Frequently asked questions

macOS 11 and later on both Apple silicon and Intel, Windows 10 and 11 on x64, and Linux x64 as an AppImage. The Mac download defaults to the Apple silicon build; if you're on an older Intel Mac, take the Intel .dmg from the downloads list.

Not yet — a separate App Store build is planned. Until then, the .dmg on this site is signed and notarised by Apple, and it keeps itself up to date.

No — the Windows build isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen flags it the way it flags every unsigned installer. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Signing is on the list.

Deck Maker checks GitHub Releases and installs new versions itself. You'll never download an installer twice.

No. There's nothing to sign up for, no email to hand over, and no license key to paste. Download it and make a deck.

The app is free. The only thing you can pay for is a credit pack for in-app image generation, and only if you choose to use it.

Markdown, a PowerPoint file, a PDF — or a single sentence describing the deck you want. Any of those is a complete input on its own.

Wherever you like. Most people draft it in Claude or ChatGPT and then edit it until it sounds like them. A plain .md file written by hand works exactly as well.

Yes. Deck Maker pulls the text, structure, and images out of a .pptx and re-authors them onto clean layouts. A forty-slide deck from 2019 comes back editable rather than flattened.

Everything. Click any element on the canvas — text, layout, an image, its styling — and change it. The AI gives you a starting deck, not a locked one.

As files on your own disk, in a folder you can see, back up, move, or open in another app. Nothing is stored on our servers, because there aren't any.

It's the part that decides what your deck looks like. Point it at a website and it lifts the palette, typography, and logo into a reusable Style you can apply to any deck.

That's the main use. Point StyleMaker at your company site, check what it extracted, adjust anything it read wrong, and every future deck starts on brand.

Deck Maker ships with styles you can use immediately, and StyleMaker will happily read any site whose look you admire. Borrow a visual language until you have your own.

Yes. Keep a house style for client work, something louder for conference talks, and a client's own style for the deck you're presenting to them. Switching restyles the whole deck.

Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI Grok, using your own API key. You can also point Deck Maker at a local model and never touch a cloud provider.

Because you pay the provider directly, at cost, and we never sit between you and your content. It also means the app stays free.

In your operating system's keychain — Keychain on macOS, Credential Manager on Windows, the system keyring on Linux. It never reaches us, because there's nowhere for it to go.

Yes, with a local model. Authoring, styling, and export all run on your machine. The only features needing a connection are cloud AI providers, StyleMaker reading a website, and update checks.

Nano Banana Pro runs inside the app for slide art. It's the one paid piece: buy a small credit pack if you want it, and ignore it entirely if you don't.

A print-clean PDF, a real PPTX, or a self-contained website you can host anywhere.

Yes — real slides with real text boxes, not pictures of slides. Open it in PowerPoint or Keynote and edit normally. Useful when a client insists on receiving something they can change.

Your deck as a standalone folder of HTML that runs in any browser. Drop it on any static host, or send someone a link instead of a 40 MB attachment.

In PDF and the website export, yes — both embed what they need. A PPTX depends on the machine that opens it, so if your brand font isn't installed there, PowerPoint substitutes. Send the PDF when the typography matters.

Three anonymous events — app launched, deck created, deck exported — along with your app version and operating system. That's the entire list.

Your content, your prompts, your keys, and your IP address. Slide text, images, styles, and API keys stay on your machine. IP addresses aren't stored.

To know which platforms are actually used and whether a release broke something. Counting launches and exports answers that; reading your decks wouldn't be needed for it, so we don't.

When you author with a cloud provider, your text goes to that provider under your own API key and their terms — the same as if you'd typed it into their app. It doesn't route through us. With a local model, nothing leaves your machine at all.

The source and every release live on GitHub. You're welcome to read exactly what it does rather than take our word for it.