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.
DeckCraft is in early development, heading for its first alpha. 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 |
| Platform | Download | Run |
|---|---|---|
| Windows x64 | deckcraft-x64.7z | Run installer → launch deckcraft-x64.7z |
| Linux x64 | deckcraft-Linux-x64.run | chmod +x → run installer |
| macOS Apple Silicon | deckcraft-macOS-arm64.dmg | Open DMG → drag to Applications |
The desktop app writes its log records to standard error and to logs/deckcraft.log in the
settings directory, beside ui.json and prefs.json (Linux ~/.config/deckcraft/logs/, or
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/deckcraft/logs/; macOS ~/Library/Application Support/DeckCraft/logs/; Windows
%APPDATA%\DeckCraft\logs\). A start from a desktop menu or the Dock has no terminal, so this file
is what to attach to a bug report: the crash guard's panic report, a failed crash-recovery save,
PowerPoint parts skipped on import and audio output problems land there. Each launch moves the
previous log to deckcraft.1.log (and that one to deckcraft.2.log), so the log of a run that
crashed survives the next start. The file stops growing at 16 MiB. --version writes no file.
| Variable | Effect |
|---|---|
RUST_LOG |
Log levels for standard error and the log file. Default: info for DeckCraft's own crates, warn for everything else. env_logger-style directives replace that, e.g. RUST_LOG=debug, RUST_LOG=warn,deckcraft_pptx=trace or RUST_LOG=info,wgpu_core=warn; a directive ending in * covers every target starting with it (deckcraft*=debug). |
The logger is apps/deckcraft/src/logging.rs; the realtime audio callback does not log. The web
app logs to the browser console instead.
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)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.
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. Made by the ArtCraft team and community.