A visual editor
No code and no Markdown: place, drag and align. Better for people who think in layouts, and for teams where not everyone writes.
Compare / Slides.com
Kadal Deck vs Slides.com
Slides.com is a hosted presentation editor built on reveal.js. You design slides by placing blocks on a canvas, edit together with collaborators, and present from the browser, with the audience following live on their own devices.
Kadal Deck is for people who would rather write. A talk is one MDX file in your editor and your git repository; the hosted service publishes it with a live room where the audience answers polls and asks questions from their phones.
Checked on 23 October 2026 against Slides.com's own site. Something out of date? Write to hello@kadal.cc and we'll fix it.
| Feature | Kadal Deck | Slides.com |
|---|---|---|
| How you make slides | Write MDX in your editor, or in the browser builder with a live preview | A visual editor in the browser |
| Open source | The engine, under the AGPL | The editor is not; decks run on reveal.js (MIT) |
| Where decks live | In your repository; published copies on deck.kadal.cc | In your Slides.com account; Pro can export HTML to host yourself |
| Audience follows on their own screens | Yes: 25 to 1,000 people at once, by plan | Yes: a live broadcast to an audience of any size |
| Polls, quizzes and audience questions | Built in | Not among its listed features |
| Phone as a remote | Yes | Yes |
| Drawing during a talk | Yes, seen by the room | Yes, broadcast to viewers |
| Live code on a slide | Monaco editors with a Run button | Syntax-highlighted code blocks |
| Collaboration | A shared Team workspace; comments in the builder; git for the text | Collaborators per deck, comments, shared media and templates |
| Import | Slidev and reveal.js decks | PowerPoint and PDF files |
| Export | PDF, PNG, PowerPoint (pictures or editable), Markdown | PDF, PowerPoint, HTML |
| AI | An MCP server; the builder's assistant with your own provider key | Monthly AI credits for generating, editing and translating; an API and MCP server |
| Single sign-on, custom domain | Not yet | On Team: SSO and a custom subdomain |
| Price a month, billed yearly | Free · Starter $4 · Pro $8 · Team $16 for 2 users | Free · Lite $5 · Pro $10 · Team $20 for 2 users |
Fair is fair
Where Slides.com is the better choice
Editing together
Several people edit one deck with comments on the slide, and teams share media, templates and a theme editor.
PowerPoint and PDF in
It imports existing PowerPoint and PDF files. Kadal Deck imports only Slidev and reveal.js decks.
Team and AI features we don't have
Single sign-on, a custom subdomain, AI credits without your own key, and translation of a deck into 40+ languages.
Rooms of any size
Its live broadcast has no audience cap. Kadal Deck's rooms hold 25 to 1,000 people at once, depending on the plan.
The other side
Where Kadal Deck is different
Text you own
A deck is a file in git: diff it, review it in a pull request, reuse slides between talks, and build it on any machine.
The audience takes part
Polls, quizzes with a leaderboard, word clouds, upvoted questions and reactions, answered from phones with no app or sign-in.
No account needed for the engine
Write, present, export and self-host with the open-source engine. The hosted service is for publishing and the room.
Lower prices, with caveats
Each paid plan costs a little less, and public decks are free. The free plan shows a small watermark and ads on its first and last slides.
In short
Which one to choose
Choose Slides.com if you want to design on a canvas, edit together in real time, or bring PowerPoint files along.
Choose Kadal Deck if you write, keep talks in git, and want the audience answering polls and asking questions from their phones.
Sources for Slides.com, read on 23 October 2026:
Also compare: Kadal Deck vs Slidev · Kadal Deck vs reveal.js