--- title: Microsoft Sway Reviews meta_title: 'Microsoft Sway Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 124 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Microsoft Sway works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 124 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-01' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Microsoft Sway Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Presentation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/presentation-software) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 124 ## About Microsoft Sway Microsoft Sway is a presentation program and is part of the Microsoft Office family of products. ## Microsoft Sway Reviews ### 1. Sway gives more creative preparation for sharing the reports,presentation and more **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveen K. | Project Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Built-in design formatting makes it more time-saving and looks more attractive. Reports generated with customized layouts **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** There is no way to dislike working on presentations and sharing them. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** More boring and not cool in PPT or Word documents- Use Microsoft sway to fly the content easy manner without more dump in the same scenario. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making looks of creating content without formatting manually built-in layouts and formatting using design engines in that work cool in it. ### 2. Microsoft Sway for Higher Education **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ja'Nelle K. | Assistant Director, Center for Student Involvement, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I have used Microsoft Sway for many purposes, but namely, a newsletter for our organization. I love the photo option to create the scroll feature, which helps not to make the newsletter longer since people tend to stop scrolling after a while. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** It can be challenging to navigate getting content to be displayed as you'd like it. The ability to customize content can be static, but the benefits of the program outweigh the difficulties with this feature. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Microsoft Sway in our organization has allowed us to provide a newsletter with built-in analytics, reach a broader audience with a smaller email, and provide information in a more streamlined way. ### 3. More then just presentation software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ch. Muhammad U. | Co-Founder & Director Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** we are using this for creating newsletters and the good thing is that it's free even if you don't have any paid subscription for PowerPoint, this can immensely help full for creating presentations **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** The only disadvantage of this software is that its a web-based and can only be accessed with internet availability. When accessing the internet, sometimes it's responding slowly so they should offer a desktop version for this. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** we were using the paid tool for weekly newsletters, which normally don't need an enhanced tool for a weekly newsletter, so this solved our problem, and we canceled the paid subscriptions ### 4. Simpler and efficient presentation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Microsoft sway helps for multiple purposes within single tool for presentation, reporting and website creation. It is easier to use and have many new features witthin presentation. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Need a license to use the full feature of the product. Cannot get the same benifit used to get in PowerPoint as there are restriction in the file formatting to save the file **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise business can get the benifit of Microsoft sway as part of Microsoft office suite. Single tool solves multiple purposes such as presentation, newsletter and reporting. ### 5. Sharing is key functionality of sway. It makes it so easy to share and collaboration is pro of it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Creation, sharing and collaboration of team for a specific project. It has built in catalogues that have generic and advance templates that we can use in our project. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Sometimes it takes longer time to connect with partners into a project or presentation and synch problem is also there. It sometimes does not synch in real-time . **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Just give it a try. Better than most of other products in the industry. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of doing presentations in a traditional way, sway allows us to have advanced templates which we can drag and drop into our project according to the requirements. ### 6. Elevate your newsletters and slide shows **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sonja H. | PhD student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway allows you to not only make beautiful newsletters and photo books but also allows you to make presentations and slide shows that are stylistically much more presentable than your beginner powerpoint version. With a straightforward way to edit and create content, Sway is an application that allows one to edit content from anywhere, turning word documents or OneDrive content into stunning stylistic presentations. Compared to Mailchimp, this application puts a focus on aesthetics while making it straightforward to compile compelling content. As it is a Microsfort Word application, it is easily accessible for most who already have a Microsfort Word subscription. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is easy to use. Yet, there is a clear limit on how many photos and pages one can add to a newsletter or other template. Sway is helpful for smaller newsletters and presentations, yet more extensive portfolios may not find what they need with this application. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** If you're looking for an application that allows you to highlight news, photos, content, then this application is excellent. If your range and expose is rather extensive, you may want to be aware of the limitations in adding content, such as photos, to each template. For example, a newsletter about travels around the world, highlighting more than just the most beautiful photos, will most likely be too extensive for this. