Gamma: What It Is, Pricing and How to Use It (2026 Guide)

What is Gamma?

Gamma is an AI-powered tool for making presentations, documents and simple web pages. Instead of starting with a blank slide, you give it a topic, a prompt, an outline or an existing document, and it generates a complete draft with structure, text, images and a consistent design. You then edit the result in a browser-based editor that feels closer to a modern document tool than to PowerPoint.

The product is made by Gamma Tech, a San Francisco company, and runs entirely in the browser. Its central idea is the “card”: instead of fixed-size slides that overflow when you add a paragraph, Gamma content lives in flexible cards that expand to fit, and the same content can be presented as a deck, read as a document or published as a page.

The problem it solves is simple. Most people are slow at the design and structuring part of presentations and fast at the editing part. Gamma does the slow part for you so you can spend your time on the editing.

Who it is for

• Founders and sales teams who need a pitch, proposal or sales deck today and will refine it over time.
• Teachers, trainers and course creators who turn lesson notes into slides every week.
• Marketers who build landing pages, lead magnets and one-page explainers without a designer.
• Consultants and analysts who present findings and want a clean, consistent look without fighting layouts.
• Students preparing talks and project presentations on a budget.

Gamma is not the right tool if you need pixel-level control over every slide, complex animations, speaker-grade motion graphics, or heavy data visualisation. For those, PowerPoint, Keynote or a dedicated design tool is still better.

Key features

• Generate from a prompt. Type a topic and a few constraints (audience, length, tone) and Gamma produces a full draft with sections, headings, text and suggested images.
• Generate from an outline or document. Paste notes, an outline or a long text, or upload a document, and Gamma restructures it into cards rather than inventing content from scratch. This is the mode we recommend for anything that matters.
• Card-based editing. Content lives in cards that resize to fit. You can reorder cards by dragging, nest sub-cards, and switch the same content between presentation and document views.
• Themes. A gallery of built-in themes plus custom themes with your fonts, colours and logo. Changing the theme restyles the whole deck at once.
• AI editing inside the editor. Select a card and ask the AI to shorten, expand, change tone, add a summary or turn bullet points into a table.
• Images. Search stock images, upload your own, or generate images with AI directly inside a card.
• Embeds and interactive blocks. Embed videos, charts, forms, code snippets and third-party content such as Figma or Google Sheets.
• Sharing, export and analytics. Share by link with view or edit permissions, publish as a web page on a Gamma URL or custom domain, export to PDF and PowerPoint, and see who viewed your deck.

Pricing

At the time of writing Gamma has a free plan and two paid tiers, with discounts for annual billing. Exact prices change, so check the pricing page before buying.

Plan	What you get	Who it suits
Free	Core editor, AI generation with a limited pool of credits, standard exports with Gamma branding	Trying it, occasional decks
Plus	More AI credits, branding removed, more export options and customisation	Individuals making decks regularly
Pro	Unlimited or much higher AI usage, advanced features such as custom domains and premium image generation, priority support	Teams and heavy users

Teams and education plans with workspace management are available on request. AI credits are the main thing to watch: generating a long document or many image variations consumes them quickly on the free plan.

How to use Gamma: step-by-step

1. Create an account and pick a starting point

1. Go to gamma.app and sign up with Google or email.
2. On the dashboard, click Create new (or New with AI).
3. Choose what you are making: Presentation, Document or Webpage. This mainly changes the default layout and theme suggestions; you can switch later.
4. Choose how to start: Generate (from a short prompt), Paste in text (from notes or an outline) or Import file (from a document or an existing PowerPoint).

2. Give Gamma the right input

The quality of the output depends almost entirely on the input. For anything beyond a throwaway draft, use Paste in text with your own outline rather than a one-line prompt.

A good outline looks like this:

Title: Q3 marketing review
Audience: leadership team, 15 minutes
1. Headline results (3 numbers)
2. What worked: campaigns A and B, with metrics
3. What did not work and why
4. Q4 plan: three priorities, budget ask
5. Decisions needed today

Set the number of cards Gamma should create (fewer is usually better), pick a tone, and tell it whether to preserve your text or generate new content around it. For documents you own, choose preserve.

