The Slaide Viewer & Editor

A free desktop app to open, present, edit, and export .slaide decks. The in-place editor is free too - just sign in. No Node required.

Want the click-by-click version? The Tutorial covers this app, the web app, and the mobile app, with screenshots.

slaide-view is a standalone desktop app. It shows a deck in a native window, with no Node.js on the target machine. It is great for presenting, and for handing a deck to someone who just wants to double-click it.

Free viewer

The viewer is open source under Apache-2.0. No Node needed.

Download it from the Releases page.
Unzip it and run it.

It opens folders, single files, and packed .slaidec bundles, presents full screen, and exports PDF.

Run slaide-view --register once to associate the .slaide and .slaidec file types. Then you can double-click any deck to open it. Prefer to build it yourself? Run npm run build:viewer.

Action	What it does
Open	Open a `.slaide` or `.slaidec` deck
Reload	Re-render after you edit the source
Export HTML	Write a self-contained `index.html`
Export PDF	Render a real multi-page PDF, no print dialog
Present	Full-screen mode. Arrow keys to move, `n` for notes

The viewer bundles the engine and uses the system webview. So it renders exactly what slaide build produces. Same model, same result.

The editor is free. Sign in with a free Slaide account and it adds in-place editing on top of everything the free viewer does:

Edit any slide in place. Click a text region and type. Restyle and rearrange right on the slide.
Save back to source. Your changes round-trip to the plain-text .slaide file. So it stays diffable and AI-friendly.
One-click export to PDF and editable PowerPoint.

Want the AI to design the deck for you instead? See the pricing section for the cloud AI plans.

The language, the CLI, themes, importers, the MCP server, and this viewer are free and open source. The editor is free too, no subscription needed. The only thing you pay for is the cloud AI that designs decks for you.