The first version of SoftMaker Presentations was released in November 2007 as part of the commercial SoftMaker Office 2008productivity suite. In May 2011, this version was released as freeware.[4]
The second release was SoftMaker Presentations 2010, released in November 2009 as part of SoftMaker Office 2010. This release added a sidebar similar to the one in Microsoft PowerPoint, video export, DirectX-accelerated animations and transitions, support for picture collections, and improved PDF export.
SoftMaker Office added support for iOS in 2022.[5]
The subscription-version of SoftMaker 2024 includes a connection to ChatGPT, to summarize texts, make improvements or generate text. It translates documents with DeepL and preserves the text formatting.[6]
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