--- 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: '2026-08-09' 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. Great software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I love Sway, it's much easier to use than PowerPoint and the slides look professional. I also love the fact its in the cloud therefore it can be accessed anywhere by anyone who you share it with **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Would be nice to adjust the headers and body text and also wrap images around text **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Embedded videos didn't work at first then realised I added the wrong link ### 2. Designing made easier **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Very flexible editing of the web pages or to create new one, independent of any things You can take media from the internet include with the local files and have the feel of how your websites needs to be looked. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Many people have resistance to it's usage as it is too flexible to risk their data, but trust me it is not the way it works it is for your trail and error recursive work to get the desired output. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Great website to explore the options you had to improve one existing webpage to upgrade to new idea stage. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** we do trail and error method to change the webpage already developed to see how can one website can be brought up to include new requirements, with more fun way. ### 3. Stylist slideshow **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 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?** Great way to create slideshows which read like a book with flowing slides either up and down or left to right. Perfect however limited features. You can link sways within sways or include ms forms **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Offers a lot however its ashame there's a limit to what you can achieve. I've emailed Microsoft with feedback **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** No training needed very easy **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just limitations ### 4. Amazing slideshow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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?** Easily create slideshow presentations which look amazing. Works well with the web and any mobile device screen. Easy to share with others **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** It would be nice to create different types of headers and allow more editing/design for each body of text **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Cannot say anything bad about it **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problem embedding videos however I realised I'd made a mistake ### 5. Recommend For Inexperienced Users **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Malai L. | Editorial Assistant, Newspapers, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I love how classy and professional it looks as i’m creating the slide. Sway is very easy to understand as it has options that are easy to understand. The pictures/diagrams that illustrate font, text, etc are extremely useful to me as i dont have to spend time searching for them. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** It is very tedious waiting for it to prepare my slides as it can take a while. I’d want the program to be faster in general. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have much more options that make the slides easier to use. that i would not have on other programs such as Google Slides or PowerPoint. It includes user friendly features like inputting YouTube videos easier. ### 6. Professional layouts **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** I love how easy it is to create professional looking presentations. The way the slides open as a moving book either up and down or left to right is excellent **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Could do with different header sizes etc which would make the Sway look even better **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems at this moment ### 7. Better than PowerPoint **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 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?** The new modern PowerPoint. Why spend ages creating slideshows when you could use sway to create and develop some stunning and modern presentations **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** There's nothing I can say bad about it, it's easy to share and no training required. Dead easy **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Definitely worth it **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems ### 8. Great tool for making a training site, but it get stuck. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The capability to create a nice-looking training web page with ease **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** It hangs up quite a bit during launch. I have had to restart 4 times just this morning. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making a training site where employees can learn the computer tools that we use. ### 9. Appears to be a product with promise - but falls short **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deontray W. | Implementation Project Manager, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The software automatically creates a compiling presentation **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** There are limited actions you can control. The actions between slides are predetermined (swipe, up, down etc.). Also there needs to be more templates and photo options. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** I would not recommend this project. It is a slimmed down version of Power Point. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** I tried the program to help design a presentation for a non-profit organization, however Power Point is a much superior product. ### 10. Great Tool for Making Presentations Exciting! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Extremely versatile. Easy for the least tech-savvy person to use! It makes you look like you have a very impressive presentation with a fraction of the time/work! **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** It seems to scroll like a regular powerpoint. I don't have many parts about it I don't like. I would prefer use it over Powerpoint anyway. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Keep playing around with all the options. It is very fun! **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presentations, get-to-know you activities. Activities for students to present in a relevant, 21st century method. ### 11. PowerPoint and Publisher in one **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The interaction. It takes it several steps up from PowerPoint. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** There needs to be more ready made templates. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Go over the tutorials. It helps out a lot. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has allowed for better marketing. ### 12. A powerful, useless, interactive and flexible tool for storytelling and presentations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew B. | Customer Service Advisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Tons of features make it easy to combine text and images to tell a story that's all your own. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Watch out for the privacy features to make sure you're not sharing too much. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** A great tool for design and presentation, if great visuals and easy sharing trump having the active viewing features present in other tools. ### 13. Simple to use product! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aliya J. | IT Instructor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I’ve used Sway a few times & it’s not bad at all! Easy to use & gets the job done pretty effortlessly! **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** I can’t think of anything at the time. It’s pretty user friendly. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to do creative newsletters & other documents for my customers! ### 14. Microsoft Sway **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Microsoft Sway is helpful with researching a subject. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Microsoft Sway doesn't seem to have any down sides at this time. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** I recommend using Microsoft Sway to do research. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft Sway is helpful with researching a subject and creating a history of research easily. ### 15. Microsoft sway review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam F. | National Account Executive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** It’s great for giving presentations at the office. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** It can be glitchy at times. Also runs slowly at times. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has really helped me giving presentations of our products to new customers. ### 16. Very easy and reliable for presentations **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The most helpful thing is that you can combine both text and images in a presentation style with the ease you would have in any other comparable Microsoft program **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** The only downsides is that there is a slight learning curve with some tools in Microsoft but it’s nothing I would consider overly difficult **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presentations are put together with ease and it creates a very professional format for relating information ### 17. Get Into This **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I pretty much like everything about it and I’ll most likely recommend it to my family members & friends. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Mmmmm nothing at the moment, but next time I’ll make sure to make mental notes if I were to run into any problems. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not really a business, but it’s like my second go to if I don’t fee like using PowerPoint. ### 18. Classroom use of sway **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Ease of use Nice and quick visual of a word document (easily converts) Easy to share Able to embed graphics and charts and links **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Needs more variety of layouts and color schemes Can be more difficult to share with users that don’t use sway **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Publishing student work and making it visible and readable for others in class ### 19. Amazing Presentation Program **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Makes presenting quick and easy! Also helps you format and share all different types of projects/reports/etc. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Not much to dislike! It’s very clean cut and helpful **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** It is more expensive than its competitors however the ease of this program is worth it **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping team members better present their ideas ### 20. Easy to use and friendly UI **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** The functions are easy to use. Friendly UI made the product attractive. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** so far so good. Just not all my coworkers (other locations) use it, and sometime we need to use PowerPoint instead. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Sway:** Easy to learn. Fun to use. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** meetings, presentations. Fast and easy communication with project team. ### 21. Microsoft Sway can do a lot for your company **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Being able to create from templates and very user friendly **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Could have more templates and being able to customize them to better meet your needs **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to translate ideas and information to something that is visibly appealing ### 22. Competitively priced **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Having a robust number of tools and ease of use, makes this a must have program for publishing documents. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** Theres nothing to say negative about the program. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** The use of adding visuals to a presentation or newsletter. ### 23. Great presentation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** I love how sway fits into the Microsoft ecosystem of products. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** N/A serves as the perfect alternative from PowerPoint for more content filled presentations. **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to create more interactive and rich presentations. ### 24. Great Presenting software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Microsoft Sway?** Easy way to share presentations amongst eachother. Clear and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Microsoft Sway?** As of right now, I’m loving this useful software! **What problems is Microsoft Sway solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to connect amongst eachother securely and effectively. ## Microsoft Sway Discussions - [What is sway Windows 10?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sway-windows-10) - 1 comment - [Is Microsoft sway going away?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-microsoft-sway-going-away) - 2 comments - [What can sway be used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-can-sway-be-used-for) - 2 comments - [View Microsoft Sway pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sway/reviews?page=3&qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+14%3A55%3A24+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0b058777-3a62-4e64-9f2d-5f308bdc09eb&secure%5Btoken%5D=1126e7ddbd0cff848590cd9876d22c12cd540bda98082461faf7ec27a65d6689&format=llm_user) ## Microsoft Sway Features **Additional Functionality** - Third-Party Integrations - To-Do List - @mentions - Single Sign On - File Management - Activity Dashboard - Drag & Drop - Alerts/Notifications - Prioritization - Access Controls/Permissions - Screen Sharing - Content Management - Brainstorming - AI Copilot - File Transfer - Calendar Management - Status Tracking - Real-Time Notifications - Version Control - Task Management - Activity Tracking - Real Time Editing - Communication Management - Chat/Messaging - Tagging - Generative AI - Assignment Management - Task Scheduling - Project Management - Collaboration Tools - Workflow Management - Secure Data Storage - File Sharing - Document Storage - Task Progress Tracking - Discussions/Forums - Commenting/Notes - Reporting & Statistics - Contact Management - Video Conferencing - Progress Tracking - Mobile Access - API - Document Management - Customizable Branding **Platform Basics** - Slide Design - Presenter Tools - Auto Save **Platform Content** - Charts - Template Library - Template Creator - Content Sharing - Content Library - Media Library - Screen Sharing **Platform Additional Functionality** - Messaging - Mobility - Cloud **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Image-to-Text - AI Text-to-Video - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Music - AI Text-to-Speech - AI Text-to-Image - Generative AI - Two-Way Audio & Video **Additional Functionality** - Video Editing - Text Editing - Access Controls/Permissions - Commenting/Notes - Change Management - Data Visualization - Content Management - Content Import/Export - Data Import/Export - Training Management - Audio File Management - Presentation Streaming - Communication Management - Drag & Drop - Engagement Tracking - Image Editing - Offline Editing - AI Copilot - 3D Objects - Encryption - Audience Engagement - Video Support - Audio/Video Recording - Version Control - Presenter View - Digital Signage - Offline Presenting - Reporting & Statistics - Mobile Access - Reporting/Analytics - Real-Time Updates - Activity Dashboard - Playlist Management - Video Conferencing - Animation - Template Management - Customizable Branding - Interactive Content - Search/Filter ## Top Microsoft Sway Alternatives - [Prezi](https://www.g2.com/products/prezi/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (5,695 reviews) - [Canva](https://www.g2.com/products/canva/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (6,476 reviews) - [Keynote](https://www.g2.com/products/keynote/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (526 reviews)