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used SWAY to create scientific Newsletters for an organization within a University. The templates allow me to be consistent with the style and colors while enabling me to individualize each newsletter and creatively adapt each release. This application has made it straightforward to create a newsletter that people want to read and captures the audience without requiring a background in graphic design. ### 7. Sway presentation highlights **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** surya E. | Cost Down Lead Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The ease of making the story , the readily available templates, The picture that speaks a lot than words. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** only very few templated are available.Sway image repository can b ehelpful **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for making monthly Newsletters of my team, less time consuming ### 8. It is a very helpful tool to use! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ray K. | Keynote Speaker, Mentor, Trainer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I like that it is easy to use & beneficial to my daily routine! **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Nothing is really there that I dislike about it! It is incredibly beneficial to my daily activities! **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've had a few problems with organization of topics! This has helped me organize as well as make several issues simpler! ### 9. Simple and essay to use best interactive reporting and presentation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** It's easy to use compare to other presentation tools like Prezi and really handy at presentations **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Even though it embeds dashboards in to sway reports, they were not as good as Tableau dashboards **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handy when we want to create simple presentation at short notices, like rough drafts, summaries.. Etc ### 10. Looking for presentation template get this app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rommel L. | Sr IT Suppport, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** This app is will make your presentation more elegant and professional as they have available templates available that will make your life easier but you can always create your own. The presentation can be shared within Organization and outside without any issue. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Very limited of templates available, functions for text posting and images crop &size something you will be more flexible to do so. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** making reports, announcements, and presentations that will take time to generate from scratch. Easy to share the links of the presentations and can be played from your end or end-user. ### 11. Another dumped Microsoft product that could be improved **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** It has a friendly UI, and it is very simple and straightforward to use. Anyone can quickly learn and use it. I really like the presentation mode in Sway. They also offer users templates do start with instead of creating things from scratch. I recommend that you start there. You can also create a company template for other users to take advantage of. Microsoft definitely improved the product since it was rolled out, but it's been improving very, very slowly. There's so much that they can be improved. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** It's missing many essential features, and Microsoft is not willing to spend any time improving this product. I see how it could compete with PowerPoint, but this should be a true Newsletter platform to create and customize email newsletters. I used it a few times to share knowledge base articles but soon after stopped using it. Our users didn't understand Sway and probably still don't. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are creating unique and different documentations for end users. We used it as we rolled out Office 365 to the organizations by creating user documentation on how to use some products. You can include videos, images, and text. Users can play the content and it will loop through the content that you have. You can also use it on a large screen to present. ### 12. Easy one page ppt **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katy W. | Music Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is easy to use. It can be a web based one page PowerPoint. I wish there are more customization features for fonts and graphics in the future. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** I dislike that there's no easy way to embed photos. It upload it and it makes the layout weird. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** To update simple info easily and provide a link for people to view. ### 13. Much more functions than MS Powerpoint **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barani D. | Business Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** MS Sway is definitely a successor to the MS Powerpoint as the feature hosts modernity. The animation/ scroll effects and the scaling up the layout feels like browsing a webpage, than working into any presentation slide. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Having more better options than PowerPoint, but still, this app is not put to proper use. Is it because we are highly dependant on ppt, or MS did not market Sway better. May be I am wrong but I am updating what I feel. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create presentations and newsletters. Benefits were, the presentation was continuous and fluidic, instead of slides ### 14. Sway as a Presentation Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The use of multimedia, ability to use images in a free way and the variety of sizes for multimedia **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** less amount of themes, templates, and font options for creative purposes **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** will help to explain a critical area of a product **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Explaining critical components of a process collaborative work within employees ### 15. Good but can be great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vibha J. | Creative Head, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The most helpful tool of sway is collaborative sharing and task managemen.t , you can easily connect and assign the new tasks for your colleagues. