Gemini PPT Maker — Turn Gemini into Real PowerPoint Slides
Gemini is brilliant at outlining and writing content, but it cannot hand you a finished .pptx file — Canvas makes web-style slides that stay inside Google. Here is how to go from a Gemini prompt to a real, downloadable PowerPoint or Google Slides deck in minutes.
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Solar Energy 101
• Why solar is winning in 2026
• Cost curve: 10 years of decline
• What it means for your city
How it works
- 1Ask Gemini for your presentation outline or content — or skip this and start from just a topic.
- 2Paste the topic or Gemini output into GPT for Slides (the Google Slides add-on) or the MagicSlides web app.
- 3The AI builds a real deck — themed slides, images, speaker notes — directly in Google Slides.
- 4Export as PPTX or present straight from Google Slides.
What Gemini does well (and where it stops)
Gemini shines at research, structure, and writing: ask it for a 10-slide outline on any topic and the content will be solid. Gemini Canvas can even preview slide-like layouts.
What it does not do is produce a portable presentation file. Canvas output is not a .pptx, has limited theming, and cannot be handed to a client or uploaded to a template. That last step — outline to actual deck — is what a dedicated PPT maker does.
Gemini + GPT for Slides: the working combo
Keep Gemini for thinking and drafting. When the content is ready, generate the deck with an AI that lives inside Google Slides — you get editable slides, real themes, and PPTX export, without copy-pasting text box by text box.
Frequently asked questions
Can Gemini create a PPT file directly?+
Not as a downloadable .pptx. Gemini Canvas creates web-style slide previews inside Gemini, and Gemini in Google Slides can help with individual slides, but neither gives you a complete, exportable PowerPoint deck from one prompt. Pair Gemini with a slides generator for that.
Is there a free way to make a PPT with Gemini?+
Yes — draft your outline with the free Gemini, then generate the deck with the free tier of GPT for Slides / MagicSlides. You get complete themed presentations without paying anything to start.
Which is better for presentations: Gemini or ChatGPT?+
For research and content, they are comparable — pick the one you already use. Neither exports a real PPT natively, so the deck-building step is the same either way. See our ChatGPT PPT maker page for the ChatGPT workflow.