Has a long way to go

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.

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