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Smallppt
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI PowerPoint generator that turns text, files, links, or audio into ready-made slide decks with templates.
290K visits/mo
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Piktochart AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
An AI-assisted design platform for building infographics, reports and presentations without needing graphic design skills.
920K visits/mo17K saves
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Nero Software
✓ verifiedPaid
Long-running Windows multimedia suite for disc burning, video editing, backup, and AI media enhancement.
1.6M visits/mo9.7K saves
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Picsart
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-featured AI creative platform used by 130M+ creators for photo/video editing, design templates, and 140+ AI models.
17M visits/mo2.6K saves
Pricing
Pro Monthly: $19.99/mo
Unlimited Monthly: $29.99/mo
Unlimited Yearly: $16.66/mo ($199.99 billed annually)
Lifetime: $299.99 one-time
Free: $0 (2 PNG downloads, 60 AI credits, 1GB storage)
Pro: $10/member/month billed annually or $15/month (500 AI credits, unlimited PNG downloads, 100GB storage)
Business: $17/member/month billed annually or $20/month (1000 AI credits, brand kit, 250GB storage)
Education: $39/member billed annually
Nero Platinum Suite 2026: $44.95 (discounted from $59.95)
Max Starter: $49/month
Max Performance: $149/month
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Generate slides from text prompts, files, links, audio, or images
- ✦Large library of industry-specific slide templates
- ✦One-click template replacement and restyling
- ✦AI writer, rewriter, and summarizer tools
- ✦Real-time team collaboration with comments
- ✦Companion AI PDF and mind-map tools
- ✦AI Design Generator for infographics, reports and presentations
- ✦Large library of templates across dozens of visual formats
- ✦Brand kit with custom colors, fonts and logos on higher plans
- ✦Video tools including screen recording and video-to-text
- ✦Solutions tailored for education, HR, healthcare and marketing teams
- ✦Nero Burning ROM disc burning
- ✦Nero Video editing
- ✦AI image and video upscaling
- ✦Media management (MediaHome)
- ✦Backup and duplicate management
- ✦Web-based AI tools
- ✦Free AI design tools
- ✦Expert-crafted templates
- ✦Built-in asset libraries
- ✦Generative AI tools
Use cases
- →Quickly building business or sales presentations from a topic
- →Converting reports or PDFs into polished slide decks
- →Students turning notes or audio into presentation slides
- →Teams co-editing a deck with shared templates and branding
- →Creating business infographics and reports without a designer
- →Building branded presentations and pitch decks for teams
- →Producing educational posters and classroom materials
- →Designing marketing social media graphics and newsletters
- →Burning CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray
- →Editing home videos
- →Upscaling photos and video
- →Backing up and organizing media
- →Social media creators producing trending photo and video content
- →Marketers generating on-brand product ads at scale
- →Small businesses creating merchandise and print-on-demand designs
- →Designers building branded video and motion content
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