selfslide and the alternatives
There are good tools for making slides, for polls and for live translation. selfslide does a different job: it takes the notes you will speak from and shows them on every screen in the room, in each guest’s language.
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| What it is | Notes to slides and a live show on every screen | Research notebook over your sources, slides are one of its outputs | AI deck, document and web page maker | Polls, quizzes and Q&A for the audience | Speech to subtitles or audio in many languages | Stage presentation software for a big screen |
| Starts from | Your own notes: Word, PDF, text, Google Doc | Your sources: PDF, Docs, YouTube, web pages | A prompt, a document or an imported deck | A deck you already made in PowerPoint or Google Slides | Your live speech | Slides an operator builds by hand |
| Slides from notes in one click | Yes | Studio panel, from half a minute to several minutes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Slides follow the order of your talk | Your notes are the script | The model picks the structure and wording | The model picks the structure | - | - | Manual |
| Changing a slide | Change the notes, the slides follow | Only by a prompt, the slide is generated again as a picture | Visual editor | In your own deck | - | Full manual control |
| Pictures | Picked by the meaning of each point | Drawn into the slide image by the model | AI images and a stock library | - | - | Added by hand |
| One show on every screen at once | TV, projector, laptop, phone, all on the same slide | Full screen on one device | No shared live sync | Poll results on the audience phones | Subtitles on the guests’ phones | Through wired video outputs |
| Phone as the remote | Open the link and swipe | No | No | Slides are run from PowerPoint | - | A separate remote app |
| Each guest picks a language | The slide text in their language | One language per deck | No | No | Dozens of languages | No |
| What gets translated | Prepared text, before the talk, so it can be checked | The deck is generated in one chosen language | The deck text, one language at a time | - | Live speech with a delay of a few seconds and recognition errors | - |
| What you need to start | A browser and one link, nothing to install | A Google account | An account in the browser | An account, for slides also an add-in for PowerPoint | A link or a QR code for guests | A desktop licence, a computer with outputs and an operator |
| Files, USB sticks | Not needed, everything is online | Download PPTX or PDF | Export PPTX, PDF, Google Slides | Your deck file | - | Show files on the stage computer |
| Export to PPTX / PDF | Not yet, the show runs online | PPTX with speaker notes and PDF | PPTX, PDF, Google Slides | - | Transcript | Own format |
| Polls and Q&A | No | No | No | That is the product | No | No |
| Archive of talks with search | All your notes in one place | Notebooks, up to 100 to 500 per account | Workspace with folders | Past sessions | - | Library on the stage computer |
| Price | Free in the closed beta | Free with limits. Plus $9.99, Pro $24.99, Ultra from $99.99 a month. Watermark removed only on Ultra | Free with credits, paid plans about $8 to $20 a month | From about $12 a month, bigger events $40 to $75 a month | By the hour or per event, event plans go into the hundreds | Paid licence per computer |
where selfslide is different
Your notes are the input
Other generators write the talk for you. selfslide keeps your words and your order, one point of the notes becomes one slide.
The show is live, not a file
You open one link on the TV, the projector and the laptop, and every screen stays on the same slide. No USB sticks, no cables to a stage computer.
Your phone is the remote
Swipe on the phone, the whole room moves with you.
Each guest reads in their language
The prepared text is translated before the talk, so it can be checked. Live speech apps translate on the fly, with a delay and recognition errors.
Nothing to install
It runs in a browser on any device. No licence per computer, no operator.
when another tool is a better fit
Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM)
You need to research a pile of sources and send a deck as a file. Keep in mind: slides are generated as images, edited only by prompt, and the watermark goes away only on Ultra.
Gamma
You need a designed deck to send by email or export to PowerPoint.
Slido or Mentimeter
You need polls, quizzes and questions from the audience. They work fine next to selfslide.
Live translation apps
The talk is unscripted and has to be translated as it is spoken.
ProPresenter
A big stage with video, cameras and a dedicated operator.
sources · Competitor data as of September 30, 2026. Prices are list prices in US dollars and change often.