Dekked vs MagicSlides
MagicSlides is a subscription AI slide generator — Essential at $8/month, Pro at $16/month and Premium at $29/month when billed monthly — built for generating decks from a topic; its Google Slides add-on also works from text, PDFs, YouTube links and URLs. Dekked is a pay-per-deck generator that builds decks from your documents — every paid deck a native, editable .pptx — from $1.99 per deck with no subscription required. Dekked’s first deck is free (watermarked), and MagicSlides’ homepage says you can start free, though its pricing page lists only paid plans; the practical difference is what happens to your document’s own figures and tables (Dekked extracts them; we have not verified how MagicSlides handles them) and how you pay.
Updated: October 2026 · Every competitor claim on this page was independently verified — in September 2026, or in October 2026 on the vendor’s own site or its Trustpilot page — or it is not on this page. Sources: magicslides.app and Trustpilot.
Dekked vs MagicSlides at a glance
| MagicSlides | Dekked | |
|---|---|---|
| What happens to your file | Generates decks from a topic; its Google Slides add-on also works from text, PDFs, YouTube links and URLs. We have not verified how its exports handle charts, so this page makes no claim about it. | Every paid deck is a native .pptx — charts are real PowerPoint objects: double-click one, choose Edit Data, and the numbers open in Excel. The free first deck is watermarked. Figures and tables are extracted from the source PDFs you upload. |
| Pricing model | Essential $8/mo · Pro $16/mo · Premium $29/mo billed monthly, or $80, $149 and $279 billed yearly. Paid plans carry no watermark. The pricing page lists no free plan; the homepage says you can start free. | Pay per deck, from $1.99. No subscription required; Standard and Premium are optional monthly plans from $11.99. First deck free, with a watermark. |
| Cancellation & refunds | Self-serve cancellation through Stripe (verified September 2026; its pricing page still says so in October 2026). Refunds on new purchases only, within 5 days — not on renewals or upgrades; annual plans get pro-rated refunds if requested within the first 30 days (its refund policy, October 2026). | Pay As You Go and Credit Pack never renew. Standard and Premium renew monthly until you cancel, in a few clicks from your dashboard. 7-day refund policy. |
| Data handling | Not covered by our verification — check MagicSlides’ privacy policy before uploading sensitive material. | Uploaded files are deleted from the processing server within about 30 minutes; a private copy of each uploaded PDF is kept for up to 7 days so a failed or poor-quality generation can be investigated, then deleted automatically. Generated files are cleared from the processing server within about 2 hours; on plans with presentation history, the finished deck stays downloadable for the plan’s window (24 hours on Standard, 30 days on Credit Pack and Premium). |
| Trust signals | 4.5/5 from 61 reviews, 80% five-star and 10% one-star — as of October 2026 (it had 11 reviews in September 2026). Still a small sample. Its own pages showed contradictory user counts in different places (as of September 2026). | Too new for a meaningful review base — judge the watermarked free first deck (made with a lighter AI model than paid decks, and without AI images) instead of any claim on this page. |
Sources: magicslides.app · Trustpilot: MagicSlides reviews
Two different machines: topic-first versus document-first
MagicSlides’ pitch is speed and breadth: give it a topic and it produces a deck, and its Google Slides add-on also generates decks from text, PDFs, YouTube links and URLs. If the job is producing many decks from short prompts, quickly and cheaply, that is a real capability — see the candor section below.
Dekked is built around a different input: a document you already have. Upload the PDF and it extracts the figures and tables, then builds the deck — on paid decks, a native .pptx whose charts are editable PowerPoint objects: double-click, Edit Data, Excel. Dekked generates in 7 languages (English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese; languages other than English are on Premium).
Sources: magicslides.app · magicslides.app/addon
Pricing
As of October 2026, MagicSlides Essential is $8 per month, Pro is $16 and Premium is $29 when billed monthly, or $80, $149 and $279 a year billed yearly. Its pricing page lists no free plan; its homepage still says you can start creating free with no credit card.
Dekked is pay-per-deck from $1.99, with a watermarked free first deck and no subscription required. A year of MagicSlides Essential billed yearly is $80 — roughly 40 Dekked decks — and Essential includes 10 presentations a month. High-volume use can justify the subscription; occasional use usually does not.
