What are the best alternatives to google-slides?
The highest-scoring alternative to google-slides is slidewright from tronghieu/agent-skills, at 90/100 (grade A) on the Suede Skill Check; google-slides scores 80/100. The table compares 4 presentation skills in documents and office files from other publishers, each with a full SuedeAI.directory page.
google-slides and 4 alternatives
Alternatives share google-slides's category and task, come from other publishers and each have a full directory page. Ranked by Suede Skill Check score.
| Skill | Publisher | Suede Skill Check | License | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| google-slides Compared skill | sanjay3290 sanjay3290/ai-skills | 80/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Reads and writes Google Slides presentations, including getting text, finding and creating presentations, adding slides, and replacing text, with standalone OAuth authentication. |
| slidewright | tronghieu tronghieu/agent-skills | 90/100 · A | MIT | Builds interactive presentation websites for slide decks projected to a room, including slide editing, deck restyling, phone remote control, and PDF export. |
| pptx | Anthropic Official anthropics/skills | 87/100 · B | Proprietary | Creates, reads, edits, and combines PowerPoint decks and templates, including speaker notes, comments, and layouts, for any task involving a .pptx or .potx file. |
| presentation-creator | Sentry Official getsentry/skills | 84/100 · B | Apache-2.0 | Creates data-driven presentation slides with React, Vite, and Recharts in Sentry branding, scaffolding a slide-based app with charts, animations, and single-file HTML output. |
| frontend-slides | zarazhangrui zarazhangrui/frontend-slides | 73/100 · C | MIT | Creates animation-rich HTML presentations from scratch or by converting PowerPoint files, helping non-designers discover their aesthetic through visual exploration. |
Questions and answers
What is the highest-scoring alternative to google-slides?
slidewright from tronghieu/agent-skills, at 90/100, grade A. It earns full points for structural checks, recent maintenance and instruction depth. Builds interactive presentation websites for slide decks projected to a room, including slide editing, deck restyling, phone remote control, and PDF export.
How does google-slides compare with its alternatives?
google-slides scores 80/100, grade B. Of the 4 alternatives, 3 score higher and one scores lower; their scores run from 73 to 90. All of them sit in documents and office files and match the presentations keyword map.
Are the alternatives to google-slides free?
All 4 alternatives to google-slides are published in public GitHub repositories and cost nothing to download. 3 use an open-source or open-content license, led by MIT (2) and Apache-2.0 (1), so you can use and adapt the files at no cost under those terms. pptx is published under the publisher's own terms, which restrict copying; read them before you install. One skill names credentials for an outside service; each full page lists them under Before you install.
Do the alternatives to google-slides work in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor?
Yes. Each of the 4 alternatives to google-slides is a SKILL.md folder in the Agent Skills format, which Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all read. The skills CLI (npx skills add) installs 3 of them into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents, and each full skill page adds a project-level copy into .claude/skills for Claude Code and .agents/skills for Codex. pptx follows the publisher's own install route, shown on its page.