Decka vs Nearpod

Decka is a freemium AI presentation maker with a freeform editor and live audience activities. AI-generated presentations open as editable drafts: users can move, resize, restyle, replace or remove objects. The editor includes themes, image frames, background removal and editable advanced charts, while presentations can contain YouTube or uploaded video, Lottie animations and a dynamic agenda. Collaborators can edit together in real time, and presenters can publish view-only links. Audience activities include polls, quizzes, Q&A, word clouds, drawings, games and other formats. Activities work through a PowerPoint add-in and a Google Slides Chrome extension; Enterprise includes API access. Decka requests Google Drive access one presentation at a time through Google’s picker, using file-specific permission. The Free plan costs nothing and allows two live sessions and 200 participants monthly, with 50 people per activity. Pro starts at $10 a year billed annually; Enterprise pricing is tailored and unlisted.

Nearpod helps educators create and deliver interactive lessons, with options for live participation, student-paced work or front-of-class teaching. Teachers can build lessons from scratch or import PowerPoints, Google Slides, PDFs, videos and YouTube videos, then add formative assessments and media activities such as Draw It, Polls, Drag & Drop, VR Field Trips and PhET simulations. Its library contains more than 22,000 customizable, standards-aligned lessons, videos and activities, including K–12 content. Teachers can review real-time feedback and post-session reports to assess student understanding and work. AI Create can generate interactive lessons, activities and multiple-choice questions; the plan details list the question generator with Gold and AI Create with school and district plans. Nearpod works on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows and the web, and lessons can be embedded in an LMS through a link. Integrations include Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Clever, ClassLink and LTI 1.3 platforms such as Canvas, Schoology and Blackboard. Silver is free; Gold costs $159 a year and Platinum $397 a year. School and district pricing is by quote.