MakeDecks

Picture the night before a quarterly board update. You've got a page of scrappy notes ("q3: beat plan 18%!! churn leak fixed (june), 3 new logos"), an ARR spreadsheet, and an old 31-slide deck shouting "WHY CUSTOMERS CHOOSE US!!!" in every title. MakeDecks is built for that moment. You drop in whatever you have, and it hands back a designed, editable deck in what the site says is "usually a minute or two." Its own demo turns a regional revenue sheet into slides with "same figures as the sheet, nothing rounded," which matters a lot more in a board meeting than a pretty gradient does.

The input list is the real selling point. MakeDecks accepts notes and outlines, PDF, Word and Google Docs, Excel and CSV, old PowerPoints you want reworked, web pages, YouTube links, screenshots, whiteboard photos and audio recordings. It lists support for PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, CSV, PNG, JPG, WEBP, MP3, M4A, WAV, TXT, MD, VTT and SRT. What comes out is a real .pptx file with editable text and charts that opens in PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides, plus a PDF export. Editing is deliberately simple: click any text and type, switch a slide between 15 layouts, restyle the whole deck with one of 8 themes, or ask for a change like "Turn this into a chart" while you keep working.

The pricing is refreshingly plain. The free plan isn't a trial: you get 3 decks a day, 40 AI illustrations a day, every input type, PowerPoint and PDF downloads and no watermark, with no card required. Pro is $99 a year (about $8.25 a month, tax included) and bumps you to 50 decks a day. The trade-off is scope. With 15 layouts and 8 themes, you're choosing from a curated set rather than building a brand system, and the site doesn't advertise team workspaces or shared brand kits. If you need a clean, accurate deck from messy source material fast, it's a strong pick. If you need deep design control, look elsewhere.