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** The UI is not as good for interaction, and it's a bit difficult for us when we sharing/download. Interface can be more easy and simplified **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Though it's costly for newcomers, you can still use sway for your business needs and collaborative sharing. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaborative building and sharing of growth and business needs. ### 16. Feels like a new version of Prezi **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abby T. | Assistant Nurse Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** We currently use Sway to distribute educational presentations to our staff. It is great for being able to distribute a link and have staff view at their convenience, as well as review as needed. The ability to add in links and videos is great. In some ways this feels like a new version of the software Prezi. I also like that you can see how many people have viewed the Sway, as well as how long they spend viewing the Sway. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** The design of Sway is not particularly intuitive, especially for colleagues less comfortable getting to know new software. When using it the first few times, it was not obvious how to utilize the application. However it does have benefits once you have a better understanding of the application and how to use the features. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problems are that some colleagues do not particularly enjoy learning this way, and we are mainly using for education boosts at this time. However, I do see the benefits for using Sway as staff become more comfortable with it. ### 17. Great for Team Memeber participation in Communications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Porsche W. | Hiring Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The creativity of the program and all the tools you can use to create a visually appealing messages so team members are encouraged in reading the weekly briefings **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** That it is sent out in a text format to other team members instead of a more official format. It would be more helpful if there was a specific app because even though all the employees phone numbers were added to it, not all of them received the Sway. Plus text messages gets buried in notifications **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Do a few test runs so you can assure all team members are receiving the Sway links **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sending communications out to team members that is engaging enough for them to actually read. We have constant information that needs to be sent and received by ALL team members and it was not as effective with our previous application ### 18. Does the job for quick presentations on the go **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna H. | Director of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Drag and drop features are easy to use. For quick turn presentations, they are seamless **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Cloud based only. Its not a bad thing, but when you are in and out of service areas on the go it may be difficult. Sometimes it glitches and acts as if the presentation is not there or you don't have access even when you created it. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Sway for training modules. Its helpful to keep the reader engaged for our beginning stages of training. ### 19. Form and functionality **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gertie Z. | Customer Care Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway makes it easy to create an online newsletter. The templates look great, and the software is very user-friendly. Having access to all newsletters in one place is convenient. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** When I copy the link for a newsletter and give it out, the end-user needs to play the newsletter; it would be more functional to have the link automatically play the newsletter. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Sway is excellent for internal or external newsletters delivered online. I would recommend Sway. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are keeping our organization informed of other news, and this is great for internal newsletters. ### 20. Simple tool that produces great results. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Easy to use and to interact and share ideas with one another. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** The only thing that comes to mind is how the template isn't very flexible. Can't resize pictures **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, it's very easy to use, that's for sure. Also easy to share information and to collaborate with others. ### 21. Microsoft Sway - I would give it a B+ **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** It's fairly easy to use and looks awesome once done. I like that it can play automatically or be controlled by the user. I like the fact that it can display up and down or side to side. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** It is very limited in terms of what can be done, the layout, colors, themes, fonts. etc. I wish Sway were more flexible in terms of creative and design options. Also, it would be cool if it had some features to do charts and graphs. More emedding support woudl also be awesome. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Display information in a visually appealing way for people inside my organization. ### 22. Type of web replacement for powerpoint **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** It's layout options that how content will be presented (not only slide show). It's way to tell story by combining images and texts are good. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** I didn't notice any dislike yet for MS sway. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Best if you are job is to present/train same topic multiple times. Just create story and share. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** For creating presentation on web with its extended features. And guide to another team for present stories. ### 23. Microsoft Sway—A pretty good tool to use for presenting **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I liked that you can use Microsoft sway along with other Microsoft tools. For the most part, I liked the product. It is very user friendly. I can add the data I need and when finished, my presentation doesn't look immature--looks very professional. