Presentations · checked 2026-10-19

Can I vibecode Pitch?

KINDA· weekend project

A slide editor for one person is a known, bounded build: a 16:9 canvas with text, images and shapes, a handful of layouts, a presenter view, and PDF and PowerPoint export. An agent gets that running in a weekend, and reveal.js, Slidev or Marp already cover code-first decks for free. What you can't script away is editing feel (snapping, text reflow, animation, video), a library of designed templates, and the shared workspace plus link analytics that teams pay Team and Business for. For a solo user the case for paying is weaker still: Free already allows unlimited presentations.

$12/moprice per seat

$144you'd save a year

weekendbuild time

—people replaced it

Before you start

What you need on hand.

DifficultyIntermediate · Some system setup or keys.

TimeA weekend; canvas editing is the slow part

Claude Code, Codex or CursorAny of them can run the prompt.
Node.js 22Playwright downloads its own Chromium on first install.
Fonts you ownPut them in ./fonts; the theme loads them from there.
A language model key (optional)Only for the outline-to-deck box; the editor works without it.

Before you buildPitch Free already allows unlimited presentations and custom templates. What Plus (€12 a month) removes is the branding on PDFs and embeds and adds PowerPoint export; check whether that is worth paying for.

1. Install one agent: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.
2. Make an empty folder and open it in the agent.
3. Paste the prompt below, press enter, and answer its questions as it builds.

The prompt

Build me a local slide editor to replace Pitch for my own decks. Requirements:

- Node.js 22 + TypeScript: a Fastify server and a React UI built with Vite. `npm start` serves
http://localhost:4750.
- Storage: one folder per deck in ~/Decks/<deck-name>/ with deck.json (slides, elements, theme)
and an assets/ folder. Writes are atomic and autosaved every 2 seconds. No database.
- Canvas: 1920x1080 slides with text, image, rectangle and ellipse elements. Drag, resize, snap to
guides and other elements, align and distribute, arrow-key nudging, copy and paste, 100 levels
of undo. Use `react-konva`.
- Theme: one theme per deck (colors, two fonts loaded from ./fonts, heading and body sizes) and
eight layouts: title, section, bullets, two columns, image left, image right, quote, blank.
Changing the theme restyles every slide.
- Present mode: full screen at /present/<deck> with arrow keys; speaker notes and a timer in a
second window at /presenter/<deck>.
- Export: PDF through Playwright (`page.pdf`, one 1920x1080 page per slide) and PPTX through
`pptxgenjs` with text kept as editable text boxes. Open both once and list in the README what
differs.
- Optional AI draft: if LLM_BASE_URL and LLM_API_KEY are set in .env, an "Outline to deck" box turns
a pasted outline into slides using the layouts; otherwise hide the box.
- Check: a script renders every layout with long text and fails if any text overflows its box in
the PDF.
- Single user. No accounts, no telemetry, local-first; the only outbound call is the optional
language model endpoint.
- Out of scope: real-time co-editing, comments, link analytics, video elements, animations.
- README: installing Playwright's Chromium, where decks live and how to put a deck folder under Git.

Opens your agent with the prompt filled in, you press enter. Or copy it and paste it into an empty folder.

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Then keep going

Next prompts, same folder.

The first prompt builds the core. Run these one at a time in the same folder to grow it into your own Pitch.

Add shareable links to the slide editor in this folder. Requirements:

- A "Publish" button that renders a deck to static HTML (images inlined or copied) into
  ./published/<random-token>/ and prints the URL for PUBLIC_BASE_URL in .env.
- A tiny second server on its own port that serves ./published/ and records, per token, each
  visit with a timestamp and the highest slide reached; no cookies, no IP storage.
- An admin page listing published decks with visit counts, and an unpublish button that deletes
  the folder.
- Update the README with how to expose only the published port through a tunnel.

Add PPTX import to the slide editor in this folder. Requirements:

- A Python 3.11 helper using `python-pptx` that reads a .pptx and writes deck.json: text boxes,
  pictures (saved to assets/), rectangles, ellipses and speaker notes, with positions scaled to
  1920x1080.
- Map each slide to the closest layout or to blank, and print a list of anything skipped
  (charts, SmartArt, video, animations).
- Fonts that aren't in ./fonts fall back to the theme's body font and are listed.
- Update the README with the helper's install step.

Add a brand check to the slide editor in this folder. Requirements:

- Before export, list every element whose color or font is not in the deck's theme, with the
  slide number and a button to fix it to the nearest theme value.
- Flag images below 1200 px wide and text smaller than 24 px.
- Export is still allowed after the warning.
- Update the README.

What you lose

Real-time co-editing with comments and roles
Link analytics: who opened a deck, which slides they viewed and for how long
Shared pitch rooms and advanced share links
Designed templates and the Pitch Agent that drafts a deck for you
Video playback and animations, which a PDF export drops

Why people still pay

Pitch is where a team keeps its decks, templates and fonts, so every new presentation starts on-brand without a designer. For a solo user the case is thinner: Free already allows unlimited presentations, so Plus mostly buys PowerPoint export, unbranded PDFs and custom fonts.

