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Kadal Deck and the alternatives
There are good tools for making slides on the web, and some will suit you better than Kadal Deck. Each page below says what the other tool does well, where it's the better choice, and what Kadal Deck does differently: it stays with you for the whole talk, from an AI first draft through rehearsal to a room that answers from their phones.
Kadal Deck vs Slidev
Both write slides as text with live code and export. Vue and MIT, or React, MDX and a live room.
Read the comparison →Kadal Deck vs reveal.js
The long-standing HTML framework, or MDX with the room, export and publishing built in.
Read the comparison →Kadal Deck vs Slides.com
A visual editor in the browser, or slides written as text with a room for the audience.
Read the comparison →At a glance
The rows that differ most
| Feature | Kadal Deck | Slidev | reveal.js | Slides.com |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Licence | AGPL-3.0, or a commercial licence | MIT | MIT | The editor is not; decks run on reveal.js (MIT) |
| Slides written in | MDX (Markdown with JSX) in one deck.mdx | Markdown with Vue components in one slides.md | HTML sections, or Markdown through the Markdown plugin | A visual editor in the browser |
| Polls, quizzes and audience questions | Built in; the audience joins by QR code with no app or sign-in | A community Poll and Quiz addon | Not built in | Not among its listed features |
| Audience follows on their own screens | Built in, through the hosted room or a room server you run | slidev --remote from your machine; a community sync addon for static builds | The multiplex plugin, from its own repository | Yes: a live broadcast to an audience of any size |
| Export | PDF, PNG, PowerPoint (pictures or editable), Markdown | PDF, PNG, PowerPoint (pictures or editable), Markdown | PDF through the browser's print dialog, in Chrome | PDF, PowerPoint, HTML |
Checked on 23 October 2026; each page lists its sources. Something out of date? Write to hello@kadal.cc.