Chronicle is your AI-powered design partner for presentations. Turn notes, prompts, or existing decks into beautiful, on-brand slides in minutes. It asks a few questions, builds an impressive first draft, and lets you refine slides through conversation.
A few months ago you helped Chronicle become #1 Product of the Month, and later #4 Product of the Year. Since then, the product has grown to 200k+ users. With that, came a huge amount of honest feedback. Hundreds of you told us where Chronicle worked, where it didn’t, and where it could be much better. We read all of it.
Today, we're excited to launch Chronicle 2.0 to all of you! Chronicle turns notes, prompts, or existing slide decks into stunning, on-brand presentations, generates an impressive first draft, and lets you refine slides through conversation. There are a lot of AI presentation tools popping up right now. But most of them generate what we’ve started calling AI slide slop: generic layouts, messy structure, and decks you still have to spend hours fixing. Our ambition is simple: to build the best storytelling tool for teams.
Here are a few things I’m most excited for you to try:
✴️ Chronicle AI: Think of it as a slide design coworker. Give it anything: notes, a prompt, or a rough idea, and it builds an impressive first draft you can refine and iterate on together.
🖼️ Custom branding & themes: Dozens of beautiful templates with real design taste, plus full brand customization so teams can stay on-brand.
📊 Charts & graphs: You can now add and customize charts directly inside Chronicle. They automatically adapt to your presentation’s theme.
🗃️ Export to PowerPoint & PDF: One of the most requested features, now live.
🪄 Hundreds of world-class templates: Created by designers from places like Apple, IDEO, McKinsey and BCG.
Special thanks to @benln for hunting us. And honestly, thank you. The feedback from this community is the reason Chronicle 2.0 exists. As a small thank you, use code PHPRO this week for 1 month of free PRO on any new account.
We’re shipping updates every single day, and will be hanging out in the comments all day. We’d genuinely love your thoughts. What should we build next?
PS. We also have a Slack community where you can interact with the team directly, get early access to new features, and shape what we build next. Would love to see you there: chr.so/slackcommunity
Congrats on the PH launch! I've been testing with Chronicle extensively over the past week and I can say that the pre-built templates are far and away the best out there from a pure design and visual standpoint. However, the AI assistant part of Chronicle leaves a lot to be desired. I fed it markdown, pptx and pdf files to turn into presentations and it ended up building very basic decks - not pulling from the huge template library, even when some screens (like a timeline) were very obvious. Even when I provided explicit instructions and showed which templates to use when it created the presentation, it still churned out basic slop. Right now, Chronicle is a great zero-to-one manual presentation builder, but the AI component is more like a "baby AI" where it can just understand text but needs better training in order to know which templates (which, again, are really really nice) and layouts to apply.
Just tried building out some presentations, fantastic tool! Love the real-time collaboration.
the mix of AI generation and manual editing makes this useful. I can quickly generate slides and still adjust everything they way I want before sharing it.
"AI slop" is mostly framed as a visual problem — generic layouts, stock-photo energy. But I think it's structural: AI defaults to the safe presentation shape because it's optimizing for what "good" looks like across millions of decks, not for the specific argument you're trying to make.
The fix isn't better design. It's intent capture before layout. When the AI knows your actual thesis upfront — the one thing you need the audience to walk away believing — the structure that follows feels authored, not assembled.
Building an AI travel planner, I hit the exact same wall. Itineraries defaulted to Eiffel Tower / Louvre / croissants not because the design was bad but because the AI didn't know why this specific person was going to Paris. Once you capture intent first, the output becomes personal.
Curious where in your flow intent capture happens — is it before the first draft or iteratively after?
I've used Chronicle, and I've used Gamma, but I felt that Chronicle fits my vibe much better than Gamma.
Both tools are good, but for me, Chronicle is a better fit. I really enjoy using the app, but if there's one thing I would improve, it is the customer support. I feel the customer support has a lot of scope for improvement. And a bad experience (delayed response) can leave a bitter taste.
Anyhow, wish you guys the very best! Onwards and upwards...
The free version with 100 tokens, that is monthly or in total what you receive?
I use Chronicle extensively - great product. It's replaced most other deck creation tools. It's a core part of my workflow now.