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** I feel that there could be something better to use for presenting, but I haven't found it yet. For now, it's pretty good. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** I would use sway if you need a good tool for presentations. It is pretty easy to use and there a lot of tools available to make your presentation look appealing to the eye. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sway is easily to use. There are also a lot of ways in which you can make your presentation interesting. You can include pictures and data while also being able to use other Microsoft products you may have. ### 24. Automate presentation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex S. | Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I like that the presentation is created automatically in a minute, I just select a word document for example and it turns into a presentation **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Presentation designs are not very smart, it' to improve **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** More designs need to be added and there is a virtual presentation assistant **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I made quick presentations when I was limited in time ### 25. More engaging than Powerpoint **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is great for automating layout and design features to create a cohesive presentation that goes beyond a slide deck. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Because of the automation, Sway can accumulate more cards than the same information jam packed into a ppt presentation. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like using Sway to send pile of information that includes links, videos, images, and text. It incorporates mixed media better than microsoft powerpoint and is great for building learning modules. ### 26. Clean, Clear, Simple **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Microsoft Sway has the visual presentation ability of a PowerPoint but in a simple, video-style format. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Microsoft Sway takes some time to understand how to create and use correctly. There is a learning curve. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Take the time you need to learn how to use Sway. If you don't go through the learning process, you'll quickly become frustrated with the results. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sway is great for online/e-learning because you can create visual announcements to display on message boards. ### 27. Easy Pick! Save Time! - 'Sway' **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijay S. | Senior Software Developer - Advanced Engineering Applications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I can easily share my presentation anywhere with my clients. I Appreciate the most straightforward design, the best way to create a presentation with the least time. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** I was facing dificulties with editing templates and did not found impressive templates around to start with; They Really need to work on that. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** It saves my time. I can easily share what I have at that moment through the presentation. ### 28. Sway All Day **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Theophilus W. | Programming Committee Volunteer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is visually impressive. I present my marketing campaign concepts to clients via sway. Its always visual and captivating and they love it. I then follow up with strategic implementations and my clients become more engaged. I honestly accredit their engagement to sway. Visuals are important. Sway is user friendly and adapts well on laptops, tablets and mobile devices. Also it is very easy to embed something else into sway and share your sways through a share link or visual link. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is not fully customizable. I would like more themes for the customizations. Also I would love a more seemless way to incorporate Forms into Sway. I like creating surveys but of course Forms is not as visual as Sway. Also I would be great to know where the cloud data for Sway is stored once you place items in Sway ie. a photo. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Just try making a few sways. You'll get it after 3-4 trys. If you remember microsoft publisher its like a very visual version of that. Its my favorite addition to the microsoft subscription suite **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sway is helping me give life to my Creative concepts. When I think of a marketing campaign and present it to my clients sway matches the captivating force idea I present. Sway is now fully incorporated into my business practice. ### 29. Easy to use and resourceful presentation builder! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jobin J. | Content Writer | Marketing Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is very simple and easy to learn. Its as good or may be better than Google Slides or MS Powerpoint. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Uploading own resources is kind of difficult. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building PPTs quickly for my business meettings. ### 30. Improved powerpoint for business presentations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Norman L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** It's easy and straightforward to use, especially if you have a template to start with, faster to use than PowerPoint for a limited number of use cases. The main difference is the online component and if you plan to use it is great, if that's not the case just stick to PowerPoint **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** If you plan to use it offline for any reason, as far as I'm aware Sway is just not for you since it's designed for online content and online collaboration **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** If the number of people looking at the presentation is a big number it just makes more sense to use Sway than sharing a link to download a ppt **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating and collaborating on Business presentations to showcase the advance in a project to an executive audience, since it's already online works better than