Beautiful.ai

Beautiful.ai applies a layout rule to each slide type, so adding a fifth bullet or a third column rearranges the slide instead of leaving somebody nudging boxes. Over three hundred of those templates cover the shapes a deck actually needs. Brand styling is set once and applied across a workspace, which is what stops a team's decks drifting apart. The trade is control: a designer with an exact composition in mind will be arguing with the auto-formatting rather than using it.

Pro is $12 a month billed annually for one person, and includes unlimited generation, custom brand styling, the Smart Slide library, auto-formatting, data visualisations and the theme builder. Teams is $40 a user a month for two to twenty seats, with an Enterprise tier at $45. Students with a valid .edu address are offered a year free. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial.

Somebody who presents regularly, has no design help, and keeps losing time to alignment rather than to argument. The automatic layout is worth most to people whose decks are text and data rather than imagery. A designer with an exact composition in mind will spend the whole time fighting the auto-formatting, and should use ordinary slide software or a real design tool instead.