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Brightdeck vs Tome
The short answer: Tome no longer makes presentations. Tome pivoted to sales tooling in 2024, sunset its presentation product on April 30, 2025 — permanently deleting unexported decks — and its founders relaunched as Lightfield, an AI-native CRM; as of mid-2026, tome.app is offline. If you are comparing Brightdeck vs Tome, the practical comparison is between Brightdeck and what Tome used to be: Brightdeck is the one still making decks, and unlike Tome it outputs native, editable PowerPoint files and can add slides to an existing .pptx without breaking the layout.
Last updated: July 2026
At a glance
The verdict, honestly.
Tome no longer makes presentations, and nothing in its lineage does. The company pivoted to a sales assistant in 2024, sunset Tome Slides on April 30, 2025, and its founders went on to launch Lightfield, an AI-native CRM. Tome had been one of the first AI presentation tools to break through — reportedly reaching over 20 million users, with a web-native storytelling format that shaped the category — but the business behind it did not work, and the company was candid about that.
For anyone still searching this comparison, the Tome story carries a practical lesson. Tome was web-native: decks lived on Tome's servers, and export was PDF-only on paid plans — native PowerPoint export never shipped. When the product sunset, decks that had not been exported were permanently deleted, and even exported PDFs are not editable slides. A presentation tool whose output is a file you own ages very differently from one whose output is a page in someone else's app.
That is Brightdeck's model. Every deck is generated as a native .pptx — editable text boxes, shapes, charts, and tables, with speaker notes on every slide — in consulting-grade layouts, and Brightdeck can extend an existing branded deck without touching its current slides. Whatever happens to any vendor, a .pptx on your drive keeps working.
Brightdeck vs Tome: capability comparison.
Tome's column reflects the product's final state before its April 2025 sunset, plus its status today.
| Capability | Brightdeck | Tome |
|---|---|---|
| Status in 2026 | Actively developed AI presentation maker | Presentation product sunset April 30, 2025; tome.app is offline |
| Can you sign up today | Yes — free plan, no credit card | No |
| Native .pptx export | Yes — editable text boxes, shapes, charts, and tables | Never shipped — export was PDF-only, on paid plans |
| Adds slides to your existing .pptx, brand intact | Yes — new slides match the deck's fonts, colors, and layouts; existing slides untouched | No — Tome was web-native and could not edit PowerPoint files |
| Consulting-grade layouts (frameworks, 2x2s, matrices) | Yes — C-suite-ready structures generated by default | AI storytelling format — narrative web pages rather than business-framework slides |
| Speaker notes | Generated on every slide, included in the .pptx | Not applicable — product discontinued |
| Works inside ChatGPT | Yes — official Brightdeck app in ChatGPT | No |
| Works with Claude and MCP | Yes — Claude integration plus a hosted MCP server | No |
| Who owns your decks | You — the output is a .pptx file on your machine | Decks lived on Tome's servers; unexported decks were permanently deleted at sunset |
| Google Slides path | .pptx imports cleanly into Google Slides; native output is on the roadmap | None — PDF export could not be edited as slides |
Deep dive
What actually happened to Tome.
The timeline, briefly. In April 2024, Tome laid off part of its team and pivoted from presentations toward an AI assistant for sales — account research, meeting prep, and CRM-adjacent automation. In March 2025 it confirmed that Tome Slides would sunset, saying it had not found a way to make the presentation product work as a business, and on April 30, 2025 the product shut down, with unexported presentations permanently deleted. The founders then wound Tome down entirely and launched Lightfield, an AI-native CRM for go-to-market teams, publicly in November 2025. One footnote worth knowing: the "Tome" AngelList acquired in April 2025 is a different, unrelated legal-AI company at tome.com.
None of this is a knock on the team — building in this category is hard, and Tome was candid throughout the wind-down. But it means every "Tome vs" comparison you find with a publish date before mid-2025 is describing a product you can no longer buy.
Deep dive
What former Tome users should look for.
Tome's shutdown exposed the weakness of purely web-native decks: your work exists only as long as the vendor does, and Tome's PDF-only export meant there was no editable escape hatch. If you are choosing a replacement, the durable test is simple — can you get a real, editable file out, and does the AI work with the files you already have?
Brightdeck passes both. It generates native PowerPoint — every element is a real, editable object, with speaker notes on every slide — in consulting-grade layouts like frameworks, 2x2s, and matrices. It is the only AI that adds slides to an existing PowerPoint deck without breaking the layout, so the branded decks you exported from anywhere keep evolving instead of being rebuilt. And it works where you already work: as an official app inside ChatGPT and with Claude via MCP. The free plan's 400 credits cover a full deck — a typical 7-slide deck runs about 80 credits — with no credit card required.
Which should you pick?
Choose Lightfield (what Tome became) if…
- You were actually looking for Tome's sales side — Lightfield is the founders' AI-native CRM.
- You want automatic capture of emails, calendar, and meetings into customer context for a go-to-market team.
- You need AI meeting prep and account research, not slide generation.
- You accept that it does not make presentations — for decks you will still need a separate tool.
Choose Brightdeck if…
- You came here because you need a tool that still makes decks.
- Your deliverable is a .pptx file that clients or executives will open in PowerPoint.
- You want AI that adds slides to an existing branded deck without breaking its layout.
- You want consulting-grade frameworks, 2x2s, and matrices with speaker notes on every slide.
- You never want a vendor sunset to take your presentations with it — the output is a file you own.
Brightdeck vs Tome: common questions
Is Tome still available for making presentations?
No. Tome sunset its presentation product (Tome Slides) on April 30, 2025, after pivoting toward sales tooling in 2024. As of mid-2026, tome.app is offline — new users cannot sign up, and presentations cannot be created or accessed there.
What happened to Tome AI?
Tome pivoted away from presentations in 2024 to build an AI assistant for sales teams, then sunset the presentation product on April 30, 2025. Its founders subsequently shut down Tome entirely and launched Lightfield, an AI-native CRM for sales teams, which went public in November 2025. Lightfield does not make presentations.
Could Tome export to PowerPoint?
No. Tome was web-native, and multiple retrospectives and pre-shutdown comparisons report that export was PDF-only and limited to paid plans — native PowerPoint (.pptx) export never shipped. That mattered at the sunset: decks not exported before April 30, 2025 were permanently deleted.
What is the best Tome alternative for making decks?
It depends on your deliverable. If your decks are delivered as PowerPoint files, Brightdeck generates native, editable .pptx with consulting-grade layouts and can extend an existing branded deck without breaking it. If you liked Tome's web-native storytelling format, Gamma is the closest spiritual successor — see Brightdeck vs Gamma for that trade-off.
What happened to presentations stored in Tome?
Tome announced the sunset in advance and told users to export their work; presentations that were not exported by April 30, 2025 were permanently deleted. Since Tome's export was PDF-only, even exported decks are not editable slides today — one reason many former Tome users now prefer tools whose output is a file they own, like a native .pptx.
Was Tome acquired by AngelList?
No — that is a common mix-up. In April 2025 AngelList acquired a different company also named Tome (tome.com), a legal-AI tool for summarizing financing documents. The presentation company (tome.app) was not acquired; its founders wound it down and relaunched as Lightfield, an AI-native CRM.
Can I use Brightdeck inside ChatGPT or Claude?
Yes. Brightdeck runs as an official app inside ChatGPT and integrates with Claude via its hosted MCP server, so you can generate a native PowerPoint deck — or add slides to an existing one — without leaving the assistant you already use.
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