PowerPoint and especially right now when you need to be online for meetings, there is just no way you can miss the content as long as you have an internet connection. ### 31. It’s just another tool for presentation but not very much productive **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** More towards webbesed sharing and easy to share **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Not as convenient as PowerPoint and other presentation tools **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** In case you need a more web based presentation sharing thing then can be used **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** If in case I have to share something to broader audience over the web ### 32. Sway is amazing and intuitive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denise M. | Canvas Implementation Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I am experimented with lots of tools for a project in my postgrad degree and chose Sway for its intuitive (mostly), gorgeous interface and rich set of tools! It is so easy to use and share and without 365 it free so teachers can share it with parents! 2 issues- 1. accessibility is poor and the export to pdf was rendered unusable. This is vital today. 2. It wasn’t until long after I handed in the project that I stumbled on the ability to left justify in some deep place in settings but sooo glad it’s there. This project is on my LinkedIn profile and an Open Education Resource CC-BY-SA-NC (share no commercial) and the edit/font etc could be improved for more professional use. I love Sway! 💓 **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** As above accessibility, export pdf rendering is unusable, fonts/text editing isn’t flexible enough **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Try it for any small thing / you’ll be hooked. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multimedia integration, more than boring PowerPoint, And as able to make an interactive mobile app guide with links to other material and videos, all quickly and in the interface - love it ### 33. Sway is Helpful for Web Content Managers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I love that I am able to convert documents for my school's website. Using SWAY makes documents ADA compliant with ease. I am also able to choose how each document looks. There are a variety of options available to change the look of the finished document. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** I wish some documents could keep their look and formatting. My administrator wants some documents to remain in tact. I have not seen a way to do that. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to take a document that is non ADA compliant and make it so. This is fairly easy and keeps our website up to date and accessible for those who need or require support. ### 34. Sway your way **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is easy to use and has lots of options for templates **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Not easy to move cards around - not easy to add video resources **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicating with others through Sway - it has a URL link that is available anywhere ### 35. Microsoft Sway **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Natalie Rae P. | Marketing Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I like using the templates on Sway to save time if I'm trying to meet a deadline for a proposal. The templates make it easy to enter information and the layout and design is already in place. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** The templates aren't easily edited. I don't like that I can't move things around easily. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are many features on Microsoft Sway that are beneficial and time-saving. This product would be amazing for someone who didn't have experience with Graphic Design. It makes it simple to write up a newsletter, resume or portfolio. ### 36. Powerpoint 2.0 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff A. | Copywriter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I've found sway to be like a Powerpoint 2.0 for creating presentations. I like how it's on the internet, so I don't have to download anything, and I like how easily I can share the presentations with team members to collaborate. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** There are pretty much no very good templates to start with, which means you need to create your own or for future use, or spend hours extra just designing the slides. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm able to create presentations that can be presented in a bunch of cool ways with Sway's improved features. ### 37. Microsoft Sway - Education's new powerpoint **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Ease of use. Sway is super easy to use. It is intuitive and makes for great presentations. Students in my class use it for clear presentations on the culinary world.Easy to share. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** I don't love all of the design choices. Sometimes it is a little glitchy. Mostly, no complaints. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been looking for something for my students to use to present that was in Office and stepped away from the boring slideshare (no offense to ppt). My students are in CTE and are not always well versed in organizing their thoughts. Sway gives them this support/scaffolding. ### 38. Sway to a New Way of Presenting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessica H. | Teacher, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is very user friendly, looks very professional, is a great way to get information across, and you can include a variety of looks that keeps your presentation exciting and your audience engaged. Another item that is great about Sway is that there are so many pictures that are easily accessible. There is an option to stack images or slides, and they come off in a cool way. Sway makes it easy to put information in, easy to move pictures and words to the way you want, and easy to present with. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Though it is hard to come up with things that I dislike about Microsoft Sway, I guess I dislike logging in; I am one who is likely to forget my password. Another thing is that I have not figured out how to use a clicker when I present with Sway, but that is something I can easily change. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Just try it! It is a great way to present. Sway is an updated and more user friendly version of Microsoft Power Point in my opinion. