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Gamma vs Canva Presentations
Gamma scores higher overall (8.8 vs 8.6), but the right pick depends on what you need.
Choose Gamma if…
Anyone who wants a good-looking deck from a prompt in minutes
8.8/10★★★★★Full review →Choose Canva Presentations if…
People who want design freedom and AI help in one familiar tool
8.6/10★★★★★Full review →Side by side
| Gamma | Canva Presentations | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 8.8/10 | 8.6/10 |
| Rank in category | #1 of 12 | #2 of 12 |
| Price | Freemium · from £7/month | Freemium · from $144/year |
| Free version | 400 credits at signup (they don't renew), up to 10 slides per prompt, PDF, PPTX and Google Slides export | Full editor, 1.6M+ templates and up to 20 AI uses |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android, API, Other | Web, iOS, Android, Desktop app |
| Made by | Gamma Tech, Inc. | Canva |
| Slide quality | 9 | 8 |
| Ease of use | 9 | 9 |
| Features | 9 | 8.5 |
| Value for money | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| Platforms | 8 | 10 |
Gamma: what the AI does
- Prompt, notes or file to a full deck
- Gamma Agent for rewriting, restyling and web research
- AI image generation
- Gamma Imagine for on-brand graphics and infographics
- Apps inside ChatGPT and Claude
- Public API (Pro and up)
- Most polished prompt-to-deck results in the category
- Useful free plan with PowerPoint and Google Slides export
- Also makes docs, web pages and social posts
- Mobile apps for creating on the go
- Free credits are one-off and don't refill
- Exported PPTX files can need font and layout clean-up
- Reviews flag strict refunds and slow support on billing
Canva Presentations: what the AI does
- Prompt to editable presentation with Canva AI
- Conversational Canva AI 2.0 agent
- Magic Write for slide copy
- Magic Animate and Magic Resize
- Charts from Canva Sheets
- Huge template and stock library
- Generous free plan
- Apps on every major platform
- Decks, social posts and documents in one place
- Popular templates are easy to spot
- AI allowance on the free plan is small
- Canva AI 2.0 started as a limited preview