Whether you are curious about supported slide formats, recording features, privacy, or pricing, we've got you covered. Find answers to help you get the most out of Slideator and create seamless, professional video presentations.
Slideator is 100% free to use today for everyone! with three distinct plans:
- Basic Plan (Free): Essential tools perfect for students and beginners.
- Personal Plan: Advanced recording and storage options for individual creators.
- Professional Plan: Complete, high-capacity solution for teams, organizations, and power users.
Upgrades can be managed directly on our pricing page. For custom institutional or enterprise deployments, contact our sales team.
Slideator is a research-driven academic platform created as an independent project to support educators, students, and knowledge sharers worldwide. A generous free plan is available for everyone, with optional premium plans for users who need higher limits and additional features. Every upgrade helps support the project's continued development and keeps the free plan available to the community.
No. Slideator is completely browser-based and cloud-hosted. You do not need to download software, mobile apps, or browser extensions. Simply log in on any computer, laptop, or tablet (across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, or ChromeOS) and start creating.
Slideator supports all major presentation document types:
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Google Slides
- Apple Keynote
- OpenDocument Presentations
- WPS Office
- Portable Document Format (PDF)
Slideator brings your static presentation to life through an all-in-one suite of dynamic media tools:
- Voice-over Narration: Add clear audio to explain complex topics.
- Webcam Overlay: Maintain personal engagement with customizable camera layouts.
- Live Annotations: Draw, highlight, and emphasize visual points on the fly.
- Interactive Whiteboard: Illustrate spontaneous ideas during your talk.
- Screen Sharing: Seamlessly transition to live software walkthroughs or browser demos.
Slideator automatically converts uploaded presentations into optimized, high-resolution vector images. This process guarantees fast loading speeds and reliable playback across all devices and screen sizes. As a result, native software transitions or automated slide animations are stripped out. You control slide movement manually during narration and recording.
- Upload: Select your presentation file (.pptx, .key, .pdf, etc.).
- Configure: Choose your audio input device and enable your webcam.
- Record: Click Start, deliver your talk using annotations and whiteboard tools, then click Stop.
- Save & Share: Save the presentation directly to your Slideator cloud account. Copy your unique video link to distribute via email, LMS, or social media.
Videos are captured directly within your web browser. During recording, video data stays temporarily in local browser storage to maximize privacy and prevent connection data loss. Once you click Save, the video uploads directly to your Slideator cloud library.
Slideator integrates directly with the YouTube API to offer reliable, cost-effective streaming.
- Basic Plan: Uploads are hosted via Slideator’s optimized YouTube infrastructure.
- Personal & Professional Plans: You can choose between Slideator's private high-speed streaming servers, your own personal YouTube channel, or a hybrid of both.
Yes. Professional Plan users can authorize Slideator to push recorded presentations directly to their personal or organization's YouTube channel via API integration.
Slideator is currently free without restrictions. Once our tiered plans launch, limits will be structured as follows:
- Basic (Free): 1 Upload / Day | Standard Duration | 720p Resolution
- Personal: 5 Uploads / Day | 45 Min Max | 1080p Resolution
- Professional: Unlimited Uploads | Unlimited Duration | 1080p / 4K Resolution
Yes. Slideator offers real-time presentation streaming alongside on-demand video recording. You can stream slides, webcam footage, annotations, and voice narration directly to a live audience from your browser.
- Go to My Sessions and select Create New Session.
- Set the title, date, time, and session parameters (e.g., chat permissions, recording).
- Copy the Presenter Link for yourself and distribute the Viewer Link to your audience.
- Open the Presenter Link at the scheduled time and click Start Streaming.
Slideator live streams include built-in audience participation features:
- Real-time Chat: Viewers can ask questions or provide feedback throughout the presentation.
- Raise Hand: Audience members can signal to speak. Presenters can grant audio/video access to individual viewers one at a time for interactive Q&A.
Yes. Simply toggle the Enable Recording switch before or during your live broadcast. Once you end the stream, Slideator processes the recording into an on-demand video with complete slide synchronization.
No. Viewers only need to click the shared Viewer Link. They can access the live broadcast on any modern browser without creating an account or downloading third-party software.
Live streaming is available to all registered users under the current free access period. In the future, live streaming duration and attendee capacity limits will scale according to your active tier (Basic, Personal, or Professional).
- Recording: Designed for asynchronous presentation delivery. You record, preview, edit, and publish a pre-recorded video link.
- Live Streaming: Designed for real-time interaction. Your audience watches live and engages with you via chat and audio interaction.
Slideator video links and iframe embed codes are compatible with virtually all web platforms, including:
- Learning Management Systems (LMS): Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, Google Classroom.
- MOOCs: edX, Coursera.
- Content Management Systems (CMS): WordPress, Drupal, Joomla.
- Social Media: LinkedIn, X, Facebook, and direct messaging channels.
To protect users and host networks, Slideator enforces strict content policies. Videos may be removed if they:
- Contain sexually explicit, offensive, or inappropriate content.
- Breach copyright laws (e.g., using unauthorized third-party audio or media).
- Suffer from critical file corruption or poor conversion quality.
- Were uploaded outside of authorized Slideator recording applications.
By leveraging YouTube’s global Content Delivery Network (CDN), Slideator delivers adaptive bitrate streaming across all global networks. This ensures fast load times, zero buffering, and automatic resolution adjustments for desktop, tablet, and mobile viewers.