{
    "title": "Tome Alternatives 2027: 11 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/tome/",
    "summary": "The best Tome alternatives in 2027 are Gamma (best overall), SlidesAI (best free plan) and Slidev (best open source, MIT). Tome: No slide plans or prices on tome.app; sales demo only. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 13 Nov 2026; 8 more are compared below, including 2 with a free plan and 2 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "Tome",
        "starting_price": "No slide plans or prices on tome.app; sales demo only.",
        "free_plan": "No",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
        "pricing_url": "https://tome.app"
    },
    "task": "AI presentation maker",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-13",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-13",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Pitch",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$13/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "100 lifetime AI credits, up to 5 members, unlimited decks",
            "best_for": "Team decks in a shared workspace",
            "difference": "Free plan allows unlimited presentations for up to 5 members; Plus adds 500 AI credits a month and PowerPoint export, and Team adds link analytics and 3 teamspaces.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-12",
            "pricing_url": "https://pitch.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://pitch.com",
            "zekai_score": 8.6,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/pitch/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Gamma",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "No plan prices shown on gamma.app/pricing.",
            "free_plan_limit": "400 AI credits at signup",
            "best_for": "Prompt-to-deck with web-page output",
            "difference": "Free gives 400 AI credits at signup and 10 cards per gamma, with PPT and PDF export; paid tiers raise cards to 20 and 50 and add custom domains.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "pricing_url": "https://gamma.app/pricing",
            "website": "https://gamma.app",
            "zekai_score": 8.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/gamma/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Beautiful.ai",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$14.50/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "Auto-formatting business decks",
            "difference": "Pro lists 300+ Smart Slide layouts that re-lay out as content changes; Teams bundles 3 users with locked slides and version control, where Pitch Team bills per seat.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-12",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.beautiful.ai/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.beautiful.ai",
            "zekai_score": 8.7,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/beautiful-ai/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Canva",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$12.99/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Free plan exists; limits not listed on the Pro page",
            "best_for": "Slides alongside social and print design",
            "difference": "One Pro subscription covers up to 5 people and includes Magic Resize, Background Remover, 75+ million premium assets and premium video, so slides share a suite with graphics.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-12",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.canva.com/pro/",
            "website": "https://www.canva.com",
            "zekai_score": 9.4,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/canva/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Decktopus",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$9.99/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "AI decks with rehearsal and PPT export",
            "difference": "Pro lists 750 AI credits a month (about 150 slides), PDF, PPT and PNG export, and Loop, an AI rehearsal mode that simulates audience questions.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-12",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.decktopus.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.decktopus.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.5,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/decktopus/"
        },
        {
            "name": "SlidesAI",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$10/user/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "200 AI credits a month, 10 slides per deck",
            "best_for": "Free text-to-slides on a monthly credit",
            "difference": "Free renews 200 AI credits every month, caps decks at 10 slides and 2,500 input characters; Pro raises decks to 20 slides and Premium to 50+.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-12",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.slidesai.io/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.slidesai.io",
            "zekai_score": 7.1,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/slidesai/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Plus AI",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$10/user/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "AI slides inside PowerPoint or Google Slides",
            "difference": "Works as an add-in inside PowerPoint and Google Slides rather than a separate editor; Basic lists 1,500 AI credits a month and Pro 3,000.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-12",
            "pricing_url": "https://plusai.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://plusai.com",
            "zekai_score": 8.2,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/plus-ai/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Prezi",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$7/mo billed yearly",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "Cheapest paid zoomable decks",
            "difference": "Standard at $7 a month yearly lists 500 Prezi AI credits and a PowerPoint converter; Plus at $19 makes AI unlimited and adds PDF export and recording.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-12",
            "pricing_url": "https://prezi.com/pricing/",
            "website": "https://prezi.com",
            "zekai_score": 7.6,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/prezi/"
        },
        {
            "name": "guizang-ppt-skill",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "AGPL-3.0",
            "best_for": "AI-agent HTML decks with presenter mode",
            "difference": "An agent skill that writes single-file HTML decks with 10 or 22 locked layouts, a presenter window with notes and timing; PPTX is not its main output, and the README is in Chinese.",
            "website": "https://github.com/op7418/guizang-ppt-skill",
            "repository": "https://github.com/op7418/guizang-ppt-skill",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/guizang-ppt-skill/",
            "zekai_score": 7.4,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/guizang-ppt-skill/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Slidev",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Developer talks written in Markdown",
            "difference": "Markdown-based slides for developers with Monaco code editor, KaTeX and Mermaid support, layouts and themes; it has no hosted editor, so everything is files in your repo.",
            "website": "https://sli.dev",
            "repository": "https://github.com/slidevjs/slidev",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/slidev/",
            "zekai_score": 7.9,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/slidev/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Marp",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Markdown decks exported to PDF or PPTX",
            "difference": "Writes CommonMark Markdown with built-in default, gaia and uncover themes and exports HTML, PDF and PPTX through Marp CLI or the VS Code extension.",
            "website": "https://marp.app",
            "repository": "https://github.com/marp-team/marp-cli",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/marp/",
            "zekai_score": 7.3,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/marp/"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to Tome in 2027?",
            "a": "Gamma is the best overall Tome alternative on this page (No plan prices shown on gamma.app/pricing.). For no cost, SlidesAI has a free plan (200 AI credits a month, 10 slides per deck). To self-host, Slidev is open source (MIT)."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of Tome?",
            "a": "No. Tome has no free plan; paid plans start at No slide plans or prices on tome.app; sales demo only., checked on 13 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Tome?",
            "a": "Yes. guizang-ppt-skill, Slidev, Marp are open source and free to self-host. Pitch, Gamma, Canva, SlidesAI have a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do Tome alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 13 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Prezi $35/mo, Decktopus $49.95/mo, SlidesAI $50/mo. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Gamma or Tome?",
            "a": "Free gives 400 AI credits at signup and 10 cards per gamma, with PPT and PDF export; paid tiers raise cards to 20 and 50 and add custom domains. Choose Gamma if you want to generate a full deck or web page from a single prompt and keep a free start. Stay with Tome if your day job is now sales follow-up and you do not need a slide generator."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving Tome?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: tome.app now opens with 'Tome is now more than slides' and describes a sales-focused assistant with a meeting-booking call to action; it lists no slide-maker pricing (12 Nov 2026); The founders' company Lightfield lists a Nov 20, 2025 press item titled 'Tome's Founders Ditch Viral Presentation App with 20M Users to Build AI-Native CRM' on its blog index (20 Nov 2025). Each is sourced in the section above."
        },
        {
            "q": "What happened to Tome AI?",
            "a": "Tome moved away from being a presentation maker. Its site now describes a sales product and the founders' company Lightfield lists a November 2025 press item about leaving the presentation app. Pick a deck tool such as Pitch, Gamma or Beautiful.ai for slides."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is the best Tome alternative for presentations?",
            "a": "Gamma suits prompt-to-deck generation, Pitch suits shared team decks, and Beautiful.ai suits auto-formatted business slides. The cheapest paid option on our list is Prezi."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/tome/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}