Microsoft PowerPoint vs Microsoft Excel

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R13] Microsoft PowerPoint 2/5 · US Too different from desktop version: Features in desktop are hard to find or missing in iPad version.
2. [R55] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Not quite there: Too much functionality is missing in the iOS app, relative to the desktop app.
3. [R75] Microsoft Excel 3/5 · US App is missing a lot of functionality: App for Excel is missing many simple features that are in the desktop version.
4. [R66] Microsoft Excel 3/5 · US Almost the Excel I know for my PC: Microsoft deliberately makes using this software on an iPad more difficult and less efficient. Some basic, non complicated features, like holding control to select multiple cells, are not available. Lots of things like that which are just strange not to allow and really destroy efficiency. Overall I can still get the job done, it just feels intentionally limit
5. [R4] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Nothing is working right: Items disappear, my files don’t match up with their names and i cannot link an item to another slide. My experience has been unsatisfactory.
6. [R10] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Unusable: Besides the eyesore copilot button permanently existing in the bottom corner, the app freezes as soon as I click anywhere on a slide to begin editing. Literally unusable.
7. [R43] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Super slow: Takes long to load, very glitchy!
8. [R25] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Horrible glitchy app: Did an entire PowerPoint and ready for work and was about to export and it glitched out on me. The app got stuck in buffering mode so I reset the app and the entire project was gone. I just ended up deleting the app. What a waste of time.
9. [R40] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Notes: Can’t print notes
10. [R19] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Extremely Faulty: I’m not sure what is going on with this application. There is no option to change the design theme once you have already selected or starting working on a ppt. That does not make sense. Also, there is no option to under a part of the presentation once you exit. It’s as if the option is permanent and can’t be reverted back.
11. [R113] Microsoft Excel 2/5 · US Disappointing… data loss, crashes: The iOS version is fine, the iPadOS version is unstable. Crashes a lot and losses data entered. Charts sometimes don’t display. Print chart crashes the app and loses changes. Couldn’t be less happy with Excel on the iPad
12. [R32] Microsoft PowerPoint 4/5 · US Money: You have to pay them a lot of money and if you’re a kid you cannot do it. Also, if you maybe be like a parent and you have to do a presentation and you don’t have a microscopic account you are stuck with a creek that means you cannot send in your presentation right away and you might have to like sit if you make a scrub account and that is a lot just to do I’ll see the slides are just not t
13. [R42] Microsoft PowerPoint 3/5 · GB Good but not the best: I mean it’s good but you basically have to pay for most or all of it except what presentation you chose I would give it two or three stars
14. [R67] Microsoft Excel 1/5 · US Horrible company: This is a horrible company that forces you into contracts that you don’t want to be in. Used to be you could just download a system on your computer and be done with it. Only having to get another one when you want to. Now the only way you can get their system is if you subscribe to a monthly hundred plus dollar fee that they raise each year they make updates to make it more conf
15. [R96] Microsoft Excel 3/5 · GB Paid for but can’t access premium features: I started a subscription but it just says “something went wrong “ and can’t access features.
16. [R31] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Useless for enterprise: More trouble than it is worth. Awkward UI, assuming I can even navigate the authentication and posture assessment checks, which are hit or miss for enterprise users. Microsoft owns everything and this still feels broken and poorly thought through.
17. [R49] Microsoft PowerPoint 1/5 · US Pop up suck: Can your human programmers actually learn how to program the AI to be smarter or is that they are too dumb? No one, literally no one, likes the “Got It” tips or the constant interruptions. We paid for the app to be productive unlike your programmers
18. [R91] Microsoft Excel 1/5 · US SIGN IN FOR OUTLOOK SUCKS: SIGNING IN EACH TIME I NEED TO USE A SPREADSHEET IS INSANE
19. [R117] Microsoft Excel 1/5 · US Wish I could give negative stars: I’ve been a user for nearly 30 years. Going to log in today, and the number of measures I have to take JUST TO LOG IN is MFing RIDICULOUS!!! I am switching to Google for everything. Good riddance.