SlideCraft

Presentations and slide shows; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft PowerPoint, rebuilt in pure Rust.

Build decks with themes, layouts, shapes, pictures, tables, charts, transitions and animations, open and save PowerPoint files, and present them full screen. Native on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and in the browser. Every button is also a command that the CLI and AI agents (through MCP) can drive.

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Note

ArtCraft is a community of artists from all walks of life. Painters, photographers, filmmakers, illustrators, designers, animators, hobbyists, and people who picked up a pencil last week. If you make things, you're one of us. Come say hi on Discord.

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What works today

SlideCraft is in early development. Today:

• Presentation model with slide masters, eleven layouts, placeholders that inherit position and formatting, themes (colour, font and effect schemes), sections, notes, comments, transitions and animations.
• 150+ preset shapes (rectangles, basic shapes, block arrows, equation shapes, flowchart, stars and banners, callouts, action buttons) with adjust handles, re-derived from scratch.
• Text engine: shaping with font fallback, line breaking, bullets and numbering, indents and spacing, alignment, anchoring, columns, shrink-on-overflow and resize-to-fit.
• Renderer (vello_cpu): gradients, pictures with crop and corrections, outlines with dashes and arrowheads, shadows, glow, soft edges, reflections, tables with styles, charts.
• Editing engine: 200+ commands, undo/redo, clipboard, grouping, align and distribute, smart guides, Format Painter, in-place text editing — all scriptable.

Getting started

git clone https://github.com/storytold/slidecraft
cd slidecraft
cargo run --release -p slidecraft-cli -- render --sample --all --scale 1 out/

Fonts come from craft-fonts: clone it next to this repo (../craft-fonts) and local builds pick it up automatically; without it SlideCraft uses your system fonts.

Agents, CLI and MCP

Every action in SlideCraft is a command with a stable id, so people, scripts and AI agents use the same verbs:

slidecraft-cli commands format.          # list commands
slidecraft-cli run --sample --cmd 'slide.new={"layout":"titleOnly","title":"Hello"}' --save hello.slidecraft
slidecraft-cli mcp                       # MCP server over stdio (headless)
slidecraft-cli mcp --connect 7979        # drive the running app (slidecraft --control 7979)

Roadmap

See ROADMAP.md for milestones, parity estimates and what's next.

The Crafting Apps

SlideCraft is one of the Crafting Apps: free, open-source creative tools from the ArtCraft team, each written from scratch in Rust and each able to stand on its own.

	App	What it's for	Code	Learn more
	PhotoCraft	Image editing: layers, masks, type and real PSD files	GitHub	Website
	VectorCraft	Vector illustration	GitHub	Website
	FilmCraft	Video editing, color and sound	GitHub	Website
	LightCraft	Photo library and raw development	GitHub	Website
	PrintCraft	Reading, organizing and protecting PDFs	GitHub	Website
	EffectCraft	Motion graphics and visual effects	GitHub	Website
	DesignCraft	Page layout and publishing	GitHub	Website
	SlideCraft	Presentations and slide shows · you are here	GitHub	Website

And ArtCraft itself, our AI image and video studio for artists who want real control.

Come make things with us

Our Discord is where artists of every kind hang out: people who paint, shoot, draw, cut film, set type, and people still figuring out what they like to make. Share what you're working on, ask for help, tell us what's broken, or tell us what you wish these tools could do. Whatever your medium and however long you've been at it, you're welcome here.

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License and credits

SlideCraft is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option. Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the SlideCraft contributors. Required notices are in NOTICE.

Bundled fonts, icons, images and other assets keep their own open licenses; each one is listed with its author, source and license in ATTRIBUTION.md.

SlideCraft's themes, layouts, shape geometry, icons and sample decks are original work, drawn or generated in code; no Microsoft artwork, fonts, themes or templates are used.

The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks of the ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used only unmodified, and only as part of this repository and SlideCraft, under docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt. Forks and modified versions must remove them.

_{Microsoft and PowerPoint are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, Acrobat, After Effects and InDesign are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. SlideCraft is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Microsoft Corporation or Adobe Inc.; these names are used only to describe the workflows it is compatible with.}

_{Made by the ArtCraft team and community.}