# Ludus review (2026): is it worth $14.90 a month per user, billed yearly? > Browser-based collaborative presentation tool aimed at design teams Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Ludus is a web app for building presentations with a team in real time. Slides are assembled from blocks that can come from services such as Unsplash, Giphy, Dropbox or Google Drive, or from reusable blocks a team builds itself. Decks can be presented live or shared at a custom URL. - **Category:** Presentations - **Made by:** Ludus N, Inc. - **Website:** https://ludus.one - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan, as there is only a 30-day trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Ludus is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $14.90 per user / month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 30-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Ludus personal | $14.90 per user / month, billed annually (teams of 1 to 15) | One plan with every feature: unlimited team members, presentations and storage. Teams of 16 or more use a separate price. | Read from https://ludus.one/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ludus before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **75% off for students and teachers** (Education): Verified students and teachers get 75% off every plan, shown as $4 per month billed annually. Source: https://ludus.one/education/ ## Key features - **Real-time team editing:** Several people work on the same deck at once, with shared channels and a role for each member. - **Designer-style editing:** Use your own fonts, crop images, GIFs and video, and apply blending modes on slides. - **Block-based slides:** Content blocks can come from Unsplash, Giphy, Dropbox or Google Drive, and teams can save reusable smart blocks. - **Live or link sharing:** Present live or send the deck at a customized URL. - **Ludus Vox:** Record yourself presenting and embed the recording in your slides. - **Education pricing:** Students and teachers can claim a 75% discount, and schools can buy accounts for a whole domain. ## Good for - Design and creative teams building decks together - Presenters who send a recorded walkthrough instead of presenting live - Students and teachers who qualify for the education price ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan, only a 30-day trial. - The pricing page lists a price for teams of 1 to 15 only; the price for 16 or more people was not readable. - The page shows an annual price and says annual billing pays for 9 months; the monthly-billed price was not readable. - Listed for web only; no desktop or mobile apps appear on its pages. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Ludus is a browser presentation tool with one plan that has every feature. There is a 30-day trial with no card, and the pricing page gives a number only for teams of 1 to 15. - **Value for money: C.** $14.90 per user a month billed annually, at the dearer quarter's edge. Annual billing pays for 9 months of 12. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 30-day trial with no card, and no free plan. - **Features: C.** One plan with every feature, unlimited members and storage. It links Unsplash, Giphy, Dropbox and Google Drive, and is web only. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating is on record. You build the deck from scratch. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with Dropbox and Google Drive. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ludus's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among presentation tools - Ludus's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 20 of the 89 other presentation tools we grade, and level with 16. - Its paid plans start at $14.90 a month for each person, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 46 of the 63 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 32 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/presentations ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Ludus you could make: templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 53 of the 89 other presentation tools grade higher. It costs $178.80 a year. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A slide editor. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Unsplash, Giphy, Dropbox, Google Drive **Tags:** Presentations, Real-time collaboration, Templates ## Alternatives - [Pitch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pitch): Collaborative presentation workspace with tracked share links. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ludus-vs-pitch) - [Prezi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prezi): Presentation platform with AI drafts, live polls and quizzes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ludus-vs-prezi) - [Slides](https://toolgpa.com/tools/slides): Browser-based presentation editor with HTML, CSS and code support. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ludus-vs-slides) - [Beautiful.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/beautiful-ai): Presentation software with auto-formatting Smart Slides. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beautiful-ai-vs-ludus) - [Google Slides](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-slides): Browser-based presentation builder, free with a Google Account. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/google-slides-vs-ludus) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://ludus.one/ - https://ludus.one/pricing/ - https://ludus.one/education/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ludus Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).