, so I figured this review may help others. I give presentations to my team quite often, and usually use Powerpoint or Keynote for the visual portion. After using those for the last few years, and now trying FlowVella, here are my thoughts: Pros - Interesting interface - Ability to upload presentations to the FlowVella website is neat, although mine kept showing up incorrectly and jumbled - Media implementation is nice (i.e. videos) - Templates are helpful Cons - No widescreen. This one baffles me….who uses 4:3 aspect ratio TVs anymore? All presentations I do are on widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio). After contacting FlowVella support, I was told 4:3 is the only ratio you can use. What a bummer and huge lacking feature. Keynote and Powerpoint both provide this out of the gate. This is a dealbreaker for me. 4:3 aspect ratio looks bad on a normal TV / projector - Limited functionality. You can tell this is in the early stages — which is fine — but I’d recommend lowering the price. I ended up switching back to Keynote within 15 minutes of using this. I’m rooting for these guys, because we need more competition in this space, but for now this has a long way to go.

I’ve used Power Point for years, worked with keynote and tried a handful of other online web based platforms but nothing compares to FlowVella. I use PPT or keynote for webinars, videos and course materials for my business. Even though I’m pretty tech savvy, when it comes to tools and apps I want things that are easy to use and save me time- which is exactly what FlowVella does. It also looks fantastic! The first project I created was simply a webinar presentation. The presentation went smooth but the only thing I missed was having notes that I can view like I do with PPT, but next time I’ll simply have my notes ready to go as opposed to solely relying on the presentation (or give myself more time to plan & prepare). I’m looking forward to creating more with FlowVella and trying the video features (video in the presentation) and embedding a presentaion on my site! Nicely done FV team! :-)

Ever further expanding the usefulenss and tools for impressive presentations!

Absolutely love the new features and the continued stability improvements! FlowVella leaves other presentation and storytelling apps in the dust!

Running Mavericks. The program bombs on startup.

Flowvella is an excellent presentation tool that has tremendous room for growth. The visual and web-integrated nature of this program makes it a delight to work with for the most part. Presentation templates are great and it comes with great guides to ease in new users. My main complaint with the program can only be chalked up to the fact that it is still quite a new program. The program doesn’t have an option for bullet points in the sense of actual formatting (you can manually add dashes or special symbols that do the job, but there are no actual bullet points that I can see). Another feature that would be great is a native section for creation of graphs and tables. The current workaround I’ve used is to create the graph/table in some other program and paste it as a picture, but it would be great to do this in Flowvella. Other than that, the program is excellent and is definitely only going to improve with time! Completely recommend this.

I’m loving the ability to set my slides to auto advance! I’ve been wanting a presentation maker to be able to set it and forget it.

Love how easy it is to just drag images in from chrome. Makes things so much easier to build! Thanks!

Is that too long ago to be annoyed that this app is now “free?” I have never had this happen with an app before, so I hope the experience is much improved. Consider this a temporary review.

Just bought it for two or three months. It feel like a scam, since it is already free now, and you need to pay 19 dollars more to get a premium edition. Unbelievable.

I was an early adopter, purchasing this app soon after it was released. I paid up front for a premium app with access to all features and with no monthly payment. Now, the developers have switched to a “freemium” model and expect me to pay for access to the same program I purchased not so long ago. This is at very least unethical if not illegal. It certainly isn’t wise for companies to screw the very people who financially supported them so that they could survive long enough to need a plan that accomodates growth like this. It’s much easier to keep a happy customer (who tells others about their app) than to find new ones. They have lost this customer and many others, I suspect. Maybe this doesn’t seem to apply to you because you’re getting it “free” - except that nothing is actually free and you’ll have to pay to fully use this app. I will never give another cent to this company and I’ll think twice before supporting others if Apple offers no protection against this bait and switch behavior. You’d be wise to consider whether you’re ok with one day learning that you no longer have access to what you purchased because Flowvella has shown that they are ok with doing just that.