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Best AI tools for creating PowerPoint slides in 2026? Tried four and I'm not sold on any of them yet

Context: I make around 6 to 8 decks a month, mix of internal and client facing. (not a designer, just founder's office) What I've tried so far and where each one lost me: A. Asking ChatGPT to write the content and pasting it into PowerPoint myself. Content is…

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Context: I make around 6 to 8 decks a month, mix of internal and client facing. (not a designer, just founder's office) What I've tried so far and where each one lost me: A. Asking ChatGPT to write the content and pasting it into PowerPoint myself. Content is good, but I'm still doing all the layout, which eats time. B. 2 of the dedicated AI deck tools. Both generate something in under a minute that looks better than what I'd make. Both produce something that looks unmistakably like it came out of a tool once you've seen a few. C. Copilot in PowerPoint. Works on existing decks, less useful from a blank file. What I want is something that takes content I've already written, in a doc or in markdown, and produces the layout, and lets me keep our brand colours / theme. What's everyone using and works best? i feel like there’s a new AI tool coming out every week, but have no idea which one’s worth using.

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u/vedantk21OP

is it? can you share ur workflow? wdyt abt using claude code with gamma mcp?

u/vedantk21OP

how much does that cost? wdyt abt gamma or plusdocs?

u/Ill-Bullfrog-5360

No idea my corp pays but I am sure not cheap…

u/Wesley_at_home

Have you tried Claude directly inside of Powerpoint? You can also use both Codex and Claude to create google slides if PP is not required.

u/Ill-Bullfrog-5360

Copilot full corporate license is best so far in PowerPoint

u/lazysundaygrll

This is such a good breakdown, I'm dealing with the same problem where the AI decks look nice for like the first three slides then get repetitive. Following this because I need something that keeps our branding without me manually fixing every layout after.

u/Nelenne

The AI deck generators are kinda middle-of-the-road as far as ngl goes; what I ended up going with was directly asking GPT for the outline/content and then using useai to generate the pptx file; much easier.

u/Opening-Pie2182

I have a free Google Pro plan, so I use Antigravity and tell it to make the ppt using pptxgenjs.