Free Tome Alternative
Tome sunset its slides product on April 30, 2025, so "Tome alternative" now means finding a new home for that workflow. Tome was strong for storytelling pages and web-native narratives; Lumen is a source-to-deck workspace for traditional slides, outline control, source review, citations, presenter tools, and file handoff. Lumen's no-card 14-day trial includes AI generation and clean hybrid export. Downloads are not gated: a deck you generated stays yours to review, present, and export as PPTX, PDF, HTML, or slide images, unwatermarked, whether the trial is running, paid, or long over. Paid Lumen is what continues AI generation and AI editing, and adds publishing, sharing, collaboration, brand workflows, team controls, and higher capacity.
Gixo vs Tome: Slide Deck vs. Document Page
Tome created document-style storytelling pages. If that was your workflow, this is the map from what you had to what Gixo gives you: traditional slide deck presentations with professional themes.
| Feature | Gixo | Tome |
|---|---|---|
| Output format | Traditional slide decks | Document-style pages |
| Slides per presentation | 40+ | Page-based (varies) |
| Professional themes | 20+ curated themes | Limited styling |
| PDF export | Full quality PDF | Limited |
| AI content generation | Full deck from topic | AI-generated pages |
| AI image generation | Built-in per slide | Yes |
| Per-slide editing | Full control | Page editing |
| Per-slide AI regeneration | Yes | No |
| Present mode | Full-screen with controls | Web-based viewing |
| Speaker notes | Yes | Limited |
| Boardroom ready | Yes | Better for web sharing |
Why Choose Gixo Over Tome
Tome was strong for storytelling pages. Gixo is the stronger landing spot when the job is to finish a traditional slide deck with editing, grounding, citations, and delivery attached.
Keep decks grounded to source material and approved web research when needed. Gixo extracts key claims, highlights what needs verification, and surfaces citations, attribution, and trust status inside the deck viewer.
Tome produces document-style pages that scroll. Gixo creates traditional slide decks with discrete slides, perfect for boardroom presentations, classrooms, and conferences.
Export your presentations as high-quality PDFs for offline sharing, printing, and distribution. Tome's export options are more limited, especially for traditional presentation formats.
Choose from curated themes designed for every context. Gixo's themes provide consistent typography, colors, and layouts that Tome's styling options cannot match.
Generate comprehensive presentations with 40 or more slides. Create in-depth decks for training, executive briefings, sales presentations, and educational content.
Regenerate any individual slide with AI without affecting the rest of your deck. Fine-tune specific sections while preserving your overall presentation structure.
Present directly from your browser with full-screen mode, speaker notes, timer, and keyboard navigation. No need for separate presentation software.
Why Gixo is the stronger finished-deck workflow
The job is not to generate slides once. The job is to hand off a deck another person can actually open, review, and use.
Workflow fit
The deck starts from a consulting, finance, fundraising, sales, executive, product, or general-business workflow instead of generic slide filler.
Outline first
Structure stays reviewable before full generation, so the first pass is shaped like a real deck instead of a prompt experiment.
Editability
Theme switches, layout swaps, slide edits, and regeneration all happen after the deck exists without forcing a rebuild.
Evidence
Decks are grounded in your sources, and evidence — citations, trust checks, source review — has a built-in home in the workspace instead of being bolted on after generation.
Delivery
Speaker notes, present mode, shareable delivery, and exports stay on the same finished deck when it is time to ship.
Tome AI is gone — what to do if you still have decks in the Tome app
Searching for Tome AI or the Tome app today lands you on a product that no longer makes presentations. That leaves two practical problems: getting your existing work out, and choosing where the workflow lives next.
Get whatever you can out first
If you still have access to an account, export everything you care about before worrying about the replacement. Take the highest-fidelity format offered, and take a PDF as well — a PDF is a poor editing format but an excellent record, and it costs nothing to keep both. Do this before you evaluate anything else; the tool you pick can wait, the access might not.
Rebuild from sources, not from screenshots
The instinct after losing a tool is to recreate each page as it looked. That is usually the wrong move, because a scrolling storytelling page and a 16:9 slide are different shapes and a faithful copy of one makes an awkward version of the other. If you still have the underlying material — the research, the numbers, the document the deck was built from — rebuilding from that produces something better than a transcription. This is the case Lumen is actually built for: you give it sources, it produces a structured deck with the claims traceable back to them.
If you are here from tome.app or beta.tome.app
Those two URLs are where most of this traffic starts, and neither leads back to a presentation product any more. beta.tome.app was the original beta workspace and tome.app the product that followed it; both belonged to Tome Slides, which was discontinued on 30 April 2025. The founding team moved to Lightfield, a sales-intelligence CRM, and the Tome brand was acquired by AngelList — so a domain that still resolves is not evidence that the deck tool behind it still exists. If you bookmarked either address and are trying to work out whether your decks are still reachable, treat retrieval as the urgent task and tool selection as the one that can wait a day.
What to check before you commit to the next one
The lesson of a sunset is that the export matters as much as the editor. Ask what happens to your decks if the tool disappears: does it produce an editable PowerPoint file you own, or only a link on someone's server? A Tome PPT export was always the fallback for Tome users, and the same question is worth asking of every replacement, including this one. Lumen exports hybrid PPTX with editable text and shapes, plus PDF, so the deliverable survives the tool.
Gixo also runs inside PowerPoint
Gixo Lumen for PowerPoint is published on Microsoft AppSource: it creates, finds and inserts editable AI presentations without leaving PowerPoint. If your organisation's decks live in PowerPoint and always end up there, that removes the export step entirely — the slides arrive in the deck you already have open.
It is worth weighing against a browser-only tool. Web tools are excellent for producing something quickly and sharing a link; they become friction the moment the deliverable has to be a .pptx in the company template that four people will edit. Running in-host is the other answer to that problem, and it is the one enterprises tend to prefer because nothing leaves the environment they already govern.
A Gixo plan is required — the add-in is a delivery surface, not a separate product.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where the Tome PPT export goes now: when the deliverable is a real, editable deck
If you need a presentation you can project or hand off as an editable .pptx — not just a web story — Lumen builds true 16:9 slides with editable text and shapes and a PPTX/PDF export, so the deck keeps working in PowerPoint or Google Slides after it leaves Gixo.