Localist vs Beautiful.ai
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Sir Richard BransonMost popular feedback for Localist
Our previous website calendar system consisted of our staff manually entering events when the public would email them to us. Even with copy/pasting each field, it would take up some time to process a lot of requests. Now, we can approve or deny events with the click of a button and the public takes the time to format the events themselves. This also allows for required fields so we don't receive events with missing information.
Frankie R.
About Localist
Localist brings together all the event management and marketing automation tools you need in one place. Our user-friendly platform makes all events (free and paid, online and in-person) more discoverable, by centralizing and automating all of your event and calendar assets. With extensive integrations and an API, Localist works with all of your existing tools. And, we centralize the event listings process with a streamlined workflow.
Most popular feedback for Beautiful.ai
I started as a free user before they had a pricing model. With the expanded templates, object feature, and other improvements, it is a no brainer to justify the $12-15/month subscription because it will easily save you hours of time on each presentation.
Perryn O.
About Beautiful.ai
Is your sales team spending too much time creating/updating old pitch decks and presentations in PowerPoint when they should be focused on selling? Beautiful.ai makes it easy for anyone to create powerful presentations, all while staying on-brand. No more hunting through old presentations to find slides, copying and pasting text, or updating fonts, colors, themes, graphs, etc. And no more wasting time creating mediocre presentations when they should be focusing on winning business.
Localist reviews
We looked at many different event software solutions before deciding on Localist. It's a great product, and the customer service is unparalleled.
- Nicky E. Associate Director of Digital Media
I'm very familiar with Localist after having used it for a few years so I'm reluctant to change to a different email merge system but I do find it to be user-friendly and easy to introduce people to.
- Raymond R. Web Designer
In our particular application, there just isn't very much traffic. The idea of a dedicated event calendar can feel like too much when everyone already uses their own CRM or email lists to communicate about events. More flexible integrations would be a nice feature, like if Localist could pull in events automatically from third-party CRMs. Customizeable reminder messages and follow-up messaging would also add value.
- Craig B. Assistant Director
Beautiful.ai reviews
As a start up founder, time is always on premium and Beautiful.ai helped our team spend less time on making the slides look good and freed us to focus on the content. And now with its advanced sharing and analytics it's become a very important part of our sales tech stack. Amazing product that is delivering amazing value to us everyday.
- Satwick S. Co-Founder
Super easy to create impactful stunning presentations without having to fiddle with alignment, resizing, animations of individual elements.
- Brendan C. Architect
I speak at conferences multiple times a month and need slide decks that support my messaging, this tool does that for me. I normally only have a hour or two to take all my content and turn it into a finalized deck and Beautiful.ai delivers.
- Mike D. Lead Hand Shaker
Pros & cons
Localist
| Pros |
|---|
| The solution is very flexible to our needs and the branding capabilities are impressive |
| The ease of use and empowerment of users to submit events |
| Localist is very easy to setup and administer and is a very powerful calendar platform to help manage and promote our many events on campus |
| Administrators love the ease of setup, reporting and the configuration flexibility." |
| Cons |
|---|
| The webinar on Channels was so confusing that it took me months to figure out what they were talking about |
| Again, lots of learn-by-doing |
| We also found an issue with users being able to create their own avatar, in some cases the avatar could be offensive and there is no way to easily "report" that to the calendar admins |
| Support has been generally terrible |
| Anything outside of the basic functionality is simply not supported and they have been unwilling to implement ANY requests that we've made |
| On several occasions the answers provided by support have been blatantly wrong and only through our own channels have we been able to fix problems that the vendor created." |
Beautiful.ai
| Pros |
|---|
| Beautiful AI allows you to create professional presentations that are simple and elegant |
| It's been wonderful it helps my work standout and I've only received praises |
| Super easy to create impactful stunning presentations without having to fiddle with alignment, resizing, animations of individual elements |
| Great results when you show a presentation to clients or stakeholders |
| They can see a clean modern design that takes you to another level." |
| Cons |
|---|
| Does not work very well displayed on the iPhone or Android |
| Doesn't let you embed video or audio for offline presentations |
| Some text editing options seemed to be missing, had to work around some pre-built configurations |
| I feel that the focus is too much on presentations for pitches or marketing, and when it comes to visual aids for learning, it can be limited |
| I do like it as it is relatively quick (no worries of alignment and formatting) but can use it only for presentations that need minimal representation on the slides." |
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