Moatcollaboration execution polish

Do the math

Pitch or your own copy?

Seats

Over

Your usage

Count my time12h ×$/h

Pitch, 1 yr$144

Your own copy, 1 yr$22running + build session

You keep$122pays for itself in the first month

Estimate · Runs on your machine, so there is no hosting bill; the optional outline-to-deck box costs a few cents of language model tokens per deck. The build is token usage on your agent plan, and canvas editing takes several rounds of fixes.

Leaving Pitch

Take your data, then cancel.

1 · Take your data out of Pitch

1PDF: open Share, choose Export and pick Compressed or High Quality. Uploaded video, embedded YouTube, Vimeo or Loom videos, GIFs and animations aren't carried into a PDF, and speaker notes and comments can't be included.
2PowerPoint: any presentation on a paid plan can be exported as a .pptx; the Free plan can't. Export every deck you need to keep while you are still subscribed.
3Videos: existing videos stay inside presentations after you cancel, but library videos are hidden unless you upgrade again, so save the originals from your own disk.

2 · Cancel Pitch

1Open the billing page in your settings.
2Choose Cancel subscription in the top right of your subscription information.
3Pick a cancellation reason (it is required), review the cancellation terms and confirm.
4Paid features stay until the end of the billing cycle, then the workspace returns to the Free plan on its own.

Your content stays in Pitch after you cancel and links stay active, but advanced link options are switched off.
On Free, new PDF exports get a Pitch logo watermark, PowerPoint export disappears, and new image uploads over 5 MB and new video uploads are blocked.
Members added after you cancel but before the term ends incur an extra charge.
The cancel article says nothing about refunds, so ask support before relying on one.

Checked 2026-10-19 against Pitch's docs: 1, 2, 3, 4

The escape hatch

Don't feel like building it? These are already free.

reveal.jsOpen sourceMIT HTML presentation framework with an editor-less workflow: you write slides in HTML or Markdown and present from the browser.★ 72k · active Sep 2026 · one-click install
WebVisit ↗SlidevOpen sourceMIT slides for developers: write Markdown, get a themed deck with a presenter mode and PDF export.★ 49k · active Oct 2026 · one-click install
Web, CLIVisit ↗MarpOpen sourceMIT Markdown presentation ecosystem with a command-line tool and an editor extension that export to PDF, HTML and PowerPoint.★ 13k · active Jul 2026 · one-click install
CLI, WebVisit ↗

All 5 free alternatives to Pitch ›

The numbers

Pitch pricing

Plan	Monthly	Annual, per month	What you get
Free	$0/workspace	$0/workspace	Unlimited presentations, custom templates, basic sharing links, 100 non-renewing AI credits, 2 external guests, up to 5 members.
Plus	$12	$10	500 AI credits a month, custom fonts, video uploads, unbranded PDF and PowerPoint export, 5 external guests. One member.
Team	$18	$15	Everything in Plus plus 25 advanced links with visit, slide-view and time-on-slide tracking, 3 teamspaces, 2 shared pitch rooms, 25 external guests. 1 to 25 members.
Business	$24	$20	Everything in Team plus unlimited advanced links, teamspaces, shared pitch rooms and guests, and 750 AI credits a month. 1 to 200 members.
Enterprise	custom	—	SAML SSO and SCIM, a dedicated success manager, priority support, tailored onboarding and invoiced billing. 30 or more seats.

Free tier: 100 AI credits that never renew, 2 external guests, one teamspace, 5 members, 5 MB per image, and Pitch branding on exported PDFs and embeds.
Billing: Monthly or yearly per seat; the toggle labels yearly as a 17% saving. The page shows currency by visitor location: read from Poland it listed euros (Plus €12 a month, or €10 billed yearly), and dollar prices weren't read directly. Free trials are available to some customers through support.
Hidden costs: Price scales with seats, and AI credits are one pool for the whole team. Engagement analytics (advanced links, pitch rooms) start at Team. After you cancel, members added before the term ends are still charged.
Source: pitch.com

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Free covers unlimited presentations and custom templates, with 100 AI credits that don't renew and Pitch branding on PDFs and embeds.

Kinda. The core is a weekend build with the prompt on this page, but real gaps remain: Real-time co-editing with comments and roles, Link analytics: who opened a deck, which slides they viewed and for how long.

About $12 a month on the Plus plan per seat, $144 a year (checked 2026-10-19).

Real-time co-editing with comments and roles; Link analytics: who opened a deck, which slides they viewed and for how long; Shared pitch rooms and advanced share links; Designed templates and the Pitch Agent that drafts a deck for you; Video playback and animations, which a PDF export drops. If any of those matter to you, keep paying.