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Slideboard vs Pitch · Gamma · Canva

How Slideboard compares.

Pitch, Gamma and Canva are excellent editors. Slideboard is the one your AI agent drives end-to-end — authoring every slide, locking your brand, rendering web-native design, and publishing a gated page it can keep editing — all without leaving Claude Code or Codex.

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The comparison

Slideboard vs the tools you already know.

Yes Limited Not built

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Capability Slideboard Pitch Gamma Canva
Where you author In your AI agent
(Claude Code or Codex)		 Web, desktop & mobile app Web app Web, desktop & mobile app
Built-in AI generation (in the tool’s own app) Uses your agent
Author a deck from your AI agent (MCP / API) 1 2
Agent keeps editing every slide (not just generate) 3 3
On-brand by lock, enforced on every edit 4
Layout model Locked Frame + web-native Canvas Freeform blocks + smart layouts Fluid cards (auto-layout) Freeform canvas
Web-native creative ceiling HTML, CSS, motion, video, responsive views Slide-editor components Card-based pages Canvas elements and templates
Publish as a live web page
Email + password gate on the page 5 6
Per-viewer + per-slide analytics 7 7 8
Real-time multiplayer co-editing
Export PDF PDF, PPTX7 PDF, PPTX, PNG PDF, PPTX, & more
Access model Invite-only (workspace token) Freemium + paid Freemium + paid Freemium + paid

Several tools can now generate a deck from your agent. Only Slideboard lets your agent keep editing it — every slide, on-brand, web-native — then publish a gated link.

  1. Pitch lists a public API and MCP server as coming soon (announced May 2026) — not available today.
  2. Canva’s official MCP / Connect API requires a Canva Enterprise plan to autofill a branded deck, and exposes no API to mint a public share link.
  3. Gamma and Canva let an agent generate and export a deck; editing existing slides happens in their web app.
  4. Canva brand enforcement (locks and approvals) requires a Teams, Business or Enterprise plan.
  5. Password protection is available on Gamma (Pro and up); no built-in email-capture lead gate is documented.
  6. Canva password protection covers Websites and PDF downloads, not the standard presentation link.
  7. On paid tiers (PPTX export on Pitch is a paid feature).
  8. Canva reports aggregate visits and per-page time, not per-named-viewer identity.
Why it’s different

Four edges the table can’t fully show.

The difference

Your agent doesn’t stop at “generate.”

Gamma and Canva can spin up a deck from your agent — then hand you back to their editor. Slideboard’s MCP is the whole surface: your agent edits any slide by sentence, and every change is checked against the slide schema and your brand guardrails before it commits.

update_slidediff_revisions
claude code · ~/acme
› Tighten slide 4. Make the ask $2M.
slideboard · update_slide(04)
✓ schema valid · on-brand · committed
› Now sharpen the market slide.
slideboard · update_slide(03)  ✓
Design

A deck can be as rich as the web.

Template-based products are bounded by the components their editors expose. Slideboard renders real web pages: rich layout, motion, video and responsive reading modes, with a locked Frame that keeps the result precise enough to export pixel-perfect.

body.htmlframeexport_pdf
web-native canvasHTML · CSS · media
WEB motion · video · responsive views
Brand

On-brand by lock, not by luck.

Point your agent at your site; it derives your palette, type and logo and locks them into a workspace Brand Kit. Other tools share a kit you can still override — or gate the real locks behind an Enterprise plan. Slideboard enforces yours on every edit.

set_brand_kit
yoursite.com
brand kit · locked
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Signal

A link that reports back.

Publish one gated link — email and password — instead of an attachment. Per-slide dwell and per-investor timelines land in your dashboard automatically, so you know which story held the room before the meeting.

publishset_workspace_access
per-slide dwellseed deck
SQsarah@quartz.vc · slide 64m 12s
MHmarc@horizon.com · full read11m 03s
ALana@lighthouse.cap · dropped slide 82m 40s
Honest take

When another tool fits better.

You want a hands-on editor

If you’d rather drag, drop and co-edit a deck live with your team, Pitch, Gamma and Canva are built for that. Slideboard has no canvas to open — the agent does the work.

You need an editable .pptx

Every other tool here exports PowerPoint you can keep editing. Slideboard exports pixel-perfect PDF only — by design, the deck stays canonical on Slideboard.

You want a free tier today

Gamma and Canva have free plans you can start right now. Slideboard is invite-only while we onboard founders workspace by workspace.

FAQ

The honest questions.

Is Slideboard a Pitch or Gamma replacement?
Not exactly — it's a different model. Pitch, Gamma and Canva are editors you open; Slideboard is driven by the AI agent you already work in, so it authors, edits, brands, publishes and tracks decks through MCP and you never open an editor. If your workflow lives in Claude Code or Codex, it replaces the deck tool. If you'd rather design by hand, keep the editor.
Gamma and Canva have MCP servers too — what's different?
Theirs generate and export a deck, then editing happens back in their app: Gamma states editing is app-only, and Canva needs an Enterprise plan to autofill a branded deck and can't mint a public share link by API. Slideboard's MCP covers the whole life of the deck — create it, edit every slide with schema and brand-guardrail validation, revise, publish a gated page, and export.
Can Slideboard export to PowerPoint?
No — PDF only, pixel-perfect and matching the published page. PPTX export isn't built. Pitch, Gamma and Canva all export .pptx if that's a hard requirement for you.
Can my team edit a deck together in real time?
There are no live multiplayer cursors. Slideboard's collaboration is your agent plus workspace members and a full revision history — diff any two revisions and roll back. For simultaneous hands-on editing, Pitch, Gamma and Canva are stronger.
Do these comparisons stay current?
Competitor features change fast. These reflect each tool's public documentation as of June 2026; where a capability is tier-gated or we couldn't verify it, we mark it “limited”, not “no”.

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