The Gamma alternative with no subscription

Gamma is one of the most popular AI presentation tools, and for good reason: it is fast and its documents look good on the web. The reasons people look elsewhere are usually practical:

• A subscription for an occasional need. Gamma's free tier gives a one-time allowance of 400 AI credits; regular use means a paid monthly or yearly plan. If you build a deck three times a year, you pay for the months in between.
• Slides rather than a web document. Many audiences — investors, clients, juries — still expect a PowerPoint or PDF attachment.
• Branding on free exports. Gamma lets free users export to PowerPoint, with a Gamma badge.

If none of these bother you, Gamma remains a great choice. If they do, compare the options below.

Tome, once a well-known AI storytelling tool, stopped its presentation product around April 2025, and tome.app no longer served its app when we checked on 10 October 2026. If you are searching for a Tome alternative, the same question applies as for Gamma: do you need a web story, or slides you can send?

For slides, Slidy can rebuild a former Tome deck from its text: paste the content of each page into Slidy, choose the number of slides, and export a PowerPoint file.

Facts taken from each vendor's public pages on 10 October 2026. Prices and plans change often: check the vendor's pricing page before buying. Where a price could not be confirmed, we do not show one.

Pick Gamma if you publish web documents, share presentations as links, work as a team inside the tool, or build decks every week — a subscription then makes sense.

Pick Slidy if you need a PowerPoint file a few times a year — a pitch deck, a client proposal, a course, a quarterly review — and would rather pay €2.99 for that deck than a monthly plan. You can generate and edit 2 decks every 30 days for free to judge the result first.

1. Copy the text of your existing deck: titles, bullets and key figures. If you exported it as a PDF with selectable text, you can upload that PDF instead.
2. Paste it into Slidy ("Paste Text") and add one line of context: audience, goal, tone.
3. Choose the number of slides (5 to 35) and generate.
4. Review every slide in the browser, check the figures and replace images with your own.
5. Export the editable .pptx for €2.99 and finish it in PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote.

• You want a free download. Slidy's free tier does not include the .pptx export; Gamma, Canva and Presentations.AI offer exports on their free plans, with limits or branding.
• You collaborate in real time. Slidy has no team workspace, comments or live co-editing.
• You publish web pages or interactive documents. Gamma is built for that; Slidy produces slides.
• You make several decks a week. A subscription will cost less per deck.

More on pricing in our no-subscription comparison.