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AI ToolsFreemiumAI presentation maker that turns a one-line prompt into a complete deck, doc, or webpage in under 60 seconds.
78/100
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Gamma is an AI presentation tool that generates polished decks from a text prompt in under a minute. Slick on the web, weak when exported to PowerPoint.
Gamma is an AI-native presentation maker that turns a one-line prompt into a complete deck, document, or single-page website in under 60 seconds. We rate it 78/100 — an outstanding tool for solo creators, marketers, and founders who live on the web, but a poor fit for anyone whose final deliverable has to be a polished .pptx.
Gamma was founded in by Grant Lee, James Fox, and Jon Noronha — a former consultant, an Optimizely PM, and a designer who met while working in San Francisco. They spent two years building a from-scratch alternative to PowerPoint and Google Slides before pivoting hard into AI in late 2022. The bet paid off: in November 2025, CEO Grant Lee disclosed that Gamma had reached $100M ARR with 70 million users on a team of just 50, profitably, at a valuation north of $2.1 billion. That makes Gamma one of the leanest unicorns in the AI generation, and the closest thing to a true PowerPoint replacement that has ever caught on.
The pitch is simple: paste a topic, click generate, and Gamma produces a 8-12 card deck with on-brand colors, generated illustrations, and a coherent narrative arc. It blurs the line between a deck, a doc, and a website — everything renders responsively and is shareable as a public URL with view analytics. Underneath, Gamma routes generation through a mix of frontier models (most recently it switched its main image model to Imagen 3 and added an Edit-with-AI sidebar that mimics Cursor's chat-with-selection workflow).
On Product Hunt, Gamma's launches consistently break 1,000 upvotes and the most upvoted comment is almost always about generation speed — people are genuinely surprised by the 60-second turnaround. On Reddit's r/PowerPoint and r/marketing, the sentiment is more divided: solo creators love it for blog post repurposing and pitch decks, while corporate users flag the same problem repeatedly. The most upvoted complaint on r/sales is that exporting to .pptx breaks the layout — text boxes overlap, fonts substitute, and slide dimensions don't match the standard 16:9 expected by clients.
On G2 and Capterra, recurring praise lands on speed, design quality, and the embedded analytics. Recurring complaints land on three things: AI-generated illustrations that look generic or distorted, a “Gamma look” that becomes obvious after a few decks, and the credit system — the free 400 credits run out faster than expected once you start regenerating cards. On Hacker News, the most-cited critique from the launch threads is that the underlying schema is proprietary, so leaving Gamma means losing the structured editability and being left with a flattened export.
Gamma uses a freemium per-seat model with a one-time credit grant on the free tier and unlimited generations on paid tiers.
| Plan | Price | Key Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 400 one-time AI credits, Gamma watermark on shared decks, basic templates |
| Plus | $8/seat/month (annual) | Unlimited AI generations, no watermark, 400 cards per file, basic image generation |
| Pro | $15/seat/month (annual) | Advanced AI image models, custom fonts, brand kits, priority models, detailed analytics |
| Ultra | $25/seat/month (annual) | Largest credit pool, premium image models, advanced enterprise controls |
Monthly billing is roughly 25% more expensive than annual. There is no free trial of Pro — the free tier is the trial. Education accounts get steep discounts, and there is a published partner program through PartnerStack with a 60-day cookie window.
Best for: Solo founders, marketers, course creators, content marketers, and indie consultants who present primarily through shared web links and care about turnaround speed over deep brand control. Also a strong fit for repurposing — turning a blog post or PDF into a deck in minutes for LinkedIn or webinars.
Not ideal for: Enterprise sales, management consulting, finance, or anyone whose final deliverable has to be a polished .pptx opened in desktop PowerPoint or Keynote. The export will fight you. Also a poor fit if you need fine-grained typography control or have a strict corporate brand system — Gamma's templates are constrained by design.
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.pptx export consistently breaks layouts — the most cited complaint across every review platform.The closest competitors are Tome (more design-forward but development has slowed), Beautiful.ai (more corporate and brand-controlled, weaker AI generation), Canva Magic Design (broader creative suite but slower and more template-heavy for decks), and Pitch (collaboration-first, with weaker AI but better real-time editing). For pure PowerPoint export quality, traditional tools like PowerPoint with Copilot still win.
Yes — if your decks live on the web. Gamma at $8/month is one of the highest-leverage AI subscriptions available for solo creators and small marketing teams who care more about how a deck looks in a browser than how it survives a roundtrip through PowerPoint. The speed, embeds, and built-in analytics are real differentiators, and the free tier is generous enough to validate the workflow before paying. But if your job is selling into the enterprise and your client expects a .pptx at the end of the meeting, you will fight the tool more than you save time. We rate Gamma 78/100 — outstanding within its lane, mediocre outside it.
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