12 Free Slideshow Makers with Music/Photos/Videos

What is the best way to present your photos with good memories?

Slideshow exactly.

A good slideshow maker is the half of success. With the user-friendly slideshow creating program, you can make your own slideshow as you expected.

In this post, we collect the new list of top 12 free slideshow creator software, and gather the review. Hope you can decide the best one and create your own slideshow easily.

• Part 1. 5 free slideshow maker software for Windows and Mac
• Part 2. 5 free online slideshow creators
• Part 3. 2 slideshow creator apps for iPhone and Android

Part 1. 5 free slideshow maker software for Windows and Mac

In this part, we list the top 5 slideshow maker software for free on Windows and Mac. You can read the disadvantages and advantages to depend which one you desired.

Windows Movie Maker (Windows)

Windows Movie Maker is the simple slideshow maker to combine your photos, videos and music into digital movies with titles, transitions, and video effects. It is the free photo, music and video slideshow creator from Microsoft, and let you edit your slideshow on the timeline.

Pros

• It provides you the various transitions.
• Lots of video effects are offered to you.
• Edit video titles or credits with various effects.
• Export the created slideshow in your computer or DV camera directly.
• It supports audio editing like voiceover, background music, etc.

Cons

• No contrast or saturation adjustments.
• Effects aren't adjustable.
• Windows Movie Maker is no longer available for download from its official website.
• Lack of basic video editing tool like rotate, watermark, etc.

PowerPoint (Windows & Mac)

PowerPoint is not only eh office helper, but the slideshow creator on Windows and Mac. It can meet your basic demands to create the slideshow with the transitions, background music, titles and videos.

Pros

• It supports slideshow creating with photos, videos, and music.
• It lets you edit the title with art font.
• It allows you to add the videos for slideshow making.
• You can import music or record narration for the slideshow.

Cons

• It is lacking in slideshow video editing like rotate, clip, watermark, flip, etc.
• It gives you no option to adjust the video effects like filter, elements, etc.
• The exported format is PPT or PPTX, which is not compatible with most players, and you need to convert PowerPoint to video.
• No audio editing options.

Slideshow Creator (Windows)

SlideShow Creator is the user-friendly slideshow maker, which is the combination of feasibility and functionality. It is as easy as PowerPoint or Windows Movie Maker, but more slideshow editing features than both of them.

Pros

• It supports various formats of videos, photos and music for slideshow creation.
• It provides the ready-made themes without needing your own editing separately.
• It gives you the DIY option to customize the themes freely.
• It provides a bountiful of video filters, elements, texts and transitions editing.
• The exported formats are MOV, WMV, MKV, MP4, AVI, 3GP, and more for your players.
• You can save a slideshow with high resolution up to 4K for a super clear vision.
• Compatible with Windows 10/8/7.

Cons

• The free version will be left a watermark on your slideshow video.
• You can only export part of the created slideshow with the free slideshow maker.

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VSDC Video Editor (Windows)

VSDC Video Editor is the free video and audio editor on Windows computer. This non-liner video editor also lets you create your slideshow videos with the simple slideshow support like photos, transitions, etc.

Pros

• It is intuitive interface to create your own slideshow.
• It creates transitions on the basis of pre-installed templates.
• It changes the slideshow look with the blending modes and Instagram-like filters.
• It applies various visual and audio effects to your videos.
• It creates the slideshow to DVD.

Cons

• It is lacking is the basic video editing.
• The music editing of the slideshow is lacking.
• Interrupted crash when importing photos or videos.

iMovie (Mac)

iMovie is the free slideshow makers bundled with Mac purchases. This slideshow program is very powerful compared with other free slideshow software on Mac. It possesses most editing features that you will need in making a slideshow.

Note: iMovie is also compatible with iPhone and iPad.

Pros

• It lets you import videos, photos, and music for slideshow creation.
• It provides the built-in templates for automatic slideshow making.
• It lets you clip video, adjust video effects, crop video, rotate video, etc.
• Title or text editing are available with animated effects.
• Music is supported from iMovie sounds or iTunes Library.
• Share your slideshow on social media or Mac freely.

Cons

• It is the complicated for new hands to deal with so powerful editing features. Learn details to use iMovie to create slideshow.
• It always crashed when you add more effects to your slideshow.
• The input and export formats are limited.

Part 2. 5 free online slideshow creators

When you do not want to install any app on your computer, just try online slideshow maker tool.

Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark is the online site, which provides you with the powerful and fully customizable features for slideshow making. It offers the slideshow template for you and lets you make a whole slideshow online without any plug-in or apps download.

