Let your audience follow your slides on their phone

The projector is too far away, the remote half of the room sees a tiny stream, and someone in the back is taking photos of your slides. Let them all have the slides instead.

How it works

1. Upload your deck on slidebyside.com and copy the link.
2. Share the link: in the meeting chat, the event page, or as a QR code on your title slide (see below).
3. Present from your laptop, in presentation mode if you're on a projector (press P).

Anyone who opens the link sees your current slide in their browser, on a phone, tablet or laptop. When you change the slide, theirs changes too. No app, no account.

Put a QR code on your title slide

You only get the link after uploading, but the link never changes. So:

1. Upload the deck and copy the link.
2. Make a QR code of it with any QR generator, and add it to your first slide.
3. Upload the edited deck as a new version of the same slides. Same link, now with its own QR code.

People scan it while you're setting up, and they're on your slides before you start.

Hybrid meetings

Half the team is in the meeting room, half are at home. The room watches the screen. Everyone at home gets the same slide in their browser, at full resolution, instead of a video of a projector. And people at home can point at things with their named cursor, which the room sees on the big screen too.

Let people look back

Turn on Browse on their own in People & permissions and people can flip back to the chart from slide 3 without stopping you. Their screen shows that they're off on their own, and one click brings them back to your live slide.

For bigger audiences

• Hide the crowd's cursors. Switch off Show their pointer for everyone, so dozens of cursors don't cover your slide. Keep it on for a co-presenter.
• Turn drawing off for everyone. It's on by default, which suits small groups.
• Let people keep the slides. Switch on Download the PDF at the end, and nobody needs to ask "will you share the deck?"

More guides

• Present slides without sharing your screenWhy screen sharing blurs your deck, and how to send people the real slides instead.
• Co-present slides remotelyHand the clicker to a second presenter without "next slide, please".
• Present a PDF online, liveTurn any PDF into a live, shared deck everyone can point at and draw on.
• Live slides for classes and workshopsStudents follow the lecture on their own screens, scroll back, and mark what confused them.
• Review a deck together, on the slideTeam reviews and design feedback: circle the exact number or pixel you mean.
• Ways to present slides remotely, comparedScreen sharing, Google Slides, PowerPoint Live, Pitch, Slido and SlideBySide side by side.