DeckCraft

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You install DeckCraft from a computer. Send yourself the link and open it there.

Available for macOS.

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AI chat & tools: Chat completions with tool calls, JSON schemas and images, priced per tier in dollars.
Image generation: Images billed per image.

By default, DeckCraft still runs on your machine, unless you pick the cloud option.
Choosing it needs no key to paste. Linking your publik account gives five cents of free use, once.
Then DeckCraft pays publik's published price per use, and your own key still works.

How pricing works

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The download is publik’s signed build of this app, with the publik API step added, released from blueturboguy07/deckcraft.

Compared with

Microsoft PowerPoint

$9.99/mo

What a month of AI costs

Microsoft PowerPoint$9.99/mo
publik API$4.33/mo

publik API: $5.66 a month less than Microsoft PowerPoint.

100 uses a week at the Balanced level · publik API is cheaper up to about 230 uses a week

Who made this

DeckCraft is the work of echelon, not of publik. We host a checked fork for the install guide; we add the publik API step (slide text from an outline, generate an image) and we sign and notarize the builds. Everything else is the original.

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Shared under the Apache-2.0 licence.

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Where DeckCraft’s AI runs, and what it costs

Prices are for one typical use: one request of about 1,500 words sent and 375 words back. A higher quality score is better.

On your computer

DeckCraft has no option to run its AI on your computer.

publik API

Price: $0.0100 per use, $10.00 per 1,000 usespublik-balanced, the default level
Quality: MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 46
Setup: Built in. No key to paste; linking your publik account gives $0.05 of free use, once.

Your own key

Price: $0.0013 per use, $1.31 per 1,000 usesMiMo-V2.6-Pro at OpenRouter’s list price, before its fee for buying usage
Quality: MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 46
Setup: Open a provider account, add a card, paste the key into DeckCraft.

Quality and price, side by side

Quality score and cost per 1,000 typical uses for local models and the three publik API levels
Model	Quality	Per 1,000 uses
On your computer (Ollama, 4-bit download size)
Granite 4.2 3B2.2 GB	9	$0
Phi-4 Mini2.5 GB	6	$0
Llama 3.1 8B4.9 GB	7	$0
gpt-oss 20B14 GB	9	$0
Gemma 4 31B20 GB	19*	$0
Qwen3.5 35B-A3B24 GB	19*	$0
publik API
publik-fastGLM-5.3 Flash	42	$1.00
publik-balancedMiMo-V2.6-Pro · DeckCraft	46	$10.00
publik-smartGPT-6 Sol	48	$18.00

Quality: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2, read 2026-09-22 (publik API models 2026-09-25); * = estimated by Artificial Analysis. Sizes: the Ollama library, read 2026-09-22.

What you pay for

On your computer: nothing per use. You pay in disk space, memory and electricity, at lower quality.
publik API: publik’s published price for each use, in dollars, from your publik balance. It is above the model’s cost; the difference runs publik and pays the app’s builder.
Your own key: the provider’s price, billed to an account you keep with the provider.

Install DeckCraft: publik API is built in How publik API pricing works

README

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Presentations and slide shows; an open-source, modern presentation and slide designer, built in pure Rust.

Build decks with themes, layouts, shapes, pictures, tables, charts, transitions and animations, open and save .pptx presentation files, and present them full screen. Native on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and in the browser. Every button is also a command that the CLI and AI agents (through MCP) can drive.

DeckCraft on getartcraft.com · ArtCraft · All Crafting Apps

[!NOTE] ArtCraft is a community of artists from all walks of life. Painters, photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, designers, animators, hobbyists, and people who picked up a pencil last week. If you make things, you're one of us. Come say hi on Discord.

DeckCraft editing a slide: ribbon, slide thumbnails with sections, a process diagram on the canvas, notes and status bar

What works · Getting started · Agents, CLI and MCP · Roadmap · Downloads · The Crafting Apps · License

What works today

DeckCraft is in alpha, heading for beta (see the roadmap). Today it can:

Make decks: slide masters and eleven layouts with placeholders that inherit position and formatting, eight original themes with colour and font schemes, sections, notes, comments, headers and footers, custom slide sizes.
Draw: 150+ preset shapes with adjust handles, connectors that stay glued to shapes, freeform, curve and scribble tools, merge shapes (union, combine, fragment, intersect, subtract), gradient, picture and pattern fills, outlines with dashes and arrowheads, shadows, glow, soft edges and reflections.
Write: in-place text editing with full font and paragraph formatting, bullets and numbering, columns, autofit, vertical text, fields and hyperlinks.
Add content: pictures with crop and corrections, tables with styles, charts, SmartArt basics, audio and video (MP3, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, Ogg, Opus, WAV, AIFF; H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1).
Present: transitions (including Morph), entrance/emphasis/exit and motion-path animations, by-paragraph builds, full-screen slide show, presenter view, pen, rehearse timings, media playback.
Exchange files: open and save .pptx presentations, export PDF (slides, notes pages, handouts with selectable text), PNG/JPEG, an animated GIF of the deck and outlines. Unsaved work is kept by AutoRecover.
Automate: 200+ commands with undo, all scriptable from the CLI, a JSON control channel and an MCP server for AI agents.

