SWITCH FROM CANVA PRESENTATIONS
Canva Presentations to Calisto Slides
Slides keeps a business’s presentations with the rest of its work: its theme on every deck, figures read from its sheets, and each deck sent on to a deal, a proposal or a client.
Feature by feature
Calisto Slides beside Canva
- 7 In both
- 2 Only in Canva
| 9 features | Calisto Slides | Canva |
|---|---|---|
| Start | ||
| A Deck From a DescriptionCalisto: Build It for Me drafts an outline from a description, the person edits, reorders and trims it, and Generate Presentation builds exactly that outline in the business’s theme.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| TemplatesCalisto: Calisto’s deck and slide designs in its themes, filtered by deck type, industry, style and color, beside the business’s own templates.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Import PowerPoint FilesCalisto: a .pptx opens as a deck the person keeps editing, with its shapes, merged table cells, speaker notes and pictures.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Together | ||
| Co-Editing, Comments and AssignmentCalisto: several people edit one deck at once, and comment on a slide or a point on it with mentions and a person the thread is assigned to.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Present | ||
| Presenter View With NotesCalisto: Presenter View shows the speaker notes, the next slide and a timer, and drives the audience window.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Audience QuestionsCalisto: readers of the published deck follow the presenter and ask questions others can upvote; the presenter answers them from Presenter View.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Record a PresentationCalisto: a talk is not recorded in Slides; a deck is presented live, on the published page or in a Live meeting.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Share | ||
| Export PDF, PPTX and ImagesCalisto: PDF, PPTX, PNG, JPEG and SVG, drawn from the deck itself; PPTX keeps speaker notes, sections and each weight of the typeface.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Export as VideoCalisto: a deck exports as PDF, PPTX, PNG, JPEG or SVG, not as a video.Checked Nov 7, 2026Source | No | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from Canva
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Canva and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Canva can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Learn more
Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.