Gamma.app is a flexible, AI-driven design partner that helps users build presentations, webpages, documents, and graphics\ without needing any design or coding skills.
It's ideal for users who want to quickly generate content with smart layouts, intuitive editing that can’t be bothered creating them in powerpoint.
Features of note
- One click AI generation
- Convert text prompts, outlines, or imported files into a full presentation in seconds.
- Custom themes and layouts are automatically applied.
- Smart layout and design elements
- Gamma organises your content logically and decoratively,, with theme suggestions that match the presentation tone.
- You can also select a look and feel with a single feel.
- Multimedia support
- Embed videos, GIFs, web pages, charts, and more for richer storytelling.
- Presentation mode features spotlight and full-screen navigation support.
- Collaboration and analytics
- Real-time commenting and team editing.
- Track viewer engagement with built-in analytics and adjust based on feedback.
- Export and sharing options
- Export to PDF, PPT, Google Slides (via download), or share via live link. Present directly online.
Types of use cases
- Presentations: Generate professional, branded presentations effortlessly.
- Training and education: Turn lesson plans or research into interactive slides with embedded media.
- Reports and documentation: Produce polished documents or visual reports from textual content.
- Creative planning: Use Gamma’s interface for brainstorming and visual storytelling.
Setting things up
- Sign up and choose a plan
- Free tier includes AI generation with basic features; paid plans add brand templates, analytics, and advanced media.
- Start new presentation
- Click
Create > Presentations, enter your topic/paste an outline or import slides. AI will build the deck first. - Select a theme:
- Explore themes, layouts, visuals, and use AI Chat to tweak content or redesign individual slides.
- Collaborate, present and export
- Invite collaborators, track analytics, present in Gamma or export as PDF/PPT/Google Slides link.
Why would this tool be of interest:
- Super fast presentation creation:
- Create content rapidly while focusing on core messaging instead of formatting.
- Good looking designs:
- AI-generated themes and visuals result in polished decks ready to impress.
Things to think about
- Not every output is perfect:
- You should still scutinise your outputs.
- You may need to export to Google Slides - and manually polish things. You can do that in Canva, Powerpoint, and/or Google slides.
- There are limits to the number of slides that can be created in one run. A good workaround is to break a document into sections to you can avail yourself of the cheaper lower order plans.
Conclusion
This is a great tool to hammer out visually compelling decks to then work on. It’s not always perfect, but it’ll get you to a good place faster than had you not used it at all. Play around with it, and learn it.