DeckCraft: Free Open-Source Slide App, Tested (v0.7.0)

Q: Q3 Where is DeckCraft on GitHub?

At github.com/storytold/deckcraft , with downloads on its releases page .

What it looks like

The sample deck that ships with the app, then two shots from our own Mac session. Hover to zoom in.

DeckCraft 0.6.1 — Northern LightsBrowser build

DeckCraft browser build showing slide 2 of the Northern Lights sample deck with typed text and section thumbnails

DeckCraft for Mac with a new blank presentation and title placeholders

DeckCraft for Mac with our own words typed into the title placeholder

Screenshots by ArtCraft Tutorial · DeckCraft 0.6.1 · web (1) and macOS (2, 3) · Oct 14, 20261 / 3

What we tried, and what happened

In the browser build (0.6.1, Oct 14, 2026)

✓Opened the deck the app ships with — Northern Lights, eight slides, with sections, notes and slide thumbnails all in place — and moved to slide 2.
✓Clicked into the text box and typed our own words at the caret; the slide title changed to Northern Lights — Edited, so the edit was registered on the document.
✓Pressed Ctrl+S and the browser saved a project file, Northern Lights.deckcraft — 7.3 KB of ZIP container, which is DeckCraft's own format rather than a PowerPoint file.

On a Mac (0.6.1, Oct 14, 2026)

✓Started a new presentation from the theme list and typed our own line into the title placeholder; the text went in and stayed.
✓The window matched the browser build: ribbon on top, slide list on the left, notes below, a Present button in the corner.
◐⌘S did nothing in our session, and we haven't finished a desktop save or export test yet.

Screenshots by ArtCraft Tutorial · DeckCraft 0.6.1 · Oct 14, 2026

What ArtCraft says it can do

From the DeckCraft README — these are ArtCraft's claims, not our test results:

Make decks. “slide masters and eleven layouts with placeholders… eight original themes… sections, notes, comments, headers and footers.” We used a theme, the placeholders, sections and notes; the rest is untested.
Draw. “150+ preset shapes with adjust handles, connectors that stay glued to shapes, freeform, curve and scribble tools, merge shapes… gradient, picture and pattern fills”. Not tested by us yet.
Present. Transitions including Morph, entrance, emphasis and exit animations, by-paragraph builds, full-screen slide show, presenter view, pen and rehearse timings. We did not enter a slide show at all.
Exchange files. “open and save PowerPoint .pptx”, export PDF, PNG/JPEG and an animated GIF, with AutoRecover for unsaved work. Untested by us; the file we saved was DeckCraft's own format.

If you're coming from PowerPoint

PowerPoint habits we saw

You want to…	In PowerPoint	In DeckCraft (as we saw it)
Write on a slide	Click the title placeholder and type	Same placeholders, same idea — we typed into the title on a new deck
Pick a look	Design tab, theme gallery	A theme list when you create the presentation (README counts eight original themes)
Move around a big deck	Slide thumbnails and sections on the left	Thumbnails with named sections down the left, same as the sample deck shows
Keep speaker notes	Notes pane under the slide	Notes strip at the foot of the window

Rows marked “README” are ArtCraft's; the rest we did ourselves. Tell us at contact@artcrafttutorial.com if a row behaves differently on your machine.

How to get it

Official app pagegetartcraft.com/apps/deckcraft GitHubstorytold/deckcraft

DeckCraft is free and needs no account. Version 0.7.0 landed on GitHub on Oct 14, 2026 with 26 release files; these four cover almost everyone:

Your computer	File	Size
Mac (Apple silicon and Intel)	`deckcraft-0.7.0-macos-universal.dmg`	77.4 MB
Windows 10/11, 64-bit	`deckcraft-0.7.0-windows-x64.msi`	57.1 MB
Linux x86-64 (AppImage)	`deckcraft-0.7.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage`	68.8 MB
Prefer the browser	`deckcraft-web-0.7.0.zip`	9.0 MB

The release ships SHA256SUMS.txt, so the download is checkable. Our download guide covers that step and the Linux ARM, Flatpak, RPM and FreeBSD files we left off the table.

Open the DeckCraft releases on GitHub →

What we haven't tested yet

Opening a real PowerPoint file and getting it back out again unchanged — the round trip that decides whether DeckCraft can sit next to an office that runs on PowerPoint.
Charts, SmartArt, media and animation, which the README lists but our session never touched.
The slide show itself: presenter view, transitions, rehearse timings.

Common questions

Q1Is DeckCraft free?

Yes. No price, no account, no subscription; nothing in our sessions asked us to sign in.

Q2Is DeckCraft open source?

Its GitHub repository is listed under the Apache-2.0 licence, and the README badge reads “MIT OR Apache-2.0”. Read the repository's LICENSE files if you need the exact terms.

Q3Where is DeckCraft on GitHub?

At github.com/storytold/deckcraft, with downloads on its releases page.

Q4Does DeckCraft run on Windows, on Linux, or in a browser?

All three, and on macOS and FreeBSD too. Windows: MSI and portable builds for x64, ARM64 and 32-bit x86. Linux: AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak and tarballs. Browser: a WebAssembly package you host yourself.

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