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** A benefit to using Microsoft Sway is that we are able to present in an engaging way. It takes only a few minutes to put together a presentation and I do not fear using this product as I do with other products. As a third grade teacher, even my students can use Sway to present their ideas and research projects. If I was someone in marketing, I feel that Sway would help me present campaigns to others. This is a very versatile software that can be used to present any ideas that you desire. ### 39. The modern powerpoint, Microsoft Sway does it all **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neel P. | Medical Student, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Since Sway is cloud-based, it includes collaboration at ease. You can control whether or not people, who you share a presentation with, have access to share it with others. It also supports OneDrive. Sway, unlike PowerPoint, offers three different layout options for how the content is presented: vertical (like scrolling a website), horizontal (continuous scroll sideways), and Slideshow (aka PowerPoint). **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is much more limited in available templates compared to PowerPoint. However, you do have the ability to create your own templates for future use, which is very convenient. Also, it can take a little bit of time to adjust to using Sway for your presentations. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Microsoft Sway is an effective and efficient alternative to using the classic Powerpoint slideshows for presentation purposes. If you are looking for an application that will allow you to seamlessly integrate online videos and other content into your presentations, Sway is the way to go. As opposed to Powerpoint, Sway allows for a more customizable presentation flow with integration of a variety of content. It is also easy to control who is able to see and edit the presentation and limit their ability to share the presentation. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sway makes presentations more modernized, easily shareable and accessible, and gives a nice change of pace when compared to the classic powerpoint presentations. I believe uploading content to the presentations is more seamless with Sway as well. ### 40. Still long way to go for this service (or that's just it) **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Milan M. M. | Owner and Chief Digital Officer (CDO), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** It's relatively easy to work with it - what you build is what the audience on other side will get. It might be that lack of features brings this advantages. It's part of Office 365 so it is easy to use (one account for all services), and it is well integrated into it, which is a plus. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** The service seems to be so long in it's early stage of development, or Microsoft just wants it to be simple - like notepad is. I'm not sure what could be the strategy as the service seems to have not changed much during the last 2 years. Still I would like to see more features coming in. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Good enough if you want to create online viewable content and share it with someone without having to think how they will see it, do they have the right software to open it etc... But I think additional features are missing. It will bring complexity but would be more useful tool. Or else, just use PowerPoint Online or Slides. I also read that Microsoft is discontinuing the iOS Sway app so pay attention to that. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly create and share content that needs to be presented (online). But it is really rare occasion as nowadays everyone is using either Office365 or G Suite, so you can share the PowerPoint or Slides in similar way. I've used it just a couple of times. ### 41. Easy to use and professional looking **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The ease of use and how little time it takes while looking so professional. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** There is nothing that I dislike at this time. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Use it! It is so easy and looks professional. I am all about saving time and this really helps to do just that. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do not have any problems that I am solving but I have noticed the ease of multiple people being able to make changes. ### 42. Persuade You to Sway **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lindsey C. | English teacher, Primary/Secondary Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Microsoft Sway looks stunning in examples. However, I am not sure about the learning curve. I have not had success in making my presentations look as fun or as interactive as the demos. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** The interface is complicated. I think it should mirror Powerpoint, even though they are not exactly the same thing. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is just a fancy way to solve presentation boredom. When used correctly, it helps engage an audience. ### 43. Microsoft Sway is business expression and presentation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Germán R. | Coordinador de Informática, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** What I like most about sway is the interaction and expression features it has for work environments, through microsoft sway you can very professional presentations, to which you can add multiple elements, such as images, documents, videos, which helps to make the working groups more interactive, likewise it is linked to the Office 365 ecosystem, so all the resources housed in it can be used to more easily limit the presentations, for example with elements housed in Onedrive for bussines, another quality that I think is quite good is the possibility of sharing the environments not only with the employees of the company but also with the clients, which has supported some areas of the company that have direct contact with the client to improve the presentation of ideas and projects. