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Alai
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI presentation maker (YC-backed) that generates on-brand slides, social posts and infographics from your content.
225K visits/mo25K saves
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Slidebean Founder Platform
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI pitch-deck builder paired with an optional agency team and financial modeling service for startups raising funding.
238K visits/mo
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Fotor AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Online photo editor and design platform with AI image/video generation, retouching, background removal and templates.
9.2M visits/mo12K saves
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Recraft
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI image and vector generation platform for designers and teams needing art-directed illustrations, photorealistic images, and an API.
1.7M visits/mo9.2K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Starter: $7/month billed yearly (unlimited AI deck builder, 100+ templates)
Accelerate: $99/month billed monthly (adds investor CRM, financial modeling, monthly team sessions)
Free trial available
Fotor Basic: US$0
Fotor Pro: US$3.99/month billed annually (US$47.99/year)
Fotor Pro+: US$8.33/month billed annually
Fotor Max: US$19.99/month billed annually
Credit packs: From US$5.83/month
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦AI-generated presentation slides
- ✦On-brand design consistency
- ✦Also creates social posts and infographics
- ✦Fast iteration on decks
- ✦API access
- ✦Enterprise-scale design support
- ✦AI-assisted pitch deck builder with startup templates
- ✦Team collaboration and deck view analytics
- ✦Cap-table tool and financial modeling bootcamp
- ✦Optional agency service for professional deck design
- ✦AI pitch deck review feature
- ✦Investor CRM and finder tools on higher tiers
- ✦AI image generator
- ✦AI video generator
- ✦Photo editing and retouching
- ✦Background removal
- ✦AI presentation maker
- ✦Design templates
- ✦Multiple generation models (V2 through V4.1) with strong prompt fidelity
- ✦Vector and raster image generation and editing
- ✦Background removal, inpainting, and outpainting
- ✦Batch and asynchronous processing via API
- ✦Community gallery on the free tier vs. private images on paid plans
- ✦Top-up credits for usage beyond monthly plan limits
Use cases
- →Creating professional decks without a designer
- →Producing on-brand marketing visuals
- →Early-stage pitch and concept decks
- →Generating infographics and social posts
- →Building an investor pitch deck for a funding round
- →Getting professional design or content help on a deck
- →Modeling startup financials and runway
- →Reviewing and improving an existing pitch deck with AI feedback
- →Editing and enhancing photos
- →Generating AI images and video
- →Creating social and marketing visuals
- →Making presentations and designs
- →Designers generating on-brand illustrations and product imagery
- →Marketing teams producing campaign visuals at scale
- →Developers embedding image generation into apps via the API
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