3. Review the generated draft

Gamma shows the outline first. Edit section titles, delete sections you do not need, and reorder them before generating the full deck. This step saves AI credits and avoids regenerating later.

Click Generate. In under a minute you will have a complete draft with a theme applied.

4. Edit cards

• Click any text to edit it in place. Formatting works like a modern document editor: headings, lists, tables, callouts.
• Drag the handle on the left of a card to reorder. Use the + between cards to insert a new one.
• Select a card and open the AI menu to shorten, expand, rewrite in a different tone, or convert content into another format such as a table or a timeline.
• To change the look of everything at once, open Theme in the right sidebar and pick a built-in theme or create a custom one with your brand colours, fonts and logo.

5. Replace the images

AI-selected images are the fastest way to make a deck look generic. For each image, click it and choose Replace: upload your own, search stock images, or generate one with a specific prompt that mentions your subject and style. Delete images that do not add anything.

6. Present, share or export

• Present from the top right opens a full-screen mode with keyboard navigation and presenter notes.
• Share gives you a link with view, comment or edit permissions, and a Publish option that makes the deck a public web page.
• Export produces a PDF or a PowerPoint file. After exporting to PPTX, open it once and check cards that contained long text or embeds, since those convert least cleanly.

7. Reuse it as a template

Once a deck looks the way you want, duplicate it from the dashboard and use it as the base for the next one. Themes can also be saved and applied to any new generation so every deck is on-brand from the first draft.

Tips to get better results

• Write the outline yourself. A ten-line outline produces a far better deck than a one-line prompt, and the result is actually about your content.
• Ask for fewer cards. Eight focused cards beat twenty thin ones. You can always expand a card with the AI later.
• Set the audience in the prompt. “For a non-technical CFO, 10 minutes” changes the vocabulary and depth.
• Fix the theme before editing text. Changing themes late can shift layouts and make you redo spacing.
• Use the document view for review. Switch to document view to read the whole thing as text; it is faster for catching errors than clicking through cards.
• Keep one idea per card. Gamma’s layouts work best with a heading, two or three lines of text and one visual.
• Use the AI to shorten, not to lengthen. Its best editing trick is cutting a paragraph to two lines.
• Check numbers and claims. Generated text sounds confident. Anything factual in a generated card must be verified by you.

Limitations and common problems

• Generic look. Default themes and stock images are recognisable. Custom themes and your own images solve most of it.
• Export fidelity. PPTX export is good, not perfect. Expect to adjust a few elements, especially embeds and long tables.
• Layout control. You cannot freely position elements like in PowerPoint. If a design needs precise placement, finish it elsewhere.
• AI credits. Free-plan credits run out faster than people expect, mainly from regenerating whole decks. Edit the outline first and regenerate single cards rather than the whole deck.
• Offline use. Gamma is browser-based. Export a PDF before presenting somewhere with unreliable internet.
• Accuracy. The generator fills gaps with plausible text. Use the preserve-text option for any content you own and review every card.

Alternatives

• Beautiful.ai - stronger on design rules and consistency for traditional slide decks; less flexible for documents and pages. See our AI content and media tools.
• Canva - broader design tool with an AI presentation feature; better if you already use it for graphics.
• Microsoft Copilot in PowerPoint - generates decks inside PowerPoint, best for Microsoft 365 organisations that need native files.
• Google Slides with Gemini - same idea for Google Workspace users.
• Notion - better for long-form documents and wikis, weaker for presentations.

For prompt techniques that improve the first draft from any of these tools, read our guide on how to write better prompts.

Verdict

Gamma is the right choice when speed to a clean, presentable draft matters more than full design control, which describes most decks most people make. Start on the free plan with a real outline, customise the theme once, and you will know within an hour whether it fits your work. Teams that produce presentations weekly will get their money’s worth from a paid plan; occasional users may never need to upgrade.