This looks amazing fam! Just tried it out for our company it generated amazing slides. Very quick! Beautiful design too.
I cannot make particularly aesthetic pitch decks and slides but always love to look at good ones. Happy that I can create some too now!
How does Chronicle’s widget-based architecture ensure that layout integrity and interactive elements remain intact when exporting to static or legacy formats like PPTX and PDF, and does it allow for the ingestion of existing corporate master slides to maintain strict brand compliance?
Hey Product Hunt
Mayuresh here 👋
Just wanted to jump in and say a massive thank you to this community. The previous launch was my first ever product launch yet - seeing the love and support was really special.
In the last few months, we have seen 200K+ users doing sales, proposals, research reports, QBRs, MBRs, all hands and more with Chronicle! We are back with tons of improvements and some big upgrades.
1. We have built a whole new generation experience with AI that works like you are used to (digests files, looks up, goes back and forth to iterate with you). We rebuilt this ground up to make sure it is truly powerful. 2. We have added tons of small features that give you speed and customisability, made overall editing easier and faster (e.g. gridlines, better colours, better themes, tidy up options) 3. Export to PPT is in :) its a first cut - we will continue improving fidelity. There's more export options too. 4. We built our own charts - fun story @praveendinesh shipped this literally in 2 days.
A lot of the improvements in Chronicle 2.0 came directly from all your feedback, so please keep it coming. We read everything.
Excited to hear what you think!
Love the idea of combining AI generation with real editing control. That’s usually where many AI tools fall short. As someone designing AI-powered products, I’m curious: Does Chronicle generate slides within a consistent design system, or can teams plug in their own brand styles/templates?
The positioning around AI slop is spot on. Every AI presentation tool right now generates the same generic layouts with the same stock-photo energy. The fact that you are leaning into design quality and conversational refinement rather than just speed is a real differentiator. Congrats on the 2.0 launch and 200k users!
Super excited for this! Grateful to everyone who shared feedback since our previous launch - a lot of it directly shaped what you see today. So lucky to be a part of this team ♥️
This launch is very special for the team. Months of work behind the scenes and years of data and learning finally shaping the way Chronicle is today. Huge shoutout to our engineering team, Claire and Elliot. I am in love with the new version. Can't wait for the world to experience this. 🔥✨
Hey Product Hunt family 👋 We’re back!
A few months ago you helped Chronicle become #1 Product of the Month, and later #4 Product of the Year. Since then, the product has grown to 200k+ users. With that, came a huge amount of honest feedback. Hundreds of you told us where Chronicle worked, where it didn’t, and where it could be much better.
We read all of it.
Today, we're excited to launch Chronicle 2.0 to all of you!
Chronicle turns notes, prompts, or existing slide decks into stunning, on-brand presentations, generates an impressive first draft, and lets you refine slides through conversation.
There are a lot of AI presentation tools popping up right now. But most of them generate what we’ve started calling AI slide slop: generic layouts, messy structure, and decks you still have to spend hours fixing.
Our ambition is simple: to build the best storytelling tool for teams.
Here are a few things I’m most excited for you to try:
✴️ Chronicle AI: Think of it as a slide design coworker. Give it anything: notes, a prompt, or a rough idea, and it builds an impressive first draft you can refine and iterate on together.
🖼️ Custom branding & themes: Dozens of beautiful templates with real design taste, plus full brand customization so teams can stay on-brand.
📊 Charts & graphs: You can now add and customize charts directly inside Chronicle. They automatically adapt to your presentation’s theme.
🗃️ Export to PowerPoint & PDF: One of the most requested features, now live.
🪄 Hundreds of world-class templates: Created by designers from places like Apple, IDEO, McKinsey and BCG.
Special thanks to @benln for hunting us. And honestly, thank you. The feedback from this community is the reason Chronicle 2.0 exists. As a small thank you, use code PHPRO this week for 1 month of free PRO on any new account.
We’re shipping updates every single day, and will be hanging out in the comments all day. We’d genuinely love your thoughts. What should we build next?
PS. We also have a Slack community where you can interact with the team directly, get early access to new features, and shape what we build next. Would love to see you there: chr.so/slackcommunity