Type of business Private Available in English | Type of site Presentation tool Launched April 2013 | |
Key people Brent Brookler co-founders Website | ||
Flowboard is an interactive presentation platform that includes an iPad app, a Mac app and web site for viewing presentations, built first for the iPad and web. Flowboard allows users to create, publish and share presentations through their cloud-based SaaS system. Flowboard allows embedding of text, images, PDFs, video and gallery objects in easy linkable screens, defining modern interactive presentations. Flowboard grew out of Treemo Labs.
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History
Flowboard launched on April 18, 2013 after being built for almost a year. Flowboard was incubated out of Treemo Labs, which had years of experience building native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Flowboard is an iPad app and Mac app where users create, view, publish and share interactive presentations. Presentations are viewable on Flowboard.com through a web-based viewer on any device or through the Flowboard native iPad app or Mac app. Flowboard has been featured by Apple in the App Store several times and included in many promotions like "@Work collaboration" and others.
A New Presentation Format
Flowboard is an interactive presentation format where instead of single directional slides, presentations are made up of linkable screens with embeddable media and content objects. While Flowboards can be exported to PDF, they all have a web address and are meant to be viewed via a web browser or the Flowboard native applications.
Revenue model
Flowboard uses the freemium model for its iPad app. Customers can use most of the features for free, but some features like exporting to PDF, making presentations password protected and increased storage and file sizes are premium features. Flowboard for Mac, however, is a paid app.
Native Applications
Flowboard is a native iPad app and Mac app which has advantages over web based tools. All downloaded presentations can be viewed offline, without an Internet connection. This includes videos which are enabled by cacheing the video files into memory. For students, teachers, sales people and all users, this is extremely important because this prevents having a presentation fail because of lack of an Internet connection. Beyond the offline capabilities, there is a trend to build native applications versus HTML5 as noted by Facebook and LinkedIn both rebuilding their mobile apps as 100% native applications.