📊 Slidecraft
The auto-layout deck builder you buy once.
Slidecraft at a glance
| Price | $29, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Beautiful.ai at $12-40/mo — roughly $480 a year, every year |
| Type | Desktop app — runs offline |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Design & Graphics |
Slidecraft features
🧠 Content-aware smart layouts
Title, bullet list, two-column, image+text, chart, quote and agenda layouts recompute font sizes, columns and spacing automatically so nothing overflows or overlaps.
🎨 Theme system
5 palettes plus font pairings apply globally and carry zero geometry, so swapping a theme never breaks a layout.
📊 Native charts
Bar, line and pie charts from typed-in data render as vectors in the editor and PDF, and export as real editable PowerPoint charts, not screenshots.
🗒️ Speaker notes + presenter mode
Full-screen presenting with next-slide preview, a notes pane, an elapsed timer and keyboard navigation.
📤 Real exports
.pptx via pptxgenjs opens in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides, and 16:9 vector .pdf via pdfkit, both running headless in pure Node.
💾 Own your files
Decks are plain-JSON .slidecraft files you can version in git if you like.
$29 once — that's the whole pricing page
Beautiful.ai charges $12-40/mo — roughly $480 a year, every year. Slidecraft is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Slidecraft inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Slidecraft guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes, Slidecraft is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/presentation-builder-mvp. The $29 buys the packaged Windows 1-click installer and updates; building from source is free.
Where do my decks live?
On your disk as plain-JSON .slidecraft files. Nothing is uploaded, no cloud, no telemetry.
Does it match Beautiful.ai feature for feature?
No, honestly. Beautiful.ai has more layout variety and AI design assistance. Slidecraft covers the seven layouts behind about 95% of real decks and does the same content-reflow trick offline.