Tome Alternatives: What to Use Now That Tome Slides Is Gone

If you're looking for Tome alternatives, start with this: Tome isn't coming back. The tome.app website no longer loads, and the team behind it now builds Lightfield, an AI-native CRM. So you don't need a tool that's "like Tome but cheaper." You need one that covers the job Tome did for you.

The quick answer, sorted by that job:

• You liked typing a prompt and getting a full deck: Gamma or Napkin Slides.
• You liked Tome's web-page feel, embeds and scroll-through stories: Storydoc or Gamma.
• Your decks have to end up as real PowerPoint or Google Slides files: Plus AI or Gemini in Google Slides.
• You made sales or team decks with other people: Pitch or Beautiful.ai.
• You present live and want the audience involved: Prezi.
• You only need a quick draft file: Claude, which can build a PowerPoint file in chat.

Below: what actually happened to Tome, a quick comparison, and where each free Tome alternative and paid option wins.

What happened to Tome

Tome was one of the first big AI presentation makers. Its own homepage in early 2024 told visitors to "use Tome's AI to make a presentation, a one-pager, a microsite, and more." You could paste in a document and Tome would build a narrative from it, add matching images, record video narration, and embed live content like Figma mocks and 3D models. It felt more like a web page than a slide deck.

Then the company changed direction. By April 2025, the tome.app homepage described Tome as an "AI assistant for sales," built to research target accounts and prep meeting briefs, not to make slides. The founders later launched Lightfield, an AI-native CRM they say exists "to help founders build better businesses." Lightfield's own blog says the team "walked away from 20M users" to build it, and announced general availability in November 2025.

What that means for you today:

• There is no Tome slides product to log back into. tome.app returns an error page.
• Lightfield is not a replacement. It's a sales CRM. If you made pitch decks or class presentations in Tome, it won't help.
• Any deck you didn't export is out of reach from the old site. If you have PDFs or PowerPoint files from Tome, most of the tools below can import them.

Quick comparison

Closest to the old Tome experience

These three keep what made Tome feel different: you start from a prompt or a rough doc, and you end up with something that reads like a story, not a stack of bullet slides.

Gamma

Gamma is the tool most former Tome users land on first, and for good reason. It turns a prompt or pasted notes into a presentation, document or web page built from flexible cards, which is the closest thing to Tome's look and feel. You can share it as a link or export it. Gamma's help center lists PDF, PNG and PowerPoint exports, with Google Slides via a PPTX upload.

AI use runs on credits. Gamma's credits guide says generation is metered per slide and per image, and that paid plans get a monthly allocation that refreshes on your billing date.

Best for: anyone who wants Tome's speed back with the least relearning. Watch out for: exported PowerPoint files won't match the web version exactly. If Gamma is already on your shortlist, our Gamma alternatives guide covers where it falls short.

Napkin Slides

Napkin started as a text-to-visual tool and now has a deck maker in Beta. You describe your idea, paste notes or upload a PDF, Word or PowerPoint file. Then it asks a few questions about your goal and audience and builds an outline for you to approve. For each slide it offers several layouts, from detailed to brief, and everything stays editable. Exports cover PPT, PDF, PNG and SVG, though Napkin's pricing page puts PPT and SVG export on its paid plans.

That outline-first flow is close to how Tome worked when you pasted in a document. Best for: explainer decks, investor updates and anything that needs clean diagrams. Watch out for: it's labeled Beta, so expect rough edges. If you mostly used Tome for visuals rather than full decks, see our Napkin AI alternatives roundup.

Storydoc

Storydoc leans into the part of Tome many people miss most: decks that behave like interactive web pages. It makes AI presentations, pitch decks, proposals, reports and one-pagers as interactive web documents rather than static files, with analytics on every open, click and scroll. The focus is business documents that someone reads on their own after you send the link.

Best for: founders sending pitch decks and sales teams sending proposals. Watch out for: it's not built for presenting live slide by slide. And if your recipient wants a PPTX, you'll be fighting the format.

When your deck has to be a real PowerPoint or Google Slides file

Tome lived in the browser, and that was fine until a client or manager asked for "the PowerPoint." If that request ends most of your projects, use AI that lives inside the file format.

Plus AI

Plus AI runs directly inside PowerPoint and Google Slides. You can start from a prompt, or upload a PDF, Word document, PowerPoint or text file. Then you rewrite and reformat slides with AI, add images, icons and charts, and keep everything in a normal deck file. It also offers an API and an MCP server if you want other tools to create decks for you.

Pricing is per user, with paid plans that start with a 7-day trial, per its pricing page. Best for: consultants and anyone who must work in a company template.

