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.
[!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.
DeckCraft is in early development, heading for its first alpha (see the roadmap).
Today it can:
Make decks: slide masters and eleven layouts with placeholders that inherit position and
formatting, eight original themes with colour and font schemes, sections, notes, comments,
headers and footers, custom slide sizes.
Draw: 150+ preset shapes with adjust handles, connectors that stay glued to shapes, freeform,
curve and scribble tools, merge shapes (union, combine, fragment, intersect, subtract), gradient,
picture and pattern fills, outlines with dashes and arrowheads, shadows, glow, soft edges and
reflections.
Write: in-place text editing with full font and paragraph formatting, bullets and numbering,
columns, autofit, vertical text, fields and hyperlinks.
Add content: pictures with crop and corrections, tables with styles, charts, SmartArt basics,
audio and video (MP3, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, Ogg, Opus, WAV, AIFF; H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1).
Present: transitions (including Morph), entrance/emphasis/exit and motion-path animations,
by-paragraph builds, full-screen slide show, presenter view, pen, rehearse timings, media playback.
Exchange files: open and save PowerPoint .pptx, export PDF (slides, notes pages, handouts
with selectable text), PNG/JPEG and outlines. Unsaved work is kept by AutoRecover.
Automate: 200+ commands with undo, all scriptable from the CLI, a JSON control channel and an
MCP server for AI agents.
Shape Format contextual tab and selection handles
Format Shape pane: gradient type, direction and stops
Slide Sorter with each slide's transition
Dark mode, with a native chart
The built-in sample deck, rendered by deckcraft-cli render --sample --all
Getting started
git clone https://github.com/storytold/deckcraft
cd deckcraft
cargo run --release -p deckcraft-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 DeckCraft uses your system
fonts.
Agents, CLI and MCP
Every action in DeckCraft is a command with a stable id, so people, scripts and AI agents use the
same verbs:
deckcraft-cli commands format. # list commands
deckcraft-cli run --sample --cmd 'slide.new={"layout":"titleOnly","title":"Hello"}' --save hello.deckcraft
deckcraft-cli mcp # MCP server over stdio (headless)
deckcraft-cli mcp --connect 7990 # drive the running app (deckcraft --control 7990)
Roadmap
DeckCraft covers about 79% of PowerPoint's features by breadth (93% of the core ones) and is
roughly 80% of the way to a first alpha. See ROADMAP.md for the alpha checklist,
parity estimates and what's next, and docs/parity.md for the feature-by-feature
scorecard.
Downloads
Download DeckCraft from GitHub: the latest release has every build listed below, and all releases has earlier versions and their notes. <ver> in the file names is the version number, and SHA256SUMS.txt lists a checksum for every file.
Windows
Build
Installer
Portable
x64 (64-bit Intel/AMD)
deckcraft-<ver>-windows-x64.msi
deckcraft-<ver>-windows-x64-portable.zip
arm64 (Snapdragon and other ARM PCs)
deckcraft-<ver>-windows-arm64.msi
deckcraft-<ver>-windows-arm64-portable.zip
x86 (32-bit)
deckcraft-<ver>-windows-x86.msi
deckcraft-<ver>-windows-x86-portable.zip
Installers and executables are code-signed.
macOS
Build
File
Notes
App, universal (Apple silicon + Intel)
deckcraft-<ver>-macos-universal.dmg
Signed and notarized
Command-line tool, universal
deckcraft-cli-<ver>-macos-universal.zip
Signed and notarized
Linux
Format
x86_64
aarch64 (ARM64)
Notes
AppImage
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.AppImage
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.AppImage
Runs anywhere; updates itself with AppImageUpdate (.zsync files)
Flatpak
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.flatpak
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.flatpak
Sandboxed; flatpak install --user <file>
Debian/Ubuntu
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.deb
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.deb
Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.rpm
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.rpm
Tarball
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
deckcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.tar.gz
Unpack anywhere
FreeBSD
Build
File
x86_64
deckcraft-<ver>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz
Web (WebAssembly)
Build
File
Notes
Static site
deckcraft-web-<ver>.zip
Runs in a modern browser; host it on any static server
The Crafting Apps
DeckCraft 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
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.
DeckCraft is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option.
Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the DeckCraft 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.
DeckCraft'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 DeckCraft, 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. DeckCraft 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.
DeckCraft 是一个用纯 Rust 编写的 Microsoft PowerPoint 开源净室重实现，属于 ArtCraft 家族的“Crafting Apps”。