_{Shape Format contextual tab and selection handles}	_{Format Shape pane: gradient type, direction and stops}
_{Slide Sorter with each slide's transition}	_{Dark mode, with a native chart}

All eight slides of the Northern Lights sample deck
_{The built-in sample deck, rendered by deckcraft-cli render --sample --all}

Agents, CLI and MCP

Every action in DeckCraft is a command with a stable id, so people, scripts and AI agents use the same verbs:

deckcraft-cli commands format.          # list commands
deckcraft-cli run --sample --cmd 'slide.new={"layout":"titleOnly","title":"Hello"}' --save hello.deckcraft
deckcraft-cli mcp                       # MCP server over stdio (headless)
deckcraft-cli mcp --connect 7990        # drive the running app (deckcraft --control 7990)
deckcraft-cli mcp --automation-read-root DIR --automation-write-root DIR   # confine the headless agent to folders

Roadmap

DeckCraft is in alpha. It covers 84% of the features tracked in docs/target-app-parity.md by breadth (92% of the core ones, measured) and is about 55% ready for real work across all tracked capabilities (estimated). See ROADMAP.md for the stage, numbers by dimension and what's next, docs/target-app-parity.md for the full assessment, docs/gaps.md for every known shortfall and docs/parity-checklist.md for the feature-by-feature checklist.

Downloads

Download DeckCraft from GitHub: the latest release has every build listed below, and all releases has earlier versions and their notes. <ver> in the file names is the version number, and SHA256SUMS.txt lists a checksum for every file.

Windows

Build	Installer	Portable
x64 (64-bit Intel/AMD)	`deckcraft-<ver>-windows-x64.msi`	`deckcraft-<ver>-windows-x64-portable.zip`
arm64 (Snapdragon and other ARM PCs)	`deckcraft-<ver>-windows-arm64.msi`	`deckcraft-<ver>-windows-arm64-portable.zip`
x86 (32-bit)	`deckcraft-<ver>-windows-x86.msi`	`deckcraft-<ver>-windows-x86-portable.zip`

Installers and executables are code-signed.

If the app doesn't open on Windows: the desktop app initializes only DirectX 12 by default. Letting wgpu also create an OpenGL instance can crash some graphics drivers (AMD's atio6axx.dll) before the window appears, so the app would flash in Task Manager and quit. WGPU_BACKEND overrides the default for troubleshooting (for example dx12 or vulkan). In PowerShell, from the folder containing the executable:

$env:WGPU_BACKEND = "vulkan"
& .\deckcraft.exe
Remove-Item Env:WGPU_BACKEND                     # restore the default for later launches

An explicit gl override can bring the driver crash back on affected systems. The macOS, Linux and web backend defaults are unchanged.

DirectX 12 shaders are compiled with FXC, which is part of Windows, so no dxcompiler.dll or dxil.dll is needed ("Parent device is lost" at start, #153). $env:WGPU_DX12_COMPILER = "dxc" (or "auto") selects wgpu's DXC handling again for troubleshooting.

macOS

Build	File	Notes
App, universal (Apple silicon + Intel)	`deckcraft-<ver>-macos-universal.dmg`	Signed and notarized
Command-line tool, universal	`deckcraft-cli-<ver>-macos-universal.zip`	Signed and notarized

Linux

Format	x86_64	aarch64 (ARM64)	Notes
AppImage	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.AppImage`	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.AppImage`	Runs anywhere; updates itself with AppImageUpdate (`.zsync` files)
Flatpak	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.flatpak`	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.flatpak`	Sandboxed; `flatpak install --user <file>`
Debian/Ubuntu	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.deb`	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.deb`
Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.rpm`	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.rpm`
Tarball	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`	`deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.tar.gz`	Unpack anywhere

RISC-V 64 (riscv64): deckcraft-<ver>-linux-riscv64.tar.gz, a tarball only (cross-compiled; needs glibc 2.39+, e.g. Ubuntu 24.04+).

FreeBSD

Build	File
x86_64	`deckcraft-<ver>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz`

Web (WebAssembly)

Build	File	Notes
Static site	`deckcraft-web-<ver>.zip`	Runs in a modern browser; host it on any static server

The Crafting Apps

DeckCraft is one of the Crafting Apps: free, open-source creative tools from the ArtCraft team, each written from scratch in Rust and each able to stand on its own.

App	What it's for	Code	Learn more
PhotoCraft	Image editing: layers, masks, type and real PSD files	GitHub	Website
VectorCraft	Vector illustration	GitHub	Website
FilmCraft	Video editing, color and sound	GitHub	Website
LightCraft	Photo library and raw development	GitHub	Website
PdfCraft	Reading, organizing and protecting PDFs	GitHub	Website
EffectCraft	Motion graphics and visual effects	GitHub	Website
DesignCraft	Page layout and publishing	GitHub	Website
DeckCraft	Presentations and slide shows · you are here	GitHub	Website

And ArtCraft itself, our AI image and video studio for artists who want real control.

Come make things with us

Our Discord is where artists of every kind hang out: people who paint, shoot, draw, cut film, set type, and people still figuring out what they like to make. Share what you're working on, ask for help, tell us what's broken, or tell us what you wish these tools could do. Whatever your medium and however long you've been at it, you're welcome here.

discord.gg/artcraft · getartcraft.com · The Crafting Apps · DeckCraft

License and credits

Bundled fonts, icons, images and other assets keep their own open licenses; each one is listed with its author, source and license in ATTRIBUTION.md.

DeckCraft's themes, layouts, shape geometry, icons and sample decks are original work, drawn or generated in code; no proprietary artwork, fonts, themes or templates are used.

The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks of the ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used only unmodified, and only as part of this repository and DeckCraft, under docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt. Forks and modified versions must remove them.

_{Made by the ArtCraft team and community.}

publik API is one option

AI chat & tools

Image generation

By default, DeckCraft still runs on your machine, unless you pick the cloud option.

Choosing it needs no key to paste. Linking your publik account gives five cents of free use, once.

Then DeckCraft pays publik's published price per use, and your own key still works.