Gemini in Google Slides

If your team already lives in Google Slides, its built-in Gemini assistant can generate a slide from a short prompt and your Drive files, summarize a deck, and create images. Which Gemini features you get depends on your Workspace plan, so check what yours includes. Best for: Workspace teams who want AI help without adding another app. Watch out for: it helps you build slides one at a time more than it writes a whole Tome-style story.

For teams and sales decks

Pitch

Pitch calls itself an AI presentation workspace, and its angle is collaboration. Teams generate and edit slides together in one workspace with brand controls, custom fonts and engagement analytics on shared links. It also has an MCP server and API, so decks can be created from your AI tools or triggered by your sales tools.

Pitch has a free plan with a small one-time batch of AI credits. Paid plans add monthly credits and PowerPoint export, according to its pricing page. Best for: startup and sales teams. That's roughly the audience Tome itself was chasing before it shut the slides product down.

Beautiful.ai

Beautiful.ai is built around Smart Slides, layouts that realign themselves as you add content, plus brand controls that keep a team's decks consistent. It also generates presentations with AI. Its pricing page offers a 14-day trial of the Pro and Team plans, and you need a credit card to start it. Best for: marketing and sales teams that care more about on-brand slides than about storytelling. Our Beautiful.ai alternatives post compares it head to head with Pitch and Gamma.

For live presenting and quick drafts

Prezi

Prezi has moved from its zooming canvas toward audience engagement. You bring in slides from PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva or a PDF, or describe your topic in a sentence. Then you add live polls, quizzes, Q&A and word clouds that people join by scanning a QR code. Best for: teachers, trainers and anyone running a workshop. It solves a different problem than Tome did, but it's a strong pick if your decks were for a room, not an inbox.

Claude

You might not need a dedicated tool at all. Claude can create files, including PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and PDFs, straight from a chat. Anthropic says this is available on all Claude plans, Free included. Describe the deck or upload your notes, and download a .pptx you can open anywhere. Best for: quick drafts and internal updates. Watch out for: the design is plain next to Gamma or Pitch, and you'll do the polishing yourself.

How to choose a Tome replacement

Ask three questions in this order:

1. Where does the deck end up? If it's a PPTX for a client or a Google Slides file for your team, pick Plus AI or Gemini in Slides. If it's a link you send, pick Gamma, Storydoc or Pitch.
2. Who edits it? Solo work fits Gamma, Napkin Slides or Claude. Team decks with brand rules fit Pitch or Beautiful.ai.
3. How is it consumed? Read alone: Storydoc or Gamma. Presented live: Pitch, Beautiful.ai or Prezi.

Tome vs Gamma, in one line: Gamma is the closest living version of what Tome was, with prompt-to-deck generation, card layouts and web sharing. The main difference is that Gamma is still shipping.

Where Taku fits

Taku isn't a presentation maker, so it isn't a Tome replacement. Where it helps is the work that happens before the deck: researching a market, cleaning up interview notes or pulling numbers into shape. Taku is an AI-native desktop workspace where you mirror an AI app or workflow someone else already built, run it, and remix it, without setting up repos or API keys. You can browse what's there in the app library, then finish the deck in one of the tools above.

FAQ

Did Tome shut down?

Tome's presentation product is gone. The company first pivoted to an AI assistant for sales, and its founders then launched Lightfield, an AI-native CRM. The tome.app site no longer loads.

What is the best free Tome alternative?

Google Slides is free with a Google account, and Claude can generate PowerPoint files on its free plan. Pitch and Napkin both have no-cost plans with limited AI use. Check each tool's pricing page for the current limits.

Is Gamma better than Tome?

For most former Tome users, Gamma is the closest match: prompt-to-deck generation, flexible card layouts, and sharing as a web page. Unlike Tome, it's still actively developed.

Can I recover my old Tome presentations?

Not from tome.app, which now returns an error page. If you exported PDFs or PowerPoint files while Tome was running, you can import them into Gamma, Plus AI, Napkin Slides or Prezi.

Is Lightfield the new Tome?

It's built by the same founders, but it's a different product. Lightfield is a CRM for sales teams and doesn't make presentations.

Which AI presentation maker exports to PowerPoint?

Gamma and Beautiful.ai export PowerPoint files, Pitch and Napkin do on paid plans, and Claude creates .pptx files directly. Plus AI skips the export step because it works inside PowerPoint itself.

The short version

• Tome's slides product is gone, and Lightfield is a CRM, not a replacement.
• Gamma is the closest match. Napkin Slides and Storydoc cover Tome's storytelling side.
• If the deck must be a real file, use Plus AI or Gemini in Google Slides.
• For team and sales decks, use Pitch or Beautiful.ai. For live rooms, use Prezi.

If the slow part of your deck is the research and analysis before it, Taku lets you start from an AI workflow someone already got working instead of building one from scratch. Taku is in Beta, and the Mac app is available now.