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Initially, although it is certainly an excellent tool, it was not entirely friendly for many users to understand its operation, as well as some problems were generated, since the time to close the session after a period of inactivity was very short, in general lines , those are the only inconveniences that have arisen since we started using it **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** In our experience, I think that for some users it could be difficult to know completely how it works, the characteristics and capabilities of the tool, although it is not difficult to use, I would recommend maybe for the staff that will make more use of the tool, a little training of it **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft Sway did not come to solve any problem or need, as many Office 365 tools that we are using and discovering, came to provide support in the management of projects, workflow and contact with the client, and possibly also with suppliers ### 44. Great Solutions for E-Portfolios **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** It feels like the software helps me as I guess. It creates a nice presentation as I go, much less work than using PowerPoint. There are lots of options but you can still get things done quickly. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Saving and editing is not as user-friendly as I'd like. It took a little bit of a learning curve to figure out how everything works and is setup. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** It's important to know exactly what you want to do before you start a new Sway doc, it's much more seamless from there. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I built my e-journalism portfolio with this! ### 45. Presentations online **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Professional looking presentations and slideshows without any other software being required....just type in the URL and your away **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Very basic unfortunately, even though it looks nice your very very limited to what you can actually do. It's ashame because Sway has a lot of potential **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Headers and body text is boring ### 46. Newsletters made easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacqui L. | Sales Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The software is super simple to use to create presentations or newsletters especially if you've used Microsoft Power Point before, all the features you're used to are here but what makes Microsoft Sway unique is that it's a specialized tool . If you have Microsoft Office 365 you get access to a massive library of templates to make creating the perfect newsletter a lot simpler. Microsoft Sway is free to use. The customer support service is great as always, it's Microsoft after all. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** For those without Microsoft Office 365 the template library is a bit scarce and the service doesn't have a mobile app (for Android at least), this might be a deal breaker for some. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** If you have Office 365 or already use Microsoft Power Point for presentations give Sway a try, the service is free to use and even if you're not part of the Microsoft ecosystem it's definitely worth a visit. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are a slew of online "free newsletter" creators out there and I have used a few but nothing really compares to the quality Sway brings to the table and if you have Office 365 (like I do) Sway is a natural choice ### 47. Simple, Intuitive **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marouane T. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** - - Simple, intuitive, modern interface, especially easy if you've use MS Power Point already - - Feature rich, you can create everything from Newsletters to Presentations even entire websites - - I think the best way to put it would be; "What MS Publisher is to MS Word, MS Sway is to MS Power Point" - - Great on it's own but even better with Office 365 which includes a larger library of templates and content - - Large content and template library make it very easy to find something that "Looks Right" and run with it **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** - - The lackluster template library for those who don't have Office 365 - - Where is the mobile app? Seriously Microsoft?! It's 2019, Sway has been around for years now, where is the mobile app?!! - - To be fair, you can accomplish everything that Sway does with other apps in the Office Suite of applications but having a specialized tool can save time and effort **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** - - MS Sway is "Technically" a free service (for those with Microsoft Accounts) so give it a try first. - - If you're already using MS Power Point give Sway a try, the interface is familiar and it can save you a lot of time. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before I tried MS Sway I would use free online, web based services for my Newletters but the "free" meant ads and the whole thing felt dirty and unprofessional. MS Sway offers a intuitive, specialized tool that makes the process a lot simpler and professional. ### 48. Easy slideshow **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Very easy to use and basic compared to PowerPoint. Doesn't replace PowerPoint in my option as its limited on features but I do like how easy it is and works well with any device. Supports them all as its Web based **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** As I mentioned it's got basic features sadly so it's limited on how much you can do unfortunately **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Good for what it is **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Created a sway. A week later I couldn't open it, kept getting an error so ended up deleting it ### 49. Online Sways **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** In my opinion it's the best product within O365. Presentations look professional with the embedded videos and flip cards. I love the way you can share the url with anyone who can view the Sway document. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Shame there isn't a Sway app for mobile devices as it's difficult to design a Sway on a smaller screen **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Great resource for professional slideshows and much easier to setup that Powerpoint **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving Sways however i discovered you can export them ### 50. Nifty and Impressive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Sway is half the effort of creating an animated PowerPoint presentation. 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