Pros

• It supports videos, photos, icons or music for slideshow creation.
• Edit the text as the slideshow title.
• Record voice for slideshow narration.
• Share the slideshow directly to your platform or email the link.

Cons

• You need to sign up into this site for using it.
• The exported slideshow format is only MP4.
• Add up to 30 seconds of video at a time to each slide.
• No options for the transition or effects adjustment.

Kizoa

Kizoa is the free online website to create your photos and videos into slideshow with effects, text, and music, still or animated collages, ecards, and more. The basic Kizoa.com package is free with 1 GB of storage and the use of their free features. They also offer three different paid for, upgraded packages.

Note: It is available for iPhone.

Pros

• It makes a slideshow in 7 different formats of watching area.
• It shares your slideshow online directly.
• You download slideshow in a variety of video formats MP4, AVI, MOV, MPEG2 and GIF.
• It provides effects, text, and GIFs to add into your photos and videos.

Cons

• It produces videos of 1 minute in length with watermark.
• More effects in the slideshow editing will need money.
• Free storage is limited with 1 GB.
• The uploading speed is alarming.

Google Photos

Google Photos is not only the cloud storage place where stored your synced iPhone to Android photos, but the photos editor to help you create and play photos slideshow. Moreover, it lets you create photos book, collage, animation and movie.

Pros

• Color filters are for slideshow like west, Eiffel, metro, Ollie, etc.
• Basic adjustment (light, color and pop) I supported.
• Crop and rotate the slideshow freely.
• You can adjust the aspect ratio to play the slideshow on different devices.

Cons

• It gives you no option to edit the slideshow.
• You can only play the slideshow on Google Photos, but not download it.
• No transition is supported in the slideshow.

Canva

"Forget PowerPoint! Design stunning presentations that engage your audience with Canva's free presentation software." That is the slogan of Canva. It is the free online slideshow maker with designed layouts to create your own photos or its stock images. The tools of photo retouching are limited, and some resources are paid.

Pros

• It lets you use hundreds of beautifully designed fonts or upload your own fonts.
• It provides you with image transparency tool, speed bubble maker, image cropper, image blur tool, etc.
• It provides various layouts to create your own slideshow easily.
• 1GB free storage for photos and assets.

Cons

• Don't expect to find too many photo editing options.
• You need to create an account on this site for creating slideshow.
• It only allows you to share your pictures on limited number of social media networks.

Smilebox Slideshow Maker

Smilebox Slideshow Maker, as it names suggests, gives you an easy way to create animated slideshow with photos. You can create the slideshow with its free templates with music, animations, fonts, color schemes, and more.

Note: Smilebox offers separate installers for Windows and Mac.

Pros

• It has the templates for creating electronic greeting cards, photo albums, and scrapbooks.
• Share the slideshow to social media platform.
• It supports photos and music for creating slideshow.
• Create slideshow to DVD.

Cons

• You can only download your slideshow maker creation as MP4 , not other formats.
• Many popular templates are not free.
• Free version only allows you to share very simple slideshows.

Part 3. 2 slideshow creator apps for iPhone and Android

Surely, when you take the photos with your mobile phone, and want to create a quick slideshow for sharing, you can do it with the free slideshow maker apps on iPhone or Android directly.

PicFlow (iPhone/iPad)

PicFlow is the easy-to-use slideshow program, which enables you to select the photos from Camera Roll or albums. You can control the timing of each of the photos to match the tune of your music. You can drag the photos for rearranging to create a slideshow.

Pros

• You can add music from iPhont library.
• There are over 18 transitions to choose from.
• Export the slideshow to Camera Roll or share on Facebook or Instagram.
• Crop the photo with your finger to swipe and pinch.

Cons

• Free version is quite limited.
• Video codec limited to 30FPS.

Pixgram (Android)

Pixgram is the Android slideshow maker APK, which mix your own videos, photos, music and filters together in 3 steps.

Pros

• It adds photos, videos and music into slideshow.
• Enhance your slideshow movie with filters.
• Export video in different aspect ratios as 1:1, 16:9 or 9:16.
• Share the slideshow from Android phone to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.

Cons

• It contains ads in this slideshow APK.
• Report from users that it fails to save the slideshow to phone.
• No transition effect.
• Speed is limited to 3 seconds per frame.

Conclusion

Here, you come to the bottom of this page. This page gathers the top 12 free slideshow maker review. The creators are for your slideshow making on Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and online. No matter which one you select, wish you could create the slideshow easily and smoothly.

If any suggestion, just leave your comments below freely.