SlideNotes vs Beautiful AI

SlideNotes turns uploaded presentations and PDFs into readable notes you can review and share. Upload a .pptx or .pdf file and the service extracts key phrases from each slide, then summarizes them into bulleted notes.

The product targets both students converting lecture decks into study material and professionals turning meeting slides into actionable summaries. Example outputs on the site include notes from presentations on mental health, product management, and hiring guides.

SlideNotes currently supports users in the United States and Canada. The founders built it as a dorm-room project to cut down time spent manually copying slide content before exams.

Beautiful AI helps teams turn outlines into polished presentation decks in the browser, without manual slide formatting. Smart Slides are the core building block: layouts that resize, realign, and animate your content as you edit. You can start from a prompt, a pasted outline, or pick from 300+ layout templates.

One-shot AI deck tools often dump a rough first draft and leave you fixing spacing by hand. Beautiful AI puts outline review first in its Create with AI workflow, so you refine story flow before slides get designed. When you swap layouts or rewrite copy later, Smart Slides keep hierarchy intact, which matters more for recurring sales decks than one-off experiments.

The product targets individuals, agencies, and departments that need every deck to match brand colors, fonts, and logos. Customer stories cite teams at Cvent, IDC, and Paciolan cutting build time by 75 percent. Shared themes, slide libraries, and viewer analytics are built for orgs where many people present the same narrative.