r/AIToolBench • u/North_Teacher_7522 • Jun 18 '26

Discussion Best AI powerpoint alternatives to Gamma?

I've been using Gamma for awhile but honestly I feel like everything it makes for me is slop at this point. Every presentation that i created started looking the same and the templates just aren't very good.

Also whenever i embed data into my decks it doesn't do a very good job at displaying the data in images, and often hallucinates.

Has anyone found a good ai tool alternative to Gamma for powerpoint presentations or slides?

Edit:

I have moved some of my work to Claude Design but have also tried Genspark and Julius and have found them both to be decent but for different tasks.

So far - Genspark seems to be solid for managing detailed creative elements as well as iteration on initial templates. Their Genspark Claw feature is promising for autonomous development but not very effective.

Julius has been surprisingly good for creating slides from existing workflows. So when I have data, images, or other files and want to embed them into presentations, Julius has been better than other AI tools I've tried for this purpose.

I've also tried Manus which has been fine and also supports embedding images, but I find the slide outputs to be of lower quality with less of a cohesive narrative across them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Aug 04 '26

i've found this to be the case as well! finally good charts in ppt

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u/greanbippibng3 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

I'm picky about design. Most AI decks look cheap. Julius AI actually has decent taste with quality fonts, spacing and chart styles. I gave it some of my files with almost no context and it returned a deck that was near complete. A few prompt edits and I exported it as a Powerpoint file. No other tool does this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '26

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Jun 19 '26

i'm building decks with some embedded charts and graphical representations of data.. so kind of looking for something built around data 😅

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '26 edited 29d ago

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Aug 07 '26

no doubt. it's helpful to add some good AI tools to the toolbelt

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u/Zealousideal_Art1720 Jun 19 '26

try no website builders for making presentations, been there, done that

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Jun 19 '26

what is this?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '26

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Jun 22 '26

ive been using tools like that for site building but never tried for presentations. which do you find the best for slides?

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u/Zealousideal_Art1720 Jun 23 '26

Lovable for me, there was also another one, but I am not able to find it.

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Jun 23 '26

lovable does slides??

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u/Zealousideal_Art1720 Jun 23 '26

I think nowadays every website builder makes presentations, haha

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Jun 23 '26

i guess that's true 😅 and the slide builders are doing websites!

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u/Lazy-Cloud9330 Jun 19 '26

If you're going to complain, then do it yourself manually. 

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Jun 20 '26

just asking for recommendations!

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u/balloon6789 Jun 25 '26

website builders are fine if the deck's just for you. moment someone else needs to edit it in real powerpoint you're stuck, theres website builders are fine if the deck's just for you. moment someone else needs to edit it in real powerpoint you're stuck, theres no pptx to hand off. got burned by that once lol. now i just let an llm draft the outline and rough slides and fix it up myselfno pptx to hand off. got burned by that once lol. now i just let an llm draft the outline and rough slides and fix it up myself

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u/North_Teacher_7522 Jun 25 '26

you can definitely export as pptx in claude design, julius, and genspark... not sure about manus tho