Sources: magicslides.app/pricing
The trust picture, honestly
MagicSlides is rated 4.5 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 61 reviews as of October 2026, with 80% five-star and 10% one-star ratings. In September 2026 it had 11 reviews — too few to support a score in either direction, so this page quoted none. Sixty-one is still a small sample, so read the reviews yourself rather than taking the number alone — the source is linked below.
Two things we verified directly in September 2026: its own pages showed contradictory user counts in different places, which reads as sloppy rather than sinister; and its cancellation is self-serve through Stripe, which deserves credit — its pricing page still says you can cancel anytime from the Stripe billing portal (October 2026). Its refund policy, as of October 2026: refunds on new purchases only, within 5 days of the first purchase of a plan, and not on renewals or upgrades; for annual subscriptions it offers pro-rated refunds if requested within the first 30 days.
Dekked is also too new to have a meaningful review base, which is why this page keeps pointing you at the watermarked free first deck (made with a lighter AI model than paid decks, and without AI images) rather than at anyone’s star rating.
Sources: MagicSlides reviews on Trustpilot (61 reviews, as of October 2026) · magicslides.app/refund-policy (October 2026) · magicslides.app/pricing
Data handling
We have not verified MagicSlides’ data-handling terms, so this page makes no claim about them — check its privacy policy before uploading sensitive material.
Dekked deletes uploaded files from its processing server within about 30 minutes; a private copy of each uploaded PDF is kept for up to 7 days so a failed or poor-quality generation can be investigated, then deleted automatically. Generated files are cleared from its processing server within about 2 hours, and on plans with presentation history the finished deck stays downloadable for the plan’s window (24 hours on Standard, 30 days on Credit Pack and Premium).
When MagicSlides is the honestly better pick
A comparison that always concludes “buy ours” is an ad. Real cases where MagicSlides is the right choice:
- You need a low-cost bulk deck pipeline. If the job is producing many decks from short prompts — classroom sets, agency volume — MagicSlides is built and priced for exactly that.
- You need languages Dekked does not cover. Dekked generates in 7 languages (English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese). If your language is not one of Dekked’s seven, check MagicSlides’ language list.
- You value friction-free cancellation. MagicSlides’ cancellation is self-serve through Stripe — a point in its favor we verified ourselves in September 2026, and its pricing page still says so in October 2026.
Frequently asked questions
How much does MagicSlides cost compared to Dekked?
As of October 2026, MagicSlides Essential is $8/month, Pro is $16/month and Premium is $29/month billed monthly, or $80, $149 and $279 a year billed yearly. Dekked is pay-per-deck from $1.99 with no subscription required. A year of Essential billed yearly is $80 — roughly 40 Dekked decks — and Essential includes 10 presentations a month, so the comparison comes down to volume: bulk generation favors the subscription, occasional use favors pay-per-deck.
Does MagicSlides have a free plan?
Its pricing page lists no free plan as of October 2026 — only Essential, Pro and Premium — though its homepage still says you can start creating free with no credit card. Dekked’s free offer is a watermarked first deck, with no credit card needed.
What is MagicSlides’ Trustpilot rating?
As of October 2026: 4.5 out of 5 from 61 reviews, with 80% five-star and 10% one-star ratings. In September 2026 it had only 11 reviews, too few to quote a score, so this page quoted none; 61 is still a small sample. We link the source so you can read the reviews yourself.
Which handles real documents better?
Dekked is built for documents: it extracts figures and tables from the PDFs you upload and, on paid decks, produces native PowerPoint charts you can edit via Edit Data in Excel. MagicSlides says its Google Slides add-on generates presentations from text, PDF, YouTube and URLs; we have not verified how it handles a document’s figures and tables, so run the same source file through both and compare the output.
What are the refund and cancellation terms?
MagicSlides: cancellation is self-serve through Stripe (verified September 2026; still stated on its pricing page in October 2026). Its refund policy (October 2026) allows refunds on new purchases only, within 5 days — not on renewals or upgrades — plus pro-rated refunds on annual subscriptions requested within the first 30 days. Dekked: Pay As You Go and Credit Pack never renew; Standard and Premium renew monthly until you cancel from your dashboard, and any purchase can be refunded within 7 days — the refund policy is at dekked.app/refund.
The cheapest way to settle it is a real deck.
Your first Dekked deck is free (watermarked): upload a PDF and see what it makes. Every paid deck is a native .pptx — open it in PowerPoint and double-click